Luo An's guess was not wrong.
A few minutes later, staff from the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, the FBI's Hazardous Materials Response Unit, the Federal Disease Control Center Los Angeles Branch, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other departments arrived at the scene. After conducting tests, they determined that the mastermind behind the terrifying scene was a poisonous gas composed of botulinum toxin.
By this time, the California First Republican Bank's twenty-some-story building was completely evacuated; the plaza outside was also devoid of any human presence.
A dozen plus workers, dressed in yellow and white biohazard suits and equipped with professional gas masks, were carefully and diligently handling the bodies inside the bank building.
In the bank lobby, there were three victims who hadn't managed to escape: a male LAPD officer, a female bank clerk, and a male bank security guard.
