Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

"……What did you say?"

Everything Qi Mohan said was completely foreign to Tamo. He stared at Qi Mohan and shouted, "What are you talking about?!"

"I didn't say anything, and you didn't understand, so forget it." Qi Mohan took a step back and said, "Your Majesty, you have to walk the road ahead on your own. I've been playing with you for over five hundred years, and I'm already very tired."

"Goodbye."

As soon as Tamo saw Qi Mohan finish speaking and was about to walk out of the palace gate, a chill ran through him, and he immediately pounced on him to grab Qi Mohan's arm.

"What are you talking about! You're abandoning me...you're sending me to die?!"

Qi Mohan dodged Tamo's lunge by sidestepping, then tripped Tamo with his foot, easily subduing him.

"I wouldn't know about you then. Your Majesty, take care of yourself." Qi Mohan tightened his grip, cracking the bones beneath his hands, and warned, word by word, "Don't get in my way."

Tamo cried out in pain, his forehead soon covered in cold sweat, and he said in a trembling voice, "Qi...Qi Mohan, for over five hundred years...I've always treated you like my own uncle...All these years, I've listened to you, I've never thought of killing you! But now you want me dead..."

“…Uncle?” Qi Mohan looked down at Tamo, pondered the words for a moment, and nodded, “A very unfamiliar word. It’s a pity that we are different species, so we can’t be that close.”

After he finished speaking, he let go of Tamo and threw him next to a stone pillar.

"Lin Shuang's army has entered the palace. Your Majesty, may you have good fortune."

A faint mechanical sound, like inorganic matter, mingled in the air. Tamo, who had just hit the stone pillar behind him, felt a dull pain all over his body. Ignoring it, he got up and stumbled towards Qi Mohan.

"Do not--"

Qi Mohan closed the door, shutting Tamo inside the main hall.

"Qi Mohan! You bastard! Qi Mohan!!! Let me go!" Tamo frantically pounded on the palace gates, hearing the sound of the lock being put on outside. He almost ground his teeth to powder. "I won't let you get away with this, Qi Mohan!"

The only secret passage in the main hall had been destroyed. Tamo pounded on the door until his hands were covered in blood. His voice gradually weakened, and he collapsed to the ground.

"Impossible, impossible... How could this be, Qi Mohan..."

Tamer muttered to himself, his blood seemingly frozen, his entire body shrouded in the shadow cast by the temple gate.

The sound of approaching troops could be heard outside. Tamo trembled, knowing that Lin Shuang had breached the last layer of defense and was heading towards the palace where he was.

They'll all kill him... They'll all kill him...

Throughout history, merman kings who were incompetent and lacked virtue were always executed after their rule was overthrown. Tamer, who reigned for many years, waged countless wars and suffered repeated defeats. After being captured, he was either shot or publicly executed by slow slicing.

"Ha ha……"

Tamo lowered his head and chuckled maniacally. Lin Shuang had suffered so much humiliation in front of him before, she wouldn't let Tamo off easily, especially with Zhou Yanshu having recovered...

Tamo laughed so hard his whole body trembled; there was absolutely no way they could let Tamo live.

Tamo's eyes were bloodshot. He saw a sliver of sunlight streaming in through the top of his head, and suddenly pulled out a long knife from beside him and stabbed it into his abdomen.

Even if he dies, he cannot let others do it.

[Beep—World anomaly detected, initiating full-scale search. Beep—Statistical analysis in progress—External energy intrusion detected, rating S, added to elimination list, reporting to headquarters.]

Tamer fell to the ground, the long knife piercing his abdomen. Blood pooled beneath him, soon spreading into a crimson map.

The light in his pupils gradually dimmed, accompanied by a rapid drop in body temperature. A few seconds later, his heart stopped beating.

[Vulnerability discovered: The current Mermaid King, Tamo, has died, and the rules have been changed. Zhou Yanshu (a key monitoring target) will become the next Mermaid King...]

[Analysis of Zhou Yanshu's (a key monitoring target) physical data...]

[External energy has infiltrated, suspected to be the regeneration of those previously eliminated. Report to the main system.]

The blood beneath Tamo stopped flowing, and time seemed to stand still. A few seconds later, a massive surge of invisible energy poured in from above, ignoring everything around it and flooding into Tamo's body.

Tamo trembled uncontrollably as if he had been electrocuted. Soon after, the energy infusion stopped, and Tamo also stopped moving.

“Going upstream…”

Tamer opened his eyes, got up from the ground, pulled the long sword out of his body with one hand, and then threw it aside.

His wounds healed quickly, without leaving any scars.

Tamer heard the commotion outside. He opened the palace door and saw that the soldiers had arrived at the door and were pointing their guns at him.

Tamer seemed oblivious, time stood still, and he walked through the ranks of soldiers, heading straight for the Earl's Apartments.

*

While lying at home playing on his phone, Yu Zhuo suddenly felt a buzzing in his head.

That faint sense of compulsion hit him head, causing a dull ache in his mind.

Yu Zhuo narrowed his eyes. He waited for the sharp buzzing sound to disappear before looking down at the phone on the bed.

By this time... Lin Shuang should have already stormed the palace and tied Tamo up. If they were more aggressive, they might even imprison Tamo and subject him to severe torture.

Regardless of the exact scenario, the fall of the Mermaid Palace is a fait accompli. With the Mermaid King gone, the world's trajectory is disrupted, and the three-dimensional triangle will soon relay this information to the main system.

He should have come over then...

Yu Zhuo rubbed his temples. Zhou Yanshu went out to join the army command, leaving Yu Zhuo alone in the villa, constantly checking the surrounding situation.

His phone suddenly vibrated twice.

Yu Zhuo paused for less than two seconds, and his phone screen suddenly went black, with a beeping sound like a phone call coming in.

Yu Zhuo immediately sat up, frowning as he stared at his phone screen, which was completely black except for the continuous beeping of the call from the receiver.

"Cough cough... Hello?"

A slightly familiar voice came from the phone. Yu Zhu grabbed the corner of the table next to him and listened to the voice, but there was no reply.

"Hello? Why is there no sound... Oh no? Hello? Little Gou Gou? Trying to survive?"

Yu Zhuo paused, picked up his phone, looked at the black screen, and said uncertainly, "...Adrian?"

"It's me. Little Gou Gou, why didn't you reply to me when I spoke? I thought I had the wrong phone number." Adrian drawled out his words, his voice as lazy as ever.

Yu Zhuo was taken aback: "Phone number?"

“Yes, that’s the phone number you gave me last time, telling me to contact you if I needed anything,” Adrian said. “Don’t you remember?”