Unlike Sleepless Sky Huole's worry, hidden beneath her agitation and dissatisfaction, at this moment, President Paris, deep in his heart, already had a sense of composure born from "knowing the truth."

Although he was somewhat on edge at the start of the security deployment, hearing the sudden rumors spreading throughout Sleepless City, worrying about whether he might suddenly be exposed, whether the investigation and suspicion would land on his head.

But soon, this old fox, who had clawed his way up from the bottom step by step and was very familiar with the ins and outs of Sleepless City, could instead sniff a peculiar scent from those rumors.

These pieces of information... were absolutely deliberately released.

Although the purpose of the person releasing the information was still unclear, Paris knew deeply...

The more chaotic the situation, the safer he was.

Right now, even if someone denounced him for preparing to facilitate the assassination of a Peerage Noble, it would probably be very difficult to gain immediate credibility.

Paris even somewhat suspected...

"Could all of this be that Mr. Furbollo's doing?"

If that were the case, this gentleman's scheme was truly too vast.

Almost the entire noble circle of Sleepless City's Inner City was discussing this rumor of unknown origin yet seemingly quite credible.

But regardless, for President Paris, who was already on the pirate ship and knew part of the mystery...

These vague rumors were instead continuously strengthening his confidence.

As for the mysteriously missing Furbollo, in Paris's view, he was definitely also plotting something.

"Respected Sleepless Sky Huole, Your Excellency, I don't think we need to worry too much about Mr. Furbollo. After all, his erratic style of action isn't a recent development..."

"Furthermore," President Paris glanced at the time on his watch, "although the man hasn't shown his face for the moment, the gift he prepared should arrive shortly."

Although the Coming-of-Age Ceremony and banquet would only begin in the evening, and most guests would visit in the afternoon.

However, the birthday gifts prepared by those powerful nobles for Sleepless Sky Huoxing would often be delivered in advance by servants. On one hand, to avoid trouble, on the other hand... there were naturally security considerations.

This was also an unwritten rule among the various nobles—to prevent someone from tampering with the gifts, using them to secretly harm others.

After detailed security verification and inspection, the gifts would be uniformly stored in a warehouse or exhibition hall—there would be a dedicated segment later for Sleepless Sky Huoxing to "tour" some of the gifts placed in the exhibition hall.

This was also an important reason why Sleepless Sky Huoming planned to take advantage and steal one... time was limited, the procedures were cumbersome, and with the total number of gifts being vast, plus being moved around everywhere... it was very easy for oversights and opportunities to arise.

After all, although it was said to be Sleepless Sky Huoxing's birthday party, many of the gifts were those offered by various nobles and corporate managers to the Sleepless Night Family in Huoxing's name. Many were considerable in value and quantity.

Precious, rare, showcasing wealth and face, currying favor with the Sleepless Night Family...

Among the various criteria for gift-giving, Sleepless Sky Huoxing's liking and happiness were the least important; just as the purpose of the gifts, celebrating Sleepless Sky Huoxing's birthday was also the least important.

Of course, if one still wanted to hand it personally to Sleepless Sky Huoxing, they could inform the Sleepless Night Family in advance—in that case, after the gift was checked and found correct, a servant would return it to that guest when they visited.

From the current applications, the one who seemed to intend to do this... was only Sheng Lan Kui.

And the Sheng Lan Family's gift convoy was also the first to arrive.

"The Sheng Lan Family's congratulatory gifts have arrived."

"Fifteen Night Coral plants, twelve bolts of gold-thread brocade embroidery, ten ornamental alchemical creations, one piece of Black Marsh Blood Crystal, one Prison Mountain Blood Lotus..."

Crates of gifts were carried in, followed by the Sorenson Family's.

"Three complete sets of Wasteland Beast bones, thirty pieces of high-grade red gold, thirty pieces of high-grade white copper, one bottle of aged wine from Kirishima Vineyard..."

The Mercury and Autumn families arrived almost simultaneously.

After that, no more gift convoys in the name of families arrived. High-specification gifts sent in a personal capacity by various Dukes, Marquises, and the top directors and executives of the Three Major Corporations appeared in turn, delivered personally by their private assistants or Stewards.

Further down, nobles of the Count rank and high-ranking officials of slightly lower positions had their offspring, or even came themselves first, to deliver their gifts.

The strict hierarchical Order of Sleepless City was now visibly manifested in the form of a queue at the side gate of the Sleepless Night Family.

And as the Sleepless Night Family's Stewards and servants were checking the gifts in order...

A small pickup truck from Truth Corporation drove straight from another side and stopped directly at the side gate.

Sleepless Sky Huole glanced at that bright orange pickup, with two oranges pasted next to the Truth Corporation logo on the front, and frowned directly at Paris, "How could you let someone drive it right over here?"

Although this was Sleepless Sky Huole's first time seeing it, she could easily guess that this wild and flamboyant vehicle was Paris's ride!

President Paris hurriedly spoke, "Respected Your Excellency, although this is my car, I have already lent out both my subordinate and the vehicle..."

"Noble Sleepless Sky Huole, Your Excellency, this vehicle is now being used by Mr. Furbollo—in other words, the gift he prepared has arrived."

The car door opened at that moment.

Paris, seeing the figure getting out, hurriedly called out.

"Stiller, why did you park the car right at the gate?"

Stiller stood rooted to the spot, fell silent for a moment, then replied, "President, it was Mr. Furbollo's instruction—he ordered me to deliver it as quickly as possible."

Then, Stiller pointed at the large, box-shaped object covered with black cloth in the pickup's rear bed.

This stiff tone made Paris's expression awkward. He looked at Sleepless Sky Huole, "Your Excellency, this subordinate of mine has always worked in the Security Department and stayed in the Great Wasteland for too long. He doesn't understand the rules very well."

Sleepless Sky Huole shook her head, "It's fine. Since Furbollo said his gift needs to be delivered quickly, then give him priority..."

"What is it?"

As Sleepless Sky Huole spoke, two servants stepped forward and lifted the black cloth.

Then, exclamations of surprise sounded around them.

"What a grand gesture!"

Even though those present were all confidants of nobles and corporate executives, each well-traveled and knowledgeable, they couldn't help but marvel at the gift that appeared on the rear seat at this moment.

Even Sleepless Sky Huole nodded slightly, looking somewhat surprised.

"He really put thought into it..."

It was a massive landscape aquarium—seaweed, reef rocks, gravel, everything was complete.

In this world without an ocean, ever since exchange began with other worlds, anything related to the "ocean" became the top-tier luxury item that best showcased one's identity!

Ordinary nobles took pride in owning a specimen of Marine Life—even many Commoners would tattoo Marine Life they had witnessed or knew about on their bodies to show off their broad knowledge.

And the most top-tier powerful nobles would possess aquariums with seawater and Marine Life!

An aquarium like this, containing sea grass, was already extremely precious in price.

But this alone wasn't enough to elicit the amazement of those around.

Because within this aquarium, everyone saw a small, living octopus swimming happily inside.

Of course, most people present couldn't recognize it as an octopus, only knowing it was some kind of magical and beautiful Marine Life.

Only a few nobles knew what this was—but most of them had never seen a live one, and even if they had, they hadn't seen such a pretty little pink octopus.

At this moment, even without Sleepless Sky Huole speaking, no one felt dissatisfied anymore about this gift from Furbollo "cutting in line."

A precious gift like this deserved to be placed ahead of their own mundane items!