The moment those words left Xinyuan's mouth, the glass pod completely shattered, exploding outward and raining shards onto the floor.
"No..." Doctor Bai Qinian staggered backward, her tablet slipping from numb fingers. "Increase the Guiding Energy output! Right now!"
The scientists scrambled in a panic, slamming their fingers onto the control panels. But one by one, the terminals began to implode, firing off showers of sparks that sent them stumbling away in panic.
Xinyuan was vibrating with pure, unfiltered rage.
His father. Bai Qinian.
They had stood there watching him rot inside a tank, manipulating his memories, forcing him to watch Wenzhi's death over and over again.
His eyes burned a terrifying crimson.
Grief and fury collided inside him until nothing else existed.
Even beneath layers of restraints, black mist burst from his body, flooding the laboratory like a living storm. Alarms screamed. The lights overhead flickered as the entire facility began to shake.
