The plane hurried through the dark clouds as furious thunder, wrapped in lightning, struck the windows again and again.
Even a captain with decades of flying experience had no choice but to remain extremely vigilant in such weather.
Even so, the two-and-a-half-hour journey was filled with uncontrollable jolts and swaying.
In most missions, whenever travel was involved, no one chose to fly unless under extreme circumstances. Once something went wrong, there was nowhere to escape at high altitude.
Yet today, it seemed everyone had forgotten that taboo.
After all, this was a "mission" belonging to the staff. Before matters came to fruition, no Supernatural Incident should interfere.
Thus, most of the staff sat quietly in their seats, listening to the hum of the air-conditioning vents and the uneasy whispers of certain people.
"What exactly are Puzzle Piece Fragments?"
Li Guanqi's face was somewhat pale. After the Tenth Supervision Event ended, everyone with Healing Sin Items had repaired their irreversible injuries, but their mental strength had generally been depleted too severely.
He kept rubbing the irregular pattern embedded beneath the skin of his wrist, unable to glean any useful information from it.
Puzzle Piece Fragments had only been mentioned once when they first appeared—in the email for the first Manager Mission.
"Those who die in a Manager Mission will gradually accumulate an 'Yin Body.'
"The person who captures Ruru's Mother will receive a Puzzle Piece Fragment—it can dispel the Yin Body state."
Although every manager and staff member still capable of moving had gone to Hong Kong to take a chance, what they were truly fighting for was not the restarted Manager Mission.
The goal of the vast majority of ordinary staff, including certain managers, was actually the enormous Tianhai upheaval that would come after the Manager Mission ended and all