Zoe Pierce, however, couldn't spare a thought for the question in his eyes. Instead, she looked at Nathan Lockwood as if he were her savior.
"Nathan Lockwood, you were looking for me?" she spoke first.
Her eagerness was a bit strange.
Nathan Lockwood remained impassive. "Your Intelligent Brain."
He was holding Zoe Pierce's Intelligent Brain, which their instructor had confiscated before the joint exam began. The instructor had just returned the devices to him and Miles Sherman after they were questioned; they would be confiscated again once the plunder war started.
In other words, they could all use their personal Intelligent Brains for the time being.
'No wonder Miles Sherman was holding his own Intelligent Brain.'
Zoe Pierce stood, slowly walked over to Nathan Lockwood, and took the device. She turned her head toward Miles Sherman and called out, "I'll be heading back then, Captain Sherman."
It was clear to both men in the room that she was desperate to leave.
