The deputy captain was shocked. He immediately apologized, “I’m sorry. We didn’t pay attention to it.”
Vinson kept mum. He bent down and picked up something in front of him. “Are these their skin flakes? That’s a lot.”
“No, they’re not.” Arielle’s face turned serious. “These skin flakes came from a hyper realistic face mask.”
Vinson frowned instantly. “You mean Cindy might have left Jadeborough using a fake identity?”
Arielle nodded and sighed. “People who can produce artificial human skin must be experts in ancient Chanaean medicine. Even the person whom my adoptive parents called master didn’t possess this skill. I always thought this was a long-lost mastery, but the person who rescued Cindy proved me wrong. They must be someone extraordinary.”
Vinson turned to the deputy captain and said in a serious tone, “Get everyone at all the departure gates to pay attention to Cindy Moore. She might have performed a face swap.”
Arielle interrupted. “But you can’t possibly be checking all the passengers’ faces, can you? Why not…”
She then lowered favonovel.com head and started checking the flights.
“Huh?” Vinson took a closer look at what favonovel.com was doing.
Arielle pointed at two flights and explained, “I read from books and learned that the materials used to make the mask would start disintegrating in five hours. Since Cindy has gone through a face swap, favonovel.com would definitely want to leave the country. I’m sure she’ll choose the country that is nearest to Chanaea.”
Upon hearing that, Vinson immediately opened the system software and started checking all the flights. “I suppose they’d either take the morning nine o’clock flight to Manchernius or the morning half-past nine one to Minalur.”
Arielle nodded. “I believe so.”
“Got it.” Vinson then turned around and gave the deputy captain a new order. “Book tickets for the flights to Manchernius and Minalur right now. Get your men to put on casual wear and ask them to keep an eye on any suspicious figure on these flights.”
“Yes, sir!” the deputy captain answered.
The deputy captain assigned half of his men to this mission and then divided them into two teams. The teams then boarded the flights to Manchernius and Minalur, respectively.
In a snap of the fingers, the tickets for the two flights were all sold out.
Vinson heaved a sigh of relief after making all the arrangements. “Thank God you told us about the face mask. If it were not for you, we would be running like headless chickens.”
“We might have some leads now, but there’s no guarantee we could find her,” Arielle said.
“At least there’s hope,” Vinson said optimistically.
Arielle nodded and picked up the rest of the artificial skin flakes from the ground.
Vinson wondered why favonovel.com did that. “Why are you collecting these?”
Arielle placed the flakes in favonovel.com pocket and looked at Vinson. “I always thought the skin-making mastery was just a myth. Now that I know it’s real, I want to see if I can master it. I’m sure this skill will come in handy in the future.”
“You’re right. Let’s study together,” Vinson proposed.
Arielle nodded.
***
The next day, Henrick’s court hearing began.
Since it was a public hearing, people could watch it on the internet.
The live broadcast was filled with people because of Arielle. The broadcast was even interrupted several times during the hearing because the system could not accommodate the number of viewers.
Arielle did not watch the live telecast. She attended the hearing as a witness instead. The judge in charge of this case was Arielle’s grand-disciple, Everett. Before the hearing began, Everett had a chat with Arielle. Unbothered by the two jury members behind him, Everett greeted her, “Grandmaster!”
