"The Express will remain docked for seven standard days. During this period, passengers may freely manage their own time."
"With me and Pom-Pom on the Express, it will definitely be enough."
"Do whatever you want to… do whatever you want to do, Dan Heng. Going now is better than regretting it later."
"…I understand."
Dan Heng nodded, turned around, and walked toward the direction of the train doors.
At this moment, Himeko slowly spoke:
"By the way, after things are over, you will return to the Express and travel with everyone, right?"
"…"
"Mm."
As Dan Heng passed by Pom-Pom, Pom-Pom also spoke:
"Passenger Dan Heng, have you changed your mind and decided to get off?"
"Yes."
"Then, Pom-Pom wishes you a smooth journey."
"After getting off, please make sure to return to the Express before departure time."
"It would be even better if you could bring back some local specialties, Pom."
"I have no money."
"…"
…
After getting off the Express, Dan Heng looked around.
After taking in the familiar scenery, he silently took out his phone and opened the group chat page.
Suddenly, he discovered that he seemed to have been kicked.
'You have been removed from the group chat…'
"…"
It seemed to have happened during the period after he snatched the museum split from those two and returned to the space station.
Because of that matter, those two birth products had secretly conspired and no longer included him.
"The Penguin group was also kicked."
"…"
After a moment of silence, Dan Heng opened Penguin's search bar, entered 883223197, and clicked to apply to join the group.
'(Operation has no response. Please check network settings)'
"?"
Immediately after, he directly found the chat boxes of those two from his friends list and sent each of them a private message.
'Message failed to send…'
"Network restricted, but some functions are still normal?"
Dan Heng was silent for a moment and quickly reached a possibility.
—His phone had probably been hacked.
"Oh no… Someone is deliberately targeting us."
Thinking of this, Dan Heng's expression grew solemn. He put away his phone, looked ahead, and quickened his steps.
After killing some flying rifts creatures and bypassing several small paths.
Ahead, the voices of living people finally reached him.
"You stay here nicely."
The one speaking was a girl. She gripped a long sword with both hands, with a golden-haired man standing behind her.
The girl shouted loudly:
"Leave matters of saving people in urgent need to the professionals!"
In front of the two were a large number of mara-struck soldiers.
Seeing them surrounded, Dan Heng quickly raised his spear and charged over.
"Huh? There's actually a helper?!" The girl was overjoyed.
"Careful!" ×2
"Ah?!"
Just as the girl named Sushang was dazed, a mara-struck soldier from the side raised its long blade and slashed a bloody wound across her body with a whoosh!
"You should still be more careful, miss."
The golden-haired man beside her sighed helplessly. He lightly tapped the ground with the long sword in his hand, and a complex green domain suddenly expanded outward.
Sushang, who was within it, saw her wound healing at a visible speed.
"Wow… So powerful!"
"Miss, don't get distracted. That mara-struck is charging at you again."
"Oh, no panic. I can fight!"
"…"
After a bout of fighting, the three finally beat all those mara-struck soldiers down.
Sushang wiped the fine sweat from her forehead and laughed:
"Hahaha… I told you we could definitely beat them!"
"By the way, this big brother's Cloud Knight spear technique is pretty good. Which squad are you from?"
Facing Sushang's gaze, Dan Heng only shook his head and said in a deep voice:
"I am not a Cloud Knight."
"Oh, okay."
"?"
To Dan Heng's surprise, this girl didn't ask at all where his Cloud Knight spear technique came from and simply skipped over it.
Then she spoke again:
"Then you're also a civilian. Come with me."
She looked at the two and smiled:
"I am Cloud Knight Sushang, newly transferred here from the Yaoqing Xianzhou!"
"This entire area is under lockdown. You two come with me. I'll take you to a safe place."
The golden-haired man beside her couldn't help asking:
"Miss Sushang, what happened to the Xianzhou? I have traveled here for business many times and have never seen the Central Starskiff Haven like this."
"This… I'm not at liberty to disclose. I only received orders to come for rescue… To be honest, I don't know either. In short, just come with me."
"Um…" Sushang looked at Dan Heng and asked:
"What is your name? I need to register it. I can't leave it blank, right?"
Dan Heng answered in a calm tone:
"My name is Dan Heng. I am traveling here and am about to meet up with my friends. There is no need for you to trouble yourself, miss. I can leave the port by myself."
"No no."
Sushang shook her head vigorously, rejecting Dan Heng's idea:
"What time is it now? There's no one at Central Starskiff Haven at all. If your friends are fine, they must be in the safe zone too. Don't worry. Come with me and you'll see them when we get there."
Safe zone?
Dan Heng was silent for a while, then suddenly asked:
"May I ask… where is the most dangerous place on the Xianzhou right now?"
"Huh? Why are you asking this?"
"It's nothing. Just curious."
"Mm… Let me think."
Sushang scratched her head and thought for a long time before finally answering:
"Other than the safe zone, every other place is quite dangerous."
"…" "…"
"What's with those looks on your faces?"
"It's nothing." The golden-haired man said in a deep voice:
"Miss, aren't you going to ask my name?"
"Oh oh, right. What was your name again?"
The golden-haired man smiled faintly:
"You may call me Luocha."
"Luocha? Oh, got it."
"…" Dan Heng silently watched this scene, his gaze falling on the golden-haired man.
Luocha…?
It didn't sound like a normal name.
"Mm! Let's go!"
Sushang said to the two with great satisfaction:
"You two stay close to me. Cloud Knight Sushang will definitely protect your safety!"
Dan Heng and Luocha exchanged a glance, both seemingly sensing that the other had some issues.
Luocha smiled lightly and made a "please" gesture to Dan Heng:
"Let's go. Following this Cloud Knight lady will make things much safer."
"Mm, good." Dan Heng nodded.
During the journey, Sushang suddenly said:
"Oh right, later you two remember to help me sign my name… I don't recognize too many characters and I'm afraid I'll write it wrong…"
"…" "…"
…
On the other side.
Zeig knocked on his phone, extremely puzzled:
"What's going on? Did I forget to pay the phone bill? No way… My browser is working fine, so why isn't the chat app working?!"
"Huh, why does the top of your screen show VPN on? What exactly are you watching?"
"It's nothing. Harmless."
Zeig quickly turned his phone screen black and put it back in his pocket.
"Too bad. The Alliance Leader's settlement animation can only be shown to Dan Heng after we return to the Express."
"Hey… Uncle Yang is about to jump off a building! Look!" March 7th looked into the distance and suddenly nudged Zeig's elbow.
"Huh?!"