Chapter 259: Chapter 259: I Want Them to Pay with Their Lives!
The team members looked at each other, no one expected Ann Vaughn to come to the research institute at this time.
The feeling of being caught badmouthing someone behind their back is really uncomfortable.
Although they believed they were stating facts, they didn’t expect to say them right in front of Ann Vaughn...
With this thought, Belle felt a bit awkward, then pretended nothing had happened and said to Ann Vaughn, "Consultant Vaughn, you’re here, there’s an empty room in the lab, you can use it."
"You guys use it." Ann Vaughn nodded slightly, taking only a few handwritten papers from her place, and as she was about to leave, she finally remembered, her bright eyes swept over everyone present, saying, "Thank you all for your care these days, I hope everyone has a bright future ahead."
The team members looked surprised, no way, is Ann Vaughn about to resign? Isn’t the research unfinished?
"What a pity." Jane Sheridan, unknown to them, came out from inside, walking over in high heels, looking at Ann Vaughn with a smile, said, "It’s okay, with your talent, even if you leave QY, you won’t disappoint anyone."
"I’ll miss you a bit, once Consultant Vaughn leaves, it’ll only be me and the team leader as the only women here."
"This research was complex from the start, it’s understandable that Consultant Vaughn couldn’t handle it, we all understand..."
It’s as if they were sure Ann Vaughn chose to retreat due to the difficulty of the OX virus research, so the team stood up to comfort her.
Ann Vaughn raised her brows slightly, then said, "Who said I was leaving?"
"I’ve already submitted the research results, the director has transferred me to the core research lab. We’ll still be colleagues."
Core... research lab?!
Someone gasped, almost choked.
The people who just assumed they could talk sarcastically now felt their faces burning with embarrassment, wishing they could crawl into a hole.
They had been at the research institute for over a year, yet they couldn’t even enter the core research lab.
But Ann Vaughn, having been here less than a week, was already transferred to the core research lab!
If there was any doubt about her capability as a consultant for Group A, the core research lab was a place even connections couldn’t get you into, the institute was adamant on this.
This only indirectly implied that Ann Vaughn’s ability was far above theirs, how ridiculous of them...
Only Jane Sheridan still smiled, though her smile was slightly cold and stiff.
She hadn’t expected to underestimate this woman.
Looking at the expressions on everyone’s face, Ann Vaughn found it even more amusing, "Oh, there was a mistake in the experimental data Belle gave me earlier, so I overturned it and redid the experimental tests."
"I hope it’s not considered stepping on your hard work to get ahead."
The experimental data Belle later gave her was all confused, even the sequence was incorrect.
Fortunately, Ann Vaughn from the start didn’t intend to find clues from their experimental data, and even more so when she got the samples, or she wouldn’t have realized their experimental direction was wrong from the beginning.
Hence, saying something about stepping on others’ hard work to get ahead was merely self-deception for them.
After saying this, Ann Vaughn gave them a final courteous nod, then turned and left.
Jane Sheridan watched Ann Vaughn’s departing figure, her eyes clouded with darkness, but her face displayed determined ambition.
She was a daughter of the Sheridan Family, trained and educated strictly since childhood, impossible to lose to this wild doctor without background.
Let’s wait and see.
An hour and a half later.
Ann Vaughn bit her red lips as she came out of the reagent warehouse, even forgot to call Sutton Jennings to tell him she was off work, and drove away from the research institute.
Under the glow of the sunset, the vivid and striking QY Research Institute sign was left behind.
Recalling what she just saw in the reagent warehouse, Ann Vaughn’s eyebrows knitted tighter, and her mind was so restless she forgot to turn several times.
"Tss—"
The sound of a possible tire leak suddenly reached her ears, pulling her thoughts back reluctantly.
"Can’t be this unlucky, right?" Ann Vaughn looked around, realizing she unknowingly took a wrong turn, her lips twitched.
Resigned, she got out of the car, checked the tires, and confirmed it was a back tire leakage.
Just as Ann Vaughn was about to return to the car to get her phone, she suddenly heard a faint "swish" sound.
She distinctly felt a prickling pain in her shoulder, and before she could reach out to inspect it, a wave of darkness overtook her vision, the whole world spun...
...
When Ann Vaughn’s car accidentally veered into the deep woods, Sutton Jennings’s subordinates split up to search around.
However, by the time they found Ann Vaughn’s car, they were just a moment too late.
At the time the Mandate was holding a high-level meeting, as this news came through, Sutton Jennings, who was sitting at the top, instantly darkened his face.
This caused the reporting subordinate to think he had said something wrong and wished he could slap himself!
"Lord Shane, please punish me!" The subordinate pleaded for mercy, only seeking leniency.
Sutton Jennings gave him a cold glance, "Get lost." With that, he didn’t bother with pleasantries, stood up abruptly, and left in haste.
"Yes, Lord Shane, I’ll get lost right away!" That subordinate thought he pissed off Lord Shane due to his mediocre performance over the past six months, so he rolled from his chair towards the doorway.
Like an egg.
The crowd: "..."
This was the first time Lord Shane left a meeting before it concluded, something that had never happened before.
It really made everyone curious to the point of restlessness about what exactly had occurred?
Probably something as major as reclaiming territory!
Meanwhile, in the eyes of those at the Mandate who thought Lord Shane was going to do something significant, he had already reached the Azure Gardens, riding the elevator straight up to the ninth floor.
Kenny opened the door, expecting Sutton Jennings, shuffled in his little slippers into the room, "Uncle Jennings, you’ve gotten the news as well?"
"Mm." Sutton Jennings changed shoes and entered, without asking why Kenny wasn’t at kindergarten at this time, followed in and asked, "Is the small pendant locator you made earlier still on your mommy?"
Kenny nodded his small head and sat in front of the computer, typing rapidly, "It is, but it’s severely damaged, it’ll take time to repair."
The kidnappers were too cautious, even a seemingly ordinary necklace was violently destroyed by them.
"I’ve already sent people to check the vehicles that went up Mount Vex today, we’ll have news soon, don’t worry." Sutton Jennings gently patted Kenny’s little head as reassurance.
Kenny flashed an easy smile, yet his big, beautiful eyes, akin to stars, were cold and solemn, "Uncle Jennings, I’m not worried, the ones who should be are those people."
"I installed a micro camera and a detonation function in mommy’s necklace."
"If those scum dare to harm my mommy, I want them to pay with their lives!"
The childish voice sounded without a hint of threat, yet when listening closely to the words’ meaning, it sent chills down the spine.