I really can't control myself.

Chapter 4100 Cooperation
Upon hearing Takaoka Yūnori mention this, Shimizu Ritsu couldn't help but want to laugh.

He finally understood what Takaoka Yūnen meant by being so anxious all this time. No, just how afraid was this guy of his interrogation that he had to be this afraid?

However, Takaoka Yūnori's cowardly appearance did help calm his panic. In fact, seeing how anxious this guy was, he almost burst out laughing.

"Then tell me, how do you plan to change the future?" Shimizu Ritsu asked with a smile. "You said you would help us change the future, so if I don't hear any feasible solutions... then I'll have to be very polite."

As Shimizu Ritsu spoke, she waved her hand at the machine next to her.

Takaoka Yuzuri was genuinely frightened. After thinking for a moment, he quickly asked, "First, answer me one question: why do you want to create a cultivation technique? What kind of technique? A technique to deal with Linton?"

"You don't know?" Shimizu Ritsu asked.

“How would I know what your original plan was?” Takaoka Yūnori said. “Anyway, it just didn’t work. I know you’re not stupid, especially that guy named He Xin Changping, who seems pretty smart. Your plan probably wasn’t just to create a powerful technique to fight Linton, right? Everyone knows that’s impossible. It must be a rather special technique, right?”

“That’s right.” Shimizu Ritsu wasn’t so anxious anymore. She had been a little confused earlier, but she had calmed down again. So she walked over to Takaoka Yūnori, pulled up a chair and sat down. “Linton has instruments that can detect us system holders, you know that, right?”

"Yes." Takaoka Yūnori certainly knew, after all, he was a victim of this machine, and one of the first victims. If that machine hadn't been so effective, he wouldn't have been killed so many times by Linton.

“We never thought we could confront Linton head-on. We’re not that irrational,” Shimizu Ritsu said frankly.

"So... it's a kind of hidden technique?" Takaoka Yuzuri had already guessed this, anyway, in his opinion only a complete fool would think of going up against Linton.

"Do you know why that machine was able to detect us?" Shimizu Ritsu asked.

"Uh..." Takaoka Yūnori clearly knew nothing about this; he was completely clueless about research. He had been to that lab, and he had even blown it up in a simulation. But when asked about the underlying principles, he had no intention of finding out.

"Do you know about emotional energy?" Seeing that Takaoka Yusuke had no idea what was going on, Shimizu Ritsu explained the concept of emotional energy to him.

After listening, Takaoka Yūnori's emotions were quite complex. The reason was that these things overturned his image of the system.

If Shimizu Ritsu is telling the truth, then this system has been using them all along. And in his heart, although this system brought him a huge problem like Linton, it had ultimately changed his life.

Without this system, I would just be an ordinary thief, a nobody who would barely survive in this new era.

The system turned him into the phantom thief Yatagarasu, forcing him to perform phantom thieves time and time again, which he honestly quite enjoyed. Getting involved with Linton was indeed a big problem, but thanks to his efforts, the final outcome was relatively good. And this wasn't really the system's fault, right? He didn't even know the system had a separate entity. However, now Shimizu Ritsu is telling him that the system had been scheming against him from the very beginning. Giving them abilities was merely a means to have them absorb emotional energy, but Linton had his eye on this, and now the system dared not reclaim this energy for fear of revealing its location.

It's easy to imagine that without Linton's intervention, the system might have been even more unscrupulous, treating them like livestock. For example, assigning them more difficult tasks or taking a much larger cut. Clearly, what he initially thought was a gift from heaven was actually nothing good.

Knowing this made Takaoka Yūnori feel uneasy, indescribably uneasy. It felt like someone he trusted would never betray him had suddenly stabbed him in the back; it was a truly awful feeling.

However, he did believe what Shimizu Ritsu said, because when he thought about it carefully, the system made him become a phantom thief and made his brother Eizan Etsu become a business tycoon. Now that he thought about it, it seemed that they were both attracted to emotional energy.

Most importantly, if Shimizu Ritsu and his gang dared to go against Linton, what else wouldn't they dare to say?

"So do you understand? We want to try to create a technique to directly eliminate the emotional energy hidden by the system on our bodies." Shimizu Ritsu quickly finished explaining.

This time, Takaoka Yūnen fully understood and knew the true plan of these people, which was much more realistic than directly confronting Linton.

But being realistic isn't enough; the feasibility is still terribly low. At least for now, the idea of ​​creating a cultivation technique in just two days sounds like utter nonsense to him.

Although he didn't understand any creation techniques, he could tell at a glance that it was absurd. Besides, it wasn't just a matter of creating techniques; they themselves would have to learn them, and also be able to quickly refine all the emotional energy within them.

Speaking of this, this technique uses a completely new power system; it is not a technique related to spiritual power.

Even if they know about emotional energy, none of them can create cultivation techniques. Their choice is to kidnap someone from the Otherworld Department to create cultivation techniques, but this person is clearly not a system holder. He doesn't even know what emotional energy is. He has no understanding of it at all. Is it reliable to ask him to create cultivation techniques?

From this perspective, it's fair to say that Takaoka Yūnori genuinely felt the future remained bleak. A direct confrontation with Linton would be a certain death, and while the plan to create a new technique seemed to offer a glimmer of hope, it was far too idealistic; a miracle would be necessary.

"So, now that you know our plan, how do you intend to help us change the future? But you yourself said you have a way." Shimizu Ritsu said this, and stood up again, clearly walking towards the machine.

At this point, he had lost interest in torturing Takaoka Yūnō, but he did want to hear what methods he had and let him come up with whatever he could think of.

"No, no, no, let me think... Oh right, that high school student will be back soon. Shall we wait for him to come back and then discuss it together?" Takaoka Yūnori said quickly when he saw Shimizu Ritsu's actions.

(End of this chapter)