"...You're right, this place definitely can't be the real world."

Landy relaxed a little.

"So, do you still want to go home and take a look?"

Lin Ye asked, gazing at the buildings outside the window.

"...I want to go back and take a look."

Landy said stubbornly.

"Alright then."

Lin Ye stopped talking and focused on watching the scenery outside the window.

Those organization personnel drove close to them again. This time, Lin Ye didn't fire. What he needed to do was already done.

Landy parked the prison transport vehicle outside an apartment building. He didn't get out, just sat in the vehicle staring at a certain room on the third floor.

"Let's go. I don't want to go anymore."

Landy suddenly changed his mind.

"Oh? Really not going to take a look? That woman by the roadside seems to be looking at you. Could she be an acquaintance of yours?"

Lin Ye aimed his pistol at the woman who looked strikingly similar to the one in the photo with Landy.

"Bang!"

"What are you doing!"

Landy whipped his head around to look at Lin Ye, grabbing the pistol in Lin Ye's hand.

"I didn't fire. I wouldn't do something like that. You should go over and talk to her."

Lin Ye put down the pistol and gave Landy a push.

"...I understand."

Landy hesitated for a moment, but finally walked over to the woman's side.

This seemed to be a signal. All the organization personnel following behind drove over.

"Don't get in the way."

Lin Ye took out the Spiritual Energy Rifle he found on the Squad Leader. It contained one low-tier spiritual energy crystal. This was the first time he had come into contact with spiritual energy during this simulation mission.

The amount of spiritual energy inside a low-tier spiritual energy crystal was pitifully small, but for Lin Ye, this spiritual energy could be used to do many things.

A layer of spiritual energy shield appeared in front of Lin Ye. Bracing against the shield, he charged swiftly into the crowd. Wherever he passed, a storm of blood and gore ensued.

The blood around Lin Ye began to burn. Organization personnel close to him were mutated into deformed monsters one after another. These monsters began spreading outwards, attacking the organization personnel approaching the area.

'Damn, this is too tiring.'

Lin Ye originally intended to accumulate spiritual energy using Blood Burning, but discovered it was very difficult to control the energy generated by Blood Burning in an environment lacking spiritual energy. Most of the energy dissipated into the air.

If it weren't for those Mutation Creatures causing chaos, Lin Ye, having exhausted his spiritual energy, would already have been killed by the surrounding organization personnel.

"Bro, you've met who you needed to meet. Shouldn't we get the hell out of here?"

Lin Ye fought his way out of the crowd of organization personnel with great difficulty. He ran to Landy's side and shouted.

"Yeah, let's go."

Landy gave the woman one last reluctant look, then followed Lin Ye back into the prison transport vehicle.

Lin Ye tried to start the vehicle, but found it had malfunctioned and couldn't start at all.

Not just their vehicle, none of the vehicles driven by the organization personnel were intact either. No vehicles were parked by the roadside around the apartment building either.

"Alright, didn't think I'd have to use this move. Get on!"

Lin Ye had Landy stand on his back, then used the Sliding skill.

"What's going on? Where are we going?"

Landy was still immersed in a certain melancholic mood, but that melancholic atmosphere was completely shattered by Lin Ye's Sliding skill.

"We're going back. Do you want to go back? Or do you want to stay here, playing the organization version of GTA every day?"

Lin Ye increased his sliding speed, but those organization personnel were hot on their heels.

"Of course go back. My daughter is waiting for me at home. Everything here is fake."

Landy said earnestly.

"...What if you could turn this place into reality?"

Lin Ye didn't continue accelerating, as it was meaningless now.

"Turn it into reality? What do you mean?"

Landy asked, puzzled.

"Exactly what it sounds like. Do you want to live here, or return to the real world?"

Lin Ye weaved between vehicles. It was as if he knew the terrain here, heading towards a specific location.

"Of course go back. My daughter is waiting for me at home."

Landy didn't understand what Lin Ye was trying to say.

"...What if your daughter isn't over there?"

Lin Ye finally asked the question he shouldn't have asked.

Acting behind Landy's back might have made it easier to achieve his goal, but that wasn't Lin Ye's style.

Landy remained silent for a long time before speaking:

"Is this some kind of popular joke nowadays?"

"If you think it's a joke, then let it be a joke. Anyway, this isn't my business. I gave you a choice."

Lin Ye nonchalantly grabbed the calf of a passerby next to him, successfully ending his slide before the person hit the ground.

They stopped outside a small library. Next to the library was a neighborhood Lin Ye had seen before.

Not just the neighborhood and the library, Lin Ye could name every single area of this city. There were roughly over two hundred such areas.

"Please, come in. Inside is the passageway to leave this abnormal area and return to the real world. It's also the key to resolving this abnormal incident. If you truly wish to return, then please proceed."

Lin Ye leaned forward like an attendant, inviting Landy to enter the library.

"Really? That's great. I've wanted to go back for a long time. My daughter is waiting for me at home."

Landy showed a delighted expression, yet couldn't take a single step forward.

"Can't even fool yourself? You really are useless to a certain degree."

Lin Ye remarked with a disdainful expression.

He didn't continue urging Landy. Instead, he took out two cans of energy drink from his pocket and tossed one to Landy.

He had taken them from the Captain's corpse.

"Why is it cold? My daughter doesn't let me drink cold things."

Even as he said this, Landy still opened the energy drink and took a sip.

"Energy can heat objects, of course it can also cool them down. It's just slightly more difficult. For these two cans of energy drink, I almost got killed by those organization personnel just now."

Lin Ye took a small sip. He liked this liquid with a temperature close to zero degrees.

"...If we turn this place into reality, will it affect the Captain and the others?"

Landy hesitated for a while, but finally asked.

"Affect? What kind of good thing are you imagining? You still want to create two parallel worlds? Watched too many movies? If this place becomes real, your Captain and teammates will die. All those people I casually killed will become dead too. But that's not important. What's important is that your daughter will live. That's the most crucial thing."

Lin Ye said in a tone full of temptation.

"...Then I'll still go in."

Landy walked towards the library, but his movement speed was very slow, not much faster than a turtle.

"Are you going to abandon me again?"

A woman appeared behind Landy. The moment she spoke, she stopped Landy from moving forward any further.

Landy turned around, looking at the familiar face before him. He could only stand there, unable to advance or retreat.