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

"Please, all actions will bring joy..." Dahlia chuckled softly, "And, there is a price."

As Liu Ying stepped inside, she was met with a staircase leading to the basement. With that first step, she knew with certainty that they had found the right person!

This place must be extremely important to the dreamer.

Because the fragments of memory reverberating in the air were so intense, Gopher's voice echoed in my ears like a resounding bell. The voice of one person alone surpassed the cries of the little boy I had encountered before his slumber.

She descended step by step, and the voice of the dreamer echoed everywhere with each step: "Paradise will eventually fall into the sorrowful world of humanity..."

"Once dawn rises, it will crash into the daylight..."

"How can anything made of gold retain its brilliance forever?"

[Star: Why not just replace it with a light bulb?]

[March 7th: Yeah.]

[Dahlia: Your thought processes... If the dreamer shared the same views as you two, how could things have come to this?]

[The dreamer: I'm having trouble deciding whether this is a blessing or a criticism.]

Mikhail: Of course it's a blessing, old friend. How can comparing you to a savior be considered an insult?

How could it not be?!

It would be one thing if the savior were someone else, but these two...

Everyone in the galaxy frowned, utterly speechless. The watchmaker, as expected of the train's parent company, certainly had an incredibly thick filter when looking at his own creation.

[Su Chang: Right, how could it be a denigration?]

[Huo Huo: ...Miss Su Chang, let me give you an example—I'm just giving an example, cough cough. Has anyone ever said that your brain is like Miss March 7th's?]

[Su Chang: Ouch... what you said does seem quite offensive.]

[Xing: Su Chang, only with you do I feel this is the truth. I even feel a little sorry for March.]

[March 7th: You actually had a change of heart? No, are you praising me?]

The dreamer frowned slightly, but then sighed softly.

Why would Mikhail try to fool him?

"That's only right..."

……

Within the light screen, Liu Ying stepped into the underground dark chamber, and upon seeing what she saw, her body trembled violently.

There was an indescribable regret in her eyes.

"How could this be...?"

A battered Grammer cavalryman lay lifeless in the corner. Her pristine white armor was covered in layers of ash, and she seemed to have struggled to rise before her death.

As soon as Ying rushed over, she saw the number on the girl's chest and her voice was a little hoarse: "AR...214...Is it really you...?"

Previously, when she caught a fleeting glimpse of it in her dream, she still clung to a tiny, spark-like hope.

Perhaps life could be preserved in this beautiful dream, but now... the promised reunion and recognition could not be fully fulfilled in the end.

She took a deep breath, fighting back a sob: "..."

[Star: Is this the guilty thing the Dreamer did? Did he kill Firefly's comrade?!]

[Yao Guang: This is unexpected. Why? He shouldn't be a bloodthirsty person, yet this cavalryman died at his hands, but he didn't destroy the body or completely erase this incriminating story... Such contradictory psychology, what exactly happened here?]

Dahlia stepped forward and gently comforted her, "You...don't have to force yourself, I can do it for you."

Firefly forced a smile: "No, it's okay..."

Dahlia asked, "Was it her you saw when you infiltrated Pinocchio?"

Firefly nodded. She thought she could be strong, but the tears welling in her eyes and her muffled voice betrayed her: "Yes, she's clearing out the swarm. But it's just memory matter; it'll disappear soon."

"Silver Wolf said that Pinocchio had also encountered an insect infestation, and I have been trying to tell myself that she was just passing by and offered a helping hand."

She tilted her head back, closed her eyes, and felt a profound sense of clarity within.

"She left safely after everything was over."

[March 7th: Miss Firefly... is she reminiscing?]

[Star: No, she is...]

Xing's brows furrowed, and she bit her lip lightly. Almost the instant Liu Ying looked up, she realized that Liu Ying was putting on a brave face; she was afraid that tears would fall!

Realizing this, she quickly stopped talking and deliberately chose to keep it a secret.

[Xi Lian: Perhaps, it would be better to cry it out.]

[March 7th: Hmm? Doesn't Miss Xilian, the embodiment of love, hate crying?]

[Xi Lian: Indeed, but from another perspective, crying is proof that you've loved, regardless of the form of love. Crying is annoying, but if you've never cried for someone, you can't be called loving. And how tragic must a person's life be if no one ever cries for them.]

[Firefly: Waaah...]

When the real-life firefly saw this scene, she was no more composed than she was on the screen. Especially after hearing Xi Lian's words, her suppressed tears burst forth, and she wailed and cried.

[Star: I...which room are you staying in? I'll go right now!]

[March 7th: What are you doing there? That's not someone you used to know.]

[Star: I'll go pat Firefly on the back.]

[Firefly: Ugh... Is it okay?]

Dahlia said understandingly, "Perhaps you should go and have some peace and quiet. Unfortunately, this is not a memory, but the real Glamour cavalry. It is obvious that Pinocchio is the last stop of her life."

Liu Ying shook her head: "I'm already very surprised that she was able to come to Pinocchio."

Dahlia seemed to realize something: "Oh? It's the [Grammer Rules]? She violated those prohibitions?"

Firefly shook her head again: "It's even more serious. She was the first and only [traitor] of the Grammer Knights. At that time, the Empire had not yet fallen, but she did not want to accept the fate of dying in battle, so she left alone. She said... she wanted to choose how she would die."

"We had a brief farewell... but I couldn't stop her, I couldn't. Leaving the Grammer Empire would have hastened her death."

"Since we can't change the outcome, why should I stop her from choosing the [process]?"

Dahlia understood immediately, recalling the strange illness, the one almost exclusively found among the Grammer Knights: "Rapid death... Oh, [Entropy Loss]?"

"Yes, just like me—" Firefly nodded: "[Leaving the cockpit without permission is strictly prohibited; surviving knights should voluntarily return to the team], these are not only military regulations, but also conditions for our survival."

"Apart from piloting the Firefly IV, I must remain in the hibernation pod. Otherwise, my entropy loss will worsen."

Dahlia said softly, "What's the reason? Do you have any clue now?"

After a long silence, Firefly finally spoke with difficulty: "When Kafka and Xing found me, I had just finished serving as a member of the Grammer Knights..."

"...the last battle of the Grammer cavalry."

"The empire has fallen, all restrictions have ceased to exist, and green flames have ignited on my body for the first time... and for the first time, I have come into contact with the true destiny of the Grammer Cavalry."