As night gave way to dawn, everything within Gelman's sight was veiled in a thin, bluish-gray haze, lending the scene a hazy, poetic beauty.
Even the fact that they were on the perilous Dark Continent couldn't diminish its beauty.
"Let's go." Gelman turned to Shizuku and took out the radar again. "We'll find Biscuit and Wing and meet up with them."
Shizuku nodded, her face still as calm and expressionless as ever. Her eyes stayed open the whole time, and it was almost impossible to catch her blinking.
Gelman glanced down at the two blinking dots on the radar, then led Shizuku northwest.
"Biscuit and Wing are probably heading this way too. We should meet them within fifteen minutes," Gelman said.
They walked down the small hill, passed through a dew-covered meadow, and headed toward a hazy outline in the distance, still shrouded in darkness.
Sure enough, fifteen minutes later, Gelman spotted Biscuit and Wing walking toward them.
Biscuit glanced down at the radar as she walked. The moment she saw Gelman and Shizuku with her own eyes, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and waved to them from afar.
The four met beside a massive boulder that rose as high as a two-story building.
"Are you all okay?" Biscuit asked with concern as she came over.
After Gelman and Shizuku both said they were fine, she sighed and put her hands on her hips.
"I was the last one the 'Invisible Hand' grabbed. Until then, I honestly thought you'd all been killed. Thankfully, once I woke up, I realized we'd only been forcibly transported."
"But I couldn't be completely sure until I found Wing with the radar, and then found you two. Only then could I finally relax."
Wing tucked his shirt hem, which had somehow come loose,