"Did you see the others when you left? Why didn't they follow you?"
As they waited, Chen Lin glanced over the scattered figures before finally resting his gaze on Tan Lingyu and asking.
Tan Lingyu looked bewildered and uneasy as she recalled, "Captain, after you gave the order, I didn't know what had happened, but I didn't dare delay. I immediately used an escapist technique to leave. I did keep an eye on the others, though. Some set off with me, but others seemed possessed. It was as if they hadn't heard your order at all. Not only did they not follow us, they charged into Crystal Immortal City instead!"
Chen Lin's expression changed at once.
Those team members must have failed to leave because his axe strike hadn't been powerful enough to sever everyone's red lines. The people here had been closer to him at the time, giving them an advantage.
That alone wasn't much of a problem.
But those team members had actually entered Crystal City. Rescuing them now would be difficult.
What puzzled Chen Lin even more was why that enormous monstrosity had entrenched itself here. It had probably released more than ten thousand red lines, perhaps even more. Yet there was no one inside the city. What were those red lines connected to?
After pondering for a while without finding an answer, he stopped dwelling on it. Instead, he led everyone off the mountaintop to another secluded location to continue waiting for orders from command.
They waited for nearly an hour.
Chen Lin felt something was wrong. Command couldn't possibly take this long to respond to a report concerning the battlefield. Either something had happened to the person responsible for the Transmission Talismans, or something had happened inside the city.
He immediately sent a message to