MMORPG: Rebirth of the Mortal Online - Chapter 255

Chapter 255: Silenced Guns
After Serah closed the lights again and left the room, Adam crawled out from under the bed and heaved a sigh of relief.

“Are you alright?” Alice asked with an amused smile.

Her heart was also racing as her mother was extremely close to finding out.

“Yep…” Adam sat on the bed and looked at her with a deep look.

“What’s wrong?” Alice tilted her head in confusion, wondering why he was looking at her like that.

“I have something to confess.” Adam lowered his gaze slightly and felt like he had a lump on his throat.

Alice sat silently and felt her heart skip a beat. She had a feeling that it was something very serious.

Adam opened his mouth and started talking about what happened between him and Lady Yu.

He spoke slowly, a pain in his tone, and Alice just sat still, barely blinking as she soaked up all the information like a sponge.

After he was done, they sat in silence for nearly a minute.

However, then Alice spoke out.

“P-please leave…” She sounded like she was sobbing. “I want to be alone.”

“Alice,” Adam whispered.

“Please!” Alice hugged her legs and buried her head in her knees, tears streaming down her face. “Leave!”

Adam closed his eyes with a pang of pain in his heart, nodded, and left the room. When he stepped outside the room, he heard her crying loudly.

“Fuck.” Adam gritted his teeth and retreated back to his room, where he opened a window and just leaned out, trying to clear his mind.

At that moment, he heard the door open and heard footsteps go downstairs. Then, barely, he was able to hear the front door open as Alice clearly went outside.

“…” Adam put his head against his arms.

…

Outside the house, sitting by the porch, Alice rubbed her cold arms as the night air nipped at her skin.

Her tears were still fresh and made her feel colder.

“How could he do that?” She bit her lip in frustration.

The pain in her chest felt unbearable.

When she was about to start crying, she suddenly felt something on her forehead, and when she raised her gaze, she froze completely as she saw a shadowy figure holding a silenced gun against her forehead.

“Shh.” The masked man put his finger against his lips. “Don’t make a sound.”

Alice trembled in fear and then saw five other masked men step out of a van that was parked across the street. They were all holding silenced guns.

“Where’s Adam Palestar?” the masked man asked. “Only he shall die. The rest of you can go free.”

‘Adam? They’re after him?’ Alice’s eyes trembled. ‘Why?’

“I am an impatient man,” the masked man said and placed his finger on the trigger. “Which room?”

“H-he doesn’t live here.” Alice whispered through tears.

“You lie,” the masked man said coldly. “We’ve done our homework. We know he is living here.”

Alice choked on her words, and then the masked man pulled her up.

“You will lead us straight to him, and no fucking detours,” the masked man said and eyed the roof above them.

With his hawkish gaze, he saw some hidden cameras that were very hidden, but since he knew what he was looking for, he spotted them easily.

The other masked figures looked at the cameras without fear.

“It looks like it is working,” the masked man said. “This young woman is considered friendly. The machine won’t attack us, even if it considers us a threat, since friendly is in danger.”

After making sure of that, they opened the door and slowly entered the dark house.

Alice moved in front, acting as a meat shield for the masked figures, and looked towards the upstairs with a teary gaze.

She debated whether she should just scream so that Adam and her parents could have a chance to run away.

She doubted these men would leave any of them alive.

“Alright, let’s start heading upstairs,” the masked man said, and turned to the others. “Search the downstairs, and then join me upstairs.”

…

Brr!

Brr!

‘What the fuck is it?’ Adam had felt his phone vibrate for some time now, but he was too occupied with his thoughts to pay attention to it.

However, now it was just getting annoying.

He pulled out his phone, and instead of it being a phone call, he received hundreds of warnings from Hera.

Hera was also connected to his phone, so it could warn him at any moment if there was danger nearby.

With the phone, he was also connected to the cameras and checked one in the downstairs.

What he saw made his blood run cold, and his look turned into one of pure anger.

“Give me a gun!” Adam screamed, and in the wall, a hidden compartment appeared from nowhere.

Inside was a silenced gun with a magazine full of bullets.

“Hera, can you take care of them or not?” Adam paced back and forth while thinking.

Ding!

He received a message on his phone.

[Hera: No. She would be in grave danger. She is their hostage now, and the man she is with knows about my existence]

“Kang Saruza?” Adam asked. “He told them about you?”

[Hera: I don’t know. He is, somewhat, my creator, and I don’t want to believe that possibility]

“Alright. Lock every door,” Adam said. “Do not let them find Serah and John!”

[Hera: Done]

Inside the master bedroom, the walls turned soundproof, and the door turned metallic. In the room, Serah and John were sleeping soundly, unaware of the dangers outside.

“I don’t need more hostages…” Adam scratched the back of his head. ‘Alice…’

[Hera: They’re about to enter upstairs. The man with Alice is currently alone, but in thirty seconds, others will follow him]

“Alright, don’t do anything with your weapons. Do you hear me?”

[Hera: If you take care of the man with Alice, I could easily eliminate others in the downstairs]

“Don’t, that’s too loud.” Adam looked at the silenced gun. “I want them to believe that their life is boring and safe. I don’t want them to discover the truth.”

[Hera: Alright. What is your plan?]

“I’ll kill the ones in the downstairs first. Keep my door locked, but don’t make it obvious. I want them to believe I am just sleeping, so create some snoring sounds from the speakers, not too loud.”

[Hera: Alright]

Adam then stepped into the elevator, descended only one floor. He didn’t go straight down to his hidden underground base but instead arrived at the downstairs’s cleaning closet.

On the other side of the door, he heard some very faint footsteps.

“Whoo…” Adam cracked his neck and tightened his grip on his silenced gun.

His blood was boiling as he was raging like never before.

At that moment, a person moved past the cleaning closet.

Without further ado, Adam jumped out of the closet and appeared behind one of the masked figures. He seemed to be alone, looking around the short hallway.

Adam put his hand over the man’s mouth and placed the silenced gun against his back before pulling the trigger about three times.

Three bullets shredded through the man’s body, and he couldn’t do anything except let out a muffled grunt of pain.

A short while later, the man collapsed, and Adam tossed his corpse to the cleaning closet.

“How many left in the downstairs?” Adam whispered.

[Hera: Four]