"She's dead."
Abigail said.
Chen Xuan could tell as well. There was a bullet hole in her chest, piercing straight through her heart and lungs. Her breathing had long since stopped, and her body was already growing cold. More importantly, he could not sense this person through the Mind Method—she was a corpse, with no trace of Spiritual Energy radiance on her body.
"How could this be..." Honglian muttered in disbelief. "We got here so quickly..."
"Sometimes things are just like that. They won't always go the way you want. No matter how much effort you put in, the outcome may not change." Reid holstered his gun and patted Honglian on the shoulder.
It was the first time he had shown kindness toward a traitor of the Organization.
Whether it was Abigail or Reid, neither of them cared much about Luo Diya's death. The Gospel Society's assassination squad had been wiped out in New City, and the mole they had planted within the Organization's branch had been exposed. This was undoubtedly a tremendous victory. The deaths of a few Gospel Faction members who had defected to them were a negligible price to pay.
"Save... save me..."
A weak groan came from the other side of the shelves.
"There are survivors over there!" Reid rushed over at once. "Are you all right? Where are you hurt?"
"M-my leg... it might have been crushed..."
Chen Xuan glanced in that direction. There were four points of light in total, the same result as his previous scan.
He walked over and saw four warehouse employees lying on the ground. Two were unconscious, while the other two were groaning in pain.
"Don't be afraid. You're safe now." Reid reassured them. "I'm an investigator from headquarters. What happened here earlier?"
"Ability users were killing people... I