Chasing the Unexpected (Nyla)

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In just over an hour, Mabel appeared several times on the surveillance footage. By the third time, she seemed visibly flustered. If the labels of dilute sulfuric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid had indeed. been swapped, Mabel was undoubtedly the prime suspect.

Genevieve stopped the surveillance footage and instructed her assistant to notify Mabel to come to her office.

Upon hearing that Genevieve wanted to see her, Mabel immediately became nervous, glancing involuntarily at Lucia, who was sitting diagonally across from her.

However, Lucia didn’t even look her way, appearing calm and nonchalant as if nothing was amiss. Left with no choice, Mabel reluctantly followed Genevieve’s assistant to the office.

Just as she arrived at the door, her phone vibrated–it was a message from Lucia.

Lucia: [No matter what Genevieve asks, insist that you have nothing to do with it. You don’t know anything. If you dare to drag me into this, you know the consequences.]

Mabel replied with an “Okay“, and Lucia quickly unsent the message.

Mabel put her phone away and pushed open the door to the office.

much of an expression. “Have

Mabel sat down across from Genevieve, she feigned confusion. “Genevieve, what can

were in and out of the lab and R&D department several times. What was the

lab this morning to prepare for an experiment and realized I had forgotten

you visit the reagent storage

shook her head, then looked at Genevieve with disbelief. “Genevieve, are you suspecting me? I have no grudge against

everyone who was in the lab this morning. Since there’s no surveillance in the reagent

this, Mabel breathed a sigh of relief. She had taken a gamble, banking on the absence of surveillance in that area. She was confident that any

arrived. They extracted several fingerprints from the labels of concentrated

one’s fingerprints match, we can basically rule out the possibility

had been too

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wear gloves. If they checked fingerprints, she would

Sumner’s people come to collect our

worry. Collecting fingerprints won’t take long.