Under the gaze of everyone present, Henry Lincoln looked at the woman whose face was pixelated and said with a hint of pride, “Why am I the last one to know that you’ve come to the Xuan Bird Base?”

As he spoke, Henry Lincoln glanced at Charles Quinn and David Warren. It was obvious to everyone that he was quite displeased.

“On my first day at the Xuan Bird Base, I already went to the Lin family hoping to visit Senior Brother Lincoln, but your family said that Senior Brother Lincoln was tackling an important technical challenge and was temporarily unavailable to receive guests. So I had no choice but to visit the Qi and Wang families instead,” Diana White said.

Henry Lincoln couldn’t see Diana White’s expression or eyes, but judging from her calm tone, she wasn’t angry at his poor attitude and even explained patiently. It seemed she really did think well of Edward Lincoln.

“So, from what you’re saying, you didn’t come to the Xuan Bird Base specifically to see me?” Henry Lincoln decided to keep probing.

If it was just a normal classmate relationship, his reproachful tone would at least make the other person’s voice sound a bit off, even if she wasn’t angry. If the woman’s tone was completely natural, then the likelihood that she was Diana White would be much higher.

“Fourth Master Lincoln, the way you’re talking is a bit unfair. She traveled all this way to our Xuan Bird Base and tried to see you first, but you kept her outside and wouldn’t even meet her. Now you finally run into each other, but you’re still wearing that shabby mask so she can’t see your face. So tell me, does this count as meeting or not? Or is it that your face, Fourth Master Lincoln, can’t be shown to others, and you’re afraid someone familiar will recognize you? Or maybe, the face under your mask isn’t the same as Fourth Master Lincoln’s?” David Warren was just short of outright accusing Henry Lincoln of being an impostor.

Chapter 008 Little Feifei

Edward Lincoln had quietly followed William Lincoln out. To outsiders, it was said he was working on something important. Even Henry Lincoln only found out that Edward Lincoln wasn’t actually at the base after Old Newton came by, and that he had left with third brother William Lincoln.

But the fact that Edward Lincoln hadn’t shown up for over a month made both the Qi and Wang families suspicious. Now that Henry Lincoln had come over wearing a mask, their suspicions only deepened.

Standing behind Henry Lincoln, Old Newton already had sweaty palms. This was a situation they had never anticipated.

In such a sudden crisis, not to mention Henry Lincoln, even Old Newton himself wouldn’t know how to handle it perfectly in such a short time.

But if Old Newton jumped out now to help Henry Lincoln out of the predicament, it would only make them more suspicious. Yet if he didn’t, Henry Lincoln might not even make it through this ordeal.

Just as Old Newton couldn’t help but want to speak up, Henry Lincoln was already a step ahead and made his move.

Henry Lincoln suddenly closed in on David Warren, his face almost touching David Warren’s. The sudden movement startled David Warren, who was already very wary of Edward Lincoln. Instinctively, he stepped back and drew the pistol from his waist.

Firearms were still extremely powerful weapons in this era, especially against humans. The threat of a handgun was still very real.

After all, humans couldn’t be in a steel body state twenty-four hours a day, and the vast majority of gene mutants weren’t made of steel all over either. Some gene mutants had less than fifty percent of their bodies covered in steel.

So many people carried handguns, not to deal with gene-mutated creatures, but with their own kind.

Last night, when discussing the details with Old Newton, Henry Lincoln had already taken note of David Warren. His abilities were the same as Edward Lincoln’s—both were alloy gene mutants—but he was especially fond of using guns. It was said that quite a few people had died by his hand.

The moment David Warren drew his gun, Henry Lincoln’s hand shot out like a viper.

David Warren didn’t even have time to react. He hadn’t even gripped the gun properly before he felt a jolt in his fingers, and the pistol was snatched away.

Henry Lincoln hadn’t expected to be able to take David Warren’s gun so easily. After all, David Warren was an alloy gene mutant, and when going all out, his speed was almost as fast as a bullet.

Originally, Henry Lincoln hadn’t planned to snatch the gun directly. He just wanted to use the speed granted by Seven Steps of War to knock David Warren’s hand aside as he drew the gun, and then start his verbal assault.

Unexpectedly, the speed granted by Seven Steps of War was even faster than he’d anticipated, so much so that the unprepared David Warren didn’t even have time to react, and the gun was taken right out of his hand.

For Henry Lincoln, who hadn’t even completed his gene mutation, to snatch a gun from an alloy gene mutant was truly astonishing.

Henry Lincoln was overjoyed inside and, taking advantage of the momentum, pointed the gun he’d just seized at David Warren’s head.

David Warren’s face changed dramatically. As he quickly dodged diagonally backward, his skin rapidly transformed. Blue mysterious material oozed out, forming a shell like armor that protected his body, even covering his head and face. His clothes were torn in many places by the metallic shell, revealing a blue metallic sheen.

Charles Quinn’s eyes showed a hint of disappointment. With such skill and speed, anyone who could force David Warren into such a sorry state was definitely not an ordinary gene mutant. There weren’t many like that in the Lin family. It seemed the intelligence was wrong—Edward Lincoln hadn’t left the base after all, and the person in front of them was almost certainly Edward Lincoln.