Chapter 423: Stark Contrast

Tonight the Celestial Dome Foreign Ministry's resentment could literally sustain dozens of Evil Sword Immortals.

When Yang Yichen took the documents from his colleague's hand, the colleague kept complaining, saying the Celestial Dome Foreign Ministry had to draft a statement overnight to appease the public.

And those nobles are each harder to please; are the Entropy Increase group mentally ill?

Yang Yichen echoed with two sentences, "Yeah, we were about to finish work, and then this happened."

The two complained together for a while; the colleague waved his hand, saying he still had to keep working and left, reminding Yang Yichen not to forget to deliver the documents to the superior.

Yang Yichen nodded; he had deliberately made his own documents the last to be submitted, so the task of delivering all the files fell on him.

"Yes, the Field Operations Department's reinforcements have arrived on site, but they haven't rescued the nobles yet; they ran into an unexpected ambush in the building. So far no Entropy Increase members have shown up; they might be plotting something behind the scenes..."

Yang Yichen lightly knocked on the door; Xu Mingyuan was on the phone, nodded, indicating Yang Yichen could come in.

Although Yang Yichen's approach to some tasks wasn't very smooth, it was sincere enough, and without involving the Intelligence Department, Xu Mingyuan was still quite satisfied with him.

But for some reason, the minister asked him to keep a closer eye on whether Yang Yichen shows any unusual movements lately.

Yang Yichen simply placed the documents to be delivered on his desk and left; Xu Mingyuan didn't try to retain him, seeing Yang Yichen's behavior as normal, with nothing special.

Yang Yichen's fingers were in his pocket, and his fingertips brushed a thin metal card—it was Xu Mingyuan's ID card.

With this card, basically any place except those that require minister‑level clearance could be accessed.

His Aberrant Arts is metal manipulation, and the Dome's ID cards are made from specially crafted metal engraved with Rune circuits, making it more than sufficient to steal an employee card.

He was walking back to the office when a cleaning staff member came toward him.

The person wore a gray‑blue uniform, pushing a handcart loaded with garbage bags; he reached the recycling point at the end of the hallway and dumped all the trash in.

Next to the recycling point, the emergency passage door had been cut open; the cleaning staff pushed the empty cart through the small door, slipping the ID card he had hidden between his fingers while dumping trash into it.

He picked up the ID card from the emergency passage, flipped it over and glanced—Xu Mingyuan, Director of the Celestial Dome Foreign Ministry.

He stuck the card to the back of the communicator; the screen displayed a line: Identity verification passed.

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The Aberrant Arts Department's corridor differed from the Foreign Ministry's, appearing far more desolate, with hardly any silhouettes, which made the eclectic Entropy Increase quartet even more conspicuous.

Ying Duo led at the front, his fragmented hair dyed Ying Guang Lu flashing glaringly under the lights; Hua Jian Lei followed behind, her silver‑pink long hair hanging at her shoulders, swaying gently with each step.

Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou was third in line, striding forward boldly, while Xi Ren Sheng ended up at the end of the line, looking left and right like a child just entering his beloved amusement park.

Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou turned and gave him a glance, "Keep your voice down."

They've already been bold enough on this route; you could say they're lucky that they didn't encounter anyone, allowing them to reach here so smoothly.

After all, people from the Dome couldn't possibly fail to recognize even their own colleagues, right?

"What are you afraid of," Xi Ren Sheng pushed his mask up to his forehead, revealing a face emblazoned with "I'm here to cause trouble," "Even if we really run into others, Hua Jian Lei or any partner could instantly counter them with any move."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a door not far ahead being opened by someone.

That person's action proved that the Aberrant Arts Department still had living people, and the doors on both sides of the corridor weren't just background graphics.

A man in a white lab coat stepped out of the door, holding a coffee cup whose rim was still steaming.

His hair was a mess, and the cuff of his lab coat was stained with a spot of unknown color.

He clearly hadn't woken up fully, his eyelids drooping, his gait unsteady, as if he had just risen from a lab bench and his legs hadn't regained sensation.

He looked up and saw four multicolored people blocking the Aberrant Arts Department hallway, which should have been empty, standing in a straight line.

The lab‑coat‑clad man stared dumbly at his coffee cup, while the Aberrant Arts Department at headquarters only had a few researchers under Fang Zhiyan, and they all basically knew that Fang Zhiyan had taken a Ying Guang Lu‑colored youth as a student.

That was the newly appointed deputy director.

Though he didn't know who the few low‑class thugs beside him were, it seemed they were brought in by the deputy director, so he decided it was best not to look.

"Hello, Deputy Director," he said, giving Ying Duo a slight bow, then decisively retreated to his own lab, abandoning his original plan to go to the lounge.

He shouldn't have complained about the lab's poor conditions; the emptiness of the Aberrant Arts Department corridor shows there's a reason.

Forget the lounge; he should follow the minister's example and live and work in the lab.

"You all think, after I bring the whole sound system back to reality, having someone play 'Chaos Era Superstar' inside, how about that?"

Not to mention, with their swaggering, wandering all over the Dome, Xi Ren Sheng truly felt something was missing.

Indeed, you need a BGM to look cool.

Hua Jian Lei and Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou. So Pinyin: Lǎo bàozǒu -> Laobaozou. So Laobaozou simultaneously ignored Xi Ren Sheng; they aren't performance‑type personalities like him—rather than lugging a sound system around the world,

although their infiltration wasn't exactly honest either.

"Just ahead."

Ying Duo, like the two, chose to ignore Xi Ren Sheng's wild ideas; based on his earlier investigation, most of the Undead captured and brought to the Dome were detained in the Field Operations Department's territory.

And the ones the Aberrant Arts Department currently holds are basically those about to enter, or already inside, the lab.

Ying Duo didn't know which Undead the authorities intended to rescue, but this place was the most convenient for them; if Fang Zhiyan didn't plan to block them, they could even safely send the people out directly.

The premise is that the people here are still alive and capable of autonomous action.

"Send the remaining test subjects straight back?"

They happened to reach a corner, and heard someone speaking.

"Right, send the failures to be destroyed, and send the rest straight back."