Kill the Sun - Chapter 281

Chapter 281 Chapter 281 – Team Leaders

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Nick kept looking at the empty Containment Unit for a while.

'This was the only Containment Unit on the map that could possibly house their Adult,' Nick thought.

'All other Containment Units are either occupied by weaker Specters or are empty. Additionally, this is a very expensive Containment Unit, and they wouldn't just keep it empty like this. That's a waste of an investment.'

'Is there truly nothing in there?'

Nick decided to check and moved around the ceiling for a bit.

'Sure enough, I don't hear any hum from the electronics,' Nick thought. 'The Containment Unit isn't even on!'

'Does that mean that their Adult is somewhere else?'

'Nah, as far as I can see, the map makes sense, and there are no suspicious empty spaces. Additionally, why would you want to keep your strongest Specter this secret? Sure, you don't want others to know about it, but you don't even want your team leaders to know? That's strange.'

'Also, why was this Containment Unit marked red on the map?'

At that moment, Nick became suspicious.

'Do they even have an Adult?'

'Based on what Wyntor said, the Spartans were originally a group of three Veterans that left Kugelblitz to create their own business.'

'They quickly managed to get a couple of Adolescents and Newbies, but for several years, they couldn't get an Adult.'

'And then, about half a year ago, they announced that they had caught an Adult.'

'But did they?'

'I've never heard any details about this Adult.'

'Yet, the power of the leaders increased. John Keyweather even demonstrated his power as a Mid Veteran.'

'They shouldn't be able to do that without an Adult.'

If Nick were corporeal, he would be furrowing his brows right about now.

'Something is going on,' Nick thought.

'As far as I can see, there is no Adult in any of the Containment Units, but the powers of the Veterans still increased.'

'But that's impossible without an Adult.'

Suddenly, Nick had a revelation.

'But what if they do have one?'

Nick moved to the side.

Silence.

BANG!

The Grey Room cut through the floor and pushed itself downward by jumping off the ceiling.

The woman became startled, but before she could even look around, the Grey Room landed on her head.

Her Barrier wasn't active!

Even though these Barriers were expensive, the slight drain of Zephyx could still annoy a couple of people.

Most of them kept their Barriers active and just dealt with the annoying feeling, but some of them, especially when they felt safe, deactivated their Barriers.

And, well, this team leader was sitting inside her office.

There was probably no safer location from her perspective.

As soon as the Grey Room landed on her head, her eyes became unfocused, and she fell forward, her head hitting the table.

Nick came through the hole and materialized, looking at the team leader.

She didn't move.

Yet, she was still alive.

Even more, she didn't seem injured.

It was all too clear to Nick that the Grey Room was feeding.

Nick wasn't sure how the Grey Room fed, but the team leader's state was too abnormal right now.

Nick furrowed his brows, grabbed her neck, and broke it.

"We're here to kill. I told you that I would let you escape the building, but in exchange, you have to help me," he said.

The Grey Room didn't move for a while, but eventually, it went back to the walls.

It didn't communicate in any way.

The next moment, Nick looked at the dead team leader.

'This should be the third one.'

'The first one should have been the guy with the yellow Barrier during my ambush. He was the only one with a yellow one, while everyone else had orange ones.'

'I didn't originally pay the color any mind, but the supervisor I killed near the trading post earlier also had a yellow one. He was probably also a team leader.'

'So, she should be the third.'

'I don't know how many teams the Spartans have, but I'm sure almost all of their team leaders are dead.'