Chapter 918



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The Queen was also stunned when the siren sounded. She immediately looked at Nora and asked, “What’s going on?”.

Nora didn’t care about her. She just looked at Barbarian, hesitated a bit and then ran upstairs.

Barbarian followed behind the Queen with a hint of puzzled surprise in his red eyes.

He hadn’t stolen anything, so why did the siren sound upstairs?

He wanted to go take a look, but then he thought about how dangerous the Schmidt castle was at that moment. He had to protect the Queen. As soon as the thought formed, he stopped in his tracks.

However, the Queen said, “Let’s go up and take a look too!”

Surely Black Cat hadn’t wandered in somewhere by mistake, had he?

He had to save her!

He mustn’t let Black Cat fall into Nora’s clutches. Only then did Barbarian follow them upstairs.

Nora was already at the door of the master bedroom. The door had been opened and inside was a complete mess. Obviously, a round of attacks had been launched here a moment ago.

A figure stood there with his hands raised and his back to them, not daring to move.

Because…

The room had been set up with an attack system with motion sensors, infrared sensors, thermal sensors and more. As soon as it moved a little, the machine guns would turn it into Swiss cheese.

All this had been prepared for Barbarian.

Barbarian had a lot of physical strength, and neither Nora nor Justin could beat him in a fight. But as strong as he was, he was still human.

Firearms would surely be able to kill him, one way or another.

Therefore, Nora had placed all these things in the room. The moment someone picked up the V16, the mechanisms would activate and the intruder would be trapped inside.

Barbarian had not fallen for it, but at the moment he had trapped a person inside.

At that moment, Justin, Queenie and the others also rushed over. They stood in front of the door and peered inside. The room was surrounded by steel plates that had sealed off the inside of the room.

The surrounding machine guns were ready and waiting to fire.

A string of bullets had already left their tracks on the wall. They were supposed to intimidate Barbarian after he got the V16, so that he would either stay in the room quietly or wait to be shot dead if he dared to move.

“Turn around!”

In Nora’s hand was a remote with which she could manually operate the machine guns.

The woman trapped inside was visibly trembling. Hearing Nora’s voice, she cried and said, “I… I don’t dare to….!

That voice…!

It was René!

Nora’s pupils shrank and she asked, “Why are you here?”.

Fear filled Rene’s voice even more. He was shaking so hard it was as if he could no longer stand. He stammered, “I…saw someone going upstairs, so I followed him…the man opened the lady’s fridge, so I shouted that there was a burglar. Then he ran out… I wanted to chase him, but as soon as I entered the room, I activated the sensors…”

René started sobbing loudly.

In a low voice, he said, “M-Miss Smith, I… I’m scared…. What’s happening?” As she spoke, everyone looked at the refrigerator. Its door had been opened…

Nora narrowed her eyes. She was about to speak when the Queen said, “Is there a burglar? What’s wrong with everyone? No, wait. Miss Smith, what are you doing with all these mechanisms in the master bedroom? Doesn’t it scare you when you sleep here?”

The Queen didn’t know the V16, so she was very puzzled. “Hurry up and put those weapons away. Look how you’ve trapped one of your nannies inside…”

Yes, it was true. Rene had been working as Cherry’s nanny at the Schmidt’s house ever since she was brought there.

She was also wearing the uniform that the Schmidt’s servants wore. It all seemed to make sense…

Nora looked at Barbarian again. However, she saw that his eyes were narrowing and he was beginning to emanate a murderous aura. He looked like a wolf about to go on the hunt.

If Barbarian had been inside, she wouldn’t be afraid of anything, of course.

But now that Barbarian was outside…. This meant that Nora couldn’t release Rene, because….

She said slowly, “You can drop the act, Spacey.”

As soon as she spoke, Rene jerked again. His head turned in astonishment and he looked at Nora in disbelief. Confused, she asked, “Ms. Smith, what are you talking about?”

Nora did not enter the room. Anyone who entered the room at that moment would die.

She stood in the doorway and said calmly and slowly, “How much longer are you going to keep up the pretense?”

However, Rene still looked as shy as before. She said, “I, I’m not pretending anything, Miss Smith. Do you suspect I stole anything? I didn’t… I came in here just to take care of Cherry…. no, that’s not right. I came here to look for Liam. Miss Smith, is Liam here, can you bring him back to me?”

“So he can keep being your puppet and do things for you?”

Rene bit his lip, but when he saw the steady look in Nora’s eyes, he suddenly dropped his act. “When did you find out?”

“When Liam died.”

Nora continued. “I’ve been told by many that Spacey, of the mysterious organization, is very smart, but Liam’s actions at the time were obviously too rash.”

At the time, he had gone into the lab to refine the V16 immediately after obtaining it. Then, Liam had gone straight to the lab and snatched it from her… this all seemed to make a lot of sense. After all, if she hadn’t already been on guard long ago, Liam would have taken the real V16 from her right then and there! However, Liam had seemed too impetuous that time.

In particular, his death had been due to a bomb that Barbarian had installed.

In the past, Barbarian had always forced situations with brute force. It was only after he started working with Spacey that he began to develop his own thoughts and ideas when it came to handling things. In that case, there was no way he was going to give up Spacey that easily!

Rene was now a completely different person compared to his usual shyness. He still had his head down and his grimy hair disheveled all over, but the look in his eyes changed from innocent and shy to sinister and aggressive in an instant.

It was like someone who had ascended from hell. He looked at Nora ominously and said, “That’s it? We may be in Switzerland, but the Schmidt’s can’t pass sentence on others so lightly!”

“Of course not.”

Nora spoke again. She scoffed and said, “At the time, I was only suspicious of you. Then, your foster parents came and took you away by force. You instantly became weak, the most pitiful person in the place. This, no doubt, lessened my suspicions…. After all, no one would suspect the weak! But… Are you really? Or should I ask: Is your family background really that pitiful? Is it really true that your adoptive parents were killed in a fight?”

“Of course not!”

As soon as Nora finished speaking, Brenda approached. The moment she approached Nora, she threw a stack of documents at her. “Nora, I looked into the case you asked me about. Your adoptive parents killed each other, but based on the traces left at the crime scene, I have found evidence to prove that the two of you were not resentful, but were forced to kill each other. And it was you, René, who forced them to do it.”

Rene immediately responded angrily, “Didn’t they deserve it? Should I have stopped fighting and been raped by my adoptive father instead? I just want to lead my life as I should. Is there anything wrong with that?”

“There’s nothing wrong with wanting to lead a good life and protect yourself.” Brenda’s flaming red lips were extraordinarily seductive, but her back, standing straight and erect as she asked, “But is that really what you’re doing?”

René bit his lip. “What do you mean by that?”

Brenda lowered her gaze. “I’ve already checked your background. For the past ten years, you’ve been adopted by not just one family, but three. Yet, without exception, all of those couples have died!”

Her words surprised everyone present.

Three families?

Even Nora raised her eyebrows.

Brenda did not elaborate, however. She merely said, “Of course, since your crimes were committed in Switzerland, the Swiss authorities will naturally be in charge of your case. As an Interpol officer, I am only arresting you because you are involved in an international biogenetic drug case. But no matter what the case is, you will not be able to escape the death sentence!”

The death sentence…

Hearing what he said, Rene suddenly burst out laughing. She said angrily, “You can’t kill me, because I have already injected the two V16 serums! Your only option is to distill the V16 from my blood now. You can only keep me alive and turn me into your genetic blood bank – kill me and you’ll lose everything!”

With the two V16 in her, an overdose would result in an excess of the serum in her blood.

However, they couldn’t draw all of her blood at once either, because some of it must have already been absorbed by her body!

If they wanted to extract a single dose of the V16, they would have to wait for the serum not absorbed into his body to slowly penetrate his blood along with the regeneration of the blood. This would take at least several months, or even years!

Barbarian’s pupils constricted and she looked at Spacey in disbelief. Had she injected herself with both serums?

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