"Hey, the rain stopped!"
Standing in front of the Medical Testing Device and slowly rotating on the mechanical platform, Liss reached out to touch the damp air and looked up at the sky, where radiant cracks had appeared.
"It rained all night. It finally stopped."
Beside her, Tucker lit a cigarette and held it between his lips as he watched the light in the sky.
He had actually been quite worried about the situation at the Mayor's Residence.
When he learned that He Ao had deployed every Mayor's Guard member left at the Mayor's Residence to evacuate the crowds, he had felt that something was wrong. He had even called and suggested that Lynn leave some people behind for the mayor's security, but Lynn had not accepted his advice.
Then he heard that an assassin had tried to kill the mayor, died in the Mayor's Office, and had the entire assassination attempt captured by the office surveillance cameras.
At first, he panicked. Then he understood everything.
Clearly, Mayor Lynn had been setting a trap, deliberately creating an opportunity for the assassin and then meeting the "assassin" in person.
Tucker lowered his gaze from the sky, looked around at the team members checking their injuries, and then at the crowds that had already been evacuated in the distance.
He had to admit, this scheme of theirs to frame someone was truly vicious.
If Lynn had not arranged for him to deploy most of their people beforehand, allowing them to seize control of the situation at the critical moment and suppress what could have become a bloody massacre and riot into an ordinary disturbance—
Those bastards would have expanded the massacre, killing civilians and paraders to create chaos while spreading rumors that the Mayor's Guard had murdered opponents.
Not only would many