"No...no...no..."

Estell searched her entire body, almost taking off her pants, but still couldn't find her guerrilla notebook.

"How could this happen? Joshua, have you seen my notebook?"

"Didn't you keep it in your pocket?"

"Yeah, but there's nothing in my pocket... Ugh... Did it fall somewhere?"

Just when Estell was getting anxious, the door of the Guerrilla Association was suddenly pushed open, and then a girl stuck her head in and looked at Estell.

"Ah, you are here after all, Sister Estelle."

"Ling?"

Looking at Ling walking into the Guerrilla Association, Estelle was stunned for a moment, while Ling smiled and stretched out her hand to take out a notebook.

"This is something you dropped, big sister."

"Ah, it's my guerrilla notebook!"

When Estier saw the guerrilla notebook that Ling handed over, she screamed immediately, then she took it and quickly opened it to confirm.

"Yes, it is indeed mine. Thank you, Ling! Thank you so much!"

"You're welcome, but you're too careless, sister. You can't be a guerrilla fighter like this."

Having said that, Ling smiled again, then she lifted her skirt and bowed to everyone.

"Well, I have something else to do, so I'll take my leave now. Hello everyone... Big sister, please don't lose the guerrilla notebook again, okay?"

After saying this, Ling turned and left the Guerrilla Guild, and Estelle also breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's great. Luckily Ling returned my guerrilla notebook, otherwise it would be very troublesome."

"Yeah, yeah..."

Joshua nodded slightly, but didn't know what to say for a moment. He didn't think that Estelle had really lost her guerrilla notebook. Although she was always careless, she wouldn't throw away such an important thing. And since Ling brought it back, it meant that Estelle's notebook disappeared after they met in the tunnel...

Never mind. There's no point in thinking about this now.

"Joshua, what's wrong with you?"

At this moment, Estell, who had taken back her guerrilla notebook, had also finished the registration. She looked at the dazed Joshua and asked curiously, but Joshua shook his head.

"Nothing, let's go find Dr. Russell first."

For Estelle and Joshua, this was just a normal part of their journey.

However, for Ling, this was a very interesting topic of conversation.

"That sister is just like what you said, Fei. She looks stupid and dumb. She didn't even know her guerrilla notebook was missing!"

Sitting in front of the computer with a smile on her face, Ling was narrating about her experience of the day while typing on the keyboard.

"Although that big sister has a pretty good figure, her reaction is too slow. She is really stupid."

"But even so, you shouldn't steal other people's things."

On the other side, Theo verified the data while sighing helplessly.

"If Mr. Fang Zheng knew about this, he would definitely spank you."

"How can that be called stealing? It was clearly the notebook that fell into my hands! Besides, I returned it to her obediently and didn't cause her any trouble."

Hearing this, Boss Ling pouted unhappily.

“Huh…”

Fei, curled up on the sofa, had no intention of joining the conversation between the two. She just rolled lazily on the sofa and yawned.

Soon, at this moment, the sound of unlocking was heard, and then Fang Zheng pushed the door open and walked in.

"Hey, I'm back, what are you doing?"

"Ah, big brother, we are chatting."

As she spoke, Ling quickly winked at Tio, signaling her not to talk too much, but Tio shook her head and said nothing.

"chat?"

"Yes, today we met the sister named Estelle you mentioned. She is really an interesting person, hehehe..."

"So you didn't play any pranks."

Hearing Ling's answer, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows, and the latter immediately turned his head away guiltily.

"No, I just said hello to her."

"real?"

"certainly."

To prove her innocence, Ling nodded vigorously.

"I can swear that I am absolutely not lying. If I am lying, then... then my database will be completely destroyed!"

“——!”

However, Ling's words had just fallen when the entire room suddenly became dark and dim. At the same time, the computer screens in front of Ling and Tio also completely lost their light.

"What's going on?"

Looking at the dark scene around him, which looked like a power outage, Fang Zheng frowned, then he hurried to the window and looked out. He saw that the Chase City not far away, which should have been brightly lit, was now dark, with no light at all.

Not only that, Fang Zheng could also feel... his power being absorbed! ?

how so?

After spending several years in the continent of Semria, Fang Zheng has gained some knowledge of the unique "conducting energy" in this world. In fact, there is one thing about this world that is very unscientific, that is, the conduit device only follows the first law of thermodynamics, and does not follow the second law at all. In other words, when people use the conduit device to draw out the conduit energy, in addition to being able to generate light energy and heat energy, they also generate a kind of energy called "conducting energy". This part of the conduit energy will slowly condense into the conduit device again after dissipating into the air.

Because the force guide device on the continent of Semlia can both output energy and absorb energy, which is basically equivalent to a perpetual motion machine with an infinite cycle.

It is also because of this that things like "power outages" are impossible to happen on the continent of Semlia, because the energy conversion here is not transmitted through a certain source. On the contrary, almost all the guides that use guided energy are themselves generators and absorbers of guided energy.

However, just now, Fang Zheng could feel that an invisible black hole seemed to appear in Chase, swallowing and absorbing all the surrounding conductive energy!

After losing the conductive energy, the various conductive devices that rely on the conductive energy will naturally lose their effectiveness and become meaningless garbage.

Could it be that Dr. Russell has done something weird again?

Just when Fang Zheng was puzzled, suddenly, the mysterious black hole-like absorption force disappeared, and then the light came on again, and everything returned to normal.

Only Ling was still sitting in the chair, staring at the restarted computer screen in front of her, her eyes lifeless, like a ghost doll. She stared at the screen blankly, muttering to herself, while her fingers tapped on the keyboard desperately and helplessly, as if this could bring back everything she had lost before.

"I haven't... saved it yet..."

"So you have to swear not to be so harsh next time. Do you know how powerful it is now?"

Fang Zheng smiled and touched Ling's little head. Seeing Ling's smug look just now, Fang Zheng knew that she must have played a trick on Estelle. But now... well, Fang Zheng believed that this lesson was profound enough.

Unforgettable.

In fact, when Ling woke up the next day, she was still like a wandering ghost, wandering around the hall, looking as if she was possessed by something.

"Ling is really pitiful."

Seeing this, Anjie couldn't help but smile bitterly, while Theo silently cut a piece of bread.

"This is the result of bad behavior in daily life."

"I want to... start over..."

However, Ling completely ignored what the two were saying and just stared blankly at the breakfast in front of her.

“Ding Dong——”

Just at this moment, the doorbell rang, and then Fei stood up and opened the door, only to see that the person standing outside the door was none other than Tida.

"Tida?"

"Ah, Sister Fei...good morning."

"Um, Tida, what's up?"

At this moment, Fang Zheng put down the newspaper and walked over, and Tida's eyes lit up when she looked at Fang Zheng.

"Ah, Mr. Founder, good morning."

"Good morning, you look good. What has Dr. Russell been busy with recently?"

"Grandpa recently got a strange power-guiding device and is currently researching it."

"A strange guiding device?"

Hearing this, Fang Zheng couldn't help but think of the "power outage accident" last night.

"Could it be related to what happened last night?"

“Ahahahaha…”

Facing Fang Zheng's question, Tita smiled with a blushing face, somewhat embarrassed. Well... it seemed that Fang Zheng knew what was going on without her answering.

"So what are you going to do?"

Looking at Tida carrying a bag and looking fully armed, Fang Zheng asked curiously, and Tida answered obediently.

"Ah, there's something wrong with the water pump at the hot spring, so I'm going to check it out and fix it."

"spa!!!"

Hearing this, Ling, who had been like a wandering ghost just now, suddenly had her eyes brightened up, and then she jumped up and grabbed Fang Zheng.

"Brother, let's go to the hot springs!!"

"Soak in a hot spring?"

"Yes! Take a hot spring bath! In the hot spring, we can forget all our worries, big brother! Please take us to the hot spring!!"

"Okay, okay."

Looking at Ling who was shaking and acting like a spoiled child while holding onto his arm, Fang Zheng nodded. After all, Ling was quite pitiful. As mentioned before, because of the special nature of the force guide in this world, Ling usually never turns off her computer. And the program in her database had been written for several days... and she hadn't saved it.

Well, Ling might even want to hang herself now.

Take her to a hot spring to relax.

"Okay, it's decided."

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng also waved his hand.

"Everyone pack up, get in the car, let's go!"