Chapter 326: I Can Still Be a Good Baby

In the Jian Kong Shi, the guard who had just sat down heard the alarm sound and reflexively jumped up; he looked at the screen, his pupils contracting sharply—how did that Ying Guang Lu end up in the next room?!

His finger hovered over the alarm button, hesitating for a second.

His hand slowly lowered.

The alarm abruptly stopped.

He lifted his head and glanced at the surveillance screen.

On the screen, Ying Duo stood beside Luo Jinyou, looking up toward the camera; his golden eyes appeared especially calm under the red warning light.

The guard remained silent for a second.

Then he withdrew his hand, turned and walked back into the Jian Kong Shi, closing the door.

The alarm was forcibly muted; the red warning light kept flashing, but the harsh sound vanished.

He no longer looked at the surveillance.

He simply sat back down, lit a cigarette, and stared blankly at the ceiling.

Years earlier, Professor Luo De'an had saved his family's lives.

Today, consider it repaid.

If the superiors were to investigate... he'll accept it.

Pity the hearts of parents everywhere; even that highly respected professor would do something out of line for his own child.

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Ying Duo stared expressionlessly at the now-silent alarm, opened the Team Channel, and Yang Yixie began typing furiously.

【Ying Duo: Luo Jinyou is in front of me. How to rescue?】

【Fang Zhiyan:?】

【Lu Mu:???】

【Bai Mu Yun:....... Did you go into the Supervision Bureau?】

【Ying Duo: Hmm.】

【Lu Mu: How did you get in?】

【Ying Duo: I turned myself in, had them lock me next to Luo Jinyou.】

【Ying Duo: Then I teleported here.】

The Team Channel fell silent for three seconds.

?

Not?

What about the Supervision Bureau people? Don't you have surveillance over there?

You just let this kid slip in like that?

【Lu Mu:......】

【Lu Mu: I'm seriously impressed, damn it.】

The Supervision Bureau crew, when faced with Ying Duo, each turned out more unreliable than the last.

They got especially aggressive when hunting him down.

【Fang Zhiyan: How is his current condition?】

【Ying Duo: Soaking in the holy water the Church kindly provided.】

【Fang Zhiyan: Holy water... It seems Luo De'an's networking inside still works; the Church is using holy water to suppress his Mutation, trying to find someone who can perform a Mutation excision surgery on Luo Jinyou.】

【Ying Duo: Mutation excision surgery?】

Yang Yixie recalled hearing someone mention that term, but searching the archived texts was too troublesome, so he decided to ask the magical octopus directly.

【Fang Zhiyan: A Mutation excision surgery removes fully mutated tissue from a person; its success rate is low, and there are no more than five doctors in Tianmian City capable of performing it.】

【Ying Duo: So what should I do now?】

【Fang Zhiyan: We'll rush over, then figure out how to kidnap both of you together.】

Bai Mu Yun no longer wanted to complain; they originally only needed to kidnap one person, but in the time it took to turn around, the job doubled.

Yang Yixie stared at Fang Zhiyan's reply at the top of the computer screen, squinting slightly.

【Ying Duo: He will mutate instantly once he leaves the holy water.】

【Fang Zhiyan: Right, the Mutation Value will surge, and there's a high probability he'll instantly fully turn into an Aberrant Species.】

【Ying Duo: Then what's the point of kidnapping him?】

The Team Channel was silent for two seconds; no one dared to intervene in the conversation between this plastic master and disciple.

【Fang Zhiyan: As long as Luo Jinyou is "alive", that's enough; after all, this is Tianmian City, and recording his Mutation process isn't realistic.】

Luo Jinyou's value lies in the "fragments" sleeping inside his body, not his current form.

【Fang Zhiyan: However...】

He deliberately waited a while before continuing to send messages, leaving enough suspense.

【Fang Zhiyan: If you want Luo Jinyou to retain his human memories and consciousness after becoming an Aberrant Species, I do have a method.】

【Fang Zhiyan: It depends on whether you dare to do it.】

Yang Yixie's fingers hovered over the keyboard, but after only a few seconds he typed another line.

【Ying Duo: What method?】

The message just went out when Yang Yixie saw a string pop up in Fang Zhiyan's reply box—

【Fang Zhiyan: %#&@*! &...... #@￥%】

Yang Yixie: "?"

What is this? Bad signal? Or a game bug?

He subconsciously moved the mouse, intending to click that obviously abnormal message.

Just as the mouse cursor drifted toward that string of garbled characters, a crimson warning popup burst open in the center of the computer screen.

【Warning! Warning!】

【Detected that the solution offered by NPC "Fang Zhiyan" breaches Core rules; the solution is highly dangerous! Highly dangerous!】

【The solution involves: soul anchoring technique; Mutation consciousness solidification; divine fragment fusion......】

【If you confirm to view the solution, the sync value will be activated; please also complete the following:】

【Task One: Complete a time loop; you must fulfill an unfinished cause-and-effect in the past. This task is irreversible and cannot be skipped.】

【Task Two: Choose your sync value; your choice will pre‑activate the "sync value" mechanism and set the synchronization ratio you wish to achieve (only increase, never decrease!).】

Once activated, the game character's abilities and items will manifest in the real world according to the selected ratio.

【Important notice: After enabling the sync ratio, you will permanently lose the "time displacement privilege"; you will be aligned with other players' game worlds.】

【Do you confirm to start the prerequisite task?】

【Yes/No】

The crimson popup hovered there in the screen's exact center, Yang Yixie's finger frozen on the mouse.

The room's air‑conditioner continued to hum, the city lights outside remained dazzling, and everything was no different from usual.

Yet Yang Yixie stared at the line "the game character's abilities and items will manifest in the real world according to the selected ratio," and his heart nearly skipped a beat.

Sync ratio.

Manifestation.

The corpse downstairs, gnawed beyond recognition.

Those pixel blocks, those dialogue boxes, those pop‑ups— all merely disguises of the game world.

And now, the disguise is about to be torn apart.

"Sync value........" Yang Yixie whispered, repeating the term.

Choose 10%; you might only bring out a most ordinary firearm, but it shoots straight, enough to face the monster downstairs.

Choose 90%, and you could almost bring everything of Ying Duo into reality.

Teleportation, spatial backpack, robot legion, even those few cannons—but at what cost?

Losing the time displacement right means he cannot obtain information early to influence the future.

If Ying Duo dies—

He dares not think further.

And that "time loop".

Originally Yang Yixie intended to go out on a reckless gamble, but once the condition of bringing game abilities into reality appeared, he suddenly thought being a good boy wasn't so bad.

From outside the door came faint laughter of his mother and the drama‑lover watching TV; the "Pleasant Goat and Big Bad Wolf" theme song rang cheerfully in the living room.

Everything is perfectly normal.

Everything is perfectly safe.

As long as he doesn't click "Yes", he remains that ordinary youth who plays pixel games.

Yang Yixie stared at the crimson popup.

In the game screen, Ying Duo stood beside Luo Jinyou, his green hair shimmering with a sheen.

Crises always coexist with opportunities.

Yang Yixie took a deep breath.

The mouse moved slowly, the cursor landing above "Yes".

Outside, the night was deepening.