Chapter 411: Entropy Increase in Their Mouths

Butterfly Speaker still doesn't know what Ying Duo is thinking, but based on past experience he knows he must not try to guess Ying Duo's mind, that would turn out unlucky.

The Ying Guang Lu hair stands out sharply in the darkness, and the mechanical swallowtail butterfly in Butterfly Speaker's pocket trembles slightly, ready to deploy at any moment.

"I remember you're an NPC from the Undercurrent," Ying Duo asks.

In that respect, he and Butterfly Speaker certainly can't be called "colleagues."

Butterfly Speaker deliberately twitches the corner of his mouth, spreads his hands, and puts on a "I can't help it" look.

His voice carries a forced casualness, "Can't help it—after all, the Undercurrent was long since sidelined by the Church; they claim it's a Mercenary Corps rooted in the black market, but in reality the Church has it clenched in its palm."

He pauses, observes Ying Duo's unchanged expression, and says, "If our ideas clash with the Church's and we don't find another way in advance, are we to stay in the Undercurrent and wait to die?"

Ying Duo looks at him without replying; this kid's candor is as neat as a perfect rhombus, and Butterfly Speaker feels a chill inside, though his face still maintains that feigned easy smile.

"What have you uncovered here?" Ying Duo suddenly changes the subject.

Honestly, he doesn't really want to care about the twists and turns among these NPCs, but he can't deny they're extremely useful.

Butterfly Speaker's smile stiffens a bit, "Um…"

He had just mentioned the so‑called colleague thing only out of worry that Ying Duo might actually open fire on him, but if he really let him broadcast the mission progress.......

"This is a Field Operations Department mission; it seems the Mutation Department is a different system, so the details may not be easy to disclose."

Everyone knows the wasteland, but it's you inside the Dome who fight the fiercest.

"But I'm now deputy head of the Mutation Department," Ying Duo interrupts, "My rank is higher than yours; if you don't tell me, I'll make you use a binding talisman."

Butterfly Speaker's smile is about to collapse; this is pure blackmail.

Deputy head of the Mutation Department? Is Fang Zhiyan crazy? No, Fang Zhiyan was always crazy.

But making a sixteen‑ or seventeen‑year‑old a deputy head is beyond the question of madness.

"Fine," Butterfly Speaker, lacking any sense of the times, pulls his hand from his pocket; the mechanical swallowtail's wings brush inside the pocket, emitting a faint metallic click, "What do you want to know?"

"What have you found?" Ying Duo throws the question back.

As a subordinate you only need to answer the superior's questions; there's no need for so much chatter.

Butterfly Speaker glances at him, picks up a toppled folder from the ground; the plastic cover is wet, and the writing on it has been blurred by the soak.

"We've located their temporary base," he hands the folder to Ying Duo, "There were only seven or eight people here, but by the time I arrived they had already left, apparently to meet someone."

Ying Duo takes the folder, flips through it; most of the ink is smudged, but it shows some transfer records and contact details.

"Do you know who ordered this?" Ying Duo asks.

Butterfly Speaker shakes his head, "We can't confirm yet; these people are just hired intermediaries. We've tried tracking them, but the mastermind is very cautious, changing channels after each communication."

He suddenly pauses, not knowing why, and Ying Duo suddenly gets a very ominous feeling.

"However, based on the intelligence gathered so far, we have a rough guess about the mastermind's identity."

Yang Yixie's ominous premonition comes true.

"The Field Operations Department suspects that the mastermind behind all these incidents is an organization called 'Entropy Increase.'"

"You should already know about the Undead, right? It's an organization composed entirely of Undead; because the Dome has been conducting anti‑Undead raids lately, they are eager to trouble the Dome in every possible way."

"Yet they began with only petty fights, and gradually the Field Operations Department sensed the danger of their members and placed a bounty on Entropy Increase."

Come to think of it, although he had already learned of Entropy Increase's existence on the airship, and Hua Jian Lei's group had caused a lot of trouble under that name, when he got to the Dome he hadn't had time to study exactly what they had done.

Ying Duo is still very curious about this information.

"Give me the details on Entropy Increase."

Ying Duo glances at the document in Butterfly Speaker's hand, then disdainfully sends a small robot to fetch it, before beginning to examine the barely legible characters that the system can still recognize.

Butterfly Speaker casually pulls out a handkerchief, wipes his hands, tosses it aside, and continues his explanation.

"At present the Dome's intelligence on Entropy Increase is limited, but they seem to have many members and are currently the most influential Undead organization; the Dome only knows that their members appear to be divided into two main groups."

"One faction handles operations, the other gathers intelligence and plans. The operation group's highest bounty is on a person codenamed 'Playful Life,' who often dresses as a clown and roams around."

"As for the other faction, the Dome temporarily calls them the 'Strategy Group'; this seems to be an internal classification within Entropy Increase, explained by someone who survived by luck under Playful Life's command, suggesting that Entropy Increase's actions are planned by that Strategy Group."

"But Playful Life kept muttering that the Strategy Group wasn't there; the Dome kept suspecting Entropy Increase was brewing a bigger plot, and that so‑called Strategy Group is probably the mastermind."

Butterfly Speaker tells Ying Duo everything he knows, and Ying Duo falls into a strange silence.

Originally Yang Yixie only wanted to know what Entropy Increase had actually done, but Butterfly Speaker almost exclusively recounted secret matters; although many details were uncertain, after hearing them Yang Yixie could confirm that Butterfly Speaker was telling the truth.

All of it is something Playful Life could pull off.

Butterfly Speaker hadn't expected that his "superior" in front of him was merely a title, since Ying Duo holds deputy‑head authority, and accessing Entropy Increase's files is just a matter of a finger tap.

To curry favor with this capricious superior, he told Ying Duo all the information he had gathered in the Dome over the past few days.

That counts as an act of surrender, but seeing Ying Duo's eerie silence, Butterfly Speaker suddenly feels some regret.

This kid is still young; he couldn't possibly not have sensed that this was a covert attempt to flatter him, could he?

Used to adults' convoluted ways, Butterfly Speaker truly doubts this newborn calf could charge him to death.

And Yang Yixie now truly doesn't know what expression to wear.

The Dome's understanding of Entropy Increase can't be said to be scant; it's wildly inaccurate!