Guan Liang left the Alchemy Commission and retraced his steps home, just one street away from the Marshal's residence.
What he needed most now was to deal with the two loose ends: the Jade Abacus and the Neutron Gun.
Once the Thanksgiving Festival was over, they would release the obituary.
Before that, the Xianzhou would enter its highest state of combat readiness and summon all the generals to Xuling to inform them of the Marshal's death in person.
They would use the will the Marshal had left behind to soothe everyone's emotions.
Then came the unavoidable step-investigating the truth behind the Marshal's death.
When that time came, they would surely follow the location data displayed by the Marshal's Jade Abacus and the Neutron Gun to the place where she had finally disappeared.
And therein lay the problem: Guan Liang had the Jade Abacus, while the Neutron Gun's whereabouts were unknown.
Combined with the Reignbow Arbiter's account and the Aeon of Preservation's sudden hammer strike...
The answer was obvious.
By some unknown means, the Marshal had crossed the Subspace Crystal Wall, a creation of an Aeon, and reached a place inaccessible to humans, where she had ultimately died.
Guan Liang could not help sighing.
As expected of the Marshal-she really knew how to get around! She had certainly left him a difficult problem!
The only Aeon he could contact was Lan, and judging by his attitude... the place where the Marshal had died must have been extraordinarily unusual.
Even if the Xianzhou blasted open the Subspace Crystal Wall, severed all ties with the Interastral Peace Corporation, and crossed that Aeon-made barrier to search for the Marshal, they would probably only be throwing their lives away.
The Marshal would never have wanted her subordinates to die for her.
Guan Liang dug out