"What they left behind?"
Wang Shu and Gu Beichen watched the wall Xu Le was scraping. Soon, he had peeled a thick layer off the graffiti, a substance that felt like clay.
Underneath was a well-sealed document. Xu Le took it out.
"We weren't the only ones planning to run back then. There were others."
"You mean Gu Jianuo?"
"Yes."
Xu Le opened the document envelope. After he had fallen under the Doll Technique back then, Gu Jianuo had gradually begun to trust him.
Perhaps it was just like what Xiong Zemo had done to Gu Jianuo. Under the Doll Technique, there seemed to be no way to resist.
While joining Gu Jianuo's group, Xu Le had discovered that she was not all that convinced by or loyal to Xiong Zemo herself.
She had wanted to run for a long time. She had ideas of her own, but had never had the strength to resist Xiong Zemo.
Precisely because of that, Gu Jianuo had prepared a great deal of information on Xiong Zemo.
It covered Xiong Zemo's laboratories, his financial backers, his various research projects, evidence of his crimes, and so on.
Such things were of little use in bringing down a district chief.
Because aside from the gap in strength, there was also a difference in power between the two.
Xiong Zemo was a district chief, while Gu Jianuo was only a researcher. Though she was a highly esteemed doctor, that still meant nothing compared with a district chief.
"These things weren't much use in Gu Jianuo's hands, but in ours, they might mean something."
"You're planning to go through Lighthouse's legal system?" Ai Li frowned slightly. Although she was a good young woman who upheld and obeyed the law, she still felt that...
If Xu Le intended to