Axel's voice was hollow: "There must be a way."I'll think of something, find a solution. We'll find her somehow."Professor Zhang sighed softly: "Forgive my bluntness."Your parents died because their research was compromised."Inadequate security allowed criminals to find an opportunity to strike."This time, before the research concludes, no outsider will be able to find them."Axel seemed to have lost his soul, his voice stubborn: "I'll find a way."Professor Zhang felt compelled to warn him: "If you make a public search for Ember, you could put her in danger."Axel, don't forget what happened to your parents."If you truly care about Ember... respect her choice."Axel's pupils trembled suddenly.The midnight snowfall had turned the vast North City into a silver-white landscape.It seemed to freeze him completely as well.He stood motionless, his fingertips too numb to move.Ember was gone.And he couldn't even try to find her.Professor Zhang turned and closed the front gate behin

I left the research institute 15 years later.The drug development had been a complete success, and the silver poisoning antidote for werewolves was approved to be marketed at affordable prices.I attended the press conference with my fellow researchers and mentors.Many silver poisoning patients and their families spontaneously came to the venue, moved to tears as they expressed their gratitude.That day happened to be the Full Moon Festival, the anniversary of my parents' sacrifice in the line of duty.Time seemed to have rewritten their ending.I suddenly remembered that night many years ago when my mother held me gently and said:"If we make progress a little faster, those patients could afford the medicine before the New Year and have a better holiday."Back then, I understood little about many things.I couldn't comprehend the burning passion and mist in my mother's eyes.She said softly: "In this world, too many patients choose to give up their lives because of poverty and expen

I returned to North City to visit my mentor, Professor Zhang.After 15 years apart, his hair had turned completely white.He told me about Axel and Ryker's collapse and remorse during the 15 years I'd been gone.Ryker had fallen into despair, ending up in the emergency room dozens of times due to alcohol poisoning.Axel, in his years of grief, had volunteered for numerous medical experiments and research projects at the academy.The constant all-nighters and overwork had caused his health to deteriorate steadily.As for Willow, she'd been driven out of the pack house. Accustomed to a life of luxury, she refused to return to the orphanage.Later, she fell in with a group of troublemakers and was involved in a devastating motorcycle accident while joyriding.She barely survived, but broke her leg and suffered brain damage.No one knew where she had ended up—just another mentally impaired homeless child.Whether she was alive or dead, nobody knew for certain.As I listened to all this, I

I hurried to the hospital.Over the years, Axel had also devoted himself to medical research, giving it his all.Both as a mentor and a researcher.Now, not yet fifty, his body was already riddled with ailments.I entered the hospital room and sat beside him.Suddenly, I remembered my daughter's birthday party yesterday.He had come to see me in his wheelchair, forcing himself to make what must have been a final farewell.Ryker sat across from me, his expression grief-stricken.This man approaching fifty covered his face, weeping uncontrollably.I looked at Axel with tubes inserted throughout his body, monitoring equipment beeping steadily.An oxygen mask covered his mouth and nose. He struggled to speak, but I couldn't hear his voice.After decades as siblings, I could easily read his lips.He was calling me, repeatedly, urgently but weakly."Ember, Ember..."I remembered that heavy snowfall again, remembered that not-yet-twenty-year-old Axel holding me tightly."As long as your broth

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