Chapter 636 Alice

Claire stood on the streets of Lavenham, looking at the huge body art photos hanging on the surface of some high-rise buildings, and felt that they were not charming at all, they were called farts!

Tripathi is 72 years old this year. He has clearly entered the ranks of the elderly, but he still refuses to accept his old age. He posts photos of his youth all over the street, even a third-tier town like Lavenham. What is fart?

What a rambunctious, hopeless fellow.

Bai Yue said in a sharp voice, "He... raped me."

Bai Hao joked: "Don't worry, you have a halo to protect your body, so you won't get pregnant."

Roy didn't know whether to laugh or cry, looked at Ying Luo with a sympathetic expression, and asked, "Has he always been doing this?"

Yingluo nodded and said, "I thought he was so handsome when I was young."

Linglong also nodded: "Mom said so too."

Roy touched his face and thought, he is more handsome than me.

Bai Hao gritted his teeth with hatred, cursing this old thing to die on a woman's belly.

For the first time, Claire had the urge to strangle Tripathi to death. How many girls has been poisoned by this guy? Damn it!

It can be said that there is no one before or after to engage in idol worship to the point where he is.

Others are great, bright, and correct, but he is fine, he is a bodybuilder.

The expressions of Yingluo and Linglong were very complicated, and it was impossible to tell whether it was joy, melancholy, or sadness...

For them, there is the excitement of seeing their loved ones soon, and the sadness of recalling past memories.

Linglong had a strong habit, she pursed her lips and kept silent.

Yingluo pinched the hem of her shirt, glanced back at Roy, and sighed softly. She was thinking about what to say about those experiences when she met her parents, and how to introduce them.

The two sisters knew that Brother Tang was a very good person, but would the family think so? Will you let them go back?

All this is unknown.

Claire summoned two taxis and asked Ming Yingluo's home address,

Drive quickly to your destination.

10 minutes later. Several people got out of the car, and what appeared in front of them was a residential area, without the cover of tall buildings, and no noisy crowd could be seen. There are a few benches on the left and right of the boulevard, which look like they have been around for some years.

The green lawn spreads to the two-storey small buildings not far away, and it is connected with the courtyard full of various flowers.

There is an intoxicating fragrance in the air, and there are colorful butterflies dancing in the air.

Claire walked forward silently, thinking about when she could return to such a peaceful life.

Bai Hao, Roy, and Bai Yue walked at the back. Also silent, as if infected by the silence of the three girls in front.

The leaves were scattered and mottled under the sunlight, and there was no wind, and the silence was a little scary.

It was mid-afternoon, and the entire residential area was filled with a lazy atmosphere. There was a clean cat lying on the poolside and taking a nap under the umbrella. Hearing the sound of footsteps from far to near, he casually opened his eyes and glanced at the 3 men and 3 who were walking away silently. Girl, continue to close up and enjoy the tranquility of the afternoon.

Are parents at home? Who will open the door? What kind of expression will you show when you see the two?

close to home. Yingluo's mood became more and more complicated, and she felt like she was hanging in the air by a rope.

She wanted to run as fast as she could, knock on the door, and cry in the arms of Mom or Dad. But... for some reason, I feel timid. The closer to the house, the stronger this feeling, like a mountain, pressing down on her shoulders and slowing down her steps.

she knows. Linglong felt the same way.

Because many times, they will see each other in their hearts and understand each other.

Claire suddenly stopped in her tracks, and she almost bumped into her while she was lost in her thoughts.

"Yingluo, Linglong, don't be nervous." The always gentle girl patted the two of them on the shoulders and said softly, "Good girl, go, they are waiting for you to go home."

The eye circles of the two sisters were slightly red, and they nodded vigorously. Gently push open the green white fence wooden door, walk along the central path to the door.

Linglong pressed the doorbell with slightly trembling hands.

Ding dong...

The sound was clear and distant, breaking the tranquility of the small courtyard.

About a minute later, the door opened from the inside, and a man in his early 40s appeared in everyone's view.

Roy scratched his scalp with a dazed look on his face. He remembered what Yingluo said, her parents were all Chinese. Why was the man who opened the door a white man?

Claire also noticed that something was wrong with the scene in front of her, so she pushed open the wooden door and walked into the yard.

Yingluo and Linglong stayed where they were, all the emotions brewing in their hearts seemed to be sealed by a piece of ice, and they felt unspeakably uncomfortable.

"Excuse me... who are you looking for?"

The white man was quite polite. Seeing the astonished expressions of the two strange girls, he felt that they must have knocked on the wrong door.

"me……"

Yingluo's tears were about to flow, she never thought that it was her own house, but a stranger opened the door. Where are Mom and Dad?

Linglong's ability to control her emotions was better, looking at the white man's face that seemed to have suddenly remembered something, she said, "I'm looking for..."

She failed to say her father's name because a sudden voice behind the white man interrupted the questioning.

"Honey, what's the matter, who is at the door?"

The voice is so familiar, so kind, so nostalgic.

There were two more lines of tears on Yingluo's face, falling one drop after another, like a pearl, falling to the ground and smashing into pieces.

Linglong didn't say the following words, instead she choked up sobbing hard, tears rolling in her eyes.

That voice was clearly the woman who had accompanied them for more than ten years --- their mother, who used to hum softly at night to lull them to sleep; Don't be picky; I used to tell them in a stern tone that they can't lie, lying is not a good child; I used to blend with my father's laughter, and let the joy fill every New Year's Eve, every Christmas Eve, and their birthday party; ...

The voice that was so familiar and so attached to was affectionately calling the man they didn't know in front of them "dear".

This is how the same thing? What exactly is going on?

She felt that her heart was in a mess, her emotions were on the verge of collapse, those words were clearly on her lips, but she couldn't say them anyway, only sobs and soreness welled up from her throat, tears wet the front of her shirt like broken bead curtains The beloved bow also wets her restless heart.

"Xia Lan. You... Come here quickly." The man greeted loudly, as if he could see something on the faces of the two sisters, and then thought of the past.

Accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps, a thin figure flashed out from behind the door.

A clean sheet. A face with many traces of time appeared in the gap between the man and the door frame.

If she was ten years younger, she would definitely be a beautiful woman, and more importantly...she clearly had the same eyebrows and eyes as Yingluo and Linglong, and a face that was almost carved out of a mold.

She didn't walk out of the door, and stopped at a position behind the white man. Through the gap, he looked blankly at the two young girls on the opposite side, his thin body trembled slightly, but when he spoke, he became speechless, like a replica of Linglong.

The white man walked out of the door very interestingly, came to the courtyard, looked at Claire and the others with complicated expressions, and stretched out his hand after a long time, introducing himself: "George."

Claire shook hands with him, and casually said a pseudonym.

George said, "Anyway. Thank you."

Claire glanced at him, and quickly figured out why the man added "anyway" before "thank you".

Although she doesn't know what happened between the two sisters' parents, from George's point of view, the return of Linglong and Yingluo is bound to remind the couple of their previous sufferings, and even bring shocks to the relationship between the two.

But from a rational point of view, she is doing a good deed, which may make Lu Xialan look back on that painful experience, but also reunite the mother and daughter, and she deserves a "thank you".

Life is so tortuous and changeable, sometimes it makes people very helpless.

"Mother……"

Yingluo finally shouted the words stuck in her throat. He opened his arms and threw himself into his mother's arms.

In many cases, it is obvious that you can control your emotions in front of others, and even pretend that nothing happened, but when you see your real relatives. Seeing their familiar faces, the emotions accumulated in my heart will flow out like a flood, and they can't be blocked no matter what.

"Morning Star" is a big family, however, no matter how warm it is, it is not as warm as the mother's embrace.

This stems from the family relationship where blood is thicker than water. It is something that no one else can replace. Tang Fang is well aware of this, so Linglong and Yingluo have to go home no matter what, and report to the two elders that they are safe.

This is the responsibility of being a child, and it is also his responsibility.

It was not until he boarded the "Morning Star", experienced many hardships along the way, and saw all kinds of life, that he really understood a truth, just like a man is not just a tool for making money for a family, he is the "Morning Star" The same goes for the crew on board.

"Yingluo...my child."

As twin sisters, Linglong and Yingluo have a very high similarity in appearance. Few people can immediately recognize who is the older sister and who is the younger sister. Even Claire, Bai Hao, Roy and others who are closest to them must Combined with the two sisters' clothing habits and very different temperaments to judge.

As a mother, the first time she sees two people, she knows which is Linglong and which is Yingluo, even though she hasn't seen them for 2 years, even if they have grown taller, grown up, and become more beautiful.

She put her arms around the necks of the two of them, and after kissing one, she went to kiss the other, crying like a tearful person.

The faces of the people in the yard were moved, Bai Hao thought of his dead brother again, and bit his lip with a bloodstain.

Roy thought about whether his parents in Rector would pray to the omniscient God every day, hoping that he could return to them safely.

While George was happy for the three of them, he also faintly showed some worry.

Linglong was the first to control her emotions, broke away from her mother's embrace, and asked an important question that had been pent up in her heart for a long time, burning her soul like a fire: "Mom, where is my father? Where is father...?"

Lu Xialan's body trembled, her eyes revealed a mixed emotion of love and hate, but more of it was sadness and helplessness.

She looked into Linglong's longing eyes and remained silent, but her sadness was getting stronger.

Yingluo wiped away the tears on her face indiscriminately, and asked with red eyes, "That's right. Where's Dad? Where did Dad go? Who was that man just now?"

"Mom... what's wrong with you? Why don't you talk?"

She still didn't speak, as if stuck in memories... memories full of sadness.

Gradually those sorrows changed and were replaced by something called "despair".

"Mom... what happened?"

Linglong thought of a very bad situation, so bad that she didn't know how to face it.

Yingluo's tears that had just stopped poured out again, and her pretty face became no longer pretty.

"Mom, what are you talking about, where is Dad? Where did Dad go?"

Their father is a good man, so temperless that it makes people speechless. The two were naughty and troubled when they were young, and their mother would reprimand them in a severe tone. Sometimes corporal punishment is used as an education method. Whenever this time, the big fat bear with a chubby face will appear on the stage in a weird and honest image, and first comfort the mother who is in a runaway state with nice words. Then create an opportunity for the two sisters to sneak away.

Because he has a pair of thick big hands, a chubby body, and a big fleshy belly. He likes to wear dark gray T-shirts. He looks a lot like a big fat bear in cartoons. When his mother was away, Yingluo would call him Big Fat Bear regardless of age, and would often pinch his waist and boss him to get this and that, so that some neighbors who didn't know the details would think that their pet was called Big Bear. fat bear.

In front of his wife, he is a person who has no opinion, and in front of his daughter, he is a submissive person, playing the role of a father to a certain extent.

That's how he is, supporting a family. Let the wife live happily and the daughter grow up healthily.

If two girls had to choose the closest person among their parents, the answer would definitely be their father. However, today, under this roof, there are only mother and another man, and their father is missing.

George walked back to the door from the courtyard, supported the pale-faced Lu Xialan, and said as he walked into the house, "Let me talk about this matter."

Yingluo and Linglong followed into the room and found that the furnishings in the room had all changed. Sofas, tables and chairs, decorative paintings, bonsai... There are no family portraits on the wall, and there are no large and small crystal photo frames on the table. The fish in the aquarium has changed color, and the refrigerator door is clean. No more colorful cartoon stickers...

Except for this room, everything is different from the original.

It can be seen that they are still very new, and they should have been moved within a few months.

George took Lv Xialan into the bedroom, comforted her with nice words, and then returned to the living room. Say hello to a few people and sit down.

When I went to the kitchen to prepare coffee, I saw the two people looking around blankly, and said in a low voice, "Sorry."

"If it wasn't for lack of money, I would even replace the house."

This seems to hurt people, but it doesn't hurt people.

Claire nodded, thinking to herself, no matter what, he is a good person.

The coffee was served quickly, pushed to several people one by one, and took another look at the bedroom. He sat down next to the coffee table, and slowly told what happened after Linglong and Yingluo disappeared.

Today is the weekend, there are not many people on the street in the afternoon, only three or five teenagers gathered around under the oak tree, as if sharing a newly bought comic book, or other little secrets that are not humane.

The atmosphere in the living room is like the street outside, very depressing, only the water vapor rising from the edge of the coffee cup brings a touch of vitality to the whole room.

Claire's complexion was a little ugly, and she finally understood why "family broken" and "rende" in Chinese were put together.

After Linglong and Yingluo disappeared, their father Guan Jiaping and mother Lu Xialan searched for them for a long time. They didn't work for a whole year and didn't stop to rest. They searched for their whereabouts through various channels.

It is a pity that the efforts of ordinary families face the dark and deep cosmic sea, face the human trafficker group that roams the countries, and have deep friendship with nobles and power holders at all levels, and face the government departments that do nothing. These efforts are nothing more than a mayfly shaking a tree, and a praying man's arm being a cart.

Guan Jiaping refused to admit defeat. To be precise, he would not give up just yet.

Yingluo and Linglong are the driving force of his life, and this family is everything to him.

During that year, the husband and wife experienced many setbacks, even though Lu Xialan persuaded him to give up, saying, "This is fate, let's accept fate, people...in the end, they can't beat God."

Guan Jiaping has never been a stubborn person, however, this time he chose to be stubborn to the end.

Under extremely heavy economic pressure, he tried every means to bribe those police officers and magistrates. From some things deliberately concealed by the authorities, he knew the name of this human trafficker group "Alice", and he also learned a little bit about the organization's background.

This is a large-scale transnational criminal group that has been active in imperial countries such as the Monya Empire, the Sulu Empire, and the United Kingdom of Turanx for a long time. Its history can be traced back to the period when the Star Alliance government collapsed.

Heroes like Maxwell Stewart and Helens Abdul were able to establish state power. Comodo, chairman of Rover Technology Consortium, and Hirohiko Iga, chairman of Iga Industry, can start from scratch and become a giant in the Star Alliance military industry. Some criminal gangs and mercenary organizations are also taking advantage of the chaos in the world to rapidly expand their power, take advantage of the contradictions between countries, and use criminal means to obtain huge profits.

For example, the "Red Martyr Party" entrenched on the borders of the Star Alliance, the "Burning Legion", a mercenary organization with the royal background of the Phoenix Empire, the "Third Council", which was hit hard during the Blue Revolution, and the extreme religious organization "Genesis" .

Of course, even if it suffered a devastating blow during the Blue Revolution, the strength of the Third Committee is much stronger than that of the "Red Martyrs", "Burning Legion", and "Genesis". The Thirty Committee Pirates roaming the borders of the Star Alliance, the Phoenix Federation, and the Silver Eagle Group are just a branch of the entire organization, and they have caused headaches for the border troops of the three countries. One can imagine how powerful the overall strength is, even if Inferior to the Supreme Security Council and extremely limited.

The "Alice" who kidnapped Linglong and Yingluo is an existence at the same level as the above-mentioned terrorist organizations in terms of fame. Perhaps its military strength is not very strong, but due to its deep foundation and close relationship with the aristocracy of various countries, it is a criminal organization fully integrated into the grassroots society. Its adaptability, concealment, and vitality far exceed that of "Genesis" An organization that feuds everywhere.

As the saying goes, the wild fire is endless, and the spring breeze blows and regenerates. (To be continued.)