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

Chapter 560 2.1 The Crown Prince (Part 7)

Ji Rong turned his head and glanced at Cunxi's malicious sneer. He sighed silently. What could he do? He was a magnanimous boss, so he could only forgive his subordinate's insolence.

"Hello, I am Cunxi, the vice president promoted by this fool. Please give me your guidance." Cunxi took off her beret and gave a hat-tipping salute to everyone, with a faint smile on her lips, but she gave people a cold feeling, as if she didn't care about anything.

The Fool is not the same as the rumors suggest. At least on the overall strength ranking, the Fool is second to last, and is even described as having "gotten lucky". But after actually meeting him, anyone with eyes can see that this guy is very good at disguising himself and is definitely a master.

The Fool, the only unnumbered card in the Tarot, represents both the beginning and the end. It is a mad, wandering figure, and the word "fool" also implies great wisdom. The Fool is probably the most accurate description of this character.

He is not a fool, but rather someone who is adept at disguising himself as a fool; perhaps he is the most deeply hidden among the crown princes.

"Has Jin not found out who this person is?" Mingxi leaned closer to Ming Jin and asked quietly.

Ming Jin's eyes darkened slightly as he shook his head and said, "He has a device to prevent detection; it's probably his crown prince's device. I can't ignore a crown prince's device, and I don't want to waste too much energy trying to crack it. It's unnecessary."

"So you're giving up already?" Cunxi looked at Mingjin with a light laugh, but the smile didn't reach her eyes.

His eyes are extremely rare heterochromatic, one is pink and the other is as clear as amethyst.

Ming Jin was slightly taken aback, looking at Cun Xi's appearance with a strange feeling, as if she had seen those eyes somewhere before...

"Curious about my eyes? If you want, I can gouge them out and give them to you." Cunxi pointed to his light pink and light purple eyes and said with a light laugh. Although he was laughing, his attitude was cold and very serious, as if he would gouge them out immediately if Ming Jin nodded.

"Cunxi, now is not the time to have an attack. Control yourself." Ji Rong reached out and patted Cunxi's shoulder, warning her in a low voice.

Cunxi glanced at Ji Rong, who shrugged, seemingly giving up on continuing the conversation. He turned and walked to the chair decorated with a picture of a fool carrying luggage across a cliff, sat down, and casually picked up his name tag and hung it up.

The chair next to him was decorated with a sun, but it was surrounded by mistletoe. A hand gently pulled it open, and Ji Rong sat down. After hanging up the name tag, he casually played with the red rose in his hand.

His light gray eyes gazed at the delicate, luscious petals, but he inadvertently crushed them, staining his hands with red sap. He didn't seem to care much, casually taking out a handkerchief to wipe the sap clean before tossing the ravaged red rose into the nearby trash can.

Ming Jin's attention was focused on Cun Xi, as if she was thinking about that familiar feeling.

"Heterochromia? That's heterochromia iridis, a rather rare condition, but there's probably more than that." Shui Qi walked up to Cun Xi, looking down at him with a hint of displeasure in his narrow blue eyes, and said coldly.

"Hmm? What are you talking about? I don't think I understand." Cunxi asked with a light laugh, acting as if he wouldn't understand anything Shui Qi was saying.

“I remember that light pink irises are only caused by the absence of melanin in the eyes. Your skin and hair color are quite normal, which means you actually have hereditary albinism (partial albinism) and heterochromia, which causes the two irises to be completely different colors. However… I remember that albinism seems to have the highest incidence rate among close relatives.” Shui Qi glanced at Cun Xi, seemingly lost in thought.

Cunxi's pupils suddenly contracted. He didn't know what sore spot Shui Qi had touched, but he suddenly stood up and grabbed Shui Qi's neck, his fierce posture suggesting he wanted to strangle him to death.

Shui Qi felt like he couldn't breathe, his face gradually turning purple, but a relaxed smile still lingered on his lips. He gently grabbed Cun Xi's wrist and squeezed it, teasingly saying, "Did I hit a nerve?" "Shui Qi really knows how to make a good death." Ming Jin gritted her teeth and caught a silver bow that appeared out of thin air with a swift motion, drawing it fully and aiming it at Cun Xi without hesitation.

"Cunxi, release Shui Qi." Ming Jin narrowed her lake-blue eyes and said coldly.

"No way! It would be better if this kind of sharp-tongued guy were dead. I hate people like that, I'm so unhappy~" Cunxi suddenly started acting like a child, pouting and feeling wronged, but her actions became increasingly violent.

In that instant, the value of the so-called Crown Prince's Blacklist, 'Fool', continued to climb, eventually settling at 95, ranking third alongside 'Oriole'.

“Then I will kill you before you break the water axe’s neck.” Ming Jin’s fingertips twitched slightly, and just as she was about to release the bowstring and shoot the arrow, she heard a muffled groan.

Shui Qi snapped Cunxi's wrist, freeing himself from Cunxi's grasp. He took out a handkerchief and wiped his other hand, which was covered in blood. His nonchalant expression seemed to completely disregard the purplish finger marks on his neck, even though they looked extremely horrifying.

"I'm sorry, it started this with the fruit knife. I was just about to use it to peel an apple, and somehow it ended up on you. Are you alright?" Shui Qi chuckled as she looked at Cun Xi, who was bleeding profusely from a small knife stuck in her stomach, her tone full of malice.

Ming Jin's lips twitched slightly. He must have been bored to help Shui Qi.

"I didn't expect Xiao Jin to care about me so much, I'm so touched." Shui Qi smiled and looked at Ming Jin.

"Heh." Ming Jin sneered, turned around and walked out. "I'm going to wash my face."

"Take care~" Shui Qi said with a smile.

Cunxi casually pulled out the blood-stained fruit knife and threw it on the table. His expression was slightly distorted, but the next second he burst into maniacal laughter, giving people a bloodthirsty and oppressive feeling, as if he would transform into a wild beast and go completely berserk at any moment.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Ji Rong murmured apologetically. He stood up and, without hesitation, raised his hand and gave Cunxi a sharp tap on the back of the neck.

Cunxi lost her senses and collapsed in that instant.

Ji Rong caught Cunxi as he fell and helped him back to his seat.

"Excuse me, my vice president is a bit mentally unstable, so could you please let him go and stop provoking him? Otherwise, it will give me the illusion that your Strategist Association is declaring war on Dawn."

Ji Rong smiled slightly frivolously, but in just a few words, she escalated her personal grudges into a matter of official business between associations.

"Of course, I was just joking." Shui Qi smiled back at Ji Rong, easily turning the matter into a harmless joke.

Honestly, with blood flowing, this can't be a joke, can it? Anyone with eyes can see that these two really wanted to kill each other, but unfortunately, killing isn't allowed in this area, so they didn't succeed.

(End of this chapter)