The piercing alarm echoed beneath the bright sky.
"Based on all the information, the overall incident seemed to have gone like this,"
Ye Yun stood by the roadside, watching the medical staff carry the unconscious ponytailed youth into the ambulance. "Li Yun got bored playing cards alone, then when he got up to stretch and walk around, he kicked through an electrical wire, got electrocuted, and affected the voltage of the entire building.
"At that moment, the Curse Key's containment room had just been hollowed out by termites. The Curse Key broke free from containment and happened to select the electrocuted Li Yun as its 'target.'
"And because Li Yun's body briefly stiffened from the electric shock, he missed his only chance to call for help and was silently forced under the Curse Key's control.
"The flickering lights caused by the electrocution also drew the attention of people nearby, shifting our focus to the circuit breaker and leaving us no time to notice him."
He turned, glanced at He Ao beside him, then looked at the ponytailed youth being loaded into the ambulance and sighed softly. "If Director He hadn't noticed something wrong from the very beginning, he would probably have been completely dead by the time we found him.
"And the entire South Capital Research Institute branch might have become the Curse Key's 'attack target' through 'observation.'"
He watched the ambulance doors slowly close and said with feeling, "In a sense, this guy really was unlucky, running into so many 'unfortunate events.' But he was also truly lucky. You happened to come here today, giving a certain turning point to what should have been a certain death."
"Mm."
He Ao watched the ambulance slowly pull away. Only just then did he learn that the ponytailed youth's name was Li