Chapter 331 - 329: Alora Went Off-line

Eunji knew that Nathan really wanted to have more children together.

And it's not something impossible to grant. However, hearing him whispering it intimately in her ear while everyone was around made her to blush so hard.

And then she hummed a soft hum in agreement that only Nathan could hear.

She wanted to have a big family with him, too.

Something that she had not experienced in her maiden family.

And she was sure that their children would grow up with close bonds growing up.

However, she didn't know if she would be ready for another pregnancy a year from now.

When they saw her beet red face, everyone was worried of what had happened. Thus, everyone tried to ask them.

"Are you okay Eve? You looked so red." Layla asked worriedly.

"Can someone bring water please, I think Eunji's suffering from extreme heat." Mei also added.

Nathan knew that she's shy to talk about that openly with everyone around that's why he hugged her to help in covering her face from everyone.

"No, she's fine, Mom. Eomma. She's just very shy at the moment."

"Son, what did you do?" Mei scolded her son but more in a teasing way.

"Nothing. I just whispered something to her." Nathan chuckled lightly.

Eunji heard him and she tried her best to break off from his hug but Nathan didn't let her to do it.

"It's something private so she's like this." He continued.

While everyone was grilling the barbecue, Eunji and Celine went up to prepare the children's lunch while Nathan decided to stay to watch over the kids.

Unlike Sophie, the boys and Evelien had a diet plan.

While she had given Sophie a more relaxed yet still healthy diet for Sophie.

Sophie was more on vegetables and not much meat.

While cooking lunch, Eunji took this opportunity to talk with Alora.

"Alora!"

"Here, Mistress!" Alora responded.

Hearing Eunji calling someone else's name, Celine could not help but frown as there's no other person in the kitchen except the both of them.

"I'm sorry. I'm talking to my AI assistant at the moment." Eunji explained.

"Oh, is it? That's cool." Celine commented and Eunji nodded.

"Give me some update?"

"Reporting. The Luo brothers had found new allies and they had flown to the US to meet up with them."

"What?! How come they're able to travel without being detected by the immigration polices? They're wanted criminals for d*mn sake!" Eunji angrily said in disbelief.

"Someone have helped them escape, Mistress." Alora explained.

"Who?"

"Mr. Laurent."

Eunji was very shocked hearing the man that she thought she could trust had helped the people that she wanted to punish.

This time, the entire kitchen had turned cold despite them cooking. Killing intent was flashing in Eunji's eyes.

Celine who was standing close to her could feel that and she could not help but shiver.

Before she could even think of the reasons why the man had for betrayed the trust she had given to him, Alora dropped another news.

"And another news Mistress."

"Is there any worse than what you have said earlier?" Eunji asked Alora coldly.

However, Alora was not fazed by it and continued, "Mr. Laurent is no more."

"!!!"

Eunji staggered on her feet as she heard that.

"What do you mean, no more? Alora, if you won't give me a good explanation, I'll turn your avatar into a chicken."

Though Eunji sounded much calmer than her quick outburst, the heaviness of how she spoke each word could bring shivers down to everyone's spine.

Celine felt that and she thought something must have happened for her to act this way.

Was she scared by Eunji's sudden shift in demeanor?

Yes. She won't lie about that.

Eunji's gaze made her feel uncomfortable and overwhelmed as she could feel the pressure at the same time.

That even if she's not mad at her, she felt that her anger was actually intended to her.

Celine had encountered a lot of dangerous situations in the past and had encountered many dangerous people who were out to kill her.

But their eyes and bodies didn't have that strong killer gaze and aura surrounding them.

But in Eunji, it was different.

And now she realized how experienced and good Eunji must have been with her old profession.

Eunji was lost in her thoughts that she didn't realize she almost burnt what she was cooking.

Good thing Celine was there to the rescue.

She took another ladle and took over.

Eunji realized what had happened and so she immediately apologized to Celine.

"Sorry."

"It's okay. It seems like you're discussing something heavy with your AI. I guess you should sit down and continue talking there." Celine advised while pointing towards the bar stool to sit.

"Thank you."

Eunji didn't stop Celine from taking over with the cooking and she sat down on the stool and she continued talking to Alora.

This time Alora explained what really happened.

She was only out for three days but a lot of things had happened.

"It happened yesterday, Mistress. The enemies cornered Mr. Laurent and didn't give him a choice but to obey."

They had taken his daughter hostage and used the poor child to turn him into their puppet.

They promised to release the child should he do what they wanted him to do.

But in the end, they didn't release the child. They killed her.

"Maybe because of guilt for betraying you and at the same time, the pain of losing his daughter, he took his own life." Alora added.

"D*mn it!" Eunji cursed when she heard that.

She did offered Mr. Laurent her help about this but he declined.

Saying that his daughter didn't want to be guarded all the time.

After all, he was going to face those dangerous people for her in the front while she was making her moves at the back.

'How come he didn't call me for help?' Eunji could only asked himself.

"That's because he was being monitored. He wanted to protect you, that's why he didn't call for help."

"Why didn't you warn me about this? I have given you the permission to talk to me if something big happened." Eunji could not help but be frustrated.

"I tried my best to send help in your behalf, Mistress. However, the help came very late. I understand if you're upset with me for being incompetent as your assistant." Alora sincerely apologized.

"You should have warned me when they started making a move. We have lost two lives because of it, Alora. An innocent child and a very good public servant!" She uttered.

Eunji could not help not to blame herself for what had happened to Mr. Laurent and his daughter.

She caused this to them. She had implicated him and his daughter.

"I know it's not an excuse but it's only this morning that I was able to safely hacked their system. That's why I only have this news now."

For the past days, Alora had only been observing their enemies on the surface.

However, Alora didn't dare to dig deep as it wasn't safe to do hack their system.

Somehow, they were able to create a system that's very strong and Alora had a hard time defeating it.

Eunji knew the danger that's why she had always reminded Alora to take it easy.

She thought that it was Ana who was probably made the program but Eunji was familiar with Ana's skills.

This person must have been very strong in the IT field to prevent her AI to hold her back.

"I understand that you're angry right now Mistress. But there's more important news."

"What is it?"

"Your sister Ana, she was also being held captive and I'm afraid they had done something horrible to her."

"What?!" Eunji stood up from being seated and she was fuming.

"Calm down, Mistress! Your blood pressure's rising." Alora reminded her.

"I don't care! Now! Explain to me what exactly happened and where she is?! I have to save her!"

Eunji felt the strong surge of urgency inside her that she started to panic.

Seeing her like this Celine was starting to worry while looking at Eunji, too.

She grabbed a glass of water and gave it to Eunji so she could calm down. After turning off the stove she put the lid first and went out to call Nathan for help.

She knew that only Nathan can help Eunji to calm down.

Meanwhile, Alora answered Eunji's question.

"I believe we're already late to save her Mistress. She was being injected with the drug that you and your Appa had developed back then."

"What drug?!"

"I believe it's called memory erase drug. That's what I had read on the reports that they're making. And they had done the phase two."

Eunji slumped down on the stool and her face turned pale.

"No."

"No!" Eunji yelled in frustration.

Of course she knew what kind of drug that was.

That's the strongest version of memory erase potion that she had created with Kim Nam Joon.

The long term effect would be the person would end up being brain dead as the drug would slowly impaired the nerves and its functions.

The patient would lose the memories he or she had. And this person would be as good as an empty shell for a couple of years until the nerves in the brain started to be impaired and then die one by one.

That's why she had never used that and placed it in safest place in her laboratory inside their base back then.

Now she had regretted every making it.

The saddest thing was that she had not created a reverse drug to that or an antidote because she thought she won't be using it for real.

She had only tested them in rats before.

If that's the case, Ana only have two-three years to live.

Two years, would she be able to make the anti-dote on time?

"How is she? Do you have any idea with her condition?"

"As of the moment, I'm closely monitoring her. I put her into sleep."

Eunji heaved a sigh of relief when she knew that all the machines were computer generated and Alora was able to control them.

Also, by placing Ana on a long sleep, the drug would spread slowly.

However, before she could even calm down, Alora screamed in alarm.

"Oh no!"

"What happened?" Eunji who was listening panicked as well.

"They're counter hacking. They realized that I was holding back Ana from waking up." Alora answered.

"What?! No! Do something!" She urged.

Eunji left the kitchen and went to their room to get her laptop and helped Alora in hacking.

But before she could even reach the door, Alora went off-line.

This made Eunji to panic.

"No!"

"Alora!" Eunji called but she received no response, unfortunately.