After another move, the two landed on a rocky islet.
Bai Zhu's feet slipped, and he quickly crouched down, bracing himself against a protruding rock beside him.
"Let's rest! Let's rest! I can't go on!"
Ging had no intention of urging Bai Zhu. After a whole night of such ultra-long-distance movement, he needed a break too.
The joint fleet blockading the Caspian Sea was already faintly visible ahead. Searchlights swept back and forth across the waves, warships were arranged in several layers, and two patrol boats carrying Nen users were stationed in the middle of the channel.
Farther out, vast thunderclouds pressed down over the sea, lightning flickering through them.
Ging took a folded list from his inner pocket and used the passing searchlight beams to check the names one by one.
Bai Zhu squatted beside him and caught his breath for a few moments.
"Can't you look at it after we get back? Doesn't reading it now strain your eyes?"
"Once we get back, we'll have to start investigating. Better divide them up beforehand and save time."
Ging spread the list over his knee and marked several names with a pencil.
The four people responsible for transporting contaminated samples were grouped together.
The three involved in cultivating Nen Beast embryos were circled separately.
The remaining two were listed under a Kakin Royal Family bloodline research project. Their records were spotless, but the source of their funding over the past three years had passed through several layers before ultimately flowing into a fund controlled by the Association vice chairman's office.
Ging drew a line beneath each of those two names.
"Find them first."
"How are you planning to find them?"
"Follow them."
"What if we're discovered?"
"Knock them out, then ask questions."
Bai Zhu looked up at him.
"Isn't your