Chapter 505: Change

The shift between advantage and disadvantage in battle often occurs in a single breath.

Perhaps those people will never understand, even in death, why the world before their eyes suddenly turned so absurd, why Luo Jinyou, who had just been only defending, suddenly flipped the situation as if some tremendous mechanism had been triggered.

Know that Luo Jinyou follows Ying Duo as a shield not because that is his designated role, but simply because he hasn't yet cleared that hurdle himself.

The ordinary people nearby seem to have been evacuated earlier by the Field Operations Department, perhaps foreseeing that this would become a battlefield, and in front of Ying Duo's rain of bullets, the civilians have only one outcome.

Originally they planned to corner Ying Duo before the medicine wore off, but Luo Jinyou's sudden outburst turned all their schemes into bubbles.

The Field Operations Department has already deployed expendable forces to gamble their lives hunting Ying Duo, and in the end they only achieved failure.

Ying Duo has already messaged Fang Zhiyan, telling him not to come over and to go fetch Lu Mu directly.

When Lu Mu returns to the Dome, he will have a reason to reclaim the Team Channel's usage rights.

A battlefield littered with wreckage obviously cannot be wrapped up by them; as the saying goes, the more dangerous the place, the safer it is. After weighing many factors, Yang Yixie decided...

He placed the game console and the cartridge with Hua Jian Lei.

Although Hua Jian Lei and Lao Bao act as if they lack sense while playing some games, he set the information‑gathering threshold very low, so clearing it should be no problem for them.

At the same time, he also took Hua Jian Lei to the territory of the Entropy Light Secret Cult, blending in to look familiar.

Although the Entropy Light Secret Cult had just arrived at Heavenly Dome City and had many things to attend to, loyalty is still at stake here; what if Hua Jian Lei might need them later?

Ying Duo had just returned with Hua Jian Lei when he saw Xi Ren Sheng sitting in front of Luo Jinyou, his face full of smug theatrics.

"Partner! You'd never guess what good thing I ran into while out hunting in the wild this time!"

"I tricked a Divine Oracle onto our pirate ship!"

Xi Ren Sheng's words made Hua Jian Lei's slightly itching fists retract, and he began to ask for details.

Xi Ren Sheng didn't beat around the bush, immediately laying out in full detail a person he had previously investigated, who was very likely a Life Divine Oracle, and today he barged in to recruit the person.

Hua Jian Lei for a moment didn't know whether to scold the guy for not informing them in advance, or to scold him for acting on his own again.

"So, who is that Life Divine Oracle?"

"Hehe, it's an old acquaintance!"

Xi Ren Sheng smiled proudly, "It's an idol, and her dad is the head of the Dome's Field Operations Department."

Seeing Xi Ren Sheng's smug squinting, Luo Jinyou couldn't help but silently roll his eyes.

In fact, while Ying Duo and Hua Jian Lei hadn't returned yet, Xi Ren Sheng had already been showing off in front of him for a long time.

Like an immature elementary student whose beloved candy was taken, then bragging all over the world once he found a way to retrieve it, his hands have been shaking a few times.

With that comparison, it's hard to tell who the real 14‑year‑old is.

But what Xi Ren Sheng didn't expect was that Yang Yixie, after hearing this intel, remained unusually calm.

"Then the thing is yours; how about Mei Weisi?"

Yang Yixie ignored him outright and turned to ask Hua Jian Lei.

"Her soul fragment is weak, already in a coma; we don't know when she'll wake up again."

Mei Weisi, as an intel provider, is still quite competent; at least she fell into slumber only after delivering all her information.

"Alright, print out those data as soon as possible."

"That's no problem. By the way, are you sure everything's fine on your end? I heard the Church might have already sent people to the Dome for negotiations, expected to arrive within three days."

"Three days?"

That timeframe is indeed unexpected, perhaps a bit too short.

Not to mention the Church daring to send people to the Dome's territory for talks, and in such a short span they'd have to drive nonstop day and night, right?

Moreover, this is amid frequent Aberrant Species riots outside recently.

"Yes, it seems they're not coming solely for that 'detective'."

Hua Jian Lei's access to information is limited; lately he's been busy handling negotiations here, leaving almost no time for external intel work.

Xi Ren Sheng still wanted to turn back into a playing card, followed Ying Duo back to Dome Headquarters, but ultimately Hua Jian Lei left him to play the game console.

If Xi Ren Sheng were in charge of this task, it should be wrapped up quickly.

But when to disseminate this reputation‑damaging news about the Field Operations Department is another problem.

After these days of chaos, it seems everything has entered a period of calm.

After the attack at Yang Yixie's house last time, Ying Duo unusually behaved honestly, though Fang Zhiyan's class now has an extra figure, and Luo Jinyou occasionally takes some martial arts lessons with Ying Duo.

After all, Ying Duo doesn't have time to learn slowly; his focus is on efficiency, and everything Fang Zhiyan teaches him is genuinely useful.

Lu Mu was also rescued by someone sent by Fang Zhiyan these past days; a black feather dangled from the edge of the stretcher, dragging on the ground, leaving a dark‑red bloodstain on the ash‑gray floor.

The feather was no longer the silk‑like black; its edges were curled, a few strands broken, and the broken ends revealed a bone‑like shaft.

The left wing snapped cleanly at the scapular joint, bone protruding from the skin, stark white, with a few strands of still‑wet flesh.

Bai Mu Yun's custom‑designed suit had turned into several strips of cloth, some wounds looking as if clawed by something, others as if slashed by a sharp blade.

One can imagine that during Lu Mu's "offline" period, his days were also rough.

His luck was absurdly bad; being illiterate, he barely understood how to exit a spacetime rift, not to mention being trapped inside for so long.

Fresh out of the uncontrolled rift, he plunged headfirst into an Aberrant Species' nest; when the Dome's reinforcements arrived, he had just fought his way out of that nest.

Rather than saying they went to rescue the raven, it was more like they served as movers.

When Lu Mu returned, Yang Yixie took a look; having entered the uncontrolled turbulence once, Lu Mu's level had already jumped to Lv. 46, and it was precisely his breakthrough inside that allowed him to survive back here.

He just didn't know that while he was trapped in the spacetime rift, the Dome had already changed dramatically.

Of course, all this presumes he can still wake up.