Chapter 239

The truck cruised along the elevated coastal road. A thin layer of fog formed on the windows in the chilly night air. Elara gazed out at the vast ocean outside the window. Ashley, seated in front, handed her a blanket to be used during sleep. Not long ago, Elara had told Ashley everything she had seen in the past few hours. She recounted seeing the 230,000 dense rows of stacked pods, countless distorted human figures, and an underground space stretching endlessly. It was a complete nightmare. Elara could choose to walk away from this place, but the Allied Forces would eventually find her. And if she left the research base, she would never uncover the truth. If so, Nathan's death, the 1.5 million people subjected to human subject experiments, Frank Henderson, and the encrypted files she had copied onto her private cloud account would become meaningless. Humans had always sought purpose in their lives. The sky was overcast, and soon, it began to drizzle. The people in the front