After Reborn, I Become a Billionaire
Chapter 574 Rescue

Chapter 574 Rescue

Manuel turned around to leave.

"Manuel!" Martina screamed. She didn't expect it would end up like this, but Manuel just had it effortlessly, which had broken her.

"Take care!" Manuel said instead of stopping his steps. It was the last sympathy he had for her.

Martina just watched him jump off the ship, suffering from the agony of being abandoned.

Tears blurred her eyes. She couldn't understand why Manuel would do that to her. Couldn't he feel her love for him?

She went up to the side of the ship step by step. She had never thought of living alone. Just standing on the deck, she watched him swimming hard towards the shore.

"It's useless! Manuel, you won't be able to save Susan." She thought to herself.

She smiled complacently. At least, she would have killed Susan even if she died and lost everything in the end.

Since now there was no reason to keep her alive anymore, she would wait for Susan in the afterlife, and perhaps Manuel would come with Susan too.

Thinking of this, Martina climbed up to the guardrails. She fixed her eyes on the man in the sea and kept laughing wildly. Anyway, she had gained a lot even if she died. It was worth it. There was a splash, with a shape falling into the sea abruptly.

Manuel, who was swimming towards the shore, turned around to glance at the ship. He saw splashes on the sea but it was covered by the sea waves the next second as if it had never existed.

"Someone overboard! Someone overboard!" there came some screams from the ship. All people on board were on the run. So, they were numb to the life and death of other people. A few of them talked about it, then they fell into silence again.

Manuel swallowed a little. But he went on to swim fast towards the shore. He had imagined Martina would kill herself. But it wasn't his responsibility. It was her choice. He'd given her quite many opportunities to live, and he'd done his best.

Manuel swam back to the shore as fast as he could and made it to the warehouse.

He pushed the gate open and found Susan curling herself up there on the floor. She was frightened and her mind was wandering. She had earplugs in her ears and couldn't hear a sound. Nor could she feel anyone there.

Manuel didn't feel relieved until he saw her. He even imagined he was going to replace a dead body. But Surprisingly, she was still alive, though she had been scared to death.

So, Manuel's feelings were changing little by little.

Did he misunderstand Martina? Did he think too bad of her for she did not kill Susan?

Suddenly, he felt like crying and recalled Martina's desperate face when she jumped off the ship.

Manuel managed his emotions and went over to Susan step by step.

He squatted down. But Susan trembled abruptly when he just touched her.

"Mm-mm..." Susan wanted to say something.

Manuel was about to pull out the cloth from her mouth, but he was stunned the next second-he saw Susan squatting on the floor with a time bomb on her ankle.

For one second, he'd thought he was wrong about Martina.

Manuel clenched his fists and his face looked extremely twisted.

Susan was twisting her body, trying to struggle out of fear.

He managed to calm himself down and checked the bomb on Susan's ankle.

There were five minutes left. Susan would be bombed to ashes if he failed to remove it within five minutes.

Martina was cruel. Maybe she had expected Manuel would eat his words. That was why she set the bomb on purpose. Once Manuel came back for Susan but gave her up because of the bomb, Susan would be a dead body. If not, he'd die together with Susan.

Until the last minute of her life, Martina was still trying to prove how much Manuel loved Susan.

He was sweating like hell, and checking the bomb with his shaking fingers, trying to confirm the type and replace the wires.

Susan couldn't calm down out of fear, and she tried hard to make a sound. Unfortunately, she failed.

She didn't know who exactly it was. She could only feel someone beside her ankle.

All she remembered was that someone came here again to tie something to her ankle. Since her hands were tied in the back, she was unable to touch it and replace out what it was. It didn't cause her any pain but it was a little too heavy.

But, what on earth was it? She was so scared that she dared not think on the bad side.

The clock was ticking.

Manuel found two wires, a red one and a blue one. And he just needed to cut one of them to stop the timer. Gritting his teeth, he took out a portable Swiss army knife from his pocket. Normally, it was the blue one. But most people didn't play by the rules. So, it could be the red one as well. It was a 50% chance. But they would be 100% screwed if he picked the wrong one.

Manuel began panicking bit by bit. He raised his eyes to look at Susan, who was extremely scared with her face turning deadly pale.

At this moment, he wondered if he should take off her blinder. He wondered if he should let her see his face.

He reached out his hand and tried to take off the blinder, but just froze it there right before her eyes. Life and death were in a second. He wasn't sure whether he wanted Susan to remember him for a lifetime or just forget him.

Suddenly, Susan stopped trembling.

She had just been freaking out a moment before and shaking with fear, but at that moment, she calmed herself abruptly.

Susan could feel someone staring at her deeply, and had a strong feeling that she knew him very well and she could even smell the familiar scent on him. Although she couldn't be sure who it was, from the bottom of her heart, she believed it was Manuel.

"Mm-mm, mm-hmm..." Susan was trying to say something again.

She wanted to call Manuel's name. She got so desperate that she burst into tears, which dropped down from the blinder to her cheeks. Manuel put his fingers on her cheek softly. Susan was touched by the sudden body contact and she got a feeling welling up inside her.