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

"There, I will tell you everything I know... as much as I can."

Xing nodded: "Okay, I believe you."

[Firework: Tsk, little gray-haired girl, you're blinded by beauty! What if she's a really, really bad older sister? What will you do then? She'll rip out your star core, beat you to your knees, and drag you back to work hard!]

[Star: Hiss… This isn’t such a bad happy ending… cough cough, what do you know? This is called telepathy! Even losing our memories can’t sever the bond between us! Besides, dare to dig up my star core? Do you think the little black cat’s true form can only hiss?]

Silver Wolf: Of course not, it can meow too.

"Let's go this way..." Firefly took a brisk step, choosing the shortest route, and ran with Star all the way.

Turning a corner, Xing's internal radar activated, accurately capturing the "mission of the savior."

"...Huh? Isn't there something... calling for help over there?"

Xing scratched his head in confusion. This... this little thing really does look quite unique.

The clock boy rang the bell frantically in the street, shouting, "Tick-tock! Help! Help me!"

"Someone's going to die! Help!"

Xing stopped, then asked with great difficulty, "What...thing are you?"

The clock boy, impatient, started ringing loudly, complaining, "Hey! I'm a clock, not some kind of 'thing'!"

[Fireworks: I understand, it's a scoundrel!]

[Watch Boy: That's... no! Hey! You wicked, beady-eyed woman, full of bad intentions!]

[Fireworks: That's decoration!]

[Star: Hey, aren't you supposed to be a compass? How come you can actually make an alarm clock sound?]

[Mikhail: After all, it's a dream, so anything can happen. Besides, a compass, convinced it was a clock, actually became a clock—haha, isn't that amazing?]

[Star: That makes sense!]

Silver Wolf: He's just a bit unreasonable.

The watch boy complained angrily, then suddenly realized something and looked at the watch boy in surprise: "Hey, wait—you...can see me?"

Noticing Xing's unusual behavior, Liu Ying quickly stopped and asked, "...What's wrong?"

Xing pursed her lips, her face practically screaming, "You might not believe it, but I saw a... clock with arms and legs."

The watchmaker was overjoyed: "Could it be... that you can really see me?"

"Tick-tock! Great! Great! Misha is saved!"

"Oh, sorry, I haven't introduced myself yet."

He puffed out his chest and proudly declared, "My name is Clock Boy, and I'm a big star in Pinocchio, the town of Dreams! My friends and I protect the peace of this town—they are the Hanu brothers, the Origami Bird…"

"...And Misha!"

Misha? The clock boy suddenly remembered his mission and frantically started ringing the bell again: "Misha's in danger—tick-tock! Help! Help!"

Looking at the lively little guy in front of him, Xing scratched his head, even questioning his own mental state: "A talking clock. I must be going crazy."

Firefly glanced back and forth between the star and the ground she was looking at, then said with feigned certainty, "A talking clock... Clock Boy?"

"You mean...you saw an animated character that doesn't exist in reality?"

Xing asked nervously, "Can't you see?"

Am I really going crazy?

Firefly looked around, wanting to cooperate but unable to: "Uh...where? I can't see it..."

"Tick-tock!" the clock boy exclaimed. "I guess only straightforward, innocent, childlike children can see me—like this gray friend!"

Xing fully demonstrated his high emotional intelligence: "He said you're not straightforward, innocent, or childlike enough."

The firefly looked aggrieved: "...Where am I not straightforward, innocent, and childlike enough...!"

[Hanabi: Oh well, what can you do? You've already seen the "adult world," haven't you? Hehehe.]

[Yao Guang: Hmph, just thinking about this scene is quite amusing. In Miss Liu Ying's eyes, Xing was just rambling nonsense to thin air, and even insulted her. Anyone else would probably think that Xing wasn't interested in her secret hideout at all, and was just pretending to be crazy to avoid it, and would probably have stormed off in anger.]

[Silver Wolf: However, given that she's a Star, it's not surprising that she encounters anything strange. Especially for people like us, we're already used to it, so we definitely wouldn't think she's messing around.]

[March 7th: That's really true... Even Firefly is still bothered by the idea that I'm "not straightforward, innocent, or childlike enough."]

[Xu Zhao: Tsk tsk, a match made in heaven!]

The clock boy pleaded desperately, "Tick-tock, tick-tock! Gray friend! Since you can see me, you must be able to do me a favor!"

"My good friend Misha, he's in trouble! Please, save him! Otherwise, someone will die!"

Xing turned and repeated, "He said someone's going to die!"

Liu Ying frowned: "Eh... is it that serious...?"

[Fireworks: Are you talking about the incident, or Little Gray's condition?]

[Sambo: What I'm more interested in is, who dares to bully Misha on Pinocchio's turf? Who's so arrogant? The Dreamer or Sunday?]

Firefly looked troubled: "Then you should go help this... uh, the clock kid that only you can see?"

Sensing something was amiss, she quickly added, "I don't doubt you. After all, anything can happen in dreams... It's okay to go to the place I mentioned later..."

[Virtual image: Tsk tsk tsk, she really is... I'm going to cry.]

[Xi Lian: Hmm~~ This is probably what they call a demure young lady, a virtuous wife and loving mother?]

[Firefly: It hasn't gotten to that point yet!]

The watch boy anxiously ran out first: "Tick-tock, tick-tock! Hurry, hurry, hurry, gray friend!"

Xing and Liuying chased after them, and their initial skepticism quickly turned into astonishment.

Sure enough, we witnessed an extremely critical scene where lives were at stake!

A group of gangsters in suits, sunglasses, and slicked-back hair cornered the two men and surrounded them.

The gang leader said menacingly, "You ignorant brat, wait till I teach you a lesson!"

The thugs behind him pressed closer, outnumbering him and intimidating him.

The two people in the corner were merely a weak, pitiful, and helpless hotel waiter, and a taciturn, ignorant... Huang Quan!

We must hurry and save them!

[Fireworks: Hurry, it'll be too late if we don't intervene now! Go save those gangsters, Little Gray!]

[Potio: Holy crap, these guys are got some serious business potential! Daring to corner the Clockmaker and the Void Commander in Pinocchio? Are these little darlings from the company board having a team-building event, or are the Lords of Annihilation launching a collective attack?]

[Chi Bo: Those guys at Pinocchio are really doing well. Our gang at Two Phases Paradise can't even compare.]