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"Mo Li! Where did you just go?" Xie Jingbai asked curiously. "And what's with this cat?"

Leng Ran carefully considered his words and said, "After we parted ways, I was teleported to another prison, which looked like a place where large alien beasts were imprisoned, but the cells were empty. I found this cat in the prison."

"In addition, I found the 'only door' in that prison."

"The only door? It really is called the only door!" Xie Jingbai was unusually excited for a moment, but he quickly calmed down. "But the key is with me. Mo Li, can you still find your way there?"

“Unfortunately, I don’t know why I was teleported there, but…” Leng Ran took out the Soul Scythe, its sharp blade easily piercing the ground. “There’s a spare key there, and that’s what’s behind the door.”

Leng Ran brought up the item description of the Soul-Severing Scythe. After reading it, Xie Jingbai visibly felt a pang of disappointment: "Wangchuan... There's no known NPC with that name, and I don't have any clues. As for this scythe, it should just be a weapon, and the quality should be quite good."

"Although I didn't find the answer I was looking for, thank you for accepting my request. As payment, I will tell you about the hidden quests in Twilight Town and Windfall Fortress."

Xie Jingbai paused for a moment: "However, this isn't a good place to tell stories. Let's go outside and talk. Would you like a cup of tea?"

She agreed coldly, not wanting to go to jail again in disguise: "Okay, let's go get Xie Heyan out of jail then?"

Xie Jingbai: "No need, that's too troublesome. I have a faster way."

She opened her mission interface, selected the prison break mission, and then pressed the "Abandon" button.

The system's voice announced: "The prison break mission has been interrupted. You will be teleported to a safe area shortly."

The surrounding scenery began to fade, and Xie Jingbai and Leng Ran were teleported out of Anwan Island together.

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Meanwhile, Xie Heyan, still in prison, sat in a corner counting on his fingers: "She'll save me, she won't save me, she'll save me..."

"Forget it, she probably won't save me." Xie Heyan leaned his head against the cold stone wall and sighed. "Given my older sister's personality, she'll most likely just leave me here alone."

He closed his eyes: "It's only an hour. I'll take a nap and be out soon."

A rhythmic sound of footsteps came from outside the door, followed by two familiar voices.

"Xie Heyan, what are you thinking about? Go out."

"Yeah, if you want to stay here any longer, we'll be leaving now. The captain's waiting for us to eat."

Xie Heyan opened his eyes in surprise, and the people in front of him were Su Nanting and Ming Yang.

"Why...are you here?"

"Seeing you leave in such a hurry, I thought something had happened, so the captain sent us to check on you." Mingyang crossed his arms. "I never expected that someone would sneak out just to go to jail."

Xie Heyan lowered his head: "I... actually, it was my older sister who contacted me. I'm sorry, I should have explained things more clearly."

Su Nanting opened the cell door: "If you have something to say, let's talk outside. Xie Heyan, Mingyang, let's go."

Xie Heyan quickly stood up: "Coming, coming, thank you for coming to save me."

Su Nanting shook his head slightly: "We're all teammates, it's just our duty."

Mingyang chimed in, "Yes, why be so polite? Let's get practical. You're treating us to dinner tomorrow!"

Xie Heyan smiled and said, "Definitely!"

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Star Wars, Aoyama Tea House.

"Welcome to Qingshan Tea House. Would you two prefer to sit in the lobby or in a private room upstairs?"

Xie Jingbai went upstairs with practiced ease: "Second floor, Shuiyunjian. A pot of Osmanthus Longjing tea and a plate of peach blossom pastries, please. No need to lead the way."

In Star Wars, in addition to the mech combat system, there is also a unique food system that can convert the taste of various foods into brain signals and project them into the brain to produce the sense of taste.

Of course, to experience these delicacies in Star Wars, you need to spend points, and the amount is not small. Most players who are engrossed in combat will not spend their points on such enjoyment.

Xie Jingbai was an exception. As a strategy player who had no interest in fighting, she spent most of her points on various leisure activities, and the Green Mountain Tea House was a place she frequented.

After the two sat down at Shuiyunjian, the black Qilin found a place to lie down and sleep, while the intelligent waiter quickly brought the food and thoughtfully closed the door before leaving.

Leng Ran raised her teacup and took a sip. The aroma of Longjing tea, along with the fragrance of osmanthus, spread across her tongue, making her feel refreshed.

Xie Jingbai sat up straight: "Now we can start the story. Let's start with Twilight Town."

Twilight Town was a place Leng Ran had visited when she first entered Star Wars; it was the testing ground for the newbie annihilation battles. At that time, the civilians she encountered were all played by NPCs, and they were very mechanical, so they didn't leave a deep impression on her.

"I dare say that more than 90% of Star Wars players have done missions in Twilight Town. However, the map that the missions unlocked was not the complete town, or rather, it was just a silhouette of the town in the long river of time."

He coldly put down his teacup: "Professor Bai, I remember you once said that time does not flow in Star Wars."

“That’s right.” Xie Jingbai nodded. “The amazing thing is that because time is frozen, Twilight Town in three different time periods appears in Star Wars at the same time. And in these three maps, time is frozen.”

"These three maps are: the earliest time point - Twilight Town, the middle one is Ghost Mist Town, and the last one is where I obtained the key, Dawn Town. Buildings can be changed, but terrain cannot, and the terrain of these three maps is very similar, which is enough to prove that they are actually the same unknown town."

Thinking it over, if Ghost Mist Town is imagined as nighttime, then the time sequence of these three maps becomes very clear.

Dusk, late night, and then dawn.

She had been to the first two, but where was this Dawn Town?

"I owe you a great debt of gratitude for finding and obtaining this key," Xie Jingbai said. "Do you remember how you accidentally wandered into Ghost Mist Town and got trapped there?"

Leng Ran recalled, "To avoid the crowds, I randomly chose a nearby town to log off. One night when I logged back in, I found myself trapped inside. No, wait..."

In Star Wars, time does not flow.

Why does Ghost Fog Town experience day and night alternation?

He slammed his hand on the tea table: "Those were originally two maps! They just happened to overlap at the same location, appearing alternately!"

Xie Jingbai: "That's right. After we cracked the fog in Ghost Fog Town, this map disappeared, revealing the complete version of Dawn Town. The resident NPCs also changed from being static to being able to talk to each other."

"The hidden quest is simple. Just go there at midnight in real time, visit the mayor's house, and the quest will be automatically activated when you talk to him. It's called 'The Vanished Man'."

"The mayor said that their town was invaded by evil forces a hundred years ago, and all the residents were dominated by demons until they were finally saved by a mysterious person who fell from the sky."

Leng Ran was astonished. From midnight to dawn, it seemed like only one night, but in reality, it was a hundred years? She suddenly remembered what the golden figure had said: the source of evil had corrupted many worlds, and this town was very likely one of them!

Xie Jingbai continued to tell the story of the mysterious man.

"The mysterious man defeated evil and lived in the town for a while, leaving behind a key before he left. But strangely, after the mysterious man left, all the residents gradually forgot what he looked like, and couldn't even remember whether he was male or female. Some even forgot he existed altogether."

He lowered his gaze coldly: "The power to influence other people's memories...?"

Her memories seemed to have been tampered with; some memories that shouldn't belong to her had appeared in her mind. She clearly had never witnessed the destruction of Hope Star, yet everything in her memories felt so real.

No, there's another possibility!

Leng Ran suddenly felt a chill down her back.

Those memories were originally hers. Hope Star was indeed destroyed, but... the one who forgot this fact was her!