Separated by a window, the two of them met each other's gaze in silence.
To the side, Xu Hai, his face grim, had his men use brute force to break open the metal security door.
The heavy metal security door came crashing down. The impact kicked up a blast of air, sending the plant debris that littered the floor swirling into the air. It danced in several vortexes before finally settling at Gu Xi's feet, returning to stillness.
A moment later.
Xu Hai walked into the laboratory. Staring at the utter mess, he looked up at Gu Xi. "Miss Gu, what happened here?"
They had eagerly entered the factory before dawn, spending the better part of the day deep underground, navigating a maze of traps and mechanisms.
And after all that, they had finally found the most important laboratory.
But as a result... everything they had come for was utterly destroyed, leaving nothing but this wreckage.
