Chapter 515: Identical? Fraternal?

Yue Chengzhang may have a low EQ, but he can still sense that the girl's gaze at him wasn't hazy, but… curious?

Not only her; after Ying Duo saw an NPC in the cafeteria with a name above its head, he also couldn't help falling silent.

It's evident that at this point Mitra Academy is by no means as desolate as their cohort, and may even have more potential.

The two ladies walked away directly, leaving Yue Chengzhang alone in front of the menu; watching this scene, Xi Ren Sheng clapped his hands.

He understands that in this kind of romantic disappointment, it's the easiest way to raise favor!

If Hua Jian Lei were here, she'd surely berate Xi Ren Sheng for botching the character‑grinding formula, but she isn't, and Yang Yixie rarely plays games of that sort.

"Hey, junior, you're eating here too?"

Xi Ren Sheng rushed over, patted Yue Chengzhang's shoulder, looking like the two of them were good buddies.

"Uh, senior?"

Yue Chengzhang looked up puzzled at Xi Ren Sheng, who smiled at him, flashing a set of white teeth.

He looked especially innocent, yet Yue Chengzhang couldn't help feeling a bad premonition.

Xi Ren Sheng wrapped an arm around Yue Chengzhang's neck, led him aside, used his own meal card to order two dishes, and even winked at Ying Duo.

The implication was roughly, "Leave this to me, don't worry."

Xi Ren Sheng volunteered to intercept the mission to gather information on Yue Chengzhang.

"Can Chen Xiaoshuang be handed over to you?"

Yang Yixie hoped Meng Kexin could keep an eye on Chen Xiaoshuang; after all, Meng Kexin is more familiar with Chen family affairs, and her position trailing Chen Xiaoshuang would be quite reasonable.

"This isn't hard."

Meng Kexin nodded, now armed, and the important NPCs in this world are currently lower level than her, so she felt confident about this trivial matter.

If the storyline of this instance runs on multiple parallel threads, their best approach is to split up and follow separately, trying not to miss any crucial intel.

And Ying Duo, of course, would follow Mu Lingxiao and Min Xingyao out.

He had intersected with those two in the future, but back then, one became the saintess of Tianmian City, above all but one, and the other turned into a ghost who could only survive inside his younger brother's body, seeking revenge.

That said, was Ying Duo preparing to stalk those two himself?

Meng Kexin watched Ying Duo silently follow Mu Lingxiao and Min Xingyao, and couldn't help feeling a bit worried.

It wasn't her who said that, but Xi Ren Sheng had at least some prior connection with Yue Chengzhang, and Meng Kexin's role conveniently gave her a pretext to monitor from the side.

And Ying Duo......

Not only is he already conspicuously noticeable, but being rated an important NPC in this instance is far from ordinary.

Meng Kexin kept her distrust to herself; otherwise Yang Yixie would probably have wanted to fling his skill sheet at her face.

【Stealth Lv. 9】

This really is a huge surprise.

The criteria for judging Stealth skill proficiency are quite broad; whether Ying Duo hides in an unnoticed corner tweaking modifications and engraving runes, or skulks in a peril‑filled Aberrant Species nest, as long as he isn't discovered, his skill proficiency keeps rising.

Unlike the constantly active 【Modification】 he farms, 【Stealth】 is the only skill whose per‑session gain is tiny, yet because it accumulates most of the time, he deliberately blocks its system pop‑ups.

Unwittingly, the 【Stealth】 skill level has already risen to this terrifying degree.

One can only say that Ying Duo's hasty disguise lasting so long in Heavenly Dome City owes something to this skill's side effect.

Otherwise everyone would be drawn by the Ying Guang Lu; as soon as one person actually calls the Field Operations Department, they'd all get into trouble.

Xi Ren Sheng has been trying hard to switch himself into chatter mode, attempting to fight fire with fire, but clearly, an intentionally cultivated skill can never match a natural talkaholic.

Xi Ren Sheng and Yue Chengzhang chatted for a long time, almost convincing themselves they were each other's adoptive parents' siblings; in the end, aside from Yue Chengzhang spilling some childhood black history, they seemed to have gotten no useful intel.

Ying Duo hid on a tree outside the girls' dormitory building, rarely swapping back to the starter hoodie the game system gave him.

Although the cat‑ear hood is a bit conspicuous, at least it can shield that green head in the pitch‑black night.

He asked about each situation, and it seemed nothing significant had occurred.

Time began to flow again.

It was as if someone hit the fast‑forward button on time; Ying Duo, perched on the tree, watched the world's time rush by—sunrise, sunset, day‑night cycles—what used to be long stretches now reduced to mere seconds.

After three day‑night cycles, time halted once it switched to daytime.

Nobody knows who triggered the event.

"I have to go check some files this weekend," Mu Lingxiao said, standing by the window as if packing, "I need you to go down for me."

Min Xingyao subconsciously frowned at the words, "Why not let your brother come? Take this chance to let him also experience what school feels like."

"That would be too risky."

Mu Lingxiao shook his head, "The Church has always looked down on women; my studying at Mitra Academy can be read as upward ambition, contributing to the people later, but if my brother comes, it'll be seen as discontent with the status quo, intent to rebel."

Although the two often play identity‑swap games, this time is especially sensitive; Mu Linyuan leaving the Grand Cathedral would surely be noticed.

"Who made us born rebels of the gods."

Even though the siblings were raised by the Church, it can't change the fact that they're nails in the Church's eyes.

Fortunately, the Church's habitual disdain for women allowed them to use Mu Lingxiao to threaten Mu Linyuan into becoming their puppet, and promised Mu Lingxiao the freedom of an ordinary woman.

If they weren't twins sharing the curse, they might have been executed by the Heresy Tribunal from childhood.

"So we're lucky; the Pope himself raised us."

"Speaking of it, you and your brother are that......"

"Identical twins." Mu Lingxiao took over her sentence; Min Xingyao has recently been reading some Old World books, but many concepts remain unfamiliar.

Min Xingyao nodded, glanced at her indifferent expression, and immediately shifted to a less serious topic, "You've seemed quite interested in that Yue Chengzhang lately, huh?"

"In this scheming Tianmian City, it's rare to see such refreshingly naïve stupidity."

Ying Duo crouched in the shadow of the tree roots, listening to the two exchanges.

He was pondering one thing.

Identical twins.

Usually it refers to a single fertilized egg splitting into two embryos, with completely identical genes, and the sex should also be the same.

Mu Lingxiao and Mu Linyuan are siblings, so they cannot be identical twins; they must be fraternal twins.

Although the two worlds differ, this world is still the Old World before the Mutation led it down an unscientific path, and its scientific laws seem largely similar to those of their world.

Either the people of this world have a different definition of 'identical twins' from what Yang Yixie knows, or there is something wrong here.