DSMC Chapter 187.1

“I fucking want to rush over and drag Kitty Baby back. He doesn’t know anything! Fucking garbage game, I’m so pissed off.”

“Exactly! I’m so angry. If anything happens to my darling sweetheart, I’ll never be able to watch his livestream again!”

“Although… I just saw another Kitty Baby. Was that a mirror image or a copy-pasted Kitty? What is this instance supposed to do?”

“Seems like both? Could it have even copied Kitty Baby’s ability to transform into a human? Can the copied Kitty Baby transform into a human too?”

“Probably not. Mimi spends points to transform into a human, so if the copy can’t spend points, it’d be easy to tell them apart.”

“Wait, I have a question. Is the reason Mimi entered this instance because his master is here too? I saw that Level 5 streamer big shot is about to die. He probably can’t hold on much longer! Did Mimi enter the instance to save his master? Even though this is such a critical moment, the master-pet relationship is seriously so good to ship! Slurrrrppp <3”

Yan Jiyun knew full well that chasing after a cat identical to himself was dangerous. But if he didn’t chase it, he wouldn’t know what was actually going on.

Qi Yunchu appearing completely unharmed had already made him suspicious, and then there was another black cat that looked exactly like him.

From the moment he landed, he had seen severed limbs and corpses everywhere. No matter how fierce or powerful the players who entered a Top-Level instance were, they couldn’t possibly be fighting nonstop from beginning to end, could they?

Unless they had a reason that made fighting unavoidable.

He had encountered a black cat identical to himself the moment he entered. Could it be that every player who entered this instance would be given someone identical to themselves?

If they entered as a team and someone replaced one of them, wouldn’t the entire team be thrown into chaos from the very beginning?

Would this little thing that looked exactly like him inherit his thoughts, abilities, and items?

Of course, he was anxious to find Qi Feng too. But if he went looking for someone without knowing anything about the instance, he might end up getting himself killed before he even found Qi Feng. At the very least, he needed to understand the general situation of the instance first. Otherwise, he wouldn’t even know how he died, let alone save anyone.

He hoped Qi Feng could hold on a little longer!

He had never imagined that one day he’d get to see his own clone.

Fortunately, he had entered in cat form. If he’d entered as a human, things would have been much more troublesome.

He would catch that fake black cat first. Then he would see exactly what abilities the black cat could inherit from him — or whether it was nothing more than an ordinary black cat.

The shopping mall floor was either tiled or wooden, making the sound of a cat’s paws running across it extremely easy to hear.

Yan Jiyun caught up without any effort.

He saw it dart into a lego store.

Xiao Hei slipped underneath a table, perfectly inheriting his habit of hiding in corners. His own first instinct would have been to crawl underneath and hide from people too.

If he were human, it might have been harder to find him.

But Xiao Hei seemed to have forgotten that it was merely a clone. It actually wanted to kill the original?

Yan Jiyun didn’t crawl underneath after it. Instead, he simply knocked over all the lego sets surrounding the outside.

A loud clattering filled the store, and the space underneath the table was completely exposed.

Xiao Hei’s entire body was revealed.

‘Did it really think being a black-cat player in an instance was that easy? Besides having agile movements, you needed to have some brains too.’

Xiao Hei prepared to run again, but Yan Jiyun was faster.

He sprang off with his hind legs and pounced directly onto the black cat whose every strand of fur looked exactly like his.

Xiao Hei weighed the same as Yan Jiyun, and naturally wasn’t lacking in agility either. When Yan Jiyun pounced, it twisted around and swiped at him with its claws.

Yan Jiyun didn’t just use his claws. He also bunny-kicked with his hind legs.

He showed absolutely no mercy, beating that black cat without holding back in the slightest.

The two black cats rolled around among a pile of lego bricks.

If someone had watched in slow motion, they would have seen that Yan Jiyun had Xiao Hei pinned down and beaten the entire time.

A pile of lego bricks mixed with a pile of black cat fur that had been knocked loose!

Yan Jiyun had the upper hand.

Toward the end of the beating, the fake black cat, Xiao Hei, backed away. It bared its teeth at Yan Jiyun, its tail drooping against the floor and its back arched.

Yan Jiyun calmly stared at it with his emerald-green eyes.

Xiao Hei had clearly been beaten badly enough to be afraid of him. It snarled and growled at Yan Jiyun, but didn’t dare charge forward and fight him head-on again!

Xiao Hei slowly began backing away.

It wanted to run, but Yan Jiyun was watching it so closely that it couldn’t escape. He could pounce on it at any moment.

By this point, Xiao Hei already bore the marks of Yan Jiyun’s beating.

It continued retreating.

It knew it couldn’t beat Yan Jiyun.

When you couldn’t win, you ran — that was Yan Jiyun’s creed. No one understood it better than he did.

But if he let Xiao Hei go now, who knew whether he’d be able to catch it again later?

Just before Xiao Hei was about to take off, Yan Jiyun pounced once more.

Before Xiao Hei could react, Yan Jiyun transformed into human form and pinned it firmly to the ground.

He tore an environmentally friendly shopping bag from the lego store’s shelves and stuffed Xiao Hei inside.

Xiao Hei thrashed wildly in the bag, but under Yan Jiyun’s restraint, it couldn’t move at all.

Yan Jiyun even found a pair of scissors in the front counter and cut five holes in the shopping bag.

Four holes were for Xiao Hei’s four legs, while the fifth was for its head.

This not only prevented Xiao Hei from escaping, but also allowed him to cut all of its claws.

Yes, he used a pair of scissors to cut all of Xiao Hei’s claws.

On the third floor of the shopping mall, besides the terrified screams of players who had gone insane, there was also the miserable shrieking of a black cat!

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“Hahahahahaha, fuck, we were worried for nothing. Looks like only a cat understands cats best. Who the fuck would have thought Kitty Baby would cut his clone’s claws? I’m dying. Isn’t this basically an instant way to tell which one is the real Kitty Baby?”

“Fuck, this is so exciting! Kitty Baby’s first-person perspective is insane! The fight was a blur, but somehow still completely organized! Kitty Baby is awesome!”

“Ahhhhhhh! Two black cats fighting! I can’t fucking tell which one is Mimi and which one is Mimi’s clone!”

“At first I was worried Kitty Baby would be at a disadvantage. I never expected this outcome. Hilarious. He immediately cut its claws and stuffed it into a bag. Only Kitty Baby could do something like that. He’s seriously ruthless even toward himself.”

“But doesn’t this prove that Mimi doesn’t take Xiao Hei seriously at all? Other players are terrified when facing their clones. When the clones have the advantage in every aspect, the players become even more panicked.”

“If the clones actually defeat the players, will they replace the players and leave the game?”

“No. If an NPC escaped, wouldn’t the game become the NPCs’ world? This is still an instance. At most, it would just become a no-survivor situation.”

“Then doesn’t that mean Mimi won’t be able to find a new human servant to provide him with food and drinks in this instance?”

“Good point, but why does Kitty need a servant? He has a master.”

“Isn’t his master about to die? He needs to find a replacement!”

“Ahhhhh! I want to be Mimi’s servant– no, slave!! Are there any NPC experience activities? I want to sign up!”

Yan Jiyun had chased after the black cat, of course, not because he was a cat with an insatiable feline curiosity.

He had to understand the situation first before he could figure out what kind of trouble Qi Feng was facing.

The most useful piece of information he’d obtained so far was that the game increased the difficulty of the instance by creating copies of the players.

The purpose of the clones must be to destroy the trust between players and their friends. At the same time, the players could also be silently killed by their clones, which appeared and disappeared like ghosts.

If Yan Jiyun hadn’t entered in cat form, he didn’t know how many detours he would have had to take.

There was one major question now.

Did the game only create one clone, or would it create countless ones?

If it only created one clone, that wouldn’t explain the severed limbs outside or the mountains of corpses throughout the shopping mall.

Perhaps most of the people who died were actually clones.

In other words, did players have to kill not only the monsters but also their clones before they could leave the game?

What a truly “sweet” Christmas.

Xiao Hei, temporarily under Yan Jiyun’s control, now hung its head.

After having its sharp claws clipped, it had completely lost the imposing momentum it had displayed earlier.

Qi Feng had never cut Yan Jiyun’s claws, and Yan Jiyun never scratched people for no reason either.

But he knew what his greatest advantage was.

Xiao Hei probably hadn’t expected him to suddenly transform back into a human halfway through the fight, pin it down, and confiscate its most important weapons.

He had never intended to tame some black cat that had appeared out of nowhere.

There were still sounds coming from the third floor of Building C, sounds of fists striking flesh in fierce combat.

Following the noise, Yan Jiyun continued forward and glanced at the sign above.

He was about to enter the area belonging to Building B.

There was a hollow bridge connecting the two buildings, and the fighting there was equally intense.

The floor, railings, and pillars of the bridge were covered in blood.

Some of the bloodstains had already turned black, while others were still fresh, slowly sliding down the walls drop by drop.

Yan Jiyun carried Xiao Hei and tiptoed across a patch of floor without any blood on it.

This was a large-scale massacre, wasn’t it?

He walked over to a corpse lying on the floor and pulled away the clothing covering the dead person’s body to examine his face.

The corpse’s expression was one of terror, but his face itself wasn’t damaged, making his features easy to identify.

Yan Jiyun hugged the Xiao Hei cat in his arms, separated from him by the environmentally friendly shopping bag.

“How scary.”

He remembered this face.

Before Qi Feng entered the game, he’d seen this face flash before him.

Wasn’t this Xu Xian, the guy who had screwed Qi Feng over?

Was the person lying on the floor the real one or the clone?

The dead man had been killed in a single fatal strike, his throat slashed.

It probably wasn’t the real Xu Xian.