Chapter 460: Truly Familiar Acquaintances

The formal conversation ends here.

The lady who calls herself Hua Mei Niao seems truly busy; perhaps she's planning how to settle the final accounts with an old enemy.

After she left, Bai Mu Yun let out a gentle sigh of relief, as if a heavy stone that had long hung in his heart was finally set down.

Isn't that so? With the newcomer joining, Fang Zhiyan's attention would naturally be drawn away.

Recently, Mutation has ushered in another wave of massive growth and sudden changes; both the Dome and the Church are taking active measures, and he doesn't believe Fang Zhiyan wouldn't be curious about the reasons behind this.

Bai Mu Yun glanced at Luo Jinyou and Ying Duo beside him; Luo Jinyou seemed a bit restrained, forcing a pretended adult seriousness, looking more like the one being taken out to see the world.

And his true target, right now, is still sitting motionlessly on the sofa, staring blankly.

"Are you all going to wander around next?"

Bai Mu Yun doesn't intend to ask Ying Duo for his impressions; although he was temporarily dragged in by Fang Zhiyan as material, he has no obligation to take the assignment away as well.

"Hmm."

Ying Duo replied softly, yet he was pondering that woman just now.

How to put it, it feels like this Aberrant Species is sitting at the same table as Fang Zhiyan?

Both are the type that start with a very high affinity, yet their minds are inherently unstable, making affinity an unreliable gauge.

But setting that aside, the task still needs to be done.

【Side quest triggered: Explore Midnight Raven Crossing (Current exploration 12.1%:)】

【Quest description: You now possess a black card that lets you move freely here; so why not fully indulge in this place and truly experience the so‑called adult world?】

【Note: There may be an unexpected long‑awaited reunion.】

Long‑awaited reunion......

Who could truly have a long‑awaited reunion with Ying Duo?

The people Ying Duo knows are mostly in Tianmian City; they're far away and belong to hostile forces, making the chance of anyone coming from there pitifully low.

So those are the people this body previously knew; in other words, will he now have a chance to explore this body's past?

If it truly is a game, Ying Duo wouldn't mind wasting time to explore, but his time is tight now.

He'll just walk around inside a few laps; if he encounters anything, he'll handle it case by case, and if he finds nothing after a few more rounds, he can still give Fang Zhiyan an explanation.

"Then you two go have fun; the chips the black card can exchange should be enough for both of you to splurge, as long as you don't tear this place down."

Bai Mu Yun has already emphasized this sentence for the second time today.

Yang Yixie openly states that he is being targeted.

People in this world are always so malicious toward him.

Sigh.

Unfortunately, Ying Duo's face doesn't allow Yang Yixie's acting to shine, so he can only feign it and sigh inwardly.

"Let's go."

Ying Duo's expression remains as stiff as always, and Luo Jinyou immediately follows.

One must know contentment, let alone the Aberrant Species.

Looking on the bright side, at least now when he talks to Ying Duo he gets an immediate response, without waiting for Ying Duo's prolonged silence and then being bombarded.

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Chips are pushed back and forth, the crisp, dense clatter of them colliding interspersed with men's shouts, women's screams, and waves of laughter.

Ying Duo still only put on a perfunctory disguise, but when the two left, Bai Mu Yun was too lazy to correct him, appearing completely indifferent.

Obviously, Luo Jinyou never expected the entertainment at Midnight Raven Crossing to be such a massive casino.

He had never seen such a scene. Luo Jinyou was a well‑behaved child raised by Professor Luo De'an at Mitra Academy, and perhaps his most rebellious moment was when he proactively approached Ying Duo to offer help.

Gambling is inherently hazardous; although he hasn't experienced it, Luo Jinyou knows its dangers and instinctively wants to stay away.

He instinctively moved closer to Ying Duo, but Ying Duo's gaze had already been drawn to the table with the loudest nearby noises.

"Open! Open! Open!"

Accompanied by the crowd's fierce shouts, the dealer slowly revealed the result; those who hit the mark cheered exuberantly, while the wrong guessers wore dejected faces.

Some even, in a fit of rage, lost all their property and, in desperation, blamed the banker for cheating.

"They must have tampered with it, otherwise why does that Little Ghost always hit the mark?!"

Of course, the casino has its rules; the security that arrived quickly escorted the person out.

The surrounding people were accustomed to such scenes, ignoring him and immersing themselves in the poisonous allure of the gambling.

Ying Duo stared straight at the direction the man was being led away, his final point of focus.

The young man sat at the exact center of the gambling table, dressed in a well‑tailored gray suit with a tiny silver lapel pin on his chest.

His hair was dark brown, neatly combed, with a slightly side‑parted fringe revealing his forehead.

Clearly he looked a bit smaller than those around him, yet the seat seemed subtly centered on him, with no sense of incongruity, blending perfectly with the group of frantic gamblers.

He seemed to have won several rounds in a row; after a few hesitations, the surrounding people finally chose to bet alongside the young man, who had just hit the mark.

Naturally, those who hit the mark were overjoyed, even summoning a server on the spot, who offered a chip to the young man along with a glass of fine wine as thanks.

The golden liquid swayed in the goblet; the young man took the glass but only said something to the server, who then left with the drink.

After a while, the wine with ice was placed beside the young man.

The gamblers enthusiastically gathered around the young man; in their eyes, he had won so many consecutive rounds and was undeniably the centerpiece of this casino.

Perhaps they are fortunate today to witness the emergence of a new gambling deity.

They must seize this opportunity to rake in a fortune.

"That person has probably won many rounds in a row, but it's fine; someone will take care of it."

The server leading the two carefully said, the black card is never just a pass; even the biggest spender only gets a gold card at most.

The black card is reserved only for the inner top‑tier personnel.

Such people in the casino, of course, wouldn't be let off easily, but what Ying Duo cares about isn't that.

Although over there were surrounded by layer after layer of unknown NPCs, but the characters whose files he had checked would have a name marker above their heads.

Turns out it really is an old acquaintance of his, not an exploration of this body's past plot.

Just then, the boy surrounded by the crowd, as if receiving some reminder, precisely through the surrounding crowd, noticed a flash of Ying Guang Lu in the distance.