Xia City Branch headquarters, Shang Ding Building.
Ronan and He Yueyin had arranged to meet here. Mainly because his true body had already arrived in Xia City, and out of courtesy, there was no need to enter the "Dream Game" again.
However, Ronan seemed inclined to make trouble for himself tonight.
He Yueyin had matters to handle, and the gap would be fairly long. So Ronan neither used Void Shift nor flew. Instead, he took the subway from the outskirts into the city, then transferred to a low-altitude bus. It took him nearly two hours to reach the place.
He made a few work calls along the way, so the time had not been entirely wasted.
It was already close to midnight. Most of the building had gone dark, like an exhausted beast dozing amid the surrounding neon lights.
The Xia City Branch's office area was on the eighteenth floor, precisely the lowest altitude the low-altitude buses could descend to—effectively the "ground floor" of an ordinary person's living range. It was a little chaotic during the day, but quiet at midnight, and He Yueyin had arranged their meeting there.
Ronan had actually wanted to go to the Thirteenth Floor. That was where Ouyang Chen's laboratory and the Spirit Wave Network maintenance center were located, as well as the only remaining ring of light in the building. But he had spoken with Ouyang Chen on the way, and that man had rarely left his lab to head to a Satellite City for on-site Spirit Wave Network adjustments. They would not be meeting tonight.
The eighteenth floor was basically all offices and conference rooms, so naturally there was hardly anyone around now. Only the corridor lights were on.
Most areas lay in Dark Seclusion, empty and echoing with every footstep. It was