Lorelei looked at the young man before her, dressed in a white lab coat and looking so panicked that he seemed scared witless. A flicker of surprise crossed her ice-blue eyes.
She recognized him immediately.
He was the mysterious assistant at Giovanni's side who had played a key role in the Orange Islands incident. He was also Team Rocket's "Strategist," who had soothed the enraged Thunder God with a strange kind of music at the Abandoned Power Plant, then calmly left right under her nose.
The mysterious figure in her mind, who devised strategies and decided victories from a thousand miles away, seemed utterly at odds with the panicked technician before her, who looked too weak to hurt a fly.
Why was he here?
And why hadn't he run? With his abilities, he should have noticed the base falling long ago and had plenty of time to escape.
Ye Li's mind was in turmoil.
He had never imagined that his first face-to-face encounter with Lorelei, the queen of ice, would happen at such close quarters and in such dramatic fashion.
He had been busy directing the researchers to evacuate through the secret passage and remotely formatting the data drives they could not take with them. By the time he finished everything and prepared to leave, Lorelei's Ice Beam had already frozen the laboratory door shut.
He had nowhere left to run.
Now, his only option was to keep up the act: an innocent, low-level technician caught up in the fighting and frightened out of his wits.
Within a second, he got himself into character. He made his expression as terrified and helpless as possible, his body trembling slightly and uncontrollably from "fear." The data terminal in his hand also "accidentally" slipped from his fingers and fell to the floor, its