Several Soldiers roughly blocked her.
"Let me through! I'm an agent from the Control Bureau! There might be our people inside!"
She showed her ID.
"Control Bureau? Humph, maybe you're the spy they sent!" The Soldier disdainfully pushed her away, his eyes cold.
In that instant of pushing and shoving, Elena's gaze penetrated the shifting figures and rising dust, precisely catching sight of several executioners wearing black hoods in the clearing deep within the plantation, and the figure, also wearing a black hood, kneeling on the ground.
A dazzling, blood-red hair stubbornly escaped from the edge of the hood.
Elena's pupils constricted, and her heart felt as if it had been violently seized.
Bang—!!!
A gunshot rang out.
She watched with wide eyes as the figure trembled violently, then softly collapsed to the ground.
Crimson blood, like a freely flowing stream, rapidly seeped into the crimson soil beneath her feet, which possessed a certain vitality. What terrified her even more was seeing that hot pool of blood being greedily absorbed by a clump of unusually enchanting dark red roses nearby...
Nourished by the blood, the petals of that rose bush became even more crimson and vibrant, shimmering with an ominous glow.
"Click!"
A soft sound suddenly pulled Elena back to reality from her suffocating memories.
The folder on the screen unlocked!
Inside were high-definition on-site photos, signed execution orders, and cold autopsy reports.
The name field of one of them clearly read: Ye Ningfu·Vera.
Elena suppressed her heartache, her hands trembling with extreme anger, yet she miraculously maintained steady control.
She was no longer content with merely deleting evidence of the operation.
She began searching for everything Ye Ningfu had persistently investigated before her death—records of covered-up human experiments, shocking data from live research on anomalous entities, and mountains of missing persons reports...
Every document, every picture, depicted a living hell!
The more Elena saw, the more alarmed she became.
This was just data from one laboratory, merely the tip of the iceberg in the entire Saint Martan.
She dared not imagine how many similar incidents there truly were.
This country was simply like a giant slaughterhouse!
"Ye Ningfu... you were right... you were always right... I was wrong... hopelessly wrong..." she whispered hoarsely, two lines of clear tears rolling down her cheeks.
Elena saved all these incriminating pieces of evidence to her storage device, preparing to take them back to the Control Bureau.
Yes, this was the true reason Elena came to Saint Martan; it wasn't at all to cross-border pursue two anomalous fugitives from Australia, but rather to use this opportunity to return to this land of sin and complete Ye Ningfu's unfinished task.
But suddenly—
Woo—woo—woo—!
Piercing alarms suddenly tore through the laboratory's silence.
"Intruder detected in Sector B! Intruder detected in Sector B! Repeat, highest threat level! Apprehend! Apprehend immediately!"
A chilling voice roared through the omnipresent loudspeakers.
The heavy alloy door was locked from the outside!
Hidden panels on the walls slid open, and a flood of fully armed elite Soldiers poured in like a tide!
Dense infrared aiming beams instantly locked onto Elena's entire body!
"Put down the device! Kneel!" The leading Soldier roared, his gun pointed directly at her head.
A trace of determination flashed in Elena's eyes.
She had anticipated this and didn't hesitate for a moment. The instant the Soldiers surged in, she secretly slipped the storage device into her pocket while simultaneously gripping a silver sphere the size of a ping-pong ball behind her waist with her left hand, then violently pressed the button in its center with her thumb.
In an instant, a white mist rapidly enveloped her figure.
Several Soldiers, seeing the unfavorable situation, quickly opened fire, but they only shot through the smoke, unsure if they had hit anything.
Elena, who had already ducked low, quickly put on a portable gas mask, lowering her body to the extreme. Instead of rushing towards the locked door, she lunged towards a metal cart full of cleaning supplies nearby.
She kicked the bottom of the cart with all her might!
The heavy cart, like an out-of-control battering ram, whistled as it crashed into the Soldiers surging from the flank.
Bang—
Elena used the brief chaos she created, sticking to the wall like a shadow, and rushed towards a maintenance hatch connected to a large ventilation duct deep in the room!
Her fingers flew, and a miniature cutter instantly activated, its scorching high-temperature ion beam cutting through the bars of the maintenance hatch.
But someone still caught the faint sound amidst the chaos.
Pfft! Pfft!
Several bullets, speeding from close range, pierced her shoulder and the outer side of her thigh.
Despite wearing a bulletproof lining, the intense pain still made her body sway.
It was this less than a second of delay.
Two of the quickest reacting Soldiers had already lunged forward, one kicking her lower back hard!
Elena grunted, crashing heavily against the cold wall, her vision blurring.
Another Soldier roughly grabbed her arm, and a fierce takedown pinned her firmly to the ground, her cheek pressed against the cold floor.
Even though Elena was experienced, she was still flesh and blood. Trying to deceive so many elite Soldiers and escape was simply too unrealistic.
The storage device in her pocket also fell to the ground. Elena was about to reach for it.
A large foot, clad in a heavy military boot, landed with cruel force, stepping on the storage device along with her hand.
The intense pain made Elena cry out, but even more heartbreaking was a crisp crack.
It wasn't just the breaking of Elena's finger bones, but the storage device was already shattered.
Hope... was completely crushed.
Everything, under this one kick, turned to dust.
Immense despair, like a cold tide, instantly engulfed Elena.
All her strength seemed to drain away. She stopped struggling, her eyes hollow as she stared at the pile of fragments on the ground.
Tears mixed with blood foam from the corner of her mouth silently streamed down.
It's over... everything is over...
"Take her away! Take this spy to the Lighthouse District for public execution." The leading Soldier looked at the pile of fragments, a twisted and gleeful smile on his face: "Let our people see the consequences of leaking secrets, and also make old John compensate us some money."
"The reason is his lax supervision, always letting these ignorant white dogs interfere with our unbreakable cooperative relationship, truly..."
The Soldier roughly dragged Elena, who was like a rag doll.
Elena even gave up resisting...
Just at the peak of this despair—
Boom!!!
The sturdy alloy ventilation duct grate at the top of the laboratory was forcibly torn open from the inside!
A girl's voice, carrying clear displeasure, distinctly pierced through the alarm's clamor and the Soldiers' exclamations.
"Spy? Are you looking for me?"
Everyone's movements instantly froze, and they looked up in terror.
In the swirling white dust, a figure lightly descended, stepping barefoot on the alloy floor.
"Oh, no... I'm not a spy, I'm... an accomplice of the resistance~"
Before the girl could finish her monologue, two Soldiers raised their guns, but before they could pull the triggers, countless thorny vines instantly stretched out from the broken ventilation duct, dragging them directly into the ventilation duct.
In the shocked eyes of the Soldiers, the ventilation duct seemed like a meat grinder.
As soon as the Soldier's scream began, blood rained down on them.
The girl, who was Ye Ningfu, showed a beautiful smile.
"But it seems like an even greater crime, so why don't you arrest me too."
"If you are capable..."
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