<h4>Chapter 444: Chapter 444: Chase in the Dark!</h4>


    However, the elevator was a little small and could only amodate six people at a time.


    Emma Cobb said to Christian West, "Christian, I’ll take five people down first, and you bring the others downter."


    Christian West furrowed his brow and said, "Cobb Team, I have a bad feeling about this. Why don’t I take the team down first?"


    "Enough, don’t argue. I’m the leader of this operation, so I should lead by example."


    With that, Emma Cobb led five people into the elevator.


    Once inside the elevator.


    Emma Cobb pressed the button for the basement floor.


    After the elevator door closed, it quickly descended.


    A few minutester.


    Ding.


    The elevator door opened.


    Stepping out of the elevator, there was a long corridor ahead.


    Light bulbs were installed on the ceiling, illuminating the passageway.


    Emma Cobb squinted and said, "What on earth is Nile Country Elementary School doing underground, and why is it so secretive?"


    One of the men said, "Cobb Team, let’s go ahead and see."


    "Alright!"


    Emma Cobb nodded, took out her pistol, and said, "Everyone, be careful!"


    Five men following behind nodded and took out their own pistols.


    After that, Emma Cobb and the others walked along the corridor.


    After turning several corners, the six of them saw arge metal door up ahead.


    Approaching the metal door, Emma Cobb kicked it open after confirming there was no danger.


    Since the door was not locked, it was easily kicked open.


    However, the moment the door was kicked open!


    Emma Cobb and the others were immediately stunned by the sight inside!


    Inside the door was a spacious and brightly litboratory.


    Theb was filled withputers, high-tech instruments, and various bottles.


    Complicated characters jumped on the screens mounted on the walls.


    But, theboratory was very quiet and empty.


    "There’s ab in here?


    What is it for?"


    Emma Cobb was puzzled. She nced inside and said, "Let’s go in and have a look!"


    With that, Emma led the five men into theb.


    After entering theboratory, the six of them began to explore inside.


    Emma Cobb said, "Check what’s inside these bottles."


    The other five people nodded and began to investigate carefully.


    Just a little whileter.


    One of the men picked up a ss bottle filled with red liquid and said, "Cobb Team, this liquid is very simr to one of the toxins we detected in the food at the First Experimental Elementary School canteen!"


    "Really?!"


    Emma Cobb hurried over.


    "We can be almost certain!"


    The man nodded.


    "Cobb Team, the liquid inside this bottle is also very simr to one of the toxins we detected!"


    At this time, another man picked up a ss bottle filled with green liquid.


    Emma Cobb’s face turned cold and said, "As I thought, the mass poisoning of the childrenst time was rted to this school!


    That new type of toxin may havee from thisboratory!"


    "What do these Sakura Country people want to do with this toxin? What are they up to?"


    A young woman asked a question.


    Emma Cobb said solemnly, "They must be up to no good!"


    "Cobb Team, there’s a secret door here!"


    At this time, another man made a new discovery.


    Emma Cobb and the others walked over.


    Indeed, behind a projection screen was a secret door.


    Emma Cobb said, "Open it and take a look."


    A man immediately grabbed the handle and opened the door.


    As soon as the door opened, there was another corridor behind it.


    "Did you hear that? I think there were footsteps!


    Is it possible that our operation has been discovered and someone escaped before we arrived?"


    As a martial artist, Emma Cobb naturally had much stronger hearing than ordinary people.


    But just at this moment!


    Drip, drip, drip!


    A sudden rm sounded in theboratory.


    "What’s that noise?"


    Someone asked.


    Emma Cobb looked in the direction of the sound.


    To her surprise, there was a timed bomb on theboratory floor, already counting down!


    5, 4, 3...


    "There’s a bomb! Retreat!"


    Emma Cobb’s face changed dramatically as she shouted in rm.


    The voice hadn’t fallen!


    Boom!


    The bomb exploded directly!


    The mes shot into the sky, with rolling smoke and dust!


    Everything in theboratory was sted into pieces!


    The ceiling was also blown through with several holes, and scattered rocks fell!


    Five men in uniform were blown to death on the spot!


    Emma Cobb was blown onto the ground, covered in dust and blood, looking somewhat dazed.


    Had she not condensed her True qi for defense at the instant the bomb exploded, she would have been killed early on.


    "Cobb Team! Cobb Team! What happened?!"


    At this point, Christian West and a group of men and women rushed in from outside.


    When they saw the mess in front of them, they were stunned.


    Emma Cobb got up from the ground, her eyes red, and said, "Christian, this is aboratory!


    We found that the collective poisoning of the childrenst time is rted to thisboratory!


    But I never thought there would be a timed bomb in thisboratory!


    The bomb just exploded, and Mr. Lee and his men were killed in the st!"


    "How could this be?!"


    "Could it be that our operation has been discovered?!"


    Christian West and the others looked at the five corpses in the ruins, dumbfounded and heartbroken.


    Emma Cobb pointed to the passage behind the secret door and gritted her teeth. "I just heard footsteps in that corridor!


    The people in theboratory must have escaped before we came!


    We have to catch up with them and capture them!


    Our people can’t die in vain!"


    Christian West anxiously said, "Cobb Team, should we report this to the Thunder Leader and wait for orders from them?"


    "There’s no time for that! By the time the Thunder Leader gives orders, those guys will have run away!"


    Emma Cobb replied and then charged directly into the passage.


    "Let’s go!"


    Christian West clenched his fists and led the others into the passage as well.


    Emma Cobb and her team sprinted through the passage.


    After running for who knows how long, they saw a staircase at the end of the passage.


    They followed the stairs all the way up.


    When they reached the top, they found another passage in front of them.


    The walls of this passage were uneven rocks, looking like a cave.


    When Emma Cobb and her team rushed out of the cave, they found themselves in a deste mountainous area.


    There were also a few patches of jungle nearby.


    "There are people there!"


    Christian West pointed in the direction of a distant ce.


    Emma Cobb and the others stared intently.


    They saw several men in Sakura Country martial arts uniforms, guarding several men and women in whiteb coats running in the distance.


    "Catch up with them!"


    Emma Cobb shouted and chased after them directly.


    Christian West and the others followed suit.


    They pursued relentlessly.


    After chasing for about twenty minutes and leaving the deste mountain area, there was a national highway not far ahead.


    A few business cars were parked by the roadside.


    The door of one of the business cars opened.


    An emaciated old man, wearing a ck robe, with gray hair and beard, and a sword at his waist, got out of the car.