The circle in his palm was the enemy's snare, their trap, and the full stop at the end of Academician He's life.
The instant Sheng An saw it, she understood everything he had intended.
And she used that "circle" to unlock the truth.
She looked at Academician Liu on the floor and slowly began:
"Academician He thought M would attack him directly. But It didn't. M was cautious and remained hidden, acting only through Academician Liu, a puppet Otherkind. So after Academician He laid his trap, I laid a second one."
Academician He had used his life to lure M into acting.
The cunning M had not acted directly. It had given Academician Liu a superpower and had him do the killing.
Sheng An immediately had Mountain Blossom take away the Fragments and framed the puppet Otherkind. Everything that had happened before was enough to show that M showed no mercy even to Otherkind. Once It became suspicious, It would inevitably strike at the puppet and leave a trail.
Beneath the seemingly uneventful exchange, dangerous currents had long been surging.
The salute she had given Academician He had told him-Go in peace. Leave the rest to me.
As for what information Academician He had discovered in the Fragments?
That was not actually the key.
Because the Fragments were not lost. Whatever he had discovered, they would eventually discover too. Compared with a small new discovery that was not the whole truth, the hidden M mattered more.
Only by finding M would they have a chance to eliminate the Otherkind for good!
Everyone opened their mouths, their feelings tangled.
Every inconsistency was explained in that moment.
Academician He's refusal to contact the authorities and share the information, his departure from the Sealed Laboratory to be killed in the Discussion Room, sending