Chapter 507: Deal the Cards

Fang Zhiyan glanced, then casually slipped the Dome's highest directive into the nearby folder.

"Depart for the Dome border in three days, meet with the Church's people, then head to the Eternal Silent Abyss?"

Han Huan said nothing; the liaison with the Church is handled by people from the Foreign Ministry.

Although internal strife in the Dome continues, they are still very "united" when dealing with outsiders.

"We set the timing of the operation, of course there's no problem."

Perhaps the Church also knows the Dome has Church personnel, so they decide the timing; the Church just wants it soon, and Min Tianyou will accompany the team and hand over to the Church.

They also wanted to act against Min Tianyou, but Yue Chengzhang traveled thousands of miles, risking his life to go to the Dome Headquarters himself to lead, precisely to prevent them from tampering with Min Tianyou.

This route is now impassable.

Han Huan shook his head regretfully; although the Dome decides, because Fang Zhiyan leads the team personally, all matters of this operation are decided by him.

Details of this cooperation will later be handed to Fang Zhiyan by Xie Jingnian with the full documents; originally he and Han Huan expected a verbal tussle, but it succeeded so easily.

Fang Zhiyan returned to the lab with Ying Duo, took the blank sheet from the folder, and placed it before Ying Duo.

"You pick the people; you can bring anyone, revenge is fine."

Ying Duo slipped the sheet into his backpack, looked up at Fang Zhiyan.

"I also want to go?"

Fang Zhiyan's hand roughly massaged Ying Duo's head, feeling the mutation factors constantly emanating from Ying Duo's hair, and his mood improved considerably.

"Of course," Fang Zhiyan said lightly, "it's an excellent experimental site, and a heaven‑sent stage, isn't it?"

Ying Duo stepped back silently, shaking off Fang Zhiyan's hand that was messing with his head, his hollow golden eyes reflecting Fang Zhiyan's smiling face.

"So, teacher, you're planning to swallow me, then dye my hair fluorescent green?"

Fang Zhiyan, upon hearing that, simply gave Ying Duo a light pat on the shoulder.

"Then I'd be reluctant; just as we agreed at the start, I will grant you power that lets you do whatever you wish."

"Go back and prepare; whatever you need, you can get with this paper, just don't forget the gathering in three days."

Fang Zhiyan unusually did not, as before, have an overwhelming urge to lecture as a teacher, seizing every moment to make Yang Yixie absorb the world's knowledge.

But Fang Zhiyan said little, merely urging Yang Yixie to quickly prepare what he will bring, specifically emphasizing "gather in three days."

Three days, the night before the gathering, coincides with a mid‑game intermission.

Clearly, Fang Zhiyan did it on purpose.

Although the authorities have relocated all the Undead, he still learned that the Undead's consciousness can return.

Yang Yixie knows that after his long rogue actions in the Dome, Fang Zhiyan finally bared his fangs at him.

Rather than saying he should "prepare properly," it's more that Fang Zhiyan is simply anticipating.

Anticipating how far he can struggle under Fang Zhiyan's hand.

Then he must study what kind of deployment report to submit.

They watch with bated breath.

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The modern world's night remains relatively normal; under the authorities' effective governance, although mutations have silently invaded this world, they seem not to affect ordinary people.

Yang Yixie sat on the bedside, his feet on the floor; a chill rose from his soles up his calves, clearing his fatigued, muddled mind considerably.

He picked up the phone beside his pillow, 00:13.

They have one final day to prepare.

In the game, Ying Duo employed every available means and power, having accomplished almost everything he could.

The rest is to see how Yang Yixie and his group operate in reality.

Before returning, he had Hua Jian Lei, in the name of entropy increase, contact the authorities to specifically retrieve Meng Kexin.

Although Yang Yixie knows this will expose Meng Kexin to the authorities' view, given the urgent situation, he has no choice.

He holds the key material to revive Chen Xiaoyu; surely both Meng Kexin and the Chen Family, linked to her, will highly value Mei Weisi's Aberrant Species Core.

He only needs to await Hua Jian Lei's negotiations with the authorities.

And now he has only one thing to do.

Then Ying Duo immediately opened the game system interface with his mind; after finding nothing, he turned on the computer.

The computer's startup sound rang clearly in the quiet room; he copied, word for word, the email address that had sent him the computer version of the Wasteland Era installer, as shown in the earlier phone email.

He typed a line into the input box and hit send.

"Want to chat? I stopped playing hide‑and‑seek games in elementary school; the Wasteland won't fall that far behind, will it?"

After the message sent, a tiny gray "Read" appeared on the screen.

No reply.

After a long while, the computer emitted a notification sound.

Yang Yixie opened the dialog box; the other's reply was only one sentence.

"What do you want to talk about?"

Yang Yixie stared at the line for two seconds, then pulled a playing card from the Game Backpack.

It was still the playing card transformed by Xi Ren Sheng, and because Xi Ren Sheng's real body was confiscated by the authorities, this action was more convenient.

Moreover, in this expedition to the Eternal Silent Abyss, Xi Ren Sheng will also go along.

Hua Jian Lei and Lao Bao will stay in Heavenly Dome City; their missions are arranged elsewhere.

"First, don't you plan to meet me? The Holy Father who has given up his own body?"

Yang Yixie's mood is poor, and his words are laced with aggression.

In fact, when he guessed the other was a customer service, Yang Yixie was not surprised.

Whether it's mission releases or various actions, the other seems intent on pulling him into the game's main storyline.

They held that "ownerless" body while running amok in Tianmian City, and the other side might be hiding behind the screen, guiding their every move through the so‑called quests.

Because they know Yang Yixie is confused about everything in that world, they also always slip personal cargo into various quest introductions, giving out more information just right to fill Ying Duo's information gap.

Those who claim Ying Duo is an electronic ghost should really take a good look; this is the true ghost, the mastermind behind the scenes.