Chapter 142. Covered in Blood

Lexcis Aeden

Our guns make it easy for us to take down those five guys.

After that, no one is left.

"Was that all?" I pondered aloud.

"What are you talking about, Chantel? What did you expect?" Zave lets out a grumpy breath.

"Well, more."

"Like aliens?" Both Aldric and Caen ask simultaneously.

"No, probably more like around fifty guards who are looking very angry while closing the gates and locking us in," Laurence explains.

I say to him, "That is oddly specific."

"Yeah, turn around."

Simultaneously, we all pivot to face whatever Laurence was referring to.

"Oh," says Chantel with an awkward smile.

"You just had to go and jinx it." Zave sighs once more.

"She is quite known as the one who ruins things." Veronica throws up. It does not sound funny at all. After a small frown, Chantel hides it and tells her sist