Although Hua Yuan and Sigmund had both arrived in the Hidden Waters, Angel did not immediately open the Dark Corner gate.
Because not long ago, a small interruption had occurred.
—The chat section in the Text Panel had activated.
More precisely, the team chat had activated.
The chat section had actually appeared long ago, but speaking required special items, and obtaining those items was tied to clearing instances. Thus, after the chat section was updated, practically no one had used it.
The only chat channel that did not require items was: team chat.
The team chat channel could be used without special items, but only teammates within the same Wonderland Instance could activate it.
Logically speaking, Angel, Gleipnir, and Star Worm had previously been in the same instance and the same faction, so they should have been able to use team chat.
But when the Text Panel version had updated, they had already entered Modern City, so the update had not included them.
Under normal circumstances, once they left the Modern City instance, their Text Panels would naturally update to the latest version, and they would then be able to use the chat section.
But now, something abnormal had happened.
Namely, Laplace and Sigmund, who possessed the latest version of the Text Panel, had entered the instance.
And they had completed Main Quest 3 and joined Prada Media Company.
In a sense, joining the same faction meant entering the same team.
It was at that moment that team chat naturally activated.
When the Wonderland Authority sensed that team chat had opened and discovered that Gleipnir and Star Worm's Text Panels had not been updated, perhaps it simply waved a hand and updated their Text Panels to the external version as well.
Put more plainly—
"Team size detected to be greater