EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 336's

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“You're all crazy, developing poison. Truly—” I don't want to spend energy just to cuss at them.

Wendy was not affected by my words, she looked at me in full search, but she suddenly shifted the subject, “are you thinking of a way to escape? Huh! Don't expect that from now on because you'll be my research material. The poison has clearly entered your body, yes ‘kan?”

I looked at him with a frown, hearing him speak as if knowing what I was thinking looked funny. He knows nothing and tries to get close to me.

Sighing in a small breath, I chose to ignore it while turning my eyes out the window. In fact, now I'm resigned to all this, brought by them and made into research materials. But still, in my heart berTO’a for Bayu to find me.

“It's nice to see that you're a good kid. It's worth it Cilia kept saying you weren't a troublesome child.” His words managed to take my eyes off her again.

Hearing Cilia's name made me feel like hitting something. That traitor!

Then suddenly the car turned to the gas station and stopped at a corner, near the mini market.

“We will replace it soon.” The driver said briefly, Wendy nodded in agreement.

I noticed what the man was going to do, but Wendy's voice again interrupted my attention, “she will change her car plate.” This woman chuckled, as if looking at the stupidity my expression showed.

Heh. Sure was! With mothers who know the license plate, they will replace it with another plate so that it is not easy to track.

“Gilbert will be joining us soon.” The man who had been dragging Dika, turned to look at Wendy as she reported.

“Oh? What's the affair at the airport finished?” My heart beat faster from hearing the latest news from where Bayu was.

“They couldn't save his stuff so they decided to retreat.”

“Hah! It's all because of the earthquake! The usual route is a mess! What material do I need there?”

“Yes. Fortunately Gilbert managed to bring the item you wanted.”

“Ha ha ha.” Wendy laughed satisfied.

I who had been watching them since could not calm down. Their brief conversation summed up a lot of things in the head.

Gilbert must be the name of the man Wendy likes, one of the members of the drug cartel. The material in question doesn't know what, but I'm sure it's the material for the poison research he's developing and one more thing, the earthquake smoothed out Bayu's team's plan to capture them. The route to trade illegal goods is now still a nuisance.

“Good! This time I will make the poison even stronger, how strong it is until you, Natasha, will be affected. It must be very interesting.” It felt like my hair was standing on end, I was goosebumps hearing Wendy say all that casually.

Clique

I was a bit shocked because suddenly the car door next to me opened. Someone opened it from the outside, and it was the driver looking down at me and Wendy.

“Everything is in order.”

“OK. Nice work. Now—” Wendy hung up her sentence to glance at me.

Whahuh?

I had a bad feeling when the driver reached into his pants pocket, before taking something out of his pocket, he glanced to the left right, as if making sure no one was paying attention.

“What a—” his hand very quickly out of pocket to bring it closer to my face.

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Feels bad.

My whole body ached and my energy drained away, as if I had just run a marathon.

But my first nose returned to normal after I was forced to be unconscious. The first thing that is smelled is the aroma of chlorine mixed with the typical aroma of the hospital. Perhaps I would have thought that I had been saved at all costs and taken to the hospital, if my ears had not heard the faint voice of chatter, the familiar and long-held voice of the woman.

“...very sure. He's not smart enough to fool us by mixing that poison with another. You remember that his son needed concoction medicine from this lab.” Wendy sounded sure.

“Ya. surely he is, but why is Icha not affected at all by the poison? Is something wrong?” It's Cilia's voice. Their voices were slow but I could hear them clearly because it felt like the room I was in was empty and cold, their voices echoed a little.

My eyelids are still hard to open, so I just quietly heard them silently.

“We've tried her on other subjects, instead of them going to be in pain while falling in love? Poison succeeded. Maybe we should check the body Icha.” I goosebumps hearing Wendy's indifferent tone of voice.

“Hmm... but during that wait, if the dosage is increased—”

“Haaaahhh I deliberately let out a long sigh and slowly opened my eyes, unable to hear what they would conclude in the end, but what was clear was that I was here in danger.

As expected, they stopped the discussion and walked slowly towards me. My eyes that have returned to normal see the ceiling of the room in white and the mattress that only one person occupied by me.

Then I glanced around, like I thought there was nothing. In this large room there is only a small mattress bed, a table that is spread by paper and cabinets filled with liquids. The air was cold and the atmosphere was gloomy, strangely again, I could not hear anything outside. It was so quiet as

there is only one house in this place.

Even if their base was among the houses, there should be a sound of vehicles in the distance, but I heard nothing at all, which frightened me.

“Where am I?” my voice sounds hoarse.

“Finally you are aware, we are in the headquarters of the asura lab of course.” Wendy answered enthusiastically as if she was welcoming me.

“Halo Icha. We meet again.” Cilia greeted me politely and looked good as usual.

My clenched hands held back the anger, I should not be carried away by emotions just yet. I need to know where this place is, then send a message to Bayu to save me or escape at any cost.

Yep!

None of this is impossible, only it might be difficult.

“Well, because Icha is conscious. Cilia, please prepare it, do not forget to increase the dose 2 times.”

“Hah!! What are you saying! You guys want to poison me again??” I panicked and immediately got up to sit up, realizing they were not tying me up, I quickly got off the bed but before that happened, two hands pulled me roughly back to lie down.

“Free if you want to escape. This place will never be found by anyone.” Wendy looked at me with satisfaction.

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