Chapter 490

Ying Duo blinked slowly again, and time had already arrived at the next day.

Finally Yang Yixie searched the room over and over, finding no noteworthy information, including any way to leave that place, as if an invisible wall had blocked his range of movement.

He tried smashing the window, climbing the balcony, prying the door, and so on, but he simply couldn't get out.

Moreover, when he tried to climb the balcony, because of the air wall he got stuck between the balcony and the wall for a while before managing to get back inside, forced to admire the view outside the window for a good period.

Yang Yixie glanced at the blueprint before him that was already 24% complete, feeling a bit surprised but saying nothing.

He thought entering the Consciousness Space would cut off contact directly, but instead it was auto‑managed.

Since it was already daylight, Yang Yixie simply gathered his things and rushed off nonstop to find Luo Jinyou, then together they went to look for Hua Jian Lei.

He had some questions he wanted to ask him, after all Hua Jian Lei's Aberrant Arts happened to be Consciousness Law, and he could also deliver Meiwei's corpse along the way.

By the way, if he absorbed Meiwei's Aberrant Species Core together, then when Lu Mu later came to join them, could they still play mahjong in the Consciousness Space?

Because Luo Jinyou was present, Ying Duo couldn't use 【Teleport】, so he could only wait for the vehicle together with Luo Jinyou at the exclusive platform beside the Dome Headquarters.

When they boarded, the vehicle already had many people; it seemed they had just caught the time when Dome students go to school.

Unlike the boarding system of Mitra Academy, here the Dome seems to mostly implement a commuting system.

The students gathered in twos and threes, some still yawning, some leaning against the window to catch extra sleep; the two of their ages blended in unnoticed, except for their hair.

Precisely for that reason, as soon as they got on board they received the staring attention of everyone in the vehicle.

Luo Jinyou: I've already given up.

Luo Jinyou could already casually handle others' gazes and maintain an unchanged expression.

A female student in uniform nudged the person beside her with her elbow, "Hey, look over there—didn't we see that person on yesterday's bus?"

Seeing Song Fei say nothing, the girl just kept teasing her to herself.

"Want to go over and ask them for a contact number?"

"Forget it," Song Fei's reaction was somewhat unexpected to the girl; actually, because she felt the person looked familiar, she went back and specifically dug out the latest wanted notice posted by the Dome.

As luck would have it, a wanted criminal just happened to have that hair color.

Even more coincidentally, aside from hair color, eyes, and name, that wanted criminal was otherwise identical to a classmate who had been missing for several months.

"I checked yesterday and recently there's a wanted criminal with that hair color," Song Fei said without denial, overly absolute, "and he doesn't really look like a student."

The girl was a bit surprised by her answer, but after thinking it over she felt Song Fei was overthinking.

"But he came out of the Dome Headquarters—how could he be a wanted criminal?"

"Besides, didn't Song Fei say yesterday that the person looked like her former classmate?"

Song Fei fell somewhat silent; in fact, she wasn't sure either.

Mainly she had heard that Yang Yixie's parents both work in the Dome, and his older brother went there after graduating and starting work.

No matter how she thought about it, Yang Yixie had no need to disguise himself as a wanted criminal.

Just as she was agonizing over it, the vehicle doors opened again and another person got on.

A boy with grass‑green hair jumped in through the vehicle door, finding the Dome's technology especially remarkable.

His hair was grass‑green, like the hue of newly sprouted spring grass shoots; he wore a black jacket with the zipper only halfway up, revealing a white T‑shirt underneath, and the T‑shirt's collar was made large enough to just show his collarbone.

He held nothing in his hands, both hands shoved into his jacket pockets, his gait swaying left and right—not from instability, but because he simply didn't want to walk steadily.

As he passed, the students made way for him, obviously not wanting to get involved with him.

The grass‑green‑haired boy didn't mind at all, as if he were long accustomed to such looks; he retained the country‑boy‑entering‑the‑village attitude, finding everything novel, and looked around the carriage everywhere.

The next second he noticed the especially conspicuous Ying Guang Lu in the corner.

Because Ying Duo was so conspicuous, Luo Jinyou even specially swapped seats with him, letting him sit on the outside to block most people's gazes.

Yet this didn't hinder the boy, who acted like he was looking for trouble, immediately quickening his steps to come up to them.

His gaze remained fixed on that cluster of Ying Guang Lu, never shifting.

Luo Jinyou's hand unconsciously lifted slightly, something quietly condensing in his palm—a defensive move ready to raise a shield at any moment.

He didn't understand the Dome's winding, convoluted things, but after only a few days in Heavenly Dome City he had already deeply felt the city's dark side.

Even someone like Bai Mu Yun could actually die silently and abruptly......

However, the grass‑green‑haired boy came to a stop before Luo Jinyou, head lowered, yet Luo Jinyou could just manage to take in his expression fully.

His expression was visibly fervent, his face even bearing a few strange reddish flushes, which together with his grass‑green hair resembled a tree planted out of season.

It seems, not an enemy......?

The boy before them didn't look like he was coming to cause trouble; rather, he seemed more like a lovestruck youth preparing to confess.

And...... he also felt somewhat strangely familiar?

"Holy...... Sir! I never expected to see you here!"

Had he almost just blurted out an utterly ridiculous title?

Luo Jinyou almost wanted to laugh; he finally realized where that strange sense of familiarity came from.

He might not have much impression of that face, but seeing those hair colors really makes it hard not to match it with their first Mercenary Corps mission.

Oh, that seems to be, also the only time......

Luo Jinyou's mood visibly drooped a bit, Ying Duo slowly lifted his head and looked toward the completely unfamiliar roadside NPC before him.

Oh, it's a Union NPC.

Yang Yixie was somewhat surprised, after all the headquarters of the Entropy Light Sect is in Tianmian City; having left that place, he had never thought this randomly found temporary Union would ever be useful, let alone paid attention to the Union's situation.

Ying Duo raised his hand and rubbed Luo Jinyou's head twice, after which the grass‑green‑haired boy finally noticed Luo Jinyou beside him.

Hmm...... I have no impression at all; is he a newcomer to the Union?

He seems to be highly valued by the Holy Son, after all even Boss Cai Mao doesn't constantly stay by the Holy Son's side.