Adventurer Paradise Park's central monitoring room.
The images of people were constantly changing on hundreds of monitoring screens but Lorraine and Ye Jie were nowhere to be found.
"Virus" Zi Yan stared at the program code that rapidly skipped over on the screen. His fingers flew like flying, taping on the keyboard.
Chen Sha said to Zi Yan, "I'll go finding. If you have news from your side, notify me immediately."
Just as Chen Sha left, Consul took large steps striding in.
Consul took Lorraine's personal terminal that had been retrieved from an empty transmission pod to check and found that there was no damage, possibly was not forcibly removed, "Is it possible that princess has left the park?"
Zi Yan said: "Impossible! Chen Sha immediately commanded to activate emergency procedure as soon as he knew and all exits were closed. Lorraine must be still inside."
The staff immediately called up the information of the remaining sixty ecospheres. Consul's eyes swept down one by one, considering and excluding them.
Finally, there were only two ecospheres left on the screen, Alicata Yilar mountain range simulated ecosphere and Big Twin Moon Rock forest simulated ecosphere.
Zi Yan raised his head and glanced while he was busy with programming, immediately understood why Consul kept these two places. Both were related to Qian Xu and both had special meaning to Lorraine.
Consul commanded: "Monitor!"
Hundreds monitoring screens were switched to real-time monitor of Yilar mountain range ecosphere and Rock Forest ecosphere. Everything was calm and normal. There was nothing unusual.
Consul ordered: "Zi Yan, analyzes these two ecosystems intellectual brains."
"It can only be analyzed one at a time, Yilar mountain range and Rock Forest. Which one to check first? I must remind you that each minute wasted, the possibility of Lorraine's death is increasing. "
Consul closed his eyes. After a short while, he opened his eyes and said coldly, "Rock Forest."
As the densely packed program codes on the screen kept changing, Zi Yan's face became more and more ugly. What they saw was the monitoring video from previous day.
"Restart!" Zi Yan hit confirm button, "Success!"
However, hundred screens were flickering with blackish light and still couldn't see anything.
Consul said nothing and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Zi Yan suddenly realized something and commanded intellectual brain to enlarge the image on the screen to find that it was not program malfunction but that the sky was covered by sandstorm and blacked out the video.
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Six days later
The hospital ward
Lorraine felt that she had had a very long dream.
In her dream, she was in a pitch-black wasteland with gusty winds, very much like a dream she had been dreaming all these past years and always didn't come to an end.
But this time was different. She was not trekking by herself, but someone carried her through the storm.
The person hid her deep in his embrace as if cherishing a pearl with tender warmth, keeping the entire sandstorm out of the solid clamshell.
Who was it? Who was trekking with her in the dark?
Lorraine wanted to speak, but couldn't utter a voice. She wanted to look at him, but she couldn't open her eyes at all.
Her hands quivering fumbled. When she seemed to have touched something, she felt inexplicably relieved.
Qian Xu, Qian Xu...
"Qian Xu!"
Lorraine suddenly opened her eyes, but there was still darkness in front of her and couldn't see anything.
Chen Sha caught her hand and soothed, "Your goggles were shattered by stone and hurt your eyes. You can't see for the time being."
Lorraine wondered in a daze. Was she really dreaming? But the feeling at her fingertips was too real!
Chen Sha said, "Don't worry. Chu Mo had helped you fixed it. It will be restored soon."
"I'm not worried." Lorraine raised her head and asked, "Chen Sha, can I touch your neck?"
Chen Sha was stunned.
Lorraine begged eagerly: "Let me touch. You just think as a doctor checking your body."
Chen Sha held Lorraine's hand in silence and placed them on his neck.
Lorraine concentrated and carefully stroke from his chin to his collarbone.
In the dream, she touched the neck of the person holding her and knew it was Qian Xu. She really wanted to open her eyes.
However, the feeling at her fingertips now clearly told her that this was not. Definitely not!
Lorraine withdrew her hand sadly. Such a realistic sensation could only be a dream.
Chen Sha got ahold of himself and asked, "Lorraine, what was going on with you and Ye Jie?"
Lorraine did not answer and asked in reply : "Is Ye Jie still alive?"
"Still alive. He was on their spaceship, treated by Al Empire doctors. I heard that he was seriously injured."
Lorraine said slowly, "Aren't you the one telling me that if I have any vengeance and want to fight then just fight? Before I had some ties with Ye Jie, now that I have good strength, I want to return revenge so I found a place where no one bothered to fight. He killed a Rockwind beast and storm strangely abruptly blew up."
"What tie?"
Lorraine hid under the sheet and pulled it up to cover her head.
"You…" Chen Sha said, "I want to say you have a good rest. Consul has already ordered not to investigate anymore."
Lorraine still said nothing.
"The person who saved you this time was Consul."
Lorraine suddenly lifted the sheet over, "Not you? Why not you? I thought it was you."
"I was deceived by your little trick to go to other ecosphere. When I rushed to rock forest, Consul had already rescued you." Chen Sha rubbed Lorraine's head comfortingly, "I know you don't want to see Consul, but he did save you this time."