Star Railway: The Last of the Grammer Riders

Chapter 170 The trip to Pinocchio is coming to an end!

As the two strolled around, they arrived at the border of the dream and stood on that balcony once again.

The moment I arrived was just as a shooting star was falling from the sky and crashing to the ground, and the accompanying singing in the distance made the scene incredibly beautiful.

It can be said to be one of the most beautiful landscapes in Pinocchio.

Most importantly, it's very quiet here. It's a good place to stop and take a break during your journey.

"Why do you have to choose to die? Isn't there any other way? You know I..." Liu Ying couldn't bring herself to say the last part, "I'm very worried," and finally fell silent.

"Sigh... there's a reason for this. First, I need to get into Dream Reef before you to find Galah and the others and discuss some things, but the roads from Pinocchio to Dream Reef are all blocked. 'Sleep' is one of the current methods to get to Dream Reef, but... the method is a bit... you know. The others are using the power of nothingness to counteract the protection of harmony in the dream or entering the dream with a purely physical body." Ye Tianyu said somewhat helplessly.

"Then why not ask Nasita and Xiaoshi for help? Just like when we went to Liumeng Reef," Liuying asked.

"There are two reasons. First, my actions cannot be known to the train crew. Second, to get through this way, I need someone's permission. For example, imagine there's a room in front of you that you want to go in, but the door is locked. To get through, unless someone is inside to meet you, only a key can open it," Ye Tianyu explained with an example.

“No, if we want to get in, we can also force our way in,” Liu Ying said after thinking for a moment.

“That would indeed work, but it would also damage the internal facilities, which wouldn’t be worth it,” Ye Tianyu continued to explain. “The purpose of entering a room isn’t just to get in, but to find what’s inside or to explore it. Damaging it would be a net loss.”

"So... in other words, we were able to get in because you opened the door?"

"Similar, but different. I opened a hidden door on the side. Anyone with a certain ability to manipulate dreams can find it. However, after you entered, the hidden door was discovered and locked by someone (the dream master). That's why you ended up in the deeper layers of the dream. And that's actually where Mikhail's dream bubble is located," Ye Tianyu continued to explain. "But don't worry, there's no real death in a beautiful dream. There's only eternal slumber."

"Is that so..." After hearing Ye Tianyu's explanation, Liu Ying breathed a slight sigh of relief.

“No… I remember that ‘Sleep’ initially attacked me… but why did it suddenly switch targets and start attacking you?” Firefly suddenly remembered a question and asked.

“Well… didn’t I already say? I’m going to Dream Reef, and ‘Slumber’ is one of the methods. So I used some methods to increase (remove) his attraction (hatred) so that he would attack me,” Ye Tianyu explained.

"I'm sorry I scared you back then," Ye Tianyu said, gently stroking Liu Ying's head to comfort her.

"I'm fine..." Liu Ying turned her head to the side, still seemingly a little angry.

But actually, I was a little shy.

Looking at the firefly with its face turned to the side, Ye Tianyu felt a little helpless. Then, watching the shooting star fall from the night sky, he felt a slight sense of relief...

Uh...it seems like there's nothing else worth seeing...

Never mind... time needs to speed up! MADE IN HAVEN!
As time accelerated, we arrived at a few days after the Great War.

The Harmonious Music Ceremony was held again.

Unlike the original story, this musical extravaganza will be held at the Pinocchio Theatre.

That is, it will still be held according to the original rhythm of the Harmonious Music Festival.

However, Ye Tianyu was involved in some of the performance.

A few days ago, after he answered Liu Ying's questions honestly, he gathered a lot of people to help him.

Among them are Eden and gold dust.

Eden was pulled over, and curious Alicia also came over.

As Ellie approached, Peng Hao followed her.

In addition, he also found someone... oh no, a star core essence.

To be precise, it is not the core essence of this spacetime.

Instead, it is the sex-swapped star core essence of another parallel universe—Qiong.

There is gold dust and dome...

I'm sure you've all guessed it already, right?

One of the performance programs in the Harmonious Music Festival – "Sleepless Night"

When they were pulled over, Sand Gold and Sky were both dumbfounded.

Qiong was even more bewildered. He remembered that he was in Onfaros, having just finished shopping with Danheng and returned to his room, but in the blink of an eye, he was back in a place that looked familiar yet somewhat strange.

Pinocchio Theatre…

After observing his surroundings, he immediately became alert, because he thought he was in Taiyi's dream again.

Or rather... I never left.

The martial arts ceremony, the sleeping banana monkey, and Onphalos are all just my own fantasies.

"Alright, Qiong, don't be nervous. I sent you here," Ye Tianyu reassured her. "The Dream of Taiyi has indeed been dispelled."

"Who are you?" Qiong looked at Ye Tianyu in front of her with suspicion, but she still didn't put down the baseball bat in her hand.

"Isn't this enough proof?" Ye Tianyu said, showing his special ticket.

"You're also from the Starry Sky Train? I don't think I've ever seen you before?" Qiong asked.

"It's very simple. This is a parallel universe, and the things that happen here are different from what happens in your world. For example, in terms of time, you in that universe have already arrived at Onpharos, while we are just beginning the Harmonious Music Festival."

"So why did you bring me to this time and space?" Qiong put away her baseball bat and asked Ye Tianyu.

"Perform a show, with gold dust."

"Gold dust?" Only then did Qiong notice the gold dust that had been sitting on the sofa, drinking and observing itself.

“Let me make this clear first, my current identity is Mr. Kakawa, not one of the Stoneheart Ten, ‘Gold Sands,’” Kakawa reminded him.

Qiong observed Sha Jin and noticed that, apart from the fact that Sha Jin's clothing was different from the peacock-like figure she remembered, it seemed more simple, and there was something else...

In this timeline, he seems to have lost that indifferent attitude towards life and death, and the gambler's spirit that sees everything as a gamble.

Well... to put it another way, it's like having a weakness.

However, having a weakness made him even more ruthless (but he also had a bottom line). After all, he knew that the company was essentially a place that would eat him alive and leave him with nothing, and if he relaxed his guard, he would be punished.

Therefore, whenever I talked to people in the company (including some of the ten members of Stoneheart [but excluding Emerald and Toppa, one of whom had helped them and the other of whom had a good relationship with his sister]), I always held back some of my cards.

As for gold dust... why Mr. Bukakawa is here, that goes back to a few days ago.

On the Huichangshi, the company (Jade) proposed to the family (Audi Eiffel) to take back Pinocchio by using the family's attempt to imprison visiting guests in a dream as a breakthrough. However, old Audi still refused to budge until the train crew's navigator, Himeko, arrived at the scene, and the three parties negotiated.

Ultimately, the family, the company, and the train crew jointly hold the Pinocone stock.

However, due to Ye Tianyu's influence, 20% of the total shares acquired by the train crew were obtained by individuals and transferred from Lao Aodi and Fei Cui, while the company received 25%.

Pinocone's total is 40%, and the remaining 15%.

In other words, at the shareholders' meeting, whichever side the current train crew stands on has the most say.

After that, the company staff planned to leave.

However, before leaving, Ye Tianyu met with them and took the gold dust.

Although they didn't know what had happened, Emerald and Toppa decided to stay and wait until their business was resolved before leaving.

Longjing had no intention of going back, since the cornerstone was gone and she was too ashamed to return to Pierpoint to see the diamond.

I plan to search around Pinocchio on my own.

Like she said, she really didn't expect anyone to come to Pinocchio and rummage through the trash!

If she still couldn't find it... she had no choice but to swallow her pride and ask the anonymous customer for help.

No way... which BYD would rummage through the trash?!

At the same time, Qiong, who was rehearsing, Xing, who was rummaging through the trash can, and Pado, who was searching for treasure, all sneezed at the same time.

　We went to the comic convention today! It was so much fun!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)