The power of coincidence was formidable. The welcome banquet and farewell banquet had fallen on the same day.
With many factors coming together, on the fourth day of the forty-first week of New Century 1305, the offline gathering of a certain networking group Loren had habitually created finally came to pass for the first time.
Not everyone had made it. Shang Gelush and Hai Ling, who were still working on You Chong Star, as well as that universally known person, had not come. On the other hand, everyone from First Divine Palace School had shown up.
Loren felt as though he were dreaming.
He had not organized this gathering. He had received an invitation.
He had not expected to be allowed out while under residential surveillance, yet after giving a brief explanation, he had been approved.
Even now, sitting in the private room, he strongly suspected that the reviewers had kindly let him go only because they had seen Xin Rui's name.
As for why he had been invited to this welcome and farewell banquet, it could be considered feedback for his previous enthusiastic invitations... perhaps.
He had had enough of that damned United Laboratory. Getting out for a breath of fresh air was good enough.
Since most people lived in the Vita Region, Loren had even come over from the North Core New Area for the appointment.
Perhaps because this period had been too exhausting, he had become much quieter. In the past, at occasions like this, he was more of a mood-maker, responsible for livening things up. Now, he mostly observed.
They were all young. Even if they had not seen one another for over ten weeks, there should not have been any obvious changes.
Yet there were always exceptions. In ten weeks, Xin Rui had completed a