Chapter 1361

Tarquin: "_"

Lucian leaned forward, his voice gentle but serious. "Tarquin, do you know why your parents went to Karl Town all those years ago?"

"...I don't."

"Your dad had a close friend from overseas. Very secretive guy. His name was Nice Eilman. He worked at a local newspaper in Karl Town. It was Nice who got your parents out there."

Tarquin frowned slightly. "Nice..."

"You recognize the name?"

"It rings a bell."

Lucian nodded. "You probably know his father. Nice himself wasn't famous, but his dad-Eddie Eilman-was a world-renowned biologist from Alerasia."

Tarquin's eyes widened in realization. "Oh!"

she'd given him a list of the scientists behind the foreign virus research. Eddie Eilman was right at

grandma had even singled Eddie out, saying he was the key member of his

Karl Town. A few years later,

their deaths weren't just some random car crash.

taking it all in. Finally, after all these years,

to such a dangerous virus! They weren't doctors or scientists-in Karl Town, they were nothing more than test

now it all made sense. Their friend could get close-Nice,

how dangerous the virus was. So he risked everything, using his father's credentials to steal the research and hand it

to smuggle the virus and the data back home, risking their lives. Instead, they were killed,

Eilmans-father and son-died because of it,

working on was only halfway between the fourth and fifth generations. They'd lost their core scientists and all the original data.

grandma had warned him: this virus was engineered specifically for people like them. From the first generation to the eighth, it had been refined step

finished product-capable of one- hundred-percent targeted infection. If you caught it, and didn't have the antidote, you were as good as

sick. Only people like Tarquin and his family would be infected. No one would be spared—one hundred

exaggeration. This was a biological

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