It seems her vitality is also extremely tenacious; even after being seriously injured, she managed to grit her teeth and crawl in here. Ryan Bennett took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his anxiety, and crept over. As he got closer, he caught a faint, pleasant fragrance from her body—he had no idea what kind of perfume it was.

Then Ryan Bennett tested her breath with his hand and found her skin cold and delicate, but he couldn’t feel any sign of breathing at all. He realized she was already dead and immediately felt relieved, then lay down by the gap nearby to continue peering outside.

But as the saying goes, even the most careful person can overlook something. At this moment, most of Ryan Bennett’s attention was focused outside, with only a small part on the woman, so he failed to notice the mini syringe lying conspicuously on the ground beside him!

After the speedboat docked, two men jumped off. One was very tall, wearing a black trench coat, and was holding a very special silver pistol in his hand without any concern. Ryan Bennett wasn’t sure if it was just his imagination, but he thought he saw a ripple of light shimmering across the surface of the pistol.

The other man was even stranger—he was actually holding a small round shield in his right hand! The surface of the shield had two red circles, and inside the circles was a blue-and-white five-pointed star! It looked just like a children’s toy.

Chapter 5: Scheming Against Each Other

After the two men arrived and saw the scene littered with corpses, they showed not the slightest surprise. The man with the shield shrugged and said:

“Oh, Thornton, it seems we’re late. That guy Logan has already succeeded.”

The man with the silver pistol, Thornton, replied coolly:

“There’s nothing we can do about that, Gale. This place is very likely a B-level or higher hidden storyline quest, but the boss said the main quest takes priority. Don’t the Easterners have a saying? The steak squirming in your stomach is the only one that truly belongs to you.”

The two of them then split up to check the scene. After a few steps, Thornton immediately spotted the split-open silver case and exclaimed excitedly:

“Oh! We’re not too late after all. It looks like the key quest item hasn’t been taken away by Logan yet!”

Gale also hurried over, bent down to examine it, and his eyes lit up as he said:

“It really is the reverse transcription vector injection! This thing is incredibly hard to obtain—it’s a quest item for a B-level hidden mission! With it, we can get close to that CEO with pancreatic cancer and thus get a ticket into Area 51!”

But just then, a slightly hoarse voice came from the darkness not far away:

“Oh, gentlemen, please don’t touch my things. I just went to catch an escaped prey, that doesn’t mean I’ve given up my spoils.”

The sea under the night sky surged ceaselessly, the sea breeze carrying a faint fishy smell. Out of the darkness slowly emerged a Black man, bare-chested and extremely muscular, with a crescent-shaped blood-red scar across his chest.

Although the scar looked like it had healed long ago, it was still clear how severe the injury must have been. He wore only a pair of tight black shorts on his lower body.

And in his right hand, the Black man was actually holding a freshly severed, bloody human head! The moment he appeared, he exuded a terrifying, beast-like aura.

Seeing this man, both Gale and Thornton turned pale. Thornton suddenly raised his silver pistol and aimed it, while Gale stepped forward and raised the toy-like shield in front of himself. One attacked, the other defended—their coordination was seamless.

At this point, Thornton spoke in a deep voice:

“Logan, there’s no conflict of interest between us! I only came because I got a piece of intel, I have no intention of being your enemy. So, why don’t we both take a step back? I’ll return the reverse transcription vector injection to you, and you let us leave.”

Logan laughed, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth:

“What a coincidence, I was just about to say the same thing. Looks like we really think alike. We should have a drink together sometime.”

At this moment, hiding upstairs on the second floor, Ryan Bennett was extremely disappointed. He was hoping the two sides would start a big fight, with one side fleeing and the other giving chase—then he could take advantage of the chaos, couldn’t he?

As soon as he heard about the “reverse transcription vector injection,” he immediately pulled out his smartphone and searched Baidu, discovering that it was a cutting-edge anti-cancer technology.

The origin of this technology was the “gene therapy” that won the Nobel Prize in Medicine a few years ago. Since the essence of cancer is the mutation of proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, the method involves injecting mutated genes into the human body to fundamentally suppress cancer!

Online, he could only find that the full name of the reverse transcription vector was “retroviral vector,” and it was a technology that only existed in theory. He never expected that an actual injection had already been developed.

Therefore, Ryan Bennett was certain that the injection inside the silver case was truly his only hope for now!