"...Boom."
Munnu's eyes widened.
"RUN!"
For a single heartbeat—
Nothing happened.
Then—
The roar shook the entire tunnel.
The radio behind Persia erupted first.
A blinding flash swallowed the corridor.
BOOOOOOOM!
The explosion hurled everyone backward.
Stone shattered.
Steel beams twisted.
The reinforced tunnel split apart.
Kai felt the ground disappear beneath his feet.
His ears rang.
He couldn't hear anything.
Only a high-pitched whine.
Dust swallowed the world.
He hit the ground.
Rolled.
Tried to stand
The entire underground complex began collapsing.
"MOVE!"
Outlaws scrambled toward the exit.
Some carried the wounded.
Others dragged anyone they could reach.
Chunks of stone crashed around them.
One support beam snapped.
The ceiling caved in.
A cultist attempting to flee vanished beneath falling rock.
Another screamed before being swallowed by dust.
The experiments fared no better.
One roared defiantly—
Only to disappear beneath tons of collapsing stone.
The laboratory had become a tomb.
Kai struggled to his feet.
His vision blurred.
He searched frantically.
"Munnu!"
Through the dust—
He saw him.
Munnu had thrown himself between the explosion and his men.
One arm was gone.
His desert robes were torn apart.
Blood soaked the sand beneath him.
Yet somehow—
He was still standing.
He looked toward the surviving Outlaws.
"...Move..."