In the real world.
As for the clones, Secretary Tong's arrangements did not show the players too much, but still included a fight billed as a miniboss battle that was really an elite enemy encounter.
Four against two, ganging up on "Stelle" and "March 7th" was hardly difficult.
Winning this fight would trigger a scene of the real Stelle and March thrashing the fake Stelle and March, followed by the part where Stelle finally decided to take these two away and give them to Little Fish as gifts (free labor).
"Oh! It ties back to the earlier stuff!" Hearing Stelle talk about her previous experience helping at the Fragmentum Factory, Siberian Duck was pleasantly surprised. After all, she had practically just finished claiming all the Fragmentum Factory rewards for this round before starting the new mission.
It felt as satisfying as throwing a boomerang and successfully catching it.
[Danxin Hengjiu: That may be true, but I feel like Cocolia isn't all that useful in the Fragmentum Factory. She's a completely different person from her boss version.]
[Wind Boy Solo Fan: No kidding. Worker Cocolia is just an ordinary Pathstrider. Little Fish took her Stellaron, and the Trailblazer took her Flaming Lance. Most of the factory workers are Fragmentum Creatures captured and forced to work, so they wouldn't provide Cocolia with any extra protective equipment either...]
[Senior Employee of the Fragmentum Factory: All I can say is, life in the Fragmentum Factory isn't pleasant. Monster employees basically get no breaks. They work while being corroded by the Fragmentum. Cocolia might be thinking she'd have been better off dying back then.]
[China Jerk-Off Fan: Bro, your username makes your words very convincing to me. So what does Bronya have to say?]
[Azure Sea Group Cuddles: I think Bronya wouldn't say anything. Even