"team leader!"

"Brother Ding!"

"We'll fight you to the death!"

"Captain Ding, you've worked hard. You were injured while fighting the mutated cockroaches. Send Captain Ding back to base for treatment. Everyone else, continue preparing. Clean up the scene and retreat in ten minutes. Detonate the explosives in fifteen minutes."

Dr. Su didn't even glance at Dingxiang lying on the ground, nor did she pay any attention to the dispatch team members who had been stopped. She strode into the building with her long legs, calmly as if nothing had happened.

...

...

"Squeak squeak squeak..."

"Squeak squeak squeak..."

"Squeak squeak squeak—"

"Click".

The soles of the boots made a series of teeth-grinding cracking sounds as they touched the ground and severed limbs. Dr. Su remained unfazed, walked to the collapsed hole, and squatted down to observe it as if no one else was around.

A mix of emotions flickered in his eyes, a mixture of doubt and understanding, as if a thick, dark light was welling up within them, as if he were talking to himself, or perhaps conversing with someone:

"...Is this what you wanted to show me?"

"...Just a failed...half-finished product..."

"I promised... I would find it."

"No one will find out..."

The researchers around them, who were setting up explosives and determining their positions, all kept their heads down, remaining silent and stealthy, trying not to disturb each other.

After a while, Dr. Su stopped talking to himself. He seemed to hear something, twitched his ears, and turned to look at one of the mutated banana vines that was sticking out of the ground.

At first, the banana vine only trembled slightly with a small arc, but gradually, the speed of its trembling increased, until finally it seemed as if something was pulling it from below!

—It looks just like an epileptic seizure.

"What is that?!"

"Could it be an insect swarm?!"

"Dr. Su! Watch out!"

Those around him were on high alert, but Dr. Su simply raised his hand to stop others from firing, holding his breath and staring intently, like a cheetah ready to pounce on its prey.

"Swish swish swish swish! Swish swish swish swish—"

The banana tree trunk shook violently, and suddenly, out of nowhere, a head popped out from inside:

"Is someone up there? Come and lend a hand, we finally made it out."

The moment he saw the other person clearly, Dr. Su's pupils suddenly shrank, and he trembled as if he had been electrocuted.