The Pinnacle Of Life

Hailey took a deep breath and nodded.

Alex smiled, then slapped a palm on Zack’s head.

“What are you going to do with him?” Hailey asked, puzzled.

“That’s it,” Alex said. Then, he thought about John Rockefeller. Zack’s ending would most likely be the same as him. He would become a vegetable, his consciousness hidden within a sea of consciousness until his death.

And that would be considered a punishment for his sins.

“That’s it? What does that mean?” Hailey asked.

“He’ll be like this forever,” Alex said.

Hailey’s beautiful eyes widened, and in the next second, she suddenly hugged Alex and kissed him. “This is a thank you! There’s no other meaning, and you don’t think about it too much. No one will know except for you and me.”

***

the night when Alex drove

smile still lingered inexplicably

his head, putting away feelings and thoughts that shouldn’t have

for Hailey, she drove the unconscious Zack to

and came over tonight to look

***

one of the Coleman family disciples rushed over, a large bag in his hand as he knocked on the door of Room

was a presidential suite, and the ones

you guys?” The one who opened the door was Abel, and a gloomy expression was

is the nutritious red mud that has been transported by air from Switzerland. It contains very minute amounts of pollutants and bacteria. It has been through a

grabbed the bag from his hands. He opened the bag to find it full of mud that had been prepared specially for

this that a hungry old man had eaten mud to satisfy his hunger. Later, he would feel uncomfortable if he didn’t eat more mud. The rumor was that when the man had later become rich, he continued to produce this nutritious red mud for his consumption and did so until

observation, Abel confirmed the situation with his son. He needed to eat every hour, and he needed to eat half a pound of mud each time. That would mean about 16 pounds of mud a day. That was way more than what the old man ate, but because they didn’t have any way to cure this strange disease at the moment, this

it was time

but now that he saw Tristan eating mud with his own eyes, he was both shocked and