Rather than a laboratory, Peter's workplace was actually more like a research center.
As they went deeper into the facility, just on the way to the lounge alone, Nora observed that there were already about a few hundred people guarding the place. From the looks of it, Peter and the others were doing research on something extremely important.
There were also a lot of employees—at least a thousand of them—in the research center.
Therefore, the research center had its own employee dormitories and canteen.
The families of most of the people under surveillance also lived and worked there, so they couldn't leave even if they wanted to.
When they reached the lounge, Peter said, "Rest here. I'll bring you guys around and let you meet those people when lunchtime comes. I'll give them a heads-up first, too."
"Okay."
After sleeping the morning away, when lunchtime approached, the trio went to the canteen with Peter. There, Nora met the 23 people in question.
The group was both excited and nervous.
But some of them looked clearly uneasy.
"What's wrong?" Nora asked.
Peter answered, "For some of them, their family members aren't here, but would also like to leave with
US."
Nora broke into a frown. After a moment of contemplation, she exchanged a look with Justin and then said, "How about this? Get their families' addresses and give them to me. I'll send people to pick them up."
Peter nodded and went to talk to the others.
After a while, he came back again. The boy, who still looked as troubled as before, asked, "Must we act tonight, Mom?"
"Yeah."
For one, by taking action quickly, it was highly likely that they could get away before the people outside even realized what had happened.
For another, she wanted to go home earlier to sleep!
She couldn't possibly stay here just because of one or two people.
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