Jialan Adrift

Zuo Qing raised an eyebrow. "Perhaps they don't need to hold their breath?"

Wu Xiangnan froze where he stood.

"How can they survive without breathing?"

"Once you meet someone, perhaps you'll understand."

As Zuo Qing finished speaking, the office door was pushed open once more. A figure clad in a dark blue Han-style robe slowly entered from outside, her jet-black hair tied with a red cord and falling down her back. She carried a long Black Box in her hand, its weapon unknown.

"This is..." Wu Xiangnan looked at the young woman before him in confusion.

"A member of the Fifth Special Squad, Jialan." Zuo Qing smiled. "Two months ago, she came ashore along Great Xia's East Sea coast. She gave the Night Watchmen stationed there quite a fright at the time. After confirming her identity, she made her way here."

"Sorry for causing you trouble." Jialan carried the Black Box as she spoke apologetically.

"How could this be trouble? If not for you, we wouldn't have known what exactly happened to the Fifth Special Squad that day." Zuo Qing shook his head. "According to Jialan's account, the ones who attacked them may have been the 004 Special Squad from the future—the Mask Squad's captain, King Mask. However, we discussed this matter with him long ago, and he knows nothing about it.

If that person truly stopped the time of everyone in the Fifth Special Squad, all their physiological functions would have halted. They wouldn't need to breathe while drifting with the currents, nor would their lives be in danger.

That is why we dared to place the estimated area of their location hundreds of kilometers away."

Hearing this explanation, Wu Xiangnan fell thoughtful.

Jialan could not help asking, "Commander Zuo, you said you've found their location. Is that true?"