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Chapter 195 Ye Changtian's True Identity
After sending the location address, Ji Yi felt completely dazed.

Miss Xie is looking for him? Tonight?

Although he even considered the possibility that Xie Jiayi had been kidnapped at first, the other side of the screen was actually a kidnapper trying to extract information, so this possibility was obviously very small.

"Shouldn't we prepare some condoms?"

He got up and went back to his room, where he found a box containing square items that Xie Jiayi had returned.

"Wait, what am I thinking? Will this thing even be useful? But it seems reasonable that a man and a woman alone together in the middle of the night might have something happen."

Thinking it over, he took one out and put it in his pocket. This time he was smarter; keeping the whole box in his pocket would easily leave marks, so taking one out would prevent it from being discovered beforehand.

Soon, it was evening.

An unfamiliar car pulled up in front of Ji Yi's villa.

When Xie Jiayi got out of the car fully disguised, covered by a mask, sunglasses, and hat, Ji Yi almost didn't recognize her at first.

"What kind of look is that? I'll be safer this way."

Hsieh Chia-yi took off her sunglasses and said calmly.

"Don't worry, I scouted the area along the way. No one was following us. It's strange, but it seems like the Headhunter Alliance isn't very interested in the places you've stayed."

Ji Yi nodded: "Yes, your feeling is right. Miss Xie is very smart, and Miss Cat is also very capable. I feel that you two can be good friends."

Xie Jiayi didn't reply. After getting out of the car, she went straight to the sofa in the lobby and sat down.

"I'm looking for Mr. Ji to ask him some more questions about the game in person. Is that alright?"

Ji Yi: "Huh? That's all we talked about?"

Hsieh Chia-yi: "? Otherwise?"

Ji Yi: "It's alright, it's alright, of course I won't bother you. I was just about to tell you about the strange things that have happened these past few days."

Soon, Ji Yi recounted more details about the Gods' Game, including turning someone from the Headhunter Alliance into a Faceless One, and the matter of Ye Changtian.

Hsieh Chia-yi looked thoughtful:
"I understand. I think your cat lady should be able to analyze more valuable information. I wasn't directly involved in many things, so I can't offer any valuable speculations or conjectures."

"Hmm, that makes sense. She and I have run dungeons the most, so they should have different ideas."

After nodding, Ji Yi took out her phone from her pocket: "I'll give her a WeChat call and ask."

For some reason, Xie Jiayi panicked and said, "Wait a minute."

Ji Yi looked up: "What's wrong?"

"Mr. Ji, are you hungry? I hadn't eaten when I arrived."

Hsieh Chia-yi seemed quite ashamed of saying these things.

"Could you treat me to a meal first?"

Upon hearing this, Ji Yi's eyes seemed to light up: "Great! I'll have Xiao Qin bring the food right away."

This is the brief peace and small joys he wanted.

Although there hasn't been any real progress with Miss Xie yet, she took the initiative to visit in the evening, and it might be inconvenient for them to go back at night, especially since it's just the two of them in the villa.
Lost in thought, Xiaoqin rushed in from outside, pushing a dining table.

Ji Yi and Miss Cat were already sitting opposite each other at the small round table, where red candles were lit, illuminating their faces.

Their expressions were all different, and neither of them could read what the other was thinking.

"Mr. Ji, please enjoy your Western meal."

Xiaoqin pushed the cart to the two-person table and placed the dishes on it one by one. At the same time, her eyes would occasionally steal glances at Xie Jiayi, and her gaze seemed to be measuring the size of something.

"The thing Mr. Ji stole must have been hers, right?"

She looks even more beautiful in person than in the video. No wonder Ji Yi is so infatuated with her that she wouldn't even accept her advances.

With these thoughts in mind, Xiaoqin quietly placed the dishes on the table one by one.

"Your name is Xiaoqin, right?"

Xie Jiayi glanced at her indifferently.

Xiaoqin paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, is there anything else you need?"

"It's nothing," Xie Jiayi smiled slightly. "You're quite pretty."

"Thanks."

"However, I don't really like these underhanded tactics of your boss, Mr. Gu. They make me feel uncomfortable. So, from now on, just do your job well, understand?"

Xie Jiayi's gaze was gentle, and her tone of voice was very pleasant, but her words were completely different, giving Xiaoqin a slightly uneasy feeling.

"I understand."

Xiaoqin lowered her head and said this, then pushed the cart and walked away quickly.

"Wait a moment."

Ji Yi suddenly called out to her, "We can clean up the dishes tomorrow. I don't want to be disturbed tonight, so please don't come in unless it's absolutely necessary."

Xiaoqin nodded knowingly, and with a hint of melancholy and a touch of ambivalent curiosity, she pushed the dining table and quickly left.

"I never expected Miss Xie to have this side to her. How did you know about Xiaoqin?"

"There's a hair on your collar," Xie Jiayi said casually.

"Huh?" Ji Yi looked down and pulled his collar outwards, and sure enough, there was a long hair that didn't belong to him stuck to it. "No, I didn't have anything to do with her."

“I know. Didn’t Mr. Ji say in the dungeon that you did nothing and are completely innocent? Of course I believe Mr. Ji.”

Xie Jiayi said, using a knife and fork to start cutting the steak in front of her: "Or does Mr. Ji think I'm a petty and unreasonable woman?"

'Aren't all women like that?'

Recalling Xie Jiayi and Miss Cat's petty arguing over certain things, Ji Yi realized that women's tempers were surprisingly similar.

Ji Yi shook her head calmly, rejecting Xie Jiayi's question.

His long-term honing of acting skills allows him to remain calm and composed when faced with any question about death.

Hsieh Chia-yi smiled gently, and the two began their candlelight dinner together.

It was just an ordinary meal, but in Ji Yi's eyes it was very different. The ambiguous atmosphere seemed to be heating up, and Ji Yi's gaze no longer concealed its passion.

Hsieh Chia-yi looked a little lost, but she didn't seem too resistant.

Just when Ji Yi thought that their relationship might make a breakthrough tonight.

"Boom boom boom!"

The villa gate was knocked on loudly.

Ji Yi's expression instantly turned displeased. He looked at the door, but before he could say anything, the door was kicked open with a bang.

The driver, looking utterly astonished, shouted at Ji Yi:

"Oh no! Ye Changtian has escaped!"

"what?!"

Upon hearing this, Ji Yi slammed his fist on the table and stood up!

"Damn it! What the hell are you guys doing?"

The delightful candlelight dinner came to an end.

Ji Yi had intended to take Miss Xie to Gu Hong's room to find out what had happened, but she coldly said, "I have no interest in these matters, Mr. Ji. You can continue with your work later."

Then she drove away from the villa.

"Damn it, this is a real pain, it's ruined my plans."

Ji Yi hurried to Gu Hong's residence and saw that he had just returned and was busy finding out what had happened, so she was not in a hurry. Instead, she made a phone call to Miss Cat.

"beep"

The call was answered after only one ring.

"Hello? Miss Cat?"

The other party's microphone was off, and they only sent a brief message: "What's up?"

Ji Yi was somewhat used to Miss Cat's behavior, so she got straight to the point, recounting Ye Changtian's situation and also talking about the Faceless Ones of the Headhunter Alliance.

After listening patiently, Miss Cat sent another message:
"I have some ideas, I'll send them to you later. You go and deal with Ye Changtian's escape first. That's all, bye."

As if unwilling to spend even a second longer on the phone, Miss Cat hung up decisively.

Meanwhile, Gu Hong had finished his work and looked at Ji Yi with a heavy expression.

"Come and sit."

He waved his hand, and for the first time, a hint of fatigue appeared on his usually resolute and composed face.

"I think you need to rest."

Ji Yi sat down next to Gu Hong, but instead of rushing to talk about Ye Changtian, she did not.

“Perhaps I should listen to you and feed him paraquat,” Gu Hong said, frowning.

Upon hearing this, Ji Yi shook his head: "There is no need for that. It should be the same for both you and him."

Ji Yi had already guessed how Ye Changtian had escaped:

"He tricked your guards and then took the opportunity to escape into the game. And I think he may not intend to return to real life and will hide in the game space forever."

Upon hearing this, Gu Hong's eyes first showed a hint of surprise, and then quickly revealed confusion and bewilderment.

Ji Yi gleaned a great deal of information from Gu Hong's expression.

"Do you really think it's impossible for Ye Changtian to completely let go of his family and friends in real life and live a lonely and miserable life in the game forever? Yeah, I fucking think it's impossible too!"

Ji Yi suddenly slammed his fist on the table in excitement.

"He's just a little kid! He has family and friends. He even wanted to kill you to pay off his family's debts. How could someone like that be willing to abandon everything and become a 'digital life'?"

At this point, Ji Yi's eyes suddenly narrowed:
"But that's just how I see it. You think it's bizarre, and I think it's bizarre too!"

At this moment, Ji Yi finally expressed the frustration and unease in his heart.

At this moment, Gu Hong suddenly spoke up: "No, he also has his reasons."

His face grew even more somber: "I don't know how he found out, but he already knows he's going to die. We must kill him."

"Ye Changtian, having nowhere else to turn, could only escape into the Superdimensional Game. He was forced into this situation by you and me. With his intelligence, he might really pose a threat to us in the future."

At this point, Gu Hong sighed with emotion:
"Is it some kind of fatalism? You sensed he would pose a threat, so we decided to eliminate the threat, which ironically drove him to his death, preventing him from reuniting with his family, and that led to the aftermath."

"You're talking nonsense! Do you think this is a novel?!" Ji Yi said, momentarily losing her composure.

"Are they treating him like the male protagonist of a fantasy novel, and we're the villains from a powerful sect targeting him? Don't be ridiculous, I'm going to find out what's wrong with him!"

After speaking, Ji Yi calmed down a little:

"Tell me the details of what happened."

Ye Changtian greedily inhaled the air.

This is the space for hyperdimensional games, where the activity area is extremely limited, with a total area of ​​only about three square meters, so small that you can't even stretch out while lying down.

Generally speaking, most players will only stay here to browse the game store, forums, contact friends, and so on.

But Ye Changtian didn't want to do anything; he just wanted to catch his breath for a moment.

"Hey you who hit me, what did I do to you? Are you trying to drive me to my death?"

He was clearly willing to cooperate and accept being recruited, so why did that person not only beat him up upon meeting him, but also instigate everyone to kill him?!

If Ye Changtian hadn't been quick-witted, he probably wouldn't even have been left with a corpse a few days later!
"They've left me unable to go home, pushing me to the brink of despair!"

Being a young man, Ye Changtian's eyes were filled with pure hatred.

"I will definitely kill you!"

When Ji Yi returned to his room to rest, he was still replaying Gu Hong's account of what had happened in his mind.

"No matter how you look at it, Ye Changtian is a person full of contradictions."

Lying in bed, Ji Yi stared at the large chandelier on the ceiling and murmured to herself.

"Judging from his experiences during his student days and the accounts of outsiders, from the moment he plotted to kill Gu Hong, some of his actions were completely inconsistent with his expected personality."

It's not that there's anything unreasonable about "killing the lone goose to collect the reward to help his family" or "not sitting idly by and waiting to die, but choosing to escape into the game world forever".

On the contrary, these things are logically sound and well-founded from anyone's perspective, and there is nothing difficult to understand about them.

But Ji Yi always had a strange sense of contradiction. She felt that when faced with the same situation, Ye Changtian's personality in the eyes of others would lead to completely different actions.

Or perhaps Ye Changtian harbors a "wild beast that no one has discovered" deep within his heart.

Either Ye Changtian isn't Ye Changtian, but another soul possessing Ye Changtian's memories.

Thinking of this, Ji Yi felt a strange chill run down her spine.

At that moment, he suddenly remembered that Miss Cat had said she would analyze it for him.

I picked up my phone and sure enough, there were a lot of unread messages.

Click to open.

[AAA Brand Design]: "Regarding the Lakeside Cottage instance, I wouldn't be playing any Ace Love game with Mr. Giba for no reason, so we must be putting on a show for some 'fifth person'."

Ji Yi: 'Hard to say.'

"I recalled the details of our dungeon run, and the specific reasons why I went to run the Magic Tower dungeon afterward."

Knowing that there is a "non-existent person," anyone with a modicum of intelligence would be able to detect the contradictions in her memories by working backwards. This is even more obvious to Miss Cat.

This demonstrates the importance of information asymmetry. If no one knows about the "Faceless Man's Mask," who would easily doubt their own memories?

In short, Miss Cat's analysis was quite lengthy.

This also includes some details and feelings of Ji Yi when she briefly lost her identity at the "Midnight Convenience Store".

Soon, after listing all the illogical points in her memory, Miss Cat came to a startling conclusion:

"That guy who became the Faceless One was actually a second-tier job advancement for the [Trickster] class; he might be a [Deceitful Master], or a [Liar], etc."

"What I suspect now is that the real him may not have become the Faceless Man, but rather he deceived everyone—including himself—with an amazing deception before you even met him."

"So, setting aside all the impossibilities, let's make a bold assumption."

"Before becoming a Faceless One, that person had already completed a complete identity swap with someone else."

"For example, Ye Changtian, whom you've always inexplicably disliked."

(End of this chapter)