"A list would be most helpful, xiansheng, thank you," Jin Guangyao replies and does not have to manufacture or embellish the clear enthusiasm in his eyes or voice. Already he's scribbling down 'the Outpost' and 'the Sanctuary' into his mental inventory of opportunities to make himself of use to the city, and with Palamedes as a potential 'in' to either of those places, well. His acquaintance has just become more valuable.

He seems perfectly pleasant to speak to as well, of course, and who doesn't enjoy polite conversation?

"I had an idea, in the world where I am from," the words suddenly burst out of him, unchecked, "for a series of watch towers which could be constructed all across the cultivation world, to protect the common people from harm. I wonder..." He trails off abruptly, suddenly self-conscious letting such thoughts loose into the wild around someone he hardly knows, and amends what he'd intended to say. "I wonder if something similar might be under way, with the Outpost you speak of."