Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

424 Maverick’s plan

Nancy stayed silent for a while. “You’re right. Maybe I shouldn’t have married him but rather tortured him… maybe I shouldn’t have made an enemy out of Alex,” She mumbled inaudibly. 1

Every intelligent person always has a flaw. Maybe this is her price to pay for being too smart, she sighed softly.

“I’ll send out men to take care of Ani on your behalf. After that, you won’t demand revenge from my men. They followed my orders to torture Alex, so I’ll take the responsibility.”

Jeslyn looked at Nightcrawler who had his head down before she replied, “Fine… before I leave, can you tell me one last thing?” when she saw that Nancy’s attention was on her, she continued, “Your sickness, what is it about?”

“Why do you want to know? I don’t need your pity.”

“Who cares about that? I just want to know when I should prepare a funeral dress. I want to appear as the most gorgeous guest to send you off…”

“Miss! That’s disrespectful!” Nightcrawler frowned.

Nancy raised her hand, “An honest enemy is better than a pretentious friend. Jeslyn is not wrong… You should take care of your health, otherwise, you will turn out like me.”

Jeslyn frowned, “What do you mean?“.

“The rainborite ore disappeared after my involvement. Now it seems there’s no cure for the virus anymore.”

Jeslyn bolted up, “Y–you- that was the effect of ATOM?!” She panicked. The way she met Nancy earlier is not something she would want to experience. Not now, not ever?!

“Hm…”

inform Doc Matt as soon as possible. Maybe he can find a solution after seeing

ran out.

the Dark

Maverick and his men were able to launch a surprise attack and sneak into the facility. They

barrier which forcefully ejected the intruders out of the facility. Now, Maverick and his people couldn’t enter the facility after attempting to break

have no idea how much time had gone. They only go to sleep when their body feels tired and can no longer function without

used to disappear after 20 hours like Maverick calculated but now, the ‘sun‘ was

the hours. If they don’t get out of this desert as soon as possible, they

from the heat.

was transformed into sun in the Visual world, would be fun to watch, he thought. So he ordered his computer experts to

Maverick finally decided they’d push the plan B forward, else they’d all

seen in one of the tents, sitting in front of three computers that were connected

last resort, so no mistake is

took from Damien into the system and started working. His goal was to hack into the facility’s Core and upgrade the Visual World so he

sound coming from the keyboards sounded like

black–hooded cloak, walked into the control room with two

The leader, who was supervising the team, got up from his seat and bowed in greeting and the others

mask gave no room for his lips to be seen, except that there were holes in the black

confidence, “They are just putting up a last struggle.,

me Alpha Chaos, with that said, he left the control room.

have you reconsidered? Do you want to spare the formal Holy Son?”

to look at him. “He brought war to my abode and you want me

the Young Miss will be

deep breath and resumed his walk. A moment later, he asked, “Didn’t Elder