"Calm down."
Xia Xu reached out to restrain the enraged Grant and pointed inside. "You recognize that, right?"
Thanks to the Spider-Shaped Predators, he had seen the conditions inside before Grant had, so he was not nearly as calm as he appeared.
But he would not let his emotions cloud his judgment, and he had also noticed some deeper implications.
For instance, the guards here were clearly better trained. For another, those guards and some of the equipment and consumables in the laboratory bore a familiar symbol.
"The Tree of Life. These are the Andra Group's Special Security Force."
Grant forced himself to calm down and glanced at the guard Xia Xu was pointing at, his gaze growing colder and darker.
The Tree of Life was a medical equipment company under the Andra Group. It did little external business, primarily supplying medical consumables within Andra's corporate network.
Xia Xu had seen it during the "Batman" plot before, and had also learned about this from Gu Haiming.
"So these people really are from the Andra Group."
Xia Xu sighed, the meaning behind it unclear.
The Tree of Life presumably referred to the biblical Inverted Tree, also known as the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
There was no need to delve into its complex religious and occult significance, but clearly, this was most likely a commonly used symbol of the Andra Group, or some form of corporate culture.
"We might really be in trouble this time."
Grant said gravely, "Andra owns a security company. They used it to assemble a Special Security Force made up entirely of elite mercenaries, specifically to carry out security assignments that can't see the light of day."
"That hard to handle?"
Xia Xu frowned at his words.
"Yes, very hard. These people are desperadoes, and they're all battlefield