Qiu Yu did not approve of her "caution."
Sheng An met Qiu Yu's gaze, her voice equally cold. "If I could catch him, there's no way I would let him go. Mountain Blossom has the rules loophole. You may have underestimated how powerful it is.
"After a reset, Mountain Blossom can exploit a loophole in time itself. Do you think other superpowers can catch a rules loophole that easily? Should we waste all our power, shut ourselves inside the Meteorite Research Institute, and let the Otherkind wipe us out in one fell swoop?"
Qiu Yu faltered.
A moment later, she stared at her. "Then we just let him leave and accept defeat?"
Sheng An added one last thing. "Uncovering an Otherkind as deeply hidden as Academician Liu already means this wasn't a failure."
With that, she turned and instructed Wan Yuan and Hao Jingye, "Contact Wu Buyu immediately. Whatever the situation is now, bring Mountain Blossom back at once."
She headed toward the entrance.
Qi Lingwu followed without hesitation.
After a moment's thought, Li Xin withdrew his superpower and followed Sheng An as well.
Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun exchanged a glance, then chose to follow Sheng An out of the sealed laboratory.
The rest of Group B did the same, trailing after her one by one.
Hao Jingye looked at Qiu Yu and sighed, saying nothing more.
Qiu Yu's expression grew uglier.
Still maintaining her superpower, Xiang Hanshuang looked at Qiu Yu with a pale face. "Group Leader..."
Without help from the Special Affairs Office's Group B, she could not hold out much longer.
Qiu Yu's face remained grim. After a long moment, she withdrew her superpower, slumping in defeat.
Xiang Hanshuang said nothing more. She exchanged a glance with Jiang Ling, and they withdrew their superpowers as well.