Chapter 448: We Are Good Citizens

While Hua Jian Lei was negotiating with the officials, Yang Yixie also completed an intelligence exchange with Meng Kexin.

Although she hadn't seen the message Yang Yixie left for her, Meng Kexin guessed that Yang Yixie wanted to contact her, perhaps needing some carrier.

Everyone else was frantically learning the knowledge that could keep them alive in the game, and Meng Kexin couldn't afford to appear too unconventional either.

Fortunately, dressed in a hoodie, she was taken for a newly adult girl, and those around her took special care of her; Meng Kexin seized a chance to borrow a watch.

She looked at the obviously pricey watch in her hand and sighed inwardly.

Why can some people, moved by juniors' fear of time passing, lend expensive watches and radiate unreserved goodwill, while others can't muster any kindness even toward their own family?

With the watch on Meng Kexin's wrist, around ten in the morning she successfully reestablished contact with Yang Yixie.

To prevent the previous situation from recurring, Meng Kexin relayed all the information she knew to Ying Duo at near‑maximum speed.

For example, Shen Zexi and Qi Hengyu are both striving to get stronger, and perhaps spurred on, their rate of improvement is astonishingly fast.

Shen Zexi's methods are unknown, yet he has already secured an internship slot at the Heresy Tribunal.

Ying Duo's defection clearly truly stimulated the two.

The watch didn't display any new characters all morning.

"That seems a bit far‑fetched?"

Meng Kexin didn't know what expression Yang Yixie had now, but she instinctively projected Ying Duo's expressionless face onto him.

"Then just treat it as my self‑talk."

Meng Kexin replied lightly.

Yang Yixie gave no reply; the Ying Guang Lu characters scrolled line by line across his phone screen, as if someone were writing a very long letter.

Shen Zexi, Qi Hengyu, Chen Mo Zhi.

They were earnest—earnest in getting stronger, earnest in seeking him, earnest in treating him as a "companion."

Companion.

The word circled in Yang Yixie's mind before landing in a rather awkward spot.

Meng Kexin hadn't joined their Mercenary Corps, but seeing Shen Zexi's and Qi Hengyu's actions, and even though Chen Mo Zhi didn't voice it, his subconscious defense of Ying Duo, she thought their relationships were probably good.

Not to mention, when Ying Duo left, he also managed to whisk away Luo Jinyou, who had degenerated into an Aberrant Species.

Yang Yixie merely recorded all the intelligence Meng Kexin relayed, but as for his view on the "Version Answer"...

Honestly, it's complicated.

According to Meng Kexin, those people truly treat Ying Duo as their companion, but the emotions they invest are unequal.

How can you expect him to invest feelings toward a bunch of virtual pixel characters in a game?

They all say that game world is like another truly existing world, but in Yang Yixie's eyes it is not so.

Other players might feel fully immersed because of realistic graphics, whereas Yang Yixie sees pitifully low‑resolution pixel graphics.

If everything in reality could be expressed as data, reality itself would become false, let alone the game world.

In Yang Yixie's view, they are merely a particularly interesting group of "NPCs."

Even if the game world weren't false, what of it? The "Version Answer" has been built on lies from the start.

"Version Answer," huh...

Yang Yixie suddenly thought the name was badly chosen; the Mercenary Corps bore a t0‑level title, yet the team had long since fractured.

Ultimately, even if the game world were real, so what?

Players and the people of that world have been opposing from the start; even if he isn't a Dome‑originated infiltrator, his very Undead status alone guarantees a divide.

Moreover, they're now separated by such distance; it's almost impossible to meet again, right?

Yang Yixie acknowledges that those few's Aberrant Arts will surely achieve something in the future, but it all requires time.

Yet what Yang Yixie lacks most is time.

The intelligence‑exchange work was completed quickly; Meng Kexin almost wholly disclosed all the information she had gathered to Yang Yixie.

Yang Yixie, having just finished here, then saw an email from Hua Jian Lei.

Collaborating with the officials, huh...

Come to think of it, Yang Yixie's bag does contain quite a few ready‑made weapons and items.

He did a quick calculation and realized that for the things the officials might urgently need, he seemed to have the schematics.

Things like a Mutation Value Detection Device, energy handcuffs to control illegal players, and so on...

Of course, he still has to craft these with materials; when it comes to weapons, he's truly capable of wholesale production.

To grind skill proficiency, he basically uses 【Modification】 to mass‑produce firearms whenever he has free time, then disassembles and remakes them all.

In fact the process isn't efficient—many materials are lost upon disassembly—but when supplies are scarce, it's more economical.

But now that he's at the Dome, does Yang Yixie still lack materials? That would be impossible.

The only restriction on his inventory is that it unlocks gradually according to synchronization values.

Currently, Yang Yixie can only access a large stock of white weapons and items; only a few low‑quality green ones are permitted to be taken out.

And these weapons can fully address the officials' urgent needs.

The officials have well‑trained troops; in obedience and combat standards alone, they are not weaker than the Dome's Field Operations Department, and are actually stronger and more disciplined.

Though the gear may be a bit lacking, it is sufficient to deal with the currently emerging low‑level Aberrant Species.

And as the officials' strength grows, it likewise guarantees societal stability.

Rounded up, in the end his mother's living environment can become more harmonious.

It's just a pity that the holy water he now holds has become a non‑replenishable consumable; he deals with Mutations daily, otherwise he could have contributed some holy water.

Hua Jian Lei quickly sent another message; the officials' attitude toward entropy increase is softer than expected—not because they're easygoing, but because they need what entropy increase holds.

Rune technology, equipment schematics, even ready‑made bulk weapons.

These things, already mature in the game, have many gaps in reality.

Hua Jian Lei indicated that he would go this afternoon to reach a cooperation with the authorities, and the requirements of Entropy Increase are only a few points.

First, do not investigate the true identities of their members; second, as long as they do not commit any illegal acts, Entropy Increase members have the freedom not to be surveilled by the authorities.

Entropy Increase has never been an evil organization that likes to carry out terrorist attacks; although some like to cause trouble, some like to pick up girls, some like to fight, but they are all law-abiding citizens.