Chapter 247 Playing with Fire and Getting Burned
"Anyway, you've already made up your mind to kill her, haven't you? What difference does it make whether you burn her or stab her to death?" Sean looked at Lloyd and said coldly.
Lloyd thought about it and actually found Sean's words made sense.
Besides, burning her would destroy the evidence and leave fewer traces.
Lloyd's eyes turned vicious. He immediately grabbed the gas can from the corner and poured it over Isabella.
Being burned to death and being stabbed to death were two completely different levels of pain.
Perhaps Isabella would wake up directly from the agony of her flesh being scorched by flames, but by then it would be too late. She would watch helplessly as the flames ravaged her body, grimacing in pain, screaming, rolling on the ground, until she was completely burned to death.
Except for Sean, the other two team members watched this scene coldly, their faces expressionless.
They didn't believe anyone could be unafraid of fire, so they weren't expecting anything. With such a large can of gasoline, Isabella would definitely be burned to ashes!
Only Sean clenched his fists, nervously watching Lloyd's movements.
He really wasn't lying!
There really were people in this world who weren't afraid of flames - he had seen it with his own eyes!
When he was a child, he experienced a fire and saw someone walking toward him through the flames. That person walked through the fire as if it were nothing, becoming one with the flames. In such a huge fire, he was miraculously rescued, completely unharmed!
It wasn't until he grew up and heard rumors about the Powell family that he realized it was someone from the Powell family who had saved him! He also firmly believed that the Powell family must possess this ability!
That's why he wanted to let Isabella go - no matter what, the Powell family were his saviors. If this girl was from the Powell family, he didn't want her to die. But if she wasn't...
Then he could only watch her burn to death.
Lloyd poured the entire can of gasoline over Isabella.
Then he lit a lighter.
Lloyd stood a meter away, looking down at the girl on the ground.
"No one in this world is unafraid of fire."
He said with a cold laugh.
Sean said the Powell family wasn't afraid of fire - he thought that was complete nonsense!
Lloyd's gaze grew colder. His finger moved, and he threw the lighter directly toward the ground by Isabella's feet.
The ground was soaked with gasoline.
The moment the lighter touched the gasoline, it immediately ignited.
Lloyd stood in place, watching with an indifferent expression as the flames quickly rose up, spreading wildly and engulfing the girl's body.
The air became scorching hot.
"How tragic!" Although he said this, Lloyd's tone held no pity whatsoever, only the thrill of murder and arson.
He turned his head to look at Sean, looking smug. "She would've been better off if I'd just stabbed her to death. Not even a whole corpse left. Tell me, should her ghost blame me or you? After all, burning her with fire was your suggestion."
But just then, the three people who had been looking at Lloyd all changed expressions at the same time!
"Lloyd!"
"Lloyd!"
"Watch out behind you!"
Lloyd didn't react at all and didn't know why the three had changed expressions.
The next second, behind Lloyd, a tongue of fire rapidly swept toward him and ignited him!
The flames were eerily conscious, as if they had human awareness. Even though there was no burning material as a medium, they precisely pounced on Lloyd and set him ablaze.
"How can this be? How can this be..."
Lloyd's face was full of panic. He frantically beat at the flames on his body, but his body temperature kept rising, and his hair caught fire too.
"Save me!"
"Save me quick!"
Lloyd rolled on the ground in agony, screaming and shouting in panic.
The other three were stunned.
There was no water around. Sean could only take off his own clothes, trying to put out the fire on Lloyd.
But before he could act, the flames on Lloyd's body spread directly, growing from a small patch into a large crimson mass, consuming Lloyd's entire body.
In those blood-red flames, Lloyd's widened pupils and agonized expression were particularly grotesque, as if he were enduring some kind of hellish torture, looking like an evil spirit struggling in hell!
Desperate screams filled the eardrums of everyone present.
"First floor! There's water on the first floor, go get water!" Sean was the first to react and rushed downstairs.
The other two team members also hurried downstairs.
After the others left, Lloyd thrashed about in the flames, rolling all over the ground. After a full several dozen seconds, he suddenly crashed head-first into a steel rod protruding from the wall...
Sean was the first to come up with a bucket of water, only to see Lloyd already lying on the ground.
The air was filled with the smell of burnt flesh.
Lloyd's corpse was still burning, already beyond recognition.
Sean's eyes widened. He rushed over with the water and poured it on Lloyd's body.
The three of them went back and forth several times to fetch water and finally extinguished the flames.
Lloyd's entire body was already charred. There was a huge hole in his forehead, and his eyeballs had been burned away.
Lloyd had been burned to death just like that...
The three looked at this horrifying scene, their faces deathly pale.
How could this happen?
They had clearly set fire to burn Isabella - why was Lloyd burned to death?
The fire seemed to have targeted Lloyd specifically, directly igniting him and burning him. This was simply too bizarre...
Wait!
Where was Isabella?
Just now their attention had all been on Lloyd, and they had completely forgotten to check on Isabella's condition.
The group almost simultaneously thought of this and looked in unison toward where Isabella had been lying.
The result—
Isabella lay there completely unharmed, her position unchanged.
As if nothing had happened.
Her clothes even remained in the state they'd been in right after Lloyd poured gasoline on them - still damp. Not a single hair on her head was singed.
Looking at this bizarre scene, an unprecedented fear shot straight to their brains.
This...
What was going on?
Gasoline couldn't possibly not burn when exposed to fire!
But even though she'd been completely doused in gasoline, she could lie there completely unharmed, as if everything just now had been a dream they'd had. Only Lloyd's fire-charred corpse proved that what just happened was real.
This was impossible!
This was absolutely impossible!
One team member completely broke down, sitting down on the ground in a daze.
Another was scared silly. He crawled on his hands and knees to Isabella's side, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed three times to her.
"I was wrong! Please... please let me go. I shouldn't have killed for money. I beg you not... not to come after me... From now on I'll definitely do more good deeds, definitely benefit humanity..."
Only Sean's mind was still relatively normal.
After all, he had witnessed this kind of bizarre thing before.
"Now do you believe what I said?" Sean narrowed his eyes. "Looks like she is from the Powell family."
The two team members looked at him with bloodless faces, their lips still trembling from fear. "Sean, what... what should we do now?"
"While she's still unconscious, I'll call an ambulance."
Sean glanced at Lloyd's corpse to the side, sighed, and gave orders. "You two handle Lloyd's body."
"Yes."