Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

Shen Yu sized up the figure of the mansion owner above him, his gaze lingering on the Qilin mask. After a short while, he asked, "When will you give me the antidote?"

“You will be poisoned every fifteen days, and I will send someone to deliver the antidote to you then. After you complete your mission, I will give you a cure.” The lord’s pupils were dark. After he finished speaking, he did not intend to waste any more words with Shen Yu and got up to walk into the inner room.

"You will stay here for a month. After you complete your training, Shadow will send you to the Yue Kingdom."

Shen Yu frowned upon hearing this. He watched the figure of the lord disappear behind the beaded curtain, and as he followed the shadow back, he secretly observed the surrounding environment.

The photography studio was essentially an assassin training base. Located in the far north, it was surrounded by cliffs. Apart from a hidden passage leading to the outside world, all other bridges and locks were cut off, making it a completely isolated building.

Shen Yu grasped the longsword thrown by the shadow, weighed it in his hand, and walked towards the mechanism passage.

He needs to adapt to this world quickly within this month.

*

The month of trying to survive was exceptionally busy for him. Shen Yu's inexplicable arrival in this world outside the rules caused his entire plan to be overturned.

Strangely, the system alarm did not sound.

Shen Yu did not reincarnate back into his zombie world, but instead came here. Logically, the system should automatically determine that the "survival mission" has failed.

But after surviving in this precarious situation, I checked my mission progress bar, which showed that Shen Yu's rebirth progress was normal, having completed 10%.

This was very strange. Trying to survive, it pondered this in secret, but couldn't figure it out. Then it secretly checked the coal ball's task progress bar.

Coal Ball is a system specifically designed to collect growth points, and its task progress bar has reached ten percent.

"Hmph." Knowing that it was Coal Ball who was behind this, it said irritably, "You still say it's not your fault? I don't have the ability to make people travel back and forth."

The coal ball rotated its body, and it had been surveying its surroundings for the past few days, and it was also somewhat puzzled.

[I've been to this world before.]

[This feels so familiar.]

"!" Gu Qie Cuosheng exclaimed in surprise, "You've been here before?"

[It seems so, but it's been too long, I can't remember clearly.]

The creature, barely clinging to life, spun around and asked, "Do you remember who your host was back then?"

The numerical values ​​on the coal ball bounced around, and after searching for a long time, the numbers on the data panel remained blank.

[I don't remember.]

"...Host, you don't remember anything?"

Coal Ball slung his data panel away in a huff.

[I was the top leader last quarter. Do you know what that means? I bound myself to 47,000 hosts and completed 42,000 tasks. And that's just the number of hosts I came into contact with in one quarter.]

To live a life of ignominy: "..."

How could I possibly remember all of them?

He quietly put away his data card, barely managing to survive.

It bound to 18 hosts and completed 2 tasks.

The two illustrious names, Pei Du and Adrian, are deeply etched in the database of those who barely survive. As for the other 16 unfortunate souls... those who barely survive will still be symbolically commemorated occasionally.

Having managed to survive, it didn't linger on the coal ball. Since its mission hadn't been deemed a failure so far, it would follow procedure to create a new survival guide for Shen Yu.

This world, which had never truly survived, wandered around for a month before finally tossing the two books to Shen Yu as time was about to end.

Shen Yu was somewhat confused: "What is this?"

"This is your guide to surviving, and also the voice of someone in this world. My abilities are limited, and this is all I can do to help you."

The two books had black and red covers, respectively. Shen Yu picked them up and asked, "Why are there two books? Are there two people?"

The creature, its body shimmering with purple light, paused for a moment, then re-examined itself before saying, "Hmm... no. I only drew from one person, and both books describe the same person."

Shen Yu flipped through a few pages of both books. The black book was written in an autobiographical style, while the red book was completely blank.

Shen Yu scanned the red book from beginning to end and confirmed that there was no content inside.

Clinging to life without understanding the situation, it scurried back to the corner where it slept and began a thorough examination of its body to see if any viruses had invaded.

Shen Yu: "..."

He temporarily ignored the red book and picked up the black book, flipping through a few pages. The black book contained very little content, only a dozen or so pages, and Shen Yu finished reading all the text in twenty minutes.

I'm a madman. When did I go mad? I don't know, probably a few years ago. Why did I go mad? Hmm...maybe because someone wanted to eat me. Lots of people—they all wanted to eat me.

After I went mad, I often looked into my eyes in the mirror. There was always a face reflected there, not my own, but someone else's ugly face. Sores, pus, disgusting… I gouged out my eyes; finally, I couldn't see him anymore.

"Who cut off my arm? The voice sounds familiar. I tilt my head back to listen carefully... Ah... it's my senior brother."

[I'm climbing up, I want to go back. Master... Master... I want to go back. Please come and get me, I can't climb over with one hand.]

I am a madman. May 23rd is the anniversary of my death.

Shen Yu: "..."

He read it again after finishing it, but still couldn't find anything useful.

While it was still undergoing testing, Shen Yu noticed the data on its body fluctuating constantly. In the end, he tidied up the two books and hid them in a corner.

A month passed in the blink of an eye. The photo studio was full of hidden dangers and traps. Shen Yu stayed inside for twenty-seven days and passed the three tests personally set by the studio owner at the end of the month.

All three matches featured top photographers from the studio. Shen Yu had no gun, and his swordsmanship, honed through intensive training, was inferior to these shadowy figures. However, Shen Yu's keen senses, developed in the apocalypse, were irreplaceable. Once he grasped a weakness, he could immediately turn the tide.

In mid-April, the host gave Shen Yu an antidote pill. The day after Shen Yu took it, he was arranged to enter the Yue Kingdom.

Currently, Shen Yu's world is divided between two powerful nations. The Yue Kingdom in the north is militarily strong and wealthy, controlling the current economic lifeline. Meanwhile, the Sheng Kingdom, located near the South China Sea, has a vast territory and many extraordinary individuals with unique skills.

The remaining small countries exist in dependence on the two kingdoms of Yue and Sheng, and a bipolar confrontation has already formed.

Shen Yu didn't care at all. He put the two round balls on his shoulders aside and carefully reviewed the clues about the Demon Queen Wen Yu from beginning to end on the way.

In the first few years after King Yue ascended the throne, he was diligent and ambitious, focusing on state affairs, and he and his then-empress lived in harmony. Unfortunately, fate was unkind, and the first empress passed away due to illness. King Yue then made Wen Yu his second empress.

Wen Yu was beautiful and charming, and her flattery bewitched the king. The King of Yue was so infatuated with her that he often missed court for days on end. The subsequent battles between Yue and Sheng all ended in disastrous defeats for Yue, forcing them to cede territory and pay reparations.

Later, a minister spoke frankly and remonstrated, denouncing Wen Yu as a wicked empress who brought disaster to the country and should be executed.

The King of Yue was furious and dismissed the minister from his post, exiling him to the frontier where he died of exhaustion on the way. The people of Yue were filled with dread and resentment towards Wen Yu for deceiving and flattering the king.

Shen Yu seemed to be deep in thought after reading it.

Previously at the photo studio, the poster mentioned that Shen Yu and Wen Yu looked almost identical. Isn't that the legendary face of a femme fatale who brought ruin to the country exactly like Shen Yu?

"Seductive manner..." Shen Yu narrowed his eyes. He wanted to see how Wen Yu would use his face to flirt and pose.