"Nicole, I might hesitate if you threaten me outside, but in here, I'm in charge! Why don't you go ahead
and try if you can get your message out?"
Laurel said gloatingly.
Only then did Nicole recall that there was no signal here probably because the signal here was blocked
or something.
She looked at the painful Laurence and went for the switch without thinking.
"Stop her! Or the next person to be locked in there will be you!"
Laurel's voice was dignified, and a few bodyguards immediately ran towards Nicole.
Nicole wasn't afraid of them. She agilely avoided them as she ran forward. Finally, she reached the
handle of the lightning switch, but the bodyguards had pounced over.
When Laurence saw Nicole, he was so painful that he couldn't breathe. When he saw Nicole
desperately fighting for him, he seemed to have seen Adela.
No!
Adela was already dead!
The person he was looking at was Nicole!
Laurence shouted and struggled, but he was unable to resist the electric shock.
Seeing Laurence in pain, Nicole risked being beaten up by the bodyguards and pulled down the
lightning switch with all her strength.
Laurence finally got to take a breath.
"Leave! Get out of here! Don't worry about me!"
Laurence shouted, his mouth covered in blood.
Only then did Nicole concentrate on fighting with those bodyguards.
She was not as skilled as Samuel, and she was pregnant now, but perhaps because her potential had
been stimulated, Nicole wrestled the men like a warrior and even had the upper hand.
When Laurel saw this, she was so angry that her lips twitched.
"Trash! You can't even defeat a woman. What do I keep you for? Finn!"
When Nicole heard this name, she was shocked.
Finn?
Was that him?
Just as Nicole was in a daze, a bodyguard punched Nicole in the face and warm liquid flowed out of
her nose.
Nicole took a few steps back and looked at Finn, who was walking in from outside. Her eyes became
colder.
She still remembered how Finn had begged her to forgive him. If she hadn't held onto her principles,
she would have been hurt by him again, right?
Watching Finn walking towards her, Nicole sneered and said, "I must have been blind. I actually
believed you would help me."
Finn looked at Nicole, a hint of pain in his eyes.
"Ma'am, I'm sorry."
"Don't call me Ma'am! Your owner is watching you behind the camera."
Nicole raised her angry voice.
When the others saw Finn enter, they stopped attacking and stepped back, surrounding Nicole and
Finn.
Seeing that, Nicole realized that she might not get out of here today.
If it was someone else, she might stand a chance of winning. Unfortunately, it was Finn. Even if she
could draw with him, with so many bodyguards around, she wouldn't be able to get Laurence out!
Was there really no other way?
Nicole looked at Finn and knew that only by defeating Finn would she have a chance of survival.
"Come on. Don't stall. Since you've chosen to be my enemy, don't act like you don't want this."
Nicole took a step back, ready to start a fierce fight with Finn.
Laurence couldn't help but shout when he saw Nicole risking her life for him.
"Nicole, just go. Don't worry about me. Adela is gone. I see no point in going out. Besides, what will
happen to me if I make it out? People are going to treat me like a monster. Perhaps death is the best
option for me."
"Stop the nonsense. I promised Adela that I would get you out."
Nicole's words surprised Laurence. He then bitterly smiled and said, "Adela is so silly. She always
believed that family love could beat everything. Unfortunately, she got killed!"
"I know. We'll talk about this after we get out."
Nicole turned her gaze from Laurence to Finn and said coldly, "Let's begin."
"I'm sorry."
Finn felt very guilty, but he attacked Nicole anyway.
Nicole hurriedly dodged, but the other bodyguards forced her to retreat.
This wasn't fair!
However, Nicole knew that Laurel didn't care about fairness at all.
She looked at everything in front of her solemnly and cautiously fought against Finn.
Finn was attacking faster and faster, pushing Nicole to the edge.
Just as Nicole thought that she would be defeated by Finn, Finn secretly gave her a key and said in a
low voice, "This is the key to Laurence's glass tank. After you get him out, go to the right. There is a
secret door leading to the alley behind the Miller's house. That's all I can do for you. Leave the
bodyguards to me. Hurry up and leave. Samuel will meet you outside."
Nicole was shocked.
"You..."
"Don't waste time. Hurry up and leave!"
While pretending to fight against her, Finn pushed Nicole up to Laurence's glass tank.
"Can I still trust you?"
Nicole's words caused Finn's heart to ache.
He looked at Nicole and said in a low voice, "I swear on my life that I'm not lying to you."
"Finn, take care."
Nicole read the emotions in Finn's eyes.
She wanted to pretend she didn't understand it.
Finn liked her?
When did it start?
Why didn't she know?
Finn laughed happily when he heard Nicole's words.
"Mr. Wood, what are you..."
The others sensed something wrong and asked with puzzlement.
Finn turned around and said to them with a smile, "Let them go."
"Mr. Wood, what are you talking about?"
"I said let them go!"
As he spoke, Finn started to attack them.
While Finn was keeping them busy, Nicole quickly cut off the power and opened the glass tank to get
Laurence out.
"Can you walk?"
"Yes!"
"Let's go!"
Nicole supported Laurence and looked at Finn, who was fighting. She knew that Laurel would punish
Finn severely for this later.
Suddenly, Nicole felt a little sad.
She didn't want to owe Finn anything, but she had to get Laurence out of here. Laurence needed
medical treatments right now.
Nicole bit her lower lip and left with Laurence, following Finn's instructions.
When Laurel saw this on the camera, her face contorted in anger.
"Finn, how dare you betray me! How dare you!"
She banged the table angrily, and then sent more people to contain Finn and stop Nicole.
When Nicole tried to open the secret door, Laurence stopped her.
"There must be a lot of people waiting for us outside. We don't stand a chance to survive even if we go
out."
"Samuel is picking us up outside."
Samuel was Nicole's only hope.
Laurence sneered, "I don't deny Mr. Green's ability, but he can't get inside the Miller's house. Even if he
has planted spies inside, he still can't. It has nothing to do with power. The alley behind this house has
a self-protection device, which contains poisonous gas. Outsiders will be poisoned if they tried to force
their way in. They don't have the ability to come in and save us. The Millers are the overlord in this
place, and the self-protection device is flawless. If we don't go out, Laurel might not turn on the self-
protection device, but once we do, she will annihilate all of us."
When Nicole heard this, she was drenched in the cold sweat and started to worry about Samuel.
"What should we do then? If Samuel doesn't know and tries to barge in, then..."
"We need to find a phone and call him."
"Are you kidding me? The signal has been blocked. How am I supposed to make a call with my cell?"
Nicole felt that God had played a big joke on her.
Laurence frowned and said, "Adela has a phone in her room. It's an internal phone. We can make a
call with that."
Nicole was shocked.
"You want to go to Adela's room?"
"Yes, if I'm going out, I will bring Adela with me. This is where her life was taken. I don't want her to stay
here any longer. Leaving this place and going to the outside world was her last wish."
Laurence's face was written with sorrow and sadness. He was heartbroken.
Nicole knew about their relationship. They had been with each other since childhood, and the
attachments between them were stronger than anyone would have.
"Alright, let's go to Adela's room."
Once Nicole and Laurence made the decision, they no longer hesitated.
They changed the route. They saw Neville standing outside after walking out of the rockery.
Laurence flinched involuntarily, which suggested that Neville had made him suffer a lot all these years.
Neville looked at Laurence unfriendly.
"Neville, do you think you can beat me?"
Nicole immediately protected Laurence behind her.
Neville looked at Nicole, whose face looked very similar to his daughter's, saying, "I'll help you get out,
but you need to take my daughter with you."
"Excuse me?"
Nicole thought she heard it wrong.
Neville struggled painfully and said, "I know Adela was not happy in this place. Now that she is gone, I
don't want to lock her corpse in here. Although I don't like Laurence, I know he loves Adela. As long as
you promise to take Adela outside and bury her properly, I will help you get out of here."
Nicole immediately understood.
After all, he was Adela's father.
He did love Adela, but he didn't dare to stand against Laurel after being restrained by the family rules
for so many years. Besides, Laurel was indeed a ruthless woman, and it was hard for him not to be
scared of her. However, Neville could not stand watching his daughter being treated like this after she
died.
Nicole looked at him and said word by word, "I can promise you to take Adela out and give her a proper
burial, but I need a cell phone now."
"A cell won't work, because the signal has been blocked. You need an internal phone. You can go to
Adela's room and use the phone there. But do it fast. If you can think of this, Laurel can, too."
Hearing Neville's words, Nicole and Laurence immediately became nervous. The three of them quickly
walked towards Adela's room, only to find someone standing in their way outside Adela's room.
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