Chapter 551 You Again
Carmelo gazed at the closed door sinisterly from inside the room. He let out a long sigh and slumped onto the couch after making sure Ryan had left and walked some distance away.
Carmelo reached out his trembling right hand to lift up his pajamas and narrowed his eyes at his stomach. Under the bright lights, he saw that his stomach had deflated entirely as if he had been left unfed and hungry for an extended period.
Even his ribs were clearly visible on his chest. The multiple black spots of various sizes that covered Carmelo’s skin were even more frightening.
Those spots layered his skin as if he had contracted a fungal infection. Some spots had even merged to form a sizeable infected area.
If anyone with experience in dealing with corpses witnessed Carmelo’s condition, they would be scared out of their wits because the dark spots on his body were caused by the process of hypostasis.
That was a condition that could only be observed in a dead person.
Carmelo put down his shirt and gritted his teeth.
This body cannot last much longer. That brat, Ryan, has already noticed something is wrong. It seems like I’ve been too impatient.
With his eyes boring into the door, Carmelo’s breathing turned labored. After Ryan achieves the Superior Realm, his body would be filled with the spiritual energy of that realm. When that happens, it would be the best time for me to steal and possess his body. However, if he refuses to cultivate and cooperate, I have no choice but to take the risk.
Inside the Hart residence at Summerbank, Leslie leaned against the couch while slowly puffing out a cloud of smoke.
Sitting opposite her was a middle-aged man, who was putting down the cup of coffee in his hand.
“Leslie, you should smoke less.”
She nodded after hearing that. Then, she took another deep puff before putting out the cigarette in the ashtray.
“Dad, I dare say the recent cases involving those missing people must be related to the Jensen family.”
Leslie got to her feet and picked up a piece of paper from the cluttered tabletop.
“This man, Ryan Leiter, is the most influential underground leader who emerged in Summerbank lately. I looked into him, but there was plenty of missing information about his life, so I failed to acquire any useful evidence. It is as if he has lived the first part of his life for the purpose of evading others’ investigation.”
Hearing Leslie’s words, Steven Hart received the document containing Ryan’s details.
“Are you saying that this Ryan Leiter’s identity is a fake?”
“This is just my suspicion. I do not have any proof to support my claim yet.”
As she spoke, she walked to the side and flipped over a two-meter-wide whiteboard.
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