Chapter 537

Chapter 537

After the performer on stage took a bow, they immediately exited.

Right after that, the lights in the venue dimmed.

The moment the lights went down, Alice felt Dana beside her reach out protectively in front of her.

She paused, a bit surprised that Dana was this nervous.

This state of being overprotected made Alice smile helplessly yet touched. She held Dana's hand and whispered, "It's okay, you don't need to be so nervous."

Actually, from the moment they left the house today, Alice could feel that Dana's nervousness was at its peak - you could tell from all the things she had prepared.

Of course, Alice understood why.

After all, in the nearly three weeks since discovering the pregnancy, apart from that one time moving out of the estate, she hadn't left the house at all.

This was partly because the situation was tense and it wasn't convenient to go out, and partly because there really wasn't any need to go out.

Everyone knew Alice's pregnancy wasn't easy, and the level of attention on her had almost reached an extreme.

After analyzing Alice's physical condition, Dana's attitude had become even stricter.

"Mrs. Russell, it's always better to be prepared," Dana replied to Alice's relaxed attitude.

Hearing this, Alice really had nothing to say. She smiled with pursed lips, watching the lights come back on, while Dana withdrew her hand the instant the lights brightened.

She glanced at Dana and said nothing more.

This performance went straight to the difficult stuff. The two high platforms originally at the edge of the central stage were pushed slightly more toward the middle. These platforms were almost as high as the venue's ceiling.

A steel cable connected the two high platforms, and on the right platform, a man in a tight bodysuit was holding a bicycle at one end of the cable, ready to go.

Even knowing the acrobats had practiced this countless times, Alice still felt nervous. She swallowed and clutched her skirt tightly.

Inside the venue, complete silence.

Everyone stared intently at the figure on the high platform, holding their breath unconsciously, as if they themselves were the man standing on that high platform.

But among all these people, the bodyguards around Alice and her group were obviously an exception.

They were watching too, of course, but would instantly look away if there was any movement nearby. This was what they meant by multitasking.

Among them, Liam didn't even look up. He kept his eyes on his phone the whole time, his fingers rapidly tapping the keyboard on the screen.

Novaria, Luminous City.

James leaned back on the leather sofa, his long legs stretched straight out in front of him, eyes fixed on his phone screen, typing occasionally.

Naturally, he was chatting with Liam.

James had just finished being questioned at the police station.

Emilio had handled the background very cleanly. He had long predicted that the Novaria police would go easy on the Fleck family and the Adams family.

But he had already given Irvin a plan early on.

Irvin was pretty bold. As soon as Emilio laid out the plan, he ran to the entrance of Novaria's biggest newspaper and started shouting that the Novaria police discriminated against Lumaria people.

This statement was explosive in Novaria at this time.

Reporters who smelled a big story immediately swarmed out of the office building, surrounding this middle-aged man from Lumaria.

Irvin naturally said whatever he had to say.

His Novaria language was clumsy, spoken slowly with an accent, but this obviously added to his credibility.

In an instant, the Novaria reporters were like wolves who hadn't eaten for days smelling meat, latching onto Irvin and not letting go, hoping he would reveal more details.

And when they heard that the police had joked about why terrorists would kidnap a Lumaria businessman instead of Preston Fleck, the reporters all paused for a moment, but then they immediately realized this was excellent material.

With Irvin pushing forward and Emilio backing things up behind the scenes, this incident immediately turned into a scandal that was published.

The Luminous City police station at that time was busy tracking down the ship heading to international waters and couldn't spare the energy to suppress this scandal.

By the time Tony was sent back by helicopter, Irvin had brought a large group of reporters to the scene.

The police escorting Tony back were completely stunned when they saw this.

They instinctively wanted to scold the reporters who kept approaching, but even though the reporters backed off dozens of feet, they still didn't stop their cameras from rolling.

When Irvin saw Tony lying on the stretcher with his head abnormally swollen, his voice immediately choked up. "Boss! It's so good that you made it back alive! I went to report the case, but the police didn't even pay attention to me! If it hadn't been for Mr. Russell's secretary coming to report the case, you would have really died here!"

Although he said this in Lumaria language, it didn't stop the reporters from recording this segment.

Some of these reporters might stop publishing this video under pressure from the police or government.

But among these reporters, a small portion were hired by Emilio.

Their goal was to put pressure on the police and Novaria government to investigate whose responsibility this incident really was, and who exactly this so-called terrorist that Eric mentioned was.

With efforts from Emilio and various parties, the police and government had no choice but to treat this as an urgent case to investigate.

The person Alicia sent arrived in Novaria that afternoon.

After seeing Brady at the hospital, this old man over fifty immediately went to find the police.

"Our Mr. Nelson has never had any contact with terrorists! He came to Novaria to study this time, not to take the blame for your police! Who exactly is the terrorist? How could he possibly be a terrorist?"

This old man was named Hugo Graves.

In his earlier years, Hugo was a famous talk show host in Novaria. His family assets exceeded hundreds of millions of dollars, he had a very strong background to begin with, and combined with the connections he made after getting into entertainment, he was naturally one of the people the Novaria police didn't want to offend.

"If this matter doesn't get an explanation, I will definitely condemn your police's ability to handle cases on Twitter!"

The person receiving Hugo was an old police officer about his age.

This old officer knew Hugo's capabilities very well, and hearing this made him anxiously rub his head.

But he actually had no hair left, so the more he rubbed, the more anxious he got.

"Mr. Graves, don't worry, we're already investigating this matter. Regarding Mr. Nelson's situation, we're also verifying it."

"What else is there to verify? Isn't the information I brought enough?" Hugo's eyes widened as he slammed the table, and the papers he brought were blown away by the air current.