Chapter 433: The Author

Ying Duo chose to manifest his true form in the pipe mezzanine above the corridor, a personal habit of his; even though he knows he has no shortage of blue‑recovery elixirs, he still habitually conserves them.

The icons displayed on the mini‑map were even denser; Ying Duo's gaze swept the crowd and quickly locked onto several targets.

Most of their levels were between the teens and twenties, with a few already above twenty‑five.

What did he say again?

The Field Operations Department really does still hide something; how could the main force be composed entirely of ordinary people?

"So many people?" Xi Ren Sheng's playing cards crawled out of Ying Duo's Game Backpack, whirring around Ying Duo, the sound emanating from within, its tone brimming with excitement, "Can you eat it all by yourself?"

"Don't run out randomly, go back."

Ying Duo grabbed the wildly flailing playing cards in front of him and casually shoved them back into his backpack.

He kept Xi Ren Sheng along as a precaution; Xi Ren Sheng's Aberrant Arts involving the law of chaos are indeed useful, but Ying Duo didn't want his connection to entropy exposed to everyone so early.

He let his right index finger slip slightly, opened the Game Backpack, and rifles, pistols, sniper rifles, and shotguns were neatly lined up one by one inside.

Ying Duo crouched carefully in the ventilation ducts; even though this body is that of a teenager, it's hard to move, and the spots where he can temporarily linger are the junctions of several ducts, yet they are still extremely cramped.

If it were his original body, even a brief pause would be impossible to squeeze in.

After confirming a spot, Ying Duo turned into a series of Data Streams that slipped out through the duct opening, then re‑condensed back into human form.

The sound of his landing was light, and he chose the edge of the battlefield, where only two official personnel were grappling with three Field Operations Department members.

He raised the rifle in his hands, aligning the crosshair in the scope with the back of a Field Operations member, who was chasing several Undead wearing his own clothes that hadn't been changed for a long time.

The energy gun in that Field Operations member's hand was already charging, its barrel aimed at the back of a fleeing Undead's skull.

Ying Duo was the first to pull the trigger; the rifle's crack exploded through the corridor, and many people turned their heads in shock at the gunfire.

Because the Dome does not intend to kill these Undead, even when acting, it has never taken lethal action before.

At this moment, the person in the black uniform was hit in the back; he fell forward, even sliding a short distance on the ground, the energy gun slipped from his hand, bounced a few times on the floor, and rolled to a corner, motionless.

【Kill Enemy XXX Lv. 19, Experience +2.4%】

Ying Duo ignored the popup; his barrel had already swung toward the next target.

Another Field Operations member was grappling with an official, his level 21, higher than the one Ying Duo had just killed.

When Ying Duo pulled the trigger, that person sidestepped, and the bullet left a hole in the wall.

He turned his head, saw Ying Duo, and his eyes widened.

He probably recognized the hood and the exposed Ying Guang Lu, and even though his rank didn't warrant knowledge of Ying Duo's Deputy Minister status, he had seen this face on the Dome's latest wanted notice.

His lips moved as if to speak, but Ying Duo's second bullet had already arrived.

This time he didn't have time to dodge; the bullet struck his chest, the protective energy shield flickered and shattered, and these weapons were made with inherent penetration.

【Kill Enemy Lv. 21, Experience +3.1%】

This shot caused the surrounding Field Operations members, who had been scattered capturing Undead, to converge toward Ying Duo; they moved quickly, but Ying Duo chose not to retreat.

He leaned against the wall, rifle on his shoulder; after solving his unfamiliarity with firearms and his shooting accuracy, aside from the world before his eyes being a holographic pixel style, it seemed no different from the games he usually plays.

He shot very accurately; a corner of his eye caught the experience bar in the popup inching upward.

At the other end of the corridor, a man with a cold expression was reloading his magazine.

His fingers fluttered between the magazine and the chamber; the level displayed above his head was 34, two levels higher than Ying Duo's, and his gun technique was far more seasoned than Ying Duo's by an unknown factor.

The official beside the man was organizing the Undead's retreat, herding those that had fled the cells toward one direction; he glanced at the corridor's situation, finally fixing his gaze on the cluster of Ying Guang Lu.

Ying Duo also saw him, but rather than the indistinct pixel figure, his focus was on the level hovering above the other's head.

The two, half a corridor apart, locked eyes for an instant; neither said a word, each turning their gaze away to continue their own fight.

Their bullets criss‑crossed the corridor, striking only black‑uniformed Field Operations members; none hit any official personnel or Supervision Bureau members.

This wasn't tacit coordination, just a shared understanding.

As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is a friend.

Besides, the Flame City Cannon bombed Tianmian City's territory; what does that have to do with the players from another world? If you dig deeper, it's practically a family affair.

Guess why, in this operation, they specifically assigned Yang Yichen, a captain‑level figure with only a modest standing in the Celestial Dome Foreign Ministry, to merely work on the periphery of the plan.

When Yun Qifeng ran from the far end of the corridor, he happened to see Ying Duo's shot hit a Field Operations member's head.

Yun Qifeng, seeing this, only paused his steps slightly; clearly he also understood that the current situation left no chance to act against Ying Duo.

Although the Church should seriously issue a warrant for this guy who bombed Tianmian City, aren't Co‑Absorption and the Dome on the same side? Why would this person help them?

"How did he get here?" Yun Qifeng furrowed his brows. "Everyone in the Dome must be crazy, right?"

If anyone laughed the most at Tianmian City being breached, it would be the Dome; now the Dome actually tries to forge a partnership with them?

What a bizarre twist in the crematorium script!

Of course, this crematorium isn't a real crematorium; it's the kind of…

How to put it? It's the kind of crematorium described in novels where you chase me, I chase you; you die and I mourn, you live and I try to kill you.

People who constantly fight Aberrant Species on the Church's fringe always need some way to unwind.

They're often on field duty and can't lug around TVs or game consoles everywhere, so they can only read some comics and novels, right?

Since he flipped through a few wildly‑titled, garishly‑covered comics left by colleagues in the Supervision Bureau's duty room, he's been unable to stop.

What 'The CEO's Substitute Bride', 'Ex‑Husband, Please Let Go', 'Cold Young Master's White Moonlight'…

This scene oddly reminded him of a plot from a certain book.

The male lead and female lead were originally a plastic marriage of alliance; the male lead kept taking mistresses, the female lead endured humiliation, eventually faked her death to escape, the male lead went mad searching the world for her, and when he finally found her he knelt in the snow, crying, saying "I was wrong, come back, let's be husband and wife again."