Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

The wedding devil's laughter abruptly stopped.

Its thinking began to stiffen, and its movements became sluggish. Those once flexible porcelain joints were now like rusty screws, unable to turn.

puppet!!!

This human actually has two sparks! But these sparks should clearly be...

It suddenly raised its head, trying to break free from the puppet's control by self-harm, but Mu Yuan was already standing in front of it.

"The countdown begins," she said. "Thirty seconds."

The marriage demon struggled to move, to attack, to use the red thread, but every move was interrupted by Mu Yuan in time!

"Twenty seconds."

Mu Yuan's voice was as calm as announcing the time. Fear finally surfaced in the eyes of the marriage demon. It wanted to wake up the women lying on the ground to attack it, but before it could open its mouth, Mu Yuan covered it tightly!

Five seconds.

"Four."

"three."

"two."

"one."

The marriage demon has stopped.

All the struggle, all the fear, all the anger vanished, and it stood there, like a real porcelain statue, completely still.

Then, it raised its head and looked at Cheng Cheng. In its painted eyes, there was only an empty sense of obedience.

The demon of marriage has been successfully defeated!

"Unfairness plus a puppet, one for arena control and one for hard crowd control and finishing off, pure mechanics, no numerical values ​​whatsoever." Cheng Cheng stood up, dusted himself off, and walked over to it. "Add a helper to interrupt, and even a high-ranking demon can be killed by trickery... You think you can compete with me on the same stage?"

"Your Honor, can we change the verdict now?"

The judge's phantom remained silent for two seconds before the gavel fell.

"boom."

"Reversed judgment - the original divorce judgment is invalid, and the property shall be returned."

"The defendant is found guilty of 'marrying a demon' and 'gathering a crowd for sexual misconduct,' and is sentenced to—"

"death penalty!"

A massive guillotine formed, and as the head of the marriage demon fell, the fighting power that had just been deprived surged back into Cheng Cheng's body like a tidal wave.

Immediately afterwards, Mu Yuan stepped forward, plucked out the demon's fire seed, and tossed it to Cheng Cheng: "Same as always, I want the demon gene."

As she spoke, she stared at the porcelain statue, unable to hide her excitement: "This demon's abilities are a perfect match for fusion warriors! If we use it for research, we might be able to break through soon and create the eighth generation of fusion warriors!"

"Experience +1000"

"Obtain the Fire Seed: Get Married"

"Spark Marriage: It can sense and connect the 'lines of fate' between people, forcibly merging them. After merging, the consciousnesses of both parties coexist, and their combat power is evenly distributed. If the consciousnesses of both parties strongly oppose each other, it is judged that the marriage is doomed, and it can cause a lot of damage to the fused entity."

Cheng Cheng put away the embers, looked at the porcelain statue that had completely lost its life, and let out a long breath.

The stage was a complete mess.

The unconscious women lay sprawled out, some still convulsing, others awake, looking around blankly.

Suddenly, a loud "boom" came from the direction of the emergency exit.

The door was blown open.

Cain led a small squad in, fully armed and exuding a murderous aura—

Then they were stunned.

On the stage, Cheng Cheng stood there disheveled, Mu Yuan stood beside him, her clothes in disarray, taking pictures of the porcelain statue with her phone. On the ground lay more than a dozen unconscious, disheveled women.

Cain opened his mouth, and with difficulty squeezed out a few words:

"...Did they just have a party?"

…………

Five hours later.

Cheng Cheng sat in the taxi, leaning against the window, watching the street scene rushing past outside.

Today's blind date ended inconclusively.

When I got home, I opened the door and saw that the TV in the living room was on.

"...This afternoon, a fire broke out at the city's convention center. The scene of the matchmaking event was evacuated immediately, resulting in one death and eighteen injuries..."

In the footage, firefighters are extinguishing the last embers of the fire. A reporter stands outside the cordon, broadcasting a serious report to the camera. The mother, sitting on the sofa, turns around upon hearing the door open and asks, "Cheng Cheng is back?"

"Ah."

His mother looked at him, and suddenly her eyes lit up: "Hey, Cheng Cheng, do you want to go on a blind date?"

Cheng Cheng stopped in his tracks.

"You're not getting any younger, and you've been making so much money lately, it's time to find someone," her mother nagged. "Then you can use your earnings to open a herbal milk tea shop with your blind date, and you'll live a really comfortable life..."

Cheng Cheng: "..."

Cheng Cheng: "No, I never want to get married in my life, even if it kills me."

"Hey, how could you do this? You were always running around online, making me feel like I was flying in the sky and couldn't come down, and I didn't even look for you. Now you don't want to get married? Look how happy your dad and I have been after all these years of marriage..."

Indeed, thanks to your marriage, our family of extraordinary people was able to stay together instead of scattering into the sky. It's a contribution to society, after all.

Cheng Cheng didn't want to talk to her anymore. He went into the room, closed the door, and lay down on the bed without taking off his clothes.

These days, Cheng Cheng is constantly fighting demons in the game, and demons appear wherever he goes in reality. He's starting to wonder if he's turned into a Grim Reaper elementary school student. He's exhausted.

But when something like this happens, you have no choice but to fight—fortunately, fighting demons can drop Fire Seeds, which are quite profitable and can make up for the losses in battle.

Moreover, there are clearly many more demons in reality. If even the primordial demons from the game world descend upon Earth, and I haven't yet reached godhood in the game, then the entire Earth might be doomed.

From this perspective, taking the initiative to fight demons and thus befriend the Primal God Cult behind Mu Yuan is a win-win situation. It allows one to make money from Mu Yuan while also ensuring the safety of oneself and one's family. Why not?

"Forget it, let's leave it at that... Fortune favors the bold, and life and death hang by a thread!"

"Those beautiful endings are all earned through hard work!"

"Wait a minute? A narrow passage?"

Cheng Cheng couldn't resist taking out his phone, opening the browser, and typing "www._____.com".

…………

Cheng Cheng was knocked unconscious.

When I opened my eyes again, the sunlight had filled the entire room.

There are three messages on my phone:

"Mu Yuan: Call me back when you wake up."

"Mu Yuan: Before 10 o'clock"

Mu Yuan: Never mind, just come straight to the lab when you wake up.

"What's going on? Wasn't yesterday's business finished? The demon has been killed, and we still have to meet today?"

Didn't Mu Yuan say she was going to thoroughly research the genes of the marriage demon? How come she has time to come see me?

Cheng Cheng glanced at the time—10:40.

He replied "Coming right away," got up, washed up, changed his clothes, and went out to hail a taxi.

The taxi traveled along the overpass for forty minutes before finally stopping in front of the Victorian-style mansion. Cheng Cheng paid the fare, got out, and rang the doorbell.

The door opened.

Mu Yuan stood at the door, wearing a white lab coat, her hair casually tied in a ponytail, her expression not good—not angry, but more like she had stayed up all night playing PUBG and still hadn't gotten a chicken dinner.

When she saw Cheng Cheng, her eyes lit up for a moment, then quickly fell silent again: "Let's go in and talk."

Cheng Cheng: "???"

Wait, haven't I seen this episode before?

Chapter 38, The Witch's Night of Infinite Recursion

Cheng Cheng stood still, staring at Mu Yuan's face for three seconds.

"What are you standing there for?" Mu Yuan felt a little uncomfortable under his gaze. "Come in."

Cheng Cheng didn't say anything and followed them inside.

She walked through the hall, up to the second floor, down the antique-style corridor, and finally into the pure white laboratory. Mu Yuan sat down in front of a piece of equipment and pointed to the chair next to her:

"sit."

Cheng Cheng sat down, and Mu Yuan stared at him for three seconds before suddenly sighing.

"What's wrong?" Cheng Cheng asked.

"It's nothing." Mu Yuan rubbed her temples. "Our previous research on your genes failed, and I have a bit of a headache... Cain told you about what happened that day, right?"

Cheng Cheng: "..."

really.

It's not an illusion.

This conversation definitely happened yesterday.

He quickly went through it in his mind—from the moment she entered until now, Mu Yuan's expression, tone, every word she said, and even the way she rubbed her temples, were exactly the same as yesterday.

Did they call me here first thing in the morning just to play a prank?

"Don't tease your brother Cheng..."

Cheng Cheng stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence.

No, Mu Yuan shouldn't be that bored.