Quadruple split.

Chapter 2886 Two Sides of the Story
Game time 13:01 PM
Valhalla Ascension Fortress, Lower Level, Teleportation Hall

"Task progress 6%! Success rate 100%! Number of trials: three!"

A young elf girl wearing goggles suddenly looked up and exclaimed, "It's started! It's started! The testing progress of the [FS-G-Exoskeleton] is moving! Sniper Sister, it's moving!"

"I saw it!"

The dwarf girl, Mrs. Sniper, with her pigtails and disheveled appearance, suddenly raised her head and stared intently at the character panel in the center of her field of vision, excitedly shouting: "Mission progress 18%! Success rate 100%! Number of experiments: nine!"

"Mission progress 34%! Success rate 100%! Number of experiments: seventeen!"

Another lizardwoman with red scales clenched her fist and continued rapidly, "Mission progress 50%! Success rate... uh, 96.15%? Number of experiments, twenty-six, what's going on!?"

Mrs. Sniper waved her hand and said magnanimously, "It's just a failure, what else could it be? Don't worry about it, we'll just ask her what happened later."

“I’ve already asked.”

Just then, Ji Xiaoge suddenly flapped her wings and flew over from not far away, shrugging and saying, "A child didn't fasten the exoskeleton properly when putting it on, and as a result, the upper part of the exoskeleton flew off when he was halfway through the action, almost hitting a passing student. It's not a big problem."

Mrs. Sniper: "...Isn't it a big deal that you almost knocked a passing student flying?"

"With Mo here, I don't believe he would let anyone get hurt in this kind of accident."

Ji Xiaoge chuckled and replied, then changed the subject with a somewhat subtle expression, saying, "But he didn't tell me whether the student he rescued was male or female when he sent the message. I always felt it should be a young girl."

Mrs. Sniper blinked and hesitated, "Well... I think the odds are about 50/50, right? It's pretty normal for either men or women to be like that."

Ji Xiaoge shook her head decisively and said, "No, if it's Mo, I feel there's a higher chance the other person is a girl!"

Mrs. Sniper was immediately dumbfounded: "What kind of logic is that?"

"It probably means that Brother Mo is quite popular with women."

Yin Tian walked gracefully to the group and said in a light tone, "But there's nothing strange about that. After all, someone with such a good personality, if he's not faking it, he can't possibly not be liked by girls. No... even if he is faking it, someone who can fake it so well will definitely be liked by girls."

Ji Xiaoge pouted, flapping her wings as she emphasized earnestly, "Mo isn't faking it! He really is that good!"

"Ah."

Yin Tian nodded slightly and smiled gently, "I think so too, but that doesn't mean the students he saved were necessarily girls."

"Well……"

Ji Xiaoge pursed her lips, remained silent for a moment, then suddenly raised her head with a mournful face and said to Yin Tian with a resentful expression, "It is indeed a woman!"

Cloudy Day: "...You already asked?"

Ji Xiaoge: "I just asked!"

"OK then."

Yin Tian smiled and gently pinched Ji Xiaoge's face, which bore a striking resemblance to someone else's but which he would never touch casually. He chuckled and said, "But do you really think it's necessary for you to worry about Brother Mo getting involved with other women?"

The winged girl pouted and muttered under her breath, "Is it not allowed?"

"It's not that it's impossible, but even if you don't believe in Brother Mo's character, you should believe in your own charm."

Yin Tian gently tugged at the other person's cheek and said with a smile, "Although two people can get tired of each other after being together for a long time, no matter how good-looking or understanding the other person is, you two haven't even met in person outside the game, so that shouldn't happen, right?"

Ji Xiaoge looked at Yin Tian with some confusion: "We've been together for quite a while, what does that have to do with whether we've met in person outside the game?"

Yin Tian squinted, a slight smile playing on his lips, and leaned close to Ji Xiaoge's ear, laughing, "Are you sure your so-called 'being together' is the same as what I mean by 'being together'?"

"ah!"

Suddenly remembering something, the winged beauty gasped softly, then jumped back, her face flushed, and complained angrily, "Sister Yintian, you're bullying me!"

Cloudy shrugged innocently, not saying anything more about the words "together," but instead turned to Mrs. Sniper: "How is it?"

Mrs. Sniper, who had been intently watching the drama unfold, exclaimed, "Huh?"

"I said..."

Yin Tian rolled his eyes at the girl who had completely forgotten about the mission and asked irritably, "How's the testing progress of the [FS-G-Exoskeleton]?"

"Ah! Right! There was such a thing!"

Mrs. Sniper slapped her forehead hard, then glanced at the mission progress with unfocused eyes, exclaiming excitedly, "Completed! Mission progress 100%! Success rate 96.15%! Number of experiments: fifty-two!"

Yin Tian nodded in satisfaction and smiled at Ji Xiaoge, who had just recovered from her shyness, saying, "Your idea is really good."

"We have more ideas than just these."

Ji Xiaoge chuckled, then grabbed Yin Tian's arm from the side and walked towards the central control console with her, saying in a coquettish tone, "So, Sister Yin Tian, ​​you can stay! If it really doesn't work out, I'll personally... uh, never mind, but I can have Sister Jiu Chong contact Captain Baihua Sha and give you better benefits and compensation!"

Yin Tian shook her head, her expression still gentle, but her tone was exceptionally firm as she said, "I'm not someone who can be bought off with such small favors!"

"Waaah!"

Ji Xiaoge shook Yintian's arm pitifully, looking very aggrieved, and said, "What kind of benefits would it take for you to stay?"

"Let me think about it~"

Yin Tian stroked his chin, then clapped his hands lightly as if to say, "How about you give me Brother Mo? After all, he's warm and kind, which can just offset the negative energy of my game ID."

Ji Xiaoge thought for a moment, then took out a broken tea egg from her bag and said seriously, "When we rebuild a character, we can also give it a new name, right?"

"..."

Instinctively, he felt that the girl in front of him was joking, but he couldn't help but recall that not long ago, when Ji Xiaoge used a nuclear bomb to take Mu Xuejian down with her, he twitched the corner of his mouth and asked with a complicated expression, "Gezi, you're not serious, are you?"

"Pfft, that can't be it!"

Ji Xiaoge smiled sweetly, casually stuffed the tea egg back into her mouth, and cheerfully flapped her wings, saying, "I was just kidding!"

You don't sound like you're joking at all...

Thinking about the only match in the "Debate on Guilt" where neither side had even left with a speck of dust by the end, Yin Tian couldn't help but hug his shoulders and shiver, and made up his mind never to make such a joke again.

……

"—"

Meanwhile, somewhere on a quiet street in the Nightless District of the Free City, a slender girl with long, snow-white hair suddenly touched her nose and frowned, saying, "It itches."

The person accompanying him immediately turned around and asked humbly, "Are you feeling unwell?"

"nothing."

Mu Xuejian shook his head and casually asked the clown next to him, "This should be the place, right?"

"Yes."

Cole Shulen nodded slightly and said softly, "According to information from Boss Junwu, Sarah Erth, the third-ranking member of the Black Axe Brotherhood, who is extremely opposed to the [Cayworth Family] becoming the representative of East Street District 13, is here." Mu Xuejian followed Cole's gaze, then looked away from 29 Changming Street and said calmly, "Go and kill her. If you can't beat her, I'll take care of her."

"Yes."

Knowing full well that Mu Xuejian's training of him was still ongoing, and knowing even more clearly that he was far from being strong enough, Cole nodded slightly, then took a deep breath and entered a state of concealment.

Admittedly, this so-called 'concealment' was not only useless in Mu Xuejian's eyes, but was even more obvious than usual. However, because she did not understand the thief class, she did not say anything, but absentmindedly hugged her beloved sword [Frostless] and leaned against the wall.

Five seconds later, Cole silently pried open the lock on the door of No. 29 Changming Street.

Ten seconds later, Cole subtly drew his dagger.

Fifteen seconds later, Cole blended into the shadows and slipped into the house.

Twenty seconds later, Cole was sent flying backward and crashed into the wall.

Who are you?!

A disheveled but beautiful werewolf-orc woman strode out and delivered a powerful flying knee strike to Cole, who was almost embedded in the wall.

"..."

Cole remained silent, but struggled to break free, narrowly avoiding the woman's knee before spinning and swinging his blade towards the woman's side of the neck.

result--

With a 'clang', the boy's dagger was deflected by the seemingly fragile, slender neck, and his body leaned back uncontrollably, leaving him wide open.

"I know without even guessing, you're that dog of the Caworth family, aren't you?"

The woman named Sarah sneered, her outward-radiating energy receding back into itself, and she swung a heavy punch at Cole's chest: "Why didn't you call that 'Sword Tester' to kill me?"

"..."

Cole remained silent, only managing to parry the other man's fist with his dagger, taking several steps back to barely deflect the force.

So, Sarah pressed her advantage.

As a result, Cole suffered a series of defeats.

Both of them tacitly confined the battleground to the small open space in front of No. 29 Changming Street, clearly not intending to escalate the situation. However, when they attacked, neither of them held back, clearly neither intending to let the other survive.

Just then, a girl in a black dress suddenly appeared behind Mu Xuejian.

Unlike Korna's rather clumsy aura concealment in Mu Xuejian's eyes, the girl named Rona literally had no aura at all.

"Cole will lose?"

After observing for a few minutes, Lorna asked a question casually.

“I don’t mind if you help, but I don’t recommend it.”

Mu Xuejian maintained his cool and handsome demeanor, saying without turning his head, "I can ensure his safety."

"Oh."

Lorna nodded, then added, "That woman... was dressed very scantily."

"Clearly, the clown is not a gentleman."

Mu Xuejian said noncommittally, "But I also don't think he should knock on the door before going in to kill someone."

After a long silence, Lorna said succinctly, "Yes."

"But you still don't like it?"

Although not as obviously as with Futaba and Ivy, Mu Xuejian, who was secretly shipping the love triangle of [Clown], [Subjective], and [Puppet], raised an eyebrow slightly and asked, "Jealous?"

"That's a dead man, isn't it?"

Lorna calmly gazed at Sarah, who was wearing only a thin shirt with at least half of the buttons undone, and said expressionlessly, "Why would I be jealous of a dead person?"

Mu Xuejian suppressed the urge to click her tongue and asked again, "What about the living people?"

"do not know."

Lorna remained expressionless, keeping her eyes fixed on the increasingly disheveled Cole, and said, "I have no intention of becoming Cole's lover."

Mu Xuejian chuckled, "I didn't ask you that."

“I know you’re curious.”

Luo Na turned to look at Mu Xuejian and asked curiously, "Are you pretending to be cold-hearted?"

Mu Xuejian: "..."

I think so.

The lifeless girl looked at the breathing girl and said in a serious tone, "So you're not actually that cold-hearted?"

Outside of the game, Zhao Xue, though quiet, is also quite sunny and cheerful: "...You talk too much."

"Everyone has always said that I don't talk much."

Lorna looked back at Cole, who was now completely at a disadvantage and had at least seven or eight more injuries, and said softly, "In my memory, I used to talk a lot, but now I don't know why, I talk less."

Mu Xuejian shrugged, then dropped his cool persona and offered a not-so-obvious words of comfort: "I know you've been through some bad things, so it's normal for things to have changed."

"The gentleman said I am learning how to live."

Lorna subconsciously touched her perfectly intact eye, hidden behind the black veil: "I don't think this is easy."

Mu Xuejian paused for a moment, then said seriously, "Personally, I think we don't need to take Tan Mo's words to heart at all, really, and neither should Shuang Ye."

"I think I might have gotten used to...death?"

Rona stroked her eyes, which had once been pierced, and said in a calm tone, "This makes me a little sad."

"It will get better, yeah, I think it will."

Mu Xuejian awkwardly offered a word of comfort to Luo Na, then slowly drew [Frostless] from its sheath: "Wait a moment, I'll come back and talk to you after I've helped the Clown kill that woman."

Then, Sarah, who had cornered Cole and was about to smash his head to end the fight, spat out a mouthful of blood, staggered back a few steps, widened her eyes, tilted her head to the side, and died.

Lorna: "You're so fast, Ace of Spades."

Mu Xuejian, who had planned to strike at the last minute, said: "...You did this on purpose, didn't you?"

Chapter 2877: The End