Lu Wencheng hurriedly pulled Hu Menghao into the cabin. The helicopters immediately took off and left. Looking down from high above, they could still see countless plumes of smoke drilling out from the cracks in the ground, churning up waves of yellow earth.
Cao's Research Institute, which had given the Wolf Fang Intelligence Department and the covert division such headaches, had been destroyed just like that. It left them with a sense of how unpredictable life could be.
"Didn't you say it would be destroyed in half an hour?" Lu Wencheng asked, still shaken.
Beside him, Hu Menghao panted. "The destruction I mentioned was the elimination of all traces."
Lu Wencheng did not understand for a moment. "What does eliminating all traces mean?"
Hu Menghao answered casually, "It means making this entire underground research institute cease to exist and restoring it to ordinary land. Even if someone dug three feet into the ground, they would find no trace of research activity. Even the containers will all decompose and vanish."
The cabin instantly fell silent. Quite a few people cast terrified looks at Hu Menghao. To erase such an enormous underground research institute so thoroughly in an instant—was that even something a human could do?
The silence left the cabin steeped in a strange atmosphere for a long while. After swallowing several times, Lu Wencheng finally steadied himself and introduced himself. "Hello, Dr. Hu. I'm Lu Wencheng, director of the Wolf Fang Intelligence Department. My rank is lieutenant general."
Hu Menghao's eyes lit up. "So you're Lu Wencheng. Thank you for the Intelligence Department's help."
Lu Wencheng did not waste words and went straight to the matter that concerned him most. "Everyone has been rescued, but our commander's father is still in their hands. So the mission has not been completed."