Chapter 331: You Pulled Me First

Yang Yixie has always been a man of action; the instant the idea crossed his mind, he already seized Luo Wen yuan's wrist with his other hand.

Ying Duo didn't wait for Luo Wen yuan to react; Ying Duo was already charging forward.

Luo Wen yuan only felt a huge force from his arm, his whole body as if being dragged by a sprinting Aberrant Species, his feet instantly left the ground.

"Wait—!!"

His words hadn't finished when the oncoming wind filled his mouth.

The gray pixel walls on both sides of the corridor whizzed backward, turning into streaks of afterimages.

The red glow of the warning lights stretched into thin ribbons, and the entire experimental zone became a wildly shaking moving picture in Yang Yixie's view.

Yang Yixie himself was startled for a moment.

So this is what running feels like?

When he previously moved his body in the room, he felt the body was unusually stiff, which he ultimately blamed on a low sync value, so he couldn't control the body well.

For him, being unable to make some minor expressions might be a good thing, after all, for example Fang Zhiyan is a master at reading subtle facial cues.

Couldn't this also be considered a physical cheat?

Yang Yixie's only worry was that, in combat, his body's stiffness would cause it to lag behind his actions.

But now he has no such concern at all.

Ying Duo's legs were like springs, each step propelling him forward, the air whistling past, and the exhilaration made him want to burst into laughter.

But Ying Duo couldn't.

Well, physically couldn't.

He even took a moment to glance back; Luo Wen yuan was truly flying.

The white coat flapped in the wind, his ash‑gray hair blew backward and stood up, and he looked like a balloon being tugged by a child, his feet helplessly swinging in mid‑air.

Yang Yixie: "......."

Though he knew he shouldn't laugh, the scene was just too hilarious, and luckily Ying Duo couldn't laugh.

He silently used his mind to command the system to take a photo, keeping it as a souvenir.

Then he ran even faster.

Turn, sprint straight, turn again, sprint straight again.

He treated the entire experimental corridor as a track; red and green lights interwove and flashed wildly overhead, and the alarm sound became the most thrilling background music.

From behind came Luo Wen yuan's intermittent shouts:

"You—let—me—down—!!"

Yang Yixie pretended not to hear.

Although this NPC is low‑level, that level is already far stronger than a normal person; even if he simply lets go and throws the person out now, it probably wouldn't truly kill them.

At most they'd be half‑dead.

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Meanwhile, in the experimental zone's monitoring room.

Wen Jing yun had just finished processing the data of the first batch of mineral samples and was raising a cup to take a sip of water.

Then the alarm sounded again.

She immediately furrowed her brows; wasn't Luo Wen yuan supposed to handle the recent Mutation alarm? Could something unexpected have happened?

She instantly pulled up the monitoring footage.

On the screen, a teenager was sprinting down the experimental corridor, his extreme speed leaving only a faint Ying Guang Lu afterimage in the air, and she had to process the footage many times to see it clearly.

That's not the point.

The point is—

Her husband was being tugged by that teenager, his feet off the ground, his white coat flapping in the wind like a flag struggling in a storm.

Wen Jing yun's hand, still holding the cup, froze mid‑air.

She blinked.

She blinked again.

The image didn't change.

Luo Wen yuan was still flying.

"........ Wen researcher?"

A researcher nearby, having heard the alarm, rushed over to ask about the situation, only to see Wen Jing yun staring expressionlessly at the monitor, half the water in her cup spilled onto the table.

"Professor Wen? What happened?"

Wen Jing yun was silent for a second.

Then she set the cup down and her fingers flew across the console, tapping rapidly.

"Immediately seal all passage doors from zone B3 to C7 in the experimental area."

The researcher was startled, "Huh? But Professor Luo hasn't returned........"

"I know," Wen Jing yun said, her face unusually solemn, "the one flying right now is him."

Researcher: "........."

The researcher looked at the monitor and saw the flying Luo Wen yuan.

The researcher was silent for three seconds.

Then he asked nothing and began executing the seal command.

There's no alternative; Researcher Luo has already fallen into the Invader's hands, and the researcher most qualified to send others to rescue, Wen Jing yun, is the most decisive at this moment.

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Yang Yixie was running with momentum when a large door that had been open ahead suddenly slammed shut with a "boom."

He immediately slammed on the brakes, his shoes leaving a long skid mark on the smooth floor.

Immediately after, heavy alloy doors slammed down one after another at the ventilation openings behind, to the sides, and even above his head, emitting dull thuds.

"Boom—boom—boom—"

In just a few seconds, the entire corridor was completely sealed off, turning into a metal cage with no ventilation on any side.

Yang Yixie: "........"

【66> He lowered his gaze to his hand, still gripping Luo Wen yuan's wrist; because of the sudden brake, Luo Wen yuan had traced a rather elegant drift line in the air, and now lay on the ground, unknown whether dead or alive.

He lowered his head and looked at his own hand, still gripping Luo Wen yuan's wrist; because of the sudden brake just now, Luo Wen yuan traced a rather splendid drift line in the air, and now he lay on the ground, unknown whether dead or alive.

He then lifted his gaze to the alloy door in front of him, which had a tiny surveillance camera on it, its red indicator light blinking at him.

"I've screwed up."

A weak groan came from behind him.

Yang Yixie turned around.

Luo Wen yuan lay on the ground in an extremely unsightly posture, his white coat crumpled into a ball, his hair messy like a bird's nest, panting heavily.

"You......" Luo Wen yuan raised his hand, trembling as he pointed at Yang Yixie, unable to speak for a long while.

Yang Yixie looked at him, thought for a moment, and decided to strike first.

"You were the one who grabbed me first."

Luo Wen yuan: "......."

Luo Wen yuan felt his blood pressure was a bit high.

Just then, the corridor's broadcast system suddenly sounded.

A woman's voice came from the speaker, calm and clear:

"No matter who you are, please stay where you are and don't move; all passages have been sealed, you can't get out."

Yang Yixie looked up at that camera, and the woman's voice continued:

"Now, tell me your identity and purpose—why did you break into the research institute? Why did you attack our lab's researchers? You have triggered the highest-level alarm; the Supervision Bureau is on its way here, and if there is any further movement, I will immediately activate the emergency purification protocol."

Yang Yixie blinked innocently, at least the blinking motion wouldn't stiffen and drop frames.

He glanced down at Luo Wen yuan still lying on the ground, then looked up at the camera.

"I didn't attack him," Yang Yixie said, restating the facts once again while keeping silent about his own intrusion, "He was the one who grabbed me first."

Upon hearing that, Luo Wen yuan struggled to get up from the ground.