Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

The creature, speaking in an unfriendly tone, said, "It's not clear yet, but it's probably true. I fought it once before, and... it didn't seem to be mentally stable either."

Shen Yisui frowned: "...Also?"

This sentence inexplicably reminded Gouqietousheng of the brainstem deficiency systems he had encountered before. It sighed and said, "You don't need to know that much right now. Anyway, the brains of these systems aren't very good. After all, they are systems."

Shen Yisui: "..."

"So what do we do now?" Shen Yi asked. "We just moved to a new place and can't find a new one in a short time."

"Let's hold our positions for now." Gouqietousheng patted its round, spherical body and confidently instructed Shen Yisui, "If the enemy doesn't move, we don't move. If the enemy moves, we run."

Shen Yisui: "..."

"I've already devised a detailed strategy on the way here, I'll tell you about it when we go to sleep tonight. Your immediate priority is to understand that book, the person mentioned in it could very well cause your second death..."

The man, barely clinging to life, kept rambling on in the air. Shen Yisui listened for half of it and said helplessly, "I forgot that book where it was. I probably can't find it."

"It's alright, I took it with me before I left." Gouqie said, pulling the unsealed book from his system library and tossing it to Shen Yisui from above. "Even if you throw it away, I have a backup."

Shen Yisui: "..."

He sensed the book falling and reached out to catch it.

"Thank you for your trouble," Shen Yi said with a forced smile.

The creature, its orange-yellow and bright red lights alternating intermittently, gazed thoughtfully at Shen Yisui for a few seconds in the air before speaking, "Do you need me to read it to you? I can play it at double speed, which is faster than you reading it yourself!"

"No need, I'm used to reading by myself." Shen Yisui subconsciously gripped the foot of the book. "I'm prone to missing information at double speed, so I'd rather not."

After a period of contemplation, it turned its sphere downwards, clearly sensing Shen Yisui's resistance to reading the book.

This guy not only slacks off and doesn't want to look at it, but he also won't allow Gouqietousheng to scan the content, making Gouqietousheng read it to him faster.

He's really hard to please.

The creature, barely surviving, snorted in displeasure and floated down to Shen Yisui, saying, "I don't know why, but your rebirth progress bar has remained steadily at 0%. I'm really curious... Tell me, have you not even looked at it?!"

“…I didn’t,” Shen Yisui said, looking down. “I did see it.”

"Hmph." The creature, clinging to life, didn't speak further to Shen Yisui. It retrieved its data panel and began carefully examining the changes in the data.

So much time has passed, and Shen Yisui's body is slowly recovering. Moreover, Cheng Jingyi has already used the crystal core to heal the fatal wound on Shen Yisui's forehead. No matter what, his rebirth progress shouldn't stop at 0%.

...So where exactly did the problem go wrong?

It used its body to slap the data panel twice with considerable force, violently shaking it a dozen times before placing it back in front of itself to look at it.

The data panel was blank for a moment, and a few seconds later, the various data points on it started to change.

Name: Shen Yisui.

[Current rebirth progress: 100% (The character has not died, does not meet the rebirth requirements, and cannot be bound.)]

To live a life of ignominy: "?"

Kuqitiaosheng slapped the data panel again, causing the screen to spin and the numbers to become even more chaotic, making the content almost impossible to read.

Name: Shen Cheng.

[Current rebirth progress: 36%, progressing normally.]

Eager to survive: "???"

"What a piece of junk, it's broken again..." It muttered to itself, then looked down and saw that Shen Yisui was still fiddling with books, so it took its data tablet and went to the window by itself.

It needs to thoroughly examine its own system to see which part of it is malfunctioning.

Shen Yisui could hear the occasional teeth-gritting sounds from the creature that was so desperate for survival. It was quite far away from Shen Yisui and probably couldn't see the contents of the book in his hand.

Shen Yi turned his back. Since he last read this book, he had rarely picked it up again.

It's one thing that it takes a long time to figure things out by hand, but the main reason... is still the content in the book.

This is a book filled with resentment and curses towards Shen Yisui, and Shen Yisui does not want Gouqie Tousisheng to know its contents.

After all, everything recorded in there was too embarrassing for them.

[Shen Yisui, I know who you are. You're a selfish bastard, no... you're a coward, a thief!]

That's my blood, that's my family! How could you even try to take these things from me? I will never forgive you...

A cold glint appeared on Shen Yisui's face. He slowly ran his fingertips over the contents of the paper, paused for a moment, and then quickly flipped through a dozen pages.

He wanted to find all the words related to blindness.

Shen Yisui, I know you can see this. You're faking it...

I saw you drawing the sun; you could see the colors… You said it was your secret because someone told you that disabled children receive special care and have many privileges in orphanages…

Shen Yisui's eyes trembled slightly, his gray pupils froze, and a deep red involuntarily appeared at the edge of his eye sockets.

The vice-director has taken care of everything for you; he always puts you first and thinks of you. ...Ha, how ridiculous of me. I thought you were living a life worse than death in the orphanage...

Shen Yisui, how come you didn't die in that fire?

Shen Yisui closed his eyes tightly, feeling an involuntary pain inside his eye sockets, as if recalling the pain of being burned by fire many years ago.

He was lying on the operating table at that time, his consciousness was blurred, and he could still see his surroundings clearly a second before.

The surgeon was talking to someone, and Shen Yisui only vaguely saw a familiar figure from behind. It looked like a caregiver from an orphanage, or perhaps the director who had rushed over.

"He's gone...he ran away..."

"What can we do? The Cheng family is already here... If they find out, none of us will be in good shape..."

“We’ve been saying the tests were all correct, but now we’re suddenly overturning everything. Doesn’t that raise suspicion? Should we just go with the flow… Lu Yu’an, you’ll perform the surgery.”

"Make him behave..."

Shen Yisui covered his eyes tightly; he still couldn't forget that day.

It was completely dark all around, and it would be even darker thereafter.

They blinded him.

The fire destroyed all traces, including his past. His name, identity, relationships... all vanished after the surgery.

They asked him to replace Shen Yisui, but what happened next was beyond everyone's expectations.

The Cheng family eventually found their biological child and took Shen Heng back. As for him... because of a bizarre deception, he was blinded and forced to live as Shen Yisui for decades.

What is his name?

It wasn't Shen Yisui... A long time ago, his name was Shen Cheng.

Footsteps sounded outside. Shen Yi blinked and quickly closed the book, stuffing it under the bed.

Cheng Jingyi's scent was obvious, and Shen Yisui turned his face away upon smelling it: "Who?"

"Shen Yisui... are you hiding and crying?" Cheng Jingyi took two or three steps to Shen Yisui's side. He had a bloody smell on him and threw the things he was holding aside as soon as he entered the room.

Shen Yi's nerves tightened, but his expression remained unchanged. He pursed his lips and said, "I didn't."

Cheng Jingyi lowered her eyes, while Shen Yisui's skin around his eyes was flushed. He was prone to getting teary-eyed, and would turn into this state if he couldn't handle something.

"Where did you go?" Shen Yisui frowned as he smelled the odors. "There are gunmen outside."

"Let's go find something to eat, I'm hungry," Cheng Jingyi replied casually, dragging the sack next to him as he spoke.

He had just untied a corner of the sack when the person inside immediately burst into tears: "Waaaaah—"

"Stop making so much noise, I'll beat you if you cry again." Cheng Jingyi kicked the sack, his tone unfriendly, which, combined with his gloomy face, made him look even more menacing.

The wailing stopped abruptly, as if braked, with only a few sobs occasionally escaping.

Shen Yisui couldn't see what was happening, but frowned upon hearing the voice and asked, "A child? Is it a zombie?"

“Yes, a low-level zombie, half of its body has been eaten away.” Cheng Jingyi glanced at the child in front of him and said, “But he has a lot of things on him. I looked at his backpack, food, drinks... even thirty or forty crystal cores.”

"I guess someone is supporting him."

Hearing the soft sobs, Shen Yisui found it somewhat amusing: "Why did you bring him here? Someone is taking care of him; there might be big trouble later."

"I've already been kind to him by not eating him," Cheng Jingyi said nonchalantly, glancing at the child sitting on the ground. "Hand over the things."

The child's neck was stiff when he turned it. He looked up in the direction of Shen Yisui and gripped his backpack strap tightly: "This was given to me by my brother."