Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

Yu Zhuo didn't drink the soup, so he naturally didn't appreciate Zhou Yanshu's kindness. As for his feelings towards Zhou Yanshu... they didn't increase at all.

Zhou Yanshu felt depressed. If things continued like this, this fragment of soul would not easily fall in love with him.

Too time-consuming... Zhou Yanshu frowned secretly. He glanced at Yu Zhuo out of the corner of his eye and saw Yu Zhuo sitting next to him, his bright golden eyes looking at him with a gaze that seemed both light and heavy.

No... he can't be too passive. This blockhead won't get it easily. He needs to be more proactive.

Zhou Yanshu put down his water glass. The desk was right next to him, and he handed the glass of water back to Yu Zhuo as if he hadn't seen it.

"That kind of auction is actually an illegal activity. Qi Mohan is just taking advantage of the fact that Right Envoy Lin Shuang is not inside the palace to act recklessly."

Yu Zhuo took the water glass and felt Zhou Yanshu's slender, white fingertips were icy cold, intentionally or unintentionally brushing against his palm.

Yu Zhuo paused, the itching was obvious. He looked up at Zhou Yanshu, who had already withdrawn his hand and obediently lay back down in the distance.

Yu Zhuo thought he was being unintentional, so he put the water glass on the table and asked, "It seems that the two envoys, Lin Shuang and Qi Mohan, have a lot of conflict?"

"Lin Shuang's ancestors for three generations were all generals, and he can be said to have inherited his father's mantle. It's just a pity that his racial defects are obvious, and he is still easily looked down upon in the mermaid area."

Yu Zhuo was somewhat surprised: "The Right Envoy of Lin Shuang is not a mermaid?"

In this region ruled by the Qi Rui Miluo sea tribe, Yu Zhuo was surrounded by mermaids of various ranks. Yu Zhuo thought he was the only outsider among them, but he didn't expect that other races also lived there.

“There are few outsiders here, but there are some. Tamo recently opened up access, and many outsiders have come in,” Zhou Yan said calmly.

"However, Lin Shuang is not entirely an outsider. He is also a fish, but his spiritual form is a bit niche."

Yu Zhuo guessed, "Could it be a great white shark?"

“No,” Zhou Yanshu said, “it’s a small carp.”

These days, one can rush to the front lines and even become a general and right envoy simply by relying on the spirit body of a carp. Although Lin Shuang is not yet a hundred years old, his strength is indeed not to be underestimated.

Yu Zhuo's expression faltered slightly: "...A little carp?"

A carp skull at an auction...

Is soup really that nourishing?

"What's wrong?" Zhou Yanshu asked, noticing Yu Zhuo's subtle expression.

"It's nothing." Yu Zhuo reached out and turned off the bedside lamp. He shrank into the blankets and closed his eyes slightly. "I just feel that General Lin Shuang and Qi Mohan... do have a very bad relationship."

"Tamo is simply biased towards Qi Mohan."

Lin Shuang has been away fighting for many years and has not returned. Who knows if he really volunteered to leave or was forced to be exiled to a remote place?

Zhou Yanshu awoke after a century of slumber, completely unaware of the current state of the Mermaid Sea. The racial changes involved are likely only truly understood by those directly involved.

Yu Zhuo was the same; he couldn't understand the intricacies of the situation. He simply recorded the relationship diagram between the various characters on the data table before importing the data into the system library.

The surrounding air gradually quieted down. Yu Zhuo turned his face to the side, smelling the faint scent of pheromones beside him, feeling his consciousness gradually slipping out of his control.

Zhou Yanshu gradually fell asleep, and Yu Zhuo kept an eye on his various physical values ​​until Zhou Yanshu fell into a light sleep, at which point Yu Zhuo slowly relaxed.

"...Commander, this is a newly captured mutant. Its ratings have reached S, indicating a very high level of danger..."

"What is your name?"

"The surname is Lin..."

Yu Zhuo felt as if he were walking through a thick, dark fog. The sounds around him were psychedelic and complex. He pushed aside the black fog in front of him and entered a prison cell.

This is a small space of less than 20 square meters, containing only a long table and an iron chair. A small square window was carved out of the upper left wall, through which tiny beams of light pierced through and projected onto the upper part of the opposite wall.

Yu Zhuo was somewhat dazed. His body was out of control, and he casually pulled out the iron chair in front of him with one hand and sat down.

He looked at the prisoner in front of him.

"You've kept me waiting for so long." The prisoner's face was hidden in shadow, his loose prison uniform revealing the clearly visible outline of his collarbone. "Did you miss me?"

"I want you to die." Yu Zhuo's expression was unfriendly. "Why did you attack me?"

"Me?" The prisoner chuckled twice. His wrists were shackled with heavy chains, the silver handcuffs having a cool tone that made his eyes appear equally cold.

He rested his chin on his hand and said, "Because I need to be disciplined."

Yu Zhuo smirked: "Just say you deserve a beating."

The prisoner smiled and said, "Don't be so impulsive. I haven't confessed yet."

Yu Zhuo stared at him coldly from across the long table.

"Why did I attack you... Come here, I'll tell you."

"The camera's recording, what can I do? I'm only telling you this..."

Yu Zhuo's mind was foggy. He subconsciously felt that the surrounding environment was familiar, but he didn't know exactly where he was.

Mutant species...

Suddenly, the force in front of Yu Zhuo tightened, and the prisoner suddenly grabbed his collar and slammed him against the corner of the long table.

Yu Zhuo felt a sharp pain on his lips. He opened his eyes in shock and heard the prisoner's low laughter.

"You're so green, Commander? Lu Xun? Ha..."

Yu Zhuo's fingertips trembled twice. He immediately opened his eyes, and the scene of the dark prison cell disappeared before his eyes. He could only see a large expanse of darkness.

It's three in the morning, and he's still in the same house.

Yu Zhuo paused, recalling his previous dream, and couldn't help but furrow his brow.

what?

How could he dream of such a ghostly thing?

Lu Xun...

Yu Zhuo bit his lower lip. He turned to look at his side. Zhou Yanshu was still asleep. He slept in a proper posture, and after becoming paralyzed, he would not move around like Yu Zhuo.

Yu Zhuo pouted, grabbed a corner of Zhou Yanshu's clothes, and quickly deleted the dream from his mind, throwing it into the recycle bin.

He could never be seduced by anything else.

He tightened his firewall to survive, and thoroughly searched for and cleaned up any viruses that might be lurking in the cracks of his system.

In the latter half of the night, Yu Zhuo was wide awake. He carefully recalled the dream and identified Lu Xun as the suspect.

Lu Xun was the first core soul fragment he obtained by Gouqie Toushi. The strange things that exist in Gouqie Toushi's mind now are probably related to him.

This is not a memory of barely surviving; this is Lu Xun's memory.

These core fragments are merging, and everything they themselves have experienced is slowly being etched into the minds of those who are merely trying to survive.

Yu Zhuo felt increasingly uneasy. The fact that his soul fragment remembered this matter so vividly meant that the prisoner held special significance for him.

There were still some tails that hadn't been cleaned up.

Yu Zhuo picked up his phone, glanced at Zhou Yanshu to make sure he wasn't awake, and then tiptoed into the bathroom with his phone.

“Pei Du… Pei Du…”

Yu Zhuo found Pei Du's contact information in his system database, connected his phone to the other world's signal, and quickly dialed the number.

"Beep-beep-"

After a few seconds of silence, the call was answered.

"Who?"

Pei Du's voice was calm, as always revealing a sense of distance that kept strangers at bay.

Yu Zhuo's eyes lit up, and he covered his mouth and whispered, "It's me! I'm Xiao Gou Gou!"

Pei Du: "..."