"It's okay to stop temporarily. We're not the only experimental site. We need to play it safe and seek victory. Otherwise, what's the use of developing the research if we lose our lives?"

She had always been in charge of the base's affairs, and Fang Minglei understood that she wasn't consulting him, but rather issuing a notification, so there was nothing he could do about it.

"I see."

Only after Fang Minglei left did Li Rao finally exhale the pent-up frustration in her chest. When she first saw the document, she couldn't quite describe the feeling in her heart.

Suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of desolation, she took a deep breath and then slammed her fist into the hard wall.

Everyone understands the principle of "putting away the bow when the ammunition is used up, and cooking the dog when the rabbit is dead," but they were arbitrarily eliminated before they even reached the "rabbit is dead" stage. This already shows that their status was even lower than that of the "dog" and the "bow." From the moment they joined the organization, there was no turning back. How could they talk about freedom?

She originally thought that she might be able to remove the toxins from her body by finding a healing-type ability user or by using a drug, so she didn't really care when the toxin was implanted.

She also thought that with their special abilities, they would have some resistance to these toxins, but reality slapped her in the face.

She never imagined that the toxin in her body was so potent. Among these base commanders, she was very familiar with Zhou Fang's strength. It could be said that he was rarely matched among level 4. Yet, someone with such strength died from the toxin in such a short time. If it were her, she would die even faster than Zhou Fang.

The feeling of having her life in someone else's hands was like having a knife hanging over her neck, not knowing when it would fall. Her eyes dimmed for a moment. Before, she was thinking about how to become the most influential base leader in these experimental sites, but now she was thinking about how to break free from the organization's control.

She had considered confronting the B City base, but their bodies contained not only toxins but also tracking devices. If the organization suspected even the slightest possibility of betrayal, her fate would be far worse than Zhou Fang's.

"These things need to be done gradually."

Li Rao stood up from the chair. These people had lived in darkness for a long time, and they couldn't even see the slightest bit of sunlight every day, but in their hearts... they still longed for the sunlight.