"Is it that one of ours?"
"Yes. Interesting."
Yi Ya gave a brief reply, and Shi Fan explained further:
"This Square-Circle Instrument should be a token used by the Han Guang Star System during the Dream Net Smuggling operation. It was a tool and pass used by spies and smugglers infiltrating the Boundary Curtain sector for positioning."
Tai Yu knew about Dream Net Smuggling.
He just had not expected the Han Guang Star System to have operated on such a scale back then, placing smugglers directly within the Boundary Curtain sector.
Thinking back, there had been a time when the Han Guang Star System and the Star Alliance had maintained relatively cordial relations. Netherworld Highness had even been able to travel abroad for study, so slipping in a few spies and smugglers was entirely plausible.
"I was involved in related production projects before." Shi Fan fully displayed the rich life experience of an Uploader. "There were probably thousands upon thousands of tokens and tools like this back then, in many different forms, mainly used at Boundary Curtain points for infiltration and handoffs."
Tai Yu asked her, "Why come to the Boundary Curtain sector?"
Shi Fan countered, "You weren't involved in this back then, were you? It wasn't a question of why come here, but of having to come here:
"After the Lord of Illusory Nightmares transformed into a Dream God Abomination, the Boundary Curtain sector became the star region closest to the Han Guang Star System and the place where the authority of the Illusory Nightmare Domain was most concentrated.
"And since the Illusory Nightmare Domain here had been unmanaged for a considerable time, while this was also territory the Gatekeeper Lord had cultivated for years, infiltrating this place allowed them to use the Boundary Curtain to penetrate the Abyssal