"Riveting Town! Here I come!"
Wang Qiuer practically cheered as she rushed out of the Teleport point.
If Belobog's Upper District was a steel fortress brimming with steampunk style, then Riveting Town in the Lower District was a ruin thoroughly eroded by time and the Fragmentum.
Collapsed buildings, rusted gears, and Fragmentum monsters wandering everywhere all spoke of the tragedy and despair this place had once endured.
Yet this bleak backdrop did nothing to dampen the players' enthusiasm for "stocking up."
"Qiuer, look! There's a treasure chest over there on the left! And on the right too! Don't let that chest get away either!" Scarlet King spun anxiously around Wang Qiuer's feet, his three heads swinging in every direction as though he were truly searching the ground for bones.
"Cut the crap. I'm opening every last one!" Wang Qiuer charged into the monster horde, taking down both monsters and chests in one sweep.
As this swarm of "locusts" frantically looted supplies, the story continued to progress steadily.
[Seele: That house on the distant hillside is where Natasha's orphanage used to be. I spent more than half my childhood there.]
[Bronya: ...]
[Seele: Why aren't you saying anything? Did you go mute?]
[Bronya: No, I just... find it a little familiar. It's nothing.]
"Familiar?"
At Origin Internet Cafe—Tiandou Branch, Huo Yuhao, who was serving Tang Ya tea and water, froze slightly. "That young lady grew up in Qlipoth Fort. How could she find an orphanage in the Lower District familiar?"
"There's definitely a story here. This is absolutely some major gossip!" Xu Sanshi's eyes lit up as his gossiping instincts blazed. "Could this be some melodramatic 'real and fake heiress' or 'swapping the crown prince' plot?"
With those doubts in mind, everyone followed the story to the market plaza, only to