Qin Yi fell silent, unable to figure out what was going on.
"It's probably just tiny differences between worlds and spaces. It falls within the realm of physics, and you wouldn't understand even if I explained it. Hurry up, let's go!" Andre said impatiently. As he turned around, a large screen abruptly appeared before him.
Before Qin Yi could retort after being looked down on in every possible way, Kate appeared before him, dressed in noble attire, black-haired and red-eyed. The moment they met, he called out warmly, "Oh, my dear friend Qin Yi, we haven't seen each other for nearly a month. Did you miss me?"
Qin Yi wanted to say that it had been less than a week since they last parted, but recalling Andre's words about the "realm of physics," he guessed that time calculations across different spaces were probably a complete mess, so he said no more. After exchanging a few pleasantries with Kate, the Plane Merchants' meeting officially began.
A collective meeting of Plane Merchants was actually much like a video conference on Earth. When Kate fully gave up the screen, Qin Yi's field of vision widened. A huge number of strange and varied lifeforms appeared before him—
And they truly were strange and varied. With just a few glances, Qin Yi spotted sea monsters that looked like octopuses, things that looked like kelp—probably living creatures—and others that looked almost exactly like mecha. Kate said they belonged to non-carbon-based lifeforms. Qin Yi's eyes were truly opened.
Naturally, as a newcomer, Qin Yi also received all kinds of bizarre scrutiny. There was even something like an X-ray sweeping back and forth across his body. Kate explained that it was the gaze of the Netherlight Starfolk...
After an eerie sound like an explosion of air rang out,