The boss has no descendants, but he encounters four smaller versions of himself

The higher-ups reacted faster than they had anticipated.

What followed was a desperate chase, during which they fled for six hours straight.

Leo drove the van like a race car driver, while Carl pulled out his pistol and fired shots out the window from time to time, trying to blow out the tires of the pursuing vehicles.

But the enemy had more and more people, better cars, and more firepower.

"How much further?" Su Yisui asked, her voice breaking amidst the turbulence.

"Twenty kilometers!" Leo roared, jerking the steering wheel to dodge a bullet fired from behind. The bullet struck the rear of the car with a screeching sound.

The rear window was already shattered, and cold wind was blowing in, carrying the smell of gunpowder and dust.

Su Yisui looked out the window.

The sky was already beginning to lighten, and in the distance, the silhouette of the mountains could be seen—that was the border line.

Once we cross that mountain, we'll reach the rendezvous point.

Suddenly, Carl shouted, "They're catching up!"

In the rearview mirror, three black SUVs approached like cheetahs, less than 100 meters away.

Leo slammed on the gas pedal, and the van's engine roared under the strain, but it couldn't pick up any more speed. It was a miracle that this beat-up car had lasted this long.

At the critical moment, Carl turned to Su Yisui and said, "Little doctor, get ready to jump out of the car. There's a bend ahead. I'll count to three, then you open the door, jump out, roll into the ditch on the right, and hide... Once you cross that mountain ahead, you'll see the people waiting for you."

"And what about you?" Su Yisui asked.

Carl's voice was hoarse, "Don't worry about us. It doesn't matter if we die, but you must live, because there are thousands of people waiting for you, countless lives waiting for you to save!"

Su Yisui wanted to say something, but Karl had already started counting down: "Three, two..."

"Jump!"

Karl opened the car door and shoved Su Yisui out.

Su Yisui rolled many times on the ground before falling heavily into the drainage ditch beside the road.

The dry grass and pebbles scratched his skin, but he cleverly curled up to reduce his exposed area.

Almost at the same moment he landed, the van was rammed sideways by the pursuers' vehicle a dozen meters ahead.

A loud bang.

The van was knocked sideways, carving a deep furrow in the dirt road before finally overturning, its wheels still spinning.

Su Yisui lay in the ditch and, through the gaps in the withered grass, witnessed a scene that made his heart stop.

Three SUVs stopped, and seven or eight armed men jumped out and surrounded the overturned van.

Carl and Leo crawled out of the deformed cockpit, both of them injured. Carl was bleeding from his forehead, and Leo was limping with his arm hanging down unnaturally.

The two stood back to back, putting up a final stand against their pursuers.

"Where is he?" shouted a man in a black leather jacket among the pursuers; he was clearly the leader.

Karl spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva: "I don't know."

"Don't know?" the man in the leather jacket sneered. "Then you'll all have to die in his place!"

Gunfire rang out.

It wasn't a single sound, but a series of sounds.

A hail of bullets rained down on Karl and Leo.

Su Yisui gritted her teeth in the ditch, forcing herself not to make a sound.

He saw Karl and Leo fire back at the same time, but they were outnumbered. Karl's chest exploded with blood, and Leo was shot in the thigh and fell to his knees.

But they did not fall.

Karl continued firing, hitting two pursuers.

Leo knelt on one knee and fired shot after shot with his still-mobile hand.

In the chaos, Su Yisui saw Karl glance in his direction, his lips move as if he were using his last strength to say: Little doctor, run, don't look back!

Su Yisui's tears welled up.

He knew that Karl and Leo were buying him time, trading their lives for his survival.

Another burst of bullets came, and Karl's body jolted violently before he stopped moving.

Leo also collapsed during his final struggle.

But with his last bit of strength, he pulled the trigger and shot the man in the leather jacket.

The gunfire stopped.

The mountains and fields suddenly became eerily quiet.

Su Yisui lay in the ditch, tears streaming silently down her face, mingling with the dust and leaving streaks of mud on her skin.

Karl is dead.

Leo also died.

The two people who had kidnapped him ultimately gave their lives to save him.

why?

Because they still have a conscience.

Because they ultimately chose to stand on the side of life, not on the side of profit.

Because... they believed in him, believed he could save more people.

Su Yisui felt terrible. He wanted to rush out and do something for Karl and Leo, even if it was just to close their eyes.

But he can't.

He couldn't waste the opportunity that Karl and Leo had risked their lives for.

He raised his hand, forcefully wiped away the tears on his face, and then turned and ran towards the rendezvous point.

He used all his strength to run wildly forward along the mountain path.

Even though his legs felt as heavy as lead, he dared not stop, nor could he stop.

Finally, after crossing that mountain, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

On a relatively flat open space, a military vehicle was there to meet him.

As she boarded the car, Su Yisui slumped into her seat, panting heavily.

He was finally safe, but he didn't feel relieved; he only felt heavy-hearted.

The mountain range grew smaller and smaller in view.

He thought of Karl and Leo, who died in the mountains, and his sense of mission grew stronger.

The car sped along, heading towards the direction where the sun was rising.

......

The International Medical Assistance Command Center in the capital of Country Y.

When Su Yisui found her team, the scene was one of heavy, deathly silence.

His research team, a dozen or so medical experts from around the world, were standing or sitting, their faces showing exhaustion, despair, and anger.

Because all the antibodies and original data they developed were destroyed by that group of bastards.

With Su Yisui's disappearance, they lost their leader and had no idea what to do.

The oldest medical expert on the team, Professor Harris, in his sixties, stood up shakily, his voice choked with emotion, "Sui Sui, you're still alive..."

Su Yisui walked over and nodded: "Yes, I'm back."

A simple "I'm back" brought several female researchers to tears on the spot.

Team deputy leader Anna wiped away her tears, "Captain Su, they destroyed everything—the experimental data, the original formula records, even... all our research notes, all gone."

Professor Harris burst into tears: "Nobody knows the complete formula, you've been missing for days, and the data has been destroyed... We have no idea what to do..."

Su Yisui looked around at her former comrades-in-arms and comforted them, "Don't worry, everyone, because the formula is in my head."