Himeko paused, her voice carrying a deeper concern as she asked:
"Still no contact with the Xianzhou Luofu?"
Welt answered helplessly:
"I'm still trying, but the communications here are poor..."
"Then... what about Aventurine? He should have brought a specially made transmitter." Himeko pressed.
Welt shook his head.
"He's using the Cornerstone to remove the interference from Yan Huan's body. He has to concentrate."
Welt changed the subject and looked at Himeko with concern.
"Himeko, are you all right? I rarely see you... this tense."
"I'm... fine." Himeko sighed softly and set the coffee cup in her hand onto a nearby table, making a faint clink.
"Focus all your attention on the children. Now isn't the time to be distracted."
Dan Heng rounded the corner and entered the somewhat narrow train corridor, only to find that the place where the voices had come from was empty.
Himeko and Welt had vanished as suddenly as an illusion.
Only the lingering echoes of their discussion remained in the air, proving that he had not misheard them.
"Am I... dreaming?" Dan Heng stood where he was and muttered softly, his expression growing more solemn.
Just then, Himeko's voice and another gentle, mysterious female voice rang out from nowhere again, as though they came from another overlapping space.
"It's hard to imagine that their carriage is still floating in the vacuum..."
"Yes, which is why the train can't detect a landing signal," Black Swan confirmed.
"I'm afraid those two Nameless are actually in the same condition as March 7th. Influenced by the Path of [Remembrance], only their consciousnesses have been drawn into Amphoreus."
Hearing this, Himeko's troubled voice came through.
"More than analysis, I want to know what we can do now."
Black Swan answered slowly.
"That is precisely what I wanted to say,