Chad raised his eyes insensibly and found a pair of large, blood-stained, but bony palms clutching his wrist.
It was Melvin who woke up.
Not only that, his strength was also restored because of the injection of 023 antidote.
He slept in the recliner and looked sideways at Chad. His thin and bloodied lips were making a soft smile.
"I'm not so easy to die yet. What's your hurry?"
"Boss!"
Surprise flashed in Chad's eyes, then he continued to cry, "You scared the shit out of me! I thought you'd really fucking died!"
Brad was young and had just been terrified.
The two men bawled in front of Melvin without regard to their images. They cried for a while and then began to laugh. While laughing, the tears were still streaming down. Their expressions were very comical.
Melvin gently patted Chad's shoulder and reassured him, "I was just so tired that my heart and pulse only stopped temporarily with the influence of the S404 virus. But I could actually hear everything you said."
"You can hear me! But you didn't say anything!" Chad was furious and angrily hammered his arm.
The asshole boss! He cheated!
And he caused his image to be tarnished!
Melvin's brows furrowed and he grunted in pain.
"I'm sorry. My hands are out of control!" Chad was chagrined and gave his right hand a whack with his left hand.
Melvin sat up with the help of his own hands, "Okay, tell me about this inhibitor."
Chad wiped the tears from his face and turned his head to look at Brad.
Brad understood and began to report in earnest, "Doctor Y was shocked to learn that you were mistakenly hit by the S404 virus, but this inhibitor cannot cure the disease. It can only temporarily suppress the virus from continuing to spread so that your body can recover for a short period of time. The effect of the drug will last for a week at most..."
A week.
That meant he can stay in Frayton for seven more days at most ...
Chad also said, "Boss, you must go back to receive treatment this time. Doctor Y has started to develop the antidote. You need to go back for blood tests. Don't you want to go on with Miss Carroll after you are cured?"
Melvin pursed his lips tightly and fell into silence.
Lyra's phone still had his promise to disappear completely from her world after a year, and it wasn't easy to stay by her side for a long time. He had to give it some thought.
He mulled it over, remembering what Brad said last time about the plan ...
As he was thinking, he suddenly felt someone was picking his clothes.
He looked back and realized it was Chad.
"What are you doing?"
Chad: "Boss, ordinary hospital’s prescribed medicine can not cure the injury on your back. Doctor Y took the ointment for S404 burns. You have to let me apply this!"
That was right.
Melvin didn't refuse, put his fingertips around the buttons and haughtily removed his dark suit, then his shirt, to reveal his lean and perfect body.
There was a palm-sized burn in the middle of the originally well-defined back muscle.
The wound was still bright red and hideous after three days, and the flesh on it had begun to rot, which was miserable.
Chad, who was a ruthless person, could not help but hiss gently when he looked at it.
He sent Brad to the bathroom to bring a basin of hot water and used a towel to first wipe the blood off the wound on Melvin's back. And then he used a tweezers to pick off the rotting flesh from his wound.
Melvin's head was covered in cold sweat. His veins were bulging, and his jawline was taut.
Chad was a little distressed and remembered the anesthesia gun they brought, "Boss, why don't I give you a shot of anesthesia? This hurts too much."
"It's okay. I have got the 023 antidote. I can endure it."
Chad had no choice but to continue applying.
The floor was covered with blood, and Brad cleaned it up while Chad was applying medicine for his boss.
Then Brad glanced at the gate outside the villa. Some figures were hurriedly running towards this side.
He stopped moving his hands suspiciously, took a closer look, and his pupils dilated, "Miss Carroll is back with Twelve and Nineteen!"
Melvin wrinkled his brows, "She's so fast?"
Brad took another look, "She ran back on foot without Anthony."
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