Chapter 525: This doesn't count as friendly fire? ? ?

Before entering the instance, Ying Duo specifically reminded each of them of one thing.

This instance might yield them a lot and uncover many truths, but there is only one thing.

Death in the instance remains real to them.

But Meng Kexin couldn't understand.

Ying Duo had no reason to kill her—whether it was Tianmian City's intelligence, real-world cooperation, or even having painstakingly designed equipment for her before entering the game.

Although Ying Duo in the game is quite crazy, when facing the real Yang Yixie, she still finds it hard to equate the two.

And now this scene before her eyes merely tells her how big a mistake she has made.

Yang Yixie is just a lunatic!

And what reason does a lunatic need to kill?

The glowing green light points in her eyes drew nearer and brighter, and Meng Kexin finally couldn't bear the blinding glare; she slowly closed her eyes, awaiting the impending pain.

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A few minutes earlier—

While Meng Kexin was still fighting the black-clad figures, Ying Duo was on the dormitory roof, calculating the straight-line distance from here to her position, and quickly finishing assembling his equipment.

Ying Duo had not a moment to spare; ever since that battle in Tianmian City, he had already begun researching how to boost the cannon's power and the extra fittings to assemble.

He tapped a key on the keyboard, the screen before him switched, and a data stream surged from the dormitory roof, tracing countless arcs of glowing green in the night sky.

The arcs outlined the device's rough shape, and the equipment gradually revealed its true form.

After seeing via the minimap that Meng Kexin had left her dormitory building's area, Yang Yixie immediately pressed the fire button.

In his view, as long as Meng Kexin was no longer at risk of being trapped under rubble, that area became Ying Duo's fire coverage zone.

Where is the teammate protection mechanism?

The cannon fire shot into the sky and soon vanished from sight.

After a short while, the glowing green light seeped out from the gaps in the clouds, dyeing the entire night sky that eerie color.

Although there are many monsters in the instance, they can still gain a lot of experience, but it's unclear whether the team sharing reduced their share or the instance simply gives little experience.

Seeing that the nearby red dots had all disappeared without exception, the glowing green energy cycled once inside Ying Duo, then turned into a long string of data stream crawling along the grass, ready to check on Meng Kexin's condition.

Meng Kexin sat on the steps before the ruins, her hair disheveled by the cannon's aftermath, the elastic of her ponytail snapped into two pieces, her clothes torn in several places, revealing the white lining underneath and a thin, thin arm still oozing blood.

Watching Ying Duo return from the data stream and walk slowly toward her, she only then picked up the war hammer from the ground, the hammer head resting on the floor, the shaft gripped in her hand, her knuckles whitening as veins stood out on the back of her hand.

She personally watched a dormitory building be blasted into ruins by cannon fire in just a few seconds.

The tremendous explosion sound, the lingering heat of the cannon fire, and...... that artillery descending from the sky, which only brings an overwhelming despair.

Although she was right in the middle of the battlefield, those cannon blasts pierced straight through her body; the few injuries she did sustain were from being dazed and getting cut by flying shrapnel.

She hadn't even recovered when Ying Duo was already before her.

Strands of glowing green hair swayed lightly in the night wind; he wasn't running around with a cannon barrel on his shoulder like in the wanted poster, but that distinctive color told her that all this devastation was his doing.

Under his feet lay rubble, bent steel beams, and scorched wood—all his handiwork.

Ying Duo also stared at her for half a second, then guiltily averted his gaze from her face.

Although Yang Yixie also knew this method couldn't inflict much harm on Meng Kexin, in the team channel her blood bar had only decreased a little, still a healthy green.

But...... how to put it.

Looking at her grimy face, clothes torn in several places, utterly lacking her usual domineering bearing, he couldn't help feeling a bit guilty.

When playing games, Yang Yixie doesn't usually get carried away easily, but some factors he indeed failed to consider.

"Can you still walk?" Ying Duo's face remained unchanged, perhaps only a faint glint of gold in his eyes revealing his master's guilt.

Oh, he seems to have also forgotten to introduce Meng Kexin to the convenience of the team system.

Because the first time he used it was with Chen Mo Zhi and them on a mission, Meng Kexin wasn't there, and they ended up even more embarrassed than her...

Yang Yixie felt even more guilty.

Meng Kexin merely stared at him silently, obviously still processing what had just happened and not yet withdrawn from the life-or-death state.

She leaned on the hammer to stand up, her legs still trembling, "I can."

Her voice sounded hoarse, that word almost forced out through clenched teeth.

"Fine, then our mission should already be done; what's next......"

Yang Yixie expressionlessly began discussing the matter, trying to get by on Ying Duo's cold face.

"Don't you think you should explain this first?"

Meng Kexin rubbed the war hammer's shaft, then couldn't hold back, swung it round and smashed it hard beside Ying Duo's foot.

Still, Ying Duo's stiff body stopped Yang Yixie from being startled by that hammer blow into almost jumping.

Meng Kexin gave Ying Duo a cute, obedient smile, yet she stepped closer step by step.

Ying Duo's body is still in its sixteen-year-old growth phase, not much taller than Meng Kexin, yet under her intimidating aura he still stood his ground.

As Meng Kexin moved closer, she switched hands to grip the hammer shaft in reverse, but that constantly rubbing hand left Yang Yixie doubting that her next strike wouldn't hit him squarely.

It's fine, teammates have damage immunity...

The next second, Meng Kexin, quick-eyed and quick-handed, grabbed Ying Duo's ear and twisted it hard.

Ying Duo: (⊙ˍ⊙)

Ying Duo's eyes suddenly widened, his blood bar unchanged, but the pain was unmistakably conveyed.

This doesn't count as friendly fire???

(っ°Д°；）っ

Ying Duo tried to distance himself from Meng Kexin, but she always has a way to deal with these brats.

After all, she usually deals with rich heirs like Sun Yu quite often; when encountering a talkative one like Sun Yu it's fine, but for those completely lawless heirs she also has to find a way to help the client's father handle them.

After all, some clients can't manage their own kids; helping them sort things out also aids in signing the contract.

Meng Kexin smiled sweetly; as soon as she opened her mouth, she was hardly different from the Yama in hell.

She hates brats the most!

"Little Yang classmate, I think we might need to have a good talk?"