"In other words, the final battle would erupt in two hours.→"
Soldier Boy nodded. Then, he set down his coffee and said, "Since you're here, come out. What's the fun in hiding?"
Nicky and the other two immediately tensed up. Madelyn hurriedly hid among the group. Clearly, people from Vought Pharmaceutical Company had arrived.
"Soldier Boy, you actually dared to provoke Vought Pharmaceutical Company? Have you forgotten that you're nothing but a discarded product?"
Along with the mocking voice, an elderly white-haired man in a lab coat appeared out of thin air in the distance, accompanied by nine stern-faced Ability Users. They walked toward the group.
Soldier Boy knew this White-coated Man—or rather, knew him very well. He had been the director of Soldier Boy's ability experiments and had played a crucial role in turning Soldier Boy into an Ability User.
"I never expected you to still be alive. I've always suspected that you people were involved when Payback ambushed me back then. It seems I was right."
Soldier Boy said coldly, "In that case, I made the right choice. Everyone who plotted against me back then will pay back blood with blood."
"Of course we were involved. Otherwise, how would Countess and the others have dared to deal with you?"
The White-coated Man stopped dozens of meters away from Soldier Boy with the nine Ability Users and said, "At the time, we created a product better and more powerful than you. Since you were also becoming increasingly uncontrollable, we decided after discussion to discard you.
"That was why the Payback members moved against you. Back then, I suggested killing you completely and using your corpse for experiments.
"But some short-sighted fools within the company took a fancy to the enormous reward offered by the other side. They also believed