"Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock..."
When that achingly familiar sound of machinery suddenly rang in Han Su's ears, his body went numb.
The sound of a Mechanical Fragment starting up.
How could he hear a Mechanical Fragment starting up here, too?
He instinctively looked at his Briefcase, thinking he might have accidentally triggered it just now. But he quickly realized that activating a Mechanical Fragment required absolute concentration. It couldn't have been triggered by accident.
Besides, the sound of machinery this time wasn't coming from the Briefcase. It was appearing across the entire Bai La Mountain region, affecting every living thing there through the field.
He immediately strode toward the door and looked outside.
Once Mental Activity was stimulated to its utmost, one could just barely make out a strand of mental energy stretching from the central square of Bai La Mountain Town, at the heart of the Bai La Mountain region, toward some mysterious, remote place.
Normally, mental power could hardly work across such a long distance. It required an impossibly high level of Mental Activity.
Yet now, a single strand of mental energy had connected this region to that mysterious source, like a guide rope, transmitting the source's properties into the field around Bai La Mountain.
So this was a Mysterious Power that crossed space?
Was its source the location of the third Mechanical Fragment that Wei Lan was searching for?
At that very moment, as Han Su's thoughts briefly wandered, Wei Lan was high above an unfamiliar city thousands of miles away.
On this return, she hadn't paid much attention to the affairs in Azure Harbor. Instead, she had accepted the most important task Han Su had given her: to follow the five coordinates he'd provided earlier and search for clues about the remaining five Mechanical Fragments.
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