When Barrett awoke, it was already the next morning, and he found himself in a hospital bed.

Lucas sat beside the bed and, upon seeing him awake, pointed to his leg and said emotionlessly, "It's useless, you'll be back in a wheelchair."

Only Barrett could inflict such a wound on himself, slicing into his leg with a knife to such an extent.

Barrett attempted to rise from the bed urgently: "I need to go back, Zoe is alone at Willowbrook Villa."

Lucas coldly responded, "She's dead, Barrett. Her body's decomposing. What use is keeping a piece of rotting flesh? She's gone cold, where were you earlier?"

Barrett shook his head,...