Chapter 295 Explosion
Elijah ignored her curses and mockery, just letting out a cold snort.
"So what do you think... if I take you away, will Robert come looking for me on his own?"
"You're shameless!" Sophia's pupils contracted as she finally understood what Elijah was scheming.
Her heart sank heavily. She closed her eyes tightly, forcing herself to calm down. "Robert won't do anything evil to help you, not for me. You claim to be Robert's senior, but you don't understand him at all."
Elijah shook his head with a smile, pressing the gas pedal as he said, "The one who really doesn't understand him is you."
In this world, no one valued relationships more than Robert.
Sophia slowly closed her eyes, leaning back in the passenger seat, lips pressed together in silence.
Soon, the car slowly came to a stop.
Elijah found a gun in the car and pressed it against Sophia's temple.
Feeling a cold, hard object touch her skin, Sophia slowly opened her eyes.
Elijah had driven the car to the seaside, where SWAT vehicles surrounded them.
There was also a black car—Benjamin's car.
"Get out," Elijah threatened in a low voice.
Sophia's heart clenched painfully. She reached out and opened the passenger door.
She got out first, but before she could walk away, a strong hand gripped her arm tightly.
Then Elijah followed her out of the car, shouting sternly to everyone around, "Don't come any closer, or I'll shoot."
No one dared to make a move.
Benjamin's deep, dark eyes stared intently at Elijah. "Elijah, try touching her! If she gets even a scratch, I'll kill you!"
Elijah tightened his grip on Sophia's hand and laughed wildly toward the sky. "Really? I'd like to see if you're faster or my gun is."
"Stop!"
Benjamin's steps halted, not daring to move forward.
After a standoff, Benjamin spoke again, "All you want is to escape. Any hostage will do. How about this—take me as your hostage and let Sophia go."
Sophia's pupils contracted, and she shook her head frantically. "No! Benjamin, don't come over!"
Benjamin gave her a reassuring look and continued, "Don't you want to get the antidote to find the formula from seventeen years ago? My blood is the antidote."
"Benjamin White! Shut up!" Sophia yelled at him, her eyes instantly turning red.
Before this, even with a gun pointed at her head, she hadn't felt the slightest panic.
But when Benjamin said those words, she began to panic.
In her urgency, Sophia even called Benjamin by his full name.
Benjamin was also stunned.
In the past, Sophia liked to call him honey, Mr. White, or occasionally Benjamin...
But this time, he could tell she was truly angry.
But he had no other choice.
As Sophia's husband, he couldn't just stand by and watch his wife face a life-threatening situation.
If he could only rely on a woman for protection, then he didn't deserve Sophia's love at all.
Elijah was also stunned, a flash of disbelief in his eyes. "What did you say?"
Benjamin's gaze moved from Sophia's face to Elijah's, repeating, "I said, my blood is the antidote. Let my wife go, and I'll go with you."
Watching Benjamin approach step by step, Sophia's tears fell uncontrollably.
She shook her head at him, her eyes completely red, breaking Benjamin's heart.
He wanted so badly to hold her.
When she was almost stabbed in the throat with a needle, and now with a gun pointed at her, she must have been so scared.
He had failed to protect her.
Benjamin's tall, upright figure moved forward with steady steps.
Elijah stared at him in a daze. Suddenly, his arm felt a sharp pain as it was twisted behind his back with tremendous force.
Then his wrist hurt.
The gun slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.
In an instant, Benjamin pushed Sophia toward Elodie and stood behind Elijah, his long fingers gripping his neck tightly.
Just as he had done to Sophia in the laboratory.
Before Elijah could react, he felt his throat being squeezed tight.
An unprecedented sense of suffocation hit him, and his face quickly turned red and swollen.
He coughed violently, reaching out to try to stop Benjamin's actions.
But Benjamin suddenly bent his leg and drove his knee upward, sending Elijah's body falling straight forward.
Elodie was completely dazed at this moment. Seeing Sophia freed, she quickly stepped forward and pulled her to safety.
"Sophia, are you okay?"
Sophia shook her head and immediately turned to look in Benjamin's direction, her expression panicked and tense.
At that moment, Elijah gritted his teeth and swept his leg at Benjamin.
Benjamin was caught off guard and tripped, grappling with Elijah.
Because their movements were too intense, the SWAT team couldn't get a clear shot.
Due to the suffocation, Elijah's face remained flushed red. He suddenly rolled over and landed a punch on Benjamin's face.
Benjamin's chiseled face quickly showed injuries.
However, Elijah was also covered in wounds.
Because Benjamin wasn't helpless either—he landed a punch in Elijah's abdomen, making him cry out in pain and curl up on the ground clutching his stomach.
Benjamin sat up from the ground with his legs bent, wiped the blood from the corner of his lips, and sneered, "Elijah, confess."
"Make me confess? Impossible." A sinister look flashed in Elijah's eyes. When no one was paying attention, he pulled something from his pocket and lunged at Benjamin.
"It's a bomb!"
A SWAT officer cried out in alarm.
Hearing this, Sophia's heart felt like it was being squeezed by an invisible hand. She instinctively wanted to go over.
But as soon as she took half a step, a hand stopped her.
"Sophia, it's too dangerous. Don't go over there yet."
Elodie had never seen such a scene before and was so scared that tears fell.
But she still retained a shred of rationality, remembering what Benjamin had told her on the way here: "Protect Sophia at all costs."
Sophia was already in tears, her vision blurred, only able to make out Benjamin's hazy figure.
She desperately tried to break free from Elodie's grip. The moment someone shouted "bomb," she had already lost all reason.
Before she could reach him, suddenly, a bright, blinding flash of fire appeared before her eyes.
It was the sound of the bomb exploding.
Sophia watched with her own eyes as Benjamin was pulled by Elijah and jumped into the sea.
Then the bomb exploded.
The sea surface erupted in tremendous waves.
Sophia felt only a ringing in her ears, her brain feeling like it had been violently shaken, her whole being in a daze.
Gradually, the sounds around her grew more and more distant.
She seemed to hear someone calling her name.
Like a madwoman, she used every ounce of strength in her body and ran toward the sea.