Kyle Kinston pressed his thin lips together, but didn’t speak.

Yet Caleb could still feel the trembling emanating from his boss at that moment. Caleb was well aware of the place Mabel Quinn held in Kyle Kinston’s heart.

If something truly happened to Mabel Quinn, then it would be like the sky falling.

The sky over Falling City... would collapse!

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The ship ultimately sank, and all the rescued individuals were temporarily placed on an empty area by the shore, while those in worse condition were sent to the nearest hospital for treatment. However, as Kyle Kinston searched among the rescued for Mabel Quinn, he found nothing.

No, no... none at all!

Not on the shore, nor at the hospital, the greatest possibility was that she had not yet been rescued... and everyone knew that the longer the time after a shipwreck, the lesser the chances of survival.

"President, you haven’t slept in a day and a night, perhaps you should rest a bit. If any news comes about Mabel, I’ll inform you immediately," Caleb said, his superior’s current state only adding to his worry.

"No need, I must continue to search for Mabel, no matter what, I must find her as soon as possible, we’re still within the rescue’s critical time," Kyle Kinston responded.

The critical 72 hours, but by now, the sea was rough, except for some who escaped to the deck being rescued, quite a few trapped in the cabin sank with the ship.

Some even fell directly overboard, swallowed by the waves. According to the list they obtained, there should have been 459 people on that ship, but only 279 had been rescued so far, and of these 279, 58 were already deceased, and the remaining 180 unaccounted for, the likelihood of their survival growing dimmer with each passing moment.

Only no one dared to utter the word "death" in front of Kyle Kinston.

Time continued to slip away, the intensity of the rescue efforts kept increasing, while the number of retrieved bodies kept rising, and Kyle Kinston’s face grew darker, frantically searching the sea surface for Mabel Quinn’s figure.

Three days and nights, Caleb hadn’t expected Kyle Kinston to truly not close his eyes for three days and nights, and when the last minute of the critical 72 hours passed, Caleb couldn’t bear to remind him.

Once this critical period was over, the likelihood of survival diminished further, and now there remained 103 missing people, yet in the eyes of the world, those 103 people were presumed dead.

However, Caleb didn’t speak, it didn’t mean Kyle Kinston hadn’t noticed the time. Caleb knew, the president must have been keeping track of the time.

The surroundings were silent, save for the sound of the waves.

Standing around Kyle Kinston were all the senior commanders in this shipwreck rescue. But the scene was silent, no one dared to make a sound. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Kyle Kinston turned off and put away the phone in his hand. It wasn’t actually his phone, but Mabel Quinn’s.

When he discovered that she hadn’t even taken her phone, he knew she really intended to leave him for good.

He thought he could find her, keep her by his side once more, so she wouldn’t leave. He thought everything would still be within his control, and even if there were slight deviations, the outcome wouldn’t change.