**2**
Dorian Blackwood indeed came in person.
The cabin door opened, and Dorian Blackwood emerged, cradling a dying Eleanor Vance.
Her face was pale, her breathing shallow, looking as if she could expire at any moment. Dorian Blackwood’s expression was strained and anxious, completely devoid of his usual
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“Seraphina! Come out!” he shouted at the villa. “Eleanor’s fading fast!”
I activated the hidden passage in the ground. A metal door, just wide enough for one person, opened beneath their feet, revealing stairs leading underground.
“Come down,” my voice echoed from the loudspeaker.
Dorian Blackwood didn’t hesitate, carrying Eleanor Vance inside.
As soon as they stepped into the observation room, the alloy door behind them slammed shut. It was a fully transparent, reinforced glass room, with clear views in all directions.
I sat at the control panel, watching them through the glass wall.
Eleanor Vance leaned weakly in Dorian Blackwood’s arms, yet her eyes still held a defiant glint: “Seraphina Jiang, you can’t win against him. Hurry up and give your blood, and I might spare your life.”
I ignored her.
“Want to save her? It’s simple. Transfer all the highest authorities of your corporation to
my name.”
Dorian Blackwood paused, then burst out laughing: “Seraphina Jiang, are you insane? For a dying woman, you want my entire business empire?”
“Do you think I’m joking?”
I lightly pressed a button.
The room’s air purification system activated, but I secretly lowered the oxygen
concentration. From 21% down to 19%.
Eleanor Vance’s breathing immediately became more labored. Already weak, she now gasped for air.
“You… what did you do?” Dorian Blackwood noticed the anomaly.
“For every minute you hesitate, the oxygen concentration drops by 1%. How long do you
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think she can last?”
Eleanor Vance’s face grew even paler, and she desperately clutched Dorian Blackwood’s
clothes: “Dorian… I… I can’t breathe…”
Dorian Blackwood’s expression instantly transformed. Anger, shock, and a hint of panic.
“Seraphina! You’re insane! Let us out!” He frantically pounded on the glass wall.
The glass didn’t budge.
I watched his frantic state, an unprecedented thrill surging through me. In my previous life, they had trapped me on that experimental table, forcing me to watch my own blood drain away.
Now, it was their turn to experience this despair.
Time ticked by, minute by minute.
The oxygen concentration dropped to 18%.
Eleanor Vance began to cough violently, her face turning purple. She weakly lifted her head, her eyes filled with venom: “Seraphina Jiang… you bitch… Dorian won’t let you get away with this…”
“Really? Then let’s see what price he’s willing to pay for you.”
Sweat began to bead on Dorian Blackwood’s forehead. He looked at the dying Eleanor
Vance in his arms.
“Seraphina Jiang, what exactly do you want?”
“I told you. Your corporation, all its authorities.”
“Impossible!”
Oxygen concentration dropped to 17%.
Eleanor Vance was completely unable to speak, only gasping for breath with her mouth
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open. Her fingers began to turn purple, her eyes unfocused.
Dorian Blackwood finally panicked: “Wait! Wait! We can talk!”
“Now you want to talk?” My finger hovered above the button. “Too late.”
“Seraphina Jiang!” His voice trembled. “You can have anything you want! Money? Status? I’ll give it all to you! Just spare Eleanor!”
paused my hand.
Not out of softness, but because I saw genuine fear in his eyes.
This man, once so arrogant, who had treated me as a tool, finally had a weakness.
“Money? Status?” I laughed. “Dorian Blackwood, do you think I lack these things?”
He froze.
Yes, I, Seraphina Jiang, the youngest virologist with multiple patents before the apocalypse, had already amassed a fortune in the hundreds of millions. I never lacked
money.
What I lacked was his life.
The oxygen concentration continued to drop. 16%.
Eleanor Vance’s eyes began to roll back, her body convulsing.
Dorian Blackwood completely broke down: “I’ll transfer it! I’ll transfer everything to you! Please, save her!”
I watched him kneel on the ground, but the rage in my heart showed no signs of calming.
In my previous life, I had knelt like that, begging them to spare me. But how did they
respond?
“Why waste time? The purification pod is ready, hurry up and donate blood.”
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Now, it was their turn to taste despair.
I slowly stood up and walked to the glass wall.
“Dorian Blackwood, do you know? In my previous life, when you killed me, I begged you
like this too.”
He snapped his head up, his eyes filled with confusion.
But soon, he would understand everything.
Because the real game had just begun.
