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After saying that, he nodded to everyone, got back into the car, and drove away.

Three other pickup trucks also left with him.

Merry had a vague idea of ​​what was in their car. The two fat police officers thought that they were carrying contraband weapons and equipment that were brought over on the day of departure. The county bureau acquiesced to this practice in this rescue operation, so they had no doubts and allowed the four pickup trucks to leave without stopping them.

0018

Perhaps he had received the message. After driving along the road for more than 10 minutes, he saw many vehicles coming towards him.

Seeing Lucas's motorcade, the vehicles stopped on the roadside one after another. Many people stood on the roadside cheering and applauding the motorcade, as if they were celebrating some kind of festival.

After the convoy passed by, these people got in the cars and followed behind. Some of them, who might be parents or relatives, drove side by side in the middle of the convoy and greeted the rescued teenagers in the back of the pickup trucks.

The destination was the gate of the county bureau. When we arrived here, we could see that it was the same as the day we set out, with three layers of people inside and three layers of outside, and empty cars were parked along the road two hundred meters away.

According to the high emotional intelligence, the relationship between the town residents is harmonious, and they express their concern in this way;

According to the saying of low emotional intelligence, the life of the small town residents is too boring, so now they all turn into people for fun and watch the scene in a strong manner.

There were flashes of light from flashes from time to time, and it was unclear whether those in the crowd were reporters or ordinary townspeople taking photos.

The convoy was warmly welcomed here, with cheers and applause everywhere. From time to time, children and parents would hug each other and cry. There were also a few foolish children showing off the little gold coins they brought with them.

Parts, like rings, pendants and so on.

But some are happy while others are sad. 26 teenagers went in and 17 came out. Eight were confirmed dead, one was missing, and there was one body.

Where there is joy there is sadness, especially for the resident who saw the body of her own child. The mother broke down and cried loudly on the spot, and the father also had a sad face as he comforted the mother. There were several children of all ages around them, probably the brothers and sisters of the deceased.

Several other families who learned that their children had died had similar scenes, except for the parents of the girl named "Maria", who still seemed to be unaware that their daughter was missing.

Lucas took the blanket containing the books and scrolls from under the back seat and tucked it under his arm, leaving the car keys in the car.

Meili was maintaining order at the entrance of the county police station. Lucas originally wanted to find her to deal with the weapons, ammunition, grenades and other parts on his body. He was seen by a family whose child was rescued. The male owner happily shouted in an aria:

"Now welcome our hero of Crown Eagle Mountain, Lucas Young, explorer of the Mistland"

The English sentence starts with "here", which is not as childish as the Chinese version, but it is also quite sensational and attracted the attention of people around.

After attracting everyone's attention, the male host may have a histrionic personality, that is, social compulsion. He walked up to Lucas and hugged him under everyone's gaze.

"Hey, man, anyway, thank you for bringing Carl back. If you need anything in the future, just let me know. I live on Elm Street. The biggest house you see when you go in is my house."

Lucas didn't know how to start for a moment, so he smiled and hugged him.

With his start, the families of other rescued children also gathered around, thanked and hugged him one by one. No matter what, at least at this moment, Lucas felt their sincerity.

You can see that he is a bit shy, which may have increased his popularity among passers-by. Several parents even acted as lubricants and atmosphere creators, and the crowd onlookers would burst into cheers and applause that were louder than the other from time to time.

When I got to Meili, she was talking to the sheriff of the county bureau. She looked at Lucas and said with a smile:

"Wow, it looks like you've suddenly become the most popular person in town."

"Stop it"

Lucas chatted and laughed with her, his face straightened, and he shook hands with the sheriff. The two had met before, but at that time it was for Merry's sake. The sheriff didn't have any special affection for him. This time was different. Lucas solved a major crisis in his career for him.

Later, Lucas and Merry went into the county police station and had their weapons and other items confiscated.

He just took the blanket wrapped with books and scrolls, and just as he walked out, he saw Emily in a short-sleeved T-shirt and cropped pants.

“Lucas—”

Without saying a word, the girl leaped over and headbutted Lucas. Lucas couldn't help but smile and opened his arms, waiting for the girl to throw herself at him.

At the critical moment, someone next to me coughed twice, "Um, cough."

Lucas' body froze instantly, and he didn't catch Emily very well. Fortunately, the girl had a natural high-quality cushion, so he didn't suffer a tragic sternum fracture. The girl was very enthusiastic and climbed onto his neck like a koala.

Behind Emily, a young woman covered in jewels and looking extremely exquisite was following her in a rage.

Claire, Emily's mother.

The scene of the girl hanging on Lucas' chest and asking for a kiss was seen by others. Lucas is now a big hero in the town. Although Emily is younger, she is also a famous rich and beautiful girl in the neighborhood. This scene happens to be the most admired beauty and hero plot of the Flower Country people.

First someone started to whistle, and then the whole audience started to applaud.

High emotional intelligence: send blessings.

Low emotional intelligence: watching the fun and making trouble.

In this context, Claire couldn't get angry, so she cleared her throat, placed her hands on her stomach, and "watched" them elegantly.

Under her deathly gaze, Lucas ended his intimacy with Emily in a daze, his ten toes uncontrollably wanting to snatch a house in front of the police station.

"Hi Claire, long time no see"

"Hi, Lucas, it's been a long time since we last met. I didn't expect that you took good care of Emily."

Lucas took a quick glance and saw Emily hugging his arm and covering her mouth with her hands to smile. It was obvious that she had also become a "funny person" at this moment, watching how he would deal with her mother, or maybe she just wanted to see his embarrassed look.

"This little scoundrel..."

"This is not the place to talk. Let's go back and talk, okay?"

"That's exactly what I meant. I'll talk to you when I get back."

Claire turned around with a forced smile, put on impeccable manners, and walked towards her pink sports car in her high heels.

Emily didn't follow him up. She drove out Lucas' electric car, and the two of them returned home in one car.

……

On the other side, night fell.

In the warehouse of the pawn shop that Dad helped Colin with.

The bright lights illuminated every detail of the room. The cement floor was covered with a rainproof cloth, on which were laid thousands of various items looted from the undead town in the misty realm.

There were golden wine glasses, golden candlesticks, golden tableware, as well as rings, pendants, bracelets, etc. that were stripped from the skeletons. After preliminary cleaning, each piece shone with golden light under the light, emitting an extremely attractive glow.

The light of money, the light of wealth.

"Mr. Lucas's suggestion is that this batch of goods should be dried in full sunlight every day and sold or smelted three months later. Because there is something very strange over there, these things have been with those unclean undead spirits for who knows how long, and they may be contaminated with some negative energy, or some negative spells. In any case, don't get in close contact with them in the short term."

The old black man Colin was not wearing a hat or holding a cane. He was wearing a suit and white leather shoes. He stood with his hands behind his back listening to the report from his subordinate Gideon.

"That's what he said? Okay, do it."

He looked at the various objects on the ground. Although the gold used in these objects might not be of pure quality, the quantity was sufficient, and they were all practical utensils. There were basically no carvings or decorations on them, and they were not so exquisite, but the materials were definitely sufficient.

The accumulation of such a large amount of money is a fortune that makes him excited.

"What's with that box?"

Colin saw a black wooden box tied with iron chains, placed alone in a corner of the ground.

"Uh... Dad, I brought that back on my own initiative... I don't know what to do with it."

When mentioning the black wooden box, Gideon's tone was a little evasive.

Colin tilted his head and looked at him strangely, and the two of them came to the wooden box.

"What's inside?"

"A moving skeleton from the (Misty Realm)..." Gideon answered in a panic, "I don't know what I was thinking at the time. We followed Mr. Lucas's professional advice and entered the ancient town. We found that they had all returned to the state of corpses, motionless like dead objects, so..."

"So you collected one of those moving skeletons?"

"Um"

Gideon nodded sheepishly.

"I'm 67 years old and have seen a lot of weird things, but a moving skeleton... really makes me curious. Open it."

Colin tilted his head.

"Dad, there may be some danger, but not much."

"Yeah, I know, let's do it."

Gideon called over two men and pointed a shotgun loaded with bullets at the box.

He took out a key and opened the top lock.

After the box was opened, there was the sound of iron chains rattling, and a skeleton with iron chains wrapped around its body slowly sat up from inside.

The skeleton's head slowly turned and looked at Colin. Two scarlet soul fires lit up in its empty eye sockets, and its lower jaw kept opening and closing, as if it was biting something fiercely, or uttering some curse or blasphemy.

Most of the people working in the warehouse were those who had participated in the rescue operation. Even though they had some resistance due to their experience in the full moon night scene, the moment they saw the white skeleton sitting up from the black wooden box, they couldn't help but feel their hair stand on end and subconsciously wanted to raise their guns.

The believers among them kept making the sign of the cross.

But no matter the commonly used religious language or religious gestures, they could not suppress the skeleton who turned his head and looked around.

"Oh shit! It's been a long time since I felt like I was about to pee my pants."

Although Colin said it jokingly, in fact, if the lights in the warehouse were not bright, he would have had a heart attack in another scene.

"Originally it was dead and motionless, just like a real skeleton. But after coming out of that strange place, I don't know why it suddenly came back to life. Dad, to be honest, I'm a little scared now. Should we notify Mr. Lucas?"

"No need." Looking at the skeleton locked with iron chains in front of him, Colin's mouth corners suddenly raised, revealing a cunning smile.

"This is a perfect gift for those big shots. With it, they won't pay attention to the gold anymore. We are just street gangs. Let them worry about this kind of thing."

……

When Lucas got home, the first thing he did was to take a nice bath.

Outside the door, Emily smiled secretly like a young wife as she picked up his clothes, including his underwear, and put them in a basin, then put them all into the washing machine.

The washing machine in Lucas's house is a lazy washing machine with a smart chip from another time and space. After connecting the water pipe and turning on the power, you only need to pour in the detergent and it will automatically clean with one click.

If her mom hadn't been sitting in the living room, she would have wanted to rush into the bathroom... to give Lucas a back rub or something.

After taking a shower and changing into dry and fresh clothes, Lucas went downstairs.

There is a floor-standing TV of this era in the living room, the kind with a wooden frame, and the screen is not very big.

Emily was very relaxed as if she was at home, curled up on the sofa watching TV. Claire was sitting upright on the single sofa. When she saw Lucas come out, she was about to say something but Emily spoke first.

She first went up to him, kissed him on the cheek, and then asked like an old married couple:

"What should I eat tonight? I'm so hungry. But if you're tired, we can have fast food or go out to eat. Angelina's restaurant may not be delicious, but it's okay."

"It's OK. I'm not too tired. I don't know what to do. I'll just do something casually."

Lucas said, and turned to Claire, "Claire, you just happened to have something to say to me, come and help me cook, we can talk while we cook"

"

“Oh, okay,” Claire was stunned and replied subconsciously.

Although she was there to help, Claire couldn't do anything except frying pancakes, eggs and bacon. She was not very good at washing and picking vegetables, so the main purpose of wearing an apron was to serve as a beautiful background.

In terms of beauty, Claire is superior to Emily in some aspects. She has a delicate V-shaped face. The mother and daughter are about the same height, both almost 1.7 meters, but Claire is fuller than Emily.

Emily may have taken after her father, with a round face. Although not as delicate as Claire's, it is also quite delicate. Claire's beauty has stood the test of time, but hers remains to be verified.

Although Claire was full of resentment, she didn't know what to say when she really faced Lucas, especially since he had just become a household hero in the town. She had been fully "educated" by Emily during these days since she came back.

"Emily will be seventeen next year, right?"

"Well, her birthday happens to be on Christmas day."

"Do you remember when you were Emily's age?"

Lucas moved quickly, washing vegetables, selecting vegetables and cutting meat. While processing the ingredients, he was able to talk to Claire at the same time.

“They are all bad memories, I don’t want to remember them”

Lucas knows some things about Claire. She doesn't come from a good family and her family environment is a bit like that of the missing girl "Maria". Both of her parents are extremely irresponsible. She seemed to have dropped out of high school at the age of sixteen and left home to go to Hollywood, the land of her dreams, alone. Unfortunately, she was captured by Emily's father and became a broken-winged angel.

Fortunately, although Emily's father was a bastard, had more than one lover outside, an illegitimate child, and often went out to spend money and drink, he still treated his wife and daughter very well.

"Ah, let me ask you this another way. Do you think you can control Emily and her life? I mean, I can certainly ignore her and reject her emotions, but how do you think she will react?"

"I...she..." Claire was speechless. She really couldn't do anything about Emily.

Although she inherited some savings from her late husband, she could not control the property belonging to the Johnson family. She did not even have the right to supervise it. Emily was financially independent, had an independent personality, and her academic performance was completely different from hers. She was a genius type of academic bully.

It was because of her influence that I had a little interest in acting and singing, and she debuted last year and became a big hit this year. Her talent is far higher than when she was almost forced to act in an action romance movie.