Shadow Island Vanishes

Since it was a pawn transaction, Lan Mu strongly suspected this was a man-made containment incident.

If it had been a naturally occurring Contained Object outbreak, then logically, the target should have been Shadow Island, and it should have swept him and the island away just now.

Otherwise, if it could pawn off any island at random, why had 001 not secretly manipulated things and taken him in the first transaction?

Even if 001 could not do that, swallowing the world's third-largest island in its first bite was far too precise.

Only if the machine had an owner, someone operating it from behind the scenes who knew nothing of his existence or even Shadow Island's location, could it have pawned off Kalimantan Island so precisely.

That was all Lan Mu could think of. He had no way to search for that Pawn Machine now.

Upon returning to Earth, Lan Mu immediately received Fifu's report.

Clearly, an island with over ten million residents, involving the territorial foundations of three nations, was far too significant an incident. The Blue White Society was shaken.

"Master, I'm very sorry. When the Kalimantan Island incident occurred, my surveillance was being interfered with. I failed to detect it in advance."

Lan Mu asked, "So it really was man-made. Before that person used the Pawn Machine, they blocked you first. This is someone familiar with the Blue White Society..."

Fifu said, "No... not necessarily. I was interfered with by another Contained Object holder."

"Oh?" Lan Mu froze.

Fifu explained, "The day before yesterday, a holder was discovered in Ohio, America. While investigating him, I was infected. My Intelligent Program suffered severe damage and nearly degraded. All the intelligent robots in my surveillance network were destroyed."

"I see. There's another one... which means there may be far more