Three days later, Shao Industries' new Jaeger project laboratory.
Liwen Shao had resumed her cool, glamorous attire and strode straight inside.
But the place had long since been abandoned. All sorts of items lay scattered about, and the floor was littered with debris blown in by the wind.
She casually pulled over a chair and sat down, quietly staring at the empty laboratory, lost in thought.
After the fused monster had been dealt with three days ago, neither the young man named Lee Stein nor the middle-aged man named Tony Stark had returned. Instead, they had vanished without a trace. No matter how the Pan Pacific Defense Corps investigated afterward, they could not find them.
Stein Group was still around, but most of its original personnel had also withdrawn. Those who remained had emptied out the laboratory, and all kept silent regarding the whereabouts of their chairman, Lee Stein.
Just as they had appeared out of nowhere, they had departed just as abruptly. Apart from a handful of people in the Pan Pacific Defense Corps and Shao Industries, most people did not even know the two of them existed.
Tap~ Tap~ Tap~
The sound of footsteps on the stairs rang out, especially conspicuous in the spacious, silent laboratory.
Liwen Shao, who had been lost in thought, snapped awake at once. Drawing the pistol she carried with her, she held it level and cautiously approached the stairway.
"Miss Shao, correct?"
A smiling woman came down the stairs.
"There's still someone here?"
Liwen Shao froze for a moment when someone actually emerged from the stairwell.
The new Jaeger laboratory had been emptied and left unused ever since the Stein Group personnel departed...
Fortunately, she had some impression of the person before her. She was indeed from Stein Group, apparently named Felicia. They