Chapter 525: Chapter 525: The Scum Girl’s Fish Pond (Part 1)
Jonah Rivers had that look of "You’ve hidden things so well from me," and to the unknowing eye, it seemed as if they were very familiar with each other.
"Where is Claire North?" Raina North couldn’t be bothered to deal with this lunatic.
Jonah Rivers spread his hands: "I don’t know."
"Haven’t you seen her? How could you not know?" Raina North frowned.
"The sea is so vast, how would I know where she is? That woman had shifty eyes and devious thoughts, clearly a rotten person. Just a casual trick of mine and I made her spill the beans. By now, she’s likely been fish food for sharks."
The woman before him was under his protection.
She was such a proud person in daily life, yet she was forced to jump into the sea.
Those people deserved to die.
Jonah Rivers handed her the milk in his hand: "Drink it. It’ll detoxify your body."
Raina North knew too well Jonah’s obsession with cleanliness and his twisted nature. To him, Claire North was something filthy, not worthy of breathing the same air as him, much less boarding his yacht.
Now, with the sea spanning endlessly, finding someone was like searching for a needle in a haystack. For her to end up like this was deserved.
Raina North, however, needed to focus on the matter at hand.
She reached out, took the milk, and drank it all in one go.
"Where has the ship sailed to now? How far are we from Southgate?"
Noticing the worry in Raina’s eyes, Jonah Rivers said, "The yacht has already sailed into the waters of The Umbral Zone, far, far away from Southgate."
Raina North remained silent. She wasn’t about to recklessly demand a turnaround. Those who had lived in The Umbral Zone knew well that its waters were called The Death Zone; once entered, you could only move forward, never back.
The only way to leave was to wait for the Sea Calm Stage on the fifteenth of each month.
"Why did you just happen to show up here?"
"Someone told me you were kidnapped and asked me to come help you."
"It was Anya." Only Anya Forrest could contact this maniac.
Jonah Rivers did not deny it, which was as good as an admission.
"Given our past, I thought—if we’re not arch-enemies, at least we’re on bad terms—but then I heard you’d been kidnapped, which I found quite extraordinary, so I came to see how you got kidnapped, and as a result..."
Jonah Rivers looked at her, and though he didn’t continue, the meaningful smile on his face stung more than words could have.
Back then, Raina North had gone to great lengths to break away from the organization and leave The Umbral Zone, and now?
Things had gone full circle. Even someone like Morgan Payne dared to make a move on her.
As they talked, the yacht crossed several dangerous waters and finally arrived at the legendary Umbral Zone.
"We’re here." Jonah Rivers said, gazing at the nearing coastline.
Raina North said nothing. She hadn’t set foot in The Umbral Zone for many years.
By day, The Umbral Zone resembled an ordinary island city—bustling and prosperous, people busy with their lives, appearing calm and peaceful. Who would guess that when night falls, it would turn into a devouring inferno?
Seeing Raina immersed in thought, Jonah Rivers’ smile deepened: "Returning to your homeland, how does it feel?"
Raina North looked at him and could always detect a hint of mockery in his smile, making her expression turn a few degrees colder.
"No special feelings." Even without this mishap, she had planned to return to The Umbral Zone.
Her grandfather’s illness required the Revitalizing Pill, an item that could be found only in The Umbral Zone, nowhere else.
With that, Raina stood up, stepping once again into this territory after many years.
Raina North checked into the largest hotel in The Umbral Zone, which belonged to Jonah Rivers.
Without hesitation, Raina North kicked Jonah out of the presidential suite at the top of the hotel.
"I haven’t been around The Umbral Zone in years, so I’m not up to date with many changes. I need the Revitalizing Pill to save someone; find out whose hands it’s in for me."
"You’re really quite good at ordering me around, have you forgotten how coldly and ruthlessly you once abandoned me?" Faced with the cuckoo nesting in his suite, without a trace of guilt, Jonah Rivers appeared rather helpless, yet his tone carried a tinge of grievance.