I'll also work hard to conquer the dungeon today.

Chapter 550, page 2.1-63: The Crown: The Treasure of a Lost Dynasty
The underground palace was enormous, filled with all sorts of dangerous mechanisms and traps. If it weren't for Mu Yegui and Noys, who were skilled in martial arts, they would probably have perished here.

“There’s a mark here.” Noyce crouched by the wall, her fingertips tracing a pattern on the wall, and asked softly.

Mu Yegui looked down at the '∞' totem mark, a sense of understanding flashing through her mind. She slowly said, "Daolin has been here before. This is his crown prince mark."

"Have we finally reached the right path he marked?" Noyce breathed a sigh of relief, but how did that weakling Daolin manage to get through so many traps?
"Daolin's success isn't just due to good luck," Mu Yegui reminded him.

Everyone remembers Dao Lin as an incredibly lucky person, but they overlook his top ranking on the list of crown princes' intelligence. If Dao Lin really relied solely on luck, he wouldn't have been able to stand out among the crown princes. Moreover, what he hates most is his good luck.

Dao Lin never relied on any kind of vague good luck, but rather on his outstanding intelligence, which was his greatest asset.

As the saying goes, you have to give up something to gain something. Dao Lin's poor physical strength is entirely because he put all his talent points into intelligence. But even so, he is actually quite powerful. At least his physical strength is better than that of ordinary players. Saying that he is bad is only because he is compared with other princes.

Daolin would observe and calculate to determine where there were traps and thus avoid them, because they hadn't seen any signs of triggered mechanisms along the way. At best, they would just avoid them if they were lucky. The fact that he didn't fall into any traps from beginning to end could only mean that he deliberately avoided them.

Nois paused for a moment, then chuckled and said, "I was so impressed by his good luck that I overlooked this point, which is a bit unfair to Dao Lin."

“He’s not the kind of person who cares about what others think of him,” Mu Yegui said, shaking his head.

"Mu Yegui seems to know Daolin very well?" Noyce chuckled as she looked at Mu Yegui's back, following her forward as she tentatively asked.

"It's probably because he and I are... friends..." Mu Ye said thoughtfully, lowering his eyes.

As for friends, Dao Lin was indeed one of her few friends. At least in her eyes, not just anyone could be called a friend. Shui Qi didn't count; he was at most a temporary collaborator.

“That’s wonderful, my friend,” Noyce remarked, her tone tinged with envy.

He had never had any friends and didn't know how to get along with them. At first, he longed for it, but later he stopped thinking about it. He felt that he didn't deserve to have friends.

Although he cherished those lives and always hesitated before taking them, this could not conceal the atrocities he had committed. His hands were already stained with blood, and many of them were innocent victims.

Back then, his actions were controlled, and he couldn't disobey even if he didn't want to. Now that he's free, he doesn't know what to do.

Does he really deserve to do whatever he wants?
"Doesn't Noyce have any friends?" Mu Yegui paused slightly, turned to look back at Noyce, and asked.

Noyce shook his head regretfully. "I have no friends. Although I have temporary collaborators, I don't get to know them well, let alone make friends with them." He's a dangerous person; he's killed many people. How could he possibly be qualified to make friends?

"Why?" Mu Yegui asked.

Noyce's expression stiffened slightly, his dark purple eyes filled with hesitation and fear. He dared not speak, afraid that she would show disgust if he did, even though he had finally mustered the courage to get closer... "Don't want to talk?" Mu Yegui turned around and took a step towards him, continuing to ask.

Noyce took a step back, his expression showing a hint of resistance, and nodded with difficulty, uttering a soft "Mmm".

"You said before that you were trained to be a humanoid weapon to kill people you didn't want to kill, which means you've killed a lot of lives, right?" Mu Yegui asked, recalling what Noyce had just said.

His face turned pale in an instant, and his dark purple eyes filled with a hint of pleading and fear. Finally, as if making a difficult decision, he slowly closed his eyes and nodded in acknowledgment.

“By the rules of the interstellar people, I am actually a murderer,” Noyce said painfully, unable to undo the mistakes he had made despite his remorse.

Her cool, silver eyes were fixed on Noyce, clear and devoid of any extraneous emotion. She tiptoed and gently patted his shoulder.

When Noyce opened his eyes, he saw those clear, cold eyes that were devoid of any impurity. He opened his mouth, and his panicked and frightened heart suddenly calmed down, as if it had been soothed.

“If you are not human and not of the same species, then under human law it is not considered killing one’s own kind and is not governed by human laws, so you are not a murderer,” Mu Yegui explained in a serious tone.

Noyce: "..." Shouldn't it be comforting words under normal circumstances? Why do you have to say something so serious that ruins the mood?!

Mu Yegui glanced at him and continued, "You feel guilty because of your original human morality, but you need to understand that you are not human, nor do you need to live according to human rules. Human laws and morality cannot bind you; it is just that you subconsciously bind yourself."

At all times, the world always adheres to one principle: the strong prey on the weak, and survival of the fittest. Humans are a special species; they restrain their own behavior, but they still follow this principle towards other species. Isn't their consumption of meat also a form of killing?
The weak deserve only to be food and eaten; they have no right to complain. Looking like a human doesn't make one human. Humans treat other animals as food, but haven't other animals treated humans as food in return?

Noyce felt that her values ​​were being reshaped, but for some reason, it made a lot of sense.

He hesitated for a moment, then asked cautiously, "Do you also see humans as food?"

Mu Yegui frowned slightly, his tone carrying a hint of disdain, "The meat is too tough and has little energy. I have such good options, why do I have to choose the lowest quality food?"

Noyce: "..." So this is why you live in harmony with humans? I've learned something.

"Let me give you an example. Xiao Yin once slaughtered three thousand planets with life, yet no one dared to really hold him accountable," Mu Yegui said slowly, pondering Mu Yin's past 'glorious deeds (dark history)'.

The Samuro clan is terrifying. Who has the guts or the power to investigate them? They'd probably be wiped out the moment they tried. Faced with overwhelming power, all rules are as thin as paper, easily torn and utterly useless.

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(End of this chapter)