Harper was far from her usual poised and composed self at this moment. She rushed to Charlotte in a state of panic, tightly gripping her hand. "Have you seen Samuel?"
Charlotte, who initially found her actions somewhat unsettling, was momentarily taken aback. She shook her head and said to Harper, "We haven't seen Samuel since you left. He..."
Before Charlotte could finish her words, Harper's face turned pale, and she collapsed to the ground.
Charlotte quickly supported her and asked with concern, "What's happening? This..."
Tears welled up in Harper's eyes, and her voice quivered as she replied, "Samuel is missing."
Although she had already suspected as much, hearing Harper say it out loud weighed heavily on Charlotte's heart.
"How could a child just disappear like that?"
The place they were in now was far from an ordinary city. Losing a child in Antarctica could mean a life-or-death situation.
Harper's face grew even paler.
Samuel had been sulking since just now and after leaving here, wanting to find another penguin needing rescue.
But Noah and Harper knew very well that it was a stroke of luck for Ben and Anna to encounter one. How could they easily find a second one?
So, after searching in the snow for a while, they persuaded Samuel to return.
But how could Samuel, who was determined to find the penguin, agree? He shouted back at them a few times and then rushed out.
Noah and Harper hurriedly followed him, but they happened to reach a glacier cluster. Samuel somehow managed to circle around it and disappeared without a trace.
After searching around for a while, the couple still couldn't find any trace of Samuel, which left Noah quite anxious.
He instructed Harper to come over to this area to try her luck, wondering if Samuel, not satisfied with not finding the penguin, had returned here. Meanwhile, he went to find the leader to ask for more help.
Ben and Anna both knew that getting lost in Antarctica could be extremely dangerous, and they didn't pretend to be naive or disobedient to Joe and Charlotte.
What worried them most was the penguin they had just saved.
"You can take it back to our room for now. I'm sure the guide will arrange for someone to pick it up later," Charlotte reassured them.
Ben and Anna nodded, saying, "Okay. Mom, you have to find that chubby kid."
Charlotte couldn't help but smile at their words. Even though Ben and Anna were the younger ones, they kept calling Samuel a chubby kid.
She gently touched their heads and said, "I understand. Let's go."
Joe escorted Ben and Anna back to their room and instructed them not to leave the cabin unless it was an emergency. After ensuring the door was locked from the inside, he returned to the ship.
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