Chapter 440: Without comparison, there is no harm

Perhaps even the officials don't know how long it will take them to return, and they also fear causing panic among ordinary people, so even the visitation procedures have been announced.

No wonder Mother would say such a thing.

Yang Yixie scratched his head, feeling a bit headache; the situation is now obvious.

The identity of the Xirensheng player has been exposed, and his body in this world has already been taken over and uniformly cared for by the authorities.

Just from this point, Xirensheng's life safety temporarily doesn't require his worry.

But a new problem has promptly appeared.

As a player like him, why hasn't Yang Yixie fallen into a coma? Clearly his soul should have been drawn into the game as well.

Moreover, if Yang Yixie isn't mistaken, he not only didn't fall into a coma, but also spent this daytime just like a normal person.

Together with his mother, he welcomed the arrival of the officials, sent the comatose Xirensheng to the hospital, and also tidied up the bed in his own room neatly.

So it turns out that this 'Snail Maiden' isn't Xirensheng, but himself?

In that case, the disappeared cordon outside the window and the officials also seem to have an explanation.

Faced with such a sudden surge in the number of players needing their assistance, how could the officials' manpower possibly be enough?

"Partner, I've only heard of split personality; you couldn't possibly pull off a soul split, could you?"

Xirensheng is never stupid; he just usually acts as the lively atmosphere role, saying some out-of-place jokes or cracking some hellish jokes.

He also overheard the conversation between Zhiruo and Yang Yixie just now, and combined with the current topics online, drawing this conclusion is not difficult.

"Can you use Aberrant Arts to scramble yourself into two?"

Yang Yixie pondered for a moment, then simply asked Xirensheng this question.

"Well, probably? Creating a doppelganger is like a small kiss for me, but I still need to use one consciousness to simultaneously control two bodies."

This is a bit like using one mind for two tasks; as long as you're proficient enough, multitasking isn't a problem.

"But affecting the soul level would likely be difficult, after all the soul and consciousness are generally related, right? I can scramble my own consciousness, but for someone else...... it might require assistance."

The Scramble Principle is among the rarest in the entire game world, and the Aberrant Arts it manifests are infinitely varied.

Xirensheng's Aberrant Arts are still in development; currently his most proficient are blurring the boundaries between living things and objects, as well as between two-dimensional planes and three-dimensional reality.

Mainly because these two are both useful and fun.

Yang Yixie merely nodded; although this scene looks utterly bizarre no matter how you look at it, clearly his soul is in the game, so who lived this day in his place?

But if he thinks about it carefully, he can almost immediately list a great many possible methods.

The only problem lies in the feasibility of putting them into practice.

Given that spacetime principles exist in the game, it's not impossible for his future self to deliberately travel to the present to deceive his mother and prevent her from worrying.

The key might be a temporal loop? If he later masters this ability, returning to the present to complete the loop would suffice.

The fear is that the truth of all this may turn out contrary to expectations.

But at least Mother came to no harm, and his daytime self didn't do anything out of line, so this issue can be set aside for now.

Yang Yixie continued browsing the later topics that had cooled down after some time, his expression still unpleasant.

"Mirage! Or an Invasion from Another World?"

"Mom, who would've thought? I was working in the office and got hit by a car."

"Who would've thought watching a horror movie in the cinema would directly evolve into being immersed?"

Yang Yixie directly clicked into the first topic; the video inside shows a person filming the sky from the ground.

He should be in a desolate open space, but although it should be daytime, the surroundings are pitch black.

As the camera pans upward, one can see a massive object seemingly looming above his head.

Although it's unclear why, there is a large, conspicuous hole at the edge of that massive object, but through that gap one can also see its cross-section clearly.

The pale blue rune circuits, rather than merely showing a retro mysterious hue, also look like some unknown high technology.

They are densely arranged inside the Floating City, sometimes lighting up, sometimes dimming, as if the gigantic city itself were breathing.

That Floating City ought to be at a considerable height; someone tried to fly a drone up there but found it impossible, and even if a person happened to "bump" into it while on a plane, they still couldn't see what's above.

Even in the comment section, Yang Yixie found the first-person view of someone on a plane.

That Floating City seems to have appeared out of nowhere; the plane had no time to dodge and slammed straight into it, the result being like crashing into a mirage, and it quickly flew out from the other side of the Floating City.

Because the plane flew past beneath the Floating City, it happened to allow people to see what part of its foundation looks like.

Besides those dense, intricate rune circuits, it's probably mostly many steel brackets; some sharp-eyed observers also spotted some cylinder-like objects, guessing they might not be artillery.

The authorities appear not to have intervened to control the spread of comments, but they did take down some pessimistic ones.

If the phantom of Tianmian City is still relatively distant, then the two below are hardly worth mentioning in terms of being close to the people.

Yang Yixie took a rough look; one was in his own office, working honestly as usual, when he saw an off-road vehicle materialize out of thin air and lunge straight at him.

Perhaps because he was frightened stupid, that person didn't even have time to move, fortunately the off-road vehicle passed right through him.

Such incidents are not rare; many people have had similar experiences, only differing in time and place.

And among those off-road vehicles that are identical except for varying degrees of battle damage, Yang Yixie spotted a familiar one.

He could only say, fortunately Bai Mu Yun's vehicles all have anti-spy film; looking at those mercenaries who aren't so meticulous, they haven't yet connected with this world, but their big faces are already circulating online.

The person in the last topic had it rough; he had gone to watch a horror movie, only to be thrown straight into an Aberrant Species nest.

Although the Aberrant Species can't actually swallow them whole, the feeling of such close contact is still unpleasant.

Just from the clarity of those Aberrant Species images, one can imagine this person's breakdown.

Yang Yixie silently exited that topic, after fully understanding what had happened in reality, he also fell into contemplation.

After personally witnessing the form of the Aberrant Species, he suddenly felt that the pixelated Aberrant Species in the game were truly friendly.