The ancients watched me play the Starry Sky Railway

"Gallah turned to look at Xing. "I met this young lady once during a golden age. I remember the little girl with silver hair was there... I feel deeply sorry for what happened to that child."

"Hearing this, Xing's mood also fell: "We are sorry too."

"This is why we came to visit Mr. Gallagher. The train couldn't just sit there and watch the child die. We decided to help the family find out the truth and hope to get justice for her." Jizi's tone was also a little depressed.

"The unknown guest has become entangled with the family... what a cruel twist of fate." Gallagher sighed.

"What's wrong with the family?" Sanyueqi was puzzled.

"This person is obviously a member of the family, right? Why does he seem so indifferent to the family?"

"No, don't worry about it," Gallagher said, smiling and shaking his head. "At Pinocchio, everyone loves family. No matter how much one resists a dream, when the time comes, they will find it hard to leave. Who would leave their warm nest? Only fools, children... and drunks with their heads in the clouds."

"...Mr. Gallagher seemed to have a hidden meaning." Jizi raised an eyebrow.

"This drunkard... are you talking about Gallagher himself? Himeko smelled a strong odor of alcohol emanating from Gallagher."

"Who are that fool and the kid?"

Gallagher chuckled twice. "You misunderstood. I didn't. You want to talk about the case? Yes, come with me. This place is not suitable for talking. Let's move somewhere else."

"He's clearly from the Hound family, but he doesn't really like family, and he doesn't really like beautiful dreams..."

Li Bai stroked his chin and thought.

"So, this person is at odds with the family, right? Could it be... that he's the traitor within the family? Is he also involved in the deaths of Firefly and Mockingbird?"

Li Bai took a deep breath and felt that Xing and the others were in danger.

Now that he could no longer drink, he stared intently at the sky, fearing that he would miss any information.

…………

"On the other side, the golden hour."

Walter looked at the beautiful dream before him and couldn't help but sigh, "Even after such a horrific tragedy, this dream is still operating in an orderly manner."

"The dream is crumbling," Huang Quan said, startlingly, "but it's not because of a particular star god, a particular faction, or a specific visitor. Its collapse stems from a certain inevitability of human nature. The family is unwilling to acknowledge this, but it has invisibly become the catalyst."

"Walter listened quietly to Huang Quan's shocking words, but judging from his expression... he didn't seem surprised at all."

“When people allow their minds to indulge in dreams of free, painless comfort and enjoyment, they draw ever closer to necrosis.”

"No matter how blissful he may think he is, death is the inevitable outcome."

"Furthermore, this necrosis will spread and diffuse. The mutation of a single piece of the puzzle will eventually cause the entire building to shake, shatter...collapse."

“In the end, the beautiful dreams people build for freedom will in turn become cages that imprison themselves.”

"It is true that... one is born in sorrow and dies in comfort."

Mencius was somewhat surprised that people from another world had the same feelings as him.

But if you think about it carefully, these two people, Walter has a mysterious origin, and Huang Quan is an envoy, are both outstanding people.

It would be strange if I didn't have this feeling.

"Pinocone is a peaceful place, but if it continues like this for a long time, it will have no future..."

However, even so, Mencius still liked Pinocchio very much.

Such a beautiful dream world is so similar to the world of great harmony that Confucians pursue!

…………

"Then the two of them shared their findings."

"Walter asked first, 'At the Hour of Dawn, I heard there's a 'Morning Dawn Factory' that processes the foundations of dreams. I wonder what you've discovered there?'"

"Behind the sensual pleasures lie factories of imagination. Day after day, workers create all sorts of fantastical products in their dreams, then return to reality to rest on couches far removed from luxurious guest rooms."

"They say that this is enough, that the bizarre dreams are the best reward."

Huang Quan said calmly, his tone lacking any emotion, yet it seemed filled with sarcasm.

"Those dressed in silk are not silkworm breeders..."

Zhang Yu murmured the poem he had written and finally let out a long sigh.

"Even in such a beautiful dream, is it actually like this?"

Is it true that human nature cannot be changed no matter which world we live in?

…………

"Then the two exchanged experiences in 'The Gilded Hour,' 'The Blue Hour,' and 'The Dusk Hour.'"

"How should I put it? These are all realistic yet absurd scenes."

“Someone once said to me: Pinocchio wasn’t like this a long time ago, and it shouldn’t be like this.”

“I walked through the reality and dreams of the event star, watching the night rise and fall. Time stood still for people, and the spiritual richness and poverty... also remained forever at their own scales.”

“So I think the collapse of the ‘beautiful dream’ is inevitable.”

"Huang Quan made his own judgment again."

Walter: "Maybe it can change all this."

"Maybe." Huang Quan said indifferently, "But if this is the world people expect—if this is why life chooses to sleep—should I still make changes?"

"Isn't it that the reason why Pinocchio has become what it is today is that it has been transformed step by step by the wishes of the people?"

"Even if others try to change it, it will eventually return to its original state."

"…" Walter was silent for a moment, then raised his eyes: "Miss Huang Quan, let me share a story with you."

Huang Quan: "Please speak."

"There was a man from my hometown who, at a time when the world was in deep pain, made a decision."

“He wove together the dreams of everyone in the world, connecting their dreams to each other, and then carried them on his own body. In doing so, he created a giant, a ‘spiritual Adam.’”

"From then on, the giant stood between heaven and earth, becoming the pillar of the world's existence. But in exchange, those who found it difficult to move forward, those who could not move forward... they would lose their future forever."

"They sleep in a dream free of disaster and suffering, living out their lives in peace in the utopia created by men. And their 'spiritual Adam' becomes indestructible because of their unwillingness to wake up."

Huang Quan: "But it's you standing here right now, which means he has failed."

"Walter turned his head and looked at Huang Quan meaningfully."

“Because people always have to move forward. Even if human weaknesses hold them back, when they truly cannot move forward… people will definitely try to save themselves.”

"And that man...he was never a loser either."

“He is the mythical Sun Chaser, soaring toward the heavens and ultimately falling to his triumph.”

“He rose high to reach the sun, where no man had ever reached before.”

“He will melt and fall into the sea, and after that... countless people will fly over his body and soar even higher into the sky.”