The Ex and Her Riches

Chapter 685

Joshua noticed Cedrick’s unusually stern expression. “What’s on your mind, Cedrick?”

Cedrick was staring at the cover of the book, Abnormal Psychology, and thinking about what Benedict had said to him earlier in the ward.

“Benny told me a professor in the lab gave it to him, so I came to ask you since you were with him the most. Who else spends that much time with him?”

He wanted to know if it was a coincidence or a deliberate act to give a five-year-old child something so disturbing.

“I’ll look into it,” Joshua promised. “I wouldn’t be too worried, though, Cedrick. It must have been a coincidence.”

Cedrick nodded.

Five minutes later, Joshua found out from the professors on duty in the laboratory that it was given by a biochemist named Eugene Yortz.

Eugene was an elderly professor of about sixty, with a snow-white beard, a straight nose, and chiseled features.

He was not Chanaean. Instead, he was sent from Astoria as part of a collaborative project.

Joshua led Cedrick to Eugene’s office to pay the professor a visit.

“Eugene is a strange fellow,” he warned Cedrick in a whisper along the way. “Aside from having a funny character, he’s withdrawn, easily irritable, obsessed with research, and has zero regard for interpersonal communication skills. The things he does sometimes are bizarre.”

Behind his back, the other professors called him Professor Nuts.

After listening intently, Cedrick mulled it over for a while.

life to research, he seemed to have become an entirely different person. However, Eugene is different. He is sixty years of age. Having had enough of his eccentricity, his ex-wife left him long ago. As he has no children and did not bother remarrying over the past decade, he

he was thinking, the pair found themselves

speak to him, Cedrick. He’s a man who never flatters anyone. He does what he wants and speaks his mind when something displeases him. He doesn’t care who you are or what power you wield. Everybody is subjected

thought that he quite

like that give Benedict as strange a journal as Abnormal

eyes, Cedrick knocked on

Knock, knock, knock.

thrice in

was there

on business,” Joshua said. “Why don’t I keep an eye here and let

leave the lab during work hours. He must

force, he rapped the door

knocking do? Why won’t you say why you’re here?

sweating profusely on the other

earful before we even

is Prof. Mallory. I have something urgent to talk to you about.

a moment’s silence, the

opened and revealed Eugene, still bleary-eyed, glaring at them. “If you come knocking again without stating your intention, Joshua,

admonishment as he saw his colleague as an elder who was his father’s age. Being familiar with his temperament, he thought it was

Cedrick said, “You work in a premier laboratory in Chanaea, Professor

turned to Cedrick and scanned him up and down before fixating his gaze on his face. “I opened the door like you wanted, and you’re telling me off,” he said huffily. “Feel free to make an anonymous report about me if

not what I meant,” Cedrick replied. “Like you,

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