Chapter 592: Ladies and gentlemen NPCs, welcome to my game

Ying Duo did not refute; Fang Zhiyan's statement was factual.

Between them there was never any master-disciple bond; Ying Duo needed power to counter the ever-present crisis, while Fang Zhiyan needed Ying Duo's body to bear the God Fragment, and their interests perfectly overlapped at a precise point.

The only difference was that Fang Zhiyan tried to strip the god's power, letting Mutation spread to every corner of the world, so everyone would undergo so-called evolution and become so-called new humans.

What Ying Duo wanted was to completely isolate this world's danger from the real world; if he could do that, how the game world's ending turned out actually had nothing to do with him.

Ying Duo pressed his lips; the problem was that someone had forcibly linked the two worlds together, and if they really continued as Fang Zhiyan envisioned, the real world would also suffer.

If not for this link, they might have become the most solid plastic master-disciple pair built on mutual exploitation.

Plastic is ultimately just plastic.

Meng Kexin, listening from behind, frowned, and Xie Jingyan held her wrist, mouthing two words to Meng Kexin.

"He's buying time."

Exactly, during that brief standoff, Chi Jinan on the other side had almost cut Fang Zhiyan's tentacles down to beside the Core; Fang Zhiyan obviously needed to divert attention to deal with Chi Jinan, so he was being courteous toward Ying Duo.

And Ying Duo was going along with him—Chi Jinan isn't he always going berserk? If the target is right before his eyes and he still can't cut it, he might as well just obediently step aside.

Sha Xu Feng also noticed this, immediately sought an opportunity to join that side's battle, using bullets to cover Chi Jinan's approach to the Core.

"So, 'we' have reached an agreement."

Fang Zhiyan listened to his words and froze for a moment; at the same instant, Chi Jinan's Blood Crystal scythe sliced through the last tentacle blocking the front of the Core, the silvery-white remnants exploding outward to either side, revealing that pieced-together shattered Core.

The speed of the black water's outflow had clearly slowed considerably; the tentacles had absorbed too much, the Core temporarily entered an overdraft state, and Ying Duo had been waiting for this moment.

He stepped forward two paces, unhurriedly telling Fang Zhiyan: "So from now on, the Core belongs to 'us'."

Fang Zhiyan didn't even have time to ponder who Ying Duo meant by "we" before seeing him charge toward the direction where Chi Jinan stood.

Chi Jinan was standing less than three steps ahead of the Core; he heard footsteps behind him, turned his head, and a flash of Ying Guang Lu entered his crimson eyes.

"The fragment," Ying Duo said, "I told you to leave it for me."

Chi Jinan merely gave the scythe in his hand a sudden turn and swung it straight at Ying Duo.

At the same moment, Sha Xu Feng's bullets arrived, each shot precisely striking the base, forcing the tentacles to alter their trajectory.

Meng Kexin went straight in from the flank without a word, while Luo Jinyou did not rush forward.

He took position in the rear as Ying Duo had just said, hands pressed to the ground, one spike after another sprouting from the tentacles' roots, precisely blocking their retreat path.

In the end, Ying Duo did not take the god's fragment from within his own body, merely urging him to stay back as much as possible.

Yet while Fang Zhiyan's attention was diverted to others, Ying Duo and Chi Jinan actually began fighting right next to the shattered Core.

"MD, psycho."

Yang Yixie really wondered whether Tianmian City lacked a psychiatric hospital because Chi Jinan had demolished them all.

Given the situation, even if Chi Jinan had completely lost his sanity, shouldn't he be indiscriminately destroying the Core? Why would he turn around and attack him instead?

In Chi Jinan's eyes, was Ying Duo more appealing than that aggravating god-thing?

Fang Zhiyan didn't know what Ying Duo was thinking, but letting Ying Duo fuse with the God Fragment was indeed part of his experiment, so he did not stop Ying Duo from approaching the Core.

Chi Jinan clung like a stubborn plaster; even if Ying Duo moved at a high‑effort‑boosted speed, he could hardly shake him off.

Only by relying on Fang Zhiyan's tentacles interfering nearby did Ying Duo manage to break free and lunge toward the shattered Core.

【Detected "God Fragment" (21/1000), fuse?】

【Warning! The fragment contains a high concentration of Mutation Factor! After fusion, Mutation Value will exceed the limit!】

This time, the system presented a more detailed query, and Yang Yixie's vision was nearly filled by a red warning pop‑up.

At the moment his fingertip touched the fragment, an inexplicable chill surged up his arm straight into his brain.

That was His shattered, mad, Mutation‑tainted residual will; when Lin Xun came into contact with it, not only did his body become a vegetative state, but his soul was also torn apart.

【Yes.】

Ying Duo pressed the confirm key.

The red warning box popped up before his eyes; the countdown for Mutation Value exceeding the limit began ticking, the numbers changing too fast to discern.

Xi Rensheng was the first to sense something amiss—not because Ying Duo showed any abnormality after fusing the fragment, but because a force collided with his domain.

At the pinnacle of Chaos there was only one chair; he had been playing on it for a long time, even hopping onto other chairs to play, but this time he got base‑raided.

A foot stepped up from behind him, landing directly on the chair's back, nearly knocking him off the steps.

"Chaos Law——!!"

Xi Rensheng saw a hand, his fingertips flowing with power from the same source yet a completely different frequency of Chaos Law; someone had invaded the top of Chaos Law, like a hacker finding the system's back door, kicking open the machine room, and taking the administrator's seat.

He could only brace himself desperately against the steps beneath him, wedging his existence into the sole remaining crack at the top of the law; although he wasn't pushed down, the chair was no longer his.

He barely managed to stand firm on the stairs, discovering he was actually in second place.

Before he could even react, his field of vision began to descend into Chaos.

Rock walls, tentacles, Blood Crystal Fragments—all were split into equal‑sized cubic color blocks; this was Ying Duo's domain, reducing the whole world to data using the simplest mosaic game as its underlying logic.

【Warning! Player account under invasion!】

【Warning! Current account: Ying Duo, character damage rate 30%, 40%, irreparable......】

"Then, according to the agreement, switch players."

Fang Zhiyan's night vision was not reduced in the pixel field; on the contrary, because every object's edge had become a hard edge, outline recognition became easier.

But he could only see a pitch‑black back of the head; Ying Duo hid his most conspicuous Ying Guang Lu beneath his hood, making it impossible for him to judge the situation there.

At the same moment, a sentence echoed in everyone's mind.

Like a line of code forcibly written, each person's vision displayed a screen showing only a dialogue box and a line of centrally aligned pixel font.

Those characters appeared one by one; it was the player's declaration:

"Ladies and gentlemen NPCs, welcome to my game."