Clarice turned around, her eyes scanning the empty hallway as an icy chill ran down her spine.

She had heard someone calling her "Rosalind Gold", a name she had long since abandoned. That was a remnant of a past she believed she had put to rest for good. Yet now, it was resurfacing, threatening to drag her back into memories she had sworn to kill.

For years, she believed she had cut off all ties with her former self, but hearing the name she had carried for over two decades still triggered an instinctive response.

"Dr. Amaryllis!" At that moment, a man who appeared to be a director approached with a respectful smile, followed by two medical staff.

"I've prepared the latest batch of drugs. Should we administer it to the test subjects today?"

"How many times must I tell you?" Clarice's voice turned icy as she fixed her gaze on him." They are not test subjects. They are patients. Don't make it sound as if we're monsters."

The man chuckled and responded, "Of course, you're absolutely right!"

"By the way," Clarice added, her eyes narrowing slightly. "Did you see anyone suspicious while you were on your way here?"

The trio exchanged confused glances.

"Suspicious? No, Dr. Amaryllis. This place is tightly guarded-it's almost impossible for anyone unauthorized to sneak in."

complacent. We're in Savrow now, not Meridan.

summoned to the hospital

spotted a couple of medical staff wheeling a hospital bed in his direction. At first, he paid it

me...

gaze dropped to

deathly pale and trembling. Her thin arm, peeking out from

narrowed, and he paused in his steps. The girl's tear-filled eyes locked onto his, brimming with

in his life and even more people on the brink of death. But this girl's gaze struck him in a way that his cold soul

full of hopelessness, was wheeled

of the medical staff by the arm,

Amaryllis instructed us to deal with her as

he asked, "Was it

discussing the weather. "But even if it hadn't, she's terminally ill. She'd die sooner

her out of her misery?" Jace's fists clenched involuntarily, the veins

as a virtuous man, but the inhumanity of these people scraped against the last shreds of his

as ever. "I'll be meeting the Boss shortly. You're responsible for watching over that man tonight. This is a direct order

at her, his expression dark and unreadable, as though he

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