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Five hundred million! 

Back when the Spencers were at their peak, maybe th 

wouldn’t have cared about that kind of money. 

But now that the Spencers were on the verge of bankruptcy, 500 million dollars was exactly what could save them. 

“You’re always like this–swallowing your own grievances. You do something good, and you still won’t say it. Sigh. If you keep being like this, you’ll always end up losing out,” 

Charlie’s attitude was honestly ten thousand times better than before. 

Linda still looked completely dazed. 

Who on earth was that person? 

One move and it was 500 million! 

And with that kind of spending, what exactly did they want her to do? 

Her heart started pounding wildly. 

“Charlie, I just didn’t want you to get your hopes up, because I wasn’t sure they’d actually invest. 

“That’s great. Charlie, the Spencer Group is saved.” 

Hill town. 

The police arrived. 

They did some routine questioning. 

They first questioned the parties involved at the hospital. 

Then, they came to the hill town and met Alice. 

In a town, gossip is basically a shared resource. 

Something as big as the police showing up couldn’t be hidden at all. 

So, everyone quickly found out that the boss from the city who came back had actually been attacked by venomous snakes. 

People started talking all at once, and they mentioned that there was a snake–breeding facility up in the mountains. 

Alice frowned. 

Why does this snake–breeding facility sound like where her mentor used to live? 

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Not long ago, to make sure her mentor stayed safe, she had sent her abroad. 

Could someone have taken advantage of that gap in time and done something in the mountains? 

Dominic was dead, but the town director was still around. 

He led the police into the mountains. 

They were supposed to notify whoever was living up there. 

But no one even knew if that person was still there. 

So, he muttered casually. 

“Who knows if they’re even alive.” 

Alice’s face darkened. 

But she didn’t say anything. 

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Still, because her current persona was a boss from the city, it wouldn’t look appropriate for her to go into the mountains. 

But… 

She was the victim. 

She had every right to insist on coming along. 

In the dead of night, she went up the mountain with them. 

It had been a long time. Now, there was a mountain road–built earlier by Dominic. 

After about half an hour, they reached the small house where she used to live. 

Her mentor had built it himself–two rooms total. 

A layer of dust covered the courtyard. 

Inside, it was empty too. 

It looked like no one had lived there for a long time. 

The police did a quick check of the surrounding area, and sure enough, they found something off. 

Behind those two rooms, there was actually a snake–breeding area. 

Snakes liked warmth, and it was already autumn, so they should’ve been sluggish. 

But the snakes here were different–they were still extremely alert. 

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They almost bit someone. 

Alice stayed in the courtyard the whole time. 

She thought about her past. 

After she was trafficked and came back, those parents hated her to the bone. 

Back then, she didn’t know she wasn’t their biological child. 

She thought she must have done something wrong. 

But her mother had said, “Why didn’t you just die?” 

Her heart had gone cold on the spot. 

When she was trafficked into the mountains and nearly died, she didn’t cry. 

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When she beat the trafficker half to death and escaped–feet torn raw on the rocks, soles bloody and mangled–she still didn’t cry. 

Later, when she forced herself onward and turned the trafficker over to the police, she still didn’t cry. 

But that one sentence from her mother–like a block of ice slammed straight into her eyes–she couldn’t hold it in anymore. She cried. 

She cried for a long time. 

And her mother didn’t care at all. 

She was still unwilling to accept it. She wanted to ask her mother why she had been abandoned. 

Then, she overheard her parents talking about how she wasn’t their biological child. 

That’s when she realized she wasn’t loved. 

It was never about her. 

It was their problem. 

So, why should she keep forcing herself to endure? 

She let out a cold laugh and called the police. 

When the police took her foster parents away, she still remembered her mother’s icy stare. 

Like she wanted to tear her apart. 

“We’ve found venomous snakes here. We’ll contact the fire department to assist. It’s too late tonight, so we’ll have colleagues stay on watch. You all go back.” 

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The police looked like they had a headache, too. 

Alice didn’t linger. She went back down… 

mountain with them. 

Tonight, she slept at Emma’s house. 

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At daybreak, Eric and Daniel returned. 

According to the doctor, they were supposed to be hospitalized for about a week. 

But Daniel had recovered fairly well, and Eric didn’t care at all. 

Clayton couldn’t persuade them, so he could only come back first. 

Then, several townspeople showed up. 

Truman stepped forward politely to ask what was going on, but he was immediately grabbed and pinned down. 

Truman froze on the spot. 

He had just graduated–he’d never experienced anything like this. 

But thankfully, Alice came out right away. 

“So, you’re here to seize our land?” 

Alice had heard about this man from Emma before–one of the town troublemakers. He only finished high school. He used to be a security guard in the city, then came back to freeload. 

The moment Emma saw him, she exploded with anger. 

“Hugo, are you out of your mind? You actually came to my house to block the door?”