Chapter 92: Lan Qingyou's Caution

"Are they all S-rank evaluators from the last round?"

"Yes."

The man hadn't expected Lan Qingyou to guess it so quickly, so he answered her without a moment's pause.

No wonder. That would make a lot of sense.

After all, these were all folks playing a simulation management game; it was highly likely for them to gather together to discuss such matters.

However, this alone wasn't enough to convince Lan Qingyou.

Or rather, the highly vigilant Lan Qingyou wouldn't be swayed by just a few words from someone else.

"Then what exactly do you research?"

Lan Qingyou asked.

The man spoke to Lan Qingyou, his face brimming with confidence.

But suddenly, his expression changed, giving Lan Qingyou a fright.

He unexpectedly deeply bowed to her, and then spoke in an incredibly sincere tone.

"Apologies, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Helles Mo. Esteemed Tower Witch, you may call me Helles."

What the heck, it was just an introduction. Scared the crap out of me.

Lan Qingyou breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then don't call me Tower Witch either, just call me Lan Qingyou or Witch. Regarding these maps of yours, can I take a look?"

"Of course, no problem at all."

As he spoke, Helles pulled out a card from a small cloth pouch at his waist. He tapped on the card a few times, and a map the size of a desk materialized in his hands.

After bringing out the map, Helles looked left and right, then placed it on a relatively flat rock and backed away for about ten meters.

He was well aware of Lan Qingyou's suspicions toward him, so he kept all his movements to a minimum, and incidentally created a safe distance to put Lan Qingyou at ease.

One had to say, he was quite a meticulous person.

Seeing this, Lan Qingyou glanced at the spatial item in his hands before floating down, stopping in midair about three meters above the map.

Although she couldn't clearly see every line and annotation on the map from this distance, she could clearly see the four bold, blackened Federal Standard characters for 'Abandoned Land' on the top left corner of the map.

"Is this the map of our Abandoned Land?"

Looking at the coastline, forest, lakes, and even a ruined city depicted on it, Lan Qingyou spoke uncertainty.

After all, the Abandoned Land truly had these places.

During the server merge, she had heard about them, and Shang Chuan would also occasionally mention them when purchasing herbs from his end.

"Yes, I drew it after I arrived at your location a while back. It was also only after completing this map that I came to find you."

"Wait, you said you arrived at our location? Does that mean you're not from District 666?"

Lan Qingyou was a bit flabbergasted.

Traveling from another district to District 666... was this something humans could achieve?

Could it be related to his talent?

"Just as you're thinking, I did indeed cross over from another district. Otherwise, I wouldn't be conveniently taking up this invitation work."

Helles shrugged helplessly.

"However, regarding how I came over, I hope you won't inquire, Witch. After all, this involves the specifics of my talent."

Alright, so it really was related to his talent.

"Okay, I've looked at the map, and it's indeed hand-drawn. Although I have no idea if you're the one who drew it, I'll believe you for now. Now then, Helles, since this is an invitation, shouldn't you show a little sincerity first? For instance, how did you know the location of my shelter?"

Lan Qingyou flew back up.

"There's a diviner in Tarot Manor who studies divination and astronomy. Your location—or rather, the locations of the majority of the manor's members—were all divined by her."

These talents really were varied and bizarre.

Lan Qingyou muttered inwardly.

While speaking, Helles walked up to the rock, carefully picked up the map, and dusted off the smidgen of snow accumulated on the back. After inspecting it, he put it back into the card.

It looked like he cherished this map deeply, which added a point of trust in Lan Qingyou's heart.

"You said earlier that cartography was your hobby. So, it was because of this hobby that you walked all the way here from another district?"

"Mm, I've traversed a total of five districts so far. However, the server merge only happened after I arrived here. By this count, I suppose I've only barely managed to draw the maps for three districts, two of which were the smaller maps prior to the server merge. It's a bit of a pity."

Helles answered very earnestly, but there was also a trace of loneliness on his face.

This was probably because he was reminded of the two districts he had previously traversed, which he hadn't been able to draw complete large-scale maps for due to the lack of server merges.

Lan Qingyou made this deduction in her mind.

"Last question."

She held up a finger.

"Please."

"How did you walk over here? Putting talent aside, Kalim Continent at night shouldn't be a place we can linger in at our current stage. It's not like you were walking around carrying your shelter on your back, right?"

That's right.

This was Lan Qingyou's biggest question.

If one were to ask what was currently the greatest hindrance to the humans of Blue Star, it would be their activity radius.

Whether one was flying in the sky like Lan Qingyou or walking on the ground like everyone else, they needed to return to their shelters when evening fell.

Otherwise, they could only wait to be swallowed up by Kalim at night.

Even a battle maniac like Li Huai wouldn't linger outside, with that one single occasion as an exception.

This was more than enough to show just how dangerous it was outside.

"You've hit the nail on the head with that question."

Hearing Lan Qingyou ask this, Helles immediately snapped his fingers, took out his card again, and went through a flurry of operations.

Bam!

In a flash, a massive boulder with an uneven surface materialized beside him.

Using Helles' height as a reference, this boulder was at least ten meters tall and perhaps over twenty meters wide.

"As expected of a witch. Just like you said, I do indeed walk around carrying my shelter with me."

Standing beside the boulder, Helles smiled as he pushed open a stone door on it, revealing the interior illuminated by a magic carriage lantern to Lan Qingyou.

"..."

She conceded!

She was truly thoroughly convinced by Helles' maneuver.

She absolutely hadn't expected that after just throwing out a passing joke, the other party would actually whip out a shelter for her.

"What's the deal with that card? Can current spatial items really hold this many things?"

Although Lan Qingyou also suspected it might be related to the other party's talent, truth be told, she preferred to believe it was due to a magic item.

After all, she also possessed such an item.

Moreover, after being nourished by mana potions all this time, its capacity had already grown to two cubic meters. Who was to say it wouldn't eventually grow to match the capacity of Helles' spatial item?

However, Lan Qingyou was destined for disappointment.

"I'm very sorry, Witch, but this spatial item might be a little different from what you're imagining."

Although he didn't know what Lan Qingyou was currently thinking, Helles—who clearly knew exactly what the item in his hands was—offered a reminder.