Stella broke into several car game houses and underground gambling houses consecutively, yet she
still failed to find Channing. Instead, the gamblers were annoyed. Seeing that Stella was here alone,
they talked to her frivolously.
“Yo, beauty, why are you here? Do you want to play with us?
“Don’t be restrained if you want to play. Looks like you want to compare several gambling houses
before chose a place to play.”
“Beauty, the gambling house is different from man. It has its own rules. As for man, you can choose the
one you like. You will like it.”
They exchanged a glance and their smiles were ambiguous and obscene.
Right at this moment, a person walked over boldly, “How about let me have a try first? You will be
satisfied with me, haha…”
Before he could finish his words, someone grabbed his hair and hit him onto the wall with great force.
The man cursed an abusive sentence. He turned around and prepared to fight against the person, but
when he saw his face, he took a step backwards, “A…Adolph… How comes you’re here?”
Adolph looked at them expressionlessly, “Do I have to inform you guys first before coming here?”
Those men immediately changed their expressions and smiled at Adolph apologetically, “Oh, how can
it be possible. It’s just that we’re caring about you. We haven’t seen you for a long time. What are you
busy with recently?”
Adolph ignored them and asked, “Did a boy aged around nineteen years old come here today?”
“No. Definitely no. Only this beauty is a newcomer to this place today.”
The other men chimed in, “Yes. Adolph, you also know that only some obsessive gambler would come
to this place and we’re quite familiar with them. How will we have no impression if a stranger comes
here?”
Adolph turned around and said to Stella, “He probably hasn’t come here.”
Knitting her brows, Stella glanced over the men in front of her and said after a while, “Let’s go.”
When Stella turned around, Adolph said to those men, “Tell me right away if you see that boy.”
After finishing the words, he kicked the man that talked frivolously to Stella just now, “Mind your own
business. Don’t think of those dirty and evil things every day.”
“Okay, Adolph, you’re right. I won’t make such a mistake again.”
Adolph shifted his gaze, turned around and left.
Right at this moment, a man who had been silent ran to Adolph and said, “Wait, Adolph, I suddenly
recalled that I saw Channing today. Are you looking for him?”
Both Stella and Adolph turned around when they heard the words.
Adolph asked, “Where did you see him?”
“At the cross in the front. He was alone. I thought he was familiar, but I won’t recall it if it wasn’t…”
Adolph’s expression became serious. He suddenly grabbed the man’s collar, “Did Jeffrey come here
recently?”
The man’s expression became stiff. He then laughed awkwardly, “No. How can it be possible? Didn’t
you instruct us to contact you once Jeffrey shows up here? He never comes.”
“I don’t have the patience to repeat my question.”
Seeing this, the man’s legs shivered. But he still gritted his teeth, “What I said was true. I won’t dare to
lie to you.”
Right at this moment, the man that was slammed onto the wall by Adolph stood up, his head bleeding.
He said, “You’d better tell him honestly. Jeffrey is not a good thing. What benefit will you get by working
for him?”
“I didn’t…”
Stella said in a flat tone, “How much reward does he give you? I can double it.”
The man rolled his eyes. But as Adolph was also present, he could only say, “Oh, beauty, this matter
has nothing to do with money.”
“Bang!”
Adolph suddenly punched the wall behind him and said in a cold voice, “I will give you a last chance.
Money or your wife, which one do you pick?”
Hearing this, the man didn’t dare to deceive him any longer. He swallowed salvia, “I will tell you. He
came here to play games the night before. But he was lucky and he won for several rounds. He divided
a part to me and asked me not to tell others that he had come here. Adolph, I have no choice. My
girlfriend wanted to break up with me recently and I’m in urgent need of money. So I…”
Adolph let go of him and asked in a ferocious voice, “Did Jeffrey tell you about his recent domicile?
“He didn’t tell me about this. He’s so vigilant all the way, fearing that someone might follow him.”
“Did you follow him? To where?”
The man didn’t dare to hide the truth to him and replied hurriedly, “I followed him to the deserted
unfinished building in the front. Fearing that he might find me, I didn’t follow him again. But that building
can’t shield the winds and it has been raining recently. Is it possible that he’s living there?”
Adolph didn’t reply. He took two steps forwards and said to Stella, “Wait for me in the car. I will go there
to have a look.”
Stella was silent for a while. Then she said, “I will go with you.”
If Channing really came there to find Jeffrey, Adolph would not be able to bring him back even if he
went there.
Adolph didn’t refuse it. He nodded his head and said, “Okay.”
The gambling house was not far away from the unfinished building and it only took several minutes to
drive. But there were alleys around and they were too narrow to drive through. It would waste too much
time if they drove back and found a broader road. Therefore, they got off the car and walked through
the alleys.
As they got closer to the building, Stella gradually had a hunch that Channing was in the building.
They then finally arrived at the unfinished building which was surrounded by flouring weeds that were
half a meter high. They could see the nests for stray cat and dogs everywhere and there was vaguely a
decaying smell in the air.
It was so silent here and it seemed like they could only hear the sound of the wind.
Adolph said, “Wait for me here. I will come in to have a look.”
Stella gently nodded her head.
As Adolph walked towards the building, Stella also slowly looked towards it.
She saw the reinforced concretes, wood planks and building materials left after the construction and
the puddles on the ground.
It was not a place for people to live in from every aspect.
Even though Jeffrey was hiding himself from place to place now, since he would give that gambler a
large sum of reward before, he wouldn’t aggrieve himself to live in such a place.
Right at this moment, except for the sound of the wind, Stella suddenly heard the sound of fighting from
the top floor afar.
She quickly looked up and Channing’s figure flashed.
Stella’s eyelashes shivered. She moved her lips in an attempt to call him. However, fearing that this
would stimulate Channing, she pushed aside the weeds in front of her and ran towards the building.
However, when she arrived at the downstairs of the building, a huge wood plaque fell down on the
place beside her feet.
Stella instantly felt her hair standing up and her back broke out into cold sweats. She stopped. When
she looked up again, she vaguely saw a man’s upper body hanging in the air and he was waving his
hands. It seemed like he was struggling for his own life out of the instinct.
If she guessed it right, the man was Jeffrey.
But the building was so tall and Stella couldn’t hear their conversation at all. She could only pray that
Adolph would arrive there in time and stop them.
She slowly clenched her hands into fists, took a deep breath and then walked into the building.
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