"Eh? Where is everyone...?"
After wandering through the forest all morning, Su Shijie finally used his drone to find the wilderness camp where he had spent two nights.
He had planned to find a group heading to the Floating City and hitch a ride with them.
He had to admit, finding his way through the jungle was rather awkward. Having only traveled the route once before, Su Shijie chose to surrender.
Yet after finally finding the camp, he observed through the drone that it had long since been deserted. There were no caravans lingering there either.
Judging from the cameras still mounted on some of the walls, they must have left in a hurry.
"Did news from the shelter reach them, so they hid out to avoid the storm? Well, that seems normal enough."
Even after searching everywhere within his drone's range, he had failed to find another person or team. Su Shijie realized he could only rely on himself. The drone's range was still too limited.
Psionic energy interfered far too heavily with signals. Other than its advantages in size and power, his drone had a much smaller range than even civilian drones from his previous life.
Still, Su Shijie had not been idle along the way. He had been using his illusion abilities to implant suggestions into himself, testing one of his hypotheses.
The suggestion targeted only a single thought. Inspired mainly by the Bug Knight, he wanted to give one individual thought a specific function.
Even if it failed, losing one thought was not unacceptable. With his recovery ability, a few days of rest would be enough to recover.
But if it succeeded, it should greatly improve his safety.
While suggesting the thought, Su Shijie also kept empowering his Psionic Alloy chain for a second time, doing