"Yes, Mrs. Caroline. I didn't expect you to remember."
Chen Lun smiled as he spoke.
"Thank you very much."
He casually leafed through the books in the cardboard box.
When his fingers touched a rather thin book, Chen Lun paused slightly.
He looked down. The book's cover had fallen off, exposing the yellowed title page inside. Its original title and author information were both lost.
But a notification popped up in his mind:
[Mysterious Books discovered! Transcendent account: "Dreaming of the Town of Kazt" (complete)!]
A thoughtful look flashed through Chen Lun's eyes, but they soon returned to normal. Then he put the book into the Blood-Poem Ring.
Chen Lun said goodbye to Mrs. Caroline and left the apartment with Maggie.
They turned to wave at the elderly woman standing in the doorway, then boarded the carriage.
After returning to Jack Manor.
The players waiting in the residential district all came to the Villa's first-floor hall and found Chen Lun.
Besides Polaris, Su Keying, and Ma Ren, there were three more: a handsome young man with a beard, an icy woman, and a little girl with twin tails.
The bearded young man was Dongyang, the Vice President Ma Ren had brought over from the Hall of Heroes guild. The icy woman was Morning Twilight, guild leader of First Dawn, while the twin-tailed girl's ID was very long: "A Joyful Melody Ended by a Sorrowful Last Note."
She was the richest woman in Su Keying's "Jack Fan Group" and had paid a hefty sum for Su Keying to bring her to "meet" Jack and get close to her idol.
But because her ID was simply too long, everyone called her "Last Note."
In the eyes of NPCs, what a player's ID was didn't actually matter. They