Chapter 132: You Are Paranoid
Vince knocked Arianna down to the ground and covered her body with his body. The sound of a few gunshots came to her ears. Arianna trembled. Vince covered her ears with his hands.
When her mind came back to earth, she found her hands tied up again, and she was taken to the car. Vince was driving. Suddenly, Arianna screamed.
“Please be kind to the lady.” Vince looked back and said. A few seconds later, the car did a fast turn and almost hit a tree.
The kidnapper sitting next to Arianna yelled, “Drive nicely, and don’t play tricks!”
Another kidnapper pointed his gun at Vince’s head, “You did that deliberately, you son of…”
Arianna was covered in sweat.
“Take the gun away if you want me to drive safely,” Vince said. “I thought you were the champion of a junior racing event? Never expected you to drive like an old mama!”
“How about you drive? Want me to pull over?”
“Shut the fuck up! Now speak, who is the hostage?”
The car wandered around the fields. When the day was dark, it finally got rid of the car behind. The two kidnappers tossed them on the farmland and quickly ran away.
Vince and Arianna were left on a large field with water in the center. There were no villages or towns around. They could only see the stars above and the wilderness full of flowers under the night sky. This could’ve been a poetic night if they had any communication or transportation equipment.
“Were you not scared? I thought women would scream when they encountered this kind of thing.” Vince asked.Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org
“Perhaps I lost my mind back then.” At the time, Arianna’s stomach was making a noise, and she was very embarrassed.
“There seem to be fruit trees over there. Let’s pick some fruits?” Vince pointed to a row of trees in the distance.
She nodded, and the two carefully looked for the way. When passing through a pool, Arianna crouched down and picked up her trousers to wash the wound. She scratched the skin on her knee a little.
Vince came over to help her, “Don’t do anything yet. Your wound is easy to get infected in summer.” He carefully took out a handkerchief from his pocket and made it a bandage on her knee.
“Hey,” Arianna said.
“What?”
“Is that Polaris?” Arianna pointed to the brightest star on the horizon.
“Yeah. ”
“We have found the right direction. Shall we go back?”
“I have driven for dozens of kilometers. Are you going back on foot?”
“You were driving in circles. I think we didn’t travel a long distance from your manor.”
“Then do you know if we should go south or go north?”
“But you were the one driving the car.”
“I used all my attention to drive.”
They could only study fruit trees as planned. They were lucky. There were some wild grapes and wild apples. The grapes were too sweet and the apples too sour. After a while, they sat down under a tree to rest.
“Have you played computer games?” Arianna suddenly asked.
“I don’t know, I don’t remember.”
“Don’t you think now we are like game rookies caught in a game, encountering things and places we don’t know, and we don’t even understand the rules?”
“I know now. Claire gave me a book on gaming the other day. But you don’t like someone who plays computer games often.”
“I only managed to go to the fourth level, and then I decided to quit. I wouldn’t try hard to do anything when the challenge grows too big. I’m not paranoid.”
“Is there anything in this world that you really want to get?”
Arianna thought for a moment, “Yes, a stable life and peace of mind.”
After being silent for a long time, Vince asked, “If you are with me, will this idea of you be broken?”
“Correct.”
“You ARE paranoid.”
Long silence. Vince then stood up and tried to move the ankle of his injured leg. His leg was still looking far away from healthy.
Arianna stood up and said, “Vince, you were right about one thing. Whenever we meet, there will be a disaster. Once I fainted, once you had a relapse and this time…”
“So?”
“I think we should stop seeing each other.”
Vince sighed, “My cruel lady, you should’ve waited until we got out of here. What if I left you here alone after I heard you say that?”
“Let it be. I can’t give you what you want, but I still took advantage of your affection.”
Vince smiled, “Did you? Please take it for a lifetime.” Then he looked up into the sky and murmured with a very low voice, “No need to be sorry. We used each other, that’s all.”
Arianna looked at him with surprise and could not understand his words, but he never looked at her again.
Arianna sat down again and buried her head in her arms, and then she fell asleep.
The Johnson Family would send people to find them anyway.
She didn’t know how long she spent snoozing, but she heard footsteps getting closer and closer. She was going to raise her head in panic. Vince whispered in her ear, “Don’t look up. Close your eyes and don’t move, please.”
Not knowing what was going on, Arianna still listened to him. He walked over to her, suddenly approached her, and retreated slowly. Then Arianna opened her eyes and saw Vince holding a snake longer as a belt, a few meters away.
She screamed, and Vince threw the snake far into the field.
Arianna huddled, and when Vince came over to help her, she jumped in shock.
He patted her back, “It’s okay now.”
“Where was it?”
“On top of your head.”
Arianna shed cold sweat, “Did you kill it?”
“No, but it won’t come back. And if you kill it, its partners will come to take revenge.”
Arianna had some horrible imagination in her head, and she was more scared than when she was abducted. She stayed away from the tree and couldn’t help but lean against Vince. Then she saw there was blood on Vince’s hand.
“Are you bitten?” She asked in tension and stress, and in the moonlight, the print of snake teeth was clearly visible on his wrist.
“Oh, when I let it go, I was probably bitten by it. I didn’t pay attention.” Vince began to look pale, his voice weak, and his forehead was sweating.
Arianna thought he was suffering from a snake venom attack. She was crying with tears while letting him sit on the ground, trying to squeeze the poisonous blood out of his wrist. Just a tiny little wound, and his bleeding was heavy. Vince’s hand was getting cold, his face getting paler, and his pulse weaker. Arianna couldn’t find a rope. She took off her bra, removed the shoulder strap, and tied his arm tightly.