Between life and death [unlimited]

Perhaps due to the influence of Jacques' kidnapping, Jacqueline Blades didn't sleep very peacefully these few nights.She can't help but worry about the safety of her youngest son in her heart.

I wonder how Jacques is doing now?What would they let Jacques eat these days?I don't know if those rude kidnappers beat and scolded their well-behaved children... In short, similar questions are like those annoying flies flying on summer fruits, buzzing in Jacqueline's mind .

This made Jacqueline feel that her brain nerves were a little weak.Today, when Jacques has not been rescued successfully, is no exception.

The chirping of sparrows came from outside the window, which easily woke her up from her sleep.Jacqueline opened her eyes wearily, and looked outside again, only to find that the sky was only slightly bright at this time.

Jacqueline looked at the enamel alarm clock placed on the bedside table again. The time displayed on it was only five or six o'clock in the morning - which meant that less than an hour had passed since the time she just fell asleep That's all.

But Jacqueline was still tortured by the birdsong outside the window, so she had no desire to continue to sleep.She had no choice but to tiptoe out of bed, making sure that she didn't wake Brades who was still asleep, and then went to the dressing table again, and put on the silk nightgown that was on the bed next to her.

While tying the belt around her waist, she thought in her heart: When Blades wakes up, she will order the servants to drive out all the annoying sparrows outside!

The silver mirror on the dressing table in the bedroom is large in size, and the mirror surface looks bright under the reflection of the morning light, and it just happens to be able to fully reflect the petite and exquisite Jacqueline.

I saw the French beauty sitting in front of the mirror, with smooth and shiny platinum long hair, which is currently the most romantic hair color sought after by the noble ladies of country Q; and the cat-like heart On the face, there are also two pure blue pupils like jewels.

The color of Jacqueline's pupils is very beautiful. Everyone who has looked at her has said that seeing her eyes is like seeing the ocean - and this is also the reason why Jacqueline made one move in those days. The main reason for "capturing" Blades.

But the pair of ocean-like eyes in the mirror have completely lost their former charm.Now it's just filled with dense scarlet blood, and Jacqueline's eyes also reveal her inner exhaustion everywhere.

"...Is it the reason why I haven't slept well recently?" As a woman who loves beauty by nature, Jacqueline noticed very sensitively her eyes that were slightly aged due to fatigue, and then felt a little anxious and wanted to raise her hands , trying to smooth those fine lines that appear around the corners of the eyes.

But just when her hand was about to touch the end of her eyes, a pair of eyes full of malice suddenly flashed past in the mirror!

Jacqueline was taken aback immediately, and felt a cold chill rushing straight to her brain on her back in an instant.

Jacqueline, who has good eyesight, saw very clearly just now, and an idea immediately appeared in her mind: the gaze in the mirror cannot be from a human being, because it is impossible for a human being to have a pair of eyes that almost only have the white of the eye—then The gaze was more like the gaze of a ghost who didn't know where to hide...

"What should I do... Just now, was it a ghost that I saw just now?" Jacqueline kept her head down, and the muscles in her neck soon felt sore from the tension, "...Is it staring at me?"

"What about now? Is it still looking at me? What should I do, should I raise my head and look again..."

Jacqueline's neck soon became overwhelmed, so she had to carefully lift her head.

But when she looked into the mirror in front of her again with some fear, she was the only figure on the silver mirror—there was nothing else in it, let alone a pair of malicious eyes.

"Could it be because of my recent neurasthenia, that pair of eyes just now...is it just my hallucination?" Jacqueline couldn't help wondering in her heart.

But she clearly saw it just now?And you can see clearly...

Because it is still early, Jacqueline's personal maid has not come to her room to serve.After experiencing the fright that seemed to be in a dream just now, the expression on Jacqueline's eyebrows looked even more exhausted.

But now she didn't want to lie back on the bed and continue to sleep, so she picked up the comb on the table in a daze, and combed her hair one by one.

When the beauty-loving Jacqueline saw the huge piles of hair hanging from the comb, she immediately forgot the fear that those eyes brought to her just now.She put the fallen hair in her hands, and whispered on her mouth: "I always feel that I have lost a lot of hair recently..."

However, looking down at Jacqueline who had broken hair in her hands, she happened to miss the pale face flashing past in the mirror in front of her.

Naturally, he couldn't see the evil ghost's face full of carrion and blood, staring at a pair of pupils that were almost completely white with only a little black, staring at her every move intently.

……

The light in the morning was just right, and when Jiang Lai came out of the room outside the castle, he saw a group of servants holding up wooden sticks to drive away the chirping sparrows that were staying on the trees.James and Eric happened to be among the servants responsible for driving the sparrows away.

After Eric saw Jiang Lai going out, a smile immediately appeared on that unruly face: "You woke up so early! Claude." His smile looked the same as his, full of It has the meaning of flirting with foolishness and indecentness.

So Jiang Lai didn't answer his words, as if he didn't hear what Eric said just now.

However, Eric was not discouraged when he saw that Jiang Lai ignored him.After driving away the last sparrow on the tree, he put away the wooden stick and walked close to the iceberg beauty he liked.

"Why don't you talk to me?" Eric recalled the last unpleasant meeting between the two, and still asked shamelessly: "We are all colleagues of the Divine Bless Knights now, are you still Remember my grudge? But last time, didn't I ask you to return it in the end..."

Jiang Lai still looked ahead and continued to walk his own way, and by the way, he regarded the chattering Eric beside him as air.Jiang Xun felt in his heart that only by completely ignoring this kind of person, can he stop harassing you like a dog's skin plaster in the future.

However, Jiang Xun still underestimated Eric's thick skin, or Jiang Xun might not have expected that there would be such a brazen person in this world.

Seeing that Jiang Lai hadn't answered his question, Eric simply stood in front of Jiang Lai, blocking his way.He was about the same height as Jiang Sel, but he was still a little shorter than Jiang Sel after standing face to face, so Eric had to look up to see Jiang Sel's iceberg-like face that he had been thinking about for a long time.

"Little beauty...why haven't you spoken all the time? Don't you know me?" While talking, Eric was not angry when he saw that Jiang Lu hadn't answered, and wanted to molested Jiang. sleet.

Jiang Lai originally thought that he had just joined the Divine Blessed Knights, and he should try not to conflict with others, so he was more tolerant just now, but he didn't expect Eric to take this as acquiescence, and his behavior became more and more excessive.

As things stand now, I can't bear it anymore, and I don't need to bear it anymore.

The moment Eric stretched out his arm, Jiang Xun grabbed Eric's wrist at an extremely fast speed.Then he held it tightly again, and after finding a good angle, he turned suddenly, and immediately there was a crisp bone dislocation sound from Eric's elbow joint.

"Crack-"

Jiang Lai's face that had been frozen for thousands of years showed a slightly relaxed expression, as if he just broke off a somewhat fragile branch just now.

Eric's face turned red in an instant because of the pain, but before he could cry out, Jiang Lai bypassed him at an inhuman speed and went straight to the front.

"If there is a next time, I will never let it go."

Jiang Shui's voice without any emotional ups and downs came from the front, like a biting winter wind drifting into Eric's ears. Frozen, completely sealed in his throat.

So when Jiang Xun entered the castle, he didn't hear any cries coming from behind him.

The Blades family's breakfast is usually at two quarters past eight o'clock - but this meal time is a bit early compared to other families, and it was originally set based on Jacques' school time - so now Jacques is in After being kidnapped, other than Blades himself, none of the other family members seemed to have much appetite for food.

So the breakfast time was postponed to the normal 09:30.

After Jiang Shui entered the castle, he came directly to Blades who was eating in the restaurant.And here Blades saw Jiang Shui coming in, and put down the knife and fork in his hand.

"What's going on now? Claude, have you found any progress?" Blades asked this subordinate he had appreciated before - if he didn't agree with the ability of "Claude", he would He wouldn't have been sent to be his youngest son's bodyguard.

Jiang Lai replied, "I found some clues at school."

"Oh? Really?" When Blades heard this answer, the light in his eyes seemed to brighten a lot, and he immediately asked: "Then have you found any traces of Jacques now?"

Jiang Lai quickly shook his head and denied Blades' guess.However, he didn't say what he was thinking now. He just changed his voice and asked Blades, "I haven't found it yet. Where are the others?"

"Uh...Master, have other people found any clues?" In fact, up to now, Jiang Xun is not very comfortable calling others "Master".

Blades was agitated.After seeing Jiang Lai shaking his head, he seemed to have aged a few years in an instant, or it might be because his eyes suddenly lost light.

"All the people I sent out—including the members of the family, the police in the group, and the subordinates of the other allies—all these people have not found any trace of Jacques..." Fortunately, Brad Si didn't resist talking to "Claude" about the current developments, so Jiang Xun didn't have to work so hard to get the latest developments.

Blades sighed and continued: "They checked all the vacant or suspicious houses on the group, but they couldn't find the person who kidnapped Jacques; Our family is an opposing enemy, but at present, those people seem to have no time to commit crimes. However, this project is a large amount of work, and the indirect ways of buying murderers or finding mercenaries have yet to be investigated."

Speaking of this, Blades suddenly asked Jiang Shang: "By the way, Claude, what are the clues you found in Jacques School just now?"

After Jiang Lai heard that there was basically no progress at present, he probably had an idea in his heart.But he didn't answer directly, but asked first: "Jacques...Master, do you know which peers of the same age you usually get close to?"

In fact, he asked this question mainly because he wanted to know that Blades and the others knew that Jacques was very close to Leon at school.

"I know this!" Jacqueline, who had been sitting silently by the side, suddenly answered at this moment.

"It should only be the child from the Felton family, Scott. Although they don't usually go to school together, the child seems to be educated at home, but because our two families have some business contacts, Jacques is also familiar with that child. Get up. Usually when Jacques is on vacation, he always asks Scott to come and play with us."

It seems that Jacqueline is still a very responsible mother, and she has a better understanding of her son's friendship - but she doesn't seem to know about the private relationship between Jacques and Leon.

"However, why are you asking about this matter? Claude." Blades asked suspiciously.

Jiang Lai replied: "I want to find out about the situation through my friend Jacques."

"So that's the case." Jacqueline said in a tone of regret: "But... that child, Scott and his family have already..."

"Yes, unfortunately."

After Jiang Lai also expressed his regret, he saw that he had no news to get from Brades, so he said goodbye: "Master, madam, you have breakfast first, I will continue to investigate."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Jacqueline may have thought of her poor little son again, and now she can't eat anymore no matter what.

These days, her appetite is not good.But she knew that it wasn't the kind of loss of appetite that was affected by her mood, but a very strange feeling that her stomach was full as if she was full.

After seeing that Jiang Lai had left the restaurant, she said to Blades with a worried face: "Master, don't you feel that something is wrong at home recently..."

Blades just glanced sideways at his wife and didn't make any answer.He didn't feel that there was any problem at home, but felt that Jacqueline had become a little fussed after Jacques disappeared.

When Jacqueline thought of the malicious eyes she saw in the mirror this morning, she couldn't help but shuddered, and she seemed to be afraid that a ghost would suddenly come out from somewhere, and her whole body became a little nervous stand up.

"Master... I always feel that since you invited the 'New God' home, the family seems to be cursed... This morning, I was still in our house..."

"Jacqueline!" Blades suddenly called out his wife's name.He stared at the woman in front of him who looked a little terrified, and tried his best to maintain his basic etiquette.

"I hope you don't talk about this at breakfast in the future." He suddenly returned to normal, as if nothing had happened, picked up the knife and fork on the table and continued to cut the food in front of him, "And, 'New God's bless our business since coming in. I don't want to hear any questioning words from you."

The Blades family has been engaged in the arms business for generations, and they pay more attention to things like luck.Shortly after inviting in this 'new god',

Jacqueline was taken aback by what Blades had just yelled.At this moment, after hearing Blades' soft but actually very deterrent warning, she nodded subconsciously, and never dared to mention anything bad about this "new god".

Time soon came to this afternoon.

It is also the third day for the players to enter the game world, and there is only one day left until the end of the mission, but the players still don't even know where Jacques was tied up, let alone rescue him.

After Jiang Lai got the latest progress from Brades in the morning, he almost already had an idea in his mind about who kidnapped Jacques.

Probably because of Si Yufeng's influence, Jiang Xun would start with the details when thinking about the whole task now, and then slowly work backwards to reshape the rough sand table model of the whole incident.

The specific time of Jacques' disappearance should be the afternoon of the day before yesterday. After all, at noon, the security guard Simo saw him and Leon going to the garden behind the school together.It's just that there were two people when they went there, and there was only one person left when they came back. This probably shows that Jacques was kidnapped during this time, or shortly after this time.

As for Leon Anhalter, who the players once suspected might be the "real culprit behind the scenes", Jiang Lie completely dispelled his suspicions after seeing Leon running into the cabin yesterday to learn how to meow. Suspect.Moreover, if he guessed correctly, although Leon and Jacques belong to two families with feuds, they have a "friendship" that they don't want to let the family or even other classmates know.

And the bond of this special friendship should be the kitten hidden in the wooden house.The two children may have rescued the kitten together under some special circumstances, and then chose to foster the kitten in the cabin because the two tutors were very strict. The relationship between them may also be based on this Easing—after all, the children have not personally experienced those clan hatreds, so they cannot fully substitute themselves into the emotions of hatred for another family.

Now that we are talking about the kitten, we have to analyze the role played by the owner of the wooden house where the kitten hides—that is, the school cleaner Spark.

Jiang Xun has now shifted his suspicions to the disabled Spark, and since yesterday, Jiang Xun has been secretly following Spark.

But I don’t know if Spark noticed someone was following him, or he was too cautious, or the kidnapper was not him at all—in short, Spark has been staying quietly in the school since yesterday, and has never Go out, or meet up with friends.Moreover, Jiang Lai couldn't find any clues in his daily trajectory.

But that afternoon, Jiang Lai went directly to Spark, the cleaner, to get more information from him.At that time, Spark didn't have any job, and he was sitting at the door of his hut, staring blankly at the bright red poppies in full bloom in front of him.When Jiang Lai suddenly appeared in front of him, the frightened expression on Spark's face didn't look like it was faked.

"My lord, my lord... What's the matter with you coming here?" Spark still asked Jiang Shang in that somewhat panicked tone.

Jiang Lai looked at all the expressions on his face, but unfortunately, he didn't find anything from Spark's expression.

"Where's that cat?" Jiang Lai suddenly asked Spark an unexpected question.

Sure enough, other expressions besides fear appeared on Spark's face immediately.He seemed to be wondering how Jiang Lai knew that he had raised a kitten here, but he didn't have the guts to ask it out. The eyebrows and eyes on that prematurely aging face couldn't help drooping a little more, which made him whole. They all looked more dejected.

"My lord, do you mean... the cat that Master Jacques and Master Leon fostered with me?"

"Yes." Jiang Xun said a one-word answer in a cold voice, and he still cherished words like gold as always.

At this moment, Spark suddenly raised his head and glanced at Jiang Xun who was standing in front of him, a strange light flashed in those cloudy eyes, but Jiang Xun did not understand the specific meaning in his eyes.As a result, in the next second, Spark quickly lowered his head again, and in just an instant, he returned to the unlucky look he had at the beginning.

Jiang Lai only heard him answer in a low voice with a volume close to that of a mosquito: "That kitten...it got lost. That cat, I don't know when it got lost... Anyway , I can't find it now... Moreover, I have already told Master Leon about it."

At this moment, there was a gust of wind blowing over the field of poppies in full bloom in front of the two of them, and the slight rustling sound of the branches shaking seemed to be able to easily overwhelm Spark's voice.