If not for the mythical relic—Branlyte's Lantern—she might already have vanished into the vast sea of data.
But now, Caroline did not reveal any unusual emotion to Su Wen. She merely spoke to him through the Dawn System's communication channel:
"Rhine Mr.,
I've found the core data.
Thanks to you, they probably haven't discovered that I've already dived deep into the core layer.
Hold on a little longer, and I can forge a data breach to open the reverse gate for you."
"How long?"
"Five minutes.
Hehe,
That shouldn't be difficult for Legend Rhine, right?"
The girl's tone rose slightly, carrying a hint of boasting and encouragement for Su Wen, while cleverly concealing the frequency that was gradually weakening.
In fact, she had already fallen asleep far away in New York.
Caroline had not advanced to the fourth tier very long ago. More importantly, she was now facing a destructive crisis that could very well swallow an entire supercity.
Yet even so, she still did not want to show the slightest weakness.
For a dragonkin:
Weakness meant death.
Caroline had understood this long before the concept of Origin Year was even defined.
And after hearing how Caroline had concealed her weakness beneath that slightly raised tone, Su Wen did not expose it.
He merely replied slowly in an extremely gentle yet confident voice:
"Five minutes? That's not even enough time for me to warm up."
"Oh?
Then I was wrong. I didn't leave enough time for Rhine Mr. How terribly sorry of me."
Caroline seemed to have relaxed, yet she still did not forget to tease him.
But Su Wen did not answer again.
He did not add to Caroline's burden.
Facing the building with its collapsed walls and exposed rebar, as well as the countless armed machines surrounding him,