"Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit..."
Several night birds suddenly burst out of the grass and flew away in a panic.
Overwhelmed by despair, Li Zhehao unconsciously rubbed his fingers together.
Dirt was packed beneath his fingernails, and the turmoil in his thoughts tormented him.
Lin Li saw Li Zhehao wavering and stopped attacking, silently watching him.
"Phew..."
Another chilly gust of wind blew past, lifting the dead grass from the ground and swirling it around the two of them.
The wasteland, which had just been filled with the sounds of fists and feet, was now frighteningly quiet. Only the rustle of wind through the bushes remained, like countless thin needles piercing the taut air.
Far away, the moon slowly crossed the sky. Its silvery-white light illuminated the darkness scattered across the ground, but could not penetrate the darkness in Li Zhehao's heart.
While Lin Li and Li Zhehao stood in silence, a kilometer away, a group of investigators in camouflage surrounded the secret laboratory.
The laboratory's alloy door lay on the ground, marks from weapons still visible across its surface... They had been left by Lin Li earlier.
Some of the investigators had already rushed into the laboratory, carefully searching each room.
Just then, a jumble of footsteps sounded in the distance.
Liu Jialin was escorting a handcuffed man past. When she saw her colleagues outside the laboratory, she handed Wang Minheng over to someone nearby.
"Liu Jialin, you caught Wang Minheng all by yourself? That's incredible!" One investigator came over, his eyes full of envy.
Liu Jialin smiled and brushed the loose hair from her forehead. A little dust clung to her sleeves, but her face was bright with an easy smile.
"I was just lucky. They fled in such a hurry that they must have left important files behind in