Lin Li stopped and looked over, only to see more than twenty criminals dressed in black walking toward him. They carried machetes, daggers, and even crossbows of astonishing destructive power.
Amid the crowd, a gloomy-faced man with his right arm hanging limply stood out. It was the tall, thin man who had secretly slipped away earlier.
The tall, thin man saw Lin Li as well, and a trace of venom flashed through his eyes.
He pointed at Lin Li with his uninjured left hand and roared at the people beside him, "It's this brat! He beat me into this state just now. Brothers, get him together! As long as we take him down, the organization will reward us handsomely."
"Kill him!" More than twenty criminals shouted in unison and charged at Lin Li. Their footsteps shook the ground faintly.
However, just as the crowd was about to reach Lin Li, the tall, thin man at the back took advantage of the chaos to slow down quietly, then turned and slipped into the woods beside them. He quickly vanished into the Night Scene.
Lin Li saw the entire scene clearly and could not help shaking his head. A mocking smile curled up at the corner of his mouth. "He ran again... These people are being used as guns by that tall, thin man, yet they're still risking their lives for him. How pitiful..."
Meanwhile, inside the secret laboratory.
White lights illuminated the entire laboratory, while the air was filled with the pungent mixed stench of disinfectant and chemical reagents.
Rows of transparent culture dishes were neatly arranged on the workbenches. They contained pale green liquid, in which countless tiny Parasitic Worms writhed. They looked especially disgusting.
A man in a white lab coat stood before the central culture dish. Holding a