My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS-Chapter 219 - 144: Swallowing Silver vs. Ghost Bell, Who Will Win?

The setting sun tilted westward, and the reddish afterglow passed through the treetops into the Western restaurant. The five members of the brigade sat on the sofa, and the waiter brought glasses on dark plates.

The Bloodline poured a glass of whiskey, lifted her eyes from the glass, and looked towards Xia Pingzhou sitting opposite.

She asked, "So... do you know this Bernardo?"

Xia Pingzhou was slightly dazed for a second, a sea breeze blowing from outside the window, his black hair swaying in the wind. Before coming here, he would never have thought that the new member of the brigade would be such a remarkable person.

"No, I don’t," he said slowly.

Just now, when the name "Bernardo Edward" came from the Bloodline’s mouth, Ji Minghuan’s thoughts exploded in his mind.

He thought, "If when creating the Third Body, I had chosen the character archive ’Nameless’, I would have had the chance to meet ’Bernardo’... Bernardo is the leader of the ’Black Death Cult’, standing against the Whale Terrarium, and is the culprit behind the King’s Black Death disease."

He knew the group leader had wide connections, but he didn’t know the leader knew such figures.

Xia Pingzhou thought again: No, the hacker said Bernardo actively contacted the leader, wanting to join the White Crow Travel Brigade.

According to Cezar, Bernardo seemed to have caused the King of the Whale Terrarium to contract "Black Death" through some channel—from this point, it’s likely that Bernardo has a cooperative relationship with the Grand Prince and the Second Prince.

If Bernardo is indeed cooperating with the Grand Prince and the Second Prince, then he is probably just deceiving them; his real goal is the Whale Terrarium’s treasures or those Anecdote Fragments in the Royal Court Hall, and he will definitely betray them when given the chance.

Thinking this, it makes sense why Bernardo wants to join the brigade...

He wants to use this to convey to the leader the intelligence that "the King is seriously ill," telling the leader this is an opportunity—an opportunity to infiltrate the Whale Terrarium and plunder.

Then follow the White Crow Travel Brigade into the Legendary Whale to take action against the Royal Court.

"Bernardo is an Evil Anecdote Envoy, even if the Grand Prince and the Second Prince cooperate with him, they can’t possibly disclose much information to him. Bernardo’s intelligence at most reaches the level of ’the King has Black Death, isn’t long for this world, and the Royal Court will face great turmoil’."

"Assuming Bernardo has already provided the leader with preliminary intelligence, the leader will be somewhat convinced of this and start considering whether to accept his proposal."

"At this point, if I let Black Cocoon approach the leader and provide more in-depth intelligence, the leader’s acceptance of this intelligence will definitely increase significantly, and he may seriously consider taking action against the Whale Terrarium."

Thinking to this point, Xia Pingzhou asked, "When can we meet this newcomer?" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Andrew scooped some red wine with a spoon, the ice cubes gently swirling in the glass. He said:

"Bro... ask the hacker, he’s usually in charge of these things in the group."

"Alright then."

Xia Pingzhou responded casually, glancing over at Andrew’s expression.

For some reason, Andrew looked very dejected today, with heavy dark circles under his eyes, a stark contrast to the usual image of the flamboyant and carefree cowboy uncle.

Andrew paused for a moment, "I used to... come here for dinner with Lan Duoduo too."

He gave a self-deprecating smirk, "Back then, we agreed that if one of us died, we’d take their ashes to Venice and scatter them into the sea. But she died without even leaving ashes..."

Xia Pingzhou lowered his head close to the straw and took a sip of the whiskey.

He turned his head to look out the window. Under the setting sun, boats carrying tourists sailed through the water alleys, faint sounds of flutes could be heard. Bored, he let his consciousness sync with the First Body.

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Meanwhile, in another corner of the world, in the Gu Yima District.

The time difference between Venice and Li Jing is seven hours, with Li Jing ahead in time, so it’s still dusk over there, while this city is already shrouded in night.

Gu Wenyu suddenly opened his eyes, glancing at the time on the wall by moonlight; it was midnight twelve o’clock.

He extended black restraint belts from his surface, like two small snakes exploring the rooms in front and behind. The moment the tails touched the walls, his senses penetrated through, reflecting the images of the two rooms in his pupils.

In the pitch-black room where one couldn’t see their own fingers, Gu Qiye was sleeping soundly on the bed;

In the other room, Su Zimai seemed unable to bear the heat and had laid bedding near the floor-to-ceiling window.

The siblings had vastly different sleeping postures: one slept fairly upright, hands resting on their abdomen; the other curled slightly on the bed hugging a huge Relax Bear plush, moonlight illuminating her sleeping face.

Seeing the siblings sleeping so soundly, Ji Minghuan couldn’t help but yawn, slowly retracting the restraint belts.

He fumbled for his phone beside the pillow, setting it to silent mode. Then he opened the browser and logged into some Mutant dark web sites from his favorites—on the surface, these sites were mostly illegal and restricted.

Yet many, tacitly understood, continued to observe the recent movements of Mutants on the dark web. Officially, no punishment was dealt to those browsing the Mutant dark web. To give an analogy, it was akin to adult websites.

He browsed through the "Li Jing Area" live streaming board, where the most popular stream was "Mutant: Swallowing Silver is tracking the superpower criminal ’Ghost Bell’."

The fixed cover of the live stream was set to a very cute anthropomorphic cartoon hamster.