Jared sneered, "What, you?"
The contempt in Jared's eyes had made the leader's expression ugly. "Yes, me!"
The professor stepped forward. He ignored Jared and asked, using a voice changer, "Hand over the person controlling the
robots!"
The robots would run farther away if they did not capture Nicole and let her modify the system.
The leader remembered the real deal, and took out his handgun, pointing it at Jared's temple. "That's right. Hand them over!"
Inside the car, Nicole saw the professor's figure through the brown glass. She felt he seemed extremely familiar. Seeing Jared
held at gunpoint, she immediately got out of the car.
"You must be an expert to know that I was controlling the robots," Nicole said calmly, showing no fear in her eyes. Her sharp
gaze landed on the professor, continuously scrutinizing him.
Even though the professor wore a mask, he felt guilty, as if Nicole could see through him.
But with just that one evasive glance from the professor, Nicole identified him.
"Ike. I never expected to see you here." Nicole squinted her eyes and called the professor's name.
At that moment, the professor's body trembled. He always thought Nicole's eyes only focused on Jared. He could not have
imagined that Nicole would recognize him with just one glance. It was useless to hide his identity, even though he wore a mask
with a voice changer. With this in mind, he took his mask off and revealed the handsome face beneath.
Ike smirked. "I can't believe you recognized me."
Jared's expression was extremely dark. He thought, 'No wonder I felt something fishy when the intelligence system was stolen.'
Nicole snorted. "Seems like the person who brought the USB here was you. No wonder you were on site when it was stolen that
day."
At this moment, everything that did not make sense before suddenly made perfect sense. Before this, she only wondered if it
was too coincidental that Ike was there. Besides that, he was injured in a rather weird way.
"Come to think of it. You must have caused your own injuries back then. After all, which of your subordinates would dare to hurt
you?"
Nicole was aware of Ike's skills. With his abilities, he could hack into the system and take the intelligence system away. And his
performance just now...
"I never thought that you would thoroughly study Brave and even be able to re-modify their system..."
All these years, besides Zeke, no one was a match for Nicole. In the past, Nicole did not think of Ike as her match. But she found
out now that he had been hiding his true strength.
Ike suppressed his emotions with an icy expression after being exposed by Nicole. "Thank you for your compliment," Ike said,
pretending to misinterpret Nicole's sarcasm. He replied coldly, "But I'm not as powerful as you. You even added a defense
system on the robots at the last minute. Nicole, you should shut down the defense system, modify their system and make the
robots come back. Or else..."
"Or else what? Are you going to kill me?" Nicole narrowed her eyes with a fake smile.
In her heart, Nicole was truly disappointed in Ike. She had once suspected his sudden appearance but gradually came to trust
him. However, she did not expect him to be an ingrate.
Ike hesitated when Nicole asked him this question. Deep down, he did not want to kill her. But he did not have a choice.