When Duanmu Huai stepped out of the room, the first thing he heard was a familiar voice laced with surprise.
"Mr. Duanmu!"
Duanmu Huai turned his head and saw that there was another hall outside. Mary, Rumiere, Ling Nu, and Minme Satori were sitting there, staring at one another with wide eyes. Seeing Duanmu Huai appear, everyone let out a sigh of relief and hurriedly stood up to look at him, while Ling Nu curiously glanced behind him.
"There's no door there, Master. Where did you come out from?"
Duanmu Huai turned around and found that only a blank wall remained behind him. The door that should have been there had vanished without a trace. He merely shrugged and did not answer.
Mary walked over and spoke somewhat anxiously.
"How are things? Did the operation go smoothly?"
"So far, it's been fairly smooth—if you don't count the possibility that I might have to fight them for a hundred years."
"Then what about now...?"
"I have an opportunity to take them down one by one."
Duanmu Huai did not explain much to the others.
"This is more or less the same as what we did before. You know the drill: go to a world, investigate the crisis there, and then ferret out the mastermind. The only difference is that this time, we already know who the mastermind is. The question now is how to deal with it... Speaking of which, what the hell is this place?"
"We looked outside through the window just now. This seems to be a Hive City."
A Hive City.
Duanmu Huai frowned, then walked to the window and looked outside. Soon, he saw the Hive City's distinctive High Towers, as well as fleets of transport ships moving through the vicinity. This should be a Hive City