After speaking, Shanshan reached out with her pale hands and grabbed her mother's and Margaret's wrists. The next second, Margaret watched in horror as the scene before her rapidly changed. By the time she regained her composure, she found herself in a brightly lit underground room.
"Mom, I'm going back. Just call me when you're ready," Shanshan said, tiptoeing to gently kiss Anna's face before instantly vanishing.
"Where is this?" Margaret asked in surprise, looking around at the sparse environment. The place was quite large, an empty space of about one hundred square meters.
"This is Hope Island, the lowest level of the Relic Research Institute."
Anna walked to the wall on the right and waved her hand gently. The pristine white wall rolled up like a scroll, revealing a transparent glass wall behind it.
