Trafford Buyers Club

Chapter 810 Late Twilight
"Hailey, where are you going? Is the locker room over here?" The security guard pointed to the side.

Before that, 'Haley' seemed to be out of direction.

Hearing this, Arnold subconsciously helped his glasses—but after he made the movement, he realized that his glasses had been taken away by Caroline. He immediately touched his nose and said quickly: "I know , I was just planning to go to the bathroom."

The security guard shrugged and said, "There is a bathroom in the locker room."

"Ha... is that right, yes, it's inside, haha." Arnold nodded.

"Hailey!" Unexpectedly, the big security guard stared at A Nuo suddenly, without blinking his eyes, and walked up, "Could it be you..."

"What's wrong with me?" Arnold turned his head away.

"Could it be you..." The security brother seemed to be pressing down on him, making Anuo back subconsciously, and finally leaned directly against the wall, and the security brother said suddenly: "Could it be you?" I want to steal a bar now!"

"Stealing wine?" Arnold was taken aback.

At this moment, the big security guard looked around, lowered his voice and said: "Let me tell you, the supervisor found that there was a lot of good wine missing, and I don't know who made the report, saying that someone secretly brought the wine here to sell for money... ...Brother, I haven't done anything for a long time, you just came back, don't play dead!"

"Oh... oh, yes, thank you." Arnold nodded.

The big security guard smiled this time, "Okay, hurry up and get your things, go back and greet your female boss...By the way, Haili, do you look a little different?"

"Is there?" A Nuo hurriedly opened the door and entered, leaving the big security guard with a back: "Maybe it's because my hair has grown a bit, I haven't had a haircut recently."

"Really?" The security guard shrugged and didn't care.

He quickly unlocked the locker in his dressing room for 'Hailey' and poked his head over, as if curious about what was inside.It's just that Arnold covered the door of the cabinet and looked at the big security guard at the same time.

The big security guard walked away whistling and whistling, "I'll wait for you outside, hurry up!"

Arnold nodded, and then shined the flashlight inside the cabinet. He saw that there was a black bag in the cabinet, so he directly used the bag to put all the contents, regardless of size, into the bag, and finally checked I took a look and found that there was nothing missing...

Not long after, Arnold went out, and the big security guard was smoking a cigarette outside. When he saw Haili coming out, he walked out of the Kata clubhouse with him, talking and laughing.

Caroline seemed to be a little impatient for waiting, and walked up with a grim expression, watching the big security guard gloat for a while.

"Brother, please ask for blessings." The security guard patted him on the shoulder, and then went back to the security booth with a flashlight.

Seeing Caroline walking in front of him, Arnold patted the bag in his hand, indicating that he had already picked up the things. Caroline nodded at this moment, as if he was relieved.

A Nuo suddenly said: "Oscar owes you a statuette!"

Caroline gave Arnold a blank look, snatched the bag from Arnold's hand, and said in a low voice, "Let's get out of here quickly."

A Nuo nodded, and the two quickly left while the surrounding street lights were not on, intending to check the contents of the bag in this safe place.

Unexpectedly, not long after they left, several men in expensive short-sleeved shirts appeared in front of the two of them.Several men directly blocked their way.

Run into robbery?That was Caroline's first thought—only to deny it quickly.Because the locals are rarely robbed.

Generally speaking, foreigners or tourists will encounter more robberies.

"What do you want to do?" Caroline is also a person who is engaged in gray income after all, so at least she will not be completely panicked when something happens.

One of the men sneered, "Finally dare to show up, Haili? Catch them!"

The man suddenly waved his hand, and several big men rushed forward at the same time, but with just three or two strokes, they directly controlled Arnold and Caroline, unable to struggle.

"What are you trying to do! Let me go! Let me go!!" Caroline wanted to bite at the person who grabbed her, but soon, she was wrapped around her head and upper body with a bag.

All she could hear was the screams of Arnold—he seemed to be being beaten by these men.

what--! !what--! !

"I'm not Hailey... ah-! I'm really not..."

"Bitch! You swallowed our things, thinking that if you don't show up, we will have nothing to do with you!"

"Take it away! Take it back, and I'll greet this guy well and let him spit it out for me!"

Caroline became more and more terrified, she couldn't see anything, she could only feel herself being dragged around, and finally seemed to get into a car, and then someone came in and covered her nose with a hand still holding a towel .

She smelled an almond and passed out.

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Chi Chi - Chi Chi - Chi!

The car radio is only capable of galvanic sound, no matter which channel it is tuned to.Offee shook his head, and simply turned off the car stereo.

The traffic conditions on the road are very bad - the red street lights on the main road are not working due to a power outage, and now we can only rely on the traffic police to conduct temporary manual command. It is strange that the road conditions are good.

The car stopped on the road, and Offie picked up the mineral water and took a sip, then casually threw it on the passenger seat—the bottle hit something.

It's a work card with Offie's face on it, which is his identity proof-he is the Minister of Security of this country.

After repeated persuasion by the secretary, Ofi finally stopped the work at hand, and planned to go home to rest for a while, take a shower and change a set of clothes or something.

But he felt that his time might be wasted on this congested road.

At this moment, Offie's phone rang suddenly - because he was always in the control center of the security department, the strange pulse during the storm outside did not affect his phone.

"Hello, I'm Ofi." Ofi turned on the bluetooth: "Bara, what's the matter?"

The caller was Bala, a Filipino maid hired by him.

I only heard Bara happily say: "Oh! My God, Mr. Offee, I finally got through to you. It seems that the communication has been restored. I have been looking for you!"

"It should be that some areas have begun to recover, and I happened to be in the service area." Offee said casually: "Speak, what's the matter?"

"Sir, the school is closed. I brought Louis back from the school dormitory and just put him to sleep." Bara said very responsibly: "Sir, you haven't been home for several days, I want to ask you, you Are you still coming back tonight? If not, then I won't be off work. "

"Oh... I'm sorry, Bara, I'm too busy." Ofie pinched the center of her brows: "That's good, I should be home almost, and when I come back, you can get off work."

"Sir, do I need to prepare dinner for you?"

"No, I'm not hungry. Just pack up, and you can leave when I come back." Offie ordered casually, and then asked about Louis' situation.

The child is sent to a full-time school, usually stays in the dormitory, and can only go home during the holidays.Of course it is not a holiday, but if the school loses power, it is normal to suspend classes.

"Louis is very good, he didn't make any noise, but I just want you to come back soon." Bara sighed, "Sir, you know, Louis is too young, you are so busy, Dr. Frankie often doesn't come back, Louis will feeling lonely."

"I'm sorry for you, Bara." Offee seemed unwilling to talk about this topic, and quickly said: "I'm driving here, so let's not talk about it, wait until I come back."

……

"Then, I'll go home first, and I want to go back and have a look."

In front of the door of the apartment, Bara, who was almost 40 years old, nodded to Ofe, then got on her bicycle and left.After watching her leave, Offie yawned and returned to her room.

All the way upstairs, and then came to the room of his son Louis.Offie quietly entered Louis' room without turning on the light, but came to the bed by the light brought by the light in the corridor.

He lowered his head and kissed his sleeping son's forehead, then put the child's arm in the quilt, but felt something from inside the quilt.

Offie took it out and saw it was a photo frame.

Offie looked a little complicated, finally sighed, put the photo frame on the bedside table, then closed the door and left, and went downstairs - the residential area here has been restored to power.

Offie took out the sparkling water from the refrigerator, drank most of it with a couple of grunts, and was going to take a shower, but at this moment he heard something—the door of the house was opened by someone.

He frowned and came to the living room.

I saw a staggering figure walking in... holding a half-drunk bottle of wine in his hand, and then the whole person sat directly at the place where the shoes were changed in the entrance hallway, looking drunk.

This person is Dr. Franch.

"How did you get back?" Offie walked up to Dr. Franch, but didn't seem to intend to help him up, just stood like this.

Dr. French heard the voice and looked up, his eyes half-closed, seeming hazy.Dr. French hiccupped, "Opheus... oh... you're back..."

As he spoke, Dr. Franch leaned on the wall and stood up with difficulty, but lost his balance all of a sudden, and was about to fall to the ground.Ofi frowned, reached out to stop her, and then dragged him directly to the sofa in the living room.

He pushed Dr. Franch directly onto the couch, "Look at you! School is closed, and Bara brought Louis back! So, hurry up and get rid of your alcohol, I don't want Louis to think that his grandpa is A drunk!"

For a moment, Dr. Franch seemed to be stiff, but he quickly turned over, lay down on the sofa, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

Offie gritted her teeth, as if there was an unknown anger, but there was no way to vent it.He paced back and forth in the living room, walking fast, and finally wiped his face vigorously with both hands, and then sat down again.

There was only an arm's length between the single sofa and the couch, and he just looked at Dr. Franch, who was reeking of alcohol.He knew the old man hadn't really gone to sleep.

"The day before yesterday, why did you meet Billy at the theater?" Offie asked, frowning.

Even though he already had some guesses in his mind, he still wanted to hear Dr. Franch's answer with his own ears.But the doctor still didn't move at this time, and seemed to have fallen asleep soundly.

Offee wiped his face again, "Actually, if you don't tell me, I can guess a little bit. Now this government will no longer spend money to support your project, at least not in the past few years. Than Altruism, do you intend to fund you? Yes, if we can really launch a satellite of our own, it will have a great impact on the future situation."

There was a snoring sound from the Doctor.

Ofe sneered, "Hmph, looking at you now, you probably got a rejection from Billy, right? Now that the Senate President is dead, all factions have to reshuffle. There is also the theater case, which makes this session This is really a good opportunity for those guys in the opposition. Give up, because with this opportunity, Billy will not invest a lot of money in you for the time being. Don't put Those politicians see how patriotic they are, and they only want to stick to other people's cold asses!"

The doctor's snoring sound seemed to be a little heavier.

Offee let out a heavy breath, leaned on the back of the sofa, looked at the ceiling, was silent for a long time, and then slowly said: "I know, that is your dream. But... But we are just mortals after all. , Some things are really impossible to do, then give up. If you let yourself go, you will also let others go. Back then...if you hadn’t insisted on carrying out the launch test, that kind of thing would not have happened.”

The snoring suddenly subsided.

"Every time Louis asked me where my mother was going, I didn't tell him the truth..." Offie looked at Dr. Franch's back and said bitterly, "How can I tell him? About his mother, Your student, my wife, because of my grandfather's arbitrary and stubbornness, strongly demanded to launch an unstable rocket without obtaining all the safety data, and finally caused the whole..."

"Forget it!" Ofi stood up suddenly, "You have been sleeping in your own dream, don't wake up... Anyway, I have gotten used to it after all these years. But I beg you, you study what is yours Things, but you'd better not get involved in this vortex of power. You are not young, if you want to retire, you can do it at any time. "

"I'm going to take a shower, and I'll go back later. There's been a lot of things recently, and the president has issued a death order..." Ofe walked upstairs, "The school is on holiday for two days, and Louis is at home. If you have time, you can Stay with him for a while. If I don't have time, I'll ask Bara to come over sooner, so that's it... good night."

The sound of footsteps going upstairs gradually faded away, and only a wall lamp remained in the living room.

He was curled up on the sofa like the street sleeper.

Suddenly, the doctor pulled out the cushion and covered his head, completely turning the world into darkness.

(End of this chapter)