Four Split Personalities

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At the same time

In a courier company’s B3F meeting room in De Xing District, City B

"Wutong Jam, you’re looking particularly pale today."

Gu Yan Yue blinked and curiously asked the man opposite her, who was reclined in his chair like a dehydrated salted fish, "Is it because Xiaoge made you some of her delicious cooking again?"

The petite woman sitting next to ’Wutong Jam’ immediately shook her head and said with a gentle smile, "Not me. Xiaoge prepared last night’s dinner."

Next to Gu Yan Yue, the cool-looking handsome guy... who is Yi Nan, Yi Dong’s father, sighed and glanced at the woman they called ’Xiaoge’: "Of all things to take after you, why did the kid have to pick up cooking?"

"Um..."

Xiaoge shrank her neck, whispering, "You can’t just crush a child’s hobbies."

On the other side of the table, the silver-haired Zhengtai, who appeared to be in his teens, snorted coldly, "If Wanyang also had this hobby and could cook like Ye Xi’s daughter..."

"Send him back for a redo."

The red-haired beauty sitting cross-legged nonchalantly followed up without even lifting her eyelids.

The black-haired beauty sitting close to Ye Xi nudged the elite-looking man in a suit beside her, whispering, "Luckily our Lan Lan is relatively normal."

"Heh... hehe..."

He chuckled dryly without mentioning how their child always managed to benefit from his ’sixth sense’ and avoid misfortunes.

"Alright, enough of that!"

The man known as Wutong Jam, who was reclined like a salted fish in his chair and addressed by Gu Yan Yue, struggled to sit upright, his face ashen as he grunted, "Stop harping on about children, let’s talk business!"

Everyone showed some respect and fell silent, quietly playing on their phones, reading magazines, gaming, listening to music, hot potting...

"Damn pig, if you keep eating, I’ll boil you alive!"

Ji Wutong, the father of Ji Xiaoge and Ji Xiaodao, who had spent all of last night vomiting in the restroom from food poisoning, ferociously threatened the chubby man in the corner, who he estimated to weigh over three hundred pounds, "I mean what I say!"

Then, the fatty sadly extinguished his stove, dejectedly walked back to the table, and after collapsing a chair, pulled out an extraordinary stool from who knows where and huddled there pitifully.

"Good, that’s more like it. Now, everyone listen up... damn it, Kang Xiaofeng put down that game console, Liu Li put away the magazine, Cui Fan stop looking at Playboy, Qian Han take off your earphones, Yi Nan stop playing with virtual paper dolls—your wife is right beside you, and my dear, send a message to check what the girls are up to and tell Xiao Island that dad is okay."

Ji Wutong forcefully slapped the table, finally bringing the rowdy crowd to a momentary peace, then cleared his throat and said seriously, "First of all, the first matter..."

Everyone shifted their attention to him.

"Our two daughters are the best! No objections allowed!"

Yi Nan immediately drew his knife out.

"Cough, cough, just livening up the mood."

Ji Wutong chuckled awkwardly and shrugged, "I have a piece of bad news and an even worse piece of news, which would you like to hear first?"

"The worse one."

The little girl in a white dress spoke without hesitation.

"Alright."

Ji Wutong, without missing a beat, spread his hands, "Two days ago, The Realm of Innocence finally went completely out of control. Sang has entirely lost system control privileges; simply put, we are no longer able to observe that world from God’s Eye View."

A tall, elegant beauty wearing bright red headphones frowned, "So, Boss Du’s prediction was right after all. Although we can’t observe from God’s Eye View, what about a gamer’s perspective? Can we go in?"

"No."

The chubby man sitting on the stool shook his head decisively, "Don’t forget, we’ve had the most dealings with ’Karma’ back in the day. Although ’Karma’ has mostly disappeared, the ’Consequences’ we still carry are not few. Since that world’s system was initially built around ’Karma’, if we go in, we’re likely to be targeted to a relentless extent—getting struck by lightning as soon as we enter is entirely possible... Hm, Liu Li, what did you want to say?"

With a pair of beautiful ice-blue eyes, the black-haired woman named Liu Li blinked and hesitated, "I just think being struck by lightning shouldn’t be that big a deal. According to your system rules, given our abilities, our ’Talents’ in The Realm of Innocence should be quite strong, so what if we’re struck by lightning?"

"No."

"No."

Kang Xiaofeng and Ji Wutong simultaneously objected.

Liu Li turned to her husband, "Why not?"

"I have no idea."

He grinned sheepishly and said, "I just knew Ji would say that."

"You really are cunning."

Ji Wutong gave him a not-so-pleasant look and shook his head, "Liu’s guess just now does have some merit, but we can’t do that, and the reason is simple. With ’Talents’ like ours, we’d likely crash the system, or force it to rapidly evolve into actual ’Karma’ rather than its current fragmented state, so this option has been off the table from the start."