On the Hill on the Other Island…
Haines, Lester, and a few men they brought along worked virtually with Yugi. Thanks to Lester’s expertise, they were able to reestablish munication with the Prime Group. And with the Phantom Circle’s equipment, they sent out drones to the other island to assess the situation.
“That—” Haines almost bit his tongue as his eyes dilated, pausing for a second. “I see her.”
As soon as those words escaped him, everyone paused and turned to him. Even Wild, who was by the entrance talking to one of his men, stopped.
Wild turned his head to Haines and asked, “Who?”
Slowly, Haines looked up and met his eyes. “Penny.”
The moment that name left his mouth, Wild walked back and settled behind Haines. At the same time, Haines transferred the drone feed he was controlling to the other devices for everyone to see.
Haines’s screen appeared for everyone, revealing a truck riding in the middle of the road. Zooming in, Penny was seen in the back of the truck with a few people. All the men saw her face as she seemed to be talking to the others, and they heaved a sigh of relief.
“She’s fine,” Lester patted his chest, almost in tears, as he had heard about Penny’s aircraft blowing up.
Although they had already regained munication with Charles, and he told them his daughter seemed fine, they couldn’t truly heave a sigh of relief until they saw her.
“Move close to her,” Wild said, knowing the drone was too far for Penny to see.
With that, Wild moved the drone and lowered it, hoping Penny would catch it. After all, the truck was moving fast.
Sure enough, after a second, the men with Penny looked up. Penny paused and also gazed up, narrowing her eyes at the drone approaching them from above.
The men with her spoke and held their rifles, with one preparing to shoot. But then Penny raised a hand to stop him. Instead, she raised a device and pointed at it.
“What does that mean?” Lester wondered aloud while Haines and Wild simply studied her gesture.
“She’s pointing at her device…” Wild repeated under his breath, thinking.
“Send the feed to Yugi,” Haines blurted out, moving the drone up and down to make it look like it was nodding.
Lester nodded upon hearing Haines and then quickly municated with Yugi. Lester’s only way to municate at the moment was through chatting, letting Yugi have access to his device so Yugi could provide them with necessary assistance.
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[Prime Group]
Yugi and the rest heaved a collective sigh of relief the moment a feed from their drones appeared on the big screen in the front. They thought Penny was fine until they received a report that the aircraft she was in had blown up.
Yugi almost fainted if not for Teddy.
But seeing her now felt like a huge weight being lifted.
“I knew it!” one of the employees threw his hands up. “That’s Miss Penny for you!”
“’Blew up my ass!’ As if she’s gonna let that happen!”
“She’s T.Mouse for a reason,” another cheered, even though being T.Mouse had nothing to do with the current situation.
Yugi smiled as he glanced at everyone, whose morale had been restored. Previously, things were ten times more chaotic because they lost contact with everyone. Thankfully, Wild took Lester, and they were able to restore munication.
After all, Prime Group’s help was mostly for support.
“Everyone, focus!” Yugi clapped, watching the feed as Lester’s chat box appeared on the screen.
At the same time, the feed replayed Penny’s gesture (pointing at a broken device). Yugi, who had been with Penny day and night since they started Prime Group, nodded in understanding.
“It seems her ms are broken and not restored,” Yugi interpreted her gesture as that. “However, try to track her exact location so we can municate with others on where to expect her.”
He paused and raised his chin. “And also, straight to the big white house.”
“Yes, sir!”
With that, everyone started working aggressively, their fingers tapping on the keyboards nonstop. Some placed their headsets on, speaking through the teles for more assistance from other departments.
While everyone was working, Teddy quietly approached Yugi. The latter turned to him, nodding. Teddy looked like he had been sent to hell and back a few times, which was not surprising. This guy was the one who found Penny being abducted, was in the chase, and was even present when they got her away.
“I still can’t tell you for sure, but it seemed…” Yugi trailed off as he turned his head to the big screen before them. The feed ing from Lester briefly caught the driver of the truck, Shawn. “She and Shawn managed to straighten things out.”
He then snapped his eyes back to him. “Even so, that doesn’t mean he’s not going to be punished once this is all over. I’ll make sure of that—even if Penny says otherwise.”
Teddy kept his lips drawn into a thin line and nodded in understanding.
Silence fell upon them as they both set their eyes on the screen until multiple feeds played on it as well. After all, there were a few drones sent to the island, which were now being controlled by Wild’s team.
“Mint’s team and a few of Hugo’s men managed to regroup,” Yugi mumbled, watching as their large group was now cramming into a few trucks with a drone leading them to another vehicle they could all use.
Another feed showed Charles’ team with a small group of the Phantom Circle (those who parted from the main group to land at their original docking point, only to get ambushed, but managed to survive), stationed near the woods that surrounded the mansion.
Many from Charles’ group were no longer in the area, which led everyone to assume they were already crawling their way through the mansion.
Yugi then moved to another feed, which showed a zoomed-out video of Zoren’s trucks making their way straight to the mansion.
“That’s very risky…” Yugi muttered, shaking his head. “Ah, god.”
It wasn’t like he wasn’t aware, but the possibility that Nathalie’s forces would start opening fire at them was high. Yet, Zoren’s team was making this bold move.
Yugi then blurted, “Teddy, your father is quite cool, huh?”
“Huh?” Teddy furrowed his brows, looking at Yugi in confusion. “Fa…ther?”
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