Lelouch had gotten straight to the point. He did not want to keep wasting time with Xiao Ran, nor did he want to keep being led around by the nose. He needed time and space to compose himself and properly think through everything that had happened today.
But upon hearing Lelouch's words, Xiao Ran frowned slightly. Ignoring Lelouch and Suzaku, he walked straight into the truck's cab. The moment he bent down to enter, he saw a long-haired young man lying across the seat, one hand pressed over the bleeding wound in his chest as he weakly stared at the ceiling.
Hearing Xiao Ran's footsteps, the young man turned his dull, vacant gaze toward him. His lips moved as he softly said, "I heard your conversation. Whether you want to destroy the Empire or change it, you can't achieve that by staying here. Leave quickly. I'm going to release the poison gas and kill all those Imperial people here. I can only hold on for a few more minutes at most. Use that time to run. How far you get after that is up to fate."
Xiao Ran glanced at the young man. His injuries were severe. Countless shards of glass had pierced the front of his chest, and there were also marks where KF bullets had grazed him. If he received treatment in time, he could still be saved, but given the current situation and environment, there was simply no way to treat him.
Xiao Ran had not expected that the reason this wounded young man had opened the gate but not activated the Poison Gas Device was that he had been waiting for them to leave. Whether it was because he had overheard their conversation or because he did not want to kill innocents indiscriminately, at least his