Sophia was flexible, shuttling back and forth between these people like a fish. No one could hit her. Instead, they were punched by her. After a while, they all lay on the ground.
Both Benjamin and Lucas were stunned. Things changed so quickly that they had not been able to react.
Benjamin cautiously walked to the yellow-haired man. Suddenly, he kicked the man twice in the stomach, looking triumphant. The man hummed, trying to reach out and fight back, but he didn't even have the strength to raise his hand.
"You're a superwoman, sister!" Lucas was so excited that he clapped his hands around Sophia. "You're amazing. What kind of kung fu was that? Can you teach me? I want to be superman, too."
Sophia squatted down, asked the yellow-haired man, "Who asked you to do this?"
The man gritted his teeth. "I won't tell you. I promised not to tell, or I would die..."
Benjamin kicked two more feet in his stomach. The man couldn't resist the pain and shouted, "Oh, gosh! You're killing me… You bad guy will suffer. Oooh… I won't tell anyone it was Mr. Patton from the Patton Group who sent me. I'll never tell..."
Sophia then got up and said, "Well, for the sake of your injuries today, I won't call the police to catch you."
The man felt depressed.
It was he who wanted to call the police. What kind of monster was this girl? She's horrible.
Of course, he didn't say it out. He didn't want to get beat up again.
Sophia sent Benjamin out, saying, "Eddie has someone beat you up. It must have something to do with your investigation of him, right? So, stop the investigation now. He is very complex. You'd better go back to Lands."
Benjamin bent out his lips and said, "I won't give up so easily. I'll look him up, find out everything about him, huh!"
Sophia said nothing.
With her knowledge of the ability of Benjamin, he might not have been able to find much.
Benjamin said, "Don't worry. My dad will be here next week. Then all the truth will come out. There's nothing my father can't find out! He is the best detective in the world."
Sophia cheered up, "You mean… your father, Mr. Terry, will come?"
She knew David in her last life and knew that he was good at handling cases. In recent years, he solved several major cases, making international criminals afraid.
Benjamin looked triumphant. "Yes! I told him about the results of the investigation into the lab fire. He was interested in it and said he was going to investigate it himself. I guess it's probably Eddie, or why is he so afraid of me? And he had people beat me..."
Sophia said, "Anyway, be careful. You'd better leave as soon as possible.
The Patton family has great power in Plain. You can't afford to offend them."
Benjamin raised his head and said, "There are laws in the world. If Eddie is the killer, he will be punished. I'm not afraid of him."
Sophia could not convince him. Then she separated from him at the end of the alley and took Lucas to the supermarket.
Lucas was excited all the way. He was not interested in the new transformers anymore and had been asking Sophia to teach him kung fu.
On the way home, Sophia said, "Lucas, don't tell anyone about what just happened, okay?"
Lucas didn't understand it. "Why? You were so cool. If I have your skills, I wish the whole world knows it."
Sophia had thought it all out. Eddie was not simple. She didn't want the matter to involve Aunt Mcdowell.
With Eddie's power in Plain, if he heard about it, he might not let Aunt Mcdowell go with it. Aunt Mcdowell had been living in Plain, and it was better for her not to offend Eddie.
Of course, she would not explain that to Lucas. She smiled and said, "Let's make it our secret, all right?"
Lucas smiled, "Yeah, secret. I won't tell you. Deal!"
Sophia stretched out her hand and said, "Yeah, deal. Whoever tells is the dog."
Lucas didn't tell Aunt Mcdowell about it after he got back. He just smiled for a long time. Aunt Mcdowell asked him what he was laughing at, and he kept smiling and not talking.
Aunt Mcdowell stopped asking him. She finished work and went to bed with Lucas.
***
Then the next morning, Sophia said goodbye to Aunt Mcdowell and Lucas after breakfast. She had bought a train ticket. The train would set out at half-past eight. So she should leave for the train station early in the morning.
Aunt Mcdowell wanted to send her to the station, but Sophia refused. Lucas had to go to school this day, Aunt Mcdowell had to send him to school and the time was too tight.
Aunt Mcdowell had to ask Sophia to wait for the taxi at the door. As time was running out, she drove Lucas to school.
Sophia waited for a while when a luxury car suddenly stopped in front of her.
She was confused. The car was not the one Eddie had driven. But in Plain, she did not know anyone else driving such cars other than him.
The door opened. Eddie came out with a smile, "Nice to meet you again, Miss Green."
He did have a lot of luxury cars. But there was nothing strange about it. After all, he was the boss of the Patton Group.
Sophia thought he had heard what had happened last night, but the people he had sent to beat Benjamin did not know her and might not be able to name her.
Pretending that it had nothing to do with her, she smiled and said, "Are you going to the company, Mr. Patton?"
Eddie shook his head and said, "No. I'm here to pick you up. I'm going to Lands City. Since you're also going there, we can leave together. It's nice to have someone talking with."
As he spoke, he opened the back door for Sophia to get in.