Chapter 276: The Vanished Lord Aurora

"What did you say??!"

The moment he heard this, Dr. Yi’s drunkenness completely vanished. A cold sweat drenched him, and he turned his head sharply toward the direction of the speaker.

Han Meng’s heart also skipped a beat, and he rushed toward the glass observation room!

The two arrived in front of the observation room and looked down. In Laboratory No. 0, which had regained power, there was no change—the equipment was running as usual, the drugs were being injected normally—but the metal sleep pod in the center was empty...

"Where is Lord Aurora... where is Lord Aurora??" Dr. Yi’s eyes widened, and he spoke in disbelief, "How is this possible?? I clearly just confirmed it a moment ago..."

"According to your regulations, there must be someone on guard in the observation room at all times. I hid for a moment during the test subject rampage... it couldn't have been more than a minute, and when I came back, he was gone!" a researcher replied blankly.

"...Damn it!!"

Dr. Yi held his head in his hands and crouched down, his eyes full of pain.

"Dr. Yi?" Han Meng called out to him.

"There are no signs of the sleep pod being opened... all the equipment is intact, it couldn't have been taken by anyone... Lord Aurora... has awakened." Dr. Yi scratched his hair frantically. "The power outage masked the changes in his vital signs... I should have thought of it!! He has awakened!!"

"Everything that happened here just now, everything we said, he heard it all!!"

"He knows that in the three hundred years he was asleep, we achieved nothing, and he knows his lifespan is coming to an end... He is disappointed in us, so he left... He has abandoned the Aurora Base."

Dr. Yi gave a miserable laugh, his face deathly pale.

"Lord Aurora has awakened..."

"The Aurora Domain is finished."

……

Outside the Aurora Base.

A blood-red shadow swept rapidly across the sky!

Jian Changsheng gritted his teeth, frantically using his own blood to shift and blink, trying to put distance between himself and the enforcers behind him, but it was completely useless. In fact, the gap between them was getting smaller and smaller... Those Tier 5 and 6 enforcers were not to be trifled with.

"Why are you only chasing me?!"

"Damn it! Heart 6 couldn't have done this on purpose, could he??"

"Throwing me out as bait and then sneaking away himself? This bastard..."

Jian Changsheng finally realized it, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong it felt. But it was too late. As a void wolf’s eye opened in the firmament, a mysterious power instantly locked onto his figure, and his movements slowed down visibly!

At this moment, Jian Changsheng felt as if layers of shackles had been placed on him from afar. Every joint in his body became incredibly heavy, and he fell straight from the air where he had leaped, crashing heavily onto the ground.

BANG—

Jian Changsheng groaned, his consciousness blurring.

"Why did it have to be [Sky Wolf], a path focused on 'hunting'... Can they turn me into 'prey' from this far away?

Is this the strength of a seven-stripe enforcer, [Qiong Xuan]?"

Jian Changsheng struggled to climb up from the ground like a wounded prey, dragging a trail of blood as he moved forward... He hadn't even faced anyone; just being locked onto by a gaze from the void had put him in a 'bleeding and near-death' state.

Being targeted by a Tier 7 [Sky Wolf], no matter how well Jian Changsheng could run, he absolutely couldn't escape. It was no different from being locked onto by the King of Hell.

"Heart 6... I hate you!!" Jian Changsheng couldn't help but curse.

ROAR—!!

As the words left his lips, a sharp wolf howl erupted from the Aurora Base behind him. A shadow moving faster than the speed of sound swept across the sky, and the raging wind uprooted the surrounding trees!

Just as despair appeared in Jian Changsheng’s eyes, a lazy voice came from not far away.

"Oh... so you’re that rookie?"

Jian Changsheng was stunned, and before he could react, his figure instantly vanished from where he stood!

A second later, a black afterimage carrying a terrifying storm arrived on the street. Qiong Xuan, wearing the seven-stripe enforcer trench coat, slowly materialized and scanned the surroundings.

The silent street was empty, and there was no sign of Jian Changsheng anymore.

"How could this be?" Qiong Xuan frowned involuntarily. "I clearly locked onto him just now... How did he escape?"

Qiong Xuan wouldn't give up. After all, this was an enemy who had invaded the Aurora Base; he couldn't just let it go. He searched the surroundings rapidly, but even after turning the entire block upside down, he couldn't find Jian Changsheng again. It was as if he had evaporated into thin air.

Other enforcers followed, and seeing that even Qiong Xuan hadn't been able to catch the opponent, shock appeared in their eyes.

"Captain... what do we do now?"

Qiong Xuan was grinding his teeth. No matter how angry and unwilling he was, he had nowhere to vent, and after holding it in for a long time, he only managed to say:

"Back to the base!"

The group looked at each other and could only turn to follow Qiong Xuan.

As they gradually approached the Aurora Base, a reporter in a brown coat was standing at the base entrance, seemingly taking some photos.

Seeing this, Qiong Xuan, already furious, became even more annoyed. He waved his hand and said to the enforcer beside him:

"Drive that reporter away... is the Aurora Base something he can just photograph??"

The enforcer immediately stepped forward and sternly stopped the reporter who was taking pictures. The young man with half-rimmed glasses scratched his head and said apologetically:

"Sorry... I was just passing by and heard the sound of an explosion from inside the base, so I came over to see if there was any news..."

"Is the Aurora Base something you can photograph?? Which outlet are you from?"

"Aurora Daily, Lin Yan."

"Get out of here, reporters aren't welcome here, or don't blame me for being impolite." The enforcer drove Chen Ling away impatiently. A few seconds later, he seemed to react and turned back sharply, "What did you say? Explosion sound?"

"Yeah... it came from down there, didn't you hear it?" Chen Ling spread his hands innocently.

“？？？”

Qiong Xuan and the others’ expressions changed drastically. "Oh no! Back to the base, quickly!"

Several black-clad figures rushed toward the base rapidly. Chen Ling stood where he was, watching this scene with a smile, then raised the camera in his hand unhurriedly and pressed the shutter.

CLICK—

"Aurora Base, nothing special." Chen Ling casually put his hand back in his pocket and prepared to turn and leave.

However, just as he turned around, he saw a figure in white clothes and white hair standing quietly behind him.

It was a tall, thin man wearing a white lab coat, with white hair draped over his back. As those eyes, surging and changing like auroras, narrowed slightly, a breeze brushed his hem...

Chen Ling’s figure stiffened abruptly!

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