Shadow Slave

Chapter 889

The Awakened warrior was simply gone. The whole facility was swept, both by the soldiers of the garrison and Sunny's shadows, but no trace of him were found. Verne even made the decision to unseal the dome of the old observatory. However, there was nothing but old equipment, darkness, and dust inside.

Sunny then sent his shadows to scour the coastal plain outside the fortress, hoping to discover a clue. He did not.

A sense of unease and foreboding spread through the isolated fortress.

As people were crowding together to alleviate this tension, Sunny, Verne, and Professor Obel gathered in the security center to have an emergency discussion. However, none of them

seemed too eager to speak first.

They simply had nothing to say.

Eventually, Sunny rubbed his face with a sigh.

"Well, there are only three possibilities, right?"

Verne looked at him darkly.

"And they are?"

Sunny hesitated for a moment.

"First... he might have really deserted."

The stern Master simply shook his head. There was no hostility or defensiveness in this gesture, since Verne was not the type of leader to be insecure about his people or himself. He did not have the kind of fragile pride that would make the statement sound offensive.

"That is improbable. I know this Awakened very well. He was... is a stalwart man."

moved on with

best outcome. The other two possibilities

appeared

whatever reason, by another person stationed at LO49. The killer subsequently disposed of the body and removed the signs of

out a heavy

you don't think that

looked at him with a somber

step away from turning into monsters. With how much pressure Antarctica exerts on people... many will inevitably start to break. In any case,

lips, but

about the

lingered for a few

we failed to find any traces at all... it has to be either very powerful, very elusive, or both. Since I am the best scout among us, investigating

for a

However, what happens if neither

His eyes were

with the outside, it will reach us in four days at the earliest, and in eleven at

persistent noise of the Call kept scratching, pressing, seeping

eyes

what

***

day. He had little hope of finding

he had

inside the facility had already been tense and exhausted, but with a new, unknown threat looming somewhere just out of sight, their moods grew even more bleak and unstable. Most held up fine, for

about hope and how

the search went on, new safety protocols went in effect. Mundane humans were prohibited from remaining

quarters were fitted with additional sensors and alarm locks, Awakened were supplied with powerful stimulants to

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