NovelEnglishMaja stretched out and patted her on the shoulder in a comforting gesture. Then they both lay down onto the thick grass to catch
sZ's.
Restlessly twisting and turning, Maja couldn't find sleep at first, but she forced herself to close her eyes and drift off.
When daylight broke, they nibbled on scrackers and resumed their trek. Nana surveyed the terrain, her brow furrowed with
concern.
"We've only cacross fragments of the research base so far. | bet the main complex is still out there somewhere, just tossed
around by the quake. If we had a chopper, we could spot that big building in no time. If it had its own earthquake defenses, then
maybe just the outer sections got crushed, and the core might be intact. But chances are, anyone inside got knocked out cold."
Maja was of the smind, silently praying that lan and the others were in the core, holding onto a sliver of hope for their
survival.
She searched fruitlessly until the afternoon, her stomach growling with hunger. Suddenly, the sound of a helicopter filled the sky,
and her phone rang. It was Beck.
"Maja, where are you?"
Surprised by Beck's swift arrival, Maja quickly relayed her location. In no time, the helicopter touched down nearby.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtShe grabbed Nana's hand and they sprinted towards the helicopter.
Beck climbed out, looking grim. Upon seeing Maja, he gave her a thorough once-over. After confirming she was unharmed, he let
out a sigh of relief.
"You've got snerve, you know that? After you ran off to this godforsaken place, I've been catching hell."
Not just from Dylan, but lan had given him an earful too.
"Beck, did you cbecause you've got news?"
"Dylan sentto back you up. The more the merrier, right? This place caught the big shots" attention. Bernard from Windhelm
showed up too. Seems he had a deal with lan a while back -destroy the base in exchange for taking Patric with him."
So that was the deal lan struck to get Patric out of Windhelm. The base was clearly toast, tfor Bernard to check on his
investment.
"Dylan sending you, does that mean he and lan are still alive?"
Beck frowned at Maja's anxious expression and quickly reassured her.
"Yeah, the explosives inside made the quake worse, triggered a landslide. The full picture's still murky. Hop on the chopper, and
who's this?"
He glanced at Nana.
"My friend."
"Alright then, get on. I'll have another chopper pick her up. Don't wander around here. The government's written off this land. We
had to pledge a few hospitals to get clearance for our helicopters."
Otherwise, they could've sparked an international incident.
Maja boarded the helicopter, which circled the area before discovering the core structure of the research base about three miles
away.
This hulky three-story remnant was severely damaged, with numerous researchers sprawled around it.
"We made it; we're alive, haha, like a dream."
"Is that the real sky? The sun."
"How did | get here? | feel awful, ugh."
About a dozen survivors were on the ground, all in bad shape.
As soon as the helicopter landed, Maja scrambled among the people, but neither lan nor Dylan were to be found. She grabbed one
of the more lucid researchers.
"Have you seen him?" She showed a photo of lan on her phone.
The man's lips twitched upon seeing the picture, "How could | not? He's the mouse in our deadly gof cat and mouse."
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"What do you mean?"
"We're all cats, had to eliminate him to survive. But he's too slick. Yet Subject 8 was always on his tail, the Doctor's strongest
weapon, surely to finish him off."
Though the man could speak, he made little sense to outsiders. He greedily sniffed the earth he scooped up, his hands trembling
uncontrollably.
"I've actually made it out, after all these years. | can't believe I'm really out."
The others were in no better mental state.
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