From a Nanny to a Pampered Wife & Mother.

Zhi Hao turned to the others, "This place is a distribution point. They are testing subjects here before moving them. This can't be the lab."

Wan Ruyi's hands flew over the keyboard, "Then they are holding the core subjects at the real lab that's in Millan, or worse…"

She zoomed in on the satellite feed again.

"The military base."

Wan Ruyi's whisper fell into dead static.

Her fingers stilled on the keyboard only for a heartbeat before she moved them again, faster than before, pulling schematics, cross-checking all blackout zones, rerouting drones toward the tunnel mouth.

Lu Zi Zhen's voice cut through, calm but taut with restrained urgency: "Any orders, Madam?"

Ruyi's response was soft and amused. After years of hearing him call mother, it was the first time he was being so formal!

"No loose ends my boy! Sweep every corner here and there, every pod, every server rack, every living thing that breathes or bleeds. I'm locking down external comms now and no one can trace out."

She toggled the encryption, killing all risk of outside interference.

Her eyes flicked to the live thermal feed of bodies hidden behind thick concrete, but one signature was unmistakable: her boy's weak but steady pulse.

She loudly exhaled. The storm raged on above, but inside that van, Wan Ruyi was the eye of it, still, focused, and vengeful.

Inside the hidden sublevel, Lu Zi Zhen checked the magazine in his pistol, eyes sweeping his team.

"All units, final sweep. Then we go through that tunnel. Clear your ghosts, nobody follows us into hell tonight."

"Clear right!"

"Left corridor secure!"

The Hawk Team moved like ghosts through the hidden sublevel of the hospital, sweeping room by room.

Each chamber told a darker story, of failed experiments, empty containment pods, genetic samples stored in ice, and logs filled with cryptic data.

Lu Zi Zhen halted in front of a sealed metal door with a retinal scanner long since blacked out. Dust clung to the hinges, but the floor bore recent footprints.

"This doesn't match any hospital architecture," he muttered, crouching beside the base of the wall. He flicked on a light to see clearly, "There are fresh scuff marks around this area, and this door has been opened just recently."

Lu Zhi Hao joined him, hand on his weapon. "Stand back."

With a nod to the explosives expert, a silent charge was placed.

The door gave way with a muted whump, swinging open to reveal… a hidden tunnel that they already knew of its existence.

The tunnel was wide enough for a vehicle to pass through, it was cold and Concrete-reinforced.

The tunnel was too dark and they must use their only lights to navigate the place.

"Underground transit line," Lu Wan Ruyi's voice came through the comms, "I'm pulling up blueprints… yes, this isn't on any municipal record. It runs straight south, and guess where it connects to?"

"The military lab." Lu Zhi Hao's voice was tight knowing this could be the government's involvement.

Wan Ruyi confirmed his statement, "Exactly. It's estimated to be 3.8 kilometers and there are no junctions whatsoever. There are no escape exits. It was built for covert movement, and not for safety."

Inside the van, her hands were already flying over her control deck.

She tapped into tunnel schematics, rerouted an old fiber optic line, and brought up a heat scan overlay.

"Three life signs at the end of the tunnel. There are two seated and one pacing around. That's our target, Ting Zhou and Song Yaya… and someone else who is watching them."

Zi Zhen looked down the endless corridor. "Let's take care of it!"

The team advanced carefully, the silence broken only by the soft scuff of boots and the low hum of tactical comms.