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That night, Tony paced back and forth in his room, thinking about something.
He knew Alpha Kilian was dead set on not letting them get involved with this matter, but he couldn’t just sit idly by.
With that thought in mind, the boy’s gaze fell upon the bag that was placed at the side. After a moment of ponderation, he walked over, opened the bag, and took a laptop out of it.
He hesitated for a moment, but eventually, he turned on the laptop.
No matter what, he had to try. He had to see if he could get in touch with Nelly .
Therefore, he began typing away on his laptop, trying to hack into the system to get Nelly ‘s location. In the midst of that, he frowned.
He noticed that the system was not as hard to decode as it was before. It was as if there was an opening in a maze, rendering it much easier to solve.
Just then, someone knocked on the door.
Tony was surprised. He quickly switched to another webpage to hide what he was doing and looked at the door. “Come in!”
Ben opened the door and entered.
Tony heaved a sigh of relief when he saw his brother come in. “You scared me!”
Ben realized something was going on as soon as he heard Tony ‘s words. He instantly approached. “What are you doing?”
Tony switched back to the original page and continued typing away on the keyboard. “I’m trying to locate Nelly .”
“Can you find her?” said Ben .
“I couldn’t before, but now, I might have a shot,” Tony responded. He glued his eyes onto the screen with a look of excitement and nervousness.
Ben sat next to his brother and watched expectantly without saying a word.
Tony worked on the laptop for quite some time before Ben finally asked, “How’s it going? Did you make any progress? You still can’t locate her?”
Tony put the laptop away and stopped typing. “It’s not that I can’t locate her. I think she probably left an opening for me to find her, but the place she’s in now has some sort of signal interference, so I can’t pinpoint her location for the time being. But I’m sure once she leaves that place, I should be able to find her.”
Ben stared at his brother with slight surprise. “Did you just say Nelly deliberately left an opening for you so you could find her?”
“Yes, she did. Previously, Nelly always hid her location from us on purpose. I tried decoding it but it was hard. This time, however, it’s a lot easier.” Tony confirmed with a nod.
“Maybe that’s not the case. What if you’ve simply gotten better at this?” asked Ben .
That was possible because Tony didn’t just have incredible skills. He also learned at an amazing speed, so there was a good chance he had improved in such a short time.
When Tony heard what Ben said, he mulled it over before shaking his head. “You’re right, I am improving, but this feels different. Everything from my hunch to the difficulty of cracking the code is
telling me that Nelly deliberately wants me to find her.”
Ben stopped doubting his brother after hearing that because he believed in gut instincts, too.
It was just like how he, Tony , and Donna could read each other’s minds. Sometimes, gut instincts could be surprisingly accurate.
“Why would Nelly do that, though?” asked Ben .
Tony ‘s brows knitted together as he pondered for a bit before answering, “I have no idea either. Maybe she’s trying to send me a message? But I can’t figure it out for now.”
“You don’t think… Nelly is not in trouble, is she?” said Ben , making a guess.
Tony shook his head. “No. I don’t think so. That guy demanded something from Daddy just now, so he must know that Daddy would ask to see Nelly in return. Given those circumstances, it is unlikely he will hurt Nelly .”Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.
Just then, Ben recalled what he saw on the surveillance footage that day.
He couldn’t help sighing when he thought about it. “I honestly don’t know what Nelly is thinking. Why did she leave with that guy?”
Tony sighed as well. “Why else? Only Granddad’s matter could make Nelly go nuts like this.” “But…”
“Forget it. Neither one of us is in her shoes, so we are too rational to really understand what she is going through. We can’t even imagine how she feels. I mean, let’s think about it this way. What will the two of us do if Nelly is the one who had died? It’s possible I will be even more irrational than Nelly is right now,” said Tony .
Those words stunned Ben .
He understood the situation after thinking about it from that angle.
Tony is right. If something happened to Nelly , I don’t even know how I’d react. I might be a thousand times crazier than her. So, I guess Nelly is already rational enough.
Ben nodded in agreement as he pondered.
“So, the most important task at hand is to find clues about Nelly . We must get in touch with Nelly before Daddy meets up with that guy. I need to know what message Nelly is trying to convey.”
Ben bobbed his head.
Tony turned his attention back to his laptop and continued working.
Ben stood at the side and watched until he suddenly recalled something. “Oh, by the way, Thalia called.”
“What does she want?”
“The people from Darknetz are looking for us. Sam , in particular, really needs to talk to us,” replied Ben .
Tony frowned at the mere mention of that issue. “Turn him down.”
“Thalia said he’ll stop at nothing to see us. If we won’t meet him, he’ll come to us.”
Tony stopped typing and thought it through before replying, “No. If he comes here right now, he’ll mess everything up. We can’t let him come to us before we solve the matters at hand.”