Tong Su smiled and shook her head: "I just felt a little dizzy from weightlessness."
-11
Director Zhen and Professor Hua were still arguing, panting heavily. Director Zhen asked Professor Hua to hand over the list to the department.
Professor Hua shook his head vigorously, refusing to give it to them, stating that this was a rule established at the very beginning of the Special Department's establishment.
Most mutants want to be ordinary people unknown to anyone, but if the list is published, they will be immediately discovered among ordinary people and persecuted and exploited by malicious people.
Even if the minister comes in person to request it, the list cannot be made public!
-9
As the number drew closer to 1, Tong Su could almost smell the tense, almost tangible, smell of gunpowder in the air—
-7
As soon as the elevator stops on the first floor and the doors open, you'll be met with a hail of bullets!
-5
Beep beep beep—
Suddenly, a piercing alarm sounded, accompanied by a violent jolt in the elevator, and the overhead lights flickered twice before hissing and going out!
"What happened? Is the elevator broken?"
"Why is the elevator broken?"
The previous sound was from Director Zhen, who was both shocked and furious;
The next sound came from the communication device in Tong Su's ear; it was from her astonished superior.
Director Zhen's expression was extremely unpleasant. He coldly glanced at Ye Qingxi, who was frowning, and Professor Hua, who was bewildered as to what had happened, and then at Tong Su, whose face was pale.
Professor Hua belatedly realized what was happening, quickly pulled out an emergency light, looked around, and then became furious.
"Someone must have broken the elevator! We repair these things regularly, how could something like this happen? Hey, young lady, why are you so pale?"
Tong Su was pale and weak, and struggled to say, "...I feel a little dizzy."
Her weakness was not feigned.
This was the first time Tong Su had forcibly used her ability to control metal. She was several meters away, and it wasn't until she reached the fifth basement level that she managed to break a crucial mechanism above the elevator, preventing it from ascending.
Her head throbbed with pain, as if all her mental energy had been drained, as if someone was pricking her with needles or hitting her with a hammer. Even the world she saw was blurry and filled with illusions.
Director Zhen said, "Do you have claustrophobia? It's okay, we'll get out safely. Qingxi, go and help her."
Tong Su waved her hand, indicating that she could still hold on. Leaning against the elevator wall, Professor Hua said irritably, "Let's leave here first. We're worried about running out of oxygen. Xiao Ye, can you open the elevator door?"
Ye Qingxi thought for a moment and said, "It should be possible." He turned his hands into tiger claws, stepped forward, grabbed the crack in the door, and with a sudden burst of strength, pried the door open.
The elevator stopped between the -5 and -4 floors. The dark corridor was completely dark, without a single light.
Like a man-eating beast, it gapes its mouth, waiting for the enemy to arrive.
Professor Hua smiled and said, "Our base is 18 floors underground. It's basically used as a buffer zone, and very few people come here normally. When it was built, we set up a lot of maze-like corridors."
As if recalling something, he said with a sense of melancholy, "Back then, Shen Xi was joking with me, saying that even if we encountered danger, this underground labyrinth would be perfect for a gunfight, like shooting a sci-fi war movie. I told him he was a jinx, always saying bad things instead of good ones?"
Who is Shen Xi?
"Who goes there?!"
"Tap tap tap—"
The three voices were spoken almost simultaneously!
The first sound came from Tong Su, who grabbed Professor Hua's sleeve.
The second voice was Ye Qingxi, who had transformed into a beast and was roaring down the corridor.
The third sound came from the sudden burst of sparks from a gun barrel in the dark corridor!
Someone opened fire on the elevator with a gun while urgently shouting into the headset: "Their elevator is stopped on the fourth basement level! Please send reinforcements from Weapon Jiazi!"
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