Chapter 381: Chaotic Island Favors
The Intelligence Officers and Agents arranged on the Island by the Kronos Kingdom were searching for researchers who hadn't yet escaped or were trying to.
Immediately, the entire Island was blockaded by various Factions.
Only a small number of people with special means were able to escape.
Not everyone had discovered they were being monitored and prepared means of escape.
They actually had no preparation at all.
However, because the situation was too sudden, Factions other than the Kronos Kingdom were not fully prepared.
This meant there was insufficient manpower.
Even with the Island blockaded, there were still significant loopholes.
This was a game of racing against time, to see who would gain more.
Vegapunk was already dead, and the Life Design Blueprint had not yet been fully researched.
It wasn't entirely true to say that the various Factions highly valued these scientists.
Acquiring them would definitely be a gain; otherwise, they would surely be plundered by others.
One by one, researchers were found and sent to the East of the Island.
"Owl" then used their ability to directly transfer them to the Coast.
Everything was proceeding in secret.
If anyone dared to investigate the secrets of the Dense Forest, Underworld Guards would step forward to block them.
After a brief exchange, they would evacuate, letting others know the place was occupied, preventing further probing.
After all, everyone was using their own means, and engaging in friction with each other was rather not worth it.
With insufficient manpower, delaying some time would only result in more researchers escaping from their grasp.
Throughout the entire night, the entire Island was exceptionally chaotic.
Fires spread and burned.
To create opportunities for escape, some researchers began setting fires, creating chaos.
The island didn't just have the Research Institute; it also had a City with over 200,000 Residents.
For scientists, creating some Special Weapons was incredibly easy.
For the sake of their own lives, the houses around the Research Institute were burning.
Especially the Research Institute itself, towering flames dyed the night sky red.
Precious experimental equipment and some remaining data were burned to ashes in the great fire.
Some weapons were even triggered, and terrifying explosions destroyed the Research Institute, with Poison Gas billowing outwards.
Before long, this "MADS" Research Institute, which had been established for ten years, would be completely destroyed.
In this situation, finding people became very difficult.
Manpower was already insufficient.
The researchers were mixed in with the crowd, making them impossible to find.
Apart from the initial opportunities, later on, they could only give up searching for these scientific researchers; those who were going to run had already done so.
Apart from the Kronos Kingdom, the other Factions could basically only take away the personnel they had contacted beforehand; there weren't many extra researchers.
The Kronos Kingdom's gain was already sufficient; they had evacuated beforehand when the chaos erupted on the island.
Taking advantage of the chaos, Ignis covered over a dozen researchers, guiding them into the house he had used upon arriving on the island.
Ignis appeared before the mirror, and soon ripples appeared on the mirror's surface.
Not long after, Jörmungandr's figure appeared on it.
Seeing Jörmungandr, Ignis smiled, while also feeling relieved.
"Thanks, brother!"
Ignis had a great gain; he had directly targeted two outstanding scientists.
After some communication, learning that Ignis could take them away and would also arrange for their families to be cared for, these two scientists decided to follow Ignis.
Besides these two scientists, there were also over a dozen researchers.
Ignis was greedy and wanted to take them all, so he set his sights on Jörmungandr.
Originally, with his own ability, taking two people off this island would have been the absolute limit.
However, with Jörmungandr's help, none of this was a problem.
"You better remember, you owe me a favor."
Jörmungandr opened the connection between this mirror and the Mirror World, looking at Ignis with a smile.
Hades didn't know about this matter, but he wouldn't care.
Being able to rely on a brother's help was also part of Ignis's ability.
And for Jörmungandr, helping Ignis was inherently helping the Kronos Kingdom.
He had no reason to refuse.
"Go, you guys go in."
Ignis, wearing a black hooded robe, appeared somewhat mysterious, his body floating in the air, thirty centimeters off the ground.
He instructed these scientists, then looked back at Jörmungandr.
"Help me arrange them. I'll come find you later."
As soon as he finished speaking, accompanied by a strange sense of distortion, Ignis's body vanished into thin air.
He didn't plan to leave yet.
He didn't know if anyone had noticed them, so he needed to watch from outside.
Once these scientists entered the Mirror World, he would take the mirror with him and simultaneously burn down this House, leaving no clues.
Over a dozen scientists disappeared into the mirror, entering the Mirror World.
Jörmungandr acknowledged; he knew Ignis was actually still there.
He then disconnected the mirror from the Mirror World, and the image on the mirror returned to normal.
Soon, the mirror disappeared, taken by Ignis, and entered a void state together.
Unknowingly, the speed of the fire's spread increased even more.
Some houses suddenly caught fire and could not be contained.
Ignis was setting fires in secret, making the situation even more chaotic.
When the time was right, Ignis finally left the island alone, arriving at the Sea Surface.
He threw the mirror into the Great Sea, where it continuously sank to the Seabed.
This mirror was no longer useful.
It wasn't until noon the next day that the island calmed down, and the continuously burning flames were extinguished.
However, the incident caused a significant stir.
The "MADS" Research Institute, which had created numerous outstanding results in the Scientific Community and was highly regarded, was destroyed overnight.
Most of the many scientists and researchers disappeared.
Vegapunk, the World's most famous Genius Scientist, was assassinated, leaving behind a corpse, but his head mysteriously disappeared.
Nearly a third of the entire City was destroyed.
This was definitely a terrifying disaster for the Island's Residents, resulting in a large number of casualties.
Even the World Economic Journal paid close attention, but the news was suppressed, only being simply mentioned in the next day's newspaper.
It was only reported in certain scientific newsletters.
It was also referred to as "the Cursed MADS Research Institute" incident.
For spectators who didn't know the inside story, this was a mysterious sea marvel.
(end of chapter)