Temporary Laboratory
The Red-Haired Girl dripped the reagent in her hand into a test tube. Flocculent white matter rapidly appeared in the azure liquid, then quickly dissolved again.
She shook the test tube, turned around with her back to the camera in the corner of the laboratory, and slowly walked toward the test tube rack nearby.
As she moved, the azure liquid in the test tube gradually turned milky white. She also held the test tube close to her body.
Soon, she reached the test tube rack. Raising her hand, she passed it through the camera's blind spot, slipped it inside her clothes, replaced the milky-white test tube in her hand with an azure one she had prepared beforehand, and placed it on the rack.
At this moment, there were already three azure test tubes on the rack.
Then she turned around and returned to the lab bench as though nothing had happened, taking out a new test tube.
Boom--
At that moment, the roar of massive machinery came from outside the door. Some machinery outside this hastily constructed building seemed to be starting up, and the troops stationed nearby were gathering.
Hearing the noise, the girl glanced at the door, then withdrew her gaze and continued preparing the reagent in her hands.
The core area of the camp
Standing beneath dense dark clouds and a cold, desolate wind, the Bearded Man watched the Old Man before him. After a brief moment of stunned silence, he slowly smiled. "At a time like this, Lynn, you're still trying to bluff me?"
He took a deep breath and raised his voice. "Lynn, I know you're skilled at schemes, but do you really think you have any other way out now?
"You want me to believe that you've truly arranged a backup