The white bone axe struck the thick reinforcement column, with chunks of cement and dust scattering.
The lines covering the entire space flashed a faint glow, with light purple mist spreading from the walls, floor, and ceiling, quickly engulfing everything around.
The researchers bound to the columns had also vanished behind this veil of mist.
He Ao raised his hand to retrieve the bone axe, gazing at the hazy purple mist.
A swaying figure slowly emerged from the purple mist, the very person who had just attacked He Ao, also the missing researcher.
There were nineteen researchers missing from the Second Laboratory, and only eighteen were tied to the columns, their movements restricted.
This sole researcher, not restrained, was dressed in a white lab coat, hunched over, staggering step by step out of the mist towards He Ao.
A slit in his trousers revealed a leg wound oozing blood, a cut from He Ao's bone axe attack that he hadn't managed to completely dodge.
