Nothing dangerous happened, just the gray and light orange fog separated into six streams, all of which slowly went into the six lanterns above. Then they seemed to form into thin streams of energy and flowed from the lanterns upwards through the chains that attached them to the ceiling.
The array on the ceiling lit up in a gentle silvery light, then Caroline could feel that the streams of energy flowed through some hidden pipes or tubes buried inside the walls into the six bodies embedded in the walls.
"The energy went into the bodies." Caroline stood up and said: "Watch out."
But it turned out there was nothing to watch out for, the six streams of energy were condensed, lightly purified as they traveled through the meridians of the six bodies and were turned into six tiny energy balls. The energy balls were then released into the air through the bodies' mouths and flew directly at the metal mirror at the center of the ceiling. And to Caroline's relief, even when condensed, the balls of energy still contained enough of her energy from the tracing spell that allowed her to continue to feel their presence and location.
"Nice, I think we're on." Caroline nodded at Agent Hall: "Prepare to go."
When the metal mirror absorbed the energy balls, the energy of one of them broke down and was dispersed into the walls of the room, while the energy of others merged together, forming into a single blob. The next moment, Caroline felt that her connection to her energy was greatly weakened, it was as if the energy was suddenly moved into a distance place, or -
"It's dumped into some kind of space magic tunnel." Caroline figured it out almost at an instant: "And it's moving - come on! Follow me or I'm gonna lose track of it!"
All three of them rushed outside of the room, the entire underground site and towards an official-looking black jeep with black paint, big wheels and the engine running and an agent at the driver's seat.
"Drive forward! Oh, then turn left!" Caroline jumped into the passenger seat and yelled.
The agent immediately jammed his foot against the gas pedal, the black jeep jumped from where it was parked and onto the road. Then with a violent turn of the steering wheel, the jeep made a hard left turn, almost tossing Thomas and Agent Hall out of the back window.
"You'll have to excuse Agent Beckman and his driving here, he's new and excited to get into any action." When the jeep stabilized, Agent Hall pulled himself from Thomas' left shoulder and said: "Try to not bump into other cars and make us lose track, huh?"
"Okay, right turn!" Caroline did not respond to Agent Hall's snark, and just pointed at the direction where she felt the presence of her energy.
"Where is it? Where is this energy line?" Thomas noticed that Caroline was constantly looking up, so he decided to ask.
"It's actually up there - around the height of a telephone pole." Caroline pointed outside the window: "I don't know what it is - I can't see through it, but it's definitely some kind of energy tunnel."
"Space magic you say?" Agent Beckman giggled as he swirled through the stream of traffic: "Oh my!"
"Eyes on the road Beckman!" Agent Hall checked his guns and his watch with a wireless radio embedded: "I've notified the other teams nearby, and they should be able to back us up soon. Our team dispatch will try to contact Ms. Wong's core team - Master Nameless, Master Blue, Ms. Pei … whoever, they should be here with us any minute."
Caroline looked back and exchanged looks with Thomas, then she threw Thomas her phone: "Call Jason, it's a blessed line."
"What's the code?" Thomas was faced with the smart phone unlock screen, and he just instantly tried the first number he could think of: "Okay, nevermind, I'm in."
"Birthday? Those are super unsecure lock codes though, just barely more secure than only ones or zeroes." Agent Beckman chuckled: "Okay, which direction next?"
"Just keep going - it appears to be going straight." Caroline smiled and shook her head.
"Hi, Jason! … Yeah, sorry it's Thomas, Caroline's busy, we need your help… okay, glad to hear you're okay, I'll share with you our location… We're still on the move, but just head to our current location and we will send you an updated location when we're there… yes it's probably gonna be battle related … no, please don't get SJPD involved, it's above their pay grade … Alright, thank you!"
The black jeep kept straight as Caroline commended, and for around five to six minutes there was no change of route. And it seemed that while driving, Agent Beckman was also operating some kind of device with his left hand. And along the way, the sky was getting darker and darker - due to the thicker and thicker cloud that was gathering in the sky. And from a distance, they could see a giant pillar of dark cloud slowly being formed and rotating in the high air.
"What - what's that?" Thomas asked: "It's a bit dangerous while driving isn't it?"
"It's that or we have to run into red lights. I don't know about you, but it kinda slows me down!" Agent Beckman laughed out loud: "Too bad this thing only has a limited range."
"If we continue straight ahead - there's a restaurant named 'Ouyang's Cafe'." Agent Hall checked his phone and said: "Oh god, please let it not be."
"It's slowing down." Caroline said: "Slow down a bit, we don't wanna crash right into its destination. Agent Hall, how's that back up coming along?"
"No responses yet." Agent Hall shook his head.
"Crack!" An extremely bright thunder exploded from the dark pillar of cloud, and after around ten seconds, the still loud sound reached their car.
"Jason just texted saying they're closing in on us." Thomas told Caroline.
"Tell him to be discreet when approaching us."