The Real Heiress Rules the World

Chapter 356 Critical Hour

Chapter 356 Critical Hour

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The smile faded from Samantha’s face, and after a pause, she said quietly, “Forget it. Don’t worry about it.” She turned, discreetly avoiding Adrian as he tried to move closer. “I’m a little tired. I’ll go rest first.”

“Samantha…” Adrian reached out to catch her, but she slipped away with a quick sidestep.

“Adrian, you should rest early too.” Her tone suddenly turned polite and distant, the warmth in her voice replaced by formality. Even the way she called his name sounded stiff, stripped of the warmth it once carried.

Watching Samantha walk upstairs, Adrian froze with his hand suspended in midair.

Military Hospital….

Sloane learned from Conor that Adrian had been at the hospital. Her eyes darkened. The timing was far too coincidental. Adrian must have come because Samantha sent him to dig for information.

time

exhaustion. Seventeen vials of blood samples sat neatly

asked from behind her, his voice low

the glass with her finger. “Standard antidotes don’t work at all. The toxin mutates every time we treat it, like it’s staying one step ahead of us.” She pointed to the latest brain scan. “What’s worse is that it’s begun to erode the hippocampus. If we don’t stop it soon, these patients will lose

pushed open the door. “Dr. Rivers, Dr. Maxwell-the patient in bed 4 is

elderly man began to cough violently, his oxygen saturation dropping fast on the monitor. Sloane rushed to his

oxygen’s down to eighty-five,” head nurse Jesslyn said as she adjusted the oxygen

back the man’s eyelids and saw severe conjunctival congestion. “Run

heaving hard. The monitor let out a piercing alarm- his heart rate spiked to 140, and his body

Sloane said, flipping through the chart. “Hypertension and diabetes.

fingertips are turning

hypoxia. The CT

put him on a ventilator,” Sloane ordered without hesitation.

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6:44 pm P PPP.

Chapter 356 Critical Hour