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Chapter 250
Chapter 250
Chapter 250
Matthew’s voice suddenly sounded from behind, and Hesper was so frightened that she almost
screamed.
Hesper could not let Matthew know the plan that she had mapped out just then, so she responded by
shaking her head and trying to hide her thoughts. “Nothing! I’m fine!”
Seeing the vague hint of guilt that flashed across Hesper’s face, Matthew did not dig deeper either.
Instead, he took out a paper bag out from behind his back and handed it to Hesper. “This is yours, isn’t
it? I found it when they were moving my stuff here.”
Seeing the paper bag, Hesper froze for a split second then nodded and grabbed it from him. “Yeah, it’s
mine. I almost forgot about it.”
There had been too many things distracting her from the paper bag after receiving it the other day, so
Hesper placed the bag aside casually and then forgot about it later on.
Inside were several boxes of medicines sent to her by Julian. It was said that they were special
medicines that had been newly developed for Ernest, which would produce a much better result than
the previous ones.
There was also a note inside.
Julian: “These two boxes of medicine have to be taken in five cycles. I’ve written the detailed
consumption method and procedures in the box.”
“How are you doing? You okay?”
“It turned out to be lan.” Hesper did not deliberately avoid the subject.
Matthew could also see the handwriting on the note. “Why does he sound so awkward in the message?
And since he’s already written the note, why would he write the consumption method on a different
piece of paper and insert it into the box?”
“The last sentence is even grammatically incorrect.”
Julian studied literature in high school, so even if he had been abroad all this time, he should not sound
so weird when he’s trying to write or speak.
Hesper frowned and took the medicine in the paper bag out.
‘There are three boxes in total here, but it’s mentioned in the sticky note that there should be two boxes
instead. Even if he might make such a simple mistake, it’s still a little far-fetched.”
After opening one of the boxes, the dosage of the medicine was written on another sticky note, and it
was indeed Julian’s handwriting. However, when it came to the number “5” which was written down in
the note to signify the five cycles, it looked as if it was originally an Arabic number “3”, but it seemed
that the number “5” was forcibly written over it as if it was a clerical error.
“Something doesn’t seem right.”
After receiving Julian’s note for the first time the other night, Hesper had actually felt as if something
was
wrong.
‘Although Julian and I used to depend on each other a lot, Julian wouldn’t say such sickening things
like “I miss you”.
Recalling the spy game that they occasionally played in the orphanage when they were still kids,
Hesper bought a dictionary that was distributed to them by the orphanage’s management when they
were staying
there and found the words and phrases corresponding to “I miss you”.
‘Be careful.’
Without any hesitation, Hesper returned to her room with the sticky note, took out the dictionary from All rights © NôvelDrama.Org.
the shelf, and opened the dictionary to respective pages.
‘The words that correspond to “you” and “okay” are-
“People around you.”
When Matthew read the three words, Hesper felt a jolt of chill shoots up her spine.
“Who is he referring to? And what does this mean?”
‘The first note might just be a coincidence, but when two coincidences cross paths, it looks less likely to
only be a coincidence.”
Hesper frowned, and Matthew also realized that something was wrong and asked immediately, “Are
you two the only two people in this world who know how to crack these codes with this dictionary?
Could it be a coincidence or something like that?”
Hearing his questions, Hesper shook her head and lifted the dictionary in her hand. “This dictionary
was given to us when our orphanage received donations back then. And because we didn’t have many
ways. to entertain ourselves, lan came up with such a way to crack codes between the two of us.”
“Many people may have this dictionary, but we’re supposed to be the only ones who know how to use it
as a codebook like this.”
Hesper usually did not talk much with Julian, and the recent pleasantries that went back and forth
between the two of them felt ordinary too, so she had not felt that something was wrong at first.
“His means of communication have been compromised.”
Hesper was taken aback when she realized this.
‘So, that’s the reason why I didn’t receive Julian’s distress message when he texted me in the first
place. It might not have been because Rickard deleted the message?”
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