Chapter 78: Chapter 77: Neon Lights
At noon, the crimson sun directly pierced through the glass window.
"Alright, it’s getting late. Let's wrap it up," Elliana Lyle yawned, feeling a bit tired.
Andrew Hue’s Chinese wasn’t good, and he belonged to an Italian minority group. Although both of them could
speak English, they each had their own accents, making communication particularly troublesome. On top of that,
Tommy would occasionally interject with pure Cantonese, while Li Si insisted on showing off with his heavily
accented and slick English.
"Okay, boss. I'll go and analyze it further. This case is quite complex and expansive, so | suppose handling it will
be quite troublesome," Andrew stood up, speaking in Italian. Elliana helplessly looked towards Luna Sutton.
Luna shrugged, indicating she didn’t understand either.
"...ok, ok!" Elliana could only respond perfunctorily.
After seeing the three off, Elliana only felt her world quiet down. She pressed the wheelchair switch and moved
to the large glass window. The view really was quite nice here.
By chance, she saw a group of men in uniform black suits heading towards the office building she was in. The
black-suited men dispersing to both sides seemed to almost encircle the building.
Among them was a man exuding a cold aura with an extraordinary presence, none other than Norman Bennett.
Due to the distance, she couldn't see the gloom in his eyes clearly.
"Strange, why is Norman Bennett here?" Elliana muttered to herself.
As soon as Norman Bennett's nwas mentioned, Luna immediately jumped up from the small stool and
quickly approached the window to check.
"Whoa, are they here to catch me? No way!" Luna showed a face of shock, then glanced at Elliana and said, "Our
paths cross again, farewell!"
"Hey? Where are you going?" Elliana watched as Luna once again climbed out the side window, which made her
heart skip a beat!
At such a height, even if you didn’t die from the fall, you'd be seriously injured.
Pressing the wheelchair switch to the side window, she held onto the window edge and looked down, just in time
to see Luna entering the window below like a spider.
"Unbelievable, she can run even better than a big rat," Elliana had to admire that Luna was truly brave; she
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtherself dared not look down from such a height.
Not two minutes later, she heard a rush of footsteps.
Norman Bennett had entered with his men, and beside him was Hannah Collins.
"Hannah? Why are you here too?" That's strange, she didn’t see her from below just now.
Hannah looked at her with a smirk, raising an eyebrow, "From the pizza place to the cake shop, and then... here."
"You've been followingall along?" And you tattled! Of course, she didn’t dare say the latter part in front of
Norman.
At this moment, Norman Bennett was slowly approaching her, eventually reaching out to touch her head with
shelplessness, "Your foot’s still not healed, and you're running around? Where's Luna?"
So Norman Bennett really was here for Luna! "Luna? She just jumped down." Elliana pointed to the open window.
Upon hearing this news, Hannah's smile froze. No way, she really jumped? She quickly walked to the window and
didn’t see any commotion below.
"Find her and send her back to XRB," Norman instructed a few people behind him.
"Yes!"
Hannah: "I'll go look too." She was really curious about how Luna managed to escape.
Upon hearing Norman's arrangement, she found it a bit strange, but didn’t dare to ask much, only saying,
"Norman Bennett, I'm starting a company, so I've spent a lot of money."
"I know." Norman nodded slightly. He always knew his little girl was daring but didn’t expect she wanted to be a
detective.
When he learned this news, he found it amusing, though he didn’t agree, since she liked it, reluctantly
supporting her wasn’t out of the question.
Thus, he explained in detail to the seemingly bewildered little girl, "The detective profession is illegal in the
country. A detective’s work mainly involves investigating others’ backgrounds, and according to domestic law,
citizens have the right to privacy. The detective’s actions have constituted an invasion of others’ privacy. Only
public security organs and judicial organs have the right to investigate others’ privacy, and a formal
investigation document must be shown before carrying out a search legally."
"Ah? It's illegal! Then I..."
Before Elliana could finish, Norman said, "It’s not entirely impossible, but indeed the studoesn’t need such a
large place."
Also, this office building was part of the Bennett Family's assets, which is why he could so accurately know what
Elliana was up to.
"But... it's quite grand," Elliana said earnestly.
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"Hold on, I'm getting a call." Elliana said and picked up the phone; it was Mr. Lyle calling.
Elliana answered the call, "Hello, Dad."
"Elliana, you need to cback quickly. Your mom was in a car accident and just went into the ICU. She's
currently not out of danger."
What? Car accident? How could...
"Dad! You... you can’t be lying to me..."
Even though she asked, she gradually becagitated, her eyes turning red, and her lower lips involuntarily
started to tremble.
But after a second confirmation, she was truly panicking, couldn't help but stand up, seemingly not feeling much
of the stabbing pain underfoot.
"Dear?" Norman didn’t know what call she had received to be in such a state.
Her phone slipped from her trembling hand, and Elliana clutched the man’s arms, tears falling in large drops,
"Norman Bennett... something happened to my mom. I... | need to go back."
"Okay, we'll go back." He enveloped the sobbing little girl into his arms, speaking in an unusually gentle voice,
"It'll be okay."
— North City Yonghe Airport.
Just arriving at the airport parking lot, before they could get out of the car, Norman received a call.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Elliana could clearly see the dark and aggressive expression on the man’s face, his
good-looking brows furrowed with chill.
After Norman ended the call, the entire atmosphere in the car becquite heavy, maintaining such for half a
minute.
"What happened?" Elliana asked in a hoarse voice, bearing the weight of her sobs.
"Nothing."
After saying that, the man made another call, "Hello, cto the airport."
— South City Airport.
It was already 8 p.m., and under the neon lights, South City was bustling and lively.
Hannah was pushing Elliana out of the airport. It seemed that Norman had encountered smatter and
couldn't break away. Before leaving, he had instructed, he'd return to South City in a few days.
Elliana’s complexion appeared a bit pale; she had already vomited several times on the plane, and the
medication she took in advance wasn’t working.
"Little Sprout, feeling better?" Hannah handed her swater, obvious concern on her face.
"I'm okay."
Getting into the pickup car, they directly headed to the largest hospital in South City, a private hospital, entirely
unfamiliar to her. Meanwhile, Mr. Lyle’s phone was currently turned off.
"Little Sprout, wait here. I'll go in first to ask the nurses about your mother’s room," Hannah said.
"Okay."
Watching Hannah enter the hospital, the unsettled Elliana felt restless, and soon got out of the car herself,
anxiously supporting herself on the car while looking towards the hospital entrance.
What she didn’t know was that a group of people was slowly approaching her!
Suddenly, a hand stretched out from behind her, pressing a cloth with a pungent scent firmly against her mouth
and nose!
"Mmm... let go of me..." Elliana struggled twice, only to feel her vision go black, instantly losing consciousness!
"What are you doing!" The driver, Richard Zander, seeing this situation immediately opened the door to get out,
only to have a masked man smash him hard with an iron pipe! Instantly, the car window shattered!
Then the masked man pointed the iron pipe menacingly at Richard, the intent clear: don’t meddle.
Faced with the threat of force, this middle-aged man swallowed nervously. With four or five people outside, if he
got out of the car, he’d end up injured, if not worse.
As Richard retracted his foot back into the car, closing the door, Elliana was also dragged away by people.
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