Choices (First Update-Requesting July's Guaranteed Monthly Votes)

Mu Yu did not stay behind to wait for Xiao Moshan. This was not merely the indifference of a Supreme toward a B-rank life.

Everyone had to take responsibility for their own choices. Since he had made an extra request, he had to pay the corresponding price.

Xiao Moshan bore no resentment over this. His figure flashed, and he vanished into the rainy night.

At the same time, Qu Jianlei sent the signal to retreat.

He had been extremely careful, yet he had still fallen for it. There was no Self-Destruct Device in the safe, but there was a pressure-sensitive trigger mechanism.

It was called a mechanism because it was a purely mechanical structure. There was no data involved, so even Xiao Hu had failed to detect it.

Moreover, the mechanism was exceptionally ingenious. It was triggered by the minute rise and fall of a divider inside the safe, making it truly difficult to detect from the outside.

When Qu Jianlei removed the other components, he had been exceptionally cautious and had avoided several trigger devices.

Who would have thought he would mess up at the final step?

He had considered the possibility of an alarm, but in his view, shouldn't the first priority have been preventing the components from being taken away so easily? He had indeed carefully sensed for any protective alarms or reactive devices, but found nothing.

Yet he had not expected the mechanism to be designed this way—not to stop outsiders from taking the components, but simply to sound an alarm.

But on second thought, there was nothing particularly wrong with that logic. This was the headquarters of the Star Region Military District. Who could forcibly take military property away?

An alarm was the proper measure, allowing the military district to immediately apprehend the thieves.

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