f the square.

Through his earpiece, he heard the quiet breathing of the entire action team. No one was assigning tasks or reporting positions. He seemed to have entered the quietest moment of radio silence.

He took a deep breath of the fresh air outside the building, and everything was silent on the communication channel. However, he had a feeling of escaping and ascending to the heavens.

He unscrewed the mineral water in his hand, took a sip, and then heard the sound of the elevator doors opening again.

Someone was walking out of the elevator, moving slowly in the quiet corridor.

The person walking was the consultant who had brushed past him earlier.

An Xu silently counted the footsteps he heard through the earpiece, calculating the number of steps to infer the person’s approximate location in the building. But this tranquility lasted for a very brief moment. With the accompaniment of light music, he suddenly heard someone on the team’s shared channel just answer a phone call.

Before anyone had a chance to scold the person who dared to answer a call during the operation, a very anxious female voice came through the entire channel. The woman’s voice choked up, sounding somewhat gentle yet filled with suppressed sadness.

“Chenchen, Lao Su.. He just went to the hospital, and his condition isn’t good. What happened all of a sudden?”

An Xu held his breath, and there was silence on the channel. The woman’s voice seemed to have plunged into complete darkness, unable to stir any ripples.

An Xu unexpectedly felt a lump in his throat and couldn’t find any words to say because he suddenly realized who had answered the phone call.

There was still no one speaking on the channel, only a soft click, like a pebble falling into a dark world, silently ending the call.