Someone behind them muttered. From the voice, it sounded like the mechanic Zhao Xi. "We can't have actually reached Slope City, can we? Even for a game, this is a bit... A hint about how we got here would've been nice."
Long Qi answered casually, "You walked for ages before you finally teleported here. That was the process."
Yuan Wuwei clearly saw it differently. "We should still be in the Outer Experience Zone. This place feels a little unreal. It's probably Slope City's imprint on this side—a spacetime imprint."
That was consistent with what Yuan Wuwei had said earlier.
Long Qi grumbled, " 'Imprint' sounds way too fantastical."
"Heh. That just means you haven't read enough papers."
"What do papers have to do with it?"
Yuan Wuwei chuckled and was about to answer when he suddenly looked surprised. "Where's Connie? And Mora?"
Deng Chun drew his gaze away from the hazy halo in the sky and looked back. Behind him were three Deep Blue Walkers, one person in a "proper Exoskeleton," and Yuan Wuwei, who had been keeping the conversation going.
The two female Transcendental Species who served as the group's anchors were nowhere to be seen. Both had vanished into the dust-filled cityscape.
"What's going on?" Yuan Wuwei was probably the weakest fighter in the group, and a hint of panic crept into his voice.
No one answered him.
But two seconds later, the dust swirling behind him warped slightly. Mora and Constance walked side by side down the dusty street like a pair of close friends.
Everyone looked their way, then soon followed the two women's gazes up into the sky.
"What's going on?" Long Qi echoed.
This time, he got an answer.
"The airship," Mora murmured.
Long Qi looked puzzled. "Where?"
Mora chuckled. "Hidden inside the sun's