Silly Bride

Chapter 270

nerves and slowing down a person’s reaction, among other various irreversible effects.No. 53 was too powerful and destructive. Hence, after the experiment failed back then, Riley sealed it away. He never thought his own granddaughter would steal it.At the time, he hadn’t tried to escape yet, and he hadn’t created a drug that would satisfy Harold. Thus, he could only meet with Yulissa once a month back then.He never imagined his granddaughter would steal the deadly poison he had locked inside his laboratory.“How could you, Yulissa? By doing this, how are you any different from Harold and the others?” Riley stared at his granddaughter with teary eyes. “Did you bring the antidote with you? If you did, take it out now.”Being reprimanded by her grandfather sent Yulissa into a state of disbelief. “Grandpa, who do you think I’m doing this for? I did it all for you. How could you say that to me? How could you compare me to that animal, Harold?”Filled with disappointment and sorrow, he repeated, “Yulissa, give me the antidote first.”“Are you not even going to comfort me, Grandpa? How could you still be asking me about the antidote?” She was growing agitated. “No! There is no antidote! I may be the granddaughter of the famous Professor White, but I’m not a genius chemist! While I can fumble my way through making No. 53, I lack the ability to develop a cure! Why else do you think Xavier and his woman risked their lives to rescue you from Harold’s den? They don’t give a d*mn about your survival! Their goal couldn’t be any more obvious, which is to bring you home so you can create an antidote for them!”“But you’re the one who injected No. 53 into Xavier, Yulissa.” Riley’s heart broke as he faced his granddaughter. “Based on what you said, it seems that this isn’t the first time you’ve used it. I developed No. 53, and now that you’ve abused it, I have the responsibility to create an antidote for it. We should atone for this sin.”“Grandpa…” Yulissa was choking and sobbing uncontrollably as she exclaimed, “What are you saying, Grandpa? We’ve always been the victims! Why should we atone? What did I do wrong? I was forced to do what I did! You were forced, too, to help Harold for so many years!” “All the more reason we need to atone! Quickly, help me find out if there’s any water around! Xavier needs a lot of water right now.”Shaking her head, she refused, “No! I won’t help him do anything!”“Yulissa.” Riley’s heart ached terribly. “Will you not listen to what I say anymore?”Tears covered her face. “What about me? Who’ll listen to me?”“Fine, there are other people around.” Upon scanning his surrounding, Riley realized that, after the firefight, both Xavier’s and Yulissa’s mercenaries had gone down.Aside from the three of them, only Jacinta and Christopher were left on the rooftop.Jacinta couldn’t move due to her leg injury, but Christopher still could, even though his condition wasn’t great.Thus, Riley asked Christopher for help. “Can you check if there’s any water in the tank over there? Xavier needs a large amount of water to dilute the toxin in his blood.”“I’ll check it right now.” Without delay, Christopher went to the water tank and kicked the protective door below it open.Behind the door was a valve and a reel of hose.He immediately turned on the valve. A few seconds later, water rapidly flowed out of the hose.The water seemed fresh, and it didn’t have any impurities or odd smells.After he tasted the water and found no problems with it, he dragged the hose to Xavier’s side.Under Riley’s instruction, Xavier was forced to guzzle plenty of water.It wasn’t until Xavier’s condition gradually stabilized that the old man let out a sigh of relief.However, that stability was only a sign of temporary relief from the poison’s symptoms. While Xavier’s breathing had mostly returned to normal, his mood was still affected by the drug.Much like every previous instance of his condition acting up, he grew violent as his eyes turned red.However, he still retained some rationality as he pushed Riley away and warned, “Stay far away from me. I don’t want to hurt any of you by accident when my condition acts up. Take away my gun, too. Don’t put it in front of me.”“Okay!” Immediately, Riley picked the gun up. He had always hated cold, merciless weapons that