At that moment, Curtis was dumbfounded too. “Give him something to eat? No, he didn’t eat anything. What’s wrong?” Eugene repeated his question, “He didn’t have anything to eat at all?”
“No,” Curtis responded. “There was nothing to eat out there either. He was busy playing games the whole time.”
Subsequently, Eugene hung up. In fact, he found it quite impossible too. Disregarding the fact that Curtis had worked for him for so many years and he could be trusted, North wasn’t a child that could be easily duped by anyone.
At that moment, Olivia sniffed hard around North’s room. “What’s that smell?” Eugene was confused by her words, so he did the same thing and sniffed the place. “What’s wrong? I don’t smell anything.”
She replied, “There is definitely something. The smell doesn’t come from North’s room. It’s a specific fragrance. Let’s go and find the source of it.” As soon as Eugene heard that, he quickly searched the place.
Both of them suspected that North’s sudden unconscious state was perhaps related to this peculiar fragrance. As such, they ransacked the place to locate the source of the fragrance.
Suddenly, they found an exquisite candy wrapper in the pocket of the shirt that North had changed out of. Olivia took a sniff of it and she instantly frowned. “It’s this scent!” However, Eugene was quite perplexed, so her took it from her and sniffed it. “What’s wrong with this?”
She instantly stopped him. “Stop sniffing it. This is a lethal poison. There is lead oxide in this. If someone accidentally ingests this, then the person would end up dead. Even if the person inhales this continuously, in less than half a month, they would end up being poisoned to death too. Where did this come from?”
As soon as Eugene heard this, he broke out in cold sweat and he couldn’t control the fear. within him. “I’ve smelled this scent before. Samantha placed a decorative hourglass on my work desk and it gives out this smell. She told me that it would calm my emotions and I saw. that it looked quite pretty. Besides, the smell wasn’t too pungent, so I left it there.
After I found out that Samantha was Anna, I threw the hourglass away. That means North and I have been exposed to poison all this while?” Olivia also broke out in cold sweat upon hearing that. She grabbed Eugene’s wrist and examined him: carefully. After nearly five minutes, she finally released his hand.
“You’re fine so far. Perhaps it’s because you’re fit and healthy, or perhaps you were not exposed to it for too long, so the poison within your body isn’t that strong. However, North’s just a kid, so obviously he’s not as strong in health. Besides, the content of lead oxide in this. candy is very potent. He placed it into his pocket, so he basically had it on him the whole time.
That’s why he’s in a much more serious condition. You mentioned that the hourglass was given by Anna. Do you think that she also placed this into North’s pocket when he wasn’t paying attention?”
At that moment, Eugene tried hard to recall the situation, but he didn’t recall Anna ever spending time with North by herself. When could she have placed the candy into North’s pocket?
“Ah-I remember now! If this is Anna’s doing. then she must have done it when North locked her into the toilet. Usually, they don’t interact with each other. This darned woman! She started off by placing the spices into the room so that we would get used to the smell. That’s why even though North carried it on him, we didn’t sense anything too. If it wasn’t because you came back, we wouldn’t even have realized it. What should we do now? Do you have a solution?”
Olivia went to take another look at North and found that his lips had started to turn ashen. Frightened, she yelled, “Hurry up and send him to the hospital. North’s condition needs immediate medical treatment.”
Eugene saw that too, and even someone from a non-medical background like him could tell that North’s condition was critical. The man was in utter shock but he didn’t dare to delay things, so he wrapped North up in a blanket before carrying the boy out of the door.
As for Olivia, she tried to race after them while holding onto her jacket. Before she walked out, however, she put on a face mask.
