After Old Zheng's reminder, Lin Yu once again gained a clear understanding of Sleepless Sky Huoxing's strength and talent.

If she fully displayed her abilities and joined the competition for the position of Family Head, it probably wouldn't be Sleepless Sky Huo Shu's turn to be the whetstone for Sleepless Sky Huole.

But...

"If you don't intend to inherit the family, then why do you hope for Alt Mercury to die?"

Without a doubt, Alt Mercury's death would be absolutely disadvantageous to the Sleepless Night Family. Neither Sleepless Sky Huole nor Sleepless Sky Huo Shu, the two hot favorite heirs, would ever wish for a disturbance of this magnitude. After all, even though the Sleepless Night Family Head had delegated power for the two of them to compete, no matter how much they tried to shirk responsibility, if something like this happened, they would definitely each have to bear their share of the blame.

Although, because Lin Yu had stuck his nose in, the Sleepless Night Family Head had already learned about this matter in advance and reached an agreement with Lin Yu... others within the Sleepless Night Family were not aware of this.

But conversely... just like Barry, the steward of Sheng Lan Kui, Alt Mercury's death would almost benefit every descendant with ambitions for the position of Family Head, except for Huole and Huoshu.

But Sleepless Sky Huoxing found Lin Yu's statement very strange, "Does that even need a reason? He's a Peerage Noble, the former acting head of the Mercury family, the Chosen One of the God of Life... His death would be so much fun!"

Lin Yu looked at Sleepless Sky Huoxing and didn't think this wasn't her true feelings.

But...

This wasn't the complete truth.

"Wrong," Lin Yu said with certainty, "If that were the case, you wouldn't have called me over just because I investigated the C-77 commission... Even with the rumors that I'm pursuing you, that wouldn't warrant you doing this."

"Especially... you came in person. It wasn't as simple as leaving me a tape recorder or a letter."

Sleepless Sky Huoxing looked at Lin Yu and sighed, "No wonder Mother values you and Elder Sister Huole relies on you."

Then, Sleepless Sky Huoxing picked up the loudspeaker again and turned the volume to maximum, "Why do you have to be so smart? It's so annoying!"

"So then, why is it?"

Lin Yu asked again.

"Because I realized I went too far. Although Mother really won't consider me as an heir anymore, but," Sleepless Sky Huoxing threw down the loudspeaker, stood up, and kicked the chair over, "But she's going to make me enter a political marriage now! I don't want to get married! I'm not even twenty yet... I don't want to marry some boring noble I don't even know!"

"I still want to explore those alchemy ingredient production sites, go deep into the Great Wasteland to find the 'Boundary Gate'... If I get married, I won't be able to do any of that!"

As she spoke, Sleepless Sky Huoxing fell to the ground and started flopping around like a dead fish, her hands and feet slapping against the floor, making a pattering sound.

Lin Yu watched Sleepless Sky Huoxing, who seemed to have suddenly contracted a severe illness, and waited. After she flopped around for over ten minutes, she suddenly collapsed to the ground as if dead, losing all signs of life.

After another half minute, Sleepless Sky Huoxing climbed back up, hooked the stool with her foot and sat down again, then smoothed her somewhat messy hair with her hands.

"In short, Furbollo... I also need to mess up my Coming-of-Age Ceremony now. I need a sufficiently shocking event to throw the Sleepless Night Family into chaos, to give me enough time... to slowly shift Mother's evaluation of me until it reaches just the right level of 'although she can't be Family Head and isn't fit for important tasks, she also shouldn't be thrown out for a political marriage'."

"I'm begging you, you must succeed... Although failure would also create chaos, it's still better if you succeed!"

Listening to Sleepless Sky Huoxing's words, Lin Yu said seriously.

"I'm not directly participating in the C-77 commission, but... I'll do my best to help you urge the participant I sent."

"But... isn't the C-77 commission assigned to an entire squad?"

Sleepless Sky Huoxing sighed, "The composition of that squad... aside from your person, only one mercenary was properly recruited. The rest are all here to investigate this commission. Maybe they all hope for Alt Mercury to die to some extent, but they're all significant figures with considerable weight... Can we really expect them to risk their lives?"

"The fishing hooks are all tangled together... What kind of effect could such a squad possibly have? That would truly be seeing a ghost!"

As Sleepless Sky Huoxing lamented, Lin Yu nodded slightly.

This was also the information he had obtained.

"So I seriously suspect that the employer who posted this commission might not actually want Alt Mercury to die at all. His selection of people wasn't careful at all," Lin Yu remarked with feeling. "So, do you have any guesses about who the employer might be?"

"Could be anyone. The three with the greatest suspicion are Qiu Xinliu, Larry Sorenson—these two don't want to see the Mercury family and the Sleepless Night Family continue to maintain good relations, and they both need achievements to prove themselves. Plus, since they've confirmed they won't inherit their families, they can also do some dirty work for their families... Eris Mercury—this person definitely hopes to smoothly inherit the position of Life God's Chosen, at the very least it can't continue to 'drift' outside."

Sleepless Sky Huoxing said while resting her chin on her hand, "I don't know much about noble affairs. I've only recently crammed a bit because the fire is burning my eyebrows, so I might not be accurate... Broadening the scope, even Mother could be a possibility—although for the benefit of the Sleepless Night Family, it's best if Alt Mercury doesn't die, but with these things, you never know."

"You're even under suspicion."

Lin Yu said, looking at Sleepless Sky Huoxing.

"Yeah, but unfortunately it's not me," Sleepless Sky Huoxing sighed, "Really, I actually didn't think of such a brilliant idea first..."

"But I also want to ask, why do you hope for Alt Mercury to die?" Sleepless Sky Huoxing blinked, "That old man's death brings absolutely no benefit and only harm to Sleepless Sky Huole."

"Can't be helped. This is something I have to do."

Lin Yu said helplessly. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Sleepless Sky Huoxing nodded, "I understand. You're a 'Player'... This must be one of those places where you have no choice!"

"Ah, it's fortunate our world doesn't have such a setting, otherwise if I became a Player it would be terrible—although being able to freely go to other worlds is great, the restrictions are just too many."

Sleepless Sky Huoxing sighed, then immediately added, "Ah, right, speaking of Sleepless Sky Huole... she should have been given the 'Celestial Register' by now, right?"

"Tell your person to be careful. That thing is a Divine Artifact," Sleepless Sky Huoxing said, "Although every 'Peerage Noble' family has a 'Divine Artifact' passed down, ours... is particularly vicious."

"The Celestial Register, Earth Scroll, Human Book... Among them, the Celestial Book can store and retrieve the concepts of all things belonging to 'natural-born entities'."

Lin Yu found this strange.

"Natural-born entities, what does that mean?"

"Things that exist innately... like natural disasters, seasonal weather phenomena, celestial bodies and stars—even the passage of time and the laws of all things."