Chapter 1292: Chapter 1291: Ah, I’ve Been Kidnapped

"Where are the people?" Harvester’s heart pounded with anxiety; this shouldn’t be happening.

They said they were doing something unimportant before, just went to the bathroom.

And after coming back, according to the plan, they were to intercept the vehicle. How come all his teammates were gone?

Did they retreat?

If they retreated, they should have signaled him.

"Come out, everyone!" Harvester tried once more to summon his companions, but still no one responded.

Harvester cursed inwardly, calling them all unreliable bastards. Since things have come to this, he had no choice but to act on his own!

Lu Yang was also surprised by Harvester’s appearance. After taking care of those Genetically Modified Soldiers, he had found a hideout belonging to the Supreme Council nearby, following what those people had said.

Thinking it was a matter of convenience, he went there and used some tricks, making everyone from the hideout surrender themselves to the police.

He had taken care of everything so thoroughly, and yet Harvester, this one that slipped through the net, remained.

Indeed, haste makes waste.

"You all go first!" Mi Xue’er pushed everyone away and faced Harvester.

"I’ll help too!" Yu Ran volunteered.

Harvester had just clashed with Mi Xue’er when he realized something was wrong: "You’ve been hiding your true strength!"

The information they had on Mi Xue’er didn’t indicate she was this strong!

Yu Ran’s attacks followed one after another. She might not be as strong as Mi Xue’er or Harvester, but she was enough to create opportunities for Mi Xue’er to attack.

Outmatched by the two women, Harvester thought of retreating, but escaping wasn’t so simple at this point.

He feigned a flaw, Mi Xue’er with her lack of combat experience indeed fell for it, and he seized the chance to rush at Lu Yang, grabbing his neck. His hand, his most lethal weapon, could sever Lu Yang’s neck with just a bit more force!

"Don’t move, or I’ll kill him!"

Mi Xue’er and Yu Ran, who were about to rush over, abruptly halted, not daring to make another move.

"Ah, I’m being held hostage," said Lu Yang, surrendering with both hands raised.

With a sneer, Harvester held Lu Yang while walking backwards. Before leaving, he threw a piece of paper.

"If you want this person to live, go to this place!"

The Supreme Council had another hideout nearby, and he wanted to lure Mi Xue’er and the others into it!

Mi Xue’er picked up the note with a grim expression and stood up, but by then, Harvester and Lu Yang were nowhere to be seen.

...

Harvester ran with Lu Yang, trying to contact his companions, still with no response. A bad feeling welled up inside him.

He entered the underground secret facility using the elevator.

The secret facility was brightly lit, yet empty. A cup of coffee on the table was still steaming.

Moreover, there were no signs of a struggle, causing Harvester to shudder with horror. It was as if, due to some emergency, all the branch members had evacuated.

"Hey, Extreme Cold Freeze, are you here—"

"Ether, if you’re here, just give me a sign—"

Harvester’s voice echoed down the long corridor, but there was no reply.

Suddenly a voice came from the end of the corridor: "Mr. Harvester, I am here."

Harvester was overjoyed and hurried over. I knew someone would be here.

However, what stood at the end of the corridor was a Housekeeping Robot. The robot looked at Harvester with its empty gaze, the emergency lights flickering on and off behind it: "Mr. Harvester, do you need some coffee?"

Seeing this scene, Harvester was so frightened he kept retreating step by step.

Gasping for breath heavily, as if he had just been through an invisible fight for life and death, he went to the surveillance room to check the footage after his departure.

The screen showed everything was normal after he left. Harvester, frustrated and perplexed, commanded the footage to fast forward.

The branch that was originally filled with people disappeared in the blink of an eye, scaring the Harvester into a shudder.

He shivered and commanded to rewind and play back the footage, slow it to two times, four times... up to thirty-two times slower, but he still couldn’t see clearly what had happened.

In the slowed-down footage, the people in the branch disappeared one by one. They did not seem to notice their companions’ disappearances until they themselves vanished, as if some indescribable entity silently devoured everyone.

Thinking of his teammates who had vanished, extreme panic spread in his heart. The air circulation system in the branch was functioning normally, the fluorescent lights were warm, but the Harvester felt like the branch was the mouth of a monster, dark and gaping, waiting for him to fall into the trap.

Someone patted him on the shoulder, startling him into jumping: "Are you alright?"

The Harvester turned around and heaved a sigh of relief; it was Lu Yang, he wasn’t the only one here after all.

And Lu Yang’s expressionless face also gave him a bit of confidence.

"There are only two of us here, aren’t you afraid?"

"Two people?" Lu Yang showed a hint of confusion, "Haven’t there always been three of us here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a yellow-clad figure slowly appeared in the air.

"Ah—"

The Harvester completely broke down, fear totally engulfing his heart.

Ding dong—

The sound of the elevator rang out, and like seeing a savior, the Harvester ran frantically towards it.

It was the Blueprint trio who had taken the elevator to rescue Lu Yang.

The Harvester, having long forgotten the mission, ran madly towards the Blueprint trio, giving them quite a fright.

"Freeze, don’t move!" Mi Xue’er stood at the forefront, warily eyeing the Harvester.

"Run, there are ghosts, there are ghosts!" the Harvester shouted frantically, uttering incomprehensible words.

Mi Xue’er frowned, subdued the Harvester with ease, and warily surveyed her surroundings, also finding it odd that there was no one in the branch.

She had been ready to fight tooth and nail.

Could it be a trap?

"Mi Xue’er, Yu Ran, Blueprint, I’m over here." Lu Yang walked out of the surveillance room, greeting his comrades from a distance.

Seeing the calm Lu Yang, the Harvester, frightened, sat on the ground, pointing at Lu Yang and scrabbling backward with his feet.

"Ghost! Ghost! Ghost!"

"Brother Meng, you’re okay, that’s really great." Mi Xue’er and the others, seeing Lu Yang unharmed, breathed a sigh of relief.

"I’m fine; it’s just that after this Harvester brought me here, he picked up someone else’s coffee, didn’t drink it, and then started shouting and getting overly excited when he heard the Housekeeping Robot respond. When the Housekeeping Robot asked him if he wanted coffee, he got so scared."

"I saw he was acting insanely so I took the chance to escape from him." Lu Yang patted his chest, still shaken.

"How strange."

"Yes, really strange, could he be possessed?"

"He kept muttering about seeing a ghost, could he have really seen one?"

"We should be scientific; where in the world are there ghosts, Brother Meng, right?"

Lu Yang nodded, expressing his agreement: "Exactly, there are no ghosts."

"There really are ghosts!" To get Blueprint and the others on his side, the Harvester bravely led them to the surveillance room to see the footage.

However, the footage was just static, nothing could be seen.

"It was you! You deleted it!" the Harvester yelled at Lu Yang, now seeing him as someone possessed by an evil spirit.

Lu Yang shrugged, very innocently: "I didn’t do anything."

Lu Yang was telling the truth; he indeed hadn’t touched the surveillance, and whether it was deleted or not didn’t matter since the Blueprint group couldn’t see him from the footage anyway.

If it wasn’t him, then did Ether delete it?

Does that mean Ether has taken notice of him?