Chapter 296: Chapter 296 – Searching

Hearing those words, Chen Heng fell silent as his body froze.

Of course, this was just an instinctive reaction and did not mean much.

However, the girl seemed to have misunderstood it.

"I'm sorry." 

The girl nodded heavily before standing up and bowing deeply, "He died because of me. If it wasn't for my mistake, he would not have died there and might have been able to come back…"

There was a deep look of guilt and regret on her face.

Chen Heng's body's father had died because of an accident.

In order to retrieve a precious material to obtain some data, he had gone with this girl to a very dangerous place.

Because of their preparations, everything had initially gone quite smoothly.

They had successfully observed their target for a while, but because of a small mistake, they had been infected by the mutated creature's aura.