"Please help me, I'm being chased."
Firefly's words fell into Yun Fan's ears. Feeling the bursts of fragrant breeze coming from beside him, the latter couldn't help but show a trace of astonishment on his face.
Yun Fan slightly lowered his head, gazing at this beautiful girl who was shorter than him by nearly half a head, a strange feeling emerging in his heart.
Originally, this scene should have happened to Stelle, but now it had been intercepted by him instead. If he... just hypothetically, if he managed to win Firefly over, wouldn't that mean Stelle would lose her fated one?
Just as Yun Fan was secretly pondering, the Bloodhound Family's arrest team saw Firefly hiding behind Yun Fan and immediately furrowed their brows, barking sternly.
"Kid, I advise you not to meddle in other people's business. When the Bloodhound Family is handling affairs, no provocations are tolerated."
"Moreover, the girl behind you is a stowaway. If you insist on blocking us, then we can only consider you an accomplice and arrest you along with her!"
Hearing the warning from the Bloodhound Family's arrest personnel, Yun Fan gave a light chuckle and shook his head, then cupped his hands toward them.
"So it's the Bloodhound Family. My apologies for the disrespect."
Seeing Yun Fan's seemingly sensible attitude, the Bloodhound Family members' expressions eased slightly.
"Kid, you know your place. Hand over the stowaway, and we won't make things difficult for you."
"Bloodhound Family, Bloodhound Family—you've got a nice-sounding name, but let's be real, aren't you just a pack of the Family's lapdogs?"
'Shua——!'
As the words fell, the air at the scene instantly froze. The lead arrest officer, upon hearing Yun Fan's words, immediately flew into a rage, his entire body radiating intense killing intent.
Even Firefly behind Yun Fan couldn't help but open her mouth slightly in shock. She had thought Yun Fan would have some better way to resolve this, but who would have guessed he would directly go full area-of-effect trash talk, cursing every single Bloodhound Family member present.
"You—you say that again!"
The Bloodhound Family members were all filled with indignation, especially the lead arrest officer, who was now grinding his teeth in hatred, wishing he could immediately flay and skin the person before him.
"Heh, I didn't expect someone would actually beg to be cursed. But I don't have time to play with you lot."
With a cold laugh, Yun Fan pulled his dreamscape passport from his pocket and tossed it directly at the leader's feet.
The moment he saw the dreamscape passport, the arrest leader's face immediately darkened. He bent down, picked up the passport, and carefully verified it.
After confirming it was genuine, he walked heavily toward Yun Fan with unwillingness, forcing an ugly smile through gritted teeth. Under the incredulous gazes of the crowd, he returned the passport to the other party.
"This person is under my protection. You shouldn't have any objections, right?" Yun Fan said calmly.
"...None."
Though extremely unwilling, the Bloodhound Family members ultimately yielded to Yun Fan.
"Then thanks."
Shaking the passport in his hand, Yun Fan casually took the still-dazed Miss Firefly's soft little hand as if they were old acquaintances and strode away from this troublesome place.
"Boss, why let them go? That woman is a wanted criminal, and that man insulted..."
"Shut up!"
Before the subordinate could finish, the leader barked, cutting off the rest of his words.
"That person is not someone we can afford to provoke. Even if he were cursing the entire Family right now, the Family wouldn't push him to the opposing side."
'Gasp——!' ×N
Sounds of sharp intakes of breath echoed one after another at the scene. They never imagined the person before them had such a background that even the entire Family had to give way. Just who was this person?
Watching the departing backs of Yun Fan and Firefly, the arrest leader couldn't help but swallow hard. From the first moment he saw the dreamscape passport, he knew the person's identity was definitely not simple.
Unlike what was seen in the game, in reality, dreamscape passports were also divided into tiers.
Ordinary guests held low-level passports, Nameless of the Astral Express held mid-level passports, while the one Yun Fan held was the absolute top-tier.
This was a dreamscape passport personally issued by the head of the Oak Family, Sunday. It recorded some key information about the passport holder.
That information was written in encrypted runes, which only Family members could decipher. To ordinary people, they would merely appear as decorative patterns.
However, in truth, Sunday hadn't revealed too much content within it—he had only marked Yun Fan's status as an Emanator to prevent some blind fools from offending him.
Facts proved that Sunday's approach was extremely foresighted.
'I never expected the person before me to actually be an Emanator... One really can't judge by appearances!'
On the other side, after Yun Fan had pulled Firefly's small hand and walked quite a distance, the girl finally snapped out of her daze. Her face flushed red as she hurriedly broke free from Yun Fan's large hand.
But soon, the girl felt that doing so seemed a bit impolite, so she quickly apologized.
"I-I didn't mean it like that. It's just that suddenly having my hand held by someone, I felt a bit... a bit..."
Firefly's face was flushed red. Honestly, this was the first time she had ever had her hand held by a boy. Rather than resistance, it was mostly shyness in her heart.
As a Glamoth Iron Cavalry, though Firefly was usually decisive in killing and showed no mercy when hunting down remnants of the Propagation, when it came to matters like this, she was still just an ordinary, innocent girl.
"Hello, my name is Firefly. Thank you for helping me just now."
Placing one hand gently on her chest, Firefly sincerely thanked Yun Fan. In the girl's pink-blue pupils shimmered a pure, dreamlike starry sea, brilliant and fragrant.
"No problem, it was just a small effort." A gentle smile appeared on Yun Fan's face as he waved lightly, then continued half-jokingly.
"Besides, when a beautiful girl is in danger, how could I possibly stand by and do nothing?"