Carter POV:

Late at night, I still stay in the office.

Since Melanie is still in the hospital, I happen to deploy for tomorrow. By the time I finished, it was already early in the morning. I tiredly looked at the family photo.

"Sela," I looked at Sela's face in the photo and suddenly coughed.

I quickly took a painkiller, but blood still gushed out from my throat.

My heart began to feel sick and my fingers began to tremble gently. I knew that the virus developed by Laien had entered my body at a late stage and was torturing me.

I spent the rest of the night in the...