Amber liquor sloshed in the bottle.
Jude's expression darkened at once.
The bar remained boisterous, voices roaring all around, and no one paid attention to the conversation between the two men in the corner.
"I had some doubts before, but now I can be sure. You really are an outsider."
The bluish-black, wrinkled skin on Jude's face slowly squirmed, carrying an indescribable sense of disgust.
The dancer in his arms covered her mouth and laughed, openly casting a sultry look at Mu Fan.
Yet the pity in her eyes was impossible to miss.
This outsider probably had not understood the situation at all.
Jude, the third-largest shareholder of Gold Digger Bar.
A famous broker on Gu Steel Star, and an utterly ruthless butcher behind the scenes.
Rumor had it that he was a mixed-blood descendant of some unknown race from the Beyond Domain Star River, thirty light-years away. Three years ago, when the Ancient Ruins code-named "Steel" suddenly appeared, he rose to prominence overnight.
With a group of equally ruthless subordinates, he swept away the underworld forces of two entire cities.
Many factions and individuals who had planned to use heavy firepower to wipe him out vanished from the planet without a trace the very next day.
Everyone had thought this ruthless mixed-blood butcher would unify the planet's entire underworld.
Yet he had stubbornly remained in one corner...
Appearing only occasionally, mingling among the crowds.
After the ruins vanished, the city that had flourished in an instant declined once more.
But this mixed-blood had shown no intention of leaving. He often appeared without warning, lingered in bars of all sizes for a time, then disappeared again.
The old died or left, while the new arrived.
His name no longer appeared in the cold-blooded legends.
More people merely regarded him as