Chapter 946
As she spoke, Lydia broke down sobbing again.
She buried her face in her hands, tears soaking her palms.
Serena narrowed her eyes.
Right then, Caleb Sommers spoke up from the side, his voice low. “Actually… I think
I know a little about this too p>
Serena lifted her gaze to look at him.
Lydia also looked up, her eyes wet with tears.
Being stared at by the two girls made Caleb blush slightly.
He immediately looked away, staring at his shoes as his voice dropped even quieter. “It’s just… before this, two computer science seniors who were also funded by the Doyles got sent abroad for training, and then… no one ever heard from them again either p>
If one person disappeared after going abroad, you could argue they just wanted a fresh start and didn’t want to look back at their impoverished past.
But two? Three? Four?
Was that really a coincidence?
Serena stopped tapping the desk, shifting her eyes back to Lydia. “Were you there for the physical exam p>
Lydia nodded.
Serena: “Did they draw blood p>
Lydia nodded again. “Yes. When she came back, she was completely pale. She said they took several vials p>
Caleb chimed in. “I’ve done those checkups too. Every six months, the Doyle family sends a private car to take all the scholarship students to a private hospital for a deeply thorough exam p>
“They claim it’s to monitor our health so the academic stress doesn’t ruin our bodies p>
“But every time we finish a checkup, the medication they give us comes in different packaging p>
Serena’s gaze shifted slightly, studying Lydia’s face as she narrowed her eyes. “Have you been taking the Cerebro-Flex they provided too p>
Lydia sniffled and nodded. “Yes… it’s a strict requirement for the scholarship. Everyone has to take it. They say it’s to boost our cognitive function, and if we refuse, they consider it a refusal to cooperate with their program. They threaten to cut our funding and sue us for massive breach of contract fees p>
“Do you honestly think the Doyle family is that charitable?” Sponsoring students, sending them abroad, handing out free cognitive Supplements.
They weren’t just funding one or two kids.
They were funding droves of them.
They had their claws in nearly every impoverished student across Vaelion City’s universities.
That was a colossal expense.
Were the Doyles really that philanthropic?
“N-no Lydia had felt something was wrong from the start, but she had been too desperate to escape the mountains, to desperate to Carve out a future at Marington College.
She had buried her suspicions deep down.
But ever since Faith disappeared p>
Lydia had lived every single day in terror.
Her instincts were screaming at her p>
The Doyle family was not the benevolent charity they pretended to be.
There was a sickening ulterior motive behind all of this!
Serena didn’t say anything else, but her gaze grew colder. Charity?
It was nothing but a front.
The Doyles p>
Were entirely too generous.
To a deeply disturbing degree.
They were rounding up brilliant, impoverished students with zero background to use
as human guinea pigs for their experimental drugs.
Tweaking dosages and formulas
based
their reactions, filtering for
those with strong tolerances and unique constitutions to use as prime test subjects content