"Something's wrong..."
On the rooftop of a high-rise outside Satellite City, the man in the red suit suddenly opened his eyes, his brows drawing tightly together.
The big-headed boy beside him immediately asked nervously, "What's wrong?"
The man in the red suit looked somewhat pale, with an inexplicable confusion in his eyes.
He raised his left hand, lightly curled his pinky, then his index finger, and finally curled all five fingers inward.
He clenched his palm hard. The expression on his face grew even more puzzled, as if he were at a loss.
After a moment, he finally said softly, "I've lost contact with all the puppets I left there..."
"It's as if the connection between me and them has been completely severed."
"..."
The big-headed boy froze for a moment, his face filled with astonishment.
Qin Ran asked calmly, "Which one?"
The man in the red suit's voice was somewhat hoarse. After a moment of silence, he said, "Every one of them."
Qin Ran fell silent, gazing thoughtfully toward Qinggang City.
In his hand, the lines on the instrument were already fluctuating violently, forming one sharp angle after another.
The big-headed boy beside him tilted his head and looked at the man in the red suit, puzzled. "That's a strange thing to say. Can puppets just get lost? Could it be because the distance is too great and they've gone beyond your range of control?"
"No!"
The man in the red suit shook his head. "A range of ten kilometers is something I confirmed through repeated testing."
Qin Ran remained impassive and asked softly, "Before the connection was severed, did you see anything?"
The man in the red suit thought silently for a while before saying, "Before I enter a puppet's body, its different brain structure and degree of