With Ling Dan over my shoulder, I reentered the stealth field that Melina's device generated and urged the kids.
"Okay, let's go. Let's get the hell out of here."
Adrian and Melina were still staring at me, unable to comprehend what had just happened. I sighed and gestured with one free hand for them to move.
"We don't want to be still around when they find out that their prisoner is missing from his cell. Hurry."
"Oh, right." Adrian snapped out of it and led the way. A second later, Melina followed, as if in a daze. She glanced at the unconscious Ling Dan propped up on my shoulder.
"Is that really necessary?"
"Yeah. Did you think he'll come along if we ask him to? Didn't you see how he was literally trying to kill me?"
"I saw." Adrian's lips twisted into a sneer. "Ungrateful bastard. If you didn't need him, you would have killed him in retaliation, right, Brother Richard?"
