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The scene shifted to the next morning, back to the Adrian lair on the 25th Earth. Switzer and Xiao Hong were rowing a boat in between the flourish houses. Xiao Hong stared at the purple water below. The blue hammer-headed anacondas were staring back at him while travelling alongside the boat. Switzer spoke, "Stop it, bro-in-law. I'm already annoyed as is!"

Hong nodded, "Okay!", and focused onward. The snakes went back inside the water. Soon, they reached a set of four floating duplexes interconnected to one another with a single wooden floor. At the centre of those duplexes was a veranda consisting of walking space and a round wooden table. Jim, Vol, Mukban, Kegar, Jeffy and Gnoma were sitting at the table with their heads down. Hong spouted, "They seem sad!", to which Switzer said, "Obviously, they lost their qualifications to enter the 2nd quarter of the Artificiary. The entire place is filled with silence 'cause of that!"