Grief, Betrayals, and a Core of Blaze
The driver knew he couldn't say much more. Just then, the car began to turn. Xenon said quietly, "Goodbye forever!" The driver took one last deep look at Xenon, then quickly opened the car door and jumped out. Below was an embankment. At the bottom of the embankment was a patch of woods. The driver didn’t worry about getting injured and simply relaxed his body and rolled down with the momentum. It was raining heavily and it was night, so one driver jumping out of a car did not attract any attention. After the driver jumped out, Xenon immediately floored the accelerator and drove forward like a madman. The cars behind them rapidly closed in. The driver, still worried, eventually managed to grab onto something mid-roll, stopping himself. He then glanced toward Xenon under the cover of the darkness. With that one look, he was completely stunned, and tears involuntarily streamed down his face. "Sir, Madam!" The driver personally witnessed the cars behind relentlessly pursuing Xenon and even beginning to flank him. Xenon had nowhere to escape. Just then, Xenon’s eyes turned red with fury, and he directly steered the car toward a roadblock not far ahead.The driver remembered something and quickly pulled out the DV to record the scene. The car slammed into the roadblock with a deafening crash, and smoke began to rise from the vehicle. From the driver's angle, the car was severely deformed. Xenon was bleeding profusely from his head and was stuck in the driver’s seat; he was clearly beyond saving. Xenon's wife, holding the child, was also badly injured in the crash. She struggled to open the car door but found it jammed and impossible to open. The cars behind, seeing this, quickly drove closer for a look. Upon seeing the car starting to leak fuel, someone shouted, "Run! This car is going to explode!" Everyone scrambled back into their cars and reversed quickly, driving away from the scene. A few seconds later, a loud "bang" was heard, and Xenon’s car instantly exploded. Flames engulfed the entire car. The driver could even hear Xenon's wife’s agonizing screams. The video ended there, but Yvonne was sobbing uncontrollably. She had watched the entire process of her parents sacrificing themselves to send her away, and she had personally witnessed the death of her biological parents. Natalie was also heavy-hearted. She patted Yvonne's shoulder. Before she could say anything, Yvonne immediately burrowed into her arms, tightly clutching Natalie's sleeve. "I miss them so much! Who is that masked man? I want to kill him!" "I want to know who he is too." Natalie’s eyes were also teary.She had always believed her being switched at birth was somehow related to Xenon, but now she knew Xenon was a good person. Natalie was very familiar with that pendant. Since she was old enough to remember, the pendant had been worn around her neck. Later, when she left the Summers family, her Summers family parents didn’t ask for it back. If it hadn’t been to save Jensen, she wouldn’t have pawned the pendant back then. Thinking about it now, it seemed that bad things did start to happen to her shortly after she pawned the jade pendant. That memory, which Natalie had almost forgotten, suddenly surfaced in her mind. "I think I remember something." Natalie suddenly looked at Baron. Baron quickly asked, "Remembered what?" Natalie quietly said, "Jensen was seriously injured at the time, and the Luke family chose to give up on him. Loretta was also hesitant. To save him, I took the pendant to a pawn shop to pawn it. The pawn shop owner asked if it was a final sale or a temporary pawn. I said a final sale. After taking the money and paying for Jensen’s surgery and hospital fees, someone apparently tried to grab me that very night. But Hansel was with me at the time, and Loretta had also decided to save Jensen, so there were many bodyguards around, which is why I was spared." Thinking back to that scene, Natalie's expression was a little disturbed. Baron quickly held her hand and said softly, "It’s all in the past. Even in that condition, you ran out to find a Witch Doctor to treat Jensen? Did you truly love him so much that you disregarded life and death?" His words sounded quite sour. Natalie quickly replied, "I didn’t know they were coming for me at the time! I thought they were Jensen’s enemies. Who would have thought that a pendant would bring such disaster? Besides, aren't I your wife now? It’s all in the past." Baron looked at Natalie’s smiling face, and the last of his anger dissipated. He had waited all these years, even when she was with Jensen. Bringing this up now was truly inappropriate. Baron adjusted his mood and said, "All the video footage on this disc makes it clear that the masked man harbors deep hatred for your Stone family, or perhaps for Dad. Xenon’s death was also indirectly caused by him. However, we still don't know the identity of this masked man. Additionally, we don’t know if the nurse who swapped Natalie back then can still be found. It’s also important to locate Rachel first. Since she witnessed the child swap over twenty years ago, why did she return to the Stone family as a housekeeper? And why did she become friends with Mom? We need to figure out who is behind her."
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