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“Him?” Katie cut in. “He was one of the people who fabricated evidence. He even slandered me, claiming I was a prostitute, all to clear Andy of any guilt. Later, I heard he was fired by his tutoring agency, but Paul paid to set him up with a brand–new one.”
Ray froze for a moment. “So Paul was involved in abusing female students too?”
Otherwise, why would he keep supporting that man after his own son was dead–especially keeping him in the exact same line of work?
To say Paul wasn’t involved? Only a fool would believe that.
For all anyone knew, father and son might have taken turns–or even acted together. It just happened that only Andy was involved that time with Katie.
Ray despised those two pieces of trash. But going out of his way to hunt them down in some corner of Senna City and kill them? That was never going to happen.
His feelings for the Cora sisters simply weren’t that deep. And they never would be.
In this lifetime, he had already sealed off his emotions. With women, he only sought pleasure–at most, favor.
Love? What a joke.
The moment his ex–wife’s family stabbed him in the back, the moment he learned that the son he’d raised wasn’t even his, his heart had closed for good. It would never open again for any woman, no matter how beautiful.
Take Lucy, for example–she was the definition of top–tier beauty. Yet, Ray had never once thought of courting her. His plan had been simple: after the apocalypse, overwhelm her with resources until she surrendered.
Too bad fate had other ideas–she’d been called away by her best friend.
Still, there was always another chance.
Maybe… hehe, he could take both someday.
Lucy was a smart woman. After surviving a few months in the apocalypse, she would naturally shed her naivety. She wouldn’t dream of becoming his girlfriend–let alone his wife–and driving all the other women away.
When the three–day deadline expired, Jon was finally caught, barely alive.
He was badly injured. His right arm was broken, hanging at an unnatural angle. His left eye was blind, blood streamed from his nose and mouth–it was obvious he’d taken a brutal beating.
Ray kept his word. He handed over some food and sent the others away.
Jon still refused to give up.
“Ray, you don’t actually have to kill me,” he said. “You have overwhelming strength, but I have a brilliant mind. I can help you manage these people. This is a chaotic era–and chaos breeds heroes! With me assisting you, you could even become a king!”
He sounded as if he truly believed it himself. His remaining eye gleamed with manic light.
“With this extreme weather, the nation has already collapsed. We, men of humble origins, can all contend for supremacy–fight for the throne!”
Ray couldn’t help thinking, ‘Have you been watching too many TV dramas? Even using phrases like men of humble origins now?
Ray smiled faintly. “First, I don’t have ambitions that big. I don’t even want to manage something as small as this residential
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complex–let alone dream about becoming King. Second, no one knows when this extreme weather will end. How exactly do you plan to unify the country? Or the world?
“You can’t even leave this complex. Stop talking nonsense in front of me. Jon, I’ll ask you just one thing. Do you regret becoming my enemy?”
Jon nodded bitterly. “I regret it. My greatest mistake was provoking you.”
Ray smiled. “Exactly. That’s why you should repent.”
As he spoke, he launched a stone from his otherworldly storage space.
It smashed straight into Jon’s left knee.
“Aaaaah-!”
Jon let out a bloodcurdling scream. His left leg was nearly torn apart at the joint, thigh and calf barely connected, flesh mangled
and soaked in blood.
Ray continued firing stones.
After a few more strikes, Jon’s screams faded into silence.
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