Even though Harleen and Poison Ivy pounded on the iron gate loud enough to shake the heavens, the chemical plant kept its doors firmly shut, apparently having no intention of acknowledging them.
The company ran into countless hotheaded environmental activists like these every month and had long since worked out how to deal with them. Until they posed a serious threat, playing deaf and ignoring them was the best policy.
Especially inexperienced newcomers like these, who had actually come to the rear gate, which almost never opened, rather than making trouble at the main entrance where vehicles came and went.
Go ahead, shout all you want. If I so much as answer you, I'll... holy shit!
The guards at the rear entrance watched, dumbfounded, as a thick vine wrapped around the huge iron gate and pulled it down with a groaning creak, revealing the two young women standing outside.
A guard saw that the other end of the vine was attached to Poison Ivy's hand and assumed she had torn the gate down with her bare hands. Without another word, he called for backup.
Are you kidding? I'm not facing a woman stronger than Tyson all by myself!
By the time Li Jie arrived, seven or eight armed guards had gathered at the chemical plant's rear entrance, while the trees and bushes behind Poison Ivy rustled in the wind, as though something terrifying lurked inside.
He floored the accelerator, drove up, and braked between the two sides as they stood poised to clash. Then he opened the door, jumped out, and held up his badge toward the guards inside.
"GCPD. Everyone stay calm. I'll handle this, okay?"
In fact, even without his announcement, the plant's people had shown no alarm at the flashing police lights and the white GCPD