Chapter 834 Tipping Point

• In that forsaken future, governments had been forced to wipe out every bio-engineered creature they could find. The purge cost a third of the planet's population before a single treaty finally outlawed cyborg manufacture everywhere. Annabeth didn't want to see Blue Star repeat that mistake.
• Their conversation about the Blue Research Center wound down, but from Sebastian's sparse, measured words, Annabeth pieced together even more than before. He had been tracking the facility's every move, quietly setting countermeasures in place—exactly as she had suspected. A man like him never left a threat unguarded, especially while Xobrington remained caught inside the center's tightening web.
• Noticing the way Annabeth's brow furrowed in thought, Sebastian rose, the chair scraping softly behind him, and came to stand at her side.