Inside the lab, a single, enormous metal box stood in the center, but there was no one around.
The empty laboratory made Joel Quincy wonder if it had been ransacked.
Just then, Nathan Trenton and Chloe Sinclair, who were about to leave, heard Joel Quincy's voice and came out.
Joel Quincy sounded a little confused. "Where is everyone?"
Chloe Sinclair said, "Their work for the day was done, so I let them go home to rest."
"The work is done?"
At her words, Joel Quincy's gaze finally fell upon the metal box in the center of the room, a rare flash of surprise crossing his face.
The Mark Device was compact, and while the apparatus before him was clearly a base model, even so, it was more than double the size.
Joel Quincy's eyebrow twitched. "You disassembled the whole thing?"
Chloe Sinclair looked a little guilty. She hid behind Nathan Trenton, peeking out from behind him and nodding meekly. "Mhm, the whole thing."
