Arlan was an honest person. After hearing Dan Heng's question, he thought for a moment and then gave an answer.
"After the evacuation was completed, to prevent the Legion from invading the Master Control Cabin, the elevator permissions were temporarily locked."
Then Arlan looked at Dan Heng, when Dan Heng and Nero found him, the former had already explained some things to him.
"Miss Asta entrusted you two to come find me, so she should've given you the key to unlock it, right?"
"Uh..." March 7th panicked for a moment, raised a hand pretending to think, forced herself to stay calm, and spoke guiltily, "I think… she did give me a card…"
Dan Heng took a deep breath, lowered his hands, and looked at March 7th. "March…"
March 7th put both hands on her chest, looking a little wronged and flustered, "I don't remember where I put it…"
Arlan watched her start rummaging all over herself. Thousands of words swelled in his chest, but in the end all he managed to squeeze out was one word, "You…"
He really had no words left.
"Ah! I found it!" March 7th suddenly cried out in delight, pulling out the card.
"I should have known…" Dan Heng took another deep breath, turned away, raised a hand to cover his forehead, he didn't want to look at March 7th's face for the moment.
Behind him, Stelle also showed a helpless smile.
Nero then spoke faintly, "March, hurry and give the card to Dan Heng to keep. Even if you're a pretty girl, being this careless is unforgivable!"
"Ah? You sword-flew into the space station, you're not much better than me!"
Pretty girls can't tolerate any loss, so March 7th chose to fire back, but her body honestly handed the card over to Dan Heng.
Clearly she also knew that her impulsive and careless behavior wasn't good.
Arlan widened his wine-red eyes at Nero.
"Sword-flew into the space station… Weren't you two together?"
"Not before I crashed into the space station…" Nero rubbed his head awkwardly.
"Crashed… the space station…?" Arlan looked at Nero in shock. "You're done for."
"Huh?" Nero looked utterly confused.
"Lady Herta will definitely make you stay here permanently," Arlan said seriously.
"Hiss… No way…?" Nero sucked in a breath of cold air.
"Forget it… that's between you and Lady Herta." Arlan shook his head. "Since the key has been found, let's return to the monitoring room first and unlock the elevator permissions."
With that, Arlan turned around and led everyone back toward the monitoring room.
The others hurried to follow, seemingly not taking the matter to heart.
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[Reality]
Siberian Duck had reached the elevator part of the story.
"Haha, 'I don't know how to fix that!'"
[Dan's Heart Forever: Main streamer, look at the back, Nero is standing there spacing out, looking so obedient!]
Then came the scene of March losing the key.
"Aiya, what's wrong with a pretty girl being a little careless? A pretty girl having a tiny flaw is acceptable!" Siberian Duck declared loudly in the livestream.
Then the next line was Nero scolding March 7th, saying even a pretty girl can't be forgiven for that careless mistake.
The barrage instantly turned into a joyous mess.
[Siberian Little Duck: Nero is right, pretty girls can't be forgiven either!]
[Wine on the Burning Eyebrows: Hahaha! I'm dying! Even though March tried to argue, she still obediently handed the card over to reliable Teacher Dan Heng.]
Next came the scene where Arlan heard Nero crashed into the space station.
"Hahaha! Arlan's shocked expression! Well done, miHoYo!" Siberian Duck laughed wildly at the lively character models in the game.
[Aha's Messenger: Arlan, 'What? Ah-ha my leg! YOU crashed the space station?!']
[Emotion Like Rain: Arlan will be shocked for a whole day.]
[Flower Going Bald by the Day: My inspiration is exploding, I'm getting ready to draw!]
———
[In the Game]
With the operation of Dan Heng and the more technically knowledgeable Arlan, the elevator restarted, but only the top-level permissions were opened.
Arlan prioritized the safety of the Master Control Cabin and the staff. Being an honest man, he sincerely apologized to the crew members, because his decision meant the train crew had to take a detour.
But the crew all generously said it was fine.
The group then set off together, crossing the repulsion bridge, passing a certain room and casually snatching several Light Cones inside.
Because they were escorting the injured Arlan, they chose not to fight this time when encountering enemies, instead, they took detours, and soon arrived at the top-floor elevator area.
They were lucky. They didn't run into many enemies on the way, and the detours went smoothly.
"Haha! We're already at the elevator entrance? There really weren't many enemies along the way!" March 7th spoke cheerfully, the lively pretty girl was always full of bright energy.
At that moment, two quantum arrows spun toward them.
Everyone was shocked, those quantum arrows were fast, reaching them in an instant.
Dan Heng reacted quickly, summoned Cloud-Piercer, stepped forward, steadied his stance, and swept the spear sideways, knocking away one arrow.
That arrow flew backward, Stelle quickly turned her head aside, almost getting her skull pierced.
But before Dan Heng could regain his footing after deflecting the arrow, two Void Ranger, Marauders materialized out of thin air, swinging Void arm-blades like a beast's teeth tearing toward Dan Heng.
Dan Heng hurried to block while retreating.
Stelle rushed forward, took out the bat, and smacked one Marauder away.
Dan Heng used Spearmanship to drive back the other Marauder.
At the same time, both of them saw Nero casually snatch the knife from Arlan's hand. Power surged through him, he leapt high into the air, and opened with a jump-slash.
This strike was powerful and heavy, almost like splitting a mountain, it instantly shattered the quantum arrow into fragments.
And at the same time, the two Void Ranger, Eliminators who had suddenly appeared preparing to fire at the group were blasted away by the shockwave of the jump-slash landing.
The alloy platform beneath Nero instantly dented, showing the sheer force of that strike.
March 7th reacted quickly as well, she raised her bow formed from six-phase ice, fired two ice arrows, and took the heads of those two Eliminators.
Beside her, Stelle and Dan Heng stepped forward together, one swing of a bat and one thrust of a spear, and quickly finished off the two Marauders.
For the first clash, the main cast naturally claimed victory.
However, lights flickered in the void, iron hooves stomped, two Trampler units appeared before them, like giant beasts squatting at the gates, blocking their path.
Dan Heng immediately stepped forward to shield everyone behind him, Teacher Dan Heng was always this reliable.
"Careful, Tramplers are very strong."
The two Tramplers stared fiercely at the group, but the blue-clothed, white-haired boy straightened his back, hefted the large blade onto his shoulder, with a wild, arrogant aura swirling around him that said if not me, then who.
"If he's strong, let him be strong, every slash of my sword has edge! March, Dan Heng, coordinate with me! Stelle, find an opening to attack!"
Nero shouted, leapt straight into the air, gripped his blade with both hands, 'Showing Off in Public!'
He opened with a jump-slash.