During this period, Councilor Guo Yuanying's sleep quality had been terrible.
The reason was the disorienting confusion caused by that damned "Dream Game" getting mixed up with the Real World.
Why had he come to East 824 District?
Attending the Black Sun Sect's ritual was only one reason. They were all people with private planes; there was no need to arrive so early.
The main reason was that, after news spread last week that the "Dream Game" had enveloped his mountain estate, he knew he would be implicated. Worse, someone might "awaken" him in the "dream." Naturally, he needed to avoid this kind of negative high-energy element incident if he could. After consulting several industry insiders and hearing from an "inside source" that increasing the physical distance might exempt him, he had seized the chance when Executive Officer Kang Xingquan came to East 824 District for an event, cutting into the group at the last minute and rushing over.
There was clearly a level of difference between his status and Executive Officer Kang's. He was more "well-matched" with Kang Heng, the garrison General of East 725 District. For many years, he and Kang Heng had fought without ever fully breaking apart. Though he had always disliked that military brute, they were familiar enough with each other that being around him was not too stressful. But this time, he was facing the forceful Executive Officer Kang directly, and he had cut in at the last minute without sufficient preparation. Many gray areas involving past interests were difficult to conceal. After several days together, he had remained quite passive.
If that were all, he could accept it.
The problem was that even after fleeing more than seventeen hundred kilometers away to East Eighty-Two District, he had still failed to escape the damned