That was what they said, but the morale boost this time was still nowhere near as effective as it had been on the battlefield. Apart from his cheap little junior niece, nobody seemed particularly enthusiastic.
After all, this was only a 150-square-meter suite. The bathroom, the only place outside the surveillance cameras' view, was less than 20 square meters. They had already searched every inch of the place more than a hundred times.
In fact, it wasn't just Colonel Buparo, who had already fallen in battle. Once the fighting had calmed down, Thea had arrived at the scene immediately and conducted a thorough inspection. She had used every occult method she knew, and even called in her cousin and people from the Engineers' Guild.
"Oh, right. Little Bai was there too. What use could that kid possibly have been?" Yu Lian asked curiously.
"I drew a ripple-detection array here. It needed an assistant to activate it," Thea said. "He was at least a proper awakened psychic, even if his 'Wisdom' was useless. He could still help me out."
"Wisdom" was useless? If Miss Bei were here, you wouldn't even get the chance to organize your thoughts.
"So what did the Engineers' Guild have to do with this?"
"I wanted them to check whether the gravity-field disruptor around this room had been breached, or if there were any signs it had been shut down deliberately," Thea said.
Yu Lian paused, then praised her with the air of an old hand. "You've got a clear head! Good, very good. You're a quick learner!"
Miss Thea felt he'd gotten a lot of mileage out of that remark at her expense. But when she thought about it, he really was a generation older than she was. That left her so exasperated she could only