Hearing this, Cain didn't seem to feel lost at all, and instead flashed a slight smile. "It would definitely not be my style if I couldn't benefit from the game I play with Edgar." Cain glanced down at Edgar dangling on the rope below them, and then he turned and walked to the side door of the rooftop, adding, "Tell him: if he wants Maggie back, he needs to exchange her for the thing that I want."
Tompson gazed after Cain, and feeling mystified, he frowned. "Hey! I think you are a little too addicted to playing this game of cat-and-mouse. Do you really think that you are the cat?"
Cain paused, turned back slightly, and then asked, "How do you know that I'm not?" Then he turned around with a meaningful smile, his eyes darkening in anticipation. Finally, he left.
Tompson was too shocked by his chilling words to move, and froze to the spot, as if he had heard the most terrifying news ever. He couldn't shake off the feeling of ill boding, and stood numbly until he saw Edgar climb up the rope. As Edgar heaved himself over the edge of the building, he asked, "Couldn't you find her?"
"I didn't try to find her at all," replied Edgar, looking at the still rattling door leading down from the rooftop access.
Tompson frowned at once, and then asked, "What do you mean?"
"It's impossible for Cain to let me find Maggie so easily," Edgar said slowly. "He is just trying to play for time."
Tompson thought it quite normal for him to know so little about Cain, since he hadn't spent much time with him. After all, it was purely by accident that he had become a part of this mission. But Edgar was different. He had met a lot of people since he joined the Eagle. Now he suddenly discovered that Edgar knew nothing about Cain.
Edgar looked at Tompson, then checked the time and said, "Let's go. I'll explain along the way." Then he led the way downstairs.
After getting in the car, Edgar took out his phone, and activated the GPS. Finally, he found there was a red dot moving on the screen. Allowing himself a slight smile, he mounted the phone on the dashboard holder in front of him. Then he started the car and began to drive, following the red dot to a new location.
"Are you tracking Cain?" Tompson asked after looking at Edgar's phone.
"Yes," Edgar answered with exceeding calm. "I put a tracker on him."
Tompson's lips opened and closed for a moment in amazement, then he said, "I think both of you are crazy."
"Neither of us would get over this if we didn't battle it out," said Edgar quietly. Then he added, "Cain would like to join in this mission and play his part." He paused, looked at Tompson, and then explained, "But he is not posing. He is just being himself."
Although he was puzzled by what Cain had said to him, now he felt even more surprised by what Edgar had said. Tompson drew his eyes wide-open and asked, "Does he? Seriously?"
Edgar turned to Tompson, nodding. Then he focused on the road and the moving red dot. Following Cain closely, he said, "I didn't know about it before this mission."
"Well, he…" Tompson wanted to ask why Cain would try to help them, even though he knew that he was that man's child. What was more, Cain hadn't even taken any action to deal with Edgar. But Maggie had been kidnapped by Cain! Wasn't that more dangerous?
"He's just trying to soothe his conscience. He wants to look less guilty," Edgar explained. "He was quite adamant that it was just an enmity between the last generation. This time he was just finding himself an excuse to get out."
Tompson couldn't understand him. After all, he wasn't Cain, so he couldn't possibly understand what Cain was feeling and thinking right now. In these modern times, however, he could still take revenge! As a matter of fact, for some, Cain was already dead since his parents were dead.
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