Time rewound to four hours earlier.
Bodun put on his virtual reality glasses and entered the Superconducting World, while Twenty-Nine dragged him deeper into the woods by the river as if hauling a corpse.
Twenty-Nine pulled a thin sheet of special tin foil from his pocket and covered them both with it as they waited quietly. Before long, the airship overhead swept past at high speed, seemingly following the river downstream in search of clues.
Old Eleven had already realized what had happened. He knew his disciple Twenty-Nine had gone rogue and let Bodun go!
Old Eleven sat in the command room in a panic, none of his former carefree frivolity remaining.
If Big Brother found out that he had carelessly let Bodun escape while having fun, and that Bodun had even managed to warn the Fifth Princess in time, he would be finished.
And it was not merely pressure from the Duke of Silver. Old Eleven also understood Qing Chen's importance. He wanted to live a few more years himself.
Yet he had failed to find any trace of Twenty-Nine or Bodun, not even with life detection. There were only two possibilities: either they had died in the river, or they had come thoroughly prepared.
Old Eleven looked at his subordinate. "Go! Check the camouflage cloth inventory. See if any is missing!" The subordinate soon returned. "Marquis, two packs are missing."
Old Eleven immediately sneered. "They really came prepared. I never expected I had raised a wolf cub! Lower our altitude and send people to find them!"
Special camouflage cloth could reflect electromagnetic signals and interfere with life detection. In this situation, they had no choice but to search manually.
In the woods, Twenty-Nine saw Airship No. 11 actually turn back, now only a few hundred meters away. He