Crystal's POV:
At that moment, my heart stopped beating in my chest.
The news almost knocked me out on the spot.
With trembling hands, I picked up my phone clumsily. I couldn't even turn on my phone because my fingers were shaking. When I finally managed to turn the device on, I found that there was no signal. I was so anxious that I wanted to smash the phone on impulse, but soon, I heard a series of beeps from the phone, indicating that its signal had returned to normal.
I quickly unlocked the phone and many missed call notifications popped up.
At this time, I found that my phone was full of power. But I thought my phone was dead. It certainly didn't look like it that it was fully charged in just a few minutes, so why was my phone turned off in the first place?
Without thinking too much, I called back.
Soon, the call was connected, and an anxious voice came from the other end of the line. It was the school director.
"Alpha! Finally! I've been trying to call you for hours! Beryl and Arron snuck out. We checked the surveillance footage, and it turned out the two kids secretly got in a van that went to the market. At the market, they joined a caravan of
gem traders."
My heart tightened in my chest. "Have you found out where the caravan went?"
"Not yet, but we've sent people to look into it."
"Inform me as soon as you get any news."
I hung up the phone feeling somewhat relieved. Fortunately, the kids hadn't been kidnapped.
But thinking about how the two kids had managed to sneak out of camp, I felt angry, helpless, and mostly anxious.
"The gem traders in that market are mostly from the Silver Moon Pack and the imperial capital. Perhaps the merchants were headed back to the imperial capital, and the two kids ran away because they wanted to find you," my subordinate mused.
I listened to his analysis quietly. It made sense. But how did the two kids know that I was in the imperial capital in the first place? Besides, they looked so excited to go camping. I never suspected that they were scheming to sneak out to find me.
"Check all caravans that have been traveling between the imperial capital and the border," I ordered with a grim expression.
Soon, my subordinate came back with answers. As expected, this group of merchants in particular had come from the imperial capital to purchase gemstones from the border pack.
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