Dreams were beautiful; reality was brutal.
Although Miss Amau wanted to find people from the Void Realm Church to help rescue Beigong Ling, even the Alt Conglomerate had failed to locate their hideout after searching for so long, let alone her.
So even if she wanted to rescue Beigong Ling, she would have to plan carefully... at the very least, she needed to return to the Star of Dawn's headquarters and gather people before considering a breakout.
The Alt Conglomerate's security network was extremely difficult to breach... even if she actually found the Void Realm Church's hideout and they were willing to offer her some assistance, the preparations would still take months at a minimum.
Could Beigong Ling hold out that long?
Bitterness welled up inside Amau Sueko. She could not even muster any anger. Whenever she thought of Beigong Ling suffering every imaginable humiliation at Jonas's hands, she wished she had been the one taken captive instead.
Putting those thoughts aside, Amau Sueko lowered her head, trying not to let anyone else see her tangled emotions.
The girl's figure disappeared into an alley in the Slums.
Meanwhile, at the Alt Conglomerate.
With Jonas personally involved, the mission to capture Miss Beigong Ling had concluded successfully.
Although quite a few unexpected incidents had occurred during the operation, the outcome was still good.
Beigong Ling had been successfully captured, and Amau Sueko had escaped because he had deliberately let her go... it seemed to prove exactly what Jonas had told Beigong Ling earlier.
I'll show you the price of breaking our agreement.
Of course, that price seemed to have come due a little too quickly for Miss Beigong Ling.
Perhaps this was a perfect example of the saying, "No grudge lasts overnight in District 25"?
As order gradually collapsed, District