It was an otaku's blissful dream.
Perhaps, with his increased strength, his mind had also settled considerably. He no longer had that strange dream of going to Vienna's Golden Great Hall to perform "The Little Widow Visiting The Grave".
After waking up, he sat in the garden and practiced the piano for two hours, as usual, before Huai Shi received a call from Ai Qing.
"Come out now and wait at the door. Someone will pick you up," she said. "We've found a trace of King Ocean."
They didn't even need the state apparatus. Once the Xinhai Special Affairs Office mobilized, it was as if an inescapable net had been cast over the entirety of Xinhai. Ai Qing conducted Sublimator surveillance through the Astronomical Society, while the Special Affairs Department used its channels among ordinary people. As the two sides began to cooperate, the entirety of Xinhai transformed into a glass fishbowl, everything within it laid bare.
