Chapter 854



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Brenda sensed something was wrong with the man’s brain, but she was used to people demanding leeway and had already learned to deal with it.

After getting her men out of the lab, Brenda said to Aaron, “Get some more people to patrol the lab building tonight!”.

Outside of the professional ethics of an international special forces officer, she still had her moral responsibilities in the end.

Aaron nodded. “Understood, Captain Brenda.”

After the two talked, Brenda went elsewhere to make further arrangements.

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In the lab building.

When Brenda left, Epson looked at the rest of the group. “Alright, let’s keep working, guys!”

After speaking, he suddenly asked, “Lisa, where are you going?”

Nora, who had turned around and was about to leave: “?”

She looked back and raised her eyebrows. “Home.”

She had three hungry babies to feed at home! There was no way she was going to stay here and work overtime with them.

Besides, if Barbarian was going to show up tonight, then the safest thing to do would be to leave this place, both for her and everyone else in the school.

gⱯlnσνe𝓁s․com has the stories you love However, Epson got angry, “Did I say you can leave? You’re a member of the lab too, how can you leave without your supervisor’s consent?”

Nora stood still and asked, “Oh, can I leave then?”.

Epson: “?”

He was about to refuse when Nora said, “You said it yourself a moment ago: everyone is free to choose whether they want to stay or not. Some choose to trust you, some choose to trust the police. I also have the right and freedom to choose to go home now, don’t I?”

Her argument silenced Epson.

Then Nora looked at Oscar and said, “SWAT would never create trouble for no reason. Since you can get the school to give you authority, that means you are not an ordinary person. Why are you so reluctant to trust them? What are you going to do if you really find yourself in danger?”

Her words made Oscar flinch. He looked at Epson and said, “Professor, I…”

Before he could finish, Epson became even more furious. “What, do you believe his nonsense too? If you do, you may as well go with her!”

Oscar let out a sigh of relief. “Then I’ll leave for the time being. I’ll come early tomorrow to bring breakfast for you and the elders…”

But right after that, Epson scoffed and said, “Your elders are working overtime while you two are just here to share the fruits of your labor, and yet you can’t do something like stay up late? In that case, what do I need them in my lab for? You can leave, but once you do, you will be considered to have withdrawn from my experiment.”

This made Oscar pause.

He looked at Nora with a wry smile. “Lisa, the professor does give us credit by having us here. I don’t think it’s appropriate for us to leave at this time…”

Oscar wasn’t passing up any opportunity to climb the ladder and boost his resume.

Nora, however, was very calm. “Yes, all right. That being the case, then I’m out.”

Her dismissive reaction infuriated Epson.

Epson looked at her, finding the girl a total ingrate. He was giving her such a wonderful project for free, but she didn’t even want it. Was it because she thought Anti was better than him?

Epson was furious. He pointed at her and said, “Fine, fine. If you want to retire, go ahead! And to think that at first I wanted to give you a chance. I hope you won’t regret it in two days.”

Nora raised her eyebrows. She looked at the rest of the students in the lab and spoke up for Brenda again. “Compared to our lives, no form of glory is worth mentioning.”

After saying that, he turned and left.

His comment caused discomfort among the students.

Someone more timid couldn’t help but say, “Professor Epson, why don’t we listen to the police? To be honest, even if the results are two days late, Anti shouldn’t be able to get ahead of us…”

“Yes, Professor, we…”

However, Epson just looked at them as if he expected better from them. “You are all too naive, do you know how conniving Anti is? She hasn’t shown up in America for several days now. This proves that she’s putting day and night effort into her research right now! She must know we’re making fun of her, so she’s working overtime. We’re fighting a battle against time right now! Whoever develops it first will win.”

Everyone looked at each other.

Finally, someone couldn’t help but raise his doubts. “Anti hasn’t let herself be seen, that’s all. Hasn’t she always been mysterious? No one has been able to find her. Maybe she’s just sleeping…”

Lily had once publicly stated that Anti didn’t have that much time because she needed to sleep twelve to sixteen hours a day. Therefore, she really didn’t have time to do anything else.

Epson sighed. “Do you really believe that?”

The person continued to answer. “But what if Anti isn’t researching this topic at all?”

Epson scoffed and puffed out his chest confidently. “How can that be? Even though I, Epson, am nobody at Staav University, I am still somewhat famous internationally. No doubt she knows me and pays attention to me. She also sees me as her rival! No doubt she’s anxious and competing with me for time right now! You just have to wait! Once we finish the project one step ahead of her, she’ll definitely jump up and say, ‘Oh, I’m working on this project too, I’m just not as fast as you guys.'”

Epson curved his lips in disdain. “She sure is arrogant!”

Now that Epson had said it like that, everyone believed him. They all took him seriously and said, “Then we have to stay one step ahead of Anti! We’re going to work overtime! Professor, we’re ready! We’ll do this for the sake of your honor!”

“Okay, I’m counting on you!”

Epson frowned and then said loudly, “It’s not only for my sake, but also for the honor of Staav University! I thank you all in advance.”

Even he himself was very excited.

This time, he would definitely be able to suppress Anti this time! He would make that arrogant woman bow down to him.

As for that assassin or whatever, ha, there’s no way she’d come to him…. right?

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