Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

This question ultimately remained unanswered because Bai E himself didn't know when he would return if there was nothing wrong.

The convoy was fully prepared under the morning sun, just waiting to depart.

The situation with Lord Pansen was urgent. Even in the entire city, a third-level Spiritual Energy user was considered a significant strategic talent. After communicating with the city, the city's upper echelons decided to have the convoy return immediately.

However, due to the events of the previous night lasting until midnight, and only stabilizing Pansen's condition by the afternoon of the next day, departing then would mean spending the night in the wilderness, which was far less preferable than leaving at dawn the next day and using a whole day to rush back to the city.

So now, it was already the morning of the third day.

The convoy had brought many medical and technical staff as well as relief personnel on the way there. Now, the return trip was a lot emptier, and they had even left behind two vehicles for the use of those who stayed at the base.

Aryan leaned against the doorway, reaching out carefully towards the figure stepping onto the door frame of the vehicle under the sunlight, and whispered goodbye so softly that only those nearby could hear.

"Goodbye~"

"If you're saying goodbye, do it to their face. If you like them, go confess..." A figure in a white lab coat walked past Aryan to a parallel position.

Minister Eric, with his arms crossed, looked at the convoy making its final preparations and said to the girl beside him, "Why are you young people so hesitant? In this age, we have today but not necessarily tomorrow. Do you really need to wait until a moment's regret becomes an eternal one before you understand regret?"

"...It's none of your business!"

Watching Aryan turn and walk away, Minister Eric squinted his eyes in a daze.

Had his little assistant become temperamental after so many days?

With a snort of laughter, Minister Eric shook his head and stood there, watching everyone get into the vehicles.

He had no plans to return. Last time, he had to be there at the start of rebooting the internet to set the tone for many things. Now that most of the development was on track, it was more beneficial for him and the city to remain in this legacy of the old era to learn more about the technology of the ancients.

"Hum~"

The engine started, and the vehicle trembled slightly.

Bai E glanced at the sickbed fastened at the back through the rear-view mirror in the carriage, as well as the comatose Pansen who was strapped to the bed, took a light breath, and pressed down on the accelerator.

Departure!

Return to the city!

The road through the wilderness was never easy; and now without Pansen's Spiritual Energy barrier, they had to be even more careful.

Watching the bizarre birds startled into flight down the path through the dense jungle, Minister Eric sighed and walked back slowly.

With Lord Pansen in a coma, the affairs of the virtual world were naturally going awry again.

Until the city sent another high-ranking Spiritual Energy user skilled in this field, that little thing that no one had a solution for would probably keep stealing Computing Power Resources from the mainframe cluster.

Although the loss of a small amount of computing power was completely inconsequential to humans at present, the fear was that after absorbing enough Computing Power Resources, this creation borne of electronic demons might undergo some unpredictable changes.

More importantly, since the incident with Lord Pansen, they had not received any alerts of invasions to the mainframe cluster up to this moment.

The unknown was the most unsettling.

As he said, the world was full of unpredictable changes, from day to day.

If there's something you want to do, then just boldly go do it...

"Beep beep beep~" Aryan's call suddenly came through the earpiece, "Minister, headquarters is calling you."

"Oh!" Eric perked up and strode towards the direction of the central control desk.

"Click clack~" The heels of his leather shoes echoed on the smooth marble floor. Eric's voice could be heard even before he drew near, "What are they saying?"

Aryan propped herself on the communications desk with her headphones on, listening to the voice from the receiver and quietly responding with "Hmm" affirmations.

"Hmm~"

"Hmm~"

"No."

"Haven't found anything so far."

As Eric approached, he patted Aryan's shoulder, and she understood his gesture, removing her headphones and stepping aside to let Minister Eric take over, "This is Eric speaking. Go ahead."

"Minister Eric, yesterday's communication was brief, and there are still many details we are unaware of. Today, we would like to clarify with you," the voice said.

"Yes, go ahead."

"Did the incident occur the day before yesterday?"

"The evening of the day before yesterday, at 7:31 PM."

"Since then, have there been any sightings of the target?"

Minister Eric hesitated, exchanging a questioning glance with his assistant who was operating the central control desk, and continued responding into the earpiece, "Currently... there shouldn't be any... "

Knowing his answer would not satisfy the other party, yet Eric didn't dare to make definitive statements, so he quickly followed up with, "There was a long period when we were all concerned about Lord Pansen's health, and no one was watching this area."

With Pansen's incident, the whole base had been in disarray yesterday.

And the central control desk didn't actually require continuous supervision.

Major incidents would trigger an alarm throughout the base; it was only for smaller alerts, like a minor theft of Computing Power Resources from a portion of the mainframe cluster, that one had to stay beside the control desk.

Besides, with Lord Pansen down, even if they did catch the little thief stealing Computing Power Resources again, what could they do?