"What do you mean, it's impossible? Tell me!!"
I swung a hard punch at Wang Wen's blank face. He immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, staggered a few steps, and
fell onto the ground.
"Are you awake?"
"Ah... I'm awake. Cough, cough~"
"What the hell happened? What's your theory? Hurry up and tell me!"
"I think... what we brought out was probably fake."
As he spoke, Wang Wen raised his hand and removed his gas mask. Facing the pale blue mist, his expression didn't change in the slightest...
"What do you mean, fake or real? Wang Wen, tell me everything you know! People are dying every minute! What the hell are you dragging this out for?!"
Looking at the swarms of bugs all around us, this was no time for nonsense. What the hell was going on?
"I said... the biological agent smoke grenades we brought out were all fake. They were all fake... Heh... hehehe~"
"You can still laugh?!"
I grabbed Wang Wen and hauled him up, staring into his eyes as I shouted:
"Where's the real stuff?! Where is it?!"
"Isn't it obvious...? In Chang'an. What we brought with us was all fake."
"How could this happen? Weren't all the biological agents under your control?! Nobody else could have handled them. How could you... How..."
I froze. I think... I'd just realized something terrible.
"You've figured it out too?"
Wang Wen smiled bitterly, pulled my hand away, and looked at me.
"That's right. The biological agents were under my control, but someone else handled them during storage. And the only person who could have replaced them on such a massive scale... is her."
"Impossible! Ning Jing would never do this! Absolutely not!"
"Other than her... nobody could have done it... Now I finally understand... why Ning Jing's