Jing Xi’s anger and even his fists were something Chi Yao considered normal, so he never expected the other person to be so obedient. He was told to sit, and he sat. He was told to lean, and he leaned into his arms.

Although it was a game, the neural connection was 100%, so it was almost no different from reality.

“I told you to sit. I didn’t tell you to lean on me. Can you be a little more reserved, sister?” Chi Yao supported his shoulder and pushed him away.

Jing Xi: “…”

He turned his head. “Do you want me to sit or not?”

Chi Yao was about to retort when he met Jing Xi’s eyes.

Even though the gender had changed, those eyes were Jing Xi’s.

The words at Chi Yao’s mouth were swallowed back.

“Just sit properly.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a certain shameless sister leaned back in.

Chi Yao heard him mutter softly, “You’re the one who’s flirting, and you’re also the one who’s being a coward.”

Chi Yao: “…”

Was he being provoked?

Jing Xi was about to secretly check Xiao Hong’s tracking status when his waist suddenly tightened and his shoulder sank. Someone was completely pressed against him.

Chi Yao still felt it wasn’t enough. He closed his legs, completely trapping Jing Xi in front of him.

“You feel terrible.”

Not only did he hug his waist, but he also complained.

Jing Xi felt like he was being restrained by a mutated bear, unable to move.

“Let go.”

Hearing this, Chi Yao deliberately tightened his arms, his chin resting on his shoulder as he laughed. “Isn’t this more comfortable for you, sister?”

He felt warmth on his ear. Jing Xi slightly tilted his head away. “…”

Childish.

Fang Liang and Li Yuan: “…”

Even sworn enemies are now showing public displays of affection.

This is simply dishonorable.

The two of them looked up at the sky.

Fang Liang: “There are so many stars tonight.”

Li Yuan: “Yeah, they’re almost blinding.”

The VIPs in the spectator mode were discussing wildly in the comment section—

“These two are definitely a dark horse! I bet 100 million on them!”

“The pretty boy is good with a bow! But he doesn’t seem to be good at close combat. He’s not as good as the sister.”

“The sister’s individual combat power is good, but she and her teammate don’t get along. I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets killed by her teammate before the finish line.”

“The pretty boy might also get killed by the sister first.”

The discussion didn’t lead to a conclusion, but the betting amount on the two of them was growing exponentially.

Jing Xi’s mood was heavy as he looked at the numbers behind his name.

This level of gambling was several times larger than the one in the N9 underground casino.

After one game, the organization behind all this could profit at least tens of billions.

These profits were based on human lives.

Jing Xi took the opportunity to connect with Xiao Hong and check the location of that team.

A window popped up in front of him, showing four red dots. They were now moving north, less than ten kilometers away from them.

He didn’t struggle?

Chi Yao tilted his head and carefully sized him up.

Did he mistake the person?

“Xixi?” he whispered.

The vibration of his voice made his ears tickle.

Jing Xi slightly tilted his head to get away from him and said casually, “I’m formulating a combat plan. Don’t disturb me.”

Chi Yao understood. He connected to Jing Xi’s perspective through Xiao Hei.

A radar window and a code window appeared in his vision.

He had already successfully infiltrated.

As expected, the things made by his nemesis were reliable.

Every action in the game would be monitored by the AI.

But Xiao Hei and Xiao Hong had already successfully infiltrated, acting as viruses. They had not yet been discovered by the game’s defense system.

The code window kept flashing, and the results were slow to come out.

Chi Yao pulled his hand away and his fingers quickly danced on the virtual keyboard.

“Are you writing a thesis?” Chi Yao said deliberately. “Isn’t it clearer to list them one by one like this?”

Jing Xi listened to his nonsense. The characters on the window were so fast that they blurred together.

In just one minute, a string of red numbers popped up in the code window.

[8528.2671.4110.3.336]

Jing Xi’s eyes narrowed slightly. He felt that this IP address was very familiar.

As soon as this thought flashed by, he saw Chi Yao type a line of text on a blank window that he had pulled up.

[Cetus N110 Western Medical Research Base.]

Jing Xi’s vision flashed. He suddenly remembered why it felt familiar.

About half a year ago, he had accidentally seen “4110.3” on Chen Bingfeng’s desk. At the time, he thought it was statistical data. Now that he thought about it, there was a “.” after that “3”.

Medical research?

Mutated humans?

Is there a direct connection?

After translating the IP address, Chi Yao was also a little surprised.

He had used the old man’s power to search for so many years without any results. He didn’t expect this place to be so close.

A small window suddenly popped up in the screen.

[Xiao Hong: They are massacring people.]

Chi Yao and Jing Xi’s expressions changed at the same time.

Jing Xi swiped his finger, closed the page, pulled Chi Yao’s hand away, and got up. His face was cold. “I thought you had become smarter. I didn’t expect you to still be so useless.”

After saying that, he walked away with his long, straight legs.

“Hey, we’re about to set off. Where are you going?” Chi Yao said irritably.

Jing Xi didn’t look back. “I don’t want to be on a team with an idiot.”

“You have a lot of thorns.” Chi Yao irritably rubbed his hair and got up to follow him.

As he passed Fang Liang and Li Yuan, he said casually, “I’m going to chase him. If I don’t come back in ten minutes, you guys should follow the planned route and we’ll meet up later.”

Fang Liang waved his hand. “Go ahead and chase him, but don’t do anything else.”

Li Yuan touched his chin and smiled. “If he’s going to do something else, ten minutes is indeed not enough time.”

Chi Yao smiled. “I’m not interested in being watched.”

The comment section was filled with laughter—

“Is there anything we VIPs can’t see?!”

“I’m not here for the gambling. I just want to watch the beautiful pretty boy and sister’s dramatic love-hate relationship, ha ha ha—”

“Just for this melodramatic love triangle, I’m betting another 200 million!”

“I want to chase the sister too! Give me her terminal number!”

Jing Xi hadn’t walked far when he noticed that the numbers behind his and Chi Yao’s names were changing even faster.

These people are crazy.

“Have you caused enough trouble?” Chi Yao caught up and grabbed his wrist. “If we don’t get the prize money this time, our White Tiger Roar team is done for.”

Jing Xi: “…”

If a team with such an ugly name is done for, then so be it.

Jing Xi struggled to break free.

“Do you promise to listen to me?”

“I’m the second-in-command. I listen to you?” Chi Yao sneered. “Do you see if my brothers listen to you?”

The two of them went back and forth, and then they started fighting.

The comment section was full of people cheering for them to fight.

The more intense the fight, the faster the betting amount jumped.

Jing Xi tripped over a vine on the ground as he stepped back and fell backward.

Chi Yao tried hard to pull his hand away, but it was too late. He was also dragged down to the ground.

Behind them was a half-person-high patch of dense grass. After falling in, they seemed to have disappeared.

The moment Jing Xi fell, he looked up and met Chi Yao’s eyes.

The two of them instantly understood each other’s intentions and activated two miniature robots at the same time.

[Xiao Hong: Shielding AI perception—shielded—countdown to release five… four…]

[Xiao Hei: Data copied, conversion successful.]

In two breaths, two people who looked exactly like them appeared on the ground.

Chi Yao looked at the two people next to him, then looked down at the person below him.

Jing Xi had already returned to his original appearance.

This was much more pleasing to the eye.

“How long can it last?” Chi Yao asked.

Jing Xi pushed him away and sat up. “About an hour. Once it exceeds that, the AI will perceive it, and we’ll be wiped out like a virus.”

Chi Yao watched as Xiao Hei and Xiao Hong, with their game avatars, walked out. He laughed. “These two little idiots won’t give us away, will they?”

Hearing him call them little idiots, Jing Xi wanted to say, “They were made with your personality traits,” but he swallowed the words back.

What if this lunatic got angry and took both of them? That would also be troublesome.

After switching the data with the super-intelligent bodies, Xiao Hei and Xiao Hong replaced them. They were now viruses floating in the system and couldn’t be captured by the AI, so no one could detect them.

In other words, they were invisible.

“Let’s go take a look.” Jing Xi checked the location displayed on the radar, found the direction, and walked out.

“This is too slow.” Chi Yao pulled up the virtual keyboard and sneered. “Since we’re viruses, we should act like viruses.”

He locked onto the target coordinates, grabbed Jing Xi’s hand, and pressed enter.

On the other side, Fang Liang and Li Yuan heard footsteps approaching. They pulled out their military knives and became alert.

When they saw the people, their expressions froze.

Their boss had his hands in his pockets, and his expression was cold.

The enemy boss was holding his hand and leaning against him.

“This place is so fun.” Xiao Hong looked around and smiled happily.

“Yeah.” Xiao Hei responded coldly. “It’s indeed fun.”

Fang Liang/Li Yuan: “…”

It looked like the plan was successful.

The scenery in front of them shifted. Chi Yao and Jing Xi arrived at the location of the four people.

They heard a group of beasts roaring. Chi Yao looked in the direction of the sound.

More than twenty players were being chased all over the forest by a group of second-level mutated wolves. The four people were also among them.

They would kill anyone they encountered, whether they were a person or a beast.

Jing Xi observed for a moment. “They’re controlling the odds?”

Chi Yao: “Probably.”

Jing Xi switched to the betting rankings. The rankings of those few people were rising rapidly.

“They—”

He turned his head and saw Chi Yao sitting on a rock not far away, leaning against a vine. He was very relaxed as he typed a string of code on the virtual keyboard.

His movements stopped. An alpha on the other side of the river, who was about to stab a beta in the chest with a military knife, suddenly had a steel plate appear in front of him.

The military knife hit the steel plate.

“It really works.” Chi Yao smiled, getting interested. He glanced at the situation on the other side and started typing on the keyboard again. “What about this?”

He pressed enter, and another alpha who was running at full speed suddenly ran into a wall and fell to his knees.

The comment section was filled with curses—

“What are they doing?! How can they fall on flat ground?!”

“Trash. Get up and kill!”

“What happened?! Their combat power is rapidly decreasing!”

“Are they on drugs? They’re useless now that the effect has worn off.”

The players who were being chased were also a little confused.

Running and then suddenly jumping onto a tree to sit down? Was this a joke?

Jing Xi sat down next to Chi Yao and watched him mess with people.

The effect was indeed immediate.

But this method was really childish.

“Ahhh! Here they come again! Run!”

Hearing the shouts, Jing Xi turned his head to look.

A team was walking downstream. The yellow-skinned alpha at the front grabbed a player’s collar and quickly slit his throat with a military knife.

Blood splattered everywhere.

The player twitched and struggled violently in his hands. In a moment, he stopped moving.

Jing Xi’s face sank. He locked onto the yellow-skinned alpha’s team to parse their IP address.

He still remembered the long string of code that Chi Yao had typed.

“Stop them,” Jing Xi said.

“Giving me orders?” Chi Yao dragged his voice, saying lazily, “You want me to do it, so I’m not going to—”

“One picture,” Jing Xi interrupted.

Chi Yao frowned. “Only one?”

Jing Xi: “It’s one that can be cashed in.”

Chi Yao: “…”

So the other ones couldn’t be cashed in?

The IP address was quickly parsed.

[8528.2671.4110.3.336]

Jing Xi: “As expected.”

These four alphas were also from the 110 Western Medical Research Base.

With four more people killing indiscriminately, the situation descended into even greater chaos.

Chi Yao tried to add more obstacles for them. There were too many people, and as he played, he gradually became serious.

On the other side of the river, the yellow-skinned alpha and his group couldn’t kill anyone and were constantly running into accidents. Their fighting style became more and more aggressive.

Chi Yao used a wall again to block an alpha who was charging at a player. The alpha suddenly became enraged, its canines growing sharp, its skin turning dark brown, and its nails growing long.

It threw away the military knife and wildly smashed its hands against the wall.

From the perspective of others, it looked like it was crazy, hitting the air in place.

Comment section—

“Damn! He transformed! So exciting!”

“Ahhh this feature is awesome! Did the players exchange points for this?”

“Attack and defense are enhanced by more than tenfold in an instant!”

“What kind of animal is that? A bull? A dog?”

“What kind of animal is that?” Jing Xi looked for a moment and couldn’t tell. “A chimera?”

A cat’s claws, an amphibian’s skin, a bird’s head.

Besides being ugly, it was just ugly.

“A defective product,” Chi Yao reluctantly explained. “Strictly speaking, it should be a semi-finished product that hasn’t been completely reformed yet.”

Jing Xi’s eyes narrowed slightly as he watched the eight alphas gradually exhibit varying degrees of beast transformation.

“They’re letting half-reformed beasts into the game for combat experiments, and the players are their prey?”

“You’re so smart.” Chi Yao laughed. “They don’t have to spend a lot of effort to conduct live-fire tests. They get test data, weed out the defective products, and make a fortune.”

Seeing the sarcastic smile on his face, Jing Xi’s eyes flashed, and a sentence slipped out.

“Then were you a prey or a hunter—?”