If there is a next life, I will never gossip about other people's affairs again.
The Great Elder, whose left carotid artery was completely severed, thought this as he pressed hard on the wound with both hands, trembling uncontrollably.
Sigh.
Seeing the Great Elder finally slowly lower his hands and his head droop onto his chest, Li Qianfan sighed.
He looked at Du Junlin, who was quietly watching the Great Elder, and thought for a moment.
He said sincerely, "Yaoyao, I can guarantee. I will try my best not to go to your house in the future. And when I'm with Guanyin and Maomao, I will be more careful about how I interact."
Du Junlin frowned and said plainly, "We like you. But I really don't like others gossiping about my family matters."
Huh?
Li Qianfan was a little confused about what "Yaoyao" meant.
Du Junlin changed the subject, "Should we just leave like this, or should we go find more core members of the Rhode family to kill?"
Li Qianfan casually asked back, "What do you think?"
Du Junlin replied, "I don't think there are any good people in this ancient castle."
Li Qianfan understood.
He gestured with his pistol, "Let's go, then let's kill a few more people. Or find something good to take as a souvenir."
Du Junlin felt the same way.
She hurried to the door, "I'll go ahead, you cover the rear."
"Okay. It's best not to be too greedy for kills."
Li Qianfan nodded and suggested, "If that's the case, we won't have to go through the water tunnel. We can just drive out of the main entrance openly. I noticed there are several cars downstairs, and the keys are inside."
Du Junlin didn't say anything and quickly walked out the door.
Li Qianfan held his ear with his left hand and asked, "Yanzi, what's the situation around here?"
Bai Ziyan, who was providing remote assistance, replied, "Calm and peaceful! No one knows these old men have been sent away by the White Belly Birds. This operation was too easy. You can leave through the main entrance, and I'll block all the castle's surveillance cameras and signals. But you'd best evacuate within ten minutes."
"Understood."
As Li Qianfan nodded, he heard screams from outside the door.
Du Junlin had already started a massacre!
Killing everyone she encountered—
Regardless of gender or age!!
Li Qianfan wanted to persuade her not to be so cruel.
But thinking of what the Great Elder said before he died about who the four beauties of the Su family would fall to, he wisely chose to remain silent.
Finally.
A domestic worker coming to the third floor saw the dead bodies on the stairs with their eyes wide open in disbelief and screamed, tumbling down the stairs.
Ten seconds later—
A shrill alarm sounded above Rhode Castle.
The bodyguards patrolling the castle courtyard instinctively froze in shock, then their faces changed dramatically, and they rushed towards the castle.
At this time.
Du Junlin, who didn't know how many people she had killed, had her white coat turned red (her bullets were long gone, and when she killed with a knife, blood splattered).
They went from the third floor, killing everyone they met, all the way to the top floor.
The top floor was the spire of the castle, with only a small room.
It was about seven or eight square meters in size, with a few black robes hanging on the walls and two benches.
Facing the door was a statue of Jesus.
It was the wooden carving of the old man nailed to the cross back then.
Lifelike—
It was obvious.
This was where the core members of the Rhode family came to repent when they accidentally did something wrong.
"Let's go. If we don't leave in the chaos, we'll have to use the water escape."
Li Qianfan peeked down and said to Du Junlin before turning back.
As he turned back, he inadvertently noticed a palm-sized cross hanging around the neck of the sculpture.
It was bronze-colored and looked quite old.
Li Qianfan snatched the cross from the wooden carving, "I'll take this as a souvenir."
Du Junlin, who had been killing her way up, hadn't seen any souvenirs that interested her.
She took off two black robes and threw one to Li Qianfan, "Put it on, let's go."
Before leaving, Li Qianfan had a strong illusion.
It was as if the statue of the great god Jesus was looking at him with a strange gaze: "Child, give me back the cross."
This illusion made Li Qianfan very uncomfortable.
So he took out a lighter—
Thick smoke rose.
The alarm wailed!
As the bodies of the nine Great Elders were discovered, the hundreds of people in the castle descended into utter chaos.
Even the sound of the alarm seemed to grow more shrill.
Almost everyone was screaming in panic and running around like headless chickens.
Especially the domestic staff, who felt like the end of the world had arrived.
But no one stopped their screams or their running around.
Because the scene was too chaotic, the core members who had narrowly escaped the slaughter of the White Belly Birds couldn't guarantee that the killers wouldn't appear next to them.
If they stepped forward to maintain order at this time, they would definitely become targets for the White Belly Birds!
Muffling their gains—
Ensuring their own safety was the most important thing!
However, many people hid in safe places and began to make calls, contacting Mr. Earl or mobilizing external guards.
The mobile phones had no signal.
The landlines couldn't be dialed either (Bai Ziyan had disconnected the terminal of the castle's landline at the telecommunications bureau).
Finally.
As night slowly fell, Jessica, who had been recuperating at Rhode Hospital, drove back to the castle under the protection of Emma and others.
At this time, the castle was no longer in a panic.
A large number of armed guards, under the command of Mason, who had narrowly escaped the massacre, were conducting a futile house-to-house search inside and outside the castle (in Rhode Town).
Ronnie, who had also narrowly escaped death, was pale and trembled as he accompanied Jessica to the third floor.
Jessica stood at the door of the conference room—
Looking at the nine elders who had died with their eyes wide open, her face was filled with the most profound grief.
When she saw the White Belly Bird painted on the wall in blood, her grief instantly turned into anger!
But the next moment, she suddenly bent over, covered her mouth with her hand, and gagged.
It was only natural for a pregnant woman to react to such a strong smell of blood.
"Madam, you should go elsewhere first."
Emma quickly supported her and hurried away from the conference room door.
Leaning against the wall with her left hand and gagging for several minutes, Jessica, her face pale, looked up and asked Ronnie, "How did the White Belly Birds get in?"
"Madam!"
Ronnie, who had already investigated the matter, quickly reported, "They pretended to be patients needing vampire patients to cooperate with the research on mutations for a fee and were brought into the castle."
Having figured out what happened, Jessica closed her eyes in pain.
But she immediately asked, "Did the White Belly Birds kill anyone in the underground laboratory?"
The underground laboratory was of great importance to the Rhode family.
After all, the laboratory was responsible for finding a way to compensate for the genetic defects of the Rhode family.
The key was that there were many things inside that could cause global unrest if exposed.
Fortunately—
Ronnie quickly shook his head, "No. The White Belly Birds focused on killing core members. After they sneaked in, they killed two guards on the first basement level. Dr. Price, the head of the laboratory, also narrowly escaped the massacre."
Phew.
Jessica breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."
Ronnie said, "But the White Belly Birds set a fire in the repentance room on the top floor. The Jesus statue and other items were burned."
What!?
Jessica's eyes widened sharply.
This time, she wasn't acting.
It was genuine shock!
Because in that repentance room, there was the Rhode family's treasure, the bronze cross!!
This cross was rumored to be a holy relic that the great god Jesus wore close to him throughout his life.
When the great god was betrayed by Judas and had his last meal with his disciples, he passed this cross to the disciple he admired most.
And that disciple was the ancestor of the Rhode family.
It was also with the protection of this cross that the Rhode family later flourished and became the world's leading family, with an estimated total family assets of fifty trillion dollars!
Even.
The bronze cross was considered more sacred than the three holy relics in Western legends, such as the shroud of Turin!
From the day Rhode Castle was built, the bronze cross was enshrined in the attic of the spire.
However, because the Rhode family believed in low-key as the king, they never publicized their possession of the cross worn by the great god during his lifetime, so the outside world knew nothing about it.
Let alone the outside world.
Even core members like Ronnie and Mason were not qualified to know about this cross.
Those qualified to enter the repentance room in the spire and see the bronze cross were, besides the patriarch and his wife of each generation, the elders.
Now—
Jessica could no longer care about anything else. Ignoring Ronnie's persuasion, she pushed away Emma who was supporting her, grabbed her skirt, and rushed up the stairs.
In front of the repentance room in the spire.
Jessica leaned against the stone wall, which was still hot, and looked into the room with despair, sternly ordering, "Emma, find it! Find a cross!!"
Emma had no idea why Madam was so concerned about a cross.
But she didn't dare to ask and hurriedly rushed into the repentance room, which was still very hot despite having been doused with a lot of water.
"God bless, the cross wasn't taken by them. Otherwise."
Jessica closed her eyes and prayed devoutly, "The vampires sealed by the cross will escape from hell."