Chapter 311: An Unlucky Vacation (10)
After hanging up, Everly fell into silence.
She had already suspected that the branch investigators might fail to capture the fake Gary, but even she hadn’t expected the situation to spiral into something this disastrous.
The investigators had been the ones to set the trap. They should have been the side with every advantage. So how in the world had they managed to turn such a winning hand into such a catastrophic defeat? They already knew there was a dormant true body lying at the bottom of the lake—couldn’t they have exercised even the slightest bit of caution…?
And now look what had happened. They had dispatched so many people, yet not only had they failed to catch Gary, every last one of them had been killed. Gary grew stronger through slaughter. After claiming that many lives, he had undoubtedly evolved into something far more terrifying than before.
Even worse, those investigators hadn’t just fed him experience—they had handed over a huge cache of items as well. Then the rescue team that arrived afterward had thoughtfully delivered him a helicopter… complete with a pilot.
After this so-called extermination operation, Gary hadn’t suffered the slightest injury. On the contrary, disaster had turned into opportunity. He had essentially reached his fully powered endgame form.
Mike had learned the news from a city police officer in Sunken City. Limited by his rank, the officer had no idea which items the fallen investigators had lost.
If none of them had been tracking items, that would have been one thing. In that case, Everly’s location would still be a secret to Gary—for the time being.
But was that even likely?