"We're back!"
Paimon flew ahead, taking the lead, while Lin Ze entered the room a step behind her.
"That's strange. Traveler, Tony isn't here, and neither is Miss Potts."
After making a circuit of the floor, Paimon flew back in confusion.
She spread her hands and guessed helplessly, "Could we have been away so long that Tony and the others moved?"
"How could that be? We've only been gone for... three months..."
Lin Ze checked the date and jumped in surprise.
Looking at it that way, they really had been gone for quite a while. Before returning to the Transmigration Management Bureau, Lin Ze had told Tony in advance that he was taking his friends back to Teyvat for a visit.
At the time, he had worried that without the support of his consciousness energy, the characters might lose the ability to move in this world, so he had deliberately put all of them inside his pot.
Qiqi had been no exception, of course.
The excuse Lin Ze had come up with for Tony was that Qiqi needed to return to Teyvat to continue receiving divine blessings. Tony adored the little girl, and once he heard it was for her health, he finally agreed to Lin Ze's proposal.
Still, that had only worked thanks to Lin Ze's repeated assurances. He had promised Tony they would probably return in ten days or a fortnight and told him not to worry.
He hadn't expected his plans to be overtaken by events.
Upon returning to the Transmigration Management Bureau, Lin Ze had been greeted by a whole series of problems.
He had written three versions of the incident report on the damaged spacetime gate alone. By the time the bureau approved his return to work, he had long since passed the deadline he