The out-of-control combat units had been completely eliminated.
All personnel had withdrawn into the shelters, with zero casualties.
Theresa swept her gaze over everyone, her brows tightly knitted.
"Where's Kiana?"
Fu Hua shook her head.
"She wasn't with me."
"I thought she was with you."
Bronya turned to Tesla, urgency in her eyes.
"Doctor, check Kiana's tracking bracelet."
Tesla's fingers flew across the keyboard.
"I already started..."
Her movements suddenly stopped.
The red dot on the screen had vanished.
In its place were two words: signal lost.
Seele leaned over for a look, her face full of confusion.
"An equipment malfunction?"
Tesla jerked her head up, her expression utterly grim.
"Impossible! That's a prototype I calibrated myself!"
"Even if she were deep inside the earth's core, I could still pick up her signal!"
Einstein fell silent for several seconds, then suddenly spoke.
"Unless..."
"She isn't in the dimension we call 'reality' at all right now."
The air instantly froze.
Everyone thought of the possibility they least wanted to face.
But no one dared say it aloud.
They split up again to search every corner of the base.
A few minutes later.
Fu Hua's comm channel connected.
Her voice was somewhat low.
"I searched everywhere. No one."
"But I found this under the pillow in Kiana's room."
The camera zoomed in.
An exquisite doll lay there quietly.
It was palm-sized, its craftsmanship flawless.
Everyone sucked in a sharp breath.
Theresa murmured to herself.
"A doll... how could one appear in Salt Lake Base?"
The answer seemed to be on the tip of their tongues.
But Tesla jumped up as though someone had stepped on her tail.
"Stop! All of you, stop!"
"Don't scare yourselves!"
"Are you trying to say the Herrscher of the Thousand has come back to life? Are you