Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 166 How snakes grow venomous fangs (Part )

The flow of time seemed to slow down, jumping frame by frame like a movie. Artemis saw the entire process of throwing the grenade in and falling.

But he stood there, motionless.

Freeze, run away, and fight are three natural responses to a crisis.

In many movies and TV shows, characters stand still when they see a car approaching, and the audience scolds them for being slow. In fact, this happens to untrained people.

This is human nature.

But Lyudmila reacted instantly. She threw Artemis down and protected him under her body.

The bomb exploded, but no flesh and blood was scattered. A huge sound exploded in their ears, making their heads buzz and the strong dizziness made people want to vomit.

The living room and kitchen are connected together. Many things fell down in the kitchen area, and the iron skewers used for barbecue were scattered all over the floor.

The two fell to the ground motionless.

Artemis was awake, and Lyudmila covered his ears in time, so he recovered after a few seconds of deafness.

He closed his eyes tightly, his heart beating wildly, and he was completely confused. He had no idea what was happening. Suddenly, he heard footsteps coming from outside.

One, two... different voices, at least five people, one of them should be a woman, she was wearing high heels, and one was wearing snow boots, the footsteps were softer...

Without any training, Artemis made a preliminary judgment based on the sound alone.

"Is this Goldwasser's son?" a male voice asked.

They spoke in English, which Artemis could barely understand.

"Yes. Last time I got his blood sample and sent it back for testing to confirm that they are parent-child."

Artemis recognized Wit's voice, but he didn't understand what they were saying.

Who is Goldwasser?

his father?

What is his father going to do?

Why are these people attacking them?

"Just take him back, right? What should I do with this woman?"

A third male voice intervened. This voice was rough and urgent. He might be impatient. Artemis judged from the voice that he was standing by the door.

"His orders are to dispose of as you wish...be careful!!!"

As soon as Witt finished speaking, Artemis felt a lightness on her body. Lyudmila, who was originally protecting him, suddenly burst out. A long and thin thing flew out of her hand, and a silver light flashed past her like a meteor.

"Pfft."

The iron skewer penetrated the skull and penetrated the entire head in an instant, nailing an attacker to the wall like a bug.

Artemis opened her eyes and got up from the ground, dumbfounded by the sight.

He had only seen his mother fight with brown bears before and killed them all, but he didn't expect her to be so powerful in front of people.

He knew clearly that the man was dead, and the location where the iron string pierced was the brain stem. Lyudmila had taught him basic knowledge about the human body, and he knew where the vital parts of a person were.

A life disappeared in front of her eyes, shorter than the falling petals of a flower, but Artemis was not afraid at all.

Something in his heart stirred strangely.

"what's the situation?!?"

The only woman among the group of people took out a pistol and pointed it at Lyudmila. She was shocked and said: "Witt, are the shock bombs you used fake? Why are she and the child still awake?!"

No one had time to answer her, Lyudmila came to her the next second——

Lyudmila raised her foot and hit her knee hard into the abdomen. The woman couldn't dodge and was stunned. She arched her body in pain and loosened her fingers. Lyudmila raised her hand to catch the gun and hit her neck with her backhand.

With a click, the bones were broken, and the woman fell limply to the ground, unable to get up.

Seeing her mother killing one person and knocking down another in the blink of an eye, Artemis came to her senses and quickly ran to the phone to call the police. But Lyudmila didn't pause for a second, and rushed towards the other person closest to her like an arrow from a string.

He was the tallest among them, measuring 1.9 meters tall. He took out the gun and as soon as his finger was on the trigger, she shot him in the wrist.

But this man's reaction speed was also very fast. He did not fall after being shot. Seeing that Lyudmila was about to attack again, he swayed to the side and got out of the way in time. At the same time, he made a fist with his other hand and hit Lyudmila directly with a punch. Pull your belly!

Lyudmila seemed to have anticipated his move, dodged to the right, and struck back in an instant. She twisted her arm like a snake and pulled him closer to her. She raised her right leg and kicked, hitting the target directly. Leg numbness.

"!!"

The man's legs softened, and he bent forward to meet Ludmila's hand. She clasped his head with her open-clawed hand, and twisted it clockwise like opening the cap of an ordinary soda bottle.

The creepy sound came from the bones in his neck being crushed inch by inch. The man's head was turned 270 degrees, and his neck was like a bent pipe.

All the bones inside were broken, leaving only a thin layer of skin and flesh connecting the head to the separated body below. The body also fell to the ground.

"boom!"

A gunshot rang out.

Blood spattered, and Lyudmila was shot in the shoulder, but at the moment she was shot, she kicked out a side kick at the same time, hitting the upper left side of the abdominal cavity of the man with a mohawk next to her, and the fragile spleen area of ​​the human body.

The man was kicked away, his back hit the wall, and he spit out a mouthful of blood.

The fourth person was knocked down, but Lyudmila was not happy at all, and her face became even more ugly.

She made a fatal mistake.

"Don't move."

——The fifth person still standing, Wit, who had just fired the bullet, grabbed Artemis nearby while she was attacking the others.

He clasped the boy's neck with one hand, put the gun to his head, and looked at the stunned Lyudmila in front of him.

"Throw away the gun," Witt ordered.

"mom!"

Artemis yelled.

He was not afraid of the gun against his head. He looked worriedly at his mother who was hesitating for him and began to struggle.

But maybe because he thought he was struggling too much, or maybe because he saw Ludmila's hesitation, Witte stepped on his calf and pressed down hard.

"Crack."

"!!!"

The sharp pain in her calf made Artemis turn pale.

He knew that his bones were crushed, but he did not scream. He supported his body with his other leg and shouted loudly: "Mom, kill him!"

Witte squeezed Artemis's right hand again. This is the dominant hand of this music-loving boy. He always uses his nimble right fingers to pluck the strings, and he will also play the piano secretly. Witt also broke off his index and middle fingers.

"Put down the gun, unless you want to see your son have all his bones broken one by one." Witt ordered again.

"kill him!!!"

Artemis was sweating from the pain, and he shouted repeatedly without fear.

But Lyudmila didn't listen to him, and the gun slipped weakly from her hand.

The American-made pistol was thrown out of reach, and she looked at them: "Let him go."

Mom knows him.

Artemis realized this in pain.

If it were a stranger, the first reaction to the attack would be anger and doubt, but Lyudmila did not do this. She did not raise any questions.

She knew Witt, and she had a big reaction when she heard the name just now. She might know a few other people - she might even have expected that this place would be attacked.

……why?

Artemis was confused.

Witte did not approach her. He took the gun with the hand that was pressing the boy's neck. He fumbled with his free hand from his pocket, took out a palm-sized iron box, and threw it in front of Lyudmila.

"Open it and eat it."

"Don't eat!!"

A huge sense of panic enveloped Artemis. He felt that he was going to lose something important soon. He ignored the pain in his calves and hands and struggled again.

But the hand that held him was as motionless as an iron hoop.

The miracle did not happen. The huge power gap made Artemis unable to do anything. Tears fell from the corners of his eyes and flew away with his struggling movements.

He watched helplessly as his mother opened the pill box.

"A new drug developed by the organization?" she asked.

"Yes, this is a poison." Witt said, and then he suddenly asked: "Your son doesn't know your identity? Does he know who his father is?"

Lyudmila raised her lips: "He doesn't know."

"He doesn't know my past identity. I never mentioned his father or told him about the organization. He always thought he was an ordinary single-parent family - he is innocent. Will you let him go?"

Artemis felt the hand holding him loosen slightly.

He immediately tried to break away, but in less than a second, he was caught hard again.

"...He won't die." Witt said, and then added: "As long as you, the stain, die honestly."

Lyudmila's expression became particularly weird at that moment, like sadness, anger, reluctance, or - someone who didn't know who was laughing at her.

She glanced at Witte, picked up a pill from the pill box, and looked at her son again.

Those light brown eyes were immersed in the water. She smiled, moved her mouth slightly, and said something to him.

"Mom, don't eat it!!"

Artemis begged heartbreakingly.

"Don't eat it! Please!! Don't eat it!!!"

"Mother!!"

Lyudmila took the medicine.

……

Artemis cried over her mother's body.

Five people came, two of whom were killed by Ludmila. Of the remaining three, one had a broken shoulder and one had a ruptured spleen. Only Witte was relatively intact.

He looked at the boy lying on his mother's body, who might have whispered something to her before she died, and then turned to look at the two companions beside him who barely stood up.

"Is the bomb arranged?"

"Okay." The man whose spleen was beaten so badly that his teeth were stained red with blood, "Just take him back for business now. I've had enough of the weather here."

Artemis trembled and stopped crying.

He thought of Anatoly, who was still in the hospital.

These people did not have the specific circumstances of their family, and they may not have known about his brother's existence.

Artemis had heard from her mother about the specific time when she returned to Russia. Based on their birth, she was only two months pregnant at that time and could not detect that she was pregnant with twins.

Lyudmila pays attention to privacy. After Anatoly was hospitalized, another set of towels and toothbrushes were put away at home. They did not get along with the neighbors much and there were no photos taken at home. The only one who knew that their family had two children was Sofia, who went to visit out of town a month ago. My daughter is no longer nearby.

So as long as he doesn't say anything, my brother is safe——

"Wait a moment."

Witte spoke to stop them.

"There's one more. There's another kid in the house."

Artemis fell into an ice cave.

He turned his head and felt that every pore in his body was immersed in ice water, and his breath was cold. He saw what was in Witte's hand.

They are two identical schoolbags.

"To save trouble, I may buy the same clothes, but there is no need to buy two identical bags. I saw them going to the hospital when I was following them..."

Artemis gradually stopped hearing Witte's voice.

He looked at everything in front of him, and the peace in the past had long since turned into chaos.

There were corpses and blood stains on the ground, and the bottle of sunflowers that he had carefully cared for also fell on the ground. The branches and buds had been stepped on by someone unknown, and were crushed into dust and mud, rotting all over the ground, completely lifeless.

His home is gone.

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I originally wanted to write about Scotland and Gin, but I couldn’t manage a few hundred words, so I divided it into a new chapter...

The weekend is over and it is expected to be on the shelves on Monday_(:з」∠)_

(End of this chapter)