Personality V: I will save everything

Although Holmes had given a warning in advance, Miles, who was running faster than everyone else, lost his balance due to an emergency brake and sat on the ground.

Seeing this, everyone stopped and looked at Miles anxiously. Fortunately, he was not injured, but just got up from the ground in a somewhat embarrassed manner.

After all this trouble, everyone finally passed through the long and narrow tunnel.

However, when they walked out of the tunnel, the scene before them made everyone gasp - the exit of the tunnel was indeed on the edge of the cliff!

At this time, Wilder had been forced into a desperate situation. Behind him was a bottomless cliff and there was no way to escape.

Faced with such a desperate situation, Wilder's mentality completely collapsed. With nowhere else to go, he decided to take a gamble and take extreme measures.

He rushed to Salter quickly, held him tightly in his arms, and then put a sharp dagger against Salter's throat, shouting to Holmes viciously: "Don't come over! Otherwise, I will jump down with him!"

Salter, who was only 10 years old, was so scared that he started crying.

He didn't understand why his father's secretary became like this?

"Secretary? Haha, this is so funny!" His laughter was full of sarcasm and disdain. "If it weren't for my poor mother's sudden illness and death, then this so-called 'only heir' position would undoubtedly belong to me!"

It turned out that the Duke had a secret love affair when he was young. He fell in love with that woman and had a son, Wilde.

This should have been a beautiful love story, and they had even reached the stage of discussing marriage.

However, fate played a cruel joke on them. Shortly after Wilde was born, the woman suddenly fell seriously ill and eventually died.

This incident made Wilder's position extremely embarrassing - he became an illegitimate child who was conceived before marriage.

In order to maintain the reputation and honor of his family, the Duke had to make a difficult decision.

He concealed the relationship, telling the outside world that Wilde was just a secretary, and that he married another woman and had a child, who was Salter.

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"Damn it!"

Holmes cursed inwardly, and a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead.

At this moment, he was almost helpless except to comfort Wilder as much as possible with words.

Behind them was a steep cliff that was bottomless. If they were not careful, they would be crushed to pieces.

Wilder was extremely excited at this time. The dagger in his hand was pressed against Salter's neck, as if Salter's life would disappear in an instant if he exerted a little force.

Although Holmes carried a pistol with him, in this situation, the pistol became a decoration.

Wilder used Salter as a human shield, making it impossible for Holmes to aim.

What's more, this is the edge of a cliff, and the strong wind will have a great impact on the flight trajectory of the bullet. Any slight deviation will have disastrous consequences.

As time passed, Holmes became more and more anxious.

He knew very well that with every second of delay, the situation would become more dangerous.

However, faced with such a difficult situation, he couldn't think of a better way to deal with it for a while.

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However, just when Holmes was anxiously racking his brains to solve the dilemma, an unexpected scene happened - Miles walked towards Wilder leisurely as if nothing had happened.

His steps were light and steady, as if he was not in a tense situation of being held hostage, but strolling on the path in his own garden. There was no tension or fear on his face, only a kind of indifference and calmness.

In this way, Miles walked slowly to Wilder and finally stopped. Only then did he slowly open his mouth and said in a calm and firm tone:

"Since you are so eager to get the power and money of the nobility, then fine, I will give them all to you now. You can fight for it as much as you want, because this is what you deserve, and we will never stop you."

Hearing Miles say this, Holmes couldn't help but feel puzzled. He originally thought that Miles just wanted to temporarily calm the other party's emotions, but he didn't expect him to continue talking.

"But are you sure you want this?" Miles' tone revealed a hint of sarcasm. "Oh, I don't mean to laugh at your ideals, I just want to ask if you really want to be the heir. I am also a noble, but I betrayed my family because I couldn't stand that disgusting environment."

Miles' words were like a heavy hammer, hitting Wilder's heart hard.

"If you really become the heir," Miles continued, "then I can perfectly replicate the rest of your life. You will sit in that seat, facing old things every day, and be sent to the battlefield for so-called merit. There, you will be in the hail of bullets. Although you may not need to charge into battle yourself, every corpse running down the battlefield will be covered with bullet shells and blood. And these corpses may be someone's father, someone's son, someone's brother."

Miles' description made Wilder shudder. He seemed to see his future life, full of blood and death.

"Then even if you have a woman you love deeply, you will never marry her, because you need to be with a noble daughter who is equally matched with you in order to continue to maintain the glory of your family."

Miles raised his lips slightly, revealing a half-smile, and continued, "You even have to plan carefully when to give birth to a child. You can't let the birth time of the child affect the family's reputation and status."

He paused, staring at Wilder with a sharp gaze, as if he wanted to see through him. "Then the children you give birth to will receive aristocratic education from an early age. They have no freedom, no thoughts, and are like exquisitely dressed puppets. They are trained to conform to the family's expectations, lose their self-identity, and become tools for the family's interests."

Miles' voice gradually became low, but with an irresistible power, "Eventually, they will grow up, and then take your place, and continue to live this kind of life. Generation after generation, over and over again, without end."

Wilder felt a chill in his heart as he listened to Miles' words. His smile seemed so pale and powerless at this moment. He tried desperately to find a reason to refute the man in front of him, to prove that what he said was not true. However, to his surprise, he found that he could not refute it.

Every word Miles said was like a sharp sword, piercing Wilder's heart. He suddenly realized that the life he had been pursuing was so hypocritical and empty.

"So hurry up, stab the dagger, stab it, and after you stab it, all your wishes will come true, if that is really your ideal life."

Miles' words seemed like a voice from hell.

"In fact, it doesn't matter whether you kill Salter or not, because for the nobles, as long as you have the Duke's blood, you have the right of inheritance. It's just a matter of changing someone to sit in that exquisite doll house. No one will care. It doesn't matter who it is."

However, when Wilder gradually regained consciousness from his fear, his emotions quickly turned into anger and humiliation.

His eyes widened, his face flushed red, and he roared at Miles: "Enough! Shut up! Shut up!!!"

Wilder's roar echoed in the air, as if to shatter everything around him. His voice was filled with uncontrollable anger and frustration, and he held the dagger tightly in his hand, raised it high, and stabbed Miles straight at him.

At this critical moment, something unexpected happened. Antonio quietly went behind Wilder like a ghost. His movements were swift and agile, like a cheetah, and he appeared behind Wilder in an instant.

Antonio stretched out his hand without hesitation, grabbed Wilder's raised wrist, twisted it hard, and snatched the dagger from his hand. This series of actions was as smooth as flowing water, and it was done in one go, which made people marvel.

"Well done! Miles!" Antonio shouted loudly, his voice revealing his appreciation and affirmation for Miles.

Then, Antonio turned around quickly and rescued Salter from Wilder's hands. He held Salter tightly in his arms, as if he was afraid that she would be hurt again.

Antonio then slammed his shoulder into Wilder, knocking him off the cliff.

Wilder's body fell straight down like a kite with a broken string and disappeared into the depths of the cliff.

It all happened so fast that it caught people off guard.

Miles' performance just now was so outstanding. If he hadn't cleverly attracted Wilder's attention, Antonio would probably have found it difficult to get behind Wilder so easily, successfully rescue Salter and push Wilder off the cliff.

“Wow! Wuuuuuuuuuu….”

This sudden cry seemed to break through the sky and echoed in the air. After experiencing such a thrilling experience, Salter's heart was already overwhelmed by fear. He threw himself into Holmes' arms like a frightened deer, and tears poured out like a flood.

Salter's body kept shaking, and he didn't even dare to look up at Antonio and Miles.

Antonio's devilish appearance and the words that Miles had just said lingered in his mind like a nightmare that he couldn't get rid of.

Although he knew in his heart that Miles did that to save him, the feeling of fear still followed him like a shadow and could not be shaken off.

Holmes hugged Salter tightly and whispered comforting words to him.

His large hands gently patted Salter's back, trying to calm him down.

However, Holmes's eyes never left Antonio. It was a complicated look, which contained both guilt towards Antonio and anger towards him.

Holmes had to admit that this series of events was caused by his own obstruction.

He wanted to solve the problem peacefully, but he didn't expect it would lead to such consequences.

But Holmes' life purpose has never changed. His duty is to bring criminals to justice, not to put them to death.

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However, facing Holmes's gaze, Antonio did not say much. Perhaps he was thinking about how to teach the famous detective a little "lesson" in order to retaliate against the other party for regarding him as a maniac who would kill people at will.

At this moment, Antonio made a quick decision. He used his hair flexibly, like a nimble snake, to tightly wrap around Holmes' body.

Then, he walked to the place where Wilder had just fallen without hesitation, and threw Holmes, who was tied up by his hair, down without mercy.

The whole process was as fast as lightning. From the moment Holmes was entangled by his hair to the moment he fell off the cliff like a meteor, it only took one second.

In such a short time, Holmes had no time to react. Before he even had time to feel fear, he had already experienced the terrible feeling of weightlessness, as if the whole world was turned upside down in an instant.

This sudden feeling of weightlessness made Holmes completely out of control of his body. His heart seemed to be about to jump out of his throat, and he instinctively wanted to scream.

However, just as his scream was about to come out, for some reason, the sound suddenly disappeared without a trace in his throat, as if it was swallowed back by an invisible force.

"Why, Mr. Holmes, why did you jump down? Do you want to go to another world to arrest this criminal?"

A familiar, gentle, shrill female voice sounded next to Holmes' ear.

Holmes came back to his senses and quickly checked the web that caught him and Wilder. This web was woven very finely, and each spider silk was shining with silver light. It was obviously carefully designed.

It turned out that when Miles attracted Wilder's attention, Antonio quietly slipped behind Wilder, ready to snatch his dagger.

At the same time, Miss Violetta climbed up to the bottom of the cliff with amazing agility and quickly wove this huge spider web.

This net is not only huge in area, but also extremely tough. No matter what happens on it, it can basically ensure the safety of people who fall off the cliff.

Holmes was deeply impressed by the wit and courage of Antonio, Violetta and Miles who immediately thought of this idea.

After understanding all this, Holmes suddenly felt guilty.

He realized how inappropriate his previous suspicion of Antonio was. No wonder Antonio threw him off the cliff without hesitation. After all, if it were him, he might have the same idea.

"Okay, let's go up. You don't want a lady like me to help you up, do you?"