Chapter 509: Playing Life: Oh dear, I

Yang Yixie locked the room door from the inside, took Bai Mu Yun's corpse out of the game backpack, and placed it on the floor.

If his mother saw this, she would definitely be frightened.

She might even imagine a bunch of rumors, such as:

My obedient and cute son killed someone and hid the body at home?!

Why would he put goat horns on the corpse—could it be... some shameful hobby?

To avoid such a hellish scene, Yang Yixie chose to lock the door from the inside.

Xi Ren Sheng felt the rare space without Luo Jinyou's presence, and curiously poked Bai Mu Yun's corpse with a finger.

To prevent the corpse from rotting, Ying Duo had specially prepared a large amount of ice to keep it frozen, so the Bai Mu Yun body that Xi Ren Sheng touched was especially stiff.

"... Can these horns be taken off?"

Xi Ren Sheng also took a strong interest in Bai Mu Yun's horns; first of all, they were eye‑catching, mainly because each horn, viewed alone, really looked like a piece of craftwork.

Indeed, they must have been carefully maintained, right?

Xi Ren Sheng recalled that some creatures can detach a part of their body in a crisis to achieve escape.

The horns aren't exactly indispensable parts; removing them should be fine...

Xi Ren Sheng grew eager, his hands already resting on the pair of horns on Bai Mu Yun's head.

Meanwhile, Yang Yixie beside him didn't notice the small movement; he was checking the new pop‑up that the game system had thrown up.

【It has been detected that you meet the conditions. Would you like to activate the new character: Bai Mu Yun?】

This is the "safe" method I mentioned earlier?

Speaking of which, a long time ago Yang Yixie had indeed speculated that this game could allow multiple accounts to be created at once, but he didn't like running several alts simultaneously; he preferred to pour enough effort into a single account.

【Current character: Ying Duo.】

Every time he logged in, this prompt would pop up, but he had never really paid attention to it.

Indeed...... has his parallel‑world self already become completely unscrupulous?

Although Bai Mu Yun didn't die by his hand, and there's no need to feel so guilty, frankly Yang Yixie despises the act of forcibly taking over someone else's body.

Perhaps it's because of his recent experiences, or perhaps he's just narcissistic—aside from his own body, he basically looks down on anyone else's.

But no matter what, he doesn't want to choose this as a backup plan for survival.

Perhaps another method could be used—since Bai Mu Yun's consciousness has been preserved, could his consciousness also be extradited?

Yang Yixie temporarily set that idea aside, preparing to let Xi Ren Sheng use its aberrant arts to run a few small experiments on Bai Mu Yun's corpse, then slowly turn around.

And squatting in front of Bai Mu Yun, with one spiral goat horn in each hand, Xi Ren Sheng's face full of embarrassment and guilt met Yang Yixie's gaze.

Xi Ren Sheng: =͟͟͞͞(꒪ᗜ꒪‧̣̥̇)

Yang Yixie: ∑(❍д❍ฺlll)

Or perhaps, Bai Mu Yun, you'd better not come back to life?

Yang Yixie really doubts that, after Bai Mu Yun comes back to life and sees his own head with two goat horns forcibly snapped off, he'll first tear Yang Yixie and Xi Ren Sheng apart.

Light incense.

After Xi Ren Sheng "accidentally" snapped off the goat horns on Bai Mu Yun's head, Yang Yixie found a box specially for holding them, and once placed inside they looked even more like a finely crafted artwork from a handicraft shop.

Both Xi Ren Sheng and Yang Yixie chose to ignore this issue, and Yang Yixie even reached out to tousle Bai Mu Yun's white curly hair, which just happened to cover the broken‑off spot.

"Check his physical condition."

Xi Ren Sheng immediately complied; in fact, this corpse of Bai Mu Yun had been studied thoroughly enough by the Dome authorities that all parts with any utilitarian value had already been dealt with, which is why they let Ying Duo take it away.

It's indeed regrettable that Bai Mu Yun was killed by an ordinary person, yet it's also especially ironic—the person who least wanted to die, wandering about and suffering constant upheaval, ended up dying twice in a row at the hands of ordinary folks.

This is the fact: Bai Mu Yun's abilities were bound by a rune device, so any ordinary person could kill him.

If there's anything they missed, it might just be the phosphorescent powder that appeared out of nowhere in Bai Mu Yun's consciousness.

But ordinary people really have no means to investigate the detailed state of a dead person's soul.

Especially after the two Consciousness Law ability‑holders in the Dome passed away one after another.

If they really wanted to investigate in this direction, they'd have to find the relevant ability‑holders, and the person most suited for this kind of work inside the Dome right now is……

In short, this plan was quite sudden and hasty, yet it happened to fall on an excellent moment of favorable timing, location, and human harmony.

At that scene, nobody would bother to specifically investigate Bai Mu Yun's cause of death.

In the end, the only one who could possibly do this was actually Yang Yixie, who had wanted Bai Mu Yun dead from start to finish.

There's nothing to be done—people say the dead come first, yet they did that to the corpse; might as well console their own conscience.

"Hmm, it seems there's no situation of being rejected by this world."

Xi Ren Sheng quickly gave an answer: although his game‑world self can come to reality, he must constantly cover himself with chaotic aberrant arts, otherwise the world will reject him.

Perhaps it's because the current Bai Mu Yun is a corpse, or perhaps because after becoming an aberrant species, he and his isotopic counterpart in this world can no longer be considered the same person.

Therefore, he shows no signs of being rejected by the world.

This is good news—at least it proves that the Bai Mu Yun who died in the game really could exist living in this world.

The only problem is that Bai Mu Yun's own aberrant‑species identity is itself a hassle.

However, Bai Mu Yun's aberrant‑species core has been devoured by him—does he still count as a functional aberrant species?

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"These are all our demands, Miss Meng Kexin."

Hua Jian Lei is always the best at, and most enjoys, dealing with girls.

At this moment his face was full of a gentlemanly, proper smile, and he even specially tidied up his clothes and hair, which had become extremely messy from his own careless sleeping posture.

Facing the flamboyantly dressed Hua Jian Lei, Meng Kexin merely met him with a smile; although she was only wearing casual home loungewear, from the moment the formal negotiations began she had already put on her stance.

Because she often goes in and out of various banquets with her superiors, she's dealt with even the most difficult parties—let alone Hua Jian Lei, that peacock of a man.

After all, she has a cute‑girl face; no matter how maturely she dresses, there will always be people who underestimate her because of her appearance.

"In short, you need to take me out of here and cooperate with the work you have ahead, right?"

Meng Kexin's smile was especially oppressive, and Hua Jian Lei, knowing she was in the wrong, still nodded.

"Yes, it happened suddenly; to get you out, we can only tell the officials that you are also a member of Entropy Increase."