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Cui Zili saw Jiang Yue peppering him with questions and wondered if this guy really was an official operative who had infiltrated the laboratory building.

In particular, Jiang Yue had mentioned Professor Lu Jinwen's flash drive and some specific details, which gradually eased some of Cui Zili's doubts. He had initially been about seventy or eighty percent suspicious of Jiang Yue.

"Senior Sister Gao is the leader of our group. They're keeping a close watch on her, so she must be under lock and key. She's the one they fear most," Cui Zili said bitterly.

"How exactly are they keeping you imprisoned?" Jiang Yue asked, deeply curious. If that kind of ability existed, it would be practically invincible.

Against any opponent, you could just suppress their Awakened Power, and then beating them would be a piece of cake.

"Hmph, I don't know how they make it, but it's some kind of drug. They use it to suppress us. It's really sinister. Just smelling it makes you lose all your strength. But they also have an antidote. One sniff of that, and the suppression is lifted."

So it was a drug?

If so, that was better, at least. It wasn't the kind of thing you couldn't defend against.

The drug sounded miraculous, but it was still easier to guard against than some strange ability.

And they even had an antidote that could lift the suppression with a single sniff. That made things easier.

Jiang Yue pondered. "So, if we can get the antidote, you and the others can regain your Awakened Power just by smelling it?"

"Don't get your hopes up. The people in the lab are all vicious. Getting the antidote from them would be harder than climbing to heaven. Don't end up failing to get it and getting yourself