Chapter 1746: Simon Escapes, and Haley’s “New Life”
Luke smiled and gripped Haley’s arms. “Congratulations, you got it. Here’s your prize.”
Haley looked at her trapped arms, one of which had a small paralysis dart in it.
Stunned for a moment, her eyes gradually turned hazy. “What’s this?”
Luke threw her onto the couch with a smile. “Try guessing again. If you’re right, I can give you another one.”
As he spoke, he threw out a second paralysis dart, which hit “Simon” a few meters away.
Different from his calm appearance, Luke was feeling extremely puzzled. His powerful Mental Perception was focused on the couple in the room.
After asking the question, Haley succ.u.mbed to the drug. She closed her eyes and fell completely unconscious.
Luke, however, frowned at the system notification.
Sure enough, the system didn’t give him a notification that he had defeated Haley, but that he had successfully rescued her.
He threw her and “Simon” into s.p.a.ce 2 without hesitation, but there were still no new notifications.
Luke opened the door and left. At the same time, he took out Tony’s mental probe from his inventory.
After modifications, it looked like a phone.
After adjusting it to a maximum detection range of 500 meters, he indeed found an abnormal red dot 300 meters away.
Luke didn’t rush over immediately. Instead, he chose the option on the mental probe’s screen to record the mental fluctuations.
A small percentage bar appeared at the top of the screen, which slowly increased from 1% to 5%.
At the same time, a man 300 meters away opened his eyes in surprise. “What ability is that? It seems to be… testing me?”
His calm face turned gloomy. This wasn’t good.
He, who should have been invincible, seemed to have encountered an opponent who could counter him.
Thinking that, his eyes rolled back and he fell back onto the bed.
The man’s wife was still sound asleep and didn’t notice her husband mumbling to himself in the middle of the night.
On Luke’s side, the red dot on the screen suddenly disappeared, and the progress bar stopped moving.
He raised an eyebrow and walked back into the house.
Several seconds later, he turned invisible and drifted north toward Tijuana.
In the next few minutes, looking at the red dots that disappeared from time to time on the mental probe and the progress bar which struggled to climb to 6%, Luke had a deep understanding of how difficult this opponent was.
Also, he knew that it would be hard to catch this “Simon,” since up ahead was bustling Tijuana.
Compared with the narrow strip of seaside villas that went from north to south, Tijuana was like a huge pancake full of people.
Once there, this strange “Simon” could easily leave the range of the mental probe and even enter San Diego in America.
The national border made no difference to Simon.
Sure enough, after the red dot which represented Simon entered Tijuana, it quickly disappeared.
Facing the resplendent night view and the wild partying in Tijuana, Luke sighed helplessly. After sending Selina a message to say that the case was closed for now, he resigned himself to wandering the city.
It was a toss-up whether or not Simon would be fl.u.s.tered or discouraged, and maybe refuse to leave the city.
If that was the case, there might still be a chance to catch the other party.
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Haley woke up and looked at her unfamiliar environment.
After a long while, she finally remembered what happened in the last few days.
Her face flickered with various emotions for a long moment before she came back to herself and began to observe her environment.
This was the same seaside villa from last night.
Her purse was in the room. There was some cash as well as tissues and sunblock in it.
She didn’t have a wallet, a pa.s.sport, or even a phone.
She hadn’t needed them when she was with Simon. Naturally, he had no interest in these things.
He had only needed to control a tyc.o.o.n and have the man take a private plane to San Diego that very night.
He then controlled a member of the coast guard, and they easily arrived in Tijuana by boat.
Naturally, the owner of this villa was a random person.
Then, they settled here for the time being.
They occasionally went shopping or ate out in Tijuana every now and then, but Simon spent most of the time tinkering with Haley as his test subject.
In Simon’s words, since she wanted to study him and really wanted to be involved in the research, then he would give her everything.
This wasn’t revenge, but sharing the “blessing.”
That was because Simon really enjoyed being studied.
Recalling the various strange psychological tests, Haley couldn’t help but s.h.i.+ver.
What was scarier was that she feared Simon, but didn’t hate him.
To be precise, she had already started to wors.h.i.+p this demonic man.
As a talented psychiatrist, Haley knew that there was something wrong with her own mental state.
But she also knew that she couldn’t and didn’t want to fix the problem.
For the current her, these mental issues weren’t torture, but the release of a suppressed self from the depths of her heart.
It was also the reason why her att.i.tude toward Simon had changed so quickly.
Simon hadn’t created a brand new ‘Haley’; he had just destroyed the fetters of ordinary society so that she was no longer restrained by moral chains.
So, even though she was free, she didn’t call Margaret right away.
She used to be very protective of Margaret. Thinking about it now, it couldn’t be said to be a joke, but it was indeed unnecessary.
However, when she thought of her simple-minded sister, she couldn’t help but think that she should let her know, in case she came looking for her. That would be troublesome.
So, she drove to Tijuana that night and easily took a phone off of a young American. She went online and left a video message for Margaret.
Then, she quietly returned to the seaside villa and stayed in hiding.
She would wait for Simon here. Although it was unlikely that he would come back, Haley would still be patient for a month.
That was because the Clown was probably watching her as well.
Haley had thought of this long ago. It didn’t make sense for the Clown to ignore her otherwise.
Simon’s conversation with the Clown that night had turned this into a game.
Currently, they were the only two main characters in this game. She was just a “tool.”
But Haley wasn’t discouraged.
Perhaps one day, she would go from being a p.a.w.n to a player, and the three of them would be able to play this dangerous and interesting game together!
Thinking that, Haley couldn’t suppress the excitement in her heart as she cheered for her new life.
She couldn’t help but get up. Without turning on the lights, she walked out to the seaside patio. She licked her red lips, her heart burning.
Haley picked up her pace as she walked down the steps. In the end, she tore off her nightgown and jumped into the ocean.