Chapter 298 Suspicion
"Bang——"
All the documents and utensils on the table were swept to the ground, startling the person who had just entered the door.
"Dr. Ruan, Dr. Ruan..." the assistant at the door called out tremblingly.
Dr. Ruan raised his bloodshot eyes, glanced towards the door, closed them, and said in a dejected voice, "Come in."
The assistant walked over quickly. Seeing the dejected look on Dr. Ruan's face, a hint of pity flashed in his eyes, but he still handed the document over. "Doctor, this is the list of losses from this incident..."
Dr. Ruan wiped his face with trembling hands, "I understand. Leave it there..."
The assistant placed the documents on the table, then turned around and began to pick up the items and documents that Dr. Ruan had just swept onto the floor.
Dr. Ruan looked at his assistant's back and sighed softly, "No need to clean up. There's a lot of things to clean up outside. You can go out and help... I can handle this myself."
"Doctor..." The assistant turned around and pursed his lips slightly, "Don't get too angry, or you'll get sick."
"That's easy to say... but now the reservoir and the experimental subject storage base have been completely destroyed. Even Sample Library No. 1 has been looted. All our hard work over such a long time has been wasted! All in vain!"
As Dr. Ruan spoke, the redness in his eyes became more pronounced and his chest began to rise and fall violently.
Upon seeing this, the assistant quickly ran over and gently patted Dr. Ruan on the back, urgently comforting him, "Doctor, don't get excited. Calm down..."
"We will definitely catch these thieves! Then we'll use them to fill our sample library and experimental subject storage base!"
"The reservoir... we still have some surviving flower plants there. As long as we continue to cultivate them, we'll be able to resume production soon!"
Dr. Ruan gently closed his eyes again under the comfort of his assistant.
Seeing that Dr. Ruan's mood had improved, the assistant helped him sit down on a chair and whispered, "Doctor, I have a feeling that this incident has something to do with the group from City G..."
"I received reports from the lower levels a while ago. They said that group of people have been going out almost every day for the past two days, sometimes even going outside the base."
They did not restrict the freedom of these people, but simply did not allow them to move around the institute.
It now seems that it is very likely that they discovered some clues while wandering around outside, so they organized this operation.
"I doubt it, too," Dr. Ruan exhaled heavily, "but we have no evidence!"
"Also, what's their purpose in doing this? For the samples? But how did they know the location of the sample library?"
"And I went to the control room. There was no sign that the door had been opened from the outside, but the three people on duty inside were all killed, and the surveillance cameras were all destroyed..."
The assistant paused for a moment when he heard this. "Doctor, do you suspect... there's a traitor within the institute?"
Dr. Ruan didn't answer, but his expression became noticeably gloomy.
The assistant pursed his lips and asked, "Do I need to call all the staff on duty in the monitoring room to screen them one by one?"
Dr. Ruan thought about it and shook his head. "Not yet. Doing so would likely alert the enemy."
"What are the recent movements of those people in H City?"
The assistant frowned and thought for a moment, "I heard from the people below that they often go out too."
"But they haven't left the base much before. The only record of them leaving the base gate was yesterday afternoon."
"What about those people in G City? How many times have they gone out these days?"
"The group of people in City G went out quite frequently the day before yesterday, but yesterday, there was no record of anyone going out."
At this point, the assistant suddenly had a bold guess, "Doctor, you say... could it be that the two of them are colluding with each other to steal our sample library?"
Dr. Ruan lowered his eyelashes and thought for a few seconds. "Your speculation is not impossible..."
"But no matter what, they are all new here. They have never been to our base before, let alone to the research institute."
"Not to mention, we haven't seen them wandering around the institute these past two days... If they don't have an insider, how could they possibly know the exact location of Sample Bank No. 1?!"
Seeing that Dr. Ruan was about to get excited again, the assistant quickly comforted him, "Don't worry, Doctor. I will immediately send someone to secretly investigate all the staff on duty in the control room."
"Without alerting the enemy, we must find out their recent movements!"
Dr. Ruan took a deep breath and nodded slightly.
The assistant nodded and prepared to leave immediately. However, as he reached the door, he suddenly remembered something and turned back hesitantly, "Doctor, if you really find someone with a problem... would you like to interrogate them personally, or..."
Dr. Ruan collapsed back in his chair, eyes closed as he spoke coldly, "No need to ask. Just inject Experimental Agent No. 56 and observe the reaction. If there are any successes, they will be placed in Sample Library No. 2. If there are any failures, they will all be placed in an empty room on the fifth floor of the main building. Once the experimental subject storage base is repaired, they will be moved there."
"yes."
After the assistant left, Dr. Ruan sat quietly in the chair for a while. After his mood calmed down a little, he slowly opened his eyes.
Dr. Ruan didn't look at the documents that had just been delivered to the table. Instead, he stood up, found the landline phone that he had just swept to the ground, and dialed a few numbers.
"Doctor, are you looking for me?" A young male voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Find a way to find out where the delegations from City G and City H have been recently and who they've come into contact with. The more detailed the better. Both inside and outside the base."
"Hurry up, I want a detailed report before dark today."
"yes!"
After hanging up the phone, Dr. Ruan returned to silence.
If outsiders want to investigate, then insiders must investigate even more.
If there really was a traitor inside the institute, they didn't know how much information had been leaked.
The more Dr. Ruan thought about it, the more frightened he became.
If someone within their group had been colluding with outsiders from the very beginning, would they have been well prepared for this exchange meeting?
Has their true purpose been exposed?
So that's why they do this as a warning or... revenge?
No...impossible.
If they really knew about this, why did Professor Kang and Professor Shen still attend the meeting on time every day?
Yes, he couldn't lose his composure first...
Although he was comforting himself in this way, Dr. Ruan thought about it again and again, and finally stood up suddenly and walked out.
Just in case, he still had to go to sample library No. 2 to take a look.
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