" Robin..." Sunday's voice trembled slightly. "Let's go talk over there." He then led the Robin aside. "Brother..." The Robin seemed to want to say something, but Sunday stopped him. "... No need to say anything more, it's good that you're alright."
" Hanxing..." The moment the group arrived, several hostile gazes quickly locked onto Hanxing. The first to speak up was naturally March 7th: "Tell us honestly, what are you planning this time?"
"Didn't I tell Qiong everything about my intentions?" Hanxing's eyes held a hint of innocence. "And you, Qiong. You were so badly deceived by him last time, and you still believe him this time!" Qiong scratched his head. "It concerns our future, I dare not make a rash decision."
"I advise you to behave yourself, or I'll smash your dog head in!" March 7th turned to Hanxing and made a fist gesture. "Alright, alright, let's get back to business." Qiong comforted her from the side, and then everyone's eyes turned to Gallagher.
"I promised to give those siblings some private space. Let's talk about our business first. What do you all think?" Gallagher said to the others who were slowly gathering around.
"It's alright. But Mr. Gallagher has gone to great lengths to bring together the Family head, the Astral Express, and the Stellaron Hunters, so he must have something important to tell them," Welt replied, then posed another question to Gallagher.
"Wow, even you guys noticed," Gallagher exclaimed. "You practically have 'mastermind' written all over your face..." March 7th teased. "Haha, Mr. Welt is right, it's definitely time to be frank," Gallagher chuckled, then continued:
"The brother and sister already know what they need to know, and they know how to choose. Since Nameless all arrived rather late, I should take some time to answer your questions. Let's begin, let's reintroduce ourselves—" Gallagher's expression turned serious as he spoke, word by word:
"The founder of Dreamflux Reef, the ' Watchmaker's' assistant, and also the one who sent out that invitation..." Greetings from the History Fictionologist, Gallagher.
"So, you History Fictionologist, all that stuff you told us before was made up?" March 7th's tone was somewhat unfriendly, but Gallagher explained, "I can guarantee that. The stories I told you all before were all true... well, most of them, except for the part about ' my the Family taking me back'."
"I've confirmed with Mr. Mikhail that the information about the Family, the ' Watchmaker,' and Mikhail is accurate," Himeko added from the side.
"Long live understanding! Now we can talk openly. I'm sure you're all eager to know why I went to such lengths to orchestrate an inheritance battle, extending invitations to so many factions and causing such chaos in Penacony..." Gallagher paused, then continued, "The answer is actually quite simple, and you're all very familiar with it. The root of it all... is the ' Stellaron '."
"Did my random excuse actually come true?" Hanxing was a little surprised, but she continued to listen to the conversation. " The Stellaron? Penacony is unobstructed, a well-connected interstellar hub, and it doesn't seem to have any signs of contamination. How could it be related to the Stellaron?" Welt questioned.
They had noticed this problem as early as when Hanxing said the legacy was Stellaron, so they were skeptical of Hanxing's words. "You're absolutely right, so why don't you guess what this means?" Gallagher revealed a satisfied smile.
"Someone is manipulating the Stellaron," Qiong guessed. "Very perceptive, how should I put it? No wonder you're the person here most familiar with the Stellaron," Gallagher joked, then continued:
"Dreams don't just appear out of thin air. If we compare the Memory Zone to a vast ocean, building a land of dreams is like reclaiming land from a turbulent sea. To achieve this feat, the only way, if not through the Emanator of ' Remembrance ' or 'Mysterious' messengers, is to use a Stellaron."
"Moreover, this isn't something that can be accomplished simply by making a wish. It requires a considerable level of knowledge, along with a significant amount of time and manpower, to achieve such a flawless result. Now that I've explained it this way, you should understand... The current ' Planet of Festivities ' is none other than the Asdana's Stellaron catastrophe."
Hanxing nodded in agreement. As the person who had been manipulating the Tuning for the longest time, he knew very well how difficult it was to Trailblaze out such a large dreamland within a Memory Zone. " The Planet of Festivities... is the Stellaron Disaster?" March 7th asked incredulously.
"The story begins long ago," after the " Watchmaker " and his group liberated the border prison, they were at a loss as to how to build Penacony from scratch, while internal and external troubles continued to plague them. It was then that someone set their sights on the Stellaron.
"This Stellaron originally fell into Asdana during the war. At the time, thanks to the pleas of the Nameless, people abandoned the idea of being tainted by its power. However, there were always those with ulterior motives lurking in the shadows. The turning point came after Tiernan's sacrifice. The deaths of two of the Nameless's companions forced the ' Watchmaker ' to go to the frontier. And this journey gave his rivals an opportunity."
"By the time the Family representatives from the Montor System responded to the ' Watchmaker's' call and arrived, the Stellaron had already been activated and infiltrated into the primal Synesthesia Dreamscape." "I guess the Family happens to possess the knowledge of sealing the Stellaron?" Himeko interrupted Gallagher's long-winded explanation, offering her own guess.
"More than that! Their understanding of the Stellaron is far greater than that of ordinary people. They quickly helped Mikhail quell the internal strife and joined the construction of Penacony under the name of ' Harmony '." "No wonder I feel that my abilities are particularly compatible with the Stellaron. Could it be that the Stellaron is originally related to ' Harmony '?" Hanxing thought to himself.
"That was the 3rd century, known as the 'Age of Dreams,' when the ' Watchmaker, ' kept in the dark, extended an invitation to the entire universe, igniting a craze called the Land of Dreams." "And how did they later become enemies?" March 7th's voice was somewhat agitated.
"Remember that 'land reclamation' analogy? The truth is that the Stellaron was never sealed; it just exists in a dream in a different form. Think about it carefully: what is the price to build and maintain such a massive 'dream'?" "Life..." Hanxing's voice trembled slightly. He wished Gallagher would refute him, but that didn't happen.
"That's right. The magnificent dream is built upon the death of the spirit. The poison called 'pleasure' flows through the dream, intoxicating people, and their minds slowly drift towards the same destination, eventually becoming the placenta of the beautiful dream. Confusion, laziness, cowardice... these weaknesses that are ubiquitous in human nature are amplified and nurtured by the Family, turning Penacony into another kind of prison, far more indestructible than the one before."
"We discovered it too late. By then, the Family had already gained immense influence, and those who opposed us were quickly controlled and expelled. With nowhere else to turn, I had no choice but to rely on 'mysterious' power to hide in this chaotic Memory Zone, and spend several years 'fabricating' a meme in my dreams for our use--"
" Dormancy," that's his real name. Because ordinary people can't fall asleep again in their dreams, we had the opportunity to exploit this loophole." Gallagher's confession quickly came to an end.