She snatched the phone from the man's hand.

He gritted his teeth and yelled at Victoria on the other end of the phone.

‘Victoria……’

Victoria hadn't even finished her sentence when the call was hung up again.

I was like a wild beast, the anger in my heart could no longer be suppressed.

I took out my phone and started calling Victoria frantically.

But the phone call is no longer connected...

"Uncle Damian, don't be angry with Lily. As long as you take Lily to find her father, you can ask Lily to do whatever you want..."

"Kneel down and kowtow! We won't leave until you kowtow a hundred times!"

The man took out a cigarette from his pocket, leaned against the car door and looked coldly at his daughter kneeling in front of him.

The daughter was about to kowtow while sobbing.

I went forward and wanted to pick up my daughter.

But my daughter broke free and looked at me with tears in her eyes.

"Uncle, it's okay. Lily wants to see dad. I can kowtow a hundred times..."

I was so flustered that I didn't notice it.

My daughter's head is covered with scars! Some of them haven't healed yet!

My heart felt like it was being stabbed by a needle. I held my daughter's hand and tried to hold back my tears.

'Do you kowtow often at home?'

"They let me see my father only after I kowtowed..."

"What are you still waiting for? Don't you want to go see your dead dad?! Come on!"

The man stepped forward and dragged his daughter to his feet.

He pressed his daughter's head hard to the ground.

Then he rushed towards me again.

Pointing at me with wide eyes, roaring at me,

"You bastard! Why are you meddling in other people's business...!"

Before the man could finish his words, I slapped his hand that was pointing at me.

Staring at him with bloodshot eyes, he said sternly,

"I will take care of this matter today because I am her father! Today I will teach you a lesson for my daughter!"

After saying that, I pushed the man in front of me away.

He quickly stepped forward and held his daughter in his arms.

My daughter seemed to be frightened and kept calling "Daddy" in my arms.

The man was stunned for a moment.

Then there was a burst of thunderous laughter.

He smoothed his shirt which I had just wrinkled, and walked towards me with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Oh, you are the father of that bastard? I was just talking to Victoria in bed and you heard me. Sorry!"

"Now that you're here, I can save myself some trouble. Let's meet up quickly. After we meet, I'm going to take this bastard back with me. Victoria just said on the phone that she's going to reward me tonight!"

The daughter heard that the man wanted to take her back.

She kept shaking in my arms,

She grabbed my clothes tightly and cried and whispered in my ear,

"Dad, Lily doesn't want to go back, Dad, save me..."

After seeing what happened just now, I naturally couldn't let my daughter go back with him.

But I need him to give me an explanation for the injustice he caused my daughter today.

I hugged my daughter tightly, took two steps forward, leaned over and looked at the man smoking a cigarette, and said coldly,

"I don't care what you and Victoria do, but you can't bring Lily back today. Not only can you not bring her back, you have to apologize to Lily!"

The man sneered and raised his eyebrows.

'Apologize? How?'

"Kneel back the way she made you kneel! Kneel back the way she kowtowed just now!"

The man immediately stopped smiling.

He picked up the burning cigarette butt in his hand and pressed it against his daughter's calf.

I quickly turned sideways, and the cigarette butt pressed against my shoulder with a sizzle.

Instantly, the smell of burning flesh hit my nose.

My daughter was so frightened that she was twitching and crying. At this moment,

The man lit up another cigarette and pressed it against my daughter's calf while I wasn't paying attention.

Instantly, the daughter let out a heart-wrenching wail.

I looked at my daughter's calf that was burned and pushed the man away.

At this moment, I wanted to tear him into pieces, but the organization has rules.

You can't attack civilians.

Thinking of this, I quickly took out my phone and called the nearest Appalachian Town Council.

Soon, Mayor Thompson came with a group of villagers.

The nature of the work at the base is confidential, but we have been dealing with the Appalachian Town Council here for five years.

I briefly explained the situation to Mayor Thompson.

"Please keep an eye on him until the police arrive. I will take my daughter back to the organization first..."

I thought I had explained everything clearly, so I carried my daughter to the base.

But just as he turned around, he was hit on the head with a club.

The person who hit me was the Mayor!

Soon, the villagers surrounded me in three layers.

'Mayor Thompson, what are you doing?! Didn't you hear me?! He's the one who abused my daughter! Why are you hanging around me if you're not going to beat him up!'

The man walked up slowly and stepped on my lower abdomen.

"Idiot! Don't you understand? I'm telling you, in this area of Washington DC Metropolitan, no matter which way the wind blows, you have to listen to our Sterling family! And you're getting ahead of yourself! You're a little jerk who doesn't know your own limits!"

Mayor Thompson looked at me and pointed at me.

"Young man, I'm right to say that you are overestimating yourself! Do you think you can mess with the Sterling family? Everyone in our village depends on them for food! You are working in this deep mountain, and maybe you are also relying on the Sterling family for food!"

When Victoria and I first got married, she was just a second-hand real estate agent.

Over the years, the organization has appreciated my efforts.

Victoria's company was given the green light in terms of policy.

Land acquisition, land approval, loan, every process has never been ambiguous.

But not only was she ungrateful, she even took advantage of the organization's support for her family to become so arrogant.

She has done things to this extent today.

Just wait and go back to the time before liberation overnight!

"Why are you still wasting your time talking to him! Teach this bastard a lesson!"

As soon as the man finished speaking, dozens of villagers with iron bars rushed over.

I held my daughter tightly in my arms.

Countless fists, kicks and iron bars fell on his body, and blood soaked his clothes in an instant.

Seeing this, my daughter struggled madly to get out of my arms.

She knelt down in front of the man again, kowtowed and begged.

"Damian, please let my dad go. I'll go back with you. I'll wash your clothes and cook for you. I'll kowtow to you every day and wash your feet, okay..."

I couldn't hold back my tears any longer, so I forced myself to stand up and try to help my daughter up.

But he fell down again and again in the punches and kicks,

The man laughed wildly. I ignored the pain in my body and started crawling towards my daughter.

Amidst the chaos, a familiar voice came from afar.

'What are you doing? You're making so much noise!'

When the daughter saw Victoria, fear filled her eyes.

She knelt on the ground, not daring to raise her head.

I took advantage of the villagers' pause to quickly get up.

She walked up to Victoria and pointed at her daughter who was kneeling on the ground and said sternly,

'Victoria! You promised me that you would take good care of our daughter, is this how you act as a mother?! You must give me an explanation today! Otherwise, we will get a divorce!'

The reason I say this is because there is a piece of land in the south of the city that will be auctioned soon.

If we get this piece of land, it will be a profit of hundreds of billions of dollars.

If you want to be eligible for the auction, without the recommendation of my organization, Victoria's threshold is not enough.

I originally wanted to use this incident to warn Victoria,

Unexpectedly, she had already become so arrogant that she didn't know her place.

After two seconds of silence, Victoria burst into laughter.

She looked me up and down, her eyes full of contempt.

"Ethan Carter, don't you see what kind of person you are? You are so poor and you want to divorce me?"

"But since you asked, I will satisfy you today!"

After that, she took out two pieces of paper from her bag and threw them to me.

All that's missing is your signature. Please sign it quickly. I'm leaving after you sign it.

Damian and I have something to do tonight.

When talking about the evening, she and Damian exchanged sticky glances.

I glanced at the drafting date of the divorce agreement. Four years ago...

It turns out that this woman had long since left me.

In the divorce agreement, I don't get any of the property.

I don't care about this, but she still has the custody of my daughter.

I threw the divorce papers back to her.

'You can do whatever you want with the rest, but I cannot give you the custody of my daughter because you are not worthy of being a mother!'

Victoria looked at me and raised her eyebrows.

'Ethan, you are still as stupid as you were five years ago. Do you think your daughter wants to follow you, a worthless father, or me, a glamorous mother?'

"Why did you let your daughter follow you? To degenerate into a wild monkey in this deep forest?!"

As soon as Victoria said this, there was a burst of deafening laughter from the surroundings.

'This father is so stupid! What future can my daughter have if she follows him? Although Ms. Sterling is a little strict with my daughter, at least she can give her a bright future!'

"Of course! Besides, her daughter already calls the man next to Ms. Sterling dad. She must dislike his poor appearance, but she doesn't even understand it!"

I looked at these heartless villagers.

In the past five years, the organization has provided them with electricity and water.

I often went down the mountain to help, but I didn't expect that I couldn't get any sincerity in return.

When I get back, I must report to the organization and let these ungrateful people go back to live a hard life as soon as possible.

I am too lazy to argue with them anymore, as my home leave is coming soon.

My daughter's condition is not good either.

I ignored Victoria and took my daughter's hand and walked towards the base.

Victoria yelled at me from behind.

'Ethan, you bastard! Let go of my daughter! If you take another step forward, I'll run you over!'

I don't want to bother with her at all.

Holding my daughter's hand, I continued walking forward.

But just as I stepped over the edge of the base,

Suddenly, there was a roar of a car engine behind me.

I turned around and saw Damian carrying Victoria towards Restricted Zone Alpha-7!

This base is the most confidential Restricted Zone Alpha-7.

If you break in, it's not just a matter of being held accountable and sent to jail.

Whether you can save your life depends on my face.

At this moment, I naturally don't want to care about the lives of these two beasts.

But I don't want to cause trouble for the organization.

I immediately protected my daughter behind me and quickly stood in front of the speeding car.

I guessed that these animals were just pretending.

Since it involves human lives, they naturally dare not!

But even so, this outermost layer of protection worked.