The tremendous commotion of the spacecraft taking off also drew quite a few metro station residents and Frontline Band members.
"Why'd they fly off?"
"No idea—they were still building the camp this morning."
"Bastards. Aren't they afraid of drawing the Sky Patrollers here?"
"The question is, where can they even go? The spacecraft can't fly out of Jiangcheng's territory—"
Confused and doubtful discussions rose one after another.
Chen Xuan's heart sank to the bottom.
The Organization's response had been far too fast. By the timing, even if they had noticed something had happened to Rin, they should never have had time to verify it.
"The One-Way Inspection Mechanism." Lin Qing suddenly said in a low voice. "Something must have gone wrong with the one-way inspection!"
"What's that?"
"It's a communication check conducted by one side without the other side's knowledge. It might be a message automatically sent at intervals, or a connection established through an ability—" she explained quickly. "It's meant to guard against traitors and keep units from being picked off one by one. The Resistance Army's special task squads used similar technology too."
Was it because Rin had not known she was being inspected one-way that she had failed to notice?
No—even if Rin had known about it, it would not have been stored among her important memories. Faced with an instant flood of enormous amounts of information, it was perfectly normal that she had failed to notice such a minor detail.
What surprised Chen Xuan most was that the Organization had not even tried to rescue Rin.
What if she was still alive, merely gravely wounded?
Or what if the inspection mechanism had simply made an error?
They had not even checked whether the information was trustworthy before abandoning their teammate and relocating?
"Swift, you're all here."