Chapter 449 The Girl Who Made Herself Seen
“This is bad.”
Dr. Thorne set down the old–fashioned teacup in his hand.
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“I said before that we couldn’t detect those insectoids because they remained dormant even after forming a symbiotic relationship with the human body. But what if the humans never controlled them? What if the creatures were only waiting for the moment when someone would awaken all of them at once?”
A synchronized awakening.
Only two words.
They dropped the temperature in the conference room to ice.
Julian alone was looking elsewhere. Daniel held Elsie in his arms, his face twisted with helpless pain as his daughter struggled to breathe.
Julian spoke calmly.
“Adrian, buy her the best gene–repair serum available. Pay for it yourself.”
Adrian froze.
Julian continued, “He helped me once. The me who had to work at the pharmacy to survive, who knew almost nothing, and who might have gone hungry if he hadn’t taught me patiently, step by step.”
Aren’t you consumed by guilt?
This may be the only thing you can still do for Julian Shaw.
Adrian did not understand the deeper meaning of Julian’s words. He did, however, approach every responsibility with complete seriousness. Daniel had also once helped his younger brother.
After Elsie and the others finished identifying the nun and Julian erased their memories, Adrian sought out the father and daughter himself.
aluable. We we can’t accept it…”
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including cancer and leukemia, had become easy to cure.
Genetic disorders caused by cosmic radiation were the exception.
One standard dose of gene–repair serum cost 200,000 credits, and it could stabilize the condition only temporarily.
Premium formulas routinely cost millions. No ordinary household could afford one.
Money alone was not enough, either.
There was a waiting list.
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That was why Daniel insisted the gift was too precious. They could not take it. They truly coul
not.
Elsie reacted in the exact opposite way.
Under Adrian’s gaze, she lifted the vial as though she were holding the possibility of life itself.
“Colonel Whitmore, please thank His Grace for my father and me. I’m glad that what I did made him notice me. I’ll be grateful to him for the rest of my life, and I’ll be grateful to you
too.”
Daniel was an honest, kind ordinary man. Years ago, a moment of compassion had led him to help the original Julian. He had never considered asking the Julian of today for repayment.
Elsie had remembered every detail.
She dragged her father into the sewer. She endured the filthy water and fought to stay alive. When the military questioned the survivors, she stepped forward at the first opportunity.
Everything she did had one purpose.
She wanted to be seen.
An ordinary person could not reach the heavens.
Elsie still chose to gamble once on her own life.
By then, she had already forgotten what she had witnessed.
She had won the gamble anyway.
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“This is your reward for giving the military critical intelligence.”
One card.
One million credits.
Elsie’s intelligence and refusal to surrender had saved her. They would also transform the lives of both father and daughter.
“You aren’t going to meet them yourself?”
Behind the one–way glass, Rowan asked the question gently from Julian’s side.
“No.”
Julian turned and walked away.
Independent cultivators kept their hearts cold. He did not pity the original owner of the body, nor did he feel sorry for Daniel and Elsie. He had inherited this body’s karma and therefore had to repay the favor on the original Julian’s behalf.
But he admired Elsie.
For a moment, he had seen the ugly child in her — the version of himself who once stumbled forward through the darkness.
And just as Elsie had Daniel beside her, that ugly child had possessed the Orion ghost.
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