Had anyone noticed what was happening? Had anyone called the police?
If someone didn't come to save him right now, he was actually going to die!
"Let Howard go. He's irrelevant to this. If he dies, the university will launch a massive investigation!"
"You don't want to complicate things any further, do you?"
Claire's tone was heavy with implication.
They definitely didn't want complications. They just wanted to extract Claire and vanish.
Tycho shot Felicity a warning look, silently telling her to ease up. Killing the boy just because she found him annoying was a terrible tactical error.
Felicity didn't care in the slightest. "If he dies, he dies. He can consider it an honor to die for you."
Howard?
"I really don't want to die."
He barely had the strength to whisper.
"Over here!"
A student who had heard the earlier screams for help had smartly called the police and alerted campus security.
The campus guards arrived ahead of the police, sprinting down the path.
"Who are you people? Let that student go right now!"
Tycho's expression darkened. He had assumed they would execute the extraction cleanly today. He hadn't accounted for Felicity acting like an absolute idiot at the critical moment.
"Back off! This is a domestic dispute!"
"If you don't back away, I'll kill him!" Felicity finally showed a shred of situational
awaren SS.
Unfortunately, Tycho despised her sudden burst of "cleverness."
Seeing that the odds were tipping in their favor, Claire's bodyguards prepared to strike—when a car suddenly roared onto the scene.
The vehicle violently smashed through the perimeter, barreling straight toward them. "Stop that car!"
Realizing what was happening, Hillary's face drained of color as she screamed the order.
It was too late. The driver was exceptionally skilled.
With a flawless drift, the car screeched to a halt right beside Claire and Tycho. Tycho dragged Claire into the vehicle just as a sniper bullet grazed his ear.
Warm blood splattered across Claire's cheek.
A split second later, Felicity sensed the incoming fire.
She shoved Howard squarely into the line of fire as a human shield, rolled across
the pavement, and threw herself into the open car door.
Gunfire echoed as the tires shrieked against the asphalt, burning rubber as the car tore away.
"Save the boy!"
Someone yelled at the security guards.
Though terrified, the guards rushed forward to tend to Howard.
"Call an ambulance! This student's been shot!"
The guards frantically tried to apply first aid.
Meanwhile, Hillary was already leading her tactical team in a desperate sprint after the getaway car.
Before taking off, she snatched a walkie-talkie from one of the campus guards.
She immediately established
contact with Silas Carl and local law
rapida,
ent, transmitting a rapid
sittep regarding Claire's abduction.
Inside the speeding car, Claire saw that the driver was an intensely cold looking man Though his face
Th
was obscured by a mask, she could
tell he was relatively young.
He effortlessly smashed through every barricade the campus security attempted to
throw up.
"You're much calmer than we anticipated, Ms. James."
Tycho watched Claire with genuine amusement.
She was incredibly valuable. Her genius-level intellect alone was legendary.
Her brain had already sparked massive bidding wars on the dark web.
Even though the project she was targeted for was still in its experimental phase, her perfect biological markers made her the holy grail for a specific faction of elites. . FindNovel.net
They didn't even have her in custody yet, and her bounty was already double or
triple that of any other high-value target.
Who wouldn't want to transfer their consciousness into someone so young,
beautiful, and terrifyingly intelligent?
Those decaying billionaires practically salivated over Claire's file.
Their only point of contention was her Solenia nationality.
To many of the global elite, Solenia was a terrifying anomaly.
This ancient nation possessed an unbreakable unity during times of war and rebuilt itself with terrifying speed in times of peace.
Their explosive economic dominance was already deeply threatening other global
superpowers.
Nobody wanted Solenia to possess an unparalleled genius. If they could eradicate her, they would do it without a second thought.