De Nuo City · Kwote Building Underground Vault
Kai Luo raised his head and looked toward the opened, heavy vault door.
A figure in a skintight Combat Suit, hard-soled leather boots, and carrying a Gauss Pistol appeared before him, her brown-gold curls tied into a high ponytail.
"Wei Jinna!?" Kai Luo's gaze froze when he saw the figure before him.
Wei Jinna might not know him, but he was intimately familiar with this Federal Bureau of Investigation Director who frequently interfered with Kwott Group's "business."
The instant he saw Wei Jinna appear, Kai Luo raised his hand without hesitation and pulled a long, narrow object from his pocket.
Dense patterns covered the object, outlining the image of an eye across its surface.
As Kai Luo gripped it, streaks of yellow radiance lit up within those intricate patterns, flashing with dazzling brilliance.
It seemed that with a single thought, Kai Luo could activate the item.
Yet as he looked at the flickering yellow radiance, his back pressed against the emergency escape door that had not fully opened, Kai Luo hesitated in that fleeting instant.
Colin had given him this thing before, saying it could protect him and would be of great use in a crisis.
But at this moment, he could no longer trust that former "superior." He did not know whether he had been influenced and controlled by the other man all along, like a chess piece.
But things had come to this, and he had no other choice.
Bang--
Kai Luo's thoughts had taken only an instant, but in that instant, a gunshot suddenly rang out.
Just as Kai Luo was about to decide to fully activate the item, a bullet carrying tremendous momentum pierced through his palm, blasting the object from his hand and sending it skittering across