Feng Ling looked around. "Is everyone ready? Did we bring everything?"
Pei Xianjue held the Metal Box containing the ashes in her arms and nodded. "We're ready."
Baozi and Huangfu Miaomiao nodded as well.
Cat Spider and Cat Owl crouched quietly on the ground.
Seeing that no one objected, Li Qing opened the Virtual Screen and began shutting down the Maze.
Feng Ling suddenly thought of something: If the Maze shut down, would Li Qing go offline?
According to what he had said before, of the 122 Administrators, one-third had already been killed. Some of the rest had gone offline because their Mazes were breached, while others had hidden in this world and continued carrying out their duties as Administrators.
Now that Sanqing Mountain's Maze had been breached, would Li Qing, as an Administrator, go offline?
Just then, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled across the sky!
Rumble—
The heavy rain turned into a downpour!
Everyone was startled, and Cat Spider and Cat Owl grew restless.
"What's going on?" Pei Xianjue could not help looking at Li Qing. "What was that?"
Li Qing put away the Virtual Screen and slowly replied, "It's just... normal thunder. We're already out."
Feng Ling took out her phone and glanced at it. "There's signal now."
The moment the signal returned, she received several messages in quick succession, all from Su Yuqing and Zhou Diao.
Pei Xianjue received a flood of messages as well. Before she could reply to them one by one, she immediately called Captain Shen at the Yuquan City Branch.
As soon as the call connected, Pei Xianjue eagerly delivered the good news. "Captain Shen! We breached the Maze! There will never be a Maze on Sanqing Mountain again!!!"
With thunder and rain crashing around them, Pei Xianjue was afraid the person on