Without waiting for Severo to respond, Victorino turned around and pulled out a thick stack of papers, spreading them out one by one and comparing them to something.
He remained serious for a moment, and then turned to Severo: “I’ve written down the results of all the tests you’ve had, and every time you’ve come back after taking the medication, your body has improved in every way, but once you stop taking the medication, it gets worse. …”
Seeing Severo’s eyes narrow and unchanging, he stopped and called out, “Sir?
Severo looked at him and said to himself: “You mean this is caused by the drugs?
Victorino had been investigating the cause of the disease since his body had developed this reaction.
If it was a drug that was causing his body to change, then who else could have worked on such a strange and inferior drug but Grizzi’s “k7” pharmaceutical team?
Grizzi’s “k7” pharmaceutical team does not exist to break the current bottleneck in the pharmaceutical industry, but to enrich itself.
They will work on all kinds of drugs and crooked cures for the sick, as long as they get paid for it.
Victorino nodded: “Yes, but this is just my guess, it is very likely, except that I have not checked your body for suspected drug ingredients, and this symptom of yours has a precursor, even if it was drugged, it must have been much earlier, can you remember carefully, the earliest time when the abnormality of your body appeared, where you went and who you met ….”
Severo thought for a moment, the earliest the symptoms had appeared was after he and Allyce had reconciled.
And before that Allyce was in the mountains doing a charity project and he went to see her.
Amado Mejía had kidnapped Allyce and he had followed Amado Mejía to her.
He recalls that Amado Mejía gave him a pill, but he did not really swallow it, he just put it in his mouth and then spat it out.
He recalled when Amado Mejía also said …
Weren’t you worried that what I gave you was poison?
At that point he did suspect it was poison in that sense, so he spat it out.
And later, when he followed Amado Mejía to Allyce, his body did not show any abnormality and Amado Mejía did not ask about it.
Thinking about it, Severo said: “Only once, months ago, someone gave me a pill, but I didn’t swallow it and I spat it out afterwards …”.
“That’s right, from that moment on, your arms started to stiffen and go numb, then you started to get grey hair, your eyesight followed, your bodily functions declined, those two months were relatively slow, this time the decline is getting faster and more evident, before the wife’s state was just like yours, she was only disoriented for a short time and her body was completely free of any drug ingredient.”
He looked at Severo with a serious face, “Unless the formula is known, I will have the opportunity to try to make a curative medicine that will suppress this symptom, otherwise the situation will continue to deteriorate.”
If the situation deteriorates to a certain point, and one can no longer take the medicine, one will have to let oneself grow old day by day until one dies.
Severo reflected slightly: “So it is possible that the pills the man gave me came from Grizzi’s “k7” pharmaceutical team.
Victorino’s face was solemn: “You can figure it out”.
Severo’s face tensed slightly, Amado Mejia was indeed from Grizzi’s people, Grizzi’s people had been after him for a long time…
And Amado Mejía and Desiderio met privately, did that mean that Desiderio was one of Grizzi’s men?
When Victorino saw that Severo had not spoken for a long time, he raised his eyes to look directly at him and tried to speak again, but Severo raised his hand slightly, indicating that he did not have to say anything.
“These things I know by heart, I have things to take care of, I’m leaving now. Severo said, and got up to go outside.
“Wait a minute!”
Victorino suddenly caught up with him: “Are you sure you don’t want to tell Neto, the lady and the others?
Severo paused slightly and nodded at him, his expression indifferent and determined.
“You have to make your own decisions, and I probably shouldn’t talk too much, but they are, after all, people who are close to you …”
Victorino did not continue with these last words, for Severo had already strided away.
…
Once outside the villa, Severo leaned back in his seat as soon as he got into the car, holding his forehead and closing his eyes slightly without making a sound.
The driver was about to ask him where he was going when he heard Severo say, “Just a quick look”.
Victorino’s words made it clear that the symptoms of his ageing were reversible.
But without the formula, he could not develop a drug that would work for Severo’s condition, and Severo would soon die.
Victorino reminded him more than once that time was running out.
Precisely because his time was running out, he could not spend his remaining days in a hospital bed; he had too much to do and had to prepare for the worst.
Only of all the plans, the only one that left him powerless was Allyce.
It was as if no matter how much I placed it, it wasn’t right.
He had already forced her to divorce him, he had made her believe that he no longer really loved her, and in time she could forget him, even if he died in the future.
But I couldn’t help being soft on her.
I couldn’t bear to see her sad, but if he was really sick and hopeless, she would only be sadder afterwards.
For the first time, he found himself in such a dilemma.
After this incident, Allyce must have been suspicious too, only he didn’t mention it, even if he hid it well, Allyce would have found the clues.
…
After leaving Kimdis, Allyce was a little confused.
Xabat didn’t seem to be lying either, it was very likely that he really didn’t know anything.
If that was the case …
Allyce’s heart sank hard, what was it that even Xabat was trying to hide …?
With a sudden panic in his heart, he headed straight for the Bay of Clouds.
To her surprise, when she returned to the villa, the servants still treated her with the utmost respect.
“Madam!”
The servants’ reaction was no different from before, as if they didn’t know that she and Severo had divorced before.
Allyce nodded slightly and said, “I’m going upstairs to get something, so if he comes back, go and let me know.
He said and went straight upstairs.
The study and the bedroom were the two places in the house where Severo moved the most.
First he went to the bedroom.
He looked in all the places where he could hide the drugs, and there were none.
Then, in the studio, he looked everywhere.