Chapter 383

The supply list was sent over, and less than twenty minutes later, the Dome replied.

Ying Duo sat at the table he had commandeered in the corner of the banquet hall, looking at the host still standing with both hands raised.

"Where was the evacuation point you originally prepared?"

The host hesitated, instinctively glancing at Hua Jian Lei, and only spoke after seeing him nod.

Ying Duo tossed the communicator to Xu Mingyuan, saying, "Have them wait here; when the airship arrives, send the supplies up."

He raised his hand, and a Ying Guang Lu keyboard instantly appeared, from which he took out all the small robots he had made earlier from his backpack.

These past two days, Ying Duo had tweaked them in his spare time; they look similar to the earlier dismantled small robots, but are smaller and more agile.

【Patrol mode activated.】

【Detection range: entire airship.】

【Attack authority: may autonomously counterattack when threatened.】

Those bandits will send people out to patrol, and Ying Duo will naturally do the same; usually such hijack scenarios on airships overturn only because someone wasn't kept under control.

He has no subordinates, but he has robots.

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The airship finally halted above a barren wasteland.

Below, three heavy transport vehicles had been waiting for a while, with a group of people in Dome uniforms standing beside them.

Ying Duo stood at the airship hatch, looking at the crowd below, then glanced back at the bandits and hostages behind him.

"Go down."

The host hesitated, "We... can we go down?"

Ying Duo tilted his head at him, "What else? This airship is naturally mine as well."

The host glanced at his equally stunned companions behind him, then at Ying Duo's expressionless face, and finally gritted his teeth and followed.

The hatch opened, and the gangway was lowered.

Ying Duo was the first to step down, his steps unhurried, his Ying Guang Lu hair especially conspicuous in the sunlight.

The man in the black suit stood by the transport vehicle, watching the approaching figure, his expression complex beyond words.

Was it this Little Ghost who hijacked the airship?

He was about to say something when he saw the Ying Guang Lu kid stride past him to the transport vehicle and start handling those materials.

Just touching them would have been bad enough, but everything he touched vanished into thin air.

A Space-type Aberrant Arts practitioner?

Those high-grade materials, each worth several months of his salary, were snatched up by Ying Duo as if they were worthless scrap iron.

The man in the black suit: "......"

The white coat quietly tugged his sleeve and lowered his voice, "The director already allowed him to take it, so stop staring."

The man in the black suit closed his eyes, deciding that out of sight is out of mind.

The materials specially approved by Fang Zhiyan—who knows how many pitfalls lie ahead.

After Ying Duo finished loading the last piece of material, he clapped his hands and turned around.

"All done."

He looked at the white coat, then at the group of "hostages" escorted behind him—those so-called Undead relatives.

"As for those people... send them back where you brought them from."

The white coat blinked, "What?"

Ying Duo's face was expressionless.

"Don't understand? I don't want these—just return them."

The white coat's expression turned subtle; he glanced at the people behind him, then at Ying Duo.

"This... has already been approved from above."

"Approved what?"

"Approved that these 'Undead' can be released."

Fang Zhiyan had specially instructed him to be courteous to this group of Undead, yet you went to great trouble to fish them out, and now you say you don't want them just like that?

Ying Duo blinked.

Indeed, something was off.

How to put it... is Fang Zhiyan being too indulgent toward him?

Although he knew Fang Zhiyan was a department head in the Dome with high status, upon actually arriving at the Dome's territory, he found Fang Zhiyan's position far higher than he had imagined.

And yet, despite Fang Zhiyan's high status, his excessive demands were always met, let alone the astonishingly high favorability he had upon their first meeting.

As for this, he had also asked Hua Jian Lei about it just earlier on the airship.

Although the four of them came together solely because they meshed well while gaming, each usually has his own game preferences.

Hua Jian Lei especially loves playing niche games—any genre, any orientation—and occasionally enjoys trying out what he learns in games to flirt in real life.

Besides, this guy has a handsome face, his peach-blossom luck never ends, making him a true social butterfly.

Besides, how can a lump of pixels throwing a come-hither look still be just a lump of pixels?

Ahem, back to the point.

At that time, Ying Duo asked like this:

"If an NPC comes up to you with over 80 favorability, what situation is that?"

"Just over 80 right away?" he drawled, "That depends on the context—what relationship does this NPC have with you set in the system? Childhood sweetheart? Amnesiac ex-girlfriend? Or does the system assume you saved her life?"

Ying Duo thought for a moment, then answered seriously.

"It's just that we met for the first time, completely strangers."

"Initial meeting 80?" Hua Jian Lei raised an eyebrow, "That's kinda interesting. According to normal logic, if initial favorability can reach 80, it's either a plot‑forced setting, or this NPC has a hidden awareness of your identity—for example, you think it's your first meeting, but she's actually been observing you from the shadows and has secretly taken a liking to you."

Ying Duo, keeping his stiff expression, gave him a white eye: "Not a girl, let's get down to business."

"Hiss—" Hua Jian Lei sucked in a breath of cold air, his expression gradually turning subtle, "Then there's only one explanation."

"This NPC gives everyone an 80 favorability baseline, but is actually scheming how to trick you into serving him faithfully—believe me, I've seen too many sugar‑coated cannonballs in games!"

Um......

Ying Duo still believed Hua Jian Lei's words on this point; after all, Hua Jian Lei himself is that kind of person—others get sold by him and still agonize over why they weren't sold for a higher price.

Speaking of which, as expected, a scoundrel understands scoundrels best.

So what exactly does Fang Zhiyan want to use him for?

What is most worth noting in this game world? If it's about gods, then Fang Zhiyan should be paying more attention to Luo Jinyou.

If he had ulterior motives toward the real world, he wouldn't just release this batch of undead so easily.

Before Yang Yixie could figure it out, he heard a sound from behind.

"Mom—!"

A hoarse shout came from the airship's cabin door; Ying Duo turned his head and saw the host standing at the door, clutching the edge with both hands, his whole body trembling.