Huh? Are We Really Going to Take on an Aeon?!

That being said, there was at least an 80% chance that Tingyun was still alive.

As for what form she would take when she finally returned... that depended on whether Otto, the Scoundrel, was willing to act like a decent person.

Having been stabbed too many times by Honkai Impact 3rd, the players had developed a habit of instinctively assuming the worst.

What the players were thinking now was—

If... Tingyun really was still alive, would she return as an enemy?

Would they pull something like "demonification" again and make the players kill her with their own hands, granting her release...?

Still, the game's plot moved at a brisk pace.

The conversation between Jing Yuan and Luocha revealed far too much information, quickly drawing the players' attention back into the story.

"As a merchant, I was entrusted with delivering a token. I knew nothing of the secrets behind it."

"Nor did I enter Cloudford Prison without ulterior motives. But as things stand, Luofu possesses nothing I seek."

"As for confessing and accepting punishment, that would be out of fear of retribution. The galaxy is vast, but I am merely a merchant. I doubt I could evade the pursuit of the entire Alliance."

Though Luocha's words were logical and well-founded,

there was a glaring flaw in them—how did he know Jingliu?

So Jing Yuan simply ignored all that. "A merchant? Mr. Luocha, you jest."

"Must I recount, one by one, what you did in Ailuo Burg and all your past deeds in the Veiled Star Region Ruins?"

"Or do you need me to speak that tongue-twisting name aloud?"

The moment they saw Jing Yuan's words,

the players immediately lost it.

Ailuo Burg? The Veiled Star Region Ruins?

Those had to be future maps, without a doubt.

And... that tongue-twisting