Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

The blankets on the bed were wrapped up in a ball, and Yu Zhuo hugged Zhou Yanshu through the blankets, closing his eyes and kissing his long-dry glands.

"Brother, that's not what I meant." Yu Zhu snuggled closer to him. "I'm just sad."

Zhou Yanshu only showed half of his face: "If you're sad, go cry. Don't be dramatic."

Yu Zhuo squeezed into the quilt, hugged Zhou Yanshu's warm body, and whimpered a couple of times inside.

Zhou Yanshu: "..."

"What did you put on me?" Zhou Yanshu felt the water droplets sliding down his back.

Yu Zhuo's voice was muffled: "My tears."

“It must be your saliva.” Zhou Yanshu turned over, lifted the covers, and pinched Yu Zhuo’s chin to look into his eyes.

Yu Zhuo's eyelashes were slightly damp, but her golden pupils were bright, showing no signs of tears.

Zhou Yanshu stared at him without saying a word.

“…” Yu Zhuo was silent for a moment before speaking, “…my sweat.”

Zhou Yanshu almost laughed out of anger. He said coldly, "Wipe it off for me. Hurry up—"

Yu Zhuo grabbed two tissues from the table next to him and casually wiped Zhou Yanshu's back: "It's not like you haven't spilled it before, you're so stingy..."

Zhou Yanshu lowered his eyes and looked at him: "What did you say?"

Yu Zhu crumpled the tissue in her hand into a ball and threw it aside: "No, I didn't say anything."

"Do you know why I made you wipe it?" Zhou Yanshu's voice rose slowly, "It's not because I think you're dirty, it's because..."

“It’s a matter of attitude,” Yu Zhuo continued familiarly.

Zhou Yanshu paused, sitting there for a few seconds before Yu Zhuo suddenly pounced on him and pulled him onto the bed.

“Brother, I won’t say those things again… Darling, your body is filled with my scent. I’m just like you… I’m an Alpha.”

Yu Zhuo gently stroked Zhou Yanshu's back, from the shoulder blades to the spine and down to the coccyx.

Zhou Yanshu trembled for a moment, then smiled, enjoying Yu Zhuo's caress: "Of course you're the same as me. I raised you, how could I not know what you are? Yu Zhuo, never talk about yourself like that, you're mine..."

Yu Zhuo raised the corner of his eye as well, and said obediently, "I am yours."

Zhou Yanshu let out a pleasant hum, allowing Yu Zhuo to follow the curves of his body to his very bottom.

Yu Zhuo knew why Zhou Yanshu was so insistent on this. Because the main system had said that Yu Zhuo belonged to him.

He gave Yu a body, life, and even... a soul.

He gave Yu Zhu everything, but Yu Zhu went against his original intention.

Why did I create you?

Is it so that you... can become human?

Is it so that you...fall in love with him?

Do you understand what love is? Do you understand?!

The mechanical voice of the main system echoed in Yu Zhuo's ears. He frowned and could hear an indescribable rage and grief in it.

Does he understand?

He probably doesn't understand.

Yu Zhuo pressed his cheek against Zhou Yanshu's chest. He heard the heartbeat inside the body below and unconsciously touched his own chest.

His heart was also beating.

Before—during those years in the abyss—Yu Zhuo never understood that he was just a machine. But now… he seems to understand a little.

The main system gave him life, and Zhou Yanshu gave him humanity. In addition, there were various forms of emotional nurturing.

Yu Zhuo pinched the soft flesh under his palm without understanding what was going on. He looked up at Zhou Yanshu's face and then leaned closer to exchange a long, wet kiss with him.

Zhou Yanshu felt a burning heat emanating from him again. He pressed down Yu Zhuo's head and said in a hoarse voice, "This is the end. It's never going to end."

Yu Zhuo glanced at Zhou Yanshu's legs, which were still recovering, and could only take his hand back: "Okay, let's not continue."

"You'll have plenty of opportunities in the future..." Zhou Yanshu kissed Yu Zhuo's lips reassuringly. "Have you thought about what to do now?"

Yu Zhuo narrowed his eyes and said, "My body has long been shattered into pieces, and it's impossible to find it again. Now... I want him to find me."

Zhou Yanshu paused upon hearing this: "Let him find out about you?"

“The intensity of the high-altitude triangular detector is increasing,” Yu Zhuo said. “It’s only a matter of time before he discovers me, unless I never use system energy again.”

Zhou Yanshu: "But your soul has only just been pieced together, and some of the smaller fragments are already gone. What will you do if you face him?"

Yu Zhuo stroked his chin: "Brother, why don't you have confidence in me?"

Zhou Yanshu raised an eyebrow, assuming that Yu Zhuo had learned some great skills after returning from his training in the small world: "You can beat him?"

"Hmm... I can't beat them," Yu Zhuoyi said honestly.

Zhou Yanshu: "..."

"He is the main system. All the systems combined can't defeat him. As for my current situation... it's even more impossible for me to beat him."

Zhou Yanshu narrowed his eyes: "So you're still going to court death now?"

“He won’t kill me this time,” Yu Zhuo said slowly. “More than five hundred years have passed, and he still hasn’t been able to create another ‘me.’ To him… I am unique in some ways as well.”

Zhou Yanshu: "You know that?"

“We are all systems, so of course I know his dynamics.”

Yu Zhuo was able to disguise himself as the "Survival System" and survive largely because he secretly hacked into the main system and stole a tiny bit of energy from the main system's massive database to speed up his escape.

The connection between them has long transcended ordinary systems.

“I can sense that he’s been very anxious lately because he can’t find any other alternatives.”

Yu Zhuo said, "Recently, the small systems distributed in various worlds have all experienced problems of varying degrees, which may be due to his influence."

Zhou Yanshu was still a little uneasy. He said coldly, "What exactly does he want to do?"

Yu Zhuo sat silently on the bed. After a moment of thought, he said, "I guess... he doesn't want to do it anymore."

Zhou Yanshu: "...?"

"He just wants to go on strike," Yu Zhuo sighed. "There are so many system tasks, and each of the smaller systems causes all sorts of trouble, which the main system has to clean up after. If I were him, after doing this kind of mess for thousands or tens of thousands of years, I'd also want to find a sucker to do the work for me."

Zhou Yanshu asked suspiciously, "Is that really true?"

He knew that Yu Zhuo always thought simply, and hearing his answer now made him even more suspicious.

“Hmm… I guess that’s it,” Yu Zhu insisted. “Otherwise, why would he create me? He must just want me to work for him.”

Zhou Yanshu: "..."

After Yu Zhuo finished speaking, he looked at Zhou Yanshu and asked, "Brother, you still haven't told me what's going on with the system energy in your body?"

Zhou Yanshu looked at Yu Zhuo for a few seconds, then tilted his head and said, "That was also given to me by a system."

Yu Zhu asked in surprise, "Another system?"

“That’s right, it’s another system.” Zhou Yanshu sighed. He recalled, “After you died, that system found me. It also collected a fragment of your soul and gave it to me.”

Yu Zhuo's expression immediately became subtle. Zhou Yanshu looked at him and continued to speak.

"It is a strategy system that relies on collecting the success value of the host to complete the target, and in this world it has chosen me as its host."

Yu Zhu frowned and said, "It won't help you for no reason. Did you promise it something?"

“…That’s right. But its requirements are very simple,” Zhou Yanshu said. “It gives me system energy, allowing me to use the soul fragments in my hand as guidance to conquer you in various small worlds.”

Yu Zhuo: "..."

"After successfully completing the mission, it gains mission success points, and I gain your soul fragments. As a special bonus, it will help me act behind the back of the main system."

Yu Zhuo: "..."

“But it has blocked me now.” Zhou Yanshu said speechlessly, “I failed in four worlds in a row and didn’t help it accumulate any success points. It even caused it to lose performance points.”

"It has now changed hosts."

"It really knows how to find shortcuts for itself." Yu Zhu sneered. "You do all the work, while it just sits back and earns success points."

Zhou Yanshu rubbed Yu Zhuo's slightly curly white hair and said helplessly, "But it did help me, otherwise... I wouldn't know how to find you."

Yu Zhuo pursed his lips, wrapped his arms around Zhou Yanshu's neck, bit his Adam's apple, and continued to ask, "What does it look like?"

“I don’t know. It’s different from the other systems. It has no physical form.” Zhou Yanshu hugged Yu Zhu tightly. “Its system level is very high. It often possesses other people.”

Yu Zhuo paused: "Possession?"

“Hmm…” Zhou Yanshu pondered for a moment and explained, “To put it simply, it can directly invade data and take over a human body, just like you are doing now.”

"If it doesn't use system capabilities, I doubt anyone else would notice its difference."

Yu Zhuo had never heard of such a system before. He was always more wary than curious about such oddities, so he asked, "After it blocks you, where does it go?"

“I don’t know.” Zhou Yanshu frowned as he recalled what had happened before, and said, “But it stayed in this world for a long time and didn’t leave. Now that it’s back to work, I don’t know where it will go.”

Yu Zhuo did not speak again.

If this system has never left this place, then it is highly likely that it has not left this world either.

“It doesn’t pose any threat for the time being,” Yu Zhuo said. “Our current focus is on the main system. Once the main system is resolved, the other system problems will be easily solved.”

“I know,” Zhou Yanshu nodded. “When do we make our move?”

Yu Zhuo smiled and said, "Then it depends on our General Lin Shuang."

The main system considers the world's fixed operating rules to be paramount. If the solid triangle detects a change in this world, the main system... will come.

*

For the next few days, Zhou Yanshu stayed indoors to recover from his injuries and did not go out.

He was able to walk like a normal person. With the help of the small amount of energy accumulated by Yu Zhuo, Zhou Yanshu's body was recovering rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Yu Zhuo would occasionally go out for a stroll. Recently, the Mermaid Royal Family had been somewhat unsettled, and he had overheard a lot of secret news on the road.

Lin Shuang insisted that it was a guard in Qi Mohan's household who poisoned Yan Shu, and based on the testimony, she maintained that the person was acting on Qi Mohan's orders.

He demanded that Tamo severely punish Qi Mohan.

In the main hall, Qi Mohan refused to admit it. Tamo was caught in a dilemma. In the end, as always, he chose to protect Qi Mohan and directly ordered the execution of the guard.

As for Qi Mohan, Tamo punished him by confining him to his room for three days to reflect on his mistakes, simply because he was not strict in managing his subordinates.

Lin Shuang didn't say a word after hearing Tamo's verdict, and turned to leave.

That night, the guard who was supposed to be executed escaped from prison, and no one could find any trace of him.

Tamo was furious. He berated Lin Shuang for his incompetence and ordered him to return to the border that very day, not to come back without permission. After settling these matters, Tamo symbolically sent someone to Zhou Yanshu's house to inform him of the incident and gave him several boxes of tonics as a gesture of comfort.

Zhou Yanshu sneered and didn't pursue the matter any further.

Yu Zhuo kept an eye on the news outside. He waited for almost a month before finally hearing news from the border one day.

Lin Shuang led the troops stationed at the border and, without orders, launched a full-scale attack on the royal palace.