Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

Shen Heng's eyes were bloodshot. The colorful ball floated to the ceiling, but he couldn't catch it. In the end, he could only grab a crumpled piece of paper next to him and throw it at it.

"You're making me despise you now!" Shen Heng shouted at Cai Qiu. "You're always like this, you can't answer me for three days straight if I ask you a question. Get out!"

No... I didn't want to either...

The colorful ball trembled incessantly, and for some unknown reason, faint sounds like a child's sobbing could be heard coming from inside it.

[No matter what I do, you're never satisfied... You all bully me... You all bully me... I want to go home!]

Shen Heng was blinded by the electric current emanating from the colorful ball. Seeing the energy accumulating in the air, he sneered, "Come on, try and strike me!"

The system cannot harm its host without cause. The colorful ball hovered in mid-air, the blue-purple current surrounding it gradually dissipating, leaving only the increasingly loud weeping sound within.

"You've made everything I've done over the years a joke. Shen Cheng... it's actually Shen Cheng..."

Shen Heng murmured, his brows furrowed, a moment of disgust at everything that was happening. He didn't even look at the colorful ball, but said coldly, "Don't cry in front of me, get out."

The colorful ball wiped away non-existent snot from its body. Upon hearing Shen Heng's words, it paused for a moment, then suddenly rushed towards the window.

[Remember what you said today, I'm never coming back!]

Its figure quickly disappeared from Shen Heng's sight. Shen Heng's jaw muscles twitched. Upon hearing this, he quickly walked to the window and slammed the already dilapidated window shut with his hand.

*

The colorful ball wandered outside for nearly three or four hours.

After the apocalypse, temperatures plummeted across the Earth. The colorful ball's defense system was relatively robust; it found a house to stay in for a while before flying back to the building where Shen Heng was.

The windows and doors of Shen Heng's room were tightly closed. Caiqiu stopped in front of his door for about ten minutes before turning away sadly.

[...none of them like me.]

The colorful ball muttered something and wandered around the room twice, seemingly without a direction. It then walked out of the outer corridor and entered another room.

The door to that room was also closed, and several items were placed behind it for protection. Ignoring these items, the colorful ball found an inconspicuous gap, shrunk its body, and squeezed through.

In the innermost room, Cheng Jingyi was lying on the sofa with her eyes closed, fast asleep.

The sofa's surface was peeling, revealing dark, gaping holes. Even without testing the material, the colorful ball could tell from the surface that the sofa was exceptionally sturdy, and perhaps still retained an unpleasant odor from the moisture in the air.

It's never comfortable for a person to lie down and sleep on it, let alone someone like Cheng Jingyi who has never suffered before.

The colorful ball floated in front of Cheng Jingyi. Its colorful light softened and fell on Cheng Jingyi's cheek, illuminating his noticeably colder facial features.

The colorful ball watched him silently. After a long while, it tentatively touched Cheng Jingyi's hair.

The touch was so slight that Cheng Jingyi didn't even notice it.

Within a second or two, the colorful ball returned to its original position. Ignoring Cheng Jingyi, it flew towards the room further inside with a clear purpose.

He has more important people to meet.

The colorful ball slipped through the crack in the door of the innermost room, and as soon as it entered, it saw another person sleeping on their side on the bed.

...Shen Cheng.

The colorful ball lit up again. It detected the various physical characteristics of the person on the bed and, after confirming that there was no threat, quickly flew towards him.

Shen Yisui was already asleep, and he was the only one lying in the small bed, with the only good blanket given to him. Now he was comfortably sleeping in bed wrapped in the blanket, a stark contrast to Cheng Jingyi, who could only curl up on the sofa outside the door.

The colorful ball took a deep breath and floated in front of Shen Yisui, gradually covering him with its colorful light.

It had previously sensed an unknown energy fluctuation from Shen Yisui, and now it was determined to seize the opportunity to study it thoroughly.

"Click."

The energy values ​​on the colorful ball kept fluctuating as it performed data checks. Suddenly, a cracking sound was heard during the pause.

What was that sound?

The colorful ball flinched, immediately withdrawing its energy and redirecting its light to the other side. A faint orange-yellow light also emanated from the corner of the room, and the colorful ball immediately launched an attack towards that direction.

[What is that?! Come out here!]

Before it could finish speaking, a gash was suddenly pierced from behind its body. The ball was startled. It slowly turned around and saw that Shen Yisui, who had been lying on the bed, had condensed an ice blade and plunged it into its body.

[you--]

The colorful ball erupted in anger, letting out a loud cry as electricity surged from its body, shooting straight up along the ice blade in Shen Yisui's hand.

Shen Yisui narrowed his eyes. He heard the sound of electricity crackling in the air and decisively let go of his hand, hiding in the corner.

"boom!"

Another hard impact rang out. The hole in the colored ball's body widened, and it struggled to turn around, only to be swept away by another ball that slammed into it and fell to the ground.

"We've got it! We've got it! Shen Yisui, hurry!"

Upon hearing the sound, Shen Yi quickly rolled out of bed, took out the mental energy iron cage he had prepared beforehand, and covered the colorful ball with it.

[asshole--]

The colorful ball growled in anger, attempting to launch another electric attack. Seeing this, the creature that had been watching it, Cowardly Survivor, decisively attacked from behind, adding another blow with a brick, finally knocking the colorful ball unconscious.

Shen Yisui didn't hear the static sound anymore. He hesitated for a moment, then asked uncertainly, "How is it?"

It was smugly content with its survival. It put away the brick and patted Shen Yisui's head approvingly, saying, "Mission accomplished."

Shen Yi breathed a sigh of relief: "When will it wake up?"

"I just used 70% of my strength; it's probably going to faint..."

A sob suddenly rang out in the air.

The creature stopped talking and lowered its body, seeing that the colorful ball it had just knocked unconscious had woken up again.

Why...why are you doing this...everyone's bullying me...what...what did I do wrong...?

The little cage woven from the colorful ball's spiritual power was constantly whimpering, carrying a sense of self-abandonment.

The creature, completely ignoring the colorful ball's behavior, had no good impression of these arrested systems. Upon seeing this, it slapped the table repeatedly.

"What are you crying for? Do you think I'll let you go like this? You wish!"

The whimpering of the colorful ball stopped abruptly. It hesitated as it looked at the creature clinging to life, and then, as if startled, the light on its body suddenly shone brightly.

[……dad?]

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