Helen quickly composed herself.
She looked at the [Memory Object] Ye Qiyan had taken out and shook her head.
"As you said, I actually knew long ago whether this thing could take us back.
Whether we go back doesn't matter all that much.
Perhaps we've simply sunk too much into it, and that's why we did those things before."
Ye Qiyan had met many Homecomers.
Grace of Solo City, Joel of the Nation on the Ship, Agula Tenge of the City of Miranda, the War Princess of Martial Might City, Heinz of Uto City...
Of all these people, only the War Princess had joined the Homecomers without initially intending to return to humanity's Primordial World.
Each of them had their own different goal, and they were willing to use any means to achieve it.
The only person who still dreamed of returning to humanity's Primordial World
was Lu Jiayun.
What exactly was he doing it for?
Did he have family he couldn't leave behind in his former world? Friends?
Opportunities like this to have a proper talk with these Homecomers were rare, and in these brief ten minutes, Ye Qiyan had other things he needed to understand first.
For instance...
"I do know something about the Homecomers' goal. By weakening Train Conductors, you weaken the Train System's authority, then find a way to break through the system's shackles and make the trains move backward, returning to the original starting point to find the past.
But who told you about this method?
And who can prove that it's right?"
Helen fell silent for a moment, then smiled and shook her head.
"I don't know."
"You don't know?"
That was no lie.
Helen's gaze seemed to cross the years as she recalled the past.
"That's right, I don't know... You seem very