Luofu Research Institute.
Zandar had no interest in reading the data before him. His gaze kept drifting toward Matthias beside him.
A few System Hours earlier, the location signal from Eric's Jade Abacus had suddenly vanished from the Luofu.
Matthias was beside himself.
Yet he could not ask the other Xianzhou higher-ups to verify what had happened.
The moment he asked, they would turn the question back on Matthias:
"Why do you have that gentleman's location? Does he know about this?"
When the way you learned a secret was itself a secret, all you could do was remain silent.
Matthias thought Eric knew nothing about it.
He lived in trepidation, terrified that his secret would come out one day and the father he revered would reprimand him.
His constantly frayed nerves had made him overlook certain details.
For instance, why Eric had never replaced his Jade Abacus.
Or why Eric always posted pictures and updates about his daily life whenever he traveled.
He was simply reassuring his subordinates.
He had long since tacitly accepted their increasingly intrusive behavior.
Zandar watched Matthias.
The young man looked worried and kept refreshing the page on his screen.
The scholar turned his gaze back.
Before him lay a data report that had been sitting there for who knew how long.
Zandar suddenly realized that he was no different from Matthias or his student's other subordinates.
They all suffered from severe separation anxiety.
As he was thinking this, Matthias suddenly let out a long breath.
Zandar looked toward the sound.
The young man's brow had relaxed, and delight spread across his face.
The scholar understood.
His student was back.
He took out the Long-Range Remote Sensor and invited his student and Jingliu to join him for dinner.
Eric did not reply immediately.
Only after a