The business car was parked at the door of a classical building in the center of the manor. A well-dressed old man was waiting with several attendants. After the car stopped, the attendant quickly came up and opened the door for them.
Chun Yuyan, Lin Huo and Yiyi got out of the car. The old man hurriedly came to greet him and said respectfully: "This is Mr. Chun Yuyan, right? Please come with me. Miss Ashford has been waiting for a long time."
Chun Yuyan and the others didn't say much and walked inside. However, the old man stopped Yiyi and Lin Huo, "I'm sorry, the only person the young lady wants to see is Mr. Chun Yuyan."
"Either let us all go in, or let us call in. It won't work even if you call the police. You choose one." Chunyu Yan said calmly.
"Well...please don't embarrass me..." the old man said, stroking the sweat from his forehead.
"Well, it doesn't matter, as long as I don't embarrass you." Chun Yuyan pushed the old man aside and walked directly into the building.
As imagined, the interior decoration of the four-story building of the manor can be said to be splendid, similar to the palaces of European princes and nobles in the 18th century. Expensive carpets, black walnut furniture, and crystal chandeliers shine from the 7.8-meter-high dome.
Hanging from the middle, there are precious oil paintings hanging on the walls.
Chunyu Yan noticed that in the middle, there was the largest oil painting hanging, which was of Alexia herself. In the painting, she was wearing a luxurious dress, elegant and dignified, sitting on a chair, looking at everything in front of her.
It was completely impossible to tell that it was a 13-year-old girl.
Only the tapping of footsteps was heard. The first thing that appeared from the stairs on the second floor was a foot wearing purple fish-mouth high heels, then white stockings and a slightly lifted lavender skirt, and then a foot embroidered with three layers of lace.
A long dress. A slender hand wearing a long white glove gently supported the handrail of the stairs and slowly slid down. Then, she saw the long golden hair that was as dazzling as the sun and a delicate, beautiful, elegant and noble face.
.
"It turns out that this is Alexia's true form! It's countless times more beautiful than what I've seen in the game before." Lin Huo whispered next to Chun Yuyan.
"You know, the reason why I allowed these two vulgar people to enter my manor is entirely because of you, Yan." Alexia said slowly. What was not commensurate with her appearance and age was that her voice sounded a little...
It was deep and sounded like a voice of 20 or 30 years old, but it also made her voice more majestic.
"If you still can't speak properly, then believe it or not, I will beat you up." Her words also scolded Yiyi, and Chun Yuyan couldn't bear this.
"Is this how you come to ask others for help?" Alexia asked calmly as she walked down the stairs.
"You must know that one of the 'vulgar people' you call is my daughter, and by the way, the other is my partner. If you continue to show such lack of respect for the people around you, then I think we should just make a life-and-death comparison.
Good. Because in that case, it is absolutely impossible for us to have any possibility of cooperation." Chunyu Yan responded tit for tat.
Alexia grabbed the hem of her skirt and bowed slightly, "So she is Yan's daughter? No wonder she has such a powerful power. It seems that my judgment is correct. Only the combination of powerful genes can give birth to powerful offspring. Just now it was
I'm rude, Your Highness Princess."
"I don't like you. Although you seem to be stronger, that doesn't qualify you to be so rude." Yiyi said in a very rare sarcastic tone.
Chunyu Yan couldn't help but look back at Yiyi, because she usually showed no interest in others and was too lazy to pay attention to others, but now she was showing such obvious hostility towards Alexia.
"This is natural. We are the same type of existence. A more powerful and noble existence than humans! Arrogance is the only thing that ants can see from us." Alexia said, after learning that Yiyi was Chun Yuyan's daughter
Afterwards, she actually had some intention of avoiding conflicts.
"No, I don't think you are qualified to compare with me or my father. Your superficial strength is not worth mentioning in front of us." Yiyi snorted coldly.
"Hehehehe... you will have a chance to see my 'shallow' power soon!" Alexia was obviously on fire, literally, because a ball of flame was already burning in her hand, pulling her hand away.
The long white silk gloves on his clothes were burned to ashes.
Yiyi was not to be outdone at all, silently reciting a spell, and a ball of lightning appeared in her hand.
Seeing that things had begun to run wildly in the direction of going off-line, Chun Yuyan felt the veins on his forehead beating wildly. He finally couldn't bear it anymore and stood up and yelled, "Stop the hell!! If any of you dare to move, I will immediately
Just leave, and then don’t come see me for three days and three nights if you haven’t fought hard!!”
Yiyi immediately put away the lightning in his hand, looked at Chun Yuyan with a pair of beautiful eyes, grabbed his arm and said coquettishly, "Dad..."
Alexia's expression also softened, and the flame disappeared from her hands. She walked down the stairs, stood in front of Chun Yuyan, and still said with an extremely arrogant tone: "If there is anyone else in this world who can make me stop,
,Then it’s just you, Yan.”
Chun Yuyan only felt that his head was getting bigger. He was not polite and walked directly to the sofa to sit down. Then he grabbed a handful of grapes on the coffee table and stuffed them into his mouth and swallowed them. The grapes placed on the ice cubes were cold and sweet.
, making him feel extremely refreshed immediately, then he leaned on the back of the sofa, patted the armrest and said, "Come and sit."
Alexia came over without hesitation, but she came directly to the armrest of Chun Yuyan's sofa and sat down on his arm. Before Chun Yuyan could react, Yiyi had already run to Chun Yuyan with a pout.
On the other side of Yan, he was sitting on the armrest, leaning against Chunyu Yan's chest like a municipal committee member.
Chun Yuyan's evil fire that had just been dissipated by the ice grape started to rise again. He coughed dryly, stood up, sat on the sofa opposite, and said to Alexia straight to the point: "I want to ask you to help me save him."
one person."
"Rescuing people? This is not my job." Alexia, who had just been rejected, said with a cold face.
"Then what is your job? To be a young lady?" Chunyu Yan asked back.
"Isn't it? I am the leader of the Ashford family, and being a good eldest lady is naturally what I need to do." Alexia said it was reasonable.
Chunyu Yan decided not to talk to her about this matter, and continued: "I have a very important friend who has terminal cancer. Is there anything you can do to save him?"
"The late stage of cancer shows that the malignant tumor has destroyed the human immune system. For lower creatures like humans, there is no hope." Alexia said decisively.
"What if it's not human?"
Alexia smiled very elegantly, moved and sat on the sofa, and said, "It depends on how much you are willing to pay."
"The price is irrelevant, I just hope to invite you to become my partner." Chunyu Yan said.
"Partner? With all due respect, Yan. Apart from yourself, do you have anything else that is useful to me? That toy-like group of yours? That group may not be as good as the one in the living room where you are now.
Value." Alexia smiled.
"You are wrong, Alexia. The real value of that toy-like group you mentioned can easily buy 100 Ashford families," Chunyu Yan said.
"Who gave you the confidence?" Alexia put away her smile. The mention of the family seemed to hit her home, especially when she heard Chun Yuyan belittle the Ashford family in this way, which made her even more unacceptable.
"I don't want to brag. In fact, your value to me is just the Veronica virus, but you gave me the virus database directly. I am very grateful. That's why we have this conversation and the possibility of our cooperation."
.As for the value of our group, you can find out for yourself, buy individual stocks and so on." Chunyu Yan said.
"Buy shares?" The expression on Alexia's face began to show some contempt, "How much?"
"One US dollar is just the ticket price for the visit." Chunyu Yan replied, "Seeing is believing, and hearing is believing. You should see what the Ruin World Group has in order to understand it for yourself. Then you can know, I
What does it mean to want you to cooperate?"
"So, you came here today specifically to recruit me into the gang?"
"I came to you to save people. Winning you to join the gang is just a reward for saving people. I will suffer a little loss."
Alexia frowned and said: "Actually, no matter what the Ruined World Group has, as long as you agree to combine with me and inherit the Ashford family business, then our entire family will become your own strength. In the family
With the help of others, the potential of the Ruined World Group will only be unleashed a hundred or a thousand times."
"I told you, I don't want to live like you." Chunyu Yan answered directly.
Alexia finally couldn't bear it anymore. She stood up suddenly and asked loudly: "Live like me? Live like me? I graduated from Cambridge University at the age of ten and completed all the courses! I was eleven years old
I worked my way up to the position of laboratory director within a few months of joining Umbrella! I independently developed the Veronica virus at the age of thirteen! I am the heir to the Ashford family's billions of assets! I also have beauty that surpasses all others.
!I am the perfect fusion of the Veronica virus, and I am also the only queen of the entire Veronica clan!!
I have everything! Wisdom, wealth, beauty, strength, longevity, power!! Everything that people have spent their whole lives dreaming of is concentrated in me! If you want to live like me, then I can only think of you as humble.
Such compliments! Because the way I look is the most perfect!"
She was so excited that her whole body was almost trembling. She raised her hand and patted her chest, as if to remind Chun Yuyan to take a good look at her and take a good look at this perfect existence in front of him.
However, Chun Yuyan still only saw a pair of Aces. Oh no, he saw Alexia's loneliness hidden deep in her angry appearance. He said lightly: "So, is it Alexia standing in front of me, or is it Alexia?
Ashford?”
"Both! Is there any difference?" Alexia trembled with anger.
"Of course there is a difference. Because I only saw a person who has been burdened with too many things since he was born. He dare not love, hate, play, and be lazy. Everything must be based on the family, even his own
Poor guy who has to suppress his nature! Just like..." Chunyu Yan's figure suddenly rose up, and he came to Alexia with lightning speed,
Snap!! A loud slap fell on the girl’s cheek!
Alexia was immersed in her own emotions and didn't react at all. She covered her face and froze.
"If a family declines to the point where a thirteen-year-old girl has to sacrifice her childhood to continue, then this family should be destroyed as soon as possible. You'd better wake up! The family is the family, and you are you! You are just that
A thirteen-year-old girl! The kind who will go to jail for anything she does to you! Don’t stay together all day long! You should do something a little girl should do!" Chunyu Yan said and threw down a movie with his backhand.
Cell phone, "I assume that you have a way to save that person! Then just wait for my news! I will send him over directly!"
Alexia lowered her head, covered her face, and said nothing.
Chun Yuyan ignored her, walked over and patted Lin Huo, who was stunned by the incident, and left directly with Yiyi.
…
"Oh!! Martinez! Martinez! Martinez!!"
"Strike out! Strike out!!"
Huge cheers resounded through the sky, and the entire stadium was submerged in a sea of white and red. The fanatical fans wore T-shirts with red letters on a white background and baseball caps with a B on their heads, waving MSG in their hands vigorously, and also
There were several big flags flying in the audience.
This is Fenway Park, not the Diamond City, nor the ruins destroyed by nuclear bombs, but Fenway Park! The oldest and most prestigious ballpark in Major League Baseball!
Pedro Martinez looked calm, stepped onto the plate, held the ball, and rubbed his injured shoulder. He is the star pitcher of the Boston Red Sox. Although his shoulder was injured in the previous game, he still stood without hesitation at this critical moment.
came out.
He looked at the scoreboard. The Boston Red Sox were 2:5 Indians, trailing by 3 points. The opponent had one man on second base and one man on third base. As a pitcher, he could not let the score expand any longer.
He struck a pose, took a deep breath, and drew a perfect arc with his arm. The ball flew out with a violent spin. The opponent's batsman was obviously confused by the ball and couldn't even swing the bat.
!
Poof!! The catcher caught the ball firmly! Strikeout!!
"Oh!!!!" The stadium suddenly burst into loud cheers. At this moment, this was the only voice in the entire city of Boston.
"Strike out!! Now!! Counterattack! Counterattack!!" Knight waved his arms crazily and shouted with tears streaming down his face. His voice was already hoarse, but he was still roaring with all his strength.
Next to him, Sean sat quietly, wearing a black baseball cap with the letter B embroidered on his head. He looked at the crazy stadium in front of him with an extremely complicated expression, and then looked to the side again.
The fanatical Knight had a knowing smile on his lips.
"Only those who have experienced the apocalypse will cherish all of this and will risk everything to protect such a life." Sean turned around and said.
Chunyu Yan smiled and said, "Enjoy your family happiness. Maybe this will be the last time you and Nate get together."