What? Teleportation? The once-Reploid's face betrayed a little more of his surprise at what he was hearing. "This girl has something capable of that?" he muttered, blinking. The only device Zero could think of that sounded anything remotely like that was a portable Trans Server, but that wasn't something one could describe as a 'ring'. It required the use of one normal Trans Server operated by someone else, as well, so it would be almost impossible to use in this situation. But... Perhaps the girl Leanne mentioned had some other, more advanced piece of technology that she'd gotten a hold of somehow? It was plausible, given that this place apparently had the technology to do more incredible feats than simple transfers...

(But wait. If this person had the ability to teleport, then why wasn't she using it to escape from here? ... One question at a time. Better focus on the town itself first.)

So, if they had to teleport to the town by the means of...some unknown device, then that could mean the town was quite far from the Institute... And that wasn't all. This town, wherever it was, had no inhabitants when Leanne and the girl she'd been with had gone there. Supplies, but no people. That sounded rather suspicious. "I wonder why it was abandoned," Zero wondered aloud, frowning. There could be a lot of reasons for that, and few of them were good. He shook his head, then asked, "You didn't run into any trouble, right? No creatures, no corpses, just an empty town?"