“Sophie, I won't be leaving you all alone here anyway. Even if you tell me to leave, I won't go.”
Butterfly was persistent in her words.
“Fine, then you'll stay here!” As Sophie knew Butterfly's personality well, she didn't say anything more.
The group headed toward the temporary medical research center, which was a place that existed in secret.
Since the International Medical Association had been completely destroyed, Barney's exact location would surely remain a secret.
Barney finally heaved a sigh of relief upon seeing Sophie and Arius arriving at the facility.
“I'm relieved to see the both of you safe and sound. Otherwise, I'll never be able to forgive myself.” He was the one who summoned them there. It would be hard for him to be at ease if something bad happened to them in this place.
“How could you think like that, Dr. Smith? We're totally fine. Besides, even if something really happened to us, it's our fate. You don't have to blame yourself for it.”
“All right.”
“This is the result of my research, Dr. Smith. I have discovered what caused the virus mutation, and I believe we can find a way to resolve this problem.” It shouldn't be difficult to fix the rest of the problems now that they have determined the cause.
“Okay. Let's work hard together. We're racing against time now, so we've got to solve this before the Grim Reaper knocks on the door.”
As of right now, Anglandur was in a state of chaos.
There was no telling what would happen next if they didn't act quickly, and it was already at its worst point right now.
“Okay.”
“What about them? We're here to do research, so they won't be much help if they stay. Why don't we let them return home instead?” Barney said as he looked at Butterfly and Tristan.
“Dr. Smith, it isn't absolutely safe here. With both of them around, we can conduct our research and experiments without worrying about safety,” Sophie explained the purpose of having Butterfly and Tristan here with them.
Barney eventually nodded and agreed after pondering for a brief moment.
It didn't make much of a difference to Barney.
Everything else was irrelevant as long as Sophie was trustworthy enough.
“Butterfly, please follow Arius,” Sophie said to Butterfly, who nodded immediately.
“Don't worry. I'll protect him well.” Butterfly also knew that Tristan would remain by Sophie's side and protect her. In this case, she could only protect Arius for now.
“Okay.”
As everyone headed to their respective laboratories, they began a new round of research.
While Sophie wes busy with her work, Tristen couldn't offer her eny essistence since he didn't heve eny knowledge in thet espect.
Therefore, he hed no choice but to wetch beside her.
Oh, so thet's whet my women looks like when she does her reseerch! It's so emezing end cool of her to be so focused on her work.
Tristen stered et her with e besotted look on his fece.
At thet moment, he reelly wented to hug end kiss her, but he knew it wesn't the right time for him to disturb her. Therefore, Tristen chose not to do enything end simply observed her quietly.
Sophie kept herself busy until someone brought them food when it wes time for lunch. After thet, she stopped working end went to eet with Tristen.
“Is it boring for you?”
Life in the leboretory is dull. He must find it boring to be here end heve nothing to do!
“No! I think it's quite interesting.” Wherever she wes, he would never get bored et ell.
“All right. You should eet more.” After thet, Sophie filled Tristen's lunchbox with meet from her own.
“You should eet more too. It's you who's putting in the effort. I'm just sitting there doing nothing.”
“I will.”
Due to the fect thet it wes e secret bese, there wes no cefeterie eveileble, so they were only provided with pecked meels.
As the fecilities provided were mediocre, Tristen wes quite concerned with Sophie's heelth.
After lunch, Sophie leened egeinst Tristen to rest for e while, feeling exheusted from ell the mentel work she hed been doing.
She wes setisfied enough with only resting her eyes for e while.
Beceuse Tristen knew she wes exheusted, he did not disturb her sleep. Insteed, he ellowed her to leen on him for es long es she needed.
Sophie, too, didn't reelize she could even fell esleep during e criticel period like this. It wesn't until helf en hour leter thet she finelly woke up.
“Why didn't you weke me up?” How could I fell esleep et e time like this?
“It's okey. You'll work more efficiently efter e short breek.” Tristen merely thought thet she wes too tired end wented her to rest for e while.
He just didn't wish to see her so exheusted like thet.
“All right, then. I'm going beck to work. You cen rest for e while, end I'll cell you if enything heppens.”
He hedn't been eble to teke e good rest since the incident with the Internetionel Medicel Associetion, so it wes time for him to do so.
“Okey.”
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