The Banquet Dimension integrated everything:
FeastingAccommodationResearch facilitiesEntertainment
Elias Salas had gone to extreme lengths to make it attractive to geniuses.
There were endless foods and drinks.
Rare bottled alcohol from across the universe flowed here in rivers and pools.
Even when no one attended, the banquet continued automatically.
Any food left untouched for more than ten minutes would be replaced.
For example:
There were more than a thousand flavors of fuel oil.
When Elias Salas built this place:
Rupert had already diedScrewllum had not yet been born
Yet Elias Salas had still considered the possibility that mechanical lifeforms might one day become geniuses.
His goal was simple:
No matter what race a genius belonged to, they would find something they liked here.
Every genius would have a seat at the banquet.
So Elias Salas collected every kind of food and drink in the universe.
Using a special device that reconstructed matter arrangements, the system could endlessly recreate any item so long as its data existed.
It was extravagantly wasteful.
And tragically—
almost no one came.
Ironically, Stephen Lloyd would probably love this place.
Because:
Geniuses rarely visitedOrdinary people could not enterIt was completely isolated and secret
Food, clothing, shelter, scenery—everything was provided.
Even the landscape changed constantly.
Perfect for someone who wanted to avoid everyone.
Lin Yi, Screwllum, and Silkall each chose a seat.
Lin Yi's Table
His table was filled with Chinese-style dishes.
The universe was vast.
With countless civilizations, some cultural similarities were inevitable.
Lin Yi had even found versions of Earth within the Honkai universe.
More than once.
Examples:
Azure Blue Star, Herta's home planet, was also called EarthManā came from a planet called EarthThat Earth was destroyed during the height of the Swarm Disaster
Lin Yi had once asked Manā about it.
That Earth was very similar to his own home.
But not identical.
Even the game Honkai Impact 3rd, which Silver Wolf played, originated from a planet called Earth.
In a universe of endless civilizations, similar worlds were not strange.
They were merely similar flowers—
not the same one.
Acheron had encountered similar people during her travels.
For example:
A girl named Furibas near the Sea of Nihility looked remarkably like someone she once knew.
Even knowing it was not the same person, that face alone was enough to make her pause and remember the past.
Because that face resembled Kiana Kaslana.
Screwllum's Meal
Screwllum's meal was very different.
Various flavors of:
Fuel oilLubricantsMetals
Organic lifeforms might never understand how mechanical lifeforms could distinguish subtle differences in taste.
Bad news:
Organic and inorganic lifeforms might never truly understand each other.
Abyss Silkall's Meal
Silkall chose food from the Garden of Recollection:
Memory crystalsMemory bubbles
Her former species, the Dream-Eating Spider, fed on:
DreamsMemory matter
Normal food worked too.
But memories provided unique sensations.
They had once been the most precious food of her species.
Now, as a high-dimensional information lifeform, Silkall preferred objects that contained vast amounts of information.
So by combining:
Old preferencesNew biological needs
Memory matter became the perfect meal.
But Lin Yi suddenly realized something strange.
"Wait…"
Elias Salas...
"Where did you get all this Garden of Recollection material?"
The matter reconstruction machine could not reproduce memory matter.
So how was there so much of it?
The Garden of Recollection seemed to answer:
"Yes."
"It is exactly what you think."
"The Genius Society is inherently evil."
Lin Yi wore a strange expression.
So apparently—
robbing the Garden of Recollection was a mandatory Genius Society team-building activity.
Then Ruan Mei Arrives
Ruan Mei entered the Banquet Dimension.
And she was dragging Yu Qingtu with her.
Literally dragging her.
Ruan Mei had not refused the invitation.
She had simply gone to collect someone else first.
Herta was too busy with experiments.
So Ruan Mei forcibly brought Yu Qingtu instead.
Yu Qingtu looked somewhat unwilling.
But she had brought something valuable:
A batch of wine she had personally brewed.
A rare treasure.
Ruan Mei had a reputation as a "genius bestie collector."
No one knew how many people she had unintentionally charmed.
She greeted them warmly.
"Dear~"
"And Screwllum, long time no see."
"And this must be Ms. Silkall?"
Silkall answered calmly.
"Silkall represents my past."
"Abyss represents my present."
"If you want a formal name..."
"Call me Abyss Silkall."
"If informal—call me anything you like."
Ruan Mei was familiar with that naming style.
Her own name also carried layered meanings.
While Ruan Mei chatted with Silkall, Yu Qingtu waved at Lin Yi.
"Yo, long time no see, Lin Yi."
She looked exhausted.
She had clearly been dragged here against her will.
Yu Qingtu asked:
"Want to try my new special cocktail?"
Lin Yi immediately became cautious.
"A new cocktail?"
"What random nonsense did Miss Toothpaste Wine add this time?"
Yu Qingtu hurriedly defended herself.
"This time it's not that crazy!"
"Just some powdered antimatter core fragments."
"Trust me!"
Normally, Lin Yi would never drink Yu Qingtu's experimental cocktails.
He only drank her stable recipes.
If forced to choose, he would rather drink ten cups of Himeko's coffee.
That alone showed how terrifying Yu Qingtu's new drinks were.
Her cocktails could produce all kinds of bizarre effects.
They were treasures of immense value.
But during development—
they could also kill people.
Yet Yu Qingtu refused to test them on strangers or animals.
She considered that disrespectful to her craft.
She only let friends drink them.
Or tested them on herself.
Yu Qingtu's philosophy of mixology was extremely unusual.
Lin Yi had once watched her give a newly invented drink to a space whale.
Three seconds later—
the massive creature foamed at the mouth and died instantly.
When Lin Yi asked why, she explained:
The drink had been based on a mysterious cocktail once gifted to the Genius Society by Aha.
Everyone knew Aha's drink was dangerous.
No one dared drink it.
But Yu Qingtu believed she could neutralize the poison—
and turn it into something extraordinary.
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