Pain throbbed in my head as I staggered forward, too panicked to care about the danger to myself by entering. I needed to know Meilin was okay.
"Careful, I'll do my best to suppress your presence," System nagged as I gripped onto the door handle, pushing it forward slowly.
Inside the room, that was a mirror image of the one I'd just exited, bodies lay in the small clearing in the middle of the cubicles. Men wearing black encircled the very people I'd been searching for, threatening to make more dead bodies with guns pointed.
Crouching to slip behind a cubicle, I peeped around the edge of the cubicle wall, wondering where James was.
Meilin stood behind Dr. Wu, who was trying to shield her. The Wu Grandparents were both on the floor before him, blood pooling under them.
