Under the watchful eyes of three inspectors, a horde of supernatural creatures, and thousands of sensors aboard three ships, the crystal core containing enough energy to tear open a rift in the world's barrier plunged straight into the void of space—and then vanished without even making a sound.
A few minutes later, Hao Ren wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and realized something: he seemed to have lost this incredibly powerful, incredibly dangerous, incredibly extraordinary object.
At that moment, Hao Ren desperately wanted to shout over the universal public channel: Friends of the world, have you ever made a huge blunder at work? Have you ever smashed the pot in your daily life? Have you ever encountered a life-changing disaster? Come over here and take a look. Your mistakes are nothing—just now, I threw a supreme artifact used to control the balance of the universe into the gap between worlds, and then lost it!!
"Have all the detectors resend their surveillance data! Nolan, check your memory banks again!" Thanks to years of training through crises of every size, Hao Ren slapped himself twice on the forehead and forcibly calmed down. "Galadriel, Anthony, check your surveillance records too—the situation's wrong. The crystal core has disappeared. It seems to have passed straight through the rift!"
Dragon Queen Galazhor did not even have time to bother with her "skateboard." With a whoosh, she reverted to human form and dove into her ship. Anthony, meanwhile, erupted in arcane light and swept around the bridge of his own ship like a gust of wind, repeatedly calling up various data. Clearly, even an old hand with thousands of years of experience could panic a little when faced with something like this!
The people around Hao Ren were naturally thrown into utter confusion as well. Vivian