Chapter 1043: Chapter 1042
"Take them down!" Serena had no clue what was in the bag, but something in her gut told her those things were harmful to her people.
As expected, Jack, with all his might, managed to knock a thug back a few steps. In the moment when Chester was angrily gritting his teeth, Jack swiftly stuffed a ping pong ball bomb into his mouth and then yelled, "Fall back!"
Wolf swiftly pulled Bernard and Cornelia to retreat.
Jack also ran to a safe place at his fastest speed. In about two seconds, the bomb exploded. Chester’s head was blown to smithereens, and he hit the ground with a thud.
The bomb worked on Chester?!
It was like striking gold. Romeo tied two Chesters together, crammed a bomb into one’s mouth, and "boom"! The bomb-bearing Chester was blown up, while the other remained unharmed.
The unharmed Chester angrily tore off the ropes binding him and walked towards Romeo.
Rosemary kicked him back several steps and stuffed a bomb in his mouth. With a thunderous blast, the Chester was blown to pieces, collapsing to the ground.
Serena watched as about eight or nine of the Chesters left by her father were taken down, and her anger boiled over.
Fortunately for her, Rosemary and her crew had used up their bombs and had no other means left.
A gleam of satisfaction flashed in Serena’s eyes as she ordered the remaining Chesters, "Tear them to pieces."
The remaining Chesters quickly advanced towards them again.
Just then, Rosemary’s smartwatch buzzed. It was a call from Jones.
She had sent Jones to the hospital earlier to capture that mysterious person, who had warned that if Martin didn’t finish her off by midnight, he would personally come to take the lives of the entire Cooper family!
As she watched more Chesters approaching her, and with Romeo occupied protecting Kenneth and Louisa so that he couldn’t come to her aid immediately.
"Turn on that phone and check for Chester’s weakness," Rosemary gasped out to Jones through her smartwatch.
"Chester’s weakness? What do you mean? Didn’t you run into Chester before and have already found out their weakness was in the head or has it changed now?"
"Just do it!" Rosemary grunted in pain. As one Chester drew near, she swiftly drove her knife into Chester’s thigh.
But the thigh wasn’t the weak spot either.
At that moment, her knife had already broken into two pieces.
Rosemary was now weaponless.
Jones, flustered, had just powered on the phone only to find, "Boss, the phone is locked. What should we do? I don’t have the password. How can we crack it??"
Rosemary fought off one of the Chesters, instructed, "Try my birthday."
Rosemary’s birthday was the same day as Serena and Yolanda.
The phone was a legacy from Erik to Serena, and the startup password was likely Serena’s birth date.
Jones entered the boss’ birthday, and to his surprise, the phone was unlocked. "Boss, it’s unlocked."
His triumph was cut short by a pained grunt from Rosemary, prompting his urgent concern, "Boss, what’s wrong?"
Six Chesters were ganging up on Romeo; and Rosemary, noticing her parents were isolated, moved to protect them, sustaining gashes from Chester on both her arm and back.
"Forget about me," Rosemary’s voice was as stoic and calm as ever.
But Jones could hear the pain and resolve beneath that composure. He knew she was hurt and it made him anxious, his heart sinking further.
Damn it, whoever dares bully his boss is going to pay the prize—he’d definitely twist that person’s head off when he got the chance!
Jones scoured the phone as fast as he could, finding a strange App he had never seen before.
But he didn’t know the login details.
Suddenly, he remembered someone and immediately said, "Hold on, boss, I’ll call you right back."
There was no way Rosemary had the time to hack passwords now, but her mentor sure could! After all, Rosemary had learned all her hacking skills from Thomas!
At this hour, Thomas was surely doing nothing, ready to go to sleep.
"Boss, their Achilles’ heel is at the back of their head—coin-sized chips implanted there, programmed with Serena’s voice. As long as Serena commands, the Chesters obey! Thomas says if we take out those chips, their ’brains’ will be destroyed, and they’ll stop moving!"
The back of the head?!
Rosemary and Romeo exchanged a look, grabbed knives from the ground, and swiftly attacked Chester’s fatal weakness.
Meanwhile, Wolf and Jack had been beaten to the ground, too battered to even stand.
They were too tired, covered in wounds; Bernard and Cornelia, squatting beside them, had tears in their eyes.
"Jack." Rosemary kicked one of the knives on the ground toward him, and another to Wolf, "Do it like this."
She stabbed swiftly at the back of a Chester’s head.
The Chester fell down, motionless as if a pause button had been pressed.
Jack and Wolf immediately got that their Achilles’ heel was the back of their heads!
They struggled to their feet and fought with all they had!
Serena hadn’t anticipated that Chester had this lethal vulnerability. Realizing the dire situation, she quickly ordered her few of her subordinates to retreat.
Tyrannosaurus pressed a button on his remote, and a door beside them creaked open. Nighthawk, carrying Serena, descended the steps while another subordinate brought down the wheelchair. Nighthawk gently placed Serena into the chair and hurried toward the exit.
Rosemary and Romeo had already teamed up to take out a number of Chesters. Seeing Serena make her escape, they immediately gave chase.
"Blow this place up." Serena commanded as she left.
Tyrannosaurus didn’t hesitate to press the remote.
A urgent beeping echoed through the air.
"Damn, they’re going to blow this place up." Jack looked up, his eyes scanning for the source of the sound. He spotted the bombs placed at each corner of the church, already counting down: thirty, twenty-nine, twenty-eight.
"Let’s go." Romeo grabbed Kenneth and Rosemary’s hands, ready to leave.
Rosemary also clutched Louisa’s wrist, but she realized someone was missing and turned back, "Stinger."
Stinger still lay unconscious on the ground.
"You get your parents out of here."
Romeo knew Rosemary wouldn’t leave Stinger behind, so after handing off the others to her, he sprinted back to hoist Stinger onto his shoulders.
"Twenty-two, twenty-one, twenty."
The beeping grew more urgent. Rosemary held onto Kenneth with one hand and Louisa with the other, racing for the exit. While Wolf, finding the elderly couple too slow, hoisted Bernard onto his shoulder.
Rosemary, holding her grandparents’ hands, led them out first.
Cornelia tripped slightly, and Rosemary quickly steadied her.
Romeo, shouldering an extra brother along with Stinger, bore the weight of two people.
Wolf also carried two, and Jack shouted into the air, "Is anyone else alive?"
No response.
"Anyone?" Jack’s voice strained as he yelled again, aware that time was running out.
Among the bodies strewn haphazardly, one person closed his eyes, not daring to move.
His leg was broken; he couldn’t run. His vision was blurred from a blow, and he couldn’t make out anything in front of him.