Mission Impossible

"We don't have much time," the puppet said. "They are tracking the crystal that you have. Discard it somehow to slow down their search."

"You said that you can allow one of my puppets to move about in the base without it being destroyed by the base's defensive mechanism," I said.

The puppet replied, "Indeed, are you planning on using your puppet as bait?"

"Yep, that's the only way to get rid of a bait, is to use it as another bait," I said as I asked Zhang Tian for the crystal back.

I called one of my small beetles and placed the crystal on its back. "Go, run as fast as you can," I gave it the order and it flew out of the room with the crystal. It soon reached the bridge's other end and began roaming about in the base.

"This should buy you some time, but since it is a disturbance to the peace of the base that remained for thousands of years, don't expect them to stop searching simply, they'll stay on some levels of alert," the puppet said.