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    Theodore was very calm about Rosalie''s confession.


    "I already know he''s my child. I don''t me you. I know I did wrong, that''s why you didn''t tell me the truth."


    Nothing mattered in the face of death.


    "Theo..." Rosalie sobbed brokenly.


    "Cry, Rose. Cry as much as you want. Cry and vent all your frustrations. It''s not good keeping it to yourself," Yerick said with a devilish smile.


    Just then, a helicopter roared overhead.


    Yerick looked up and remarked calmly, "Seems like they found me."


    Rows of armored cars suddenly sped toward them, screeching to a halt as they surrounded them. Everyone in the sky and onnd had their weapons aimed at Yerick.


    "Don''t move! Put your weapon down!"


    Rosalie looked up at the helicopter and the cars, and realized that someone had finallye to their rescue. She broke down in tears of joy.


    Many people hade, including some familiar faces such as Sebastian and Christopher.


    Amidst the crowd, she saw a familiar figure. It was Justin, standing right at the front with a gun in hand, aimed right at Yerick.


    "There''s no escape for you, Yerick Zeller. Put your weapon down."


    "Haha..." Yerick put the shovel down. "That took a while. You finally found me after so much effort."


    "Yerick Zeller, surrender your gun and put it on the floor where we can see it. Hurry up!" Justin ordered threateningly.


    Yerick looked around and saw everyone armed with either guns or weapons, clearly able to subdue him in a second. Yet, he said with a smile, unperturbed, "It''s good to see so many people dying alongside me. I wouldn''t be lonely in the underworld."


    "Still trying to be stubborn even in the face of death," Sebastian said furiously. He then turned to Rosalie. "Rose, I''vee to save you."


    "Sebastian, don''te over!" Theodore suddenly yelled.


    Sebastian smirked. "Theodore, you couldn''t save Rose, and now you''re stopping me from saving her?"


    "Theodore''s right, don''t go close to Rose," Yerick warned. "There''s a bomb below her feet. You''ll only get hurt if youe."


    Sebastian stopped dead in his tracks and turned his head around. "What did you say?"


    "I nted many bombs underground, and there are timers on them all. I''m so happy that so many people are going to die with me. Thank you, all." Everyone''s faces turned solemn.


    Christopher whispered something to his subordinate. His subordinate then retrieved a detector, which confirmed that there were indeed many dangerous bombs nted around them.


    "Hahaha!" Yerickughed. "So what if you find out? Do you have time to defuse them all? I''m the only one who knows where the main switch is. All of you have nowhere to run. You''ll have to die here."


    "Yerick Zeller!" Christopher said. "You have nowhere to run, and you have no right to negotiate terms with us."


    "So be it. Three minutes left till the bombs explode. Thendmines have a kill radius of tens of kilometers. Seems like your rescue efforts are going to be in vain."


    Justin tightened his hold over the gun. "You''re still in time to surrender now and tell us where the main switch is. For all you know, you might survive."


    "Survive?" Yerick started coughing


    violently. After recovering from the bout, he wiped the blood from his lips. If I could survive, I wouldn''t be ying games like this."


    "What exactly do you want? Do you really want to die with everyone here?" Sebastian yelled furiously.


    No one expected Yerick to do this.


    "I don''t care if all of you die, but I don''t want Rose to die," Yerick said as his gazended on Rosalie. "Whether all of you survive depends on what she says."


    Yerick''s words made everyone tense up as they shifted their gaze to Rosalie.


    "Of course I want everyone here to live on," Rosalie immediately said.


    But she knew things wouldn''t be so simple.