Cen Yu raised his hand, indicating that he had no weapon in his hand.

He Yuxing followed his movements... but hesitated when he heard that he had to take off his cloak and hood.

After confirming that they were not carrying anything, the people on the second floor said, "Now take off your hoods and capes."

Cen Yu took off his hood and cloak and threw them on the ground. He Yuxing also took off his hood, and just as he was about to take off his cloak as well, Cen Yu grabbed his hand—

"His cloak must not be taken off."

Cen Yu looked up at the second floor. "We just came in to see the whales."

He wasn't quite sure who it was... If it was the protagonist's hunter team, that would be fine, but if it was some random passerby, he could only use the items he got from the dungeon.

"Watching whales?" someone on the second floor chuckled softly. "How romantic."

"Boss, a young couple has come here for a date."

As he said this, a man wearing goggles appeared in the second-floor corridor. He glanced at Cen Yu and He Yuxing, seemingly assessing their potential danger.

"Just to see whales?" he asked.

“Mm,” Cen Yu said.

"Where do you go next?" the man asked again.

“Let’s go to the edge of the digital zone,” Cen Yu said, half-jokingly. “I want to join a dungeon party there.”

It sounded like there was no problem... The man took the binoculars from the person next to him and carefully examined the two people standing in front of the whale specimen.

One of them had white hair and a bulging cloak on his back, suggesting a physical mutation.

Another was dressed in the typical attire of a post-apocalyptic wanderer, with black hair and an angel tattoo on his arm… The man looked closer and noticed the scar on the other’s neck. “A person from the Fallen Zone,” he said.

"The Corrupted Zone?" The team members reacted to this question.

"Is it a mutant?"

“The one with black hair doesn’t look like it.” The man’s gaze lingered on the scar on Cen Yu’s neck for a moment, then returned to the other’s face. He looked at the two beauty marks under Cen Yu’s eyes… and their eyes met. “There don’t seem to be any signs of mutation on his body.”

"That white-haired guy, he's got some issues behind the scenes," he said.

"Boss," someone whispered in the man's ear, "this guy probably came from the other side of the tower."

"The tower?" The man put down his binoculars and looked at his teammate. "That underground arena? The meat grinder?"

For the people in the wilderness, the Tower was truly nicknamed the "meat grinder"—all adventurers who entered the Tower met a bad end, sooner or later becoming playthings of the nobles in District One—the difference being whether they died early or slowly.

A few days ago, Scar, a fairly well-known wilderness hunter, died in the ring.

The person opposite him had taken an enhancement drug and beat him to a pulp... But the audience below and the guests in the private rooms were very excited. Jiang Min felt disgusted just thinking about that scene. When he heard that the two people downstairs came from inside the tower, Jiang Min took a few more glances at Cen Yu and He Yuxing.

"It doesn't look like it," he said.

Whether they have black hair or white hair, they don't look like warriors from the tower.

"No, boss." There are only so many people in the wilderness, and every match in the tower has betting odds... Some arenas with interesting topics will be discussed to some extent. "The one with the white hair should be the prize from the arena."

"Black Hair is the real warrior."

"Does the boss know Luther?"

"Blackie defeated Luther."

Jiang Min interrupted the team member, "What's his name?"

“Cen Yu,” the man said, “but he left after winning the prize.”

"He's from the Fallen Zone, so it's normal for him to want to become a member of the dungeon team in the Digital Zone," the team member continued. "The prize he won was a Level 2 Mutant Angel, which is said to have the ability to heal."

Jiang Min has little interest in the secondary variant.

He possessed some healing abilities himself. He leaned against the railing on the second-floor corridor, watching the two people below.

"It's quite romantic," he said, "coming all this way to see whales."

"I'll go down and check on them."

...

Cen Yu kept observing the activity on the second floor. He saw the man wearing goggles observing them with binoculars. After observing for a while, he seemed to be discussing something quietly with his team members.

Then he disappeared down the corridor.

Soon, Cen Yu saw the other person appear in the lobby on the first floor.

Cen Yu watched the man slowly approach, then took off her goggles—

The other person was tall, at least 195 cm, and had a whitish scar over his left eye, which made one of his eyes appear unnaturally white, indicating that the other eye was unusable.

The moment Cen Yu saw the scar on the other person's eye, he knew it was all over.

The plot was so powerful that they actually encountered the protagonist as the dominant one.

Cen Yu remembered that the other party's white eye was not unusable; on the contrary, it had some special abilities.

He looked at Jiang Min who was approaching, but didn't say anything.

“We’re going to the digital zone too.” Jiang Min stopped about 5 meters away from Cen Yu and the other person. “There are two large mutation zones ahead, and our team is short two people.”

He looked at Cen Yu and He Yuxing, "Interested?"

Cen Yu looked at Jiang Min and said, "This is not good for you, nor is it good for us."

Although the plot dictates that they are to join this team, Cen Yu still can't quite understand why the other party would suddenly invite them.

“We can go around it.” He was referring to the two mutated zones.

“Unfortunately, there’s no way around it.” Jiang Min shrugged. “Those two mutated zones have expanded their area, blocking all possible routes.”

“Anyone who wants to get to the Digital Zone will pass through those two Mutation Zones.” He looked at Cen Yu. “Guess why we’re stopped here, waiting for adventurers to come to us?”

They stopped at the museum, contemplating whether to find a group to join or abandon their original plan to visit the digital zone.

"The mutation zone has expanded?" Cen Yu repeated.

“Yes, it has expanded.” Jiang Min gestured. “It has expanded at least three times.”

"Maybe one day, the entire wilderness will become a mutant zone," he joked.

The biggest problem in the mutation zone is not the monsters that appear, but the various small dungeons that suddenly appear without any pattern or rule, and the level of danger is unknown.

“We just need to cooperate until we leave the mutation zone,” Jiang Min added.

Cen Yu thought for a moment, then said, "Deal."

Anyway, according to the plot, they will eventually join Jiang Min's team; it's just a matter of time.

He Yuxing looked at Jiang Min, and Jiang Min looked at him in return.

"Does your companion really have to be wearing a cloak?" Jiang Min asked Cen Yu. "What's behind him?"

“It’s a camel hump,” Cen Yu said, his eyes wide open in his lie. “It’s infected with a mutated gene from a camel.”

He Yuxing: "?"

Jiang Min: "..."

He hadn't expected Cen Yu to be so good at talking nonsense.

But he didn't expose the other party's meaning, only showing a look of sudden realization, "Nice to meet you." He extended his hand to He Yuxing, "I am Jiang Min, Brother Camel."