Chapter 656



Nora narrowed her eyes and looked intently at Old Maddy.

There was silence in the room.

Lily had left the room when the two started talking, and was standing guard in front of the door. The white-walled room seemed completely silent. Apart from the quiet, there was only the smell of pungent disinfectant in the air.

But both Old Maddy and Nora were very used to that smell.

The former had been there for a long time and had already grown accustomed to the smell, while the latter had grown up bathed in it.

When she was in poor health as a child, she was often hospitalized. Her room at home was also sanitized with disinfectants.

Nora squinted slightly. Then, old Maddy said, “After you were born, your mother discovered that the mysterious organization was after her. To ensure your survival, she died before the eyes of the mysterious organization, so that they would not investigate further. But we all knew that they would definitely not stop. Besides, no one could say for sure whether the Grays were legit or not.” Old Maddy looked at her. “Only when you become strong enough can you resist becoming someone else’s pawn. Your mother was backed into a corner at the time because she wasn’t strong enough.”

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She wasn’t strong enough….

Nora was taken aback.

Yvette was capable of shaking up all of New York and plunging it into instability at that time. The medicines she developed – even at this time, after more than twenty years had passed – were still relevant.

She was multifaceted. To this day, she was still a legend in New York.

However, wasn’t someone like her strong enough?

Besides, even now, Nora didn’t believe the mysterious organization was that powerful. In the United States, the special department had cracked down on them completely.

Trueman had been on the verge of being arrested. In the end, he had had to leave the country in a pathetic state to seek refuge abroad.

So, had his mother been wrong in her DECISION?

Would they really have been so scary if he had joined Ian? Also, why didn’t his mother seek asylum from the authorities?

These were all mysteries.

She wanted to ask a question, but Old Maddy had already continued, “To give you the ability to defend yourself, and to give you enough self-confidence to face these things you face today, he had no choice but to inject you with…a serum.”

Nora’s back suddenly went straight. “What?”

Surprise flashed in her eyes. But right after, it turned into a look of understanding!

Truth be told, she had already assumed that she had also been injected with a genetic serum. When Lily checked her DNA some time ago, she discovered that her IQ genes had mutated a bit.

This was also the reason why the DNA comparison between her and Ian had only reached 98% and not the benchmark for a father-daughter similarity.

Perhaps because he saw that she had become a little agitated, Old Maddy hurried to say hello and said, “It was only a little bit! A little bit! Your father and mother are already some of the smartest people in the world, so their daughter’s IQ could never be low. That’s why your mother only injected you with very little serum. There was only a little difference in your DNA compared to Ian, wasn’t there?”

Nora nodded.

It was medically recognized that the genes of a father-daughter pair should be 99.8% similar, but hers and Ian’s were only 98% similar. This indicated that there had indeed been a 1% change.

Moreover, the change had even occurred in the IQ gene.

So, was it because she too had been injected with the genetic serum that she was so intelligent and was able to master so many things so easily?

As she pondered, Old Maddy spoke again. “However, that serum has a side effect – have you always been in poor health?”

Nora was silent.

She had been frail since she was a child and used to get sick easily. She often visited the hospital and had little immunity. As soon as the weather changed, she would inevitably catch a cold. In addition, her stepmother had given her hormone injections that made her put on weight.

So, although she was a fat girl-a fat girl who could fight and a fat girl who was very smart-her constitution was really poor.

In addition, Caleb was also in poor health. When I thought of him, all I could remember was seeing him coughing at the top of his lungs. As for Trueman, his physical condition was currently unknown. Considering how he had kept himself hidden all this time, he probably wasn’t that good either.

But what did this have to do with him having children?

Could it be that…

Nora’s pupils suddenly constricted. Her head snapped up sharply, and she heard Old Maddy say, “Adults can’t resist genetic serum modification at all. Even if they succeed, they will only have two years to live. Even if they don’t die after two years, they will go insane. Children’s bodies have a high level of malleability, but even so, you probably wouldn’t have been able to resist even that much serum. Besides, your IQ genes were close to perfect in the first place, so the serum couldn’t show that much of an effect on you. That’s why, before you were twenty, you needed to expel the excess dose by giving birth.”

Nora was stunned. Her first reaction, however, was to ask, “What about the children, would there be residual serum in the children?”

Old Maddy shook his head. “We don’t know. Your mother didn’t have time to check either. All she wanted was to protect you. I brought it up to her at the time, too. Her response was…”

Old Maddy was quiet for a while before he sighed and said, “…it will be her son. She’ll have to do something about it herself.”

Nora: “…”

She had to check immediately to see if there were any mutations in Cherry and Pete’s genes, as well as if there were any residual genetic serum in them.

She stood up suddenly. As he looked at Old Maddy, he asked another question, “In that case…. Why did the father of my children have to be Justin Hunt?”.

Old Maddy was taken aback. “I wasn’t the one who executed that part of the plan, so I’m not sure. Back then, in addition to me, your mother had two other underlings.”

Old Maddy had been crazy for many years, so he definitely didn’t know the details of Nora’s pregnancy. In other words, if her mother was the one who had plotted her pregnancy, then it was likely that it was the other two who had carried out the plan. I was about to ask when Old Maddy said, “One of them is Charles Ramsey and the other is Ivan Rogers. Charles is very recognizable. He has a mole on his face and there is a lock of hair in the mole.”

Nora: “!!!”

Wasn’t that the lunatic that Jessica had mentioned!!!!

She frowned and looked back at Old Maddy. “How can I contact Charles?”

Old Maddy sighed. “The three of us don’t contact each other much. Besides, it’s been twenty years now. Our methods of contact may have become obsolete.”

However, Nora said firmly, “Tell me.”

Old Maddy was silent for a moment before saying, “For over twenty years, we never told each other our phone numbers. Whenever we got in touch it was always one way. No matter which one of us it was, if we wanted to contact someone, we had to place an ad in the newspaper and clearly state the number of a pay phone and the time in the ad. When the other party saw it, they would look for a pay phone and call you.”

The corners of Nora’s lips twitched. Why were they contacting each other as if they were spies? It was just old-fashioned. Even the three of them were on each other’s guard? What exactly was his mother doing back then? Why did she have three subordinates like that?

It looked like he would have to talk to Old Maddy again about his mother’s past when he had the time.

If they didn’t want the other party to know her phone number, couldn’t they just encrypt it?

He sighed. “Tell me the method of contact.”

Old Maddy nodded.

After telling him the method of contact, he said, “Just publish it in the newspaper.”

“… That would be a hard thing to do.”

Most newspapers were published on the Internet, there weren’t many physical copies anymore. And even if there were, hardly anyone was buying them today.

Old Maddy was also dumbfounded. “What should we do?”

Nora held her forehead. “I have a solution. But first, my last two questions: the first is, do you know why Justin Hunt was chosen as the children’s father?”

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