She didn’t come, right? She should be in safe place right now, listening to birds chirping and breathing in fresh air.
Kallum looked at the reddish grey smoke that covered the sky, comforting himself with these thoughts as the blasts continued outside.
“Mr. Kallum! Someone has come to intercept the firearms! They’re almost here!”
Kallum immediately became alert again.
“How many people?”
“More than five hundred, but they have a tank and armored cars! They’re well prepared!”
A murderous look flashed in Kallum’s eyes, “The area in front is a residential area with many houses built close together, we’ll go there!”
Julian was most familiar with the grounds, so he quickly replied, “Mr. Kallum, that’s not the best route to retreat.”
“Who’s says we’re going to retreat?” Kallum wiped his face, his eyes filled with determination.
He was covered with bloodstains, but once he brought out the arrogant aristocrat in him, it was as if everything was washed off and he became impossible to ignore.
Kallum pointed outside and said seriously, “The newly built research lab is just over there. They might not be coming for us but the hospital instead! We can’t let them have their way! If this hospital is destroyed, I don’t know how long it will take to rebuild it. So the only way is to trap them in the city area and then kill them all!”
The moment Kallum said the word ‘kill’, the other hundred odd men were riled up.
“Kill! Kill them all!”
The murderous chants grew louder and louder. There was no mistake in following Kallum. The men had become used to seeing death and had killed a lot of people as well – so they weren’t afraid of anything anymore! There was only blood boiling in their bodies with no fear whatsoever.
Calista looked at the map as she walked towards the city area.
It shouldn’t be far from where she was. In her previous life, they had built a Level Four research lab here, and that was where she was headed. Only there would she prove to be of tremendous value.
Suddenly a group of people made a dash for the city area. Besides armored vehicles, they also had a tank, and they were shooting clearly in a particular direction. Calista quickly hid in a place out of their line of sight.
From the look of it, these were rebel soldiers. But if rebel soldiers were here instead of being on the front line, something was up.
Calista thought about it for a while, and then followed the soldiers.
There was nobody left in this part of the city, and there were plenty of holes caused by gun fire and bombs. Calista cleverly weaved in between the ruins and suddenly realized that these people were very possibly headed for the hospital!
If they bombed the hospital, then her efforts to get here would be in vain.
But she stopped worrying almost instantly, because she could hear the sound of cross firing – someone was stopping the rebel forces!
Calista breathed a sigh of relief as she remembered that she didn’t hear anything about the hospital being destroyed in her previous life. According to her memory, every single doctor that was sent here went back to Chanaea safely, so these rebel troops’ attack wasn’t going to succeed this time.
The battle outside was fierce, but Calista didn’t think that hiding and doing nothing was the best thing to do either, so she hid herself in a dark spot and finally found something she wanted after searching all her pockets.
She didn’t just focus on getting here, but she also gathered a lot of information about any special symptoms that infected patients had as well as a record of the reaction they had to her herb concoction.
At the same time, she found some poisonous plants to use as self-defense.
Calista slowly inched closer to the battle, but in order to stay alive, she had to move very slowly. Luckily for her, the two parties were focused on the battle and nobody noticed her. Calista breathed a sigh of relief as she determined the wind direction, and then climbed a low building and hid herself, waiting for a chance to pour the poisonous powder she had down.
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