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Chapter 197 Gathering

"A class reunion? Most of my classmates should have died in Tianhai by now, shouldn't they?" In the laboratory, Bai Mo put down his work, took the invitation handed to him by Chen Xi, and felt a sense of confusion.

"Who would bother to organize something like this? And with such a formal Gold-Plated Invitation?"

"I'm not sure either. This was mailed to your residence." Chen Xi also found it strange. A class reunion using a Gold-Plated Invitation, with no organizer's name, only the time and place. If the invitee's name inside hadn't matched, she would have probably thought it was sent to the wrong person.

Only then did she remember that the person in front of her was actually just a young man in his twenties, not an eccentric old man in his sixties or seventies.

"Alright, I'll handle it myself."

After hearing that there was nothing else for her to do, Chen Xi turned and left the underground laboratory.

"Things seem to be getting interesting." Bai Mo looked at the imperceptible psychic threads on the invitation, his lips curving slightly.

As it was still early, he put the invitation aside and continued to refine his plans for the Spirit Energy Network system.

Leveraging the network laid around the experimental grounds, which was still slowly extending, he could use his abilities with five times their usual intensity within this core area.

The main factor limiting his continued expansion and strengthening was the energy supply. Relying solely on absorbing ambient energy was entirely insufficient to support the entire system; it had to depend on external input.

However, the experimental grounds' power system was already fixed, currently operating near maximum load, and a complete overhaul would require a significant amount of time.

"One, two, three... twenty-three, twenty-four. Twenty-four individuals at or above the Life Field Stage were on the twenty-seventh floor. It seemed they were planning something big."

At the appointed time on the invitation, Bai Mo arrived at the Golden Wall Grand Hotel where the reunion was being held, only to discover over twenty presences above him that his divine sense could not penetrate.

"Hello, sir, are you here for the Tianhai University Physics Department undergraduate class of 2011 alumni reunion?" A server downstairs, seeing someone outside the door waving an invitation, quickly stepped forward to ask.

"Mhm." Bai Mo nodded.

"Please follow me. The reunion is being held in the conference room on the twenty-sixth floor."

Every server responsible for greeting guests had received a generous tip beforehand, so they were all exceptionally enthusiastic.

However, encountering the perpetually expressionless Bai Mo, he quickly adapted, also shifting to a silent mode, maintaining only his characteristic smile.

"Please." After exiting the elevator, he walked ahead, forcefully pulling open the door and gesturing for Bai Mo to enter.

Seven or eight people were sparsely seated in the conference room, the most conspicuous among them being a young man in designer clothes sitting in the center

"Yun Wuyong, so you're the one who organized this reunion?"

There were less than fifty people in Bai Mo's entire graduating class, and they all knew each other fairly well.

"You're here too." Yun Wuyong stood up from his seat. "I really didn't expect you, of all people, to quietly join the renowned Spirit Energy Research Institute. It took me quite a bit of searching to finally get the invitation delivered to your place."

His words immediately drew the attention of those who were chatting in small groups; after all, everyone present knew the standing of the Spirit Energy Research Institute within the Huaxia Federation, and Bai Mo's fortune was clearly extraordinary.

"Just luck."

"Four years without seeing each other, and you've changed a lot." Yun Wuyong said, smiling as he looked at Bai Mo's long hair.

"When many things happen, changes naturally follow."

"True. Who could have imagined such an incident suddenly occurring in Tianhai?" When he said this, there was a hint of heartfelt sorrow in his voice.

Bai Mo didn't respond, instead going to sit by himself in a corner.

"That much hasn't changed." Those around him secretly thought, seeing Bai Mo habitually sit in a corner just as he had back then.

It was clear that Yun Wuyong, as the host of the reunion, had put a lot of thought—or rather, spent a lot of money—on this gathering of only twenty to thirty people. He had booked an entire floor in a five-star hotel, and the variety of drinks and food was exquisitely prepared.

The only drawback was that, compared to the vast space, the overall atmosphere felt excessively quiet. Bai Mo had been sitting for nearly half an hour, and only a little over twenty classmates had arrived in total.

Sitting in a corner, he attempted to listen to the conversation of the group upstairs, but found that their communication used a language he had never encountered before, forcing him to reluctantly give up. However, by observing Yun Wuyong through his Tianwang, he had mostly figured out the full story.

"Bai Mo, what kind of gem is set in that chain you're wearing? It looks quite good."

Without any warning, Yun Wuyong walked over and asked that question.

"I'm not sure either. It's just a random stone I picked up. It looked pretty, so I had it made into a chain and started wearing it."

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"My father is also very fascinated by collecting these stones. It's his elder's birthday soon, and I'm still racking my brains trying to find a gift. Would you be willing to part with it and sell it to me? As classmates, I'm sure we can agree on a price that will satisfy you!" After this meaningless conversation, he finally asked the question he had been leading up to for so long.

"Did someone tell you it could resurrect those who died in Tianhai?" Bai Mo countered with a completely irrelevant question.

"What are you talking about? I've never seen an Imperial Seal made of Hetian jade resurrect any emperor." He started to panic, but his expression remained calm as he continued to joke.

"You organized such a grand class reunion just for it?"

Facing Bai Mo, who had no concept of beating around the bush, the atmosphere instantly grew awkward, and people all around began to whisper.

All the previous nonsense and pretense from Yun Wuyong had been to naturally lead up to his desire to buy the chain, but he had been directly exposed.

"Yes! With it, we can resurrect those who died in Tianhai!" Seeing that the situation was unsalvageable, he simply blurted out the secret, hoping to incite others to create pressure.

"Are you serious?!" The girl sitting closest asked, her eyes shining brightly.

She too had lost several relatives in the attack that year, but truthfully, everyone present had lost many relatives and friends in that attack, so her reaction was entirely normal.

"Absolutely! I guarantee it on my honor!"

The moment his words fell, Bai Mo instantly felt the emotional tones of everyone around him shift. Although they hadn't spoken, their intentions were already clear.

"Did the people upstairs tell you?" He had already developed his Tianwang into an ability akin to mind-reading.

"You can read minds?!" Yun Wuyong instinctively flinched backward.

The first question had already made him somewhat suspicious, but now Bai Mo's second question further convinced him that the other party possessed the ability to read minds.

"No, I don't possess such a high-class yet universally loathed ability as mind-reading."

"Regardless, I beg you, this stone is merely a useless ornament to you, but to me, it concerns the resurrection of several of my dearest relatives. Name your price, any amount will do!" After a moment of silence, he finally decided to muster his courage, playing on their shared connection, attempting to move Bai Mo.

"If I don't sell it, will the people upstairs just directly try to take it?" Bai Mo lifted his head, gazing at the location of the group of Ability Users on the twenty-seventh floor..