Give Star Iron a little MC shock

Liu Ying smiled and stopped dwelling on the matter. Instead, she looked up again at the VIP floor of the Daydream Hotel, trying to figure out which room Xing He would be staying in.

Silver Wolf leaned close to her face and said in a low voice, "I can't help you get a VIP room. It's already difficult enough to get you a regular room. VIP rooms can only be obtained with the unanimous approval of the patriarchs of those families."

Liu Ying gave a sheepish laugh, a hint of disappointment flashing in her eyes: "I know."

Silver Wolf looked at her like this and sighed speechlessly.

"Your health isn't good to begin with, and you'd be more relaxed in your dreams, so why did you have to come out of your dream today? I bet it wasn't to greet me, but to see someone else, right?"

Liu Ying also said helplessly, "Silver Wolf, I can't see him anytime and anywhere like you and Kafka. I finally have a chance to see him, so please let me be willful for a little while longer."

"Whatever. I'm not Eriol, so I won't ask you to follow the script exactly. But I just want to remind you not to get caught in real life."

After saying that, Silver Wolf got up and stretched.

"I'm going to pick someone up. What about you? Are you going to continue being a stalker or what?"

"Who, who's the stalker!"

Liu Ying glared at Yin Lang, embarrassed and annoyed. She had only looked at Xing He for a little while, how did that make her a stalker?

Silver Wolf chuckled.

"The first thing you do when you wake up from a dream is come to find someone. If you're not a stalker, then what are you!"

Chapter 168 The Lost Messenger

"Director Xing He, this is your room."

Sha Jin led Xing He to a door. Xing He took out his room card and swiped it at the door. The door opened with a click, and the two went inside together.

The room was very luxuriously furnished. In addition to the basic amenities of a guest room, it also had a wine cabinet with a wide variety of alcoholic beverages for guests to enjoy.

But the only difference between this room and the others is that there is a huge 'bathtub' at the very back of the room, filled with some viscous sky-blue liquid, with bubbles floating on top from time to time.

"What is this thing that looks like a bathtub?"

Although Xing He thought it looked similar to a bathtub, the liquid inside was clearly not for bathing.

Sand Gold explained, "This is the Dream Pool. As long as you lie in it and hold your breath, you can enter the dream world. According to the family, everything can be realized in that dream."

"Is this the tool for entering dreams?"

Xing He glanced at the Dream Pool with some anticipation. If Ji Zi hadn't told them to meet up after putting away their luggage, he would have really wanted to lie down in it and enter the dream world to take a look.

"Next, I wonder if Director Xing He could give me some time to talk about another matter."

Suddenly, Sha Jin spoke up behind Xing He, who turned around and raised an eyebrow.

"You need my help?"

Sand Gold paused for a moment, then couldn't help but laugh and clap his hands: "As expected of Director Xing He, No. 85 of the Genius Club, you guessed my little trick right away."

Xing He spread his hands and pointed to the sofa next to him: "Let's sit down and talk. And this matter is not hard to guess. Back when we were in Yalilo, Emerald asked me to take good care of her colleagues at Pinocchio if I could. I haven't seen any other people from the Strategic Investment Department here. Obviously, that person is you, right?"

Sand Gold sat down on the sofa with Xing He, then nodded and replied, "That's right, the family has spies everywhere. This is the only time I can talk to you, Director Xing He."

He arrived in Pinocchio the day before. Before meeting Xinghe and the others today, Diamond had contacted him and said that Xinghe would also be coming to Pinocchio.

Because his family has been keeping a close eye on the company, it will be difficult for them to provide additional assistance once he enters the dream world. Xing He will be his strongest ally at that time, so Sha Jin came to find him.

Xing He stared at the gold dust in front of him with great interest and teased, "Your family sent out invitations to all the major powers in the universe because of that grand ceremony that's coming up, right? It's clearly a grand event, so why are you asking for my help? Is your company planning to cause some big stir in Pinocchio?"

“How could that be?” Sand Gold spread his hands with a smile. “There are many foreign guests here, and the company needs to be mindful of its image. The Strategic Investment Department is just here to reclaim some assets that originally belonged to the company. It’s nothing major. However, the invitation you just mentioned, Director Xing He, was not actually issued by the family.”

"Huh?" Xing He was taken aback. If it wasn't from the family, then who could it be?

Himeko's side has not said that her family has denied these invitations.

“[The Watchmaker].” Sand Gold slowly wiped the smile from his face, looking at Xing He with a serious expression: “There was a coded message in the invitation sent to the company. After analysis by the technology department, we learned that this invitation was actually sent by [The Watchmaker]. He left us invitees with a question: [Why does life fall asleep?] Whoever answers this question will receive [The Watchmaker's] legacy. So, Director Xing He, do you now feel that this seemingly peaceful and prosperous Star Event is actually rife with undercurrents?”

"So, you want me to help the company seize this so-called inheritance?"

"No, the company doesn't care about inheritance or anything like that. They just want to regain control of Pinocone. A long time ago, Pinocone was a border prison that the company used to hold prisoners. But after a commotion, the company lost control of Pinocone. Now that the old guys at the company see that Pinocone is doing so well, they naturally want to take it back. Alas, this kind of hard work ends up falling on us workers."

"So how exactly do you want my help? (刭)"

Xing He discovered that Sha Jin liked to speak in a roundabout way, and he quickly lost patience with him.

Sand Gold seemed to realize that Xing He was getting impatient, so he quickly explained with a forced smile, "Of course I wouldn't dare to trouble Director Xing He with anything, but I just hope that you can lend a hand in some situations. Even if you don't take action, just agreeing to help will give us a lot of confidence in our operations in Pinocchio."

Xing He did not refuse this point: "Okay, for the sake of the jade and diamonds, I will help you if necessary."

Jade and diamonds have already brought him considerable benefits, so this small favor is acceptable; mutual exchange is essential to maintaining a good relationship.

"As long as you don't disturb my time in Pinocchio..."

Before Xing He could finish speaking, a tall figure suddenly appeared at the doorway.

Why are you in my room?

Sha Jin and Xing He both looked towards the door, where they saw a woman dressed in purple clothes, holding a katana in her right hand.

Sand Gold frowned and turned to Xing He, asking, "Director Xing He, is this your companion?"

Xing He shook his head: "Of course not."

Sand Gold understood, then said to the woman at the door in a somewhat unfriendly tone, "This is a VIP room. The names of all guests who can stay here can be found, but I don't remember your name being on the Daydream Hotel's VIP list, unfamiliar lady."

The woman was also a little surprised to hear the words "VIP room". She then took out her room card from her pocket, glanced at it, and bowed her head to apologize to the two men.

"Sorry, I'm lost. I've come to the wrong room."

After saying that, the woman turned and left the room, closing the door behind her.

Watching the woman leave, Sand Gold couldn't help but complain, "I never thought someone could get lost and end up in a VIP room on a separate floor. Could this person be some kind of fangirl? I remember that Miss Robin was also on this floor."

Xing He looked at the marker on the mini-map that showed the woman from earlier, along with a long string of her name.

"I don't think the envoy would be a fangirl."

"Commander?!"

"Yes, sir."

[Void Envoy, Lightning, Forgotten River Guardian, Mei]

Chapter 169 As everyone knows, the protagonist is always at the center of a conspiracy (First Update)

"That woman was actually the Commander..."

Sand Gold was extremely surprised after learning Huang Quan's identity. A messenger had actually infiltrated Pinocchio, and he didn't know whether this would be good or bad for his upcoming plans.

If it were before, he might have been worried for a while, but now... Sha Jin secretly glanced at Xing He.

Director Xing He is no less capable than any of the envoys!

At least according to the company's intelligence, Director Xing He's apparent strength is at least that of a Pleasure Envoy. Diamond had previously told him that [Pleasure] had lent all its power to Xing He. Although he remained skeptical about this, Director Xing He was certainly no weaker than an Envoy.

With such a powerful figure as his trump card, Sand Gold felt he had nothing to worry about anymore.

"Director Xing He, I'll be leaving now. I need to have a talk with one of the family patriarchs later, so please excuse me for not being able to stay any longer."

"Yeah, I need to go meet up with my friends too."

After parting ways with Sand Gold, Xing He went directly to the lobby of the Daydream Hotel, where Ji Zi and the others had arranged to meet him.

Xing He quickly walked over to Ji Zi and the others who were chatting on the sofa in the lobby.

"Sister Himeko, I'm here. Have I kept you waiting?"

Ji Zi and the others looked up at Xing He and shook their heads: "No, we just got here. Now that everyone is here, let's begin."

Xing He sat down opposite Ji Zi and glanced left and right at the bustling hotel lobby.

"Are you sure you want to talk about serious matters here? Aren't you afraid of being overheard?"

Himeko smiled and shook her head, saying, "Don't worry, Walter has set up some devices around us to make it difficult for people to notice us. This is a common trick among nameless people."

Xing He understood, so he didn't ask any more questions and quietly waited for Ji Zi to speak.

Himeko glanced at the group and then said softly, "We came to Pinocchio not only to keep our appointment, but also to investigate the matter of the three nameless seniors. However, the train conductor only provided the names of these three nameless seniors, so we need to investigate the rest ourselves. I will send the names to your phones later. Now, let's get to the second thing."

Himeko took a music box from her small suitcase and placed it on the table in front of them.

Walter immediately recognized the music box as an invitation sent by the [family] to the Star Train: "This is an invitation, isn't it? Himeko, why did you suddenly take this out?"

"Because I previously discovered that this music box had some static when it played, and that static perfectly matched the wavelength emitted by the train during its jump—a common distress signal among anonymous passengers—I deciphered the following message from this cipher text..."

Just as Ji Zi was about to speak the coded message, Xing He couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"Could it be about the watchmaker's legacy, and the answer to the question of why life sleeps?"

Although Xing He muttered very softly, everyone heard him, and Ji Zi, who was about to say these words, was also taken aback.

"Xiao Xinghe, how did you know? You shouldn't have seen this music box before."

Seeing that Ji Zi and the others had heard his mutterings, Xing He simply recounted his previous conversation with Sha Jin in detail.

"This was told to me by that guy from the strategic investment department. He said that the invitations the company received also contained a similar coded message, and the content was almost identical to the one you have, Sister Ji. This is very interesting. Did the person who sent out the invitations add such a coded message to all the invitations? And what was their reason for doing so?"

Walter listened to Xing He's words and couldn't help but frown and ponder: "Perhaps the person who sent the invitation wanted to hide the fact that the invitation was actually intended for the Starry Sky Train."

Himeko strongly agreed with Walter's point of view: "Yes, the cipher appeared as a means of calling for help among nameless people. The real purpose of the person behind it is to lure the Star Train here."

Himeko pondered, resting her chin on her hand: "This probably brings us back to those three nameless seniors I mentioned earlier. According to the train conductor, none of those three seniors were immortal beings, and their active period was long ago. Those three nameless seniors are probably dead. So who would have used this to lure the Starry Sky Train here?"

These are questions that they cannot answer now.

March 7th was already quite dizzy from all these convoluted matters, and couldn't help but rub her forehead and shake her head: "Ugh, I thought this vacation would go smoothly! But it turns out we've fallen into some kind of grand conspiracy again! My intuition tells me that Pinocchio's dream is probably going to turn into a nightmare!"

Seeing the worried look on March 7th's face, Himeko smiled and reached out to rub her little head.

"Don't worry about Xiao Sanyue, you can go on your trip without worry this time. Leave these things to me, Xing He and Walter. Just relax."

"How can that be done!"

March 7th couldn't help but mutter, "You're all busy with important things, and I'm the only one playing around. It makes me feel like a burden. Besides, if we're going to play, we should all play together happily! How can I be the only one enjoying myself? I want to help too!"

Himeko smiled with relief, having not refused March 7th.

“Alright, in that case, let’s go into the dream world and investigate the matter of those three nameless seniors. Walter and I will find an opportunity to talk to the family.”

"Great! I can finally go into the world of dreams and take a look!"