Chapter 595

Raindrops pattered against the window glass; gazing at the hazy rainy night outside, Yang Yixie rose and walked to the window, like a drowning person clutching the last straw, he shoved the window open with force—so hard he heard the window frame groan as if about to collapse.

But Yang Yixie had no time to notice these; diagonal rain streaks swept into the room, coolness settling on his arms, and the consciousness that had absorbed part of the impact grew a little clearer.

Welcome back.

In the dim room, only a cold white desk lamp on the computer table provided light; that person sat in Yang Yixie's usual gaming spot, flipping through a magazine.

His molten-gold horizontal pupils lifted; Bai Mu Yun glanced at Yang Yixie by the window. Though he didn't know what Yang Yixie had experienced in the game, seeing him dazed for so long, it was surely unpleasant.

But......

For Yang Yixie to return unharmed instead of turning into a monster was already a success.

Yet little joy showed on his face; he simply leaned against the window, letting the wide-open window pour the leaking raindrops over him.

It seemed only this could rinse his muddled mind into a bit of clarity.

Finally regaining his composure, Yang Yixie first went to the mirror and examined his hair roots.

Good; the faint Ying Guang Lu that had flickered at his hair roots had vanished completely, and his hair roots returned to normal black.

This meant that the Mutation influenced by the Synchronization Rate was also cleared away.

In this regard, "Yang Yixie" had indeed kept his promise.

He casually hooked a finger, shifted his thought, and the familiar game interface appeared before him.

This time, Yang Yixie felt he had complete mastery of the UI; a mere thought let him adjust the layout and content however he wished.

Only his inbox now held an extra email from customer service.

Dear player:

The game's closed beta ends here; we will fully adopt player suggestions and implement the following revisions......

Just kidding—if you're unhappy with the game system, fix it yourself; anyway, I've packaged my Aberrant Arts and sent them to you.

Below, per our agreement, I must show you all the runes we signed; I'm busy, so that's it.

——Customer Service 117.

After they saw through him, besides posing as customer service to dodge the world's rejection, this guy really stopped acting altogether.

However, that's no longer necessary now.

They each went their separate ways, staying in their own worlds with no interaction, merely returning to how they first began together.

Although, there are still some differences.

Yang Yixie opened the attached bundle of densely packed runes; these differed from the ones Ying Duo usually engraves on weapons, resembling instead the kind he had etched onto Bai Mu Yun's soul before.

The engraving on Bai Mu Yun's soul was meant to stop him from going on a killing spree in reality, whereas what Yang Yixie engraved on himself was a transaction in the game world that cannot be violated.

As long as that Yang Yixie remains alive for even a day, he must draw some power to sever the link between the two worlds—just as the fragments Fang Zhiyan obtained are few, and no one knows how long it will take for the worlds to fully separate.

After Yang Yixie confirmed everything was correct, a flick of his finger brought the Game Backpack into view.

All the expected items were still there, only the Mutation Value had been reset to zero, the Synchronization Rate interface removed, and those stat points now fed directly into his body.

And unfortunately, his room's window became the first "victim" of this force.

Ying Guang Lu lines streamed from his fingertips, swiftly enveloping the window frame; Yang Yixie raised his hand to close the 【modified】 window, then grabbed some paper to dry the water around it.

Bai Mu Yun watched this scene, his horizontal eyes narrowing slightly.

This kid's power......

If the Yang Yixie who once stood before him, even unable to use his abilities, could be slain silently by Bai Mu Yun based on sheer physique alone—were it not for the runes' suppression preventing him from acting.

But now the situation is different; clearly just having entered the game once more, Ying Duo...... the energy on Yang Yixie's body is no longer on the same scale as before.

"Looks like you two, master and disciple, are having a great time?"

Bai Mu Yun saw the familiar Ying Guang Lu and couldn't help voicing a sneer; Yang Yixie merely kept his composure and replied.

"Nowhere, nowhere—I can't compare to your bond with Lu Mu; that crow's practically worn out, wrapped in bandages just to tend your grave."

"He isn't dead......"

Bai Mu Yun spoke ambiguously, unsure whether he regretted that Lu Mu was still alive or felt glad for his survival.

But it no longer matters; after all, we're in different worlds now—alive or dead makes no difference.

Bai Mu Yun glanced at Yang Yixie's phone on the bedside table, which had stayed lit since someone messaged, but Yang Yixie had just lunged for the window and hadn't noticed it.

"Aren't you going to check the message?"

Bai Mu Yun roughly understood as well: in this world lacking energy, the main power source is electricity; devices like this portable communicator, short for phone, are nearly ubiquitous.

Yang Yixie rubbed his dazed head while picking up the phone.

Unexpectedly, there was no Message Bombardment from Xiri Sheng; basically, they were all from Hua Jian Lei.

Hua Jian Lei likely organized the in-game situation, especially the aftermath after he quit the game, and sent a brief summary.

He'd need time to sort out the full intel, but Hua Jian Lei had essentially typed the key points into Yang Yixie's email.

However, the later developments were basically conveyed by Xiri Sheng after reuniting with Hua Jian Lei and the others.

After the Church and Dome squads fled the Eternal Silent Abyss, each returned to their hometowns; Fang Zhiyan's whereabouts are unknown, but Xiri Sheng didn't see him among the escaping crew, so he might have been buried there.

Lin Xun was scooped up by Church personnel during the retreat and ultimately taken by them; Luo Jinyou followed Xiri Sheng back to Heavenly Dome City, but didn't go to the Dome, instead staying on the entropic grounds.

A relatively fresh development is probably that the name Ying Duo successfully topped the Wasteland Most Wanted list.

As for the reason......

That's likely due to the rioting Aberrant Species tide.

Although Hua Jian Lei knows this isn't Yang Yixie's doing, he still wrote in the message:

"Do you know how those people in the game are describing you now?"

"They blew up the holy site above the heavens, planted a mole inside the Dome, turned the Church and Dome—and even the world—into your game, and those who bought the Co-Absorption hogwash practically worship you as a god."