Chapter 1042: Chapter 1041
Rosemary eyed the encroaching Chester with caution, still unsure of their Achilles’ heel.
She had tried stabbing at Chester’s temple, heart, and stomach, and other areas with a knife, but it had no effect on them.
"Take the grandparents and leave first, I’ll cover your retreat with my men," Romeo said to the girl beside him as the Chesters closed in.
"You can’t handle them on your own," Rosemary knew that besides Romeo, even Jack and the others were no match for these Chesters.
Romeo was trying to buy her time, and she feared it could cost him his life.
"Just do as I say." Romeo’s blade swiftly slashed at Chester’s arm, but from shoulder to wrist, Chester’s skin remained unscathed, as if he were some lifeless automaton.
More and more bodyguards fell, with nowhere left to retreat. The main doors were sealed shut, their guns were out of bullets, and the windows stood two meters high.
In that moment, Tyrannosaurus sent Stinger flying with a powerful kick. Stinger slammed into a pillar and crumpled to the ground, coughing up blood.
"Hahahahaha." Serena reveled in the sight of her vanquished foes, "I told you, all of you are going to die here today."
Stinger couldn’t get up, his gaze fixed on the girl by the altar, his desire for revenge sapped of vigor.
His vision blurred, he reminisced about boating on the lake with his parents in the park as a child, yearning to see their faces one last time. But in a daze, he saw the image of Rosemary and the rest cornered by about twenty Chesters, with Rosemary far away from him.
His consciousness fluctuated between clarity and fuzziness.
As the Chesters moved to strike Rosemary and her group, Serena abruptly commanded, "Wait."
The Chesters froze, as if someone had hit the pause button.
She had confidence in her subordinates—Tyrannosaurus, Nighthawk, and the Chesters.
"You are in your dreams." Rosemary didn’t expect her to still be obsessed with Romeo at this crucial moment. Seizing the opportunity while the Chesters were motionless, Rosemary dashed towards the altar with lightning speed.
"Rose." Romeo wanted to follow her but hesitated, fearing that if the Chesters sprang into action again, Jack and Wolf would be overwhelmed, and the Collins family would be in danger.
Serena mistook Rosemary’s intentions, thinking she was seizing the chance to kill her.
Unexpectedly, Rosemary ran to a spot five or six meters away from the altar, helped the injured Stinger up, intending to take him with her.
Serena signaled Tyrannosaurus with a glance, and he immediately moved to block their escape.
Rosemary’s agility was nothing short of remarkable. In a blink of an eye, Tyrannosaurus was sent flying through the air, landing several feet away with a thud and clutching his chest in agony.
Nighthawk didn’t fare any better against Rosemary’s prowess either; he was kicked effortlessly to the base of the altar pedestal in no time.
Serena watched Rosemary rescue Stinger right before her eyes. She furiously cursed her subordinates, "Useless waste of space."
They couldn’t even stop a girl!
Stinger couldn’t believe Rosemary had come to rescue him.
Gratitude filled his eyes as he looked at her, but then darkness overtook him, and he passed out again.
Rosemary, supporting Stinger, hadn’t even rejoined her group when several people rushed over to assist her.
Romeo’s voice was soft and concerned, "You okay?"
Rosemary shook her head.
"Do you come to any conclusion?" Serena called out to Romeo in the distance, "I’m running out of patience. You’ve got ten seconds to decide. If you refuse, and this place will be your graveyard today."
"Hasn’t Rose already answered you?"
Romeo’s reminder of Rosemary’s previous retort, "In your dreams," which instantly made Serena’s face turn sour.
Romeo exuded a commanding presence, much like Rosemary’s own formidable aura. The two stood shoulder to shoulder.
Bernard and Cornelia, advanced in years, struggled with the precarious pile of chairs. Even with bodyguards steadying the base, they nearly fell.
In the meantime, the Chesters had dealt with the other bodyguards and was approaching them.
Jack jumped down to fight them, trying his best to buy time for Bernard and Cornelia. However, being vastly outnumbered, he was soon thrown into the "mountain of chairs".
Bernard and Cornelia had barely climbed onto a chair when the flying Jack hit them, and they both fell down.
"Watch out." Romeo shielded Rosemary into his arms with one hand and kicked Chester behind her back a few steps away. He then stabbed at another Chester’s eye with the knife in his hand, but to no avail. He could only kick that Chester a few steps back again, retreating two meters backward with Rosemary.
Spotting a Chester about to attack Romeo from behind, Rosemary quickly stepped out of his embrace and kicked the two Chester behind Romeo away into the distance.
"Stop struggling, it’s no use," Serena said coldly, her voice cutting through the chaos as she looked upon the injured and fallen. "You’re all going to die anyway, so why waste your energy?"
Jack tumbled into the heap of chairs, nearly as broken apart as the splintered wood around him. But he knew he couldn’t afford to stay down; his boss had given him a task that wasn’t completed yet—he had to ensure the safety of the Collins family as they left.
Wolf reached out to them, pulling them up with one grab.
The several bodyguards who had been helping with the chairs had already been thrown out the window by Chester, it was unknown whether they were dead or alive.
Jack and Wolf then helped Bernard and Cornelia up from among the wreckage, protecting them behind their backs. Shoulder to shoulder, they faced the seven or eight menacing Chesters together.
Behind Romeo and Rosemary, there were Kenneth and Louisa to protect, as well as the unconscious Stinger.
The two of them stood next to each other, whispering their strategy as they faced the dozen or so Chesters in front of them.
"Rose, forget about us, just get out." Louisa was nearly in tears. She knew for her daughter and future son-in-law, escaping through the window with the help of chairs wouldn’t be a problem.
But the problem was these two children were too filial and responsible; they’d never leave their family behind.
Kenneth knew it was futile to persuade his daughter, so he pinned his hopes on Romeo.
"Romeo, I’ve never asked you for anything before, but today, please, take Rose and get out. If anything happens to her, we couldn’t bear it."
"Don’t worry, sir. I’ll keep Rose safe and get us all out," Romeo and Rosemary had already discussed it, each holding a knife, they stabbed at the oncoming Chesters.
They were searching for Chester’s weakness, probing with their blades at Chesters’ shoulders and arms and quickly shifting to another target when it wasn’t effective.
The powder was thrown at the Chesters, but it had no effect.
"They’re not really human, so the powder’s useless on them," Rosemary realized.
"Is there anything else?" Jack shouted to the others outside.
Quickly, another bag was tossed in. "Jack, boss, catch this."
Inside the bag was several small bombs Rosemary had crafted, no larger than ping-pong balls.
Jack, with his advantageous position akin to being the first to get the moon by being close to the water tower, quickly leapt up with the help of a chair to catch the bag. After catching it, he handed two to Wolf, kept two for himself, and threw the remaining whole bag to Rosemary.