Orange Star's search force was enormous. After all, it was an army of robots equipped with all sorts of tools, including high-altitude photography, communications-record big data, radio tracking, thermal imagers...
All that equipment was deployed alongside a robot army that blanketed the land.
With Mech City at its center, the search radiated outward, combing every unmonitored stretch of wilderness.
At the Scientific Research General Institute.
Li Shen stayed in the temporary command room, poring over reports from various regions every day.
Every report made him frown.
Li Shen no longer had the mental energy to deal with the virtual game "World" or the people in reality who had already been identified as believers.
Capturing Liu Siting had become his obsession.
It was as though that strange headache would never stop unless he caught her.
"Damn it..."
Li Shen's vision swam, and his head began to hurt again.
He seemed to hear Liu Siting's deranged words in his ears.
Chaotic, disorderly, maddening.
Sweat covered his head, veins bulged across his forehead, and his fists clenched.
Seeing this, the secretary beside him hurriedly supported Researcher Li Shen's right hand and patted his back. "Are you all right, sir? Sit down and rest. Don't push yourself so hard."
Li Shen's head spun. His colleague's comforting voice seemed to change in his ears, becoming quieter and deeper, stripped of its higher tones and more penetrating. It echoed inside his head, sounding like an animal's cry one moment and something else the next.
After a while, his auditory hallucinations finally ended, and the splitting headache receded like the tide.
"I'm fine."
He shook his head.
"How can you be fine? Your back is soaked."
"Is it?"
Li Shen instinctively reached around to touch his back and felt wetness.
It was his sweat.
Li Shen sat