All Chapters of The Lifespan Wealth System: Chapter 71
- Chapter 74
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Chapter 71. The Remaining Price of a Life
"Don't let go of her hand, Elara! I'm here!" Axel shouted, his hoarse voice shattering the silence of the room.Elara’s fingers tightened around Axel’s jacket for a brief moment before her entire body went limp again. Her eyelids, which had just opened, only managed to catch a blurred silhouette of Axel’s face before closing tightly once more. She was still breathing, heavy and steady, but her consciousness seemed to be pulled back into an abyss of overwhelming exhaustion. Lena immediately rushed forward, brushing Axel’s hand aside with the swift movement of a mother driven by pure protective instinct."Step back, Axel! Give her room to breathe!" Lena ordered as she checked Elara’s forehead temperature with the back of her hand."But she woke up, Mom! She touched me!" Axel replied, his breath uneven."She just fainted from exhaustion! Can't you see how pale she is?" Lena snapped without turning around.Arlo could only stand frozen in the corner of the room, gripping a bottle of alcoho
Chapter 72. The Labyrinth of Betrayal
"You look like a corpse crawling out of a grave, Axel," Mr. Hen, the neighbor next door, greeted him as they crossed paths in the dim apartment hallway.Axel’s steps halted for a moment. He pulled the hood of his jacket lower, hiding the dullness of his skin and the deepening wrinkles on his face. Mr. Hen stepped back, his face paling in horror at the sight of Axel’s dimmed gaze. Axel did not respond. He continued dragging his heavy feet toward the emergency stairs. His knee joints creaked painfully with every step on the concrete. To him, every second wasted felt like the last grains of sand in an hourglass running out. He had to leave before those heavy footsteps in the corridor found the door to his unit.The night air greeted him with a biting chill that pierced through his thin jacket. Axel got into the old car he had prepared in the dark alley behind the building. His hands trembled violently as he gripped the steering wheel. The rearview mirror reflected the image of a stranger
Chapter 73. The Final Donor
"Vayu, you have no idea what you’re inviting into this room!" Dex screamed, his voice shrill and cracking at the edge of his throat.Dex crawled backward across the cold concrete floor. His trembling fingers clutched the leg of a worktable as if it were the only anchor to his sanity. Sweat flooded the crooked frame of his glasses, making his eyes look wide and filled with raw, unfiltered fear. In front of him, Vayu stood tall, his empty gaze unblinking. Death rested under the control of his index finger."I know exactly what I’m inviting, Dex. I’m inviting justice for my father," Vayu replied in a flat, emotionless tone."Justice? This is cold-blooded murder!" Dex tried to stand, but his knees buckled. "Remember who financed your escape all this time? Who kept these illegal devices hidden from the government’s radar? That was me, Vayu! I was your partner!"Vayu did not answer with words. He pressed a button on his control tablet. Instantly, the projector screen in the center of the la
Chapter 74. The Scientist’s Remaining Lifespan
“Father, can you hear me?” Vayu asked, his voice trembling with both emotion and anxiety.The glass of the incubation tank shattered into pieces. The cold chemical preservative flooded the laboratory floor in an instant. Dr. Adrian collapsed onto the wet concrete with a dull thud. Vayu rushed forward, ignoring his own safety. He paid no attention to the sharp shards of glass slicing into his knees until they bled, all for the sake of embracing the body of his father who had just risen from ten years of death.“Talk to me, Father, it’s me, Vayu,” he said, holding the old man tightly.Dr. Adrian made no sound at all. His pitch-black eyes merely followed Vayu’s movements without the slightest trace of recognition. There was no glimmer of love or emotion in them. The figure only stared blankly, like a machine that had just been powered on without complete software. Axel stood a few steps away, his breathing uneven. His head felt as if it had been struck by a massive hammer as the bionic i