Tracking Them Down, Capturing Both

Chapter 854: Tracking Them Down, Capturing Both

Director Bao had been in torment these past few days. He had received word that, after the transport train was attacked, losing these "company assets" could bring him an extremely severe punishment.

Being sidelined would be the least of it. He might well be fired and expelled from the company, and that was something he could not accept.

Only when Chen Chuan brought back one of the two did he see some hope of making up for his mistake. Now, the sight of the fallen airship stirred him with excitement.

If they could recover the other one, he could redeem himself. They had also uncovered a mole hiding inside the company, so the outcome would not be too bad.

Once their airship drew closer, the lookout identified the wreck as what appeared to be a Red Sparrow Airship from Longqi Company in Haixi Province.

It was a small craft, fast and well suited to short flights, but poor at handling rain, snow, and high winds. The blizzard two days ago had likely brought it down.

As they gradually descended, more details came into view. The airship seemed to have struck trees during its emergency landing, spilling the contents of its cabin.

Farther away lay the container Yuan An Company had used to hold the person. It was now more than half buried in snow, and its interior was empty.

Chen Chuan studied it from above and judged that, after the container fell out, someone had tried to drag it for some distance.

That had only been possible because the two ancient fighters had returned to normal size by the time Yuan An Company found them. If they had still stood over twenty meters tall, no one could have taken them away.

But the