Honglian's "Castling" could swap her position with a designated item, while "Shifting Forms, Changing Shadows" could transfer items between each other. As long as she prepared two marked objects in advance, she could instantly escape the battlefield.
What came next was simple.
Chen Xuan activated Shopkeeper Recall.
He even had the leisure to take a few more looks at the Sky Patroller looming close by through the slowed time of the Divine Eye Method.
At that moment, he saw what appeared to be someone gazing back at him from atop one of its enormous steel legs.
Those backlit figures were not corpses hanging from the steel framework. They were clearly living people, and they were even waving at him.
The next moment, Chen Xuan had returned to the familiar Ability Store.
"Did it work?" Xu Xuanling leaned over and asked.
He nodded somewhat absentmindedly.
"Did something happen?" His apprentice noticed his hesitation.
"On the Sky Patroller... I saw several figures," Chen Xuan murmured distractedly. "They were standing beside the steel stairway, watching me the whole time."
"There were people on that thing?" Xu Xuanling said in surprise. "Doesn't it eat people? And with how fast it moves, even if someone were on it, they would've been flung off."
Indeed, when the Sky Patroller took even a small step, those on top of it would be jolted up and down hundreds of meters. Forget standing on it—people tied to it would pass out from the repeated overload and weightlessness.
"Maybe I saw wrong." Chen Xuan covered his forehead and shook his head, temporarily casting aside the lingering image of blinding light in his mind. "Let's go. It's time to collect the goods from the future."
When he returned to the subway station suite, he happened to hear a heavy knocking outside.