"Let me think."
Aventurine turned his back and muttered:
"The Garden of Recollection has already made contact with the Star Rail Express. The Annihilation Gang... probably won't work out."
"It's still unclear whether the Knights of Beauty will honor the invitation. As for those guys from the [Tavern]..."
"Oh... speaking of that."
Aventurine's expression turned serious:
"I just ran into a woman who claimed to be a Galaxy Ranger. Something about her feels off. Help me look into her background..."
"Hm?"
When no response came from Dr. Ratio behind him, Aventurine turned around:
"Where did he go?"
By then, he was the only one left in the room.
Realizing that Dr. Ratio had already left, Aventurine could not help but mock himself:
"Ha... he doesn't hate me that much, does he?"
"Looks like I'll have to rely on myself after all."
Elsewhere.
Within the dream.
Yan Huan continued exploring Dreamville Border. At last, he obtained a dream coordinate from Dan Heng and arrived at a familiar place.
It was the hotel room where he had previously seen Acheron aboard the train.
"So this is the hotel in the dream?"
Yan Huan crawled into the hotel from the outskirts of the void, and the first thing he saw stunned him.
Monsters... monsters everywhere!
This hotel did not look like a vacation spot crowded with guests at all.
He did not consider himself some kind of savior, nor did he want to do the Family's dirty work, so he found a guest room and tried to slip inside to hide.
But when he tried, he found that the room door would not open.
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He immediately used Featherfall Dust to forcibly interfere with the dream and open the door.
The first thing he did after entering was send Dan Heng a