"Then catch her! Mom, don't you have people? Hurry up and send them out!"
In Dora's mind, even if Danielle awakened a plant-type power, she was still that idiot who used to be played around by her.
"Catch her? You think I don't want to?"
Ning Wanrong pulled up the info on her wrist screen and zoomed in for Dora to see.
Dora's legs went weak, and she almost fell to the ground.
"What? She's dead?"
"Idiot."
Ning Wanrong looked at Dora with frustration. She couldn't understand how she ended up with such a brainless daughter.
She could handle small tricks, but when something serious came up, it showed just how lacking her intelligence was.
"She just took off her wristband."
"Why? Why would she take it off? Doesn't that mean she's stuck in the mid-zone?"
Without a wristband, you couldn't pass through teleportation gates. Wouldn't that make her easy to catch?
Dora blinked in confusion. "Mom, maybe she doesn't know we already found out? She's just in the mid-zone—it shouldn't be hard to catch her, right?"
Slap.
Ning Wanrong hit the back of her head again.
She stared at Dora with gritted teeth. "Sometimes I really want to crack open your skull and see if it's filled with wasteland dirt."
Dora backed away, scared. "Mom, why are you angry again?"
Ning Wanrong placed both hands on the lab table, breathing heavily. After a few minutes, she finally calmed down.
"Danielle ran away. She went into the wasteland zone, and she removed her wristband. Now we've lost track of her."
"What should we do? Mom, send more people! Or maybe we can post a bounty, get some hunting teams to catch her."
Dora felt like she had finally thought of a good idea.
But when she looked up, she saw Ning Wanrong staring at her like she was a fool.
"Mom, why are you looking at me like that?"
Ning Wanrong sneered. "Post a bounty? You want the whole world to pay attention to Danielle? What if your grandfather brings her back and throws you into the wasteland instead?"
Dora shook her head in fear. No, she didn't want that.
"But..."
A sharp look flashed in Ning Wanrong's eyes. "It's not like there's no way."
Dora looked up with a questioning look.
But she didn't dare ask. She was afraid of getting slapped again.
"Come here. Do this..."
After Ning Wanrong whispered the plan, Dora shook her head in shock.
"No! I can't do that, Mom! I'm already engaged to Qingfeng!"
Slap.
Ning Wanrong slapped her again.
Dora's cheeks turned red on both sides, but this time, she didn't back away. She looked at Ning Wanrong seriously.
"Mom, please. Find another way. I can't do that to Qingfeng."
"Doesn't matter. Then go catch Danielle yourself. When your lies get exposed..."
Ning Wanrong grabbed Dora's chin hard and forced her to look into her eyes.
"Let's see if those people won't tear you apart. I'll just cry and say you lied to me, and I'll get away with it. What about you?"
"You really think Qingfeng got engaged to you because he likes you? If you didn't have a plant-type ability, you think he wouldn't go to Danielle the second she shows up again?"
"Imagine them hugging, kissing, doing the same things you did with him..."
Ning Wanrong's cruel words kept drilling into Dora's ears. She covered them tightly.
"Stop! Don't say that!"
In her mind, she saw Qingfeng going to Danielle.
They hugged, kissed—maybe even did more.
Dora couldn't take it anymore. She collapsed by the lab table, drained and weak.
"Mom, you say, I'll listen to you."
Ning Wanrong finally looked at Dora with a look of appreciation.
"That's more like it. Once this is done, Qingfeng will be dependent on you for the rest of his life. A man's purity is lost, haha..."
Dora listened expressionlessly, clenching her fists tightly.
She struggled to get up from the ground, not looking at Ning Wanrong and walking straight out.
"Don't worry, Mom. I'll know what to do."
Three days passed quickly, and Danielle had no idea how far they had gone.
All she knew was that the beasts had become more vicious, and their injuries were getting worse.
Fortunately, Danielle had space and plenty of supplies.
Zachary looked up and tried to figure out the direction. "Let's rest here for a bit, wait..."
"Wow, brothers, come here, some little fat lambs!"
Danielle and the others immediately switched to combat mode. The yellow pattern on Zachary's arm had become darker.
"Brothers, we're not easy to mess with."
"Big brother, it's this woman, yes, it's her."
Someone from the other side moved their hand and excitedly pointed at Danielle.
Danielle frowned. Could these people also be sent by the Ning family?
The leader, a man with purple hair, crookedly grinned, wearing an evil smile.
"Danielle, you slept with someone else's fiancé and now you want to run away? Isn't that a bit much?"
What?
Danielle???
Rain and Leng's team both looked at Danielle in unison, their eyes filled with confusion. When did this happen? Why didn't we know?
Danielle laughed in anger, "Stop talking nonsense, who did I sleep with?"
Wang Jintao, the purple-haired man, threw his head back and laughed loudly.
"Looks like Danielle really has a poor memory. Too bad for the young master of the Mu family. Oh well, misfortune strikes."
Danielle…
Wang Jintao continued, hands empty, but with his palms facing up.
There were faint electric arcs in the middle of his palms.
"Five million, Danielle. Just come with me quietly, or don't blame me, Wang Jintao, for not being gentle with a beauty."
Danielle stayed silent, while Zachary disappeared in a flash.
Wang Jintao was surprised. The next second, his entire body was surrounded by electricity.
His strength was clearly higher than Zachary's. As soon as Zachary approached, he stumbled out of his teleportation state.
Zachary swung a blade, feeling numbness in his hand.
If he hadn't reacted quickly, the electric arc from Wang Jintao would've hit him directly.
Danielle and Fei stood with black knives, protecting Zachary, their faces anxious.
Zachary's teleportation didn't work, and with more than ten people on the other side, what were they going to do now?
Danielle was getting nervous. This was the biggest crisis they had faced.
"Why don't we enter the space?"
"No."
Zachary gritted his teeth and refused.
"Your ability isn't enough. Even if we hide in the space, Wang Jintao will force us out."
"Then what do we do?"
Danielle tightened her grip on her black knife.
Wang Jintao on the opposite side grinned wickedly.
"Come on, little girl, just come with me. The mission said they can't hurt you."
Danielle's palms were sweating.
Zachary felt Wang Jintao's attention, seemingly casual, but he was tightly watching every move Danielle made.
Once she made a move, he would definitely seal the space.