It was still the same aristocratic room.

The fire in the fireplace was still burning. The pine branches in the furnace seemed to never run out. There was even a faint fragrance of pine in the air. In fact, a holographic projection system built by a laser generator and a force field device could burn pine in the fireplace for ten thousand years as long as it had energy.

Unlike the last time, the oil painting of the Mona Lisa had disappeared and was replaced by the ...