The Almighty Ring

was in the reactor core or the storage, was gone without a trace.

“Follow me!” said Han Tianyu as he paced quickly towards the underground facilities.

“What’s going on?” asked Luo Zhan.

“I’m hoping that I’m wrong before I answer your question!” said Han Tianyu as he frowned.

Hastily, everyone followed Han Tianyu to the storage unit where all the nuclear fuel should be kept.

“Open the storage facility!”

“Boss, without proper protection, the radiation will kill us all!” said one of the engineers.

“Right.
Let’s suit up! Someone be ready to open the door!” cried Han Tianyu.
Even though he had to quickly make sure that the nuclear materials were still in the storage unit, there was no need to throw away his life.

After a few minutes, everyone got dressed in protective gear and the door was opened.

“Something’s not right,” said an engineer as he held a small device in his hand that was not making any sound.

“What is it?”

“The Geiger counter is not picking up any radiation!”

“Check again! The counter must be broken!” said Han Tianyu worriedly.

“What’s going on!” said Yang Feng.

“Inside! Now!” said Han Tianyu as he ran into the storage unit with his own Geiger counter in his hand.
He kept on running around the storage unit whilst paying attention to the needle to jump at any sign of radiation.

“ARGH!”

Alas, there was nothing.
Not a single tick on the Geiger counter.
There was nothing in the facility that was giving off radiation.

“HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!” Han Tianyu roared as he threw the Geiger counter to the ground and destroyed it.

“Impossible!”

“We have been here the whole time when the mercenaries had retreated.
There was no way anyone could have moved anything!”

One of the engineers came up and said, “There were no signs of any radioactive materials ever being in this building.”

“What do you mean? Are you saying that they disappeared?” said Han Tianyu with eyes flaring with rage.

“No! I meant that they have never been in here at all! Once radioactive materials have been kept in a facility, there will be contamination on the walls or ground.
These kinds of radiation will never go away for a very long time.
Even if there was a single reactor core stored here, even a small one, the Geiger counter would have picked up the micro radiations.
The thing is, there isn’t a single reading! There are only two possibilities.
One, no radioactive materials have been stored here.
Two, they have moved it away a long time ago and had thoroughly decontaminated the place.”

“Either way, they must have known that we were coming! How else would they decontaminate this place?” said Luo Zhan.

“F*CK! There’s a traitor!” Han Tianyu roared.

Under normal circumstances, what Han Tianyu said could be one of the highest possible scenarios.
Only the Tokugawa clan knew that China was coming to attack and had thoroughly cleansed the place before anyone had arrived.

“Not possible.
If they knew we were coming, they would not have sent their ninjas to die for nothing!” said Yang Feng.

“That’s true.
Could there be another party involved?” said Han Tianyu as he calmed down immediately.

Luo Zhan shook his head angrily and yelled, “Does this mean, all of the evidences are gone?!”

“That’s right,” said Yang Feng disgruntledly.

“And for all that we had fought for… was for nothing?” Luo Zhan grumbled.

“Technically, not for nothing.
They have discarded over a hundred ninjas here and three of them were Jounins! If that’s not something, I don’t know what is!” said Jiang Fei.
He tried to calm things down and pretend that he too did not know what had happened to the nuclear materials.
Even though he had achieved the feat flawlessly without a trace, he still had to pretend to be oblivious.