Alex hurried over with a ss of water and held it up to Raymond''s lips. "Still hung up on her, huh? You''ve been out cold for over two weeks, and she hasn''t even bothered to visit."


    Raymond''s brows knitted together. His lips were cracked and bloody, a clear sign he was seriously dehydrated.


    He''d lost a ton of weight and stared out the window with a sad look. "Really?"


    He couldn''t wrap his head around Selena being so heartless.


    Alex rolled his eyes. "What did you expect? You know exactly where you stand with her."


    Raymond''s mind shed back to her saying he couldn''t hold a candle to her first love. He knew it, but he didn''t want to believe it.


    He always knew she was distant, but this was a whole new level of cold.


    It was always the same. One minute they were close, the next she was saying something that cut deep.


    It felt like all those life-and-death moments they shared were just fleeting memories now.


    He just couldn''t get how people could be like this.


    His eyes started to well up, like they were covered in a thick fog.


    Seeing him like that, Alex leaned back. "That''s why I told you before, why trust in love?"


    Probably worried Raymond might get too upset, he quickly added, "Once you''re back on your feet, you can have any woman you want. Lately, a lot of folks have been asking about you, both from Silver Bay City and the entertainment industry.


    If you like pretty ones, I can find someone even hotter than Selena. You could have a different one every day. Remember Brenda? You hooked up with her. At least that was fun, right?"


    Raymond felt drained, not just tired but also with a sharp pain in his chest. He wasn''t sure if it was from the gunshot wound or his heart.


    Either way, the pain was so bad he was breaking out in a cold sweat.


    He had no idea Selena''s room was right next to his, so he didn''t even think about getting up to see her. Hearing Alex''s words, he just wanted to go back to sleep.


    But then Paul showed up with some food.


    Paul called a nurse over, set up a small table in front of Raymond, ced the food on it, and started talking about thetest investigation results.


    Paul started, "It was foreign forces. Over the past couple of weeks, we''vebed through that mountain. Those tunnels were originally used by local vigers to hide bodies. They''d put the bodies in coffins and then dig caves in the mountainside to stash them. This custom''s been around for over a century, so the tunnels just kept multiplying. But about ten years ago, an earthquake hit. The vigers took a resettlement fee and left. The tunnels stayed, andter someone expanded and rebuilt them into what you saw. There are tons of surveince cameras around, and once you''re in, it''s a maze to get out. The outermost door needs a password. If you get it wrong, you could be stuck in there forever unless you jump off a cliff."


    Raymond suddenly had a hazy memory of Selena holding him. His vision was always blurry, but he could see her blood-stained fingers trying the password.


    Once wrong, twice wrong, but it seemed like thest time, the door opened.


    He also heard a mechanical female voice saying, "Password correct."


    So how did Selena know the password to that door?


    Raymond''s eyes dropped, his brow furrowed. Even if Selena was smart, there were too many possiblebinations for a six-digit code. It was impossible to guess it in just a few tries.


    Paul continued, "Raymond, when my teamter entered those tunnels, they found that the password door had been deliberately destroyed. It was blown open with a lot of explosives. The explosives,bined with the earthquake, caused thendslide. The other side probably knew it would be investigated, so they blew it up in advance, destroying all evidence."


    Raymond''s mind was a bit foggy. Leaning against the wall, he looked pretty sickly.


    Paul asked him, "Did you notice anything else while you were in there?"


    Other than Selena figuring out the password, there wasn''t much else.


    But Raymond didn''t tell Paul this. Paul was extremely serious about these matters.


    If Paul found out that Selena might be connected to these foreign forces, she would definitely be under full surveince and wouldn''t have a peaceful life.


    "No." Raymond felt a bit self-mocking. Even at this point, he was still thinking about protecting Selena.


    Paul was puzzled, "Then why did they capture Selena?"


    Selena was just an ordinary person who happened to be connected to the Montague family by luck. Could it be that they wanted to use her to set a trap for Raymond? That made sense.


    Raymond raised his hand to pick up the spoon, but his hand was still weak. He tried hard to grip the spoon and slowly eat.


    The spoon fell into the bowl. He frowned and tried to curl his hand. He was too weak to hold the spoon.


    Seeing this, Paul wanted to call the nurse to feed him.


    After all, one man feeding another man was quite an odd sight.


    But then he thought, ''Selena''s just next door.''