Night of Destiny (Anastasia and Elliot) novel Chapter 2381

They could not determine the number of hidden troops at that moment, so they decided to get in the car and escape before anything else. As a result, the remaining five got in the car one after another, preparing to flee.

However, right after the car moved about 220 yards, there was a loud explosion. In an instant, the car was sent flying nearly 10 feet high in the air and turned into a ball of flames.

Aiming their weapons at the ball of explosion, Sirius and Jasper unleashed a hail of gunfire, precisely eliminating their targets. Then, they returned to the room and rescued the three girls, who were already scared out of their wits.

Sirius escorted them back to the highway and flagged down a car; after getting them in, he had the driver take them safely back to the city. When he flashed the weapon in his hand, the driver quickly agreed out of fear, not daring to have any malicious intentions.

Watching the sunrise in the distance, Sirius and Jasper then called their organization for reinforcements to come over and clean up the gruesome scene.

They accomplished the mission perfectly, but little did they know that one person was left behind. He was the last one to arrive at the rendezvous point, but upon his arrival, he saw his teammates brutally eliminated upon his arrival. Seizing the moment when those cleaners were not paying attention, he climbed onto the back of the truck loaded with dead bodies. The moment he found one person in particular, his fists clenched in resentment because that person was none other than his elder brother.

He was brought into this job by his brother but was held up by some business and ended up arriving only several days later. Unexpectedly, these few days of delay rendered him in separation by death with his elder brother.

The man had a local appearance, and his family hailed from this country. However, they had long since broken away from the nation, becoming mercenaries for the world's superpowers.

After removing his elder brother's wristwatch, he quickly jumped off the truck and went into hiding. Then, he extracted a memory card from the wristwatch and promptly connected it to his laptop, retrieving footage of everything that had happened that night. He watched the entire extermination captured by the wristwatch, and when the final image froze on the screen, he said through clenched teeth, "It's you once again!"

The person captured in the image was none other than Jasper. Despite the blurry lighting, he recognized him at a glance. That person had once sabotaged his operations and subjected him to inhuman punishment.

He had sought Jasper before to seek revenge for their previous encounter. However, he never expected that the person he had spent half a year searching in vain for would show up here. Furthermore, this time, this person killed the only family he had left in the world.

"Brother, I'll avenge you. I'll honor you with his decapitated head," he swore, slamming his fist hard on the ground.

In the meantime, Sirius and Jasper had returned to the safehouse. During tonight's operation, Sirius had sustained a graze wound on his arm from a bullet, so it needed bandaging.

After Jasper finished bandaging his wound, he turned on his laptop and began checking the footage captured by the camera he had installed. Suddenly, a figure came into the frame but disappeared soon afterward.

"We missed one person. He returned to the scene," he told Sirius.

Sirius replied imperturbably, "Seems like the Presgraves aren't out of danger yet. Now that this person is acting alone, we'll have a hard time tracking his movements."

Jasper immediately tapped away at the keyboard, trying to identify the person, but to no avail. "This person is meticulous at counter-surveillance. He didn't show up in any surveillance footage of nearby places; he might've entered the city."

"Then, we gotta be more vigilant. He's now lurking in the dark, watching our movements," said Sirius as he lay down to rest, closing his eyes.

Jasper did not disturb him. Instead, he went to another room, and his phone started vibrating. He picked it up and answered it, "Hello."

Willow's worried voice rang on the other end. "I heard you disappeared last night. Where are you? Are you okay?!"

"I'm fine. I went out last night to meet with my partner." He reassured her.

"When will you be back at my place, then?"

"I'll come over in the afternoon," said Jasper. I still need to check out the mercenary who slipped through the cracks.