Chapter 862



A curfew was imposed on the staff dorms that night. Brenda also requested that teachers stay in their rooms and not come out after 8 pm.

The teachers complained a lot about it.

They all looked at Brenda.

“Are you treating us like prisoners? This is too much.”

“We are his protection targets, not his surveillance targets! The police are too overbearing!”

“What makes them think they can stop us from leaving after eight o’clock? Never mind that they prevent us from conducting our experiments at night, But they even start dictating what we can and can’t do tonight? This is too much overkill.”

The teachers protested, but the determined Brenda continued to force them to stay in their rooms. When the teachers were asked to return to their rooms, they criticized ad nauseam.

“Wait for it! I’ll report them tomorrow without fail.”

“You guys shouldn’t be here.”

Brenda had already become immune to those words. She replied, “Okay, if nothing bad happens tonight too, I’ll get out of here on my own tomorrow.”

Her answer silenced all the teachers.

Seeing that they were no longer talking, Brenda left.

More than a dozen SWAT officers were guarding the staff dorms.

Aaron said, “With this, even a housefly can forget about going in there, right?”

Brenda stroked her chin. “Yes, under such circumstances, it’s impossible for Barbarian to head there again! Aaron, have our men follow me into the lab building.”

Aaron followed behind her. He looked at Nora curiously and asked, “Captain Brenda, are that student’s skills good enough? Barbarian has a hacker with him, so surely we can’t trust a student for the job, right?”

Brenda: “…”

Said to Aaron: “Don’t worry.”

Aaron then asked, “By the way, Captain Brenda, didn’t you work with Anti when you went to the United States? I remember Anti once revealed that she was Q, and Marcus also used to admire hackers Q and Y. Is Q really that amazing?”

Nora overheard their conversation and followed the two with a smile as they walked together toward the lab building.

She had already encrypted the surveillance camera system in the staff dormitories. No hacker-even Y-would be able to breach it.

Therefore, Nora wanted to go with Brenda to arrest Barbarian.

However, Brenda was worried about her. “Are you really going to the lab?”

Nora nodded. “Yes.”

Brenda was still very worried. “You’re weak and powerless, so you have to stay well hidden, okay, don’t let Barbarian catch you!”

Nora wanted to laugh at the words ‘weak and helpless’.

She said in a low voice, “Don’t worry, no matter what, I’m still capable of protecting myself.”

While she couldn’t beat Barbarian in a fight, he wasn’t someone to be trifled with either.

As Nora made her way to the lab, Brenda, who was ultimately still worried about her, handed her a small button and said quietly, “Nora, if anything goes wrong, press this button immediately. We’ll go in right away.”

“Okay.”

Nora pocketed the button and headed for the upper floors. When she entered the Epson lab, she happened to run into Oscar, who had just finished dinner and had come to work. Upon seeing her, Oscar grabbed her by the wrist and asked, “Why are you here?”.

Nora: “?”

Oscar looked around. “The SWAT team has surrounded the area. Judging by the look of you, they are absolutely certain that Barbarian will attack us tonight. Why did you come today if you weren’t here yesterday? Aren’t you throwing yourself into danger?”

Nora: “???”

Since when had she become so friendly with Oscar?

Oscar, however, looked around and put pepper spray in Nora’s hands. “Take this, I bought it today at the supermarket. If a real bad guy comes, at least we can use this to defend ourselves!”

Nora: “…”

The pepper spray was probably useless on Barbarian but she thanked Oscar anyway. Then, he walked into the lab with her.

Epson happened to see them. He immediately walked over and started taunting Nora. “What are you doing here, didn’t you quit this project, did you come crawling because you found out that we are going to finish the project tonight?”

Nora was surprised. “The project will be completed tonight?”

Epson said smugly, “Yes, we will be able to complete the project tonight! We only have the last step left!”.

Nora: “…”

I really wished I could tell him that it was precisely at the end, when he checked all the experimental data, that he discovered that the project would never succeed. However, judging by Epson’s look of confidence, even if she told him, he probably wouldn’t believe her.

So, Nora just kept quiet.

Instead, it was Oscar, standing next to her, who said, “Professor Epson, Lisa knows you were wrong. To show your magnanimity, and also to give her a chance to tell Anti that she once witnessed a great experiment, you should keep her here, shouldn’t you?”

His words convinced Epson. “You are right. In that case, follow me, Lisa. I’ll let you see with your own eyes that I’m bigger than Anti.”

“… Okay.”

She followed Epson and entered a deeper part of the lab.

The graduate students passed Epson all their experimental data.

Epson stayed where he was and solemnly looked at the numerical values on the computer screen. “See this, this is our experiment that will be successfully completed very soon! Lisa, you are about to witness a historic moment! Oh, I forgot, you’re just a grad student, so you probably don’t understand my data, right? That’s okay, once the data finishes compiling, you should at least be able to recognize the word ‘Success’, right? I hope you can remember how you feel then, so you can report back to Anti…”

In the midst of Epson’s loud and excited chatter, all the data was loaded.

He looked behind him. Even his expression had become somewhat abnormally excited as he said, “See that? As soon as I press this button here, all the data will start to collate! I’m one step away from success.”

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