The Princess And The Lord-Chapter 1313 Trouble

Elena's office was as boring as a typical lab. The entire office was painted in pure white with a shiny white ceramic floor that was so clean that it reflected your reflection.

But the most striking thing in this room was the absence of decorations such as ornamental plants, paintings, or anything like that so that the entire room felt stiff and cold without devoid of any homey feeling whatsoever, and worst of all, the place smelled like disinfectant. Lory didn't know how people could work in a place like this, did Elena never felt depressed being stuck in a place like this for a long time.

The only decoration in that place is a bookshelf containing thick books that Lory knows she will never read even if the enemy points his guns on her head.

This office has two large tables, one table with a large computer screen and another long table filled with a microscope, some Erlenmeyer flask on the table, and various strange tools for experiments.

Lory then threw the USB to Ethan,"Copy all the important data, especially about the Genesis project and also about the Mana Deterrent Device, I want to know how far their experiments have progressed"

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Lory subconsciously rubbed the spot where Dragxtarn injected her, she might not have shown it but she felt uneasy knowing there was a foreign object in her head controlling her power.

"Right!" Ethan understood the gravity of this matter, thus he got straight to work while Lory checked the time on her wrist and realized she had less than fifteen minutes before Garrof started blowing this place up.

"How long will it take to copy all the data?" Lory asked Ethan.

"There's a lot of data so even using super speed in this computer it'll take five to seven minutes," Ethan replied with his attention fixed on the computer.

Lory racked her brain to think of a way to get out of there in a few minutes. Her eyes swept across the boring white room and then found one window. Lory peeked through the window and noticed their floor was quite high, normally it wouldn't bother her but she got Ethan by her side.

Lory scratched her head as she racked her brain on how to get out of this place, usually, Lory would come up with a few crazy ideas, then again because of Ethan all the ideas she had could not be carried out.

Only this time it dawned on her that she was never in a situation where she was trapped with ordinary people who could not fight like Ethan. From as long she could remember Lory was always surrounded by strong people like Lucas, Fargo, and others when she transferred to another world once again she was surrounded by people like Zhao Li Xin, Bei Li Yan, Jin Hao and all Hei Shen Members even her girlfriends Ming Yue Yin and Yang Xi Ying are also powerful cultivators, so this is probably the first time Lory ever face this situation.

"What should I do old birdie, it seems I'm out of ideas..." Lory blew her cheeks longing for Girsha's nagging.

"What are you doing!" someone suddenly shouted and caught Lory and Ethan's attention at the same time.

"Elena!" Ethan stunned.

Elena was just as shocked when she saw Ethan, "Ethan, how did you get here?"

Elena's question stabbed his heart and her face turned ugly "What, are you surprised I got out of my cage? Do you think I'll wait to die in the prison you put me to?!" Ethan said sarcastically.

"Ethan, you know that's not what I wanted..." Elena looked hurt.

Instead of feeling sorry for her Ethan was infuriated, "Don't pretend like you feel sorry! you deliberately lured me here to lock me up and force me to continue my research on the mana Detterent device! How many days do you think I've been locked up here, you know my family is looking for me!"

"That's because you're stubborn!" Elena snapped "You see what we can achieve together in this place, you know we can make history with this discovery, isn't this what we want, isn't this what you always wanted?!" Elena moves closer to Ethan.

"Don'y you even dare!" Ethan take a step back away from her, anger and disappointment fills his dark brown eyes, "This is not what I want, enslaving Gifted people is never my intention! What do you think I am, I'm not a Monster!"

"Only the evil ones!!" Elena's anger exploded but a moment later Elena came to her senses then she looked at the ceiling with a bitter expression, a moment later she spoke at Ethan softly, "You know there are many gifted people that are evil, you know what they can do. After the war, we don't have enough authority to prosecute them, even worse, many people ignore their evil deeds thinking we still need their help to control the Beasts, but that's not true, they need to be punished and mana controllers are not enough to punish them, that's why we created this tool to make sure they will never abuse their power to hurt others again..."

"Then what about the innocent people, the children, the elderly who have those powers, what will happen to them...are you going to steal their freedom too" Ethan scoffed.

Elena was taken aback by Ethan question but then she said in a reassuring tone: "They... they will be fine, as long as they don't do bad things, they can live as freely as they want...."

"Really? Who can guarantee that?"Lory leans on the table with arms crossed in front of her chest.

Elena turned their head at Lory and then stared at her with utter shock, turn out she was too focused on Ethan she didn't realize Lory's presence at all "How long you've been here?"

Lory's eyebrows twitched "From the moment you entered this office"

Elena glared at Lory " Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter!" Ethan interrupted.

"My name is Raven Jane. I would say it's nice to meet you, but that would be a lie." Lory cynically said.

Elena sizes Lory up and down after that she look at Ethan suspiciously, "Is this your new girlfriend?" "No!" Ethan exclaimed in high pitch.

"Nah, I'm married" Lory answered coolly. This time Ethan was shocked, "You are?" his voice sounded a bit down, "You never told me..."

Lory didn't understand what's that all about, then she gave a perfunctory answer, "Now, I told you..." "So what if she's married? You dare to say she wasn't here to help you out?!" Elena's anger exploded just like a girlfriend who caught her boyfriend cheating, so weird.

Lory and Ethan were dumbfounded but then Lory remembered Elena was having an affair with Ethan when she was still married, Lory then pointed her index finger and nodded in understanding "Point taken but we don't have that kind of relationship, besides my hus—"

"We're not in that kind of relationship either!" Ethan for some reason feels uncomfortable of what Lory might think about him so he immediately clarifies "We're not in a relationship, we only kissed once and it was nothing! Really, it just..you know...a situationship,"

'Oh buddy...' Lory facepalm.

Elena's eyes become red, her whole face turns dark like charcoal, Elena's voice trembles as she tries to control her anger, "Situationship you said - it was nothing you said!"

Ethan just realized he had misspoken, "Um...I mean you married at that time and we might share some sentimental feelings but we both know it's just a fling...?"

"A FLING!" Elena bit her lips.

"Shut up Ethan, you are not good at this!" Lory throws him a warning look.

Ethan knew Lory was right so he clamped his mouth obediently which only confirmed Elena's accusation, "Since you like her so much then you must pay the price for stealing important data" Elena looked at the USB that was attached to the computer.

"Elena, she's not my girlfriend!" Ethan tries to convince her.

Alas, Elena feigned deft, she pulled her sleeves and then pressed the emergency button on her wrist bracelet, then she smirked "Since we were nothing you don't need to explain anything"

"LENA!" Ethan scream.

"Don't Call me that!" Elena chides him.

Lory rejected Elena's accusation, also she felt it was an insult to her character and intelligence, did they see Zhao Li Xin?

"Seriously, guys. I am happily married to my husband, furthermore, my husband is tall, dark, handsome, has a sexy voice, and...you guys didn't listen to me, did you?" Lory sighed seeing them arguing without care about her.

"Why are you doing this!" Ethan infuriated.

"It's not my fault, you force me to!" Elena rebuke.

Lory had nothing else to do she casually checked how far they had copied the data, good news, it was already one hundred percent!

'Nice!' Lory unplugged the usb.

"Found you little rat" the door opened and a big giant man sneered at them, it was the Dragxtarn.

Just like Lory's Prediction, the man didn't die, only a bit of brush on his face and a smudged on his armor suit. the man shot a dagger at Lory, and her eyes filled with blood lust like a beast found his prey. Lory took out the gun, "Why I'm not surprised you sill alive?" she jest

The Dragxtarn grin evily "Miss me?"

"With that kind of face? No way!" Lory aimed her gun at the man.

"....." The Dragxtarn looks hurt.

Not long after they hear footsteps got closer and closer, and soon aft a grup of security rush to the office and they simultaneously point their Gun at Lory and Ethan "Put your gun down!"

"Ethan just give up, if you work for us they will not hurted you they will even help you!" Elena begged wholeheartedly.

Ethan swallowed hard, but he refused to concede because he knew not only would he would never forgive himself, his family would also never forgive him if they knew what he had done and he would rather die than see the disappointment in his family's eyes especially his grandfather who he respected very much.