Chapter 722



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Indeed, seeing the phone number, Iris’s pupils shrank slightly and fear rose in her again.

She wanted to reach for the phone and turn it off, but before she could touch it, a large, well-defined hand grabbed the phone.

Iris’s head snapped up sharply and she looked at Justin in disbelief.

Justin looked at her steadily. His voice was calm and steady, and he seemed able to shield Iris from everything in the world. He said, “Leave me.”

Iris shook her head.

She was very frightened.

Although the Hunts were powerful, they were really no match for globally powerful families that had hundreds – even a thousand – years of history.

She swallowed hard. “Justin, forget it.”

Justin could understand her fear and panic. His mother was worried about him affecting the Hunts for his own business, but she didn’t know that he had another identity powerful enough not to be afraid.

Only, due to certain reasons, he could not reveal that identity of his.

He put his head down and said, “Mom, don’t be afraid.”

After saying that, she picked up the phone, stood up and answered the call. A male voice, deep and pleasant, traveled through the phone, “Iris, you have broken our agreement.”

Nora moved to Iris’s side.

gⱯlnσν𝓮𝓁s․com holds stories for every mood She held Iris’s shoulders and stared at Justin.

Justin said into the phone, “From now on, I will be the one to honor that agreement.”

The original agreement was that Iris would grow old and die alone in the suburban villa as punishment. If she could not restrain herself and approached her son, then Philip would take action against the Hunts and Justin.

When Justin said he would honor the agreement, the man immediately understood what he meant.

Philip scoffed, “Heh, that weak boy back then has grown up and become independent, hasn’t he? In that case, I’ll teach him how to behave.”

As soon as he said that, Iris panicked. She rushed forward and shouted, “Philip, come to me if you want to! Don’t do anything to the child, you…”

But before she could finish, Philip replied, “Iris, it’s all right now!”.

Iris was taken aback.

Philip smiled and said, “You’re not just saying that because you’re so sure I won’t do anything to you? Now that the child has grown up, you can’t blame me for being nasty anymore!”.

He hung up right after saying that.

Iris: “…”

The disconnecting tone of the phone echoed deep in her heart like the beats of a drum, making her feel terribly troubled. She swallowed saliva and looked at Justin, feeling that she had become the Hunt’s sinner.

The most mysterious mega-corporation was about to take action against her son.

Iris gripped Justin’s arm. She wanted to say she would go apologize to the other party, but when the words came to the tip of her tongue, she dared not say them, for if she did, it would be no different than throwing her own pride to the ground and stomping on it.

Iris took a deep breath.

Just as she was filled with worry and fear, she saw Justin step around her and look at Nora. He asked, “Nora, are you afraid?”

Nora raised her eyebrows. The Hunts had offended the world’s most mysterious mega-corporation, which sounded pretty exciting. Besides, if Justin really did lose everything, wouldn’t Pete’s status as the next head of the family be useless?

But…

She sketched a smile and raised her eyes slightly. “It’s okay, if you go broke, I’ll support you…”

After saying that, she saw Iris, so the rest of her words did a 180-degree turn in her mouth and added: “… I’ll support you.”

Justin: “…”

He had originally intended to tell her not to freak out, but he hadn’t expected Nora to say something like that. Suddenly, he felt like going bankrupt for fun.

It seemed like it wasn’t such a bad idea to have a sugar mommy and be kept as her partner….

Ahem.

Iris looked at the two of them, suddenly finding herself at a loss for words.

This must be love.

If she had trusted Philip back then, things wouldn’t have gotten to where they were. Now that she thought about it, what if she had had to fight to the death with her family?

At best, she would have started over from scratch.

The woman in her late fifties was touched by the love between Nora and Justin. It inspired in her the greatest fighting spirit.

She said, “Okay, if we go bankrupt, then…. We’ll let Nora support us!”.

Justin: “…”

The corners of his lips tightened. Those unaware of the situation would have thought that Iris was saying that Nora would support them after he ended up bankrupt!

He couldn’t reveal his identity, but seeing that the two women seemed so full of fighting spirit, he snapped out of his internal struggle. He smiled and said, “Don’t worry, although I would very much like to depend on a woman, I will refrain from trying.” He spoke solemnly. “With me around, the Hunts will not go bankrupt.”

Her son’s firm, confident words made Iris’s fluttering heart calm down.

To be honest, before telling the truth, she had still taken a chance.

She thought that since it had been twenty years, maybe Philip had long forgotten her, or maybe he no longer cared. But now that things had reached this point, it was useless to keep thinking about it.

When he was young, for Justin’s sake, he had suffered so many grievances and wasted twenty years of his youth in this village.

Now that her son had grown up, it was time for him to support and protect her.

After Iris accepted him, she snapped out of her internal struggle. She suggested, “How about we get something to eat before we go?”

“No, that’s okay.”

Justin turned her down. Iris nodded and said, “Well, I’m sure you have a lot of preparations to make. In that case, go ahead!”.

Justin exchanged a look with Nora upon hearing this.

There were some things Justin was embarrassed to say, but Nora understood what he was thinking, so she said, “Well, you do have a lot of things to do, but the most important thing right now is to help you move in, Iris.”

Iris was a little surprised.

She looked at Justin in disbelief, only to see him nod.

Iris bit her lip. “Are you sure that’s not necessary? I’ve gotten used to living here by now.”

“Really?” Nora was a little worried. “But we’ll both be very busy in the future. I was thinking of asking you to look after the three children at home…”

At the mention of children, Iris hesitated.

Nora sighed again. “Pete has been with Justin since he was a baby and he has mild autism. Cherry also really enjoys her grandmother’s company. As for Xander, the situation is even more difficult. That boy was raised by Trueman Yale, so he lacks the companionship of his family and is very insecure. Geez. I wonder if Xander will end up straying down the wrong path in the future…”

Convinced, Iris immediately gritted her teeth and said, “I’ll go with both of them!”.

Iris was someone whose actions spoke louder than words.

Now that they had agreed, she would no longer be afraid. She immediately called Mrs. Landis to pack her things for her.

Justin held her by the shoulders, walked over and said softly, “Mom, when you get back, you have to take over the house.”

Iris wanted to refuse, but Justin said with a cold look, “Grandma is having trouble with Nora. Now that Herman’s back, she’s sure to flinch again. She’s become such a knucklehead, I can’t let her continue to control the house. Otherwise, when Nora marries me in the future, the family will definitely be a big mess.”

Justin sighed. “You don’t understand Nora. The only thing she likes to do is sleep, and the thing she hates the most is annoying things. If she finds out that she’ll have to face so much trouble by marrying me, there’s a good chance she won’t marry me anymore.”

Iris: “…”

Her son was being overly exaggerated. Nora hadn’t even uttered a single word of rebuttal despite the super huge trouble she had just caused. From that alone, one could see that Nora would never refuse to marry him just because of something as trivial as that.

However, her son was right in saying that she should take over the house. That way, when Nora married into the family, there would be much less trouble in handing over the family affairs.

Now that she could do something for them, Iris felt that her return was no longer entirely futile.

There were nearly a hundred pots of orchids in the greenhouse. But with just a call from Justin, more than twenty bodyguards came in one by one and began to remove the flowers.

Watching them come in and out, Nora approached Justin and remarked, “Pete said you always take more than twenty bodyguards with you when you go out. So it’s true.”

Justin nodded. “Yes, sometimes I carry more.”

Since he was kidnapped at age five and subsequently rescued, Justin always traveled with that many people.

Nora looked at him silently with a look of pity in her eyes.

Justin thought she felt sorry for him because he had been kidnapped at a young age, but in the end, Nora unexpectedly said something that totally ruined the mood, “How afraid of dying are you!”

How afraid was I!

Justin “…”

The night was so nice and so was the atmosphere. There was a romantic atmosphere in the air even until the woman spoke, how did it get ruined the moment she spoke! The corners of her lips tightened.

The group eventually broke up.

Nora was on her way to the lab to continue her investigation into Xander’s affairs. For her, as important as something was, and as great as the Hunt fortune was, Xander’s affairs had to be dealt with first.

Because in three days it would be time for his V15 injection.

Nora had debated whether or not to inject him.

Would she really die if she was not injected with the genetic serum?

Was the gene serum really lethal, or was it more like a drug addiction that had to be continually consumed? I had to study it and find out well before the deadline.

Besides, since Philip had said he was going to take action against the Hunts, it was definitely not going to be something he could accomplish with a few words.

He also had to make preparations. It would take a few days for things to ferment. Therefore, his main task during these three days would still be to study V15.

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At the hospital.

When Nora arrived at the lab, Lily was analyzing the V15 components. Seeing Nora enter, Lily immediately said, “Chief, indeed the serum components are not analyzable. It’s too complex, I’m afraid it will take us a few years to study it thoroughly.”

Nora was not surprised.

If the genetic serum formula were so easy to analyze, Trueman and the others would not have pursued her mother so persistently.

Twenty-five years had passed, and yet Trueman and the others were still pinning their hopes for clues on her. In that case, it certainly had to be a Herculean task.

To be honest, Nora was already expecting the results, but she still couldn’t get her head around the idea.

She nodded her head. “I’ll handle it.”

Lily stepped back and Nora sat down. She had several instruments in her hands and was separating the components of the serum, hoping to find clues in it.

Three days later. Nora’s eyes were bloodshot and she had dark circles under her eyes.

After three consecutive days of sleepless work, she had finally obtained the V15 formula, but at the same time, her heart was also sinking.

It was really a gene repair drug and not some kind of narcotic.

In other words, Xander had to be injected with the drug, otherwise he really would die.

He took a deep breath.

A while later, he pulled out his phone and called Caleb, who was overseas.

As soon as the call connected, Caleb said, “Nora, I’ve been waiting for your call.” Nora was quiet for a while before she asked, “Is it necessary to inject him with V15?” “Yes, it is.” Caleb said, “If you don’t, the repair of the previously repaired genes will not be adequate, and his brain will explode, which will surely kill him. I’ve already researched it: Xander’s modifications are in the genes in his brain. If V15 is not injected at the stipulated time, he will die.”

Nora sighed. “The V15 formula doesn’t seem very complex.”

“Yes, none of the formulas from V1 to V15 are complex. The most complex is V16. Also, there are some types of genetic sera. Some improve IQ and some improve physical strength. The formulas from V1 to V15 are all different for each type of serum. The only thing they have in common is that they all need the last V16.”

Hearing this, Nora’s pupils shrank.

Caleb sighed. “I’m dying, so I don’t need V16 anymore. However, every genetically modified person would need the V16 in the end. Therefore, you should know the importance of V16 now, right?”.

Nora nodded to express that she had understood.

No wonder her mother had told her that she shouldn’t expose her abilities, lest she end up being a target.

It was possible that some of the most remarkable people in the world were genetically modified humans. Besides, there were many people who needed the V16 as an antidote.

Suddenly she felt even more pressure.

With such a group of people looking for her, could she really get the V16 for Xander?

Besides…

If what her mother had left behind was really the formula…. If she really did produce the V16, thus removing the last restriction on successful genetic modifications, what would the world become?

Would someone deliberately train a group of genetically modified warriors and unify the world?

Or would humans with genetically modified IQ genes develop at great speed and deplete the Earth’s resources in a dozen years, or perhaps just a few?

He dared not imagine such consequences.

But as things stood, he didn’t have time to worry about such things either.

Nora said, “I see.”

Caleb was silent for a while. Suddenly, he said, “I didn’t expect Xander to be your son, too. Don’t worry, I’ll get back to you in time if I find clues about V16.”

Nora had struggled to find clues from the things her mother had left behind, but still couldn’t find any.

It would be best if Caleb would let her know if he found any clues.

Nora replied, “Thank you very much.”

Caleb was silent for a while before finally saying, “You’re welcome.” After hanging up the phone, Nora called Justin.

The phone only rang once before Justin answered. He asked, “How are you doing?”

Nora was silent for a moment. Finally, she said, “Let’s give him a shot.”

When Justin heard this, he knew immediately that the serum was safe and could be injected as is. But at the same time, the injection would only prolong Xander’s life by three months.

If they still couldn’t find the V16 in three months, Xander would die. He said, “Okay.” Before hanging up, Nora asked, “How’s Xander?”

“He’s been fine the last few days, but today he started having a headache when he woke up. I got the family doctor to inject him with an anesthetic, so he’s asleep now.” Justin explained Xander’s condition, “I will now inject him with the gene serum.”

“Okay, I’m on my way. Watch all of Xander’s reactions after the injection.”

“Okay.”

Nora left and drove straight to the Hunts.

The car stopped right in front of the villa. When she got in, she saw that Justin had not yet injected Xander with the serum. When he saw her, he explained, “Our medical team is constantly watching Xander’s condition, so it won’t cause any delay. I wanted you to see for yourself.”

Nora nodded.

There would probably be physical reactions after the injection. These were important clues and experimental data, which could play a certain role in Nora’s further research and development of V16.

Unfortunately Nora realized, after studying V15, that she would probably not be able to develop V16 in just three months with her own skills.

Her only option now was to search for the clues her mother had left her.

Xander was lying quietly in bed. She personally injected Xander with V15. Slowly, the liquid was injected into his body. Xander, who had been under anesthesia, suddenly opened his eyes after the serum was injected.

His eyes were clean and clear, as if he had not been affected at all.

He sat up in a daze. He looked at Nora and then at Justin. Then he rubbed his head.

Justin asked nervously, “Are you uncomfortable anywhere?”

Xander shook his head, his big eyes full of puzzlement. He replied, “I don’t feel any discomfort. It’s just that a Math Olympiad problem I was discussing with Pete yesterday has suddenly become very simple…”

This was the consequence of taking the genetic serum to improve IQ.

It looked like Xander’s IQ would be the highest in the family in the future.

Nora looked at all the numerical data in Xander’s body. In the end, she concluded that everything in Xander’s body was normal.

It was so normal that Nora even wondered if she had been tricked by Trueman.

Had she made the right decision in injecting Xander with the V15 or not?

Then, someone pushed the door open. Pete and Cherry followed Iris obediently, and the three of them approached together. When they saw Xander sitting down, the three of them let out a huge held breath.

The two children and Iris’s movements were exactly the same, which gave them a sense of joy.

Nora and Justin looked at each other and smiled.

However, Nora’s mood became heavier and heavier.

The more the genetic serum was understood, the more she would realize how amazing it was.

It was too unhuman.

She sighed quietly.

Just then, they suddenly heard a noise coming from downstairs.

Justin came down the stairs and saw Herman standing there. When Herman saw him, he immediately shouted, “Justin, have you turned into a knucklehead? How can you let Iris come back here? Do you have any idea of the great disaster she will bring to the Hunts by coming back here?”

Herman was furious. He pointed at Iris and said, “And you too. It doesn’t matter that you have offended an influential person, but you still have the nerve to come back here now? Will you really only stop when you have implicated all the Hunts! Leave the Hunt mansion immediately! Otherwise, the Hunts will really be in big trouble.”

Iris frowned.

Regarding that, she had no right to speak.

Justin stepped forward and asked, “Where is the butler, who let him in?”

The butler was wiping his sweat silently at his side. It didn’t matter, Herman was still Justin’s father. The bodyguards dared not take any real action against him when he barged in.

The butler did not speak. Instead, it was Herman who shouted angrily, “Do you know that Philip Coleman has already started taking action against the Hunts? I hear he’s been making a large-scale takeover of Hunt Corporation stock, our stock price is going through the roof right now. Many of the shareholders have decided to sell their shares. He has made a decision to take over Hunt Corporation.”

Justin calmly replied, “Yes, I know.”

“You know, are you sure you know, with the stock getting more and more expensive, we will have less and less liquidity to buy back the stock! At the same time, we will also have less and less shares in our hands. I know you’ve also been secretly sending people to buy them back, but how can the Hunt’s cash flow compare to theirs? They’ve accumulated generations of wealth! No one knows how many billions of dollars they have! Can you beat them? As far as I know, the Hunts only have a few hundred billion dollars of cash flow.”

Herman pointed at him. Then he lowered his voice and said, “I also heard another important piece of news: I heard that Philip is a member of the Imperial League. Do you know what the Imperial League is?” he asked.

“The dozen people there control world economic trends! The Hunts can’t beat them at all! What they’re doing is no different from risking the entire Hunt Corporation! Everyone already knows it and everyone is waiting to laugh at the Hunts…! Your uncle’s family is also waiting for you to resign.”

After saying all that, Herman continued anxiously and angrily. “You are my son, so I will definitely have to take your side. Justin, your only choice now is to expel Iris or send her to Philip. Otherwise, you won’t be able to appease their anger. Our family can’t afford to mess with them! The Imperial League! They’re part of the Imperial League, you know!”

Justin frowned as he heard him say the wrong thing, and the look in his eyes turned cold.

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