Chapter 39: Lab rats
Chapter 39
Ronan stepped out of the car and took a long, slow breath.
He was back to this cursed place. He looked around, and his brows furrowed as he noticed something weird.
The last time he had come here, he had left it in almost total ruins. Broken walls, blood trails, and anything to prove that something destructive had torn through the facility.
But now, the whole place looked completely intact, no sign of repairs. there’s usually a big difference between when something was replaced and when it vanished without a trace. There was no sign of the walls getting patched or recently painted. It looked exactly the same as he met it last time.
Time reversal.
That’s the only thing that made sense. That system user he killed during the mission had reset the entire building like pressing rewind on a tape. If he had taken that skill back then, maybe his team wouldn’t have ended up the way they did. Maybe he could’ve saved the one that died.
But his mind hadn’t been thinking straight. Not after what happened. All he could think about was getting back to them before anything else went wrong. And by the time he realized what he passed up, it was already too late.
Ronan scanned the area. Guards were posted all around the building, standing stiff like statues, armed and ready. You could tell just by looking at them that they were ready for anything.
He walked up to the main entrance.
The moment he reached the door, two guards moved in immediately to block him.