Chapter 36

Outside the Lancaster mansion, a modest car stood waiting with the driver by its side.

Alfred had chosen this low-profile setup, understanding it would help Alex stay unnoticed.

As soon as the driver saw Alex approach, he quickly moved toward him.

"Sir Alex, I'm Morris, the driver sent by Mr. Alfred," he said politely, bowing as he opened the car door for Alex to

enter.

Inside the car, Morris handed Alex an electronic pad.

"Sir, inside that pad is 576 pieces of data on people named to from all over Vancouver, along with their pictures."

He glanced in the rearview mirror and saw that Alex was already rapidly scanning through the files. "Please select the one we should begin with, and I'll guide you there," Morris added, buckling his seatbelt as the engine roared to life.

"This one," Alex said suddenly, handing back the pad without hesitation.

Morris was stunned by the speed. How could Alex sift through 576 profiles and choose someone so quickly?

His eyes glanced at the pad's screen, seeing an old photo from an orphanage. A tomboyish girl stood there, smiling with other children.

The name beneath the picture read 'Josephine'.

"We'll be there in 20 minutes," Morris responded after checked the address. 1

As the car pulled away from the grand mansion and hit the road, the scenery began to shift.

The luxury and pristine surroundings faded into rougher streets.

They entered a poorer neighborhood, where the streets were filled not just with trash and jobless people, but with broken dreams and silent battles of daily survival.

The car moved through the slums, passing garbage and the homeless.

eyes lost to drugs some already eyeing

people's eyes held stories darker than the shadows clinging

streets.

the surroundings deteriorated into a wasteland of

car finally stopped, and Morris hurried to

gust of hot, garbage-scented wind hit Alex as

structures and trash heaps littered the

orphanage where Josephine stayed,"

half the slum. A dangerous criminal on the run hid here," he

he was searching for something. The federal agents tried to capture him, but he set the place ablaze to escape. The destruction was so

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events, but Alex had already drifted into his thoughts, his

to rubble, a few concrete remnants remained the front gate where the rusty sign still

recognized it before the mind

then, but now, looking at

someone had left him at the

memories from before that time, but something deep inside told him he had a

Josephine had found him there, filthy

of his time bedridden, plagued by headaches and pain

on the small,

had been hostile, but

friend-the one who was kind

little brother, who always clung to

Alex thought

even feared by the

vividly remembered the day she protected him and punched a bully

"This is my bestie!

that day

made Alex

no idea he was being protected

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