Over an hour later, Shell Laboratory's stronghold had been reduced to ruins.
The shattered bodies of security personnel and destroyed defensive fortifications lay everywhere. The laboratory's director, Abner, had been beheaded, his body tossed far away to the other side.
A Primitive Sect member brought over his head and held it before a Resonator. The latter pulled an implant wire from behind his ear and inserted it into Abner's head, after which his eyes began to flash with light.
In only a short while, he extracted quite a bit of information from the brain. Combined with the decrypted information logs from the equipment and a comparison of the two, he quickly confirmed where the Blood Staff Mercenary Group was headed and what they were searching for.
After a while, the Resonator withdrew the wire.
Seeing that Abner's eyes were still flickering with light, the Primitive Sect member holding the head threw it to the ground, raised his gun, and fired several shots into it. He stopped only after the light had completely faded.
The Resonator walked up to the Handsome Young Man, stopped several steps away, and said, "Found them."
The young man was sitting atop the remains of a two-meter-tall Implant Fighter. "You know the route?"
The Resonator nodded. "They went to the Convergence Zone in Seranocha Continent."
"As long as you know the way."
The young man said, "You lead. We'll follow." As he spoke, the other Primitive Sect members gathered around as well. They too kept some distance from him, standing there silently.
"Let's go."
The young man rose to his feet and swiftly led the group away, leaving behind nothing but devastation.
Over a hundred people at Shell Laboratory's stronghold had been slaughtered, and the entire laboratory had been destroyed. On one hand, this was the