Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen On Sadith Hill

Babi dragged his body numb from the cold, headed boldly towards the path swallowed by the river, to face the suspicious Preston Tye and the whisper after dusk, leaving behind Sam Quinn, the tired and A lone human fighter standing next to a wooden box brought back from Asia with a gun! The torrential rain has turned into a icy mist, and the yellow muddy water pouring down from the mountain peak turbulently flows along the narrow rock cracks leading to the cave.Babi trudged through muddy water, wet and cold; but it was a relief to escape the menacing gaze of Sam Quinn and the hapless wooden box.

When he returned to the place where the Foundation's black car was parked, it was almost evening.The car started easily, and the road conditions were much better than he had imagined. Large pieces of gravel were rolled and rolled by the river, and the Xiongxi River was full of yellow water foam, making a big whirlpool. Fortunately, his car broke through anyway. . Bobby had turned on his lights before he hit the highway, and there were no whispers in the dark, no slender she-wolves by the side of the road, no police sirens blaring behind him.At eight o'clock, he had already parked the car in front of the luxurious residence in Preston Tee in Troy Hills.

Barbie was familiar with the structure of the room, having been there before for his political coverage.He entered the house through a side door and watched as the dining room light went out.Then he breathed a sigh of relief.Quietly stepping up the stairs on the second floor, knocking hard on the door of the study, Tey asked in a low voice who the hell was knocking on the door. "Boss, it's me, Bobby," he replied timidly. "I want to see you now—because I didn't bump into Mrs. Monrick." "Oh, it's not you?" Tei's voice came from the crack of the door, obviously he didn't believe it.After a while, he said again, "Come in."

The study is very large, the bar corner with red copper trim is at one end of the study, decorated with hunting trophies and nude oil paintings of slender limbs, the air in the room is filled with a faint smell of cigars and tobacco, the tall leather armrest sofa is luxurious, especially Yi also hacked and booed, and far more history was created here than in the government residence. The first thing that catches Babi's eyes is the big white fur on the sofa, and the shining light sweeps across his eyes, oh, the brooch on the fur coat, the mysterious blue eyes of the little jade wolf, The clothes belonged to Ai Pulu Bell, and Babi's fists were clenched tightly, and he couldn't breathe for a long time.

"Hello, Baby?" Tey stood in his shirt-sleeves, with a freshly lit cigar in his mouth, beside a mahogany desk piled high with papers, ashtrays, and empty wine glasses.There was a look of anticipation on his big pink fleshy chin face, and he looked a little weird, "So, your car didn't hit Mrs. Monrik?" "No, sir." Babi forced his eyes off April Bell's coat, and tried to keep his voice as natural as possible, "They want to frame me—just like they framed Sam Quinn !" "They?" Tei raised her pink-furred brow in surprise. "That's a terrible, terrible thing, sir—if you'll listen."

Tey's eyes were indifferent and expressionless. "Officer Pike and the City Police might be interested," he said, "and the doctors at Glenhaven." "I'm not—not crazy." Bobby was about to cry. "Please, Boss—listen to me first!" "Okay." Tey nodded, with a casual look, "wait a minute." He strode exaggeratedly, turned around the corner of the bar, poured two glasses of whiskey, added some soda water, and brought them back At the desk, "Let's drink." "Before I talked to Sam Quinn, I did think I was out of my mind," said Bobby honestly, "but now I know I'm bewitched—"

Seeing that Tey's big mouth and big face didn't change a bit, he tried to slow down his tense voice, trying to retell everything Sam Quinn told him convincingly, the origin, demise, genetics of the beast-shaped magical mutants. Engineering regenerates magical races and more. He watched Tei's reaction carefully, but he was not sure at all.Tey finished smoking a cigar without moving the wine glass on the table, leaving a round wet mark on the table, but nothing could be seen from his narrowed sly eyes.Ba Niu paused to take a breath, then added in a thirsty, nervous voice: "Trust me, boss—you must trust me!"

"So, Dr. Monrik and the rest of the Foundation were killed by these sorcerers?" Tey crossed his fat fingers in front of his swollen belly, and it was already extinguished. cigar, "And you want me to help you now, to fight the Son of Darkness?" Babi swallowed a mouthful of saliva and nodded vigorously. Tey's blue eyes flicked to Babi. "Maybe you're not crazy!" Tey's expressionless face slowly became agitated—and Bobby began to be breathless with excitement at seeing a glimmer of hope, "Maybe these sorcerers are throwing you and Quinn to death - because Monrik's theory explains a lot of things. Why some people you like when you meet them and others you don't believe is because you feel their guilt blood!"

"You trust me?" Barbie said eagerly, "You'll help—" Tey nodded decisively at his bald, massive head. "I'll look it up," he said. "I'll go to that cave with you tonight, and listen to Quinn, and maybe look at the contents of that occult box. If what Quinn says is like you As convincing as it sounds, I'll stand by your side, Babe—until my last penny is spent, and my last breath." "Thank you, Boss!" Babi was extremely excited, "With your help, we might still have a chance." "We're going to kill 'em!" Tey yelled emphatically. "You've got the right man, Babe—I've never been beaten by anyone. Give me half an hour to prepare, and I'm going to tell Rodna, say I'm going to mend the political fence; and she can go to the party in Walwin by herself. The bathroom is there, if you want to wash up, use it."

Babi was startled when he saw his own appearance in the bathroom mirror.He looked as haggard as Sam Quinn, as tired, with a full beard and dirty, ragged clothes.There was something else that surprised him, the way he looked in the mirror reminded him of those magic skeletons that boa constrictors had seen grinning, was there something wrong with the mirror—he was sure he didn't look like that at all Pass. Suddenly, an intuition interrupted Babi's fascination in front of the mirror.He hurried back to the study, carefully picked up the phone on the large desk, just in time to hear what Tei was saying.

"Pike? I'll find someone for you. That Bobby, the guy who ran out of Glenhaven, knocked over a woman named Monrique. He used to work with me, you know, and now he's at my house in Troy Hills.There's no doubt this guy should go to the state psychiatric asylum--he's been yelling at me like crazy stuff that's worse than the Arabian Nights, can you get him right away? " "No problem, Mr. Tee," said the sergeant. "Within twenty minutes." "Be careful," said Tey. "I think he might be dangerous. I'm trying to keep him in the study on the second floor." "Yes, Mr. Tee." "One more thing, Pike. Babe said he'd seen Sam Quinn—the Foundation murderer you're looking for. He said Sam Quinn was hiding in a cave in Laurel Canyon, in Black Bear Canyon Above. The gossip may be good—Bobby and Sam Quinn are old friends, and they may have collaborated. A little persuasion, and maybe Bobby will lead you to the cave." "Thanks, Mr. Tee!" "Nothing, Pike. You know the Star means law and order. All I want is to be the first to see what's in the green wooden box. But hurry up, okay? I Don't act like you like Babi,'' "Okay, Mr. Tey—" Babi gently put the receiver back.The naked body in the oil painting on the wall was dancing hysterically, and the room was covered with a gray fog that was getting thicker and thicker. He felt numb and couldn't stand upright.He betrayed Sam Quinn - and possibly the Dark Son as well. This terrible mistake was all his fault.Of course it was Sam Quinn who asked him to come—but he didn't dare to tell Quinn that April Bell was a magic witch and a close friend of Preston, he was afraid to tell Sam Quinn too much, and It is too late now. Is it late? A bold new plan arose in Babi's mind.He listened for a while, then took off his shoes and walked out of the study lightly.The door to Tee's bedroom was ajar, and he saw the stocky Tee taking an automatic from a drawer of the cabinet, clutching it in his stubby hand, and turning around. Above the cabinet hung a picture of a red-haired girl, April Belle, and Bobby, in a fit of rage, wished he could be that boa constrictor again.But, no—he tried to drive away the desire to change, he didn't want to change anymore. Babi ran down the stairs without a sound and slipped out of the building through a side door.The foundation's black car was still parked on the side of the road, splashed with mud. He quickly started the engine and drove the car onto the highway before turning on the lights. He was so nervous that he couldn't stop shaking. Babi stepped on the accelerator and drove westward all the way.Maybe he can undo his stupid mistake, and if he can get back to the cave before Sergeant Pike and his men, Sam Quinn may still believe him, and they may be able to carry the precious wooden box back to the car, together. run away.Now that Tee knew of Quinn's plan, they had to stay away from Clarendon - because Preston Tee was very much the Dark Child. As night fell, the thunder and lightning subsided, but the cold southerly wind mixed with drizzle continued. Babi stepped up the gas pedal, and the wipers had no time to clear the wet windshield, and the muddy road was blurred. A feeling of embarrassment and panic came over him. If he accidentally bumped into the paving stone on the side of the road, Sam Quinn's plan would be over. After turning up the fork in Laurel Canyon, Bobby slowed down, feeling something was following him.From the rain-blurred rearview mirror, he couldn't see the trailing headlights, but his sensitive intuition told him not to stop or turn, but to move forward and hurry up. Of course Babi knew what was behind the car—as if he had seen the green glowing eyes, flickering behind him, and April Bell was behind, who might have turned into a white wolf again. She didn't show up when Preston Twee was there because Twee was the chief of the tribe.And now she was going back with Bobby to kill Sam Quinn. The Sons of Darkness have triumphed. How desolate and helpless, Babi held the steering wheel in his hands, but his body was trembling constantly, his mind was floating and wandering in a daze, his mind could not grasp and keep up with the details of their dark plots, but he knew that the regenerated magic tribe could not conquered.He couldn't go back to Sam Quinn to give April Bell a chance; he couldn't go back to Clarendon—that would mean a miserable death in one of those padded-walled intensive care rooms of the state psychiatric asylum. For the rest of his life; Barbie's car sped along aimlessly. He drove west up the hill, because he couldn't go back, and the headlights cast a blurred beam in the rain, and in the beam there were no figures marching in procession—Monrique's blind wife, tall and lanky, with a frightened face , leading her big yellow dog, holding a silver dagger; Sir Ben Ster, whose knuckles were too trembling to light his pipe, disappeared in the beam of light; Papa Spinwick wailed on his shoulder; Norah Quinn, with disheveled blond hair and round, teary face, was holding little Patty by the hand, and the child bit her lip so stubbornly that she would not let herself cry out.The pointer of the speedometer pointed to seventy miles. When the car drove up the first hill, the vacuum-driven wipers stopped moving all of a sudden, and the rain "squeaked" down the windshield. The muddy road swirled, and the fenders swept a white wall of water.A farm truck without driving lights suddenly came out of the mist, and Babi slammed the steering wheel, and the car barely passed the truck body. The pointer pointed to eighty miles. But the cunning white she-wolf, Bobby knew, was behind him—the free-thinking network, riding the wind and the clouds, as fast as he wanted.He looked in the rearview mirror and kept pressing the accelerator.Babi couldn't see anything with his eyes, but his mind felt it, the menacing green eyes that kept flirting at him. The mountain is getting higher and the road is getting steeper, but Bobby still slows down the speed of the car. This is how the mighty Tiger Bobby chased Lex Sturt. He recalled that in the eyes of Tiger Bobby, even when the night fell The peaks of the mountains were still clearly visible; the nightmare gradually emerged. He was once again the gray gray wolf that shrugged and crushed the bones of Patty Quinn's puppy; It was the tiger, with the naked witch on its back, who danced wildly down the road, grabbed Lex Sturt, and slit his throat. Babi pressed the accelerator and let the car scream and dance on the winding mountain road, as if he could escape the evil dream.He didn't allow himself to picture Sam Quinn waiting in the leaky cave--until Officer Pike's men came to get him, and ran as fast as he could. For there was an insidious morbid longing creeping in that disturbed him more than he could feel the she-wolf trailing behind him.In the corner of the rearview mirror is a small sticker of a pterodactyl—a large, extinct winged reptile that is the logo of an oil company; the sticker shows the mileage from the last overhaul , that flying large lizard monster slowly became vivid in front of Babi's eyes. He thought that such a huge dinosaur with wings would be very proud of its transformation. He could use his sharp teeth and big claws to destroy all the enemies, and then spread his wings and fly away with Ai Pulu, leaving these Unbearable confusion and trouble.To stop the car—but it was a sickly crazy desire, and Babi fought against its temptation. The car continued to fly on the mountain road and ran away, escaping from the fear in my heart, but the rain curtain illuminated by the car light beam was like a barrier.Imprisoning Babi, he chased his lost sanity—to find the real reality, so that his thinking could settle down—however, the unbridled and manic thoughts were like ancient prisoners locked in a car cage , boundless, aimlessly stepping on the pedals desperately, but it is impossible to reach anywhere. Had April Bell really bewitched him with black spells - or was it just normal female seduction?All the fear of fleeing in front of me came from that wooden box in Alashan—or the bottle from Mintel's bar?Is he a paranoid or a murderer - or nothing?Is Sam Quinn really the murderer? The motive of the crime originated from the treasure in the box. He turned from an archaeologist to a murderer and fabricated all the stories in an attempt to quibble?Is Preston Tye really the Son of Darkness?Is Monrique's blind wife really crazy?What was she going to say to Sam Quinn?Babi didn't let himself think wildly, he stepped on the accelerator hard and didn't let go. He recalled wearily that Sam Quinn had warned him that magical mutation was terror and madness, and that he would never find peace now, nor heaven, nor anywhere.The secret killer will follow him because he knows their secret. The car rushed up the last mountain ridge and continued to dive down the front mountain road. The headlights of the car illuminated the flashing yellow signal light in front. Babi knew that Sardis Mountain had arrived, and the U-shaped curve on the road ahead appeared in his mind. That's where Bobby caught the chain of probabilities and slit Lex Sinter's throat.He felt the muddy wheels already bouncing and skidding on the dangerous road; he didn't need special perception to foresee his own death, but he still didn't slow down. "Damn you!" He muttered, knowing that the she-wolf was not far behind, "I won't let you catch up with me!" Bobby chuckled a few times, at the scarlet-lipped coquettishness of the she-wolf; at Constable Pike and his men; at the padded-walled intensive care rooms of the state psychiatric asylums.He glanced in the rain-smudged rearview mirror and smiled defiantly at the Son of Darkness, the secret killers would never catch him again!Babi put his foot on the accelerator and stepped on it all the way to the bottom. The U-shaped curve was faintly visible in the rain. "Damn you, Ai Pulu!" The wheels were slipping badly, but Babi ignored it. "You don't want to change me again." The car skidded to the side of the road and flung out of the driveway.The steering wheel was twirling in Babi's hands, and he simply let go, the car body hit a large piece of gravel, bounced off the road, spun and fell into the dark mountain stream.Babi relaxed happily, waiting for the final "click" to break. "Goodbye." He whispered goodbye to the white she-wolf.