"Huh? Defeated already?"
The City of a Thousand Stars, the Tower of Babel.
Xu Kong learned that the Apostle he had sent had been defeated.
["Called himself Zhuxing Tu? But was a man? That was all the information sent back before death. Interesting. Someone from the Imperial Sequence? He even knew that annoying Witch, and used her as a shield without the slightest psychological burden.
...Hmm...could it have been Altos, or rather, Ye Qiyan?"]
Xu Kong gave it a little thought, but the girl beside him suddenly patted him on the shoulder.
"What's wrong? Don't get nervous, Xu Kong. You're usually the one who comes up with ideas when something happens. If you get nervous today, we're all going to embarrass ourselves..."
He put his thoughts aside and looked at the girl beside him.
The girl's name was Agatha.
That had not originally been her name, but after coming to the Wasteland and leaving her past self behind, she had renamed herself after her favorite detective novelist from the Human Primordial World.
What Xu Kong liked most were all sorts of puzzle-solving, labyrinth, and challenge Platforms.
The Train System was quite accommodating, too. Almost every stop he visited was of those types.
To better understand humans, he had joined this newly formed Guild called [Agatha] after coming to a human City.
The members of this Guild were also enthusiasts of detective novels and puzzle-solving challenge Platforms.
What they did most often was collect coordinates for Mystery Platforms that most people did not particularly like, then enter those places in groups of two or three to adventure together.
Xu Kong was quite satisfied with such a Guild.
Over several successive Platform conquests, he had deliberately displayed his intelligence and abilities, successfully earning these humans' trust.
He had even...
"Xu Kong?"
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