However, when they climbed down the emergency stairs to the first floor, Guagua was nowhere to be seen.
One corner of the mall had collapsed, clearly where the monster had stepped earlier. The entrance was a complete mess, with fallen beams and concrete slabs even blocking the main doors.
Although it did not prevent them from getting in or out, Honglian and the others all looked visibly disappointed. No one had expected to lose a "teammate" less than an hour after arriving in the future.
"While we were running, I remember it was still following behind us..." Xiao Jiu said guiltily. "If only I'd kept a closer eye on it."
"Don't take it too hard. Maybe it had been waiting for a chance to be free, and that moment just happened to come." Liu Li was the least concerned of them all. "No matter how smart it is, it's still a dinosaur."
Though her words sounded cold, they somehow lifted the spirits of the Honglian Team.
When Wang Baihu had raised it, it had never lacked food or shelter, but it had spent most of its time unable to leave that estate. This world might be fraught with danger, but no wall would ever stop it again.
"Can you sense where it is?" Honglian asked Chen Xuan.
Chen Xuan shook his head. Within the range of the Mind Method, he could not sense any Spiritual Energy signatures besides theirs. And since he had not registered Guagua as a guest, he had no way to contact it. "We can go back to where we fought the Nano-Lifeform. If we don't find Guagua along the way, then at least it means it wasn't killed by that four-legged monster. That's as far as we can search."
The implication was that they did not