Chapter 145

Rage and Hatred

"Yes!" The bodyguards rushed up the mountain.noveldrama

Zoey was so anxious that her eyes were watering, but she still remembered to say, "It's such a huge mountain. There's no way they'll be able to find her just by searching like that. Come on, Lucille. Where did you take Joanne to? Tell us!" The other students looked at Lucille with rage and hatred in their eyes after Zoey's reminder.

"What a vicious idea! I knew she did it on purpose!"

"Oh, my God. Wild boars are so dangerous. If it charges at her, will she be able to survive?"

"Lucille, things have already come to this point. Are you still going to lie? How can you be so vicious? If something really happens to Joanne, do you think you won't suffer any

consequences? Don't you feel guilty?"

The crowd lashed out at her in an impassioned way. Every word they said was a torrent of criticism.

If this was a storm, then Lucille was at the eye of it.

Samuel's face darkened, and he asked again, 'Say it. Where did you take Joanne?"

The corner of Lucille's mouth twitched. Mockingly, she said, " Before I answer you, I also have a few questions that I can't figure out the answers to. I'll need you to answer me first, Jenny. First of all, you said that I was the one who took you

and Joanne up the mountain Everyone knows that you and i have always been at odds with each other. What reason do 1 have to ask you to come with me?"

She continued, "Second, you said that you and Joanne

encountered a wild boar. That being the case, since you were in such a dangerous situation, why didn't you tell Samuel that his sister was in danger on the mountain? Instead, you came looking for me to ask about her Aren't you wasting precious time that could be used to save her by hiding such important information?

"Third, you kept saying that I was the one who made the wild boar attack you guys is that wild boat my pet or something? How can I be certain that we'll encounter a wild boar if I take you up the mountain? How can be sure that the wild boar will attack you guys, not me? Lucillie spoke clearly and her wore was moderately paced Everyone could hear her clearly

The students present, including Samuel, were not idiots

Lucillie's questions were reasonable, especially the second one Why didnt Jenny say anything when she knew that Joanne had encountered such a dangerous wild boar on the mountain after she herself had escaped unscathed? She only said that it was Lucille who took them up the mountain and

that Lucille wanted to hurt them,

Not to mention the fact that sugh an important piece of news was hidden, it also meant that they had wasted precious time

that could have been used to save Jeanne

Gritting his teeth, Samuel looked at Jenny and asked in a cold. voice, "Are you going to explain?

"I..." Jenny bit her lip and said in a teary voice, "I was too

scared. When I got down the mountain, I was so terrified that I didn't know what to do. My mind was blank and I forgot to say

it."

Zoey patted Jenny's back and murmured, "I can vouch for that. When Jenny just got down the mountain, she was scared out of her wits. People will subconsciously avoid danger when they are in extreme fear."

It sounded like a reasonable excuse.

Samuel questioned with a stern face, "Jenny, since you and Joanne are together the whole time, you should know the general direction that she went in, right? Tell me. Where is Joanne?"

"I-I don't know," Jenny replied while trembling. "All I know is that both of us started running when we encountered the wild boar. I know that there was a big tree and a steep slope nearby. I really don't know anything else..." Samuel wanted to curse.

She might as well have not given them any clues.

There was a big tree? There were trees all over the mountain!

There was a steep slope? Which part of the mountain wasn't a steep slope?

Fortunately, Samuel still had some rationality left. He

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immediately asked someone to get the local villagers and tell them about the situation. All the people in the village followed him up the mountain and went straight to the places where at wild boar might appear. They searched for an entire day.

Finally, in the evening, they found something.

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Joanne had been found.

After being chased by the wild boar, Joanne ran into two traps. while panicking. One trap clamped down on her leg, and the other was a big pit made for hunting.

Fortunately, when the wild boar charged toward her, it fell into the huge pit first, and then Joanne fell on top of it.

However, because her foot was injured, she could not get up. She had no choice but to stay in the deep pit with the corpse of

the wild boar.

When Madam Grant, who had joined the search party, retold the story to Lucille, Lucille revealed a malicious grin.

It sounded so miserable.

Despite that, she was not very sympathetic.

Lucille was lying on a rocking chair. She enjoyed the evening. breeze, feeling relaxed and at ease.

Meanwhile, Joanne was fiercely kicking up a fuss in the simple

house.

"It hurts! Where is Master Walton? Where on earth has he gone? Ask him to come here and treat me!" she demanded.

Joanne was lying on the bed, covered in mud. She looked as pathetic as could be.

Her foot was badly mutilated after stepping on the animal trap.

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Fortunately, the trap was only used to hunt small animals, So her bones were not damaged.

On top of that, when Joanne fell into the deep pit, she twisted her ankle. Based on the local villagers' experience, they said that it had been dislocated and that her joints would need to be adjusted back into place. Samuel's heart ached, but the only doctor in the village was not around. He didn't know where Master Walton had gone, either. The medical team he had brought for the charity clinic only. knew how to treat external injuries. They didn't know how to realign her joints. No matter how anxious Samuel was, he had no choice but to comfort her. He coaxed, "Joanne, bear with it. I've already sent someone to look for Master Walton. I'm sure there will be

news soon. Lie down first and don't move. Let the doctor treat

your wound, okay?"

Joanne was in so much pain that she could only nod.

The doctor who had come with them came forward with a medical kit and carefully cleaned up the blood and dirt on

Joanne's wound.

However, as soon as the soaked cotton ball came into contact with her wound, Joanne screamed. Then, without saying. anything, she raised her hand and slapped the doctor. Angrily, she roared, "It hurts so much. Do you even know what you're doing?" The doctor was stunned and his face darkened.

Everyone who had come with them knew that Joanne was a

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difficult woman, but they didn't expect that she was both arrogant and unreasonable.

Enduring the grievance in his heart, the doctor got up and left her alone. However, because he still had some professional ethics, he warned her. "The wound has to be cleaned,

otherwise there will be the risk of infection."

Samuel was so annoyed that he couldn't help saying, "Joanne, you have to fix that temper of yours. How can you hit people. so easily?"

"But he put me in pain!" she complained.

Joanne felt wronged and began to sob. "You don't feel sorry. for me at all, Samuel. Even if I recover, an injury this serious will definitely leave a scar in the future! Even if you don't feel sorry for me, how can you blame me and scold me? Sob, sob... I want to go home. I want to go home..." Upon hearing that, Samuel's heart instantly softened.

He searched the mountain for a whole day until he saw Joanne lying in front of the deep pit. Her body was covered with mud and grass, and there was even a dead wild boar with her.

At that moment, Samuel's heart throbbed with pain. He didn't even dare to imagine how scared and helpless Joanne was. After all, she had been pampered and spoiled since she was a child, and she was trapped in the deep pit for an entire day.

Thinking of that, Samuel couldn't help but make his voice softer. He coaxed, "It's my fault. Don't cry. It's all my fault that I failed to protect you. The doctor is right, though. We have to treat your wound. Otherwise, what if it gets infected?"

"I won't listen to you. I want to go home. I want to

now!"

Joanne cried and shouted.

Almost no one could withstand her madness.

Samuel had a headache.

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Seeing that, there was a glint in Zoey's eyes. She came up with

an idea. "How about this? We should get Lucille to treat Joanne's wound. Master Walton isn't here, and Lucille is the only one whose skills he has acknowledged. I'm sure she knows how to realign Joanne's bones."

Upon hearing that, Samuel immediately refused. "No. Realigning someone's joints is a big deal. How can we mess around like that? Let's wait until we find Master Walton."

"That's true." Zoey lowered her head and sighed softly. "Sigh... I was just thinking that since Joanne's injury was more or less caused by Lucille, she should be the one responsible for it..."

It was an offhanded comment, but it caught Joanne's attention.

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She was stunned for a moment. Indeed, it that she had been chased around by a wild boar and gotten both of her legs injured. Not to mention, she had to stay in that deep, disgusting pit for an entire day.

She had to get even with Lucille, didn't she?

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