However, as long as Han Jingjing escaped, it didn't matter if they were discovered here.
The roles Jiang Yue and Han Jingjing played weren't particularly close in their daily lives. They interacted like ordinary comrades-in-arms, so even if someone noticed a person was missing, there was no way they would suspect Jiang Yue.
Sure enough, when they took attendance that night, Han Jingjing's disappearance immediately caught Scholar Wang Jiang's attention. He activated the emergency measures almost at once and assembled everyone.
After a thorough search, they confirmed that one person was indeed missing.
They searched the base again and again, but couldn't find where the missing person had gone. It was as if he had suddenly vanished from the base.
As for returning to the Underground World? Impossible. The team hadn't ordered a return. Who would dare go back on their own?
And it couldn't be that Surface Humans had infiltrated the base and secretly killed him. How could there have been no sign of a struggle? They hadn't even found a body.
At last, someone discovered a few clues. The missing person didn't seem to have disappeared against his will. It looked more like he had left of his own accord.
That made things rather delicate.
Losing one person wasn't, in itself, unacceptable. But if that person had left on his own, things became complicated.
Who knew whether he was a Surface World spy? Had he left to warn them?
A Fubo Clan expert objected, "There's nothing but water for a thousand miles around here. He'd have to fly or burrow underground. How else could he have left?"
"From what we can tell, he left through the water," Wang Jiang said coldly.
The Fubo Clan expert didn't like the sound of that. "Scholar Wang Jiang, are you questioning our