Olivia nodded. “That’s good. Don’t bring anyone else. You’ll be in danger if the person has bad intentions.”
“Don’t worry, Godmother. Even the bad guys. won’t be able to harm us,” Carter assured before walking into the house. She didn’t understand what he meant. Have the three boys learned self-defense?
Her curiosity was piqued as she followed Carter in, but all of a sudden, her foot hooked onto something, and she sensed something else was raining down on her…
At the same time, a few voices rang out. “Olivia!” Jewel exclaimed. “Watch out, Godmother,” Terry warned.
“Close your eyes, Godmother,” Carter instructed. A pair of tiny hands grabbed her from behind, but she had already seen what was coming. A cloud of white powder fell straight down on her -it looked like flour.
No, not flour. It’s lime powder. It wasn’t just lime powder that came pouring down. A large net was hidden above the lime powder.
Olivia wanted to dodge, but she bumped into Terry, who had tried to pull her earlier. Worried that he would get injured, she didn’t dare to try and avoid the net. Instead, she instinctively closed her eyes, and the net caged them in.
Lime powder not only made it impossible to keep one’s eyes open, but it also made it hard to breathe. Worried about the little boy, she wanted to try and escape from the net, but she sensed that something was whizzing through the air and coming straight at them.
She had no time to stop and think as she bent down and held Terry protectively in her arms. At the same time, tiny steel balls shot at her from every direction.
Although they were small, they still dealt a lot of pain as they bounced off her skin. Jewel tore off her jacket and rushed forward. She managed to block a lot of the steel balls by flicking her jacket around.
However, those that she missed all struck against Olivia’s body. Olivia could hear Carter and Blake’s concerned voices calling out beside her.
“Godmother!”
“Miss Jewel!” The steel balls kept firing for at least three minutes before they finally stopped.
Olivia had kept Terry safe the whole time, but she was as disheveled as she could be. Her face and body were covered in lime powder. It made her look like a white-haired witch. Carter and Blake anxiously ran over to them. They removed the net and released Olivia and Terry.
“Are you alright, Godmother?” Carter asked. Blake’s expression was grim as he questioned Carter in a reprimanding tone, “Weren’t you going to turn off the trap?”
“I couldn’t do it in time,” Carter said a little apologetically. ‘Plus, you could’ve warned Godmother about the trap, too, you know.”
Olivia noticed that the boys were about to quarrel because of her, so she quickly interjected, “It’s fine. It’s okay. I don’t blame you guys. It’s my fault. I was in such a rush to see the place that I walked in before you could stop me.”
After reassuring the boys, she turned to Terry and instructed him, “Don’t open your eyes, Terry.”
Jewel swiftly came over and found something to remove the lime powder that was clinging to their faces. Lime powder was hazardous, and there were severe consequences if it entered a person’s eyes.
It took a lot of time and careful effort to clear off the lime powder from Olivia and Terry’s faces. “All done. Quick, get out of these clothes and clean yourselves up.”
Despite the mess, Olivia was still quite happy. She could rest easy now as the three young boys wouldn’t be easily harmed by others.
With a trap like this, anyone who got in would not be able to put up a fight for at least three to four minutes. Even she had failed to dodge the trap, let alone a regular person. That being said, she didn’t expect the boys to be smart enough to set up a trap in their house.
