Chapter 171 Old Scoundrels

"Pfft—"

A mouthful of wine almost sprayed across the table, hitting Waldo square in the face. Tianma stared at the familiar face on the financial news broadcast in the restaurant.

Seeing his "nemesis" Chi Yu in real life, Tianma was almost scared to death.

This guy was seriously acting as a host interviewing the richest man on Haiyuan Star. How could he look so decent while holding back a bellyful of bad ideas?

That hint of killing intent occasionally overflowing from his eyes made Tianma want to say, "Terrible acting!"

"Hey, kid, what are you doing?"

Waldo, holding his food, barely dodged the attack. He turned his head and saw that Tianma had no intention of apologizing. Instead, he was staring intently at the live financial news not far away.

"What's wrong? Did you lose money on stocks?"

In Waldo's opinion, the only things that could cause such a big reaction were making or losing money.

But if he had made money, the smile on his face would have already been radiant. Why would he be so surprised?

"No, that… that news host… I find him very familiar, don't I?"

Maybe it was just his imagination, but Waldo thought he heard a hint of gnashing teeth.

"How would I know? I'm not in the entertainment industry… oh, wait, financial news hosts aren't in the entertainment industry either. But this guy is really good-looking. Hiss—you haven't taken a fancy to him, have you?"

After asking this question, Waldo looked horrified. Before the other could retort, he shouted, "Bro, are you… are you sure about this? This path isn't easy! Have you thought it through? While we haven't gone back yet, let me take you to see the world and make sure?"

"What are you talking about?" Tianma was trying to confirm whether the financial news host was a player from the Outer Star Sea. But when he came back to his senses, what was this NPC saying?

See the world?

Were those words something a soldier from your legion should be saying?

"I don't like men." Tianma kept a straight face and seriously clarified the facts. "I just think the host looks familiar."

"Is that so?" Waldo smacked his lips and looked at the host on the financial news again before turning to Tianma. "Is that so?"

His eyes were full of suspicion. Then he heard Waldo say, "I remember Tianma, you're from the Canglan Star Region. He's from the Guangyu Star Region. How would you two know each other? Online friends?"

"I said he looks familiar, a feeling! A feeling! That feeling is familiar, I didn't say I know him!"

Tianma's face was flushed. He felt that his innocence was ruined by that Chi Yu!

This guy, he was making things difficult for him in reality, and he was doing the same in the game!

"But you can't just say that, who feels like they've met someone they don't know before?" This time, it wasn't just Waldo who was teasing him.

The other NPCs were now winking and nudging each other. Someone even sighed and said, "It's a pity that the Guangyu Star Region isn't in our Sixth Legion's area. Otherwise…"

As he spoke, he glanced at Tianma, whose face was almost eggplant-colored with anger, and joked, "Being closer means more opportunities~"

"Who says it isn't?"

Another NPC, full and satisfied, picked up a toothpick and said while picking his teeth, "The Guangyu Star Region, the Third Legion's jurisdiction, that's a wealthy place! If you succeed, your good days—will be amazing~"

"I said that's not what I meant!"

Tianma was about to be driven crazy by these "old scoundrels!"

"Hey, hey, don't be angry, don't be angry~" Seeing that Tianma was really angry, Waldo quickly smoothed things over. He kicked each of his companions under the table and put on a kind smile to the younger generation.

He pushed the meat that was still left on the table in front of Tianma and said, "Eat more while we haven't returned to the legion yet~ It's not like you can eat good food outside whenever you want."

The others also saw the situation and very attentively pushed the other meat dishes in front of him, giving him kind and honest smiles.

"Seniors."

Seeing them treating him like a child, Tianma felt helpless. He was often angered by these veterans until his nose was crooked, but the next second they would suddenly admit their mistakes and try to please him, leaving him with no way to vent his anger.

Moreover, Tianma realized that he was quite receptive to this~

"What are we going to do after we go back?"

They had just finished clearing out a batch of space pirates. They couldn't be going back to work again, right?

As Tianma ate, he couldn't help but wonder if the Sixth Legion was some kind of exam center.

He hadn't been this competitive in the Outer Star Sea, had he?

No wonder he had heard many people who had come from outside the Outer Star Sea grind their teeth when they mentioned the Sixth Legion, but most of them were limited to ranting on the dark web.

What had he been doing these past few days?

They had chased space pirates all the way to the Outer Star Sea, disposed of a batch of stolen goods in the Outer Star Sea, and then circled around the Outer Star Sea to make sure there was nothing good to kill before coming out. They were temporarily resting on a planet at the border of the Sixth and Third Legions, and had a meal along the way.

Today's meal was the only good meal he had eaten in the past few days.

Moreover, something felt wrong with what these people were saying.

"I don't know. The Major General recently returned to the Imperial Star, so we have to be honest and prevent the Imperial Star from finding fault with us." Tianma didn't understand Waldo's complicated words.

Mainly because he couldn't match the characters.

However, he seemed to have heard somewhere that the Major General of the Sixth Legion was not at the base.

…

"There hasn't been any activity on the dark web these past two days."

Mingmei, who had been waiting outside the boxer's lounge, mentioned her findings on the dark web to Mu Chen as they walked back together, arm in arm. "Even the release of tasks is very rare."

Mu Chen had previously helped Mingmei calculate the average daily release volume on the dark web, but based on the information Mingmei had been browsing these past two days, it was far from the number Mu Chen had mentioned.

"Could this be a coincidence?"

Of course, Mu Chen didn't think it was a coincidence. The number of discoveries Mingmei made had obviously decreased, and Mu Chen had also received a message.

"Olay invited me to his house tomorrow, and you're coming with me."

Mingmei didn't really think that Mu Chen's invitation was a simple visit.

Mingmei raised her eyebrows. It seemed that Mu Chen's progress was very fast. "So fast? Has Olay's backer recruited you?"

"Lu Gui should be soon too."

Mu Chen and Lu Gui basically staggered their schedules to prevent infighting. Because of this, Mu Chen specifically watched two of Lu Gui's matches. He had to admit that Lu Gui's skills were indeed good, but he was even more insidious.

This wasn't just his personal opinion. Since he and Lu Gui had both recently emerged as dark horses, many people had discussed them.

Boxer Number 18 was ruthless and merciless, hitting both men and women;

Boxer Number 24 used insidious moves, hitting where it hurt, it looked painful!

Regarding their reputation, Mu Chen thought about it and decided not to mention it to Mingmei.

Mingmei, who was beside him, didn't pay attention to Mu Chen's rich little expression. She was just silently calculating everything and said, "If I go with you tomorrow, what kind of gift should I bring?"

"Open a rare material from a boxed lunch. Rare materials should be a good gift."

Mu Chen and Mingmei had the same idea, so they immediately opened the rare material that came with the braised pork knuckle boxed lunch they had eaten before when they returned.

However, when the two of them looked at what they had opened, their expressions momentarily turned ferocious—"Are they trying to kill us?"