An Imaginary Number Gate in the form of a green grid appeared in front of the train.
It passed through.
Light returned outside the windows.
The train emerged from the Imaginary Number Gate.
The green grid space fell downward.
Until it finally landed on the ground.
"Huh? This feeling... why is it so much like when I first met Monrojina, and she extracted the train from the Tunnel Capsule?"
Ye Qiyan recalled what had happened on the hyperspace platform in Solo City when he first met Monrojina.
"So that means the Capsule Tunnel and those hyperspace platforms she made are all connected to imaginary number space."
He set those thoughts aside and looked outside.
What met his eyes...
Was a towering tree directly ahead.
The sky over this space was a silent night.
In the night sky, stars glowing white platinum were connected to one another by lines.
They resembled some powerful, mysterious ritual.
At the center of these connections stood that tree.
"Is the treasure over there?"
WALL-E nodded.
Ye Qiyan lowered his gaze.
Before him stood a tall wall, and within the walls lay a place full of turns and tangled paths...
"A maze?"
Yes.
This was a maze.
"So the thing is on that tree, and to get there, I have to go through this maze first..."
Ye Qiyan hated mazes.
In fact, he did not much like puzzle games of any kind, either.
Mazes were troublesome and wasted time.
However, it seemed he would not need to find his way after entering the maze.
Because WALL-E...
Had already found a route for him.
He put the train into the Matrix.
Ye Qiyan stepped into the enormous maze.
With WALL-E leading him the whole way, he headed toward the giant tree protected at the maze's center without