"We still cannot determine the intentions of this Emanator of Erudition at present. Or perhaps, it really is as she said, and this Lady Herta has truly come to Penacony merely to seek a friend?"
Sunday was noncommittal, spreading his hands somewhat helplessly in a half-joking manner.
Not only did the Dreammaster Gopher Wood not believe Herta's words, but Sunday, as the Family's decision-maker, also did not believe them.
To cross thousands of light-years to come here just to find someone? Listen to yourself—if you believe that, you're out of your mind.
"Our plan has incorporated a new variable. Apart from that Emanator of Causality, an Emanator of Erudition has now actively become involved in our plan."
Gopher Wood flapped its wings and flew to a position level with Sunday, staring directly into the other's brilliant eyes.
"Hehe." Hearing this, Sunday chuckled, a subtle expression flickering in his eyes.
"As the saying goes, life and death, fortune and misfortune can turn in an instant. Our success or failure might have been destined from the very moment the plan was conceived..."
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"What exactly is this place..."
In a black-and-white void space filled with nothingness, Welt was groping his way forward. However, no matter how he walked or in which direction he advanced, all he saw before him was an endless void of black and white, with no sign of any exit or end.
"This place... is filled with the aura of Nihility. Could it be that this is the legendary Nihility Realm?"
Pushing up the rimless glasses on his forehead, Welt furrowed his brows slightly and began recalling the events of the past few days.
A few days ago, when the train encountered a giant True Sting insect, to cover the Astral Express's retreat, he activated the Eden Star's zero-rated power output inside this massive insect's body.
Under the infusion of Path power, a massive pseudo-black hole collapsed and compressed into formation within the True Sting insect.
As expected, the powerful gravitational pull of the pseudo-black hole tore the True Sting insect to shreds from inside to out.
However, just as Welt wanted to shut down the black hole, perhaps due to absorbing too much mass, the pseudo-black hole did not close successfully in the first moment.
On the contrary, the black hole's power grew even stronger, even distorting space.
Adhering to the principle of 'this is my mess, and the consequences shouldn't be borne by others,' Welt used Path power to envelop his entire body and actively entered the black hole, intending to shut down this pseudo-black hole from the inside.
After entering the black hole, Welt felt darkness before his eyes. When light re-entered his vision, Welt astonishingly discovered that he had arrived in another dimension.
No, to be precise, he should have arrived in another star domain.
'I am unharmed. Under the black hole's traction, I seem to have arrived in another star domain...'
Welt reported his safety to the crew of the Astral Express. Seeing the prompt that the message had been successfully sent on his phone, Welt pondered for a moment.
"The message sent successfully. It seems this star domain has no particular interfering magnetic field."
"Moreover, the star domain I'm in now should belong to known star domains and should be included in the Interastral Peace Corporation's service range."
Organizing the currently known information, Welt began calculating his position.
"There seem to be no valuable reference objects around... Perhaps I can..."
Welt took out his phone from his pocket again, quickly pressed a few keys on the screen, and after dialing the Interastral Peace Corporation's service hotline, Old Yang held the phone to his ear.
'Sorry, the area you are using is out of service range. Please go to a service area to dial again...'
Welt: '???'
Listening to the voice from the phone, Welt zoomed out the screen, looking at the phone in his hand with the expression of an old man on the subway looking at his phone.
What was this situation? Clearly, he had just sent a message successfully, but when he tried to make a call, it showed he was out of service area?
Refusing to believe it, Welt sent another message, but this time, a red X mark appeared in front of it.
"Message sending failed. Is there some kind of malfunction? Wait... No, something is interfering with the quantum communication transmission!"
Having a hunch, Welt instinctively turned his head, and in that instant, a light that seemed capable of withering all things shone upon Welt.
It was at this moment that Welt briefly lost consciousness. When he came back to his senses, he found himself in a dreamlike realm interwoven with black and white.
'Chaos at the beginning, Yin and Yang manifesting.'
The two opposing colors of black and white intertwined and entangled in this strange space, ultimately forming a black sun, with a ring of white energy adorning its edge.
Pulling his thoughts back from a few days ago to the present, gazing at the black sun before him, Welt deeply furrowed his brows.
Though he didn't know how he had arrived in this Nihility Realm, his subconscious told him that leaving this place smoothly would be extremely difficult.
'Hum!'
A fluctuation of Nihility Path power, Welt gripped the staff in his hand tightly, then without hesitation, swung the staff toward the sun before him.
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"Dear passengers, please take your seats. The train will perform a warp jump in ten seconds. Please take your seats."
"Please take your seats. This conductor repeats, especially Passenger March 7th!"
As Pom-Pom's voice fell, everyone in the train car simultaneously turned their gazes to March 7th.
And at this moment...
This girl was planning to quietly stand up.
Seeing everyone's gazes on her, even the usually lively and cheerful March 7th couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed.
The girl gave an awkward smile, her face slightly flushed as she said: "Um, um... Actually, I just wanted to go out to use the bathroom, nothing else... hehehe."
Seeing the girl trying so hard to cover it up, our navigator Lady Himeko shook her head with a laugh.
"Little March, this time just sit obediently. From Herta Space Station to Penacony, there are thousands of light-years. Even though the Astral Express can warp, the process will take a full 15 minutes or so."
"If Little March doesn't mind rolling around on the floor for these 15 minutes, then I'm actually fine with it."
Looking at the already sweating March 7th before her, Himeko said with a half-smile.
"Uh... Then, then forget it. I'll sit obediently..."
Sticking out her tongue mischievously, March 7th obediently sat back in her seat, completely losing her earlier eager-to-try appearance.
Please, if she really rolled on the floor for dozens of minutes, would she still have any face? She'd probably become a lifelong laughingstock.