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Chapter 58: The City Lord
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Translator's Note: From now on, melee worlds (aka worlds 2 and 3) will now be called chaos worlds to better fit what it means.

Since when did his little brother, Xing Shuo, slowly start to turn into numbers and data to Xing Ye?

Xing Ye thought he understood and spoiled his little brother, but in fact, all he knew about him relied entirely on data.

Xing Shuo got the top score in the entire city during college exams. He remembered the year and month he went to university, the university he went to, every exam's results, his performance on every course, his performance when he went abroad for an exchange study, the papers he wrote during his graduate studies- every number, Xing Ye knew by heart. On his birthday and holidays, he never forgot to ask his assistant to send Xing Shuo a gift.

Xing Ye always thought he cared about his little brother.

However, his care doesn't seem to be much different from how he would treat his company's clients.

Xing Ye fell silent for a moment before deciding to change the topic. He looked at Guan Ling, "Your abilities are very useful, so we'll accept you as a temporary teammate. As temporary teammates, I'll give you a word of warning: Don't believe in the familial love the system gives you."

Guan Ling grew nervous. Old Nect was his only family member. "You mean, Old Nect might be a player?"

"You can't have your own ideas if you aren't a player?" Xing Ye asked back. "You have to remember, you and Old Nect's familial love was assigned by Benedict. He created two completely different puppets and told them, you two are father and son, and should love each other. However, he also gave them human nature. There always might be misunderstandings between normal fathers and sons. How does Old Nect treat you? Would puppets be willing to recognize a family relationship forced upon them by somebody else without any blood ties?"

Guan Ling pondered.

Xing Ye spoke to both of them, "A principle of mine is to always think daringly and confirm cautiously. When analyzing things, you have to do your utmost to think of the possibilities from every viewpoint. However, you can't trust any of them easily. Eliminate the impossible hypotheses as you gradually find more clues, got it?"

Guan Ling was filled with respect.

He had a father puppet, so he didn't stay the night at Xing Ye's. The three agreed on the plan tomorrow before Guan Ling left Xing Ye's little warehouse to return home.

With Linda's cover, Cao Qian didn't have to return home these days. Furthermore, according to Xing Ye's analysis, there shouldn't be any players with high attack power around a player as leisurely as Linda. After all, she was lucky.

Cao Qian glanced at the little mirror peacefully leaning on the wall and was filled with doubts.

She believed Guan Ling was also suspicious and didn't quite believe that excuse about the mirror being foolish. Xing Ye trusted the mirror very much, even more than them.

Xing Ye also knew Guan Ling and Cao Qian wouldn't believe it. Fortunately, the little mirror could switch bodies in this world and wasn't confined to one object. This way, he was much safer.

This was also one of the reasons why Xing Ye let the mirror move as he wished.

Fortunately, Cao Qian wouldn't make any irresponsible remarks, so he could just leave it unexplained for now.

Puppets didn't need to sleep, but humans needed to rest their minds. The three leaned on the wall, relaxing with their eyes closed. Cao Qian suddenly asked, "The last world, we only had 200 points but we still managed to run into opponents like Di Kuang. This world, we have more than 10,000 points combined. What kind of people will we meet?"