Monrojina, a woman whom Ye Qiyan considered a charlatan on the same level as Zhuxing Tu.
Her personality was much better than Zhuxing Tu's, though, provided you owed her no favors. Or rather...
Karma.
["Thanks, Gina, but I only just got back to the Wasteland. How did you know?"]
Ye Qiyan knew that, because time flowed differently in High-Level Platform Worlds and the Wasteland, simply checking whether chat was available would tell you whether a Train Conductor had returned to the Wasteland.
But that still required watching constantly.
["Just an insignificant low-level permission. Besides..."]
["As my only karmic creditor, you're the only person on my friends list marked for special attention until that karmic debt is fully repaid."]
For some reason, looking at those words, Ye Qiyan could almost see Monrojina smiling at him, as though she meant to see right through him.
The feeling was truly strange. He skipped straight past the subject and asked:
["Did you need something?"]
[Ding]
A document was sent over.
Its title, [Imperial Sequence major event brief · City of Eternal Night], made Ye Qiyan's gaze sharpen slightly.
Even without opening it, he could guess that this was definitely the work of that charlatan Zhuxing Tu.
And... the City of Eternal Night?
That city ruled entirely by Vampires and monsters, who even worshipped a Blood God.
What would happen when the Imperial Sequence people went there went without saying.
["Why are you the one recruiting this time, Gina? Where's Zhuxing Tu?"]
["Severely injured and unconscious. She nearly died. What a shame."]
["?"]
["Is that so strange? She can hear that disgusting fate, yet she's never satisfied. When there's something she wants to know, she never cares whether probing fate will kill her.
Zhuxing Tu is a lunatic. An irritating one..."]
["Is it related to