Chapter 963



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Nora sighed quietly. “I’ve had my doubts all along. I already had my suspicions when I first tried to capture Trueman.”

Caleb was puzzled. Nora lowered her gaze. “When we were trying to capture Trueman that time, I found the hotel where he was staying, but it was you who got out of it instead… subsequently, when we tried to capture Trueman a second time, he escaped and the special department caught you instead. Come to think of it, you must have allowed yourself to be captured on purpose, right?”

Caleb nodded. “Yes, I wanted to work with the special department so I could destroy the mysterious organization.”

Nora was silent for a moment. Then she said, “I was very puzzled at the time. All of our arrangements were proper and in place, so how on earth had Trueman escaped? During that time, I had even monitored all inbound and outbound activity at immigration, but there was no word of Trueman leaving the country. He seemed both mysterious and powerful enough that he could come and go as he pleased, but I’ve never believed that anyone in this world could completely avoid leaving traces of his existence as if he had never existed.”

Caleb sighed. “I didn’t expect you to have suspected me so soon.”

“At the time, I was only a little suspicious of you, but it didn’t occur to me that you might be Trueman. After all, when you were detained in the special department, I was conversing with Trueman all the time. This allayed my suspicions. What really made me suspicious of you was when you were sick and hospitalized some time ago… I went to visit you and the nurse who was taking care of you said you had been burned with hot water…. But if your genetic modification was heat resistance, how could you get burned? In that case, there could only be one reason why you were lying. Your heat resistance ability hadn’t been modified at all… but five children had survived in the lab around that time, and this was something all five of them knew… it only occurred to me later that, even if all five knew of the existence of the others, it might be possible that, apart from you, the rest were completely unaware of the identity of the others.”

Caleb nodded. “You’ve deduced everything correctly.”

He looked down and explained, “When I went to the special department back then, I purposely let myself get caught. To prevent anyone from recognizing me as Trueman, my people pretended to be me all the time. My subordinates were also trying to protect me at the time. After all, even though the genetic serum makes it look like I have lung cancer, the cough is real. Taking the medicine relieves my discomfort and eases the pain… cough, cough…”

At that point, Caleb covered his mouth again and started coughing.

Nora waited for quite a while before Caleb finally stopped coughing. She said, “After escaping from the mysterious organization back then, the person whose heat-resistant genes were enhanced just wanted to be a normal person, even if it meant he could only live to be thirty. He begged me to help him hide his identity. It turns out that I needed a public identity, so I agreed. He now leads a very quiet life and doesn’t want to be bothered by the outside world. He also leads a very innocent life…so I don’t want to tell you who he is…”

Nora pursed her lips. “It’s Professor Epson, isn’t it?”

As soon as she said that, Caleb looked at her in astonishment and unconsciously asked, “How did you know?”

Nora replied, “When Barbarian was holding him hostage and asked him about the gene serum, he had answered immediately. But during the whole time I had been at Staav University, I had not heard about the gene serum at all from any of the other professors. It was obvious that the subject was not well known; only people who had great interest in it would know about it. Besides, Barbarian didn’t know who he was at the time. After throwing him into the lab and setting him on fire, everyone who came in to rescue him, including my classmates, were injured, but he was not. That’s when I became suspicious of Professor Epson…”

Caleb: “…”

Nora nodded. “Yes, he certainly leads a very innocent life.”

Professor Epson certainly led an innocent life, didn’t he? He devoted his life to genetic serum research, And his only goal was to outdo Anti! At the thought of that man who considered her his imaginary enemy, Nora shook her head wryly. “I won’t do anything to him.”

“… Okay.”

Caleb replied again before letting out a quiet sigh and commenting, “You really are very smart.”

“No, I’m not smart enough. If I really was that smart…. Back then, you told me not to trust anyone so easily, and I never once suspected you… even if I had doubts about everyone, the fact that you and Trueman had appeared at the same time was already enough to dispel my suspicions. It was only when I connected the dots about Aunt Queenie that the fake Trueman gave me a new perspective…”

After Nora explained all this clearly, she looked at Caleb again. “But none of this is important anymore. What matters now is… I want to know what they’re planning. Besides, does Trueman know what you’re thinking?”

Caleb looked at her and looked down. “He doesn’t know.”

Caleb rubbed his temples, apparently with a headache. “We just switch back and forth frequently when I want to talk to him or vice versa. We both have control over this body, but he’s getting stronger and stronger, so he’s already slowly replacing me…. Nora, now I will tell you my plans. I hope you can go with him. Don’t worry about exactly where he will take you for now. As far as I know, he doesn’t have much ill will towards you; he just sees you as a toy. He likes to tame people and your stubbornness challenges his authority. Spend some time with him while I take the opportunity to find out where he’s hidden the V16…”

Nora was astonished. “Didn’t Trueman inject the V16 right away when he got it?”

Caleb looked at her. “I stopped him from doing so.”

Nora was taken aback.

Caleb sighed. “For this body to take any action, both he and I must come to a consensus first. Although, if I take a forceful approach to something, he won’t be able to go against my will. After all, I am the main person now. But…if he eventually overpowers me, then I won’t be able to leave anymore…when that happens, he can inject himself with V16. Nora, time is running out. Listen to me, I’ve lived long enough, so the V16 must be left for Xander. I want all sins to end with me. Do you understand? Do as I say!”

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