Another industrial park was built in a remote suburb.
With a three-meter-high barbed wire fence, the place showed nothing unusual when viewed from above, and several neatly divided roads were busy with panel trucks and workers coming and going from building to building.
Lister retracted his gaze and said in a deep voice, "As you can see, how hard it is to find a place like this without the transcendent factor."
"Very stealthy indeed." Eleazar nodded approvingly.
This kind of laboratory was built underneath an ordinary industrial area, if it didn't leak out extraordinary pheromones, he wouldn't notice anything unusual even if he passed by it every day, not to mention that this one was still set up outside the remote suburb, which he couldn't even see on a normal day.
"So you get the hostages out just fine, and don't do anything extra."
"Oh?"
Eleazar turned his head to look at him.
That acolyte explained, "One-third of the cases of missing persons in Celine are related to this human experimentation organization, and it was only in recent years that we noticed that the famous Landesol Biomedicine Company was only one of its sponsors. The structure of this organization is very tight, the other divisions are only known to individual heads, and those people are of great use if we want to pull out the roots."
Eleazar narrowed his eyes, "You mean I can only take a beating and not fight back?"
Lister gazed at him, "Can't you tell what people are minions and what people seem more important?"
"..."
"The hostages are in rooms 13, 14, and 17, numbering 26, and your friend, Ms. Luna, is among them."
"Hey, you're just being pushy!"
Eleazar's eyes widened, "I only have two hands, and you want me to escort 20+ people out of here unharmed?"
Lister glanced at him, "You figure it out."
"And what is your role?"
"Keep a lookout for you out there and send a locator to the military transport in the meantime."
He took out a black box with an occasional flashing red light and waved it around.
Eleazar looked at him irritably, "That easy? How about we switch places?"
"No problem."
Lister agreed readily, then crouched motionless on the wall.
Eleazar looked at him, "Why haven't you acted yet?"
"You're finding it too difficult to escort 20+ people, and I'm even less likely to make it happen, so I'm going to wait for backup to come."
As if knowing what he was about to say, Lister quickly added:
"But I've heard that you Witcher can work miracles, so I just left early to come over and give it a try."
Eleazar is silent for a moment, taking out his silver flask and taking a shallow sip.
"This kind of thing is not even close to a miracle."
"I just think that since we have all decided to save the people, it is necessary to bring them all out in one piece, we can't give people the hope of escaping and then let them die in despair on the way to escape, such ups and downs are most likely to give rise to resentment, it's better to be on the safe side."
"And it's exhausting..."
Patiently explaining, he gathered up his flask and jumped down anyway.
Lister, half crouching on the wall, gazed deeply at the back of the now-embodied figure below and muttered to himself:
"What you take for granted, have you ever considered what others think or not?"
As he spoke, he watched silently as the man made a scene down below before being subdued by dozens of running security.
"Oh, do you blend in as prey?"
Watching the Witcher, who had been hit in the back of the head with a crowbar and pretended to faint, being carried into a room by those security guards.
"Well, it is indeed much faster than stealthily sneaking in, but will this make the administrators below suspicious?" Lister secretly pondered for a while, then he heard a muffled sound coming from the ground, and even the fence seemed to shake for a moment before seeing a warehouse-like building instantly collapsing and sinking into the ground like quicksand, causing the entire park to resound with an earth-shattering alarm.
"Is this the Titan divine power that split over a dozen Divine Punishers with a single sword that day?"
Lister marveled at the sheer physical power.
One must know that their acolytes were all protected by holy light, this characteristic not only allowed them to be immune to most of the low to medium-level spells, but the impact of a simple physical impact on them was even more minimal, and this characteristic would also be increased when they were united together, but on that day, they were still shaken by one blow and flew more than ten meters away, so one could imagine how terrifying that force was.
Endless gunshots rang out from the ground, and there was the faint sound of screams, clearly visible as far as the fence.
Lister waited in silence for a moment and saw a group of men in medical uniforms crawling out of the sunken ruins in terror.
I don't know what Witcher said to them, but after all those people climbed out they didn't flee around in a panic, but instead clustered together in an extremely uneasy manner, as if they were waiting for something.
Seeing that the security guards with weapons on the ground were about to surround them, Lister quickly stood up and prepared to receive them.
"Boom!!!"
There was a sudden burst of fire in the ground, initiated by an explosion.
Just as everyone was speculating and uneasy, a familiar voice rang in their ears.
"Go!!!"
Luna, who was clutching her palms in death, looked up in surprise and saw the man who looked like a god's posture appearing at the edge of the big pit.
He then raised one arm, and the air currents around them boiled as the air shroud that had sheltered them down in the underground laboratory reappeared, enveloping the crowd in its entirety.
This kind of supernatural power, which was almost superhuman, made that security beyond despair, but listening to the frenzied tone of the higher-ups on the intercom and the orders that could not be disobeyed, all they could do was to keep launching their attempts at that air shield like cannon fodder.
"Leave all the experiments alone, get Zero back at all costs!!!"
Under this order, they could only raise their dense muzzles to spit gun flames into that gray field, even if the bullets were all bounced off when they hit it, and even accidental injuries would occur in the narrow passageway below because they could only stand far away to test the waters, a menace that the leaders behind the curtain would never understand.
"Oh, is it a transcendental prop?"
Looking at the group of hostages who were covering their ears and screaming to escape, Lister quickly judged the direction they were fleeing from and then blew up a fence.
"Keep running ahead and go wait for me in the woods!"
After sending all of those incredibly fragile commoners out of the enclosure, Eleazar, who was walking at the end of the line, turned around and looked coldly at the security armed with hot weapons.
The scene was stifled.
Carrying two people who fainted down from exhaustion halfway through the run, Lister waited quietly for a while before seeing the man walk out covered in blood.
"Senseless killing."
He commented lightly.
Eleazar wipes his hands silently, "Won't you stop me?"
"Can I stop it? Is a weapon like yours that is made for killing something that can be stopped with a word or two of persuasion from someone else."
"I don't know, but you can try."
"I don't want to try."
Lister said in a flat tone, "I appreciated what you said the other day."
"Which sentence?"
"Don't have to think about right and wrong, just take responsibility for your choices and actions as a Witcher."