Chapter 238: 130: Trust Jiang Xianwu
Boluke had utmost confidence in his own beauty.
Zhou Baiyu had also heard from Jiang Lu that Lord Boluke was the most beautiful person in the country.
He always felt that beauty was a difficult thing to rank with a superlative.
Midel, Zhang Haoyun, Sister Lin, if you asked him to rank their beauty, he wouldn't be able to.
But he did know one thing—when he saw Midel, Midel was the most beautiful.
When he saw Sister Lin, Sister Lin was the most beautiful in the world.
Perhaps in the future, when he saw his own daughter, who had become so crazily different, Zhou Baiyu would also say, "My daughter is the most beautiful in the world."
Whoever treats me well, looks good to me.
Of course, he wanted to see Boluke, partly out of curiosity—just how beautiful was Boluke to make everyone unanimously say he was the most beautiful.
On the other hand, he felt that Boluke's appearance might provide some sort of clue.
Behind the gauze curtain, the seated Boluke didn't lift his veil. He simply slowly extended his hand, and Zhou Baiyu could faintly see that it was a hand as white and slender, almost exactly as he had imagined the most beautiful woman's arm to be.
Then, with slender fingers gently touching the veil, he still did not allow Zhou Baiyu to get a direct look at his face.
But that figure, indeed, made Zhou Baiyu's heart race—the body wrapped under the silk gauze seemed to be full of limitless allure.
In the end, Zhou Baiyu still didn't see Boluke's face, seeing only those eyes.
They were unquestionably the most beautiful eyes in the world.
But for some reason, they gave Zhou Baiyu an immense sense of familiarity.
However, since there was only a moment of eye contact, and Zhou Baiyu was shocked by the beauty of the other in that instant, Boluke closed the veil once again.
This caused Zhou Baiyu to only remember a feeling and be unable to deduce what kind of face it was from this feeling or where that sense of familiarity came from.
"This is what I look like. I am sorry I cannot let you see the whole picture," Boluke said.
A breathtaking beauty, that's how Zhou Baiyu defined it.
But he still felt it was very familiar.
For the time being, Zhou Baiyu could not remember where this familiarity came from.
Boluke said confidently,
"Go enjoy the pleasures, Jiang Xianwu. We will offer you the best hospitality. Of course, we will also arrange work for you as soon as possible."
Zhou Baiyu nodded.
He didn't linger any longer.
Next, he needed to inquire with a few of his companions. Zhou Baiyu believed there was something wrong with Boluke here.
But he had no evidence yet.
Regarding the glass house and Jiang Lu, Zhou Baiyu already determined that this place was definitely hiding a shocking fear and domination.
Before his companions were deceived by the appearances here, he must make them understand that this place was not simple.
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Inside the residence.
When Wu Xin was preparing to go to the church for work, when Xingmeng Wuchang was ready to go to school, and Guang Tongchen was about to leave this place to go "down below," Zhou Baiyu called them to a halt.
All four gathered in the residence to exchange thoughts.
Zhou Baiyu planned to first hear what the others thought.
"We've spent our first night here; have any of you felt that something is not right about this place?" he asked.
Wu Xin said,
"This place is fantastic; it's absolutely a paradise! I don't believe in anything else; I do not look at sorrow and joy, only at fate!"
"And behind each person, there is a favorable fate heading towards a good end!"
Zhou Baiyu was astounded.
He had no doubt about Wu Xin's abilities. Not long ago, when Wu Xin was still a first-level Gatherer, Zhou Baiyu could sense this fellow's talent for gathering fates.
Now that Wu Xin had become a second-level Fate Walker, that power could only have become stronger.
Thinking it over, Zhou Baiyu asked,
"What's the difference between fate and destiny?"
Wu Xin replied,
"Destiny is a concrete thing formed by the convergence of forces of fate, not everyone has destiny, whereas fate is different, everyone has fate."
"Fate also often relates to faith, character, and personality."
"Some people are always optimistic; even when they are desperate, they can break through. That's their mindset. Such a person has a strong fate and will have a fate that leads to a good end."
"Of course, most people have a different attitude in despair; they are only happy in comfortable surroundings."
Zhou Baiyu didn't ask further. He didn't nod or shake his head.
He just had a feeling that Wu Xin might have been misled by the very thing he was most proud of.
Of course, he needed evidence.
He looked towards Guang Tongchen whose answer as the president was very straightforward:
"Not sure yet; indeed, this place has the conditions to be a paradise on earth, but there are also many things I find contradictory. I need to observe it from outside."
"My work is precisely to explore the outside. Jiang Xianwu, when it comes to observational skills and intuition, I am far inferior to you. If you find a problem here, you must speak out."
"I will also always be vigilant here, but for now, I haven't noticed anything wrong."
Guang Tongchen's lack of awareness of the issues here wasn't because he couldn't perceive them, but because at first, his focus wasn't on this place.
What he cared more about was—the conditions that formed this place.
A paradise on earth arising in the end times, what kind of external environments had created it.
As for the interior, he just needed to do one thing—trust Jiang Xianwu.
Zhou Baiyu suddenly felt a lot more at ease.
He had been a little worried that the president might be numbed by the facade here.
But now it seems that the president's line of thinking was actually quite clear.
The situation in the Land of Joy was likely much more complicated than in the Land of No Light.
The darkness in the Land of No Light was evident inside and out, but the fear and darkness within the Land of Joy were wrapped in a fine package.
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