"Come with me for a moment," said the blacksmith, pulling N4 aside. He briefly laid out the situation.
"…Huh, didn't expect that, another one of those incidents," N4 said with a slight surprise as she crossed her arms, responding to the blacksmith's explanation, "If what you said is true, then someone from your family must've traveled to Dragon Satellite through the portal a long time ago—has anyone in your family disappeared?"
"My... Li Aozi's father," the blacksmith recalled the details before responding, "Li Mingji, male, 46 years old at the time of disappearance, average build, worked at a fertilizer factory. When the factory downsized and he was laid off, he had to take out a loan for training and went to work in the south—and then he lost contact. The time of his disappearance was exactly two years before I went to Mingji Humanity."
"Li Mingji... that's a pretty common name," N4 shrugged.
