"Eerie Game has too many hidden mysteries. Exploring them is like falling into a bottomless pit."
"No matter how important a mystery is, once you move past its dungeon, it becomes meaningless."
"Eerie NPCs, players—we're all just passing through."
Looking out the window at the six whole carriages reduced to ruined fragments, Tianma turned back and spoke calmly to Ji Yan.
Tianma found it strange. A player he didn't even know shouldn't have mattered so much to someone like Ji Yan.
At least the other one wouldn't have cared.
Ji Yan withdrew his gaze. "You're right. We're all just passing through."
"Once you're past tier 10, everything else is just smoke."
Kong Yi deactivated his [Authority], removed the [Shadowglow Badge] from his chest, and sat on the floor, his soaked black hair covering his sweat-beaded face.
Rubbing a finger over the cracks in the badge, Kong Yi said, "I only just got my hands on this dungeon, and now all that's left is a locomotive..."
Jiu Ye said, "The dungeon doesn't matter. Neither does [Rarest]. All that matters is the [Eight of Characters] tile."
With a hiss and a cloud of grayish-white steam, the carriage door beside them opened.
"Nothing else should go wrong now, right?" Ji Yan looked out at the haze beyond the train.
Merely activating the Main Quest of the [Time Dungeon] had felt like enduring eighty-one trials. The [Red Center Mask] had tried every possible way to stop them, leaving them exhausted in body and mind.
"The [Pure Land of Bliss] is a separate dungeon zone with its own exclusive Order oversight. No matter how much power the [Red Center Mask] has, it can't reach inside..."
Ji Yan glanced at Tianma. "You were also the one who said it couldn't reach past 000 [Door]."
Tianma said,