"Yes. If we find that one person is missing, that means... one of us has died."
Those words made Woman's heart skip a beat.
Ye Qian felt the pressure as well.
This wasn't as simple as reading novels or watching TV dramas. People could really die.
"But you don't need to worry too much. Newcomer missions usually won't be especially difficult. What you need to do is seize every opportunity to improve yourselves. As long as you improve enough, surviving won't be too difficult."
After he finished speaking, the countdown was already nearing two minutes.
Ye Qian silently sat to the side and checked her Life Energy reserves.
38 points.
"That should be enough."
Once the Proliferation was complete, her main body would still be weak, but not nearly as badly as she had initially expected.
The timer finally reached zero.
"Time's up. Goodbye, everyone." Woman waved her hand.
"Mm." Ye Qian responded.
The countdown hit zero.
The next second, a familiar dizziness washed over her. Everything before her eyes changed again, quickly returning to its familiar appearance.
She was standing where she had been before entering the Main World.
Her home was only a few dozen meters away, with a supermarket in the distance.
"Ugh."
Looking down at her filthy dress and socks, Ye Qian gave up on the idea of going to the supermarket for ingredients and turned to run home instead.
After all, she looked a little too terrible right now.
As soon as she entered, her phone screen suddenly lit up.
When she opened it, she found a group chat invitation. Without thinking much about it, she accepted.
After entering the group, she saw three people inside.
The group owner, Lovely Wolf, spoke first. "My name is Chen Ning. You can just call me Little Chen—the guy from before."
Lan Xinyu: "Lan Xinyu. My nickname is my real name."
Lord Four Seasons: "Ye Qian."
Lovely Wolf: "OK, change your notes. Also, are you both from Haikong City? Generally speaking, people assigned to the same team are probably living fairly close to one another."
Lan Xinyu: "Yes, my home is in Haikong City."
Lord Four Seasons: "+1"
Lovely Wolf: "Very good. We can meet up in real life if we get the chance."
"Meet in real life?"
Seeing that the chat had temporarily stopped, Ye Qian put down her phone and turned her attention back to reality.
"Personal interface." She tried muttering it silently.
Ding!
Name: Ye Qian LV: 4 Experience: 38/50 Attributes: Strength 1.6, Constitution 1.5, Agility 1.4, Spirit 1.7, Intelligence 1.5, Resistance 0.6 Skills: None Money Held: 1 Silver Coin, 41 Copper Coins Items: None
"As expected, all the power gained in the Main World came back with me."
She took a deep breath, tightly shut the front door, and drew the curtains. Then she took off her filthy clothes, intending to shower first.
Walking into the bathroom, Ye Qian looked at the heart-flutteringly adorable girl in the mirror. Her face reddened slightly as she gave a soft cough and told herself not to think nonsense.
She had already transformed several months ago, yet she still felt something for herself.
"Phew, but she really feels nice. She looks so petite, but she's soft and squishy when squeezed." A wicked look appeared in her eyes.
"Cough, cough."
After silently taking a shower and drying herself off, she went to her room and put on her underwear. After hesitating for a while, she took out a new outfit from the wardrobe.
A white top, a light blue skirt, and pristine white stockings.
Looking at herself in the mirror, she swallowed and deliberately stepped to the side, extending her right hand.
"Begin Proliferation."
The ability activated.
Visible to the naked eye, flesh began to surge over her hand.
Very quickly, the flesh peeled away and slowly began to gather on the floor.
Proliferating... Body separation complete. Quality: White Initial LV: 1 Beneficial mutation. Talent ability acquired: Spirit Thread (Green)
Before long, a beautiful young girl stood before her. Her looks were barely inferior to the main body's, but her temperament was more mature.
In an instant, Ye Qian felt as though her consciousness had split into two.
Her fields of vision overlapped for a moment.
The images from both sides gradually separated, and she realized that she had gained another body.
From one viewpoint, she saw an adorable long-haired girl.
She was petite, around fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a snow-white top and a light blue short skirt with a strong JK-style feel.
Her little feet, wrapped in white stockings, looked tender and adorable for some reason. Her entire body exuded fragility and weakness, making her secretly swallow.
Without a doubt, this was how the main body looked through the clone's eyes.
Beautiful and adorable.
From the main body's perspective, meanwhile, she saw the clone created through Proliferation.
Her long black hair carried a faint hint of red.
She was not as petite as the main body. She was about 1.65 meters tall, with a well-proportioned and curvaceous figure.
Dropped into any school, she would be a textbook school beauty.
Seeing this, Ye Qian's main body took a deep breath.
"It really... worked."
Proliferation.
She had split into two people, like some kind of strange creature.
Her head felt a little dizzy.
After thinking for a moment, she decided to dress the clone.
She put on a black zip-up top.
For her lower half, she wore a black short skirt paired with black pantyhose. With both hands tucked into her pockets, she gave off a strong sense of youthful feminine energy.
"Pretty."
But...
By now, she could clearly feel the main body's weakness. Her face was also extremely pale.
Checking the attribute panel, she found that a negative effect had been added, and it would last for three days.
"Phew, looks like the main body needs to recuperate."
Ye Qian's main body weakly sat down on the bed, kicked off her slippers, and crossed her legs. Somewhat awkwardly, she glanced at her Proliferated body.
How should she put it? They were obviously both her, yet it felt like she was facing someone else.
She was a little embarrassed.
But she had to admit that it was really great.
"And my main body is so cute too. She's practically my dream girl."
With a hint of experimentation, Ye Qian controlled the clone to lower her head and give her a little kiss on the cheek.
Biu~
"Cough, cough."
Her old male sense of aesthetics was clearly still at work.
Shaking off those random thoughts, she briefly checked the new body's interface.
Body: Unnamed LV: 1 Experience: 0/10 Attributes: Strength 0.5, Constitution 0.6, Agility 0.4, Spirit 0.5, Intelligence 0.5, Resistance 0.2 Skills: None Talent Ability: Spirit Thread (Green)
Every attribute was lower than the LV1 main body's.
38 points of Life Energy was clearly far from enough.
Fortunately, this body was not entirely useless.
The talent Spirit Thread could condense her spiritual power into threads invisible to the naked eye, extending them outside the body to sense the surrounding situation.
In theory, once her Spirit reached a certain level, the threads could condense into physical form and cut opponents on a physical level.
This ability could also pass through objects, ignoring anything from metal to living bodies. It was absurdly powerful.
"A white-quality body mutated a green talent. That feels like a pretty good deal." Ye Qian nodded in satisfaction.
She needed to give this new body a name. It would be... Ye Xin.
In fact, it would have been fine not to name her. A name was just useful for communicating with others.
Black-Robed Man
From this moment onward, Ye Qian had entered the two-body mode.
Since her main body was in poor condition, she had no choice but to let the clone take care of her, such as having Ye Xin feed her or give her a massage.
"This is truly a heavenly life."
Lying against the headboard with her mouth open, Ye Qian took a bite of cake and silently thought to herself.
Of course, her body was not completely unable to move. She was simply a little weak.
Even if she had Life Energy within the next three days, she definitely could not carry out any further Proliferation.
It would absolutely break her, okay?
"Let's rest today. Come to think of it, there won't suddenly be some mission during this time, right?"
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