Chapter 141 Five Men and One Woman
As soon as she went out with Lloyd, she turned around and looked back.
Seeing that no one went out to chase her, she breathed a sigh of relief and patted Lloyd on the shoulder, praising, "You are so smart!"
Lloyd looked at her solemnly without making any response.
There were many passers-by around at this time.
Lloyd took her into a black car on the side of the road.
"Go."
Hearing the order, the driver started the car.
Ebony tilted her head and was about to talk to Lloyd.
But she noticed Lloyd looked gloomy and sulky. It seemed that he was getting angry.
Ebony was stunned for a moment. She fell silent because she didn't understand what he was getting mad at. She didn't dare to say anything.
After a while, Ebony began to fumble in her pockets for something.
Lloyd turned to look at her with his cold ink-colored eyes.
Ebony found that Lloyd was staring at her.
So she reached out her hand and explained to him, "There is blood. I want to wipe it..."
Lloyd looked at her for a while, and finally gave a sigh.
He took some tissues from the box on the backseat and grabbed Ebony's hand to wipe.
The blood on her hand had dried up and could only be washed off with water. It couldn't be wiped off much when it was so dry.
Seeing that Lloyd was still unhappy, Ebony continued to be silent and didn't stop Lloyd wiping her hand.
After a while, Lloyd asked, "Are you scared now?"
Ebony nodded instantly.
Lloyd asked, "What are you scared of?"
Ebony replied, "I am scared that you'll scratch my hand. Can you use another tissue? The one in your hand has been soaked in blood."
Lloyd, "..."
With a gloomy face, Lloyd put down Ebony's hand right away and asked coldly, "Do you know how dangerous it was? Why didn't you answer the phone?"
It was normal for her not to answer the phone if she was in danger, but why didn't she answer the phone since nothing had happened to her?
Ebony was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Lloyd was angry with her.
She took out her mobile phone from her pocket, and saw that there were more than a dozen missed calls.
"What..." Ebony quickly explained after a short astonishment, "I...I didn't know...I was asked to keep my phone in silent mode during recording. After I came out, I was tricked into the Diadem Restaurant and forgot to un-mute my phone..."
Lloyd stared at her with a frown, as if to discern whether she was lying.
Ebony quickly said, "It's true. I really forgot it... Besides, I didn't expect that if I just walked away for a while, someone would worry about me. In general, no one will care for me even if I die..."
"What nonsense!" Lloyd's tone suddenly became heavy.
Ebony looked at him blankly, thought for a while, and said, "Lloyd, stop scolding me. I will never place my phone in silent mode after recording."
Lloyd stared at her silently.
After a long while, he grabbed her hand again and continued to wipe it.
Ebony whispered, "Use a new tissue please..."
Lloyd's cold eyes swept towards her.
Ebony quickly changed her words, "You can do whatever you want, as long as you are happy."
Lloyd took a new tissue and said, "What happened today should not happen in the future. If it wasn't us who came in just now and it was the people of the restaurant, what could you do?"
Ebony blinked.
Lloyd looked into her eyes and asked, "They would call the police. You would be deemed to commit an intentional assault. Do you know how many years you would face in prison?"
Ebony pursed her lips and did not dare to refute loudly. She only dared to murmur, "It's not an intentional assault. It's a justifiable defense."
"Justifiable defense is divided into normal defense and excessive defense." Lloyd raised his eyes and asked again, "If it was an excessive defense, there would be a great chance that you were ruled to commit an intentional assault. How could you explain that Victor lost a lot of blood?"
Ebony looked at Lloyd and asked, "Do you really want me to explain?"
Lloyd responded after a flashy trance, "Okay, explain."
Ebony said, "Then I will say it. Maybe it's a bit long."
Lloyd nodded, "Well."
Ebony said, "First, this is a targeted and planned malicious injury or attempted kidnapping. In terms of the process of the case, first of all, I was cheated to the crime scene, a private room of the Diadem Restaurant, without knowing it."
"At that time, I was talking with Belinda's dresser, who pretended to be a staff member. Our conversation was conducted in the corridor in the backstage of the show. Some eyewitnesses who had heard it would be available because there were many people coming and going."
"Even if no one heard it, there was a full-time monitoring in the corridor. Although no sound could be heard from the monitoring, as long as the shooting angle was correct, the police could invite oral language experts to recognize mouth movements."
"When I was talking to the dresser at that time, I specifically chose a position where the monitoring could photograph my mouth. Therefore, this can prove that I was indeed deceived by the dresser to attend a party, whose behavior was indeed purposeful to deceive me and induce me. In this point, I am a victim. It's a sure foothold."
"Second, let's talk about criminal tools. The criminal tools I used to subdue them were all prepared by them. On the knives, ropes, whips, sulfuric acid and other dangerous or controlled items were their fingerprints. I defended myself with on-the-spot tools, which would definitely be a normal reaction coming from a victim's normal sense of resistance."
"Third, does it cause an excessive self-defense to use violence after subduing them? This depends on the facts. First of all, no one can determine whether I did violence before or after I subdued them or while subduing them."
"Besides, Victor is not in danger of life. None of the ten knife wounds are fatal, so it can't be identified as a serious injury at all. Strictly speaking, he suffered a little skin trauma."
"Then, let's go over the process again. The fact is that I was deceived by a certain criminal group to the crime scene, and there were four burly men, the scumbag Victor and the idiot Belinda. Five men and one woman carried out a sudden terrorist attack on me."
"They were very well prepared, with a lot of criminal tools. In the process of fighting back, I took a few things from them and subdued them. I caused them suffer minor injuries."
"Then, looking at it this way, my actions fail to meet the standard of being overly defensive."
Lloyd, "..."
Lloyd looked at Ebony quietly, and said in a low voice after a while, "You know a lot."
Ebony lowered her head and sighed, "Lloyd, I am a person who has been admitted to a military academy, and I understand the law. Besides, I am an adult, and I will definitely consider the consequences before I do something."
Lloyd said in a very cold voice, "Since you were not afraid, why did you just shout?"
Ebony immediately looked up at him, explaining, "I had to shout because I didn't want to be taken to the police station! If I was taken to the police station and Dolores knew it, she would eat me! If she was so furious that she deducted my salary, then I couldn't live!"
Lloyd, "..."
Lloyd took a deep breath and stopped talking to Ebony.
Realizing that Lloyd ignored her again, Ebony didn't dare to speak. She took out a tissue, pouted reluctantly, and slowly wiped her own hand.
Since Lloyd and Ebony had run away, Darryl had to stay to clean up the mess.
After finishing arranging someone to send Victor and others to the hospital, Darryl saw that Stella was still standing next to him, so he said, "You go back first."
Stella nodded. After thinking a bit, she sent a message to her mother before she left.
Lydia was at home at the moment.
After seeing her daughter's message, her face changed greatly.
There was someone next to her.
Chsidah Kelly, Mrs. Gibson, was drinking coffee when she saw that her daughter-in-law looked wrong. She asked worriedly, "Lydia, what's the matter?"
At this time, Lydia finally saw the second half of the message.
According to Stella, it was just a false alarm and Ebony was fine, so Lydia was relieved.
She shook her head and replied to Chasidah, "Mom, I'm fine."
Seeing that Lydia seemed to be all right, Chasidah turned her eyes to the other side, put down the cup and said, "Actually, Lloyd mentioned it to me. I know he has wanted to cancel the engagement for a long time. A while ago, he called me and apologized to me personally, saying that he should have met the girl he wanted to contact, and he hoped that I would agree to cancel the engagement. Now, I agree."