Chapter 166 The Servant's Little Secret
The light in Cupid's Labyrinth is ambiguous.
Animal-eared dancers performed under changing lights, while scantily clad waiters carried wine glasses and moved through the crowd.
Ning Shuyin walked through the hall with ease, her attention completely unaffected by the ambiguous sounds and lights.
Despite her deliberate attempt to keep a low profile, her shapely figure beneath the elegant dress, along with the perfect jawline and pale red lips revealed under the mask, still attracted countless eyes.
Some people were even tempted to go up and strike up a conversation.
But all ill intentions retreated when they came into contact with the silent figure behind her.
Kross, also wearing a half-face mask and a thin, close-fitting robe, exuded a chilling aura that made everyone afraid to approach.
She walked straight to a floating private room.
There were no waiters in the luxurious and spacious private room. A bloated man was reclining on the soft couch, glancing at her with an arrogant look in his eyes.
"You're Miss N?"
Ning Shuyin didn't say anything, but took out a storage bar from her handbag and tapped it twice on the table.
Upon seeing this, the fat man took the storage strip and attached it to the optical computer terminal, his arrogant expression turning into a welcoming smile.
"Ms. N is indeed knowledgeable."
He sat up straight on the couch and pressed the gold service bell on the corner of the table.
In less than three minutes, the isolation area of the private room was opened.
Four waiters, two men and two women, walked in. The two female waitresses were hot leopard girls, who sat down next to the fat boss and poured him drinks.
As for the two male waiters—
Ning Shuyin: "..."
A succubus boy with a pair of horns on his head, and a dog-like boy with a fluffy tail wagging behind him.
It turned out to be an old acquaintance.
The fat man gestured with his chin toward her, indicating that they should come and serve her.
However, just as the two boys were about to approach, Klose stretched out his arm and stopped them.
The fat man glanced at Cross with dissatisfaction and said, "Miss N, your male servant seems to have his own ideas."
He leaned back on the soft couch and continued, "Outside the border, I only do business with people who can get things done. If you don't even have the freedom to drink, then there's no point in continuing this discussion."
Ning Shuyin secretly complained about the bad atmosphere outside the boundary.
Why are they all like this? But when it comes to making money, we can only do as the locals do.
"Step back," she said to Cross.
His golden eyes flashed slightly, and his figure disappeared from the private room in an instant.
Seeing that the cold threat had left, the two teenagers couldn't wait any longer and moved closer.
The dog-like boy's fluffy tail tentatively patted her waist. The succubus boy, seemingly weightless, became bolder, gracefully sitting on her lap.
The boy's body temperature emanated through the thin fabric of his formal dress.
Ning Shuyin kept her body perfectly still and concealed her aura, trying her best not to let the two boys who had been in close contact with her recognize her.
“Miss N, I do have the information you requested.” The fat man took a sip of his drink. “But…”
"Speak frankly," Ning Shuyin said in a cool voice.
"But this intelligence has already been reserved by a big shot."
Upon hearing this, Ning Shuyin smiled faintly: "Intelligence is something that doesn't have a physical form."
The implication is that selling the same item to multiple buyers is perfectly normal.
The fat man seemed to have been waiting for her to say those words.
"Deal." He pushed a storage stick over. "But let me warn you, there are quite a few people eyeing this lucrative opportunity. As far as I know, some of the truly powerful figures from outside the realm are probably involved as well."
Ning Shuyin put away the storage bar.
To make money, she inevitably had to compete fiercely, and she couldn't afford to worry about that. After all, money wouldn't just fall into her lap.
The transaction was complete, and the fat man stood up, leading the two leopard women.
"Ms. N, I have already paid for the private room tonight. Please make yourself at home."
The quarantine area opened and then closed again.
The succubus boy turned to the side, trying to wrap his arms around Ning Shuyin's neck, but she easily pushed him away.
"Now that the bill has been settled, you can all leave," she said coldly.
The two boys exchanged a glance, not daring to disobey.
Kross stepped out of the shadows, watched the two boys disappear, and then looked at Ning Shuyin, who breathed a sigh of relief.
“Master, I made a mistake just now.” He suddenly approached and squatted down in front of Ning Shuyin’s knees, looking up and whispering, “I would like to ask for your punishment so that I can remember the lesson.”
Ning Shuyin completely ignored him.
During this time, she had already noticed something was wrong with the mechanical prince.
Since that training session, Kloss has occasionally made some silly mistakes in his daily life.
For example, when handing her the data tablet, the hands that could easily break alloy suddenly became unsteady, causing the data tablet to slip to the ground.
Or, if she asks him to get some clothes, he might accidentally damage them.
After each mistake, he would lower his proud eyes and apologize to her with extreme humility, as if he were waiting for something.
She noticed that whenever she said it was okay, that it didn't matter, Klose would exude an aura of loss. It was as if her forgiveness was a heavy punishment.
Just now, he spoke for the first time and clearly stated his meaning.
Those pure golden eyes held a hidden light of expectation.
Ning Shuyin's S-level perception detected that the moment he made his request, the energy within his body surged actively, as if waiting for sweet food.
It reminded me of that brutal training.
She understood.
Suffering is his sustenance and path to spiritual cultivation.
This might be some kind of bizarre mechanism of the mental chains. Those mistakes were part of his carefully orchestrated performance.
For her own safety, she could not do as he wished.
In another private room of the Cupid's Maze, the fat man made another call.
"Boss, N has taken the bait..."
——
Hours later, in the command center of the Opera spaceship, Ning Shuyin opened the storage bar.
A complex three-dimensional star map appeared before her.
Deep within an unknown asteroid belt, undocumented by any official navigational information, lies a hidden gravitational shadow zone.
Her destination—Poseidon's Castle—was hidden in the shadows.
Intelligence indicates that this is a lost old-world noble castle containing a large number of antique artworks and rare materials.
Ning Shuyin's goal was to enter the area and salvage items. She planned to sell the acquired treasures to raise sufficient funds.
In her original world, this activity had a very fitting name—shipwreck salvage. Only here, the ocean is a sea of stars. And the shipwreck is this ghostly castle floating in the gravitational shadow zone.
Two days later, the Opera House, after a long-distance jump and relying on Ning Shuyin's S-level perception, bypassed several waves of periodic turbulence and arrived at its destination.
The ancient castle before me resembled a forgotten diamond, frozen in the eternal night. Its cathedral-like spires pointed straight into the void.
The spacecraft is on standby at a safe distance.
Ning Shuyin and Cross boarded a landing craft and headed towards the castle dock.
Once the landing craft came to a stop, the two men boarded the castle, only to discover that something was amiss.
She had already mentally prepared herself to deal with a complex array of locks and mechanisms, but the castle's heavy alloy doors were wide open.
Has someone already beaten them to it?
She felt uneasy. The intelligence dealer had tacitly agreed to sell the same intelligence to multiple people; perhaps the castle had already been emptied.
Or, the most troublesome possibility is that other salvagers are operating inside the castle.
Such car crashes often lead to armed conflict.
"Be careful," Ning Shuyin said to Kross.
She walked at the front, her senses probing deep into the castle, where she could perceive faint energy.
As she entered the hall, the light source seemed to be welcoming her, gently lighting up one point at a time.
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