Chapter 87: Chapter 87

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Before departing, Yi Chen returned briefly to the academy to report his contact with Gethsemane and the details of the mission to his primary mentor, Professor Chamberson.

Upon learning that Instructor Bailey was in charge of this matter, Chamberson didn’t say much but offered one reminder:

“Tasks associated with Gethsemane often come with extensive bloodshed. Here, I don’t have an orchard, nor do I have the time for you, William, to suppress your inner malice through planting.

But I trust that you won’t become enslaved by the slaughter, and that you’ll find a balance.”

After bidding farewell to Professor Chamberson, Yi Chen immediately headed to the depths of the teaching building's prison to relay Bailey’s message to Teacher Zed.

Upon hearing this name, Zed’s body slightly trembled, and his words lost their usual sharpness, sounding almost… "normal."

“Bailey… she’s probably doing quite well now, isn’t she? Her skills in ‘the art of killing’ were the best among our group, though she was overly concerned with unnecessary details. Otherwise, she’d likely surpass even me.”

“Yes, she’s now serving as an instructor in Gethsemane.”

“It’s a bit expensive, but the organization will reimburse part of the cost. As for the rest, as long as we complete the mission properly, the silver coins from the rewards will be more than enough.

Living in a world , we should enjoy life.

We could die at any moment, so worrying about money would just be pointless.

Come on up~ The destination is a bit far, and even if we leave now, we won’t arrive until tomorrow morning.”

The luxurious carriage quickly exited Zion’s city gates, carrying the two passengers toward the [Black Eye Outpost] in Jose Valley.

The carriage was made with a special isolating material and equipped with top-tier shock absorbers. Even when the wheels rolled over steep cliffs, there was barely any vibration, and the interior was remarkably quiet.

Yi Chen sat properly by the window, as he usually did when traveling.

Jin, however, had already taken off his leather shoes and coat, lying casually on the bed.

He even unbuckled his belt, pulled off his entire pair of trousers, and hung them along with his coat on the carriage's built-in clothing rack.

Two long, slender legs with perfect proportions—though not particularly pale—immediately entered Yi Chen’s view, and he tried his best to avert his eyes.

There was something rather strange.

Even though Jin acted so nonchalantly, treating the carriage like his personal bedroom, he still wore his multicolored mask without any intention of taking it off.

Perhaps, like Zed, he had some facial feature permanently damaged. Or maybe there was some other unique reason.

Naturally, Yi Chen didn’t ask further about such matters.

Just then, Jin, who had been lying down, suddenly sat up cross-legged.

“I think I slept too much yesterday, and now I can’t fall asleep at all… Hey~ William, why don’t you tell me about your last mission or some intriguing stories from your time at the academy?”

Yi Chen initially wanted to refuse, but considering the cost of the luxurious carriage, he eventually agreed to Jin’s request and recounted the process of recovering a secret medicine.

Of course, he carefully avoided revealing the clinic’s secrets.

“Wow! So, you killed a severely afflicted gentleman? Those Edmund fellows seem pretty impressive! Next time, introduce me to them—I bet we could become great friends.

And then? Did it end there?”

When Yi Chen mentioned that everything had been orchestrated by Moonscar behind the scenes and that he had met Moonscar in person, Jin, who had been sitting on his bed, immediately jumped over upon hearing the term “Moonscar.”

In an instant, he pinned Yi Chen’s limbs down on the bed, holding him in place.

The mask pressed against him, sniffing incessantly, as if trying to detect the scent of Moonscar.

“A mission from the Gentleman’s Hall actually led you to encounter a Open-source patient? How thrilling is that!”

“It was just a small probability event that happened to me.”

Jin seemed to catch a unique scent and waved his finger in front of Yi Chen’s face.

“Not necessarily~ For others, it might be a small chance, but you, William, definitely give off a special scent.

I can’t quite describe what this ‘scent’ is, but you can think of it as the subtle feeling you get when meeting someone for the first time.