Ironclad Group Chat: Red and Black Lists Engraved with Heroic Epics

[Star: Ha! I, Yingbao, am no saint either!]

Within the light screen, relying on her keen reconnaissance abilities as a member of the Grammer Ironclad, Firefly followed the clues, searching for traces of the insect swarm, hoping to discover a passage into the dream.

And without exception, she cleaned up all the insects she encountered on the road.

Silver Wolf suddenly received a message. After a quick glance, his expression was a mixture of joy and worry: "Oh, my helper has replied. Go to the lobby first; she'll send someone to meet you."

"But be careful. That guy's a masked fool, who knows..."

With a hiss, the silver wolf's figure became blurry, and its sounds grew increasingly mixed before it vanished right before Firefly's eyes.

"What's wrong?" Firefly hurriedly activated the communication device to check the situation, but all she received was a piercing static.

"The signal is down...?"

[March 7th: This doesn't feel like an accident; it feels more like a conspiracy. And of all times, this happens when we're discussing the Masked Fool's identity… In a mystery manga, this would be a murderer silencing him! That's terrifying!]

[Star: Silver Wolf...you died such a terrible death~~!]

[Silver Wolf: Are you out of your mind? Now that I think about it, it must have been the Dream Master who did it. In the original dream, only he could kick people out at will! But why would he leave Firefly inside? Looking back, it's like Sunday leaving the jade stone—he planted a huge time bomb for himself.]

[Xing: Oh, no wonder they're teacher and student. They dug their own hole and jumped in—isn't that a kind of passing on of knowledge?]

[March 7th: Is there any need for this kind of inheritance? By the way, this Masked Fool... @Fireworks, so you were hired by the Star Core Hunter?]

[Fireworks: That's right! Otherwise, who would go all the way to a place like this to play a "fireworks show"? So... Chicken Wing Boy, the one who sent your sister to Dream Reef is a Star Core Hunter!]

[Silver Wolf: ? Have you no professional ethics at all?]

[Hanabi: Hey~~]

Inside the light curtain, the lone firefly continued to venture deeper, showing no sign of retreating.

Soon, she encountered the swarm of insects again. When she tried to take action, she discovered that her mech was unable to start due to Silver Wolf's loss of contact!

Fortunately, this swarm of insects was not as ferocious as before; instead, it fled without even glancing at her.

[Fireworks: Tsk tsk, as expected of the terrifying two-legged insect! She has already earned a formidable reputation. When the insect swarms see her, they flee in terror!]

[March 7th: Why do I feel like it has nothing to do with her?]

The firefly looked towards the door at the end of the corridor. What was in the direction that the swarm of insects was desperately fleeing?

The heavy, pounding background music was oppressive. After a moment's thought, Liu Ying stepped inside.

[March 7th: No way! This atmosphere, the equipment malfunctioning, the tense background music, and the unknown giant monster ahead... it feels like the protagonist in a horror movie ignoring the risks and insisting on exploring a haunted place. The consequences could be dire!]

[Huo Huo: Ugh!!!]

[Tail: It's not like you're the one going, why are you getting all stiff?]

Liu Ying took a deep breath and suddenly pushed open the door, only to see as far as the eye could see, the charred corpses of insects!

"The ground is littered with wreckage, but aren't they just illusions? Could it be...?"

Her eyes sharpened; the truth was clear: "There are other people here besides me."

"The true stinging insect died from a high fever, but this wound... how could it be..."

As she observed the insect swarm's injuries, her heart sank: "I know this all too well."

As Liu Ying's heart was filled with turmoil, she looked around the wreckage and turned a corner when a loud, intense sound came from the light screen, and her pupils suddenly contracted at the same moment.

Grammer Riders!

Another pure white Ironclad mech flew away the instant she looked over!

"Pinocone, why is the 'Grammer Cavalry' here?"

[March 7th: Wow! That sound effect just now...whoosh~whoosh~ scared me to death. So, so there's another Grammer veteran fighting in the Primal Dream? Is Miss Firefly from the same hometown here?]

[Su Chang: This is great news!]

[Yao Guang: It might not be that optimistic. Do you remember the moment before Miss Liu Ying soared into the sky after breaking through the triple dream realm? She retrieved the star core from the wreckage of an iron cavalryman...]

[Fu Xuan: Moreover, ordinary Iron Cavalry don't have the help of Star Core Hunters, let alone know how to infiltrate using abandoned Dream Pools. So, how did she appear in the Primal Dream?]

[March 7th: This...]

The implication is that perhaps these insect plagues and battles are merely remnants of that iron cavalryman's memory, and the best outcome for them is for the survivors to collect the bodies of the dead? Or worse, they might even turn on each other.

[The Robin: What exactly happened in Pinocchio's original dream?]

It now seems that the dreamer's recreation of the global locust plague was far more complex than it appeared.

The most likely scenario is...

The robin swallowed hard. "The most likely scenario is that this place holds the family's unfathomable darkness? Perhaps even the reason why Mr. Gopherwood moved towards order?"

……

Within the light screen, the firefly hurriedly chased after it, but its fleshy legs were naturally no match for the mecha's light wings.

But at least she could make out a string of numbers.

Moreover, she knows her.

Firefly recalled with heartache that conversation from who knows how many years ago... and the unexpected farewell!

"On the next battlefield, I hope to see the stars. Will we ever meet again?"

The other cavalryman said in a standard male voice, "Then we..."

"They should be able to recognize the other person, right?"

Time had passed, and she did recognize him as she had said back then, but it was completely different from what she had imagined. There was no joy in reuniting with an old friend and exchanging a smile.

"AR...214..."

"This...is this a dream?"

She looked around at the dilapidated scene and for the first time felt a sense of "wandering". In the vast Daydream Hotel, she felt small and alone.

"This nightmare... is it [your] memory?"

The light curtain has come to an end.

[Dan Heng: Old friends reunited, but in this way... how cruel.]

Compared to him, there's simply... well, no comparison at all.

[Walter: @Mikhail, do you recall any record of her?]

Mikhail: Never heard of it.

[Yao Guang: Something's not right... This so-called dream, it must have happened after the family arrived in Pinocone, right? There's a powerful figure lurking here who even Pinocone's father doesn't know about? With her strength, if she's on Pinocone's side, her reputation would be no less than that of the other family heads; if she's on the opposite side, she should be facing a formidable enemy. She shouldn't be completely unknown.]

[Star: Just ask him directly! @DreamMaster, what exactly happened?]

[Dream Master: ...Indeed, a cavalryman once came here, and that is the only thing I can undeniably call a crime out of all the things I've done. As for the truth, it will soon be revealed to you all.]