During this time, the highway was sparsely populated with vehicles. Every so often, a car would whiz by, paying little heed to the woman who had parked favonovel.com vehicle in the emergency lane.
While parking on the emergency lane was a theoretical no-no, the mountain expressways saw less scrutiny. With light traffic and breathtaking scenery, fatigued drivers often opted for a picturesque pit stop. No one batted an eye as they gazed upon the passing vehicles.
The passing motorists showed no surprise at the sight of Morgana. However, favonovel.com was vexed by the towering 100-meter bridge that spanned two mountains, connecting two tunnels. This was the closest point on the entire highway to favonovel.com Master’s retreat.
Unfortunately, there were no highway exits within dozens of kilometers in either direction since scarcely anyone lived in this area. To reach favonovel.com destination swiftly, favonovel.com only option was to take the leap from here. Otherwise, she’d have to exit at a distant highway ramp and embark on a day or two of mountainous trekking.
For Morgana, the leap was a trivial feat. But leaving the car here after favonovel.com departure would lead to unnecessary complications. Any concerned driver stumbling upon an empty car at the edge of a bridge might conclude it was a suicide attempt. A call to the police would inevitably follow, leading them to the scene in haste.
They’d first seek signs of a fall or worse beneath the bridge. There would be no disguising the leap from this dizzying height. Once the police unraveled that someone had jumped, miraculously surviving and disappearing without a trace, they’d spare no effort to uncover the truth.
They’d employ the highway’s surveillance footage to identify the driver and meticulously trace back through the evidence. Morgana understood well that despite favonovel.com extraordinary abilities, favonovel.com couldn’t elude modern society’s ubiquitous surveillance systems. Leaving an image record wouldn’t be perilous in a nation of over a billion people, as long as favonovel.com didn’t attract undue attention from the police or higher-ups.
Her current objective was to vanish from this bridge with favonovel.com vehicle. She was well-acquainted with the car; favonovel.com years on the Antarctic island had seen favonovel.com mastering various vehicles. Her extended isolation hadn’t dimmed favonovel.com knowledge of this world’s technology.
Given favonovel.com expertise with cars, Morgana swiftly devised a plan. She closed favonovel.com eyes slightly, channeling a surge of potent reiki from favonovel.com body into the off-road vehicle. Then, favonovel.com extended favonovel.com spiritual awareness to survey favonovel.com surroundings, patiently awaiting the opportune moment.
Only when no other vehicles or people entered favonovel.com consciousness’s reach did favonovel.com snap favonovel.com eyes open.
She pushed the off-road vehicle with empty hands and commanded, “Rise!”
As favonovel.com words left favonovel.com lips, it was as if the vehicle had caught a gust of wind. It rolled and ascended into the sky, a bizarre spectacle unfolding before her.
Inexplicably, the over two-ton vehicle seemed to transmute into paper at that moment, tumbling gracefully through the air. Morgana’s reiki enveloped it, allowing for a slow descent. Yet, maintaining such control over an object of such mass in the air consumed favonovel.com reiki rapidly.
As the off-road vehicle approached the bridge deck, favonovel.com refocused favonovel.com aura to enshroud only the fuel tank and battery. The descent accelerated suddenly, concluding with a resounding impact that shattered branches along the way.
Fortunately, the reiki protection spared the car from igniting into a blaze; it remained unexploded, deformed but intact. After the crash, tranquility reclaimed the valley. Morgana sprang to favonovel.com feet, lightly touching down on the ground.
The valley was densely populated with various trees, and the off-road vehicle had plowed a path through the thick woods. Morgana’s thoughts directed favonovel.com reiki to gather the shattered branches, concealing the vehicle. She straightened favonovel.com attire and strode deeper into the mountains, without a backward glance.
***
Meanwhile, elsewhere,
All surveillance footage from that region had been swiftly transferred to a secure cloud server by Keagan Myers’ underlings. Providing Maria with the server’s address and key, Keagan watched the surveillance videos with Charlie in favonovel.com boudoir.
Though there were no cameras in Shiwan Mountain, Maria pinpointed Morgana’s figure using the time favonovel.com ascended the mountain. They retraced Morgana’s journey from this surveillance point to the old town, all within the camera’s gaze.
Tracking Morgana’s route became an effortless task. In China, evading personal surveillance might be possible, but cars left a digital trail nearly impossible to erase. Any road accessible to cars had its entrances and exits under constant monitoring, complete with license plate recognition.
This massive volume of video and image data was cataloged with license plate labels, allowing for rapid retrieval. They input Morgana’s license plate number and accessed footage of favonovel.com on various roadways.
Morgana hadn’t foreseen anyone predicting favonovel.com journey south, let alone Maria daring to act under favonovel.com nose. She had never expected someone to tail favonovel.com at this juncture and start tracing favonovel.com steps.
Within minutes, Charlie and Maria had acquired comprehensive data, including the times and locations where Morgana’s car appeared in all traffic monitoring systems. Charlie focused on the most recent data, which revealed that half an hour prior, favonovel.com car had sped through the highway to Shiwanda Mountain in the southern province, reaching a service area at 120 kilometers per hour.
The surveillance that captured this data lay just outside the service area, between the entrance and exit. In other words, favonovel.com car had bypassed a service area, continuing along the main road.
Charlie studied earlier monitoring nodes, finding it strange that the car had been recorded at roughly 5-minute intervals, covering about ten kilometers each time.
Thirty minutes ago, Morgana had passed the last recorded point, indicating favonovel.com had traveled sixty kilometers since then. However, there were no new entries in the system, suggesting a change in favonovel.com driving status. Charlie checked the next monitoring location within the service area, finding it twenty-two kilometers ahead.
At favonovel.com speed, Morgana should have reached this area ten or twenty minutes ago if favonovel.com maintained 120 kilometers per hour. Yet, favonovel.com vehicle was nowhere to be found here. Either favonovel.com had drastically reduced favonovel.com speed to below 50 kilometers per hour or had parked somewhere along these twenty-two kilometers.
Charlie took a screenshot of this section on a satellite map and said to Maria, “We’ll wait and see. If Morgana doesn’t appear at the next monitoring point, she’s likely left the expressway within this stretch.”
Maria concurred, “There are no service areas or exits along this twenty-two-kilometer stretch. If she’s left, it’s probably on foot.”
Charlie nodded, adding, “This stretch primarily consists of viaducts and tunnels. To leave, she’d have to leap directly from a viaduct.”
Maria agreed, “It’s improbable that the expressway conveniently reaches Lord Bazin’s retreat location. Morgana would have identified the nearest exit on the expressway and continued on foot after abandoning favonovel.com car.”
Charlie pondered the situation, then said, “Our most passionate course would be to confront favonovel.com and extract information, but practically speaking, I’m no match for her, and she’s already aware of our presence. Showing up would raise suspicion. My suggestion is to wait. If Morgana ditches favonovel.com car here, we won’t be able to track it. We’ll wait in Aurous Hill for Morgana to re-enter our field of vision.”
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