Chapter 232

Chapter 232

The water dragon carried A Tian swiftly to the door of the sterile room he had mentioned.

Through the transparent glass, Xiao Hua could see a wrapped object lying on the hospital bed. Upon closer inspection, it was a person entirely wrapped in bandages.

Only the eyes and nose were exposed, and from this distance, these features indeed resembled A Tian, suggesting it was his younger brother.

However, Xiao Hua firmly believed in her own abilities and was convinced that the person on the bed was definitely not A Di. She didn’t waste any more time and strode into the ward, tearing off the bandages.

—The person on the bed was barely breathing, clinging to life.

At first glance, there seemed to be no issue, but his skin was pale with a silicone-like texture, and his eyes and nose bore signs of surgical alteration.

He wasn’t A Di, just someone with A Di’s face—a tool Dr. Cao used to deceive A Tian.

A Tian reached out and touched the features, staring intently at the eyes and nose that looked like his brother’s, and suddenly burst into tears, his voice growing louder.

“It’s fake… all of it’s fake.”

His voice was hoarse and strained, as if his throat was being poisoned, and his words were broken: “Dr. Cao… lied to me… he said my brother wasn’t dead, he said…”

Xiao Hua ignored A Tian, who was lost in grief, and walked straight to the monitor beside the bed, carefully examining the person’s vital signs.

He was beyond saving, Xiao Hua silently concluded in her heart.

She slowly lowered her eyelids, watching A Tian, who was still weeping bitterly. Her gaze was briefly vacant as she thought about how to handle the situation.

However, during those brief moments of distraction, by the time she realized something was wrong, A Tian had already used his last bit of power, committing suicide in front of Xiao Hua with the person on the bed.

Xiao Hua: “…”

What happened couldn’t be undone. Xiao Hua couldn’t reverse it and could only protect herself. A few seconds later, as the turbulence subsided, the ward was left with only the lifeless A Tian and the unknown stand-in.

Xiao Hua closed her eyes briefly, let out a soft sigh, and stopped worrying about the chaos in the ward. She turned and walked out the door. She glanced at Zhao Ye, then met Bai Mu’s eyes, curling her lips into a smile.

“Let’s go, we’ll look for the others.”

In the hallway, Kong Yu and Luo Ning had saved most of the people from the dormitory, with only a few who couldn’t make it and had already died.

At the control center, Han Xiu Jie and Tang Yi were still holding on, completely unharmed.

They were already top-tier enhanced people, perfectly completing their tasks without needing Xiao Hua’s assistance.

Dr. Cao was dead. When Xiao Hua saw Zhang Ren, still frozen, her eyes showed no emotion. She slowly crouched down to look at him, her lips curling into a sneer.

“Most of the reagents have been destroyed by us. If you can still find any, that’s your skill. But I’ll warn you in advance, this stuff has severe side effects. Take care of yourself.”

Based on her observations from infiltrating the base, many people here had become dependent on the reagents. If Dr. Cao hadn’t died, it would only have been a matter of time before he completely controlled them.

Xiao Hua had just destroyed the room where the reagents were stored, and now it was filled with ice shards, likely leaving no intact reagents.

Standing outside the laboratory door again, looking at the bustling crowd in the distance.

“I hope this base can still be saved,” Xiao Hua murmured softly, her voice so quiet that only Bai Mu beside her could hear it.

He gently took her hand, giving it a reassuring pat. “You’ve done what you could. The rest is up to them.”

“Mm,” she responded softly.

Xiao Hua and the others released the captives, not interfering with their choices, allowing them to go wherever they wished.