"She's dead."
Abigail said.
Chen Xuan could also see that there was a bullet hole in her chest, right through the heart and lungs. Her breathing had long stopped, her body temperature had cooled, and more crucially, he couldn't sense her in his Heart Method—she was a corpse, devoid of any Spiritual Qi glow.
"How could this be..." Honglian murmured incredulously, "We clearly rushed over here so quickly..."
"Sometimes things just happen like this, not everything goes as you wish, no matter how much effort you put in, the outcome won't change." Reid put away his gun and patted Honglian on the shoulder.
This was the first time he showed kindness towards a traitor to the Mechanism.
Neither Abigail nor Reid seemed to care much about Rodiya's death. The toppling of the Evangelical Association's assassination squad in New City and the outing of the spy within the Mechanism branch were undoubtedly a great victory. Just losing a few defecting Evangelicals was a minimal price to pay.
