Jing Hongchen's attention had been successfully diverted.
The warehouse was quieter than ever.
On the surface, everyone had been driven to distraction by the trash project known as "improvements to shell-polishing techniques." Even Fan Yu shut himself in the laboratory all day, fiddling with the "multiphase energy output" sketch Huo Yuhao had drawn, muttering to himself all the while.
But in the shadows, an invisible net was expanding wildly, taking advantage of this brief respite!
"Sir."
A black shadow appeared behind Huo Yuhao like a ghost, none other than Lin Feng, a core member of the "Ghost" squad.
He handed over a secret report treated with special chemicals.
"A tracking list from Mingde Hall's internal security department. Our people risked their lives to obtain partial copies."
Huo Yuhao took it and unfolded it.
The names listed were varied—defected researchers, spies from hostile forces... But his finger suddenly stopped over two names.
[Third Princess of the Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Ling'er.]
[Envoy dispatched by the Star Dou Great Forest, Lin Feng.]
Boom!
It was as though thunder had exploded in Huo Yuhao's mind!
He knew those two names all too well!
Weren't they the very people he had rescued from that bunch of madmen from the Light of Truth on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest?
So they had been under surveillance all along!
"Where are they now?" Huo Yuhao's voice was icy, carrying suppressed killing intent.
"Unknown." Lin Feng shook his head. "Their files are classified at an extremely high level. Our people only intercepted one vague order: 'Capture them alive at all costs.'"
Capture them alive?
Huo Yuhao clenched the paper tightly, his knuckles whitening from the force.
This was no longer a simple manhunt.
"Pass down the order." Huo Yuhao's voice carried not a trace of