Reboot: Mechanic

A few minutes had slowly gone by, and Shi Tian revealed bits of the information to Vanessa in the tent. 

Of course, that was after ensuring the coast was clear, and no potential eavesdropper around.

As for how it was achieved, Shi Tian relied on Vanessa's perception given that she had a close affinity with Magicule, able to detect and sense presence better than him.

"Hmm, so that's why Mary dragged you out. Tsk, boring…" Vanessa clicked her tongue, seemingly losing all interest in the matter.

Shi Tian could only shake his head exhaustedly. 

To think she caused such a scene because she was curious about what they were doing, but once revealed, she became bored and uninterested.

Woman… truly a more mysterious being than anything else. 

"Anyway, I hope you can refrain from spilling out the secrets. We don't want to alert them." Shi Tian asked, getting ready to leave the tent as well. 

"Do you want me to swear an oath to guarantee I won't reveal it?" Vanessa joked.

However, to her disbelief, Shi Tian actually nodded his head in response.

"That would be the best case." He flatly said, much to the displeased Vanessa.

After all, he was now indirectly saying he could not trust her, and for some reason, she felt infuriated by it.

"Just get the hell out of my tent! I wish to rest." Vanessa raised her tone and pointed out the exit. 

'I was going to leave anyway…' Shi Tian exclaimed inwardly but didn't voice it aloud, lest there might be another round of bickering or arguing. 

Without hesitating or idling any longer, Shi Tian left the tent, prompting more frustration from Vanessa.

"Ugh, why is he so irritable!" After Shi Tian had left, Vanessa cried aloud, wondering if he was even a man. 

Not a single remorse or guilt was seen in him despite his actions of literally tossing her aside. And now he was still acting as if he was above her. 

"Hmph, let's see if you can keep up such an attitude when you have to face so many monsters." She snickered coldly, going to the mini bed that was set up to rest.

Meanwhile, Shi Tian remained ignorant of Vanessa's rant as he had returned to the Iron Sentinel. 

His timing was quite perfect, given that he had just seen the soldier Tron dropping off some crates for Mary before walking away.

While Mary was inspecting the weapons contained in the crates, she noticed Shi Tian walking toward her. 

"Oh, you're here. Did you finish chatting with her?" She asked somewhat sarcastically, clearly still a bit irritated from being asked to leave earlier.

"Can we drop the sarcastic tone already?" Shi Tian ignored her question and instead asked to drop the tone. 

He truly had enough of these two constantly bickering at each other. It was even more tedious and painful than the time he was stuck in his workbench, having to craft numerous Claymore Mines.

"Fine, I'll stop mentioning her." Mary rolled her eyes and said. 

She then pointed at the crates. "Come and help me bring these crates inside the Iron Sentinel." 

Her tone was a bit different, and Shi Tian understood the implication. 

Pretending to lift the crates, Shi Tian slowly scanned the crates using the device that Mary had given to him earlier. 

The device was silent and only illuminated a dim light. Originally colored gray as an indication of neutral, the color subtly changed to a red color. 

A green color would indicate the coast was clear, whereas a red color indicated that there was something wrong, most likely an eavesdropping item.

"Where do I bring it to again?" Feigning ignorance, Shi Tian lifted the crates up and asked. The process taken was swift in seconds, so no one suspected a thing.

However, those seconds were enough to inform them that someone was truly a spy in Theobold's rank. 

And Soldier Tron was naturally the highest suspect, given that it was him who had delivered these, but it could also be another unknown candidate.

"Put it on the back side, Nathan." Mary followed the script and opened the trunk of the Iron Sentinel.

Sometime later, the two entered the trunk area, and Mary quickly turned on a feature in the Iron Sentinel, blocking any electrical signal from going in or out.

Taking out her Cellos device, Mary confirmed that there were no longer any signals even though there were usually signals installed in the Iron Sentinel.

She then gave Shi Tian an 'okay' signal, indicating that it was safe to talk now.

"It's a good thing Master Isaac was trying to help us and accidentally interfered with a communication signal. Otherwise, we'll still be kept in the dark regarding this matter." Shi Tian took off his mask and smiled bitterly.

Mary nodded her head in agreement. "We were a bit too lax in this matter, and nearly resulted in our demise." 

"Yep, Commander Theobold's character could be known to everyone, but that also created a misconception, making it seem as if his soldiers are also the same." 

Although most of Theobold's soldiers are indeed the rare kind of people that still existed in this world, believing it was their honor and duty to serve the citizens. 

There would always be some bad apples among the good ones, meaning that some of them might pretend to be good when in fact, they are hideous and rotten in the interior.

"It's hard to trust people these days… and that includes you as well Nathan." Mary pointed it out. 

"True, I definitely can't be trusted, but I'm different since we have the same goal. So we're technically in the same boat, and would I be foolish enough to poke a hole in the boat when we would both drown?" Shi Tian calmly said.

"Meh, whatever," Mary shrugged her shoulders, retrieving the small dagger that was hidden in her belt. 

Shi Tian didn't even flinch, considering that he knew she took out her small dagger to cut open the crates.