Faced with the person who had suddenly appeared in the hospital room, they hurriedly turned around.
"Stop! Who are you?"
"You don't dress like a doctor. What kind of hospital is this? Zeller, Brick, how were you guarding the door? You let a stranger in?"
The extravagantly dressed young people shouted at Wu Heng as he approached, yelling loudly for the bodyguards outside.
Yet they discovered that there was no response at all.
The family bodyguards outside the door were like dead men. They did not burst in as expected, as though no one was there at all.
Just as they were about to reach out and stop Wu Heng, the old man lying in the hospital bed stopped them.
"Stop! This gentleman is not someone you can afford to offend!"
His gaze had remained fixed on the doorway, so he had seen how Wu Heng had suddenly appeared. It reminded him of those people who had mutated after the black light barrier had appeared.
Those people called themselves Evolvers, but in his eyes, it was nothing more than mutation.
Yet even with the Kelly Family's power, they had no ability whatsoever to resist those mutants who had suddenly risen to prominence.
Money, power, and firearms had lost the authority they were supposed to possess.
Those foolish, lowly people had traded their worthless lives—not even worth a single day's interest on his family's assets—for gains that surpassed two generations of his family's accumulation.
Yet they had no choice but to curry favor with such people.
The Kelly Family, which desperately craved life but had not dared to enter the black light barrier precisely because they cherished their lives too much, had naturally supported an Evolver as well.
And they had become that person's subordinate.
The old man in the hospital