There were no dividing walls in the basement, and one could see the entire room clearly.
"Mr. Felix, I don't see Mr. Foster anywhere!" the bodyguard said.
Ben and Chad paced around the basement as well and noticed that though there were no walls, there was another passage.
"There's a really small passage over here!" Chad shouted at Nick.
Nick immediately sent his bodyguard over, who crawled inside and returned in twenty minutes.
"Mr. Felix, the entrance is blocked and I can't get past it!" "Go outside and circle back to see what's going on with the exit!" Nick ordered.
While the bodyguard went outside to search for the exit, Nick looked at Ben and Chad. "Let’s go outside! I will get my men to search this whole place all over again! If we still can't find anything, we can always tear it all down and expose the basement so that we can search every corner..."
Ben scowled in confusion. "Not only is Elliot missing, but is the prisoner they took with them."
"Yeah! That's what I'm thinking as well! I wonder if Avery..." Nick paused hesitantly. He was not certain if Avery was still alive. Hayden had been swift, and as soon as he had laid eyes on Avery, Hayden had already taken her away. The others did not even have a chance to ask him anything, let alone check if she was still breathing.
"She has to be alive," Chad mumbled. "It's only been six days... It's not like it's been six months..."
Nick and Ben could not bring themselves to respond to his murmur.
Even if one could survive in such a dark and confined space without food or water, her mind would still be plagued by paranoia.
Foster!"
Ben was only looking at Avery's face at the time and did not notice what she was wearing. "I only noticed that she was wearing white-"
"That belongs to Mr. Foster because Avery does not own a shirt that big!" Chills ran down his spine and Chad's eyes glittered with tears.
At the same moment, a bodyguard ran over to Nick and said, "Mr. Felix, the other exit from the basement leads straight to the well on the ground, but the well is sealed!"
All strength was instantly drained from Chad and he fell into Ben's arms.
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