Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

These puppets are all creatures created by the main system.

They now look exactly like Yu Zhuo once did, except that before they could develop their own consciousness, the IV wires on their backs were torn off and they were all destroyed.

Yu Zhuo looked at their faces. Their features were not exactly the same, but they all had silver-white hair and golden eyes, like one "Yu Zhuo" after another who had not yet grown up.

Yu Zhuo withdrew his hand.

He knew that the main system had been trying to create a mechanical doll similar to Yu Zhuo for many years, but the results were obviously not ideal.

These replacement dolls for Yu Zhuo were all defective products, and in the end, they were destroyed by the main system itself—just as decisively and without emotion as it had destroyed Yu Zhuo.

Zhou Yanshu's gaze swept over the puppets, and he asked, "Do they possess energy?"

"No, they're all junk now, and all their energy has been drained." Yu Zhuo sighed, looking at the few dolls thrown around the corner.

But these dolls already have souls inside their bodies.

Very small, very weak, and very powerless.

They may have experienced a long and desolate wait, just like Yu Zhuo, before their nascent souls slowly grew in the abyss.

Before they could fully grow, their bodies were drained of all their energy and destroyed. Those young souls, deprived of energy support, have now almost completely vanished.

When Yu Zhu examined their bodies again, only one or two fragments of their souls remained, still fading away.

“Let’s go. We’re not looking for this place. Maybe it’s still inside.” Yu Zhuo withdrew his gaze and walked into the darkness without lingering.

The data cables on these dolls don't have much power; only the data cables that once transmitted power to Yu Zhuo have anything they can use.

They kept walking forward, almost to the very end of the abyss, which was completely confined by the barrier.

Yu Zhuo saw a long, thin object floating in the air. He looked up and saw that the area above was filled with thick, heavy data lines hanging down.

These data lines are not as torn and gruesome as those on the previous dolls; they all naturally detached from Yu Zhuo after developing to a certain stage, thus retaining some of their previous energy.

"That's all."

Yu Zhuo finally found the thing that had been embedded in his body. He turned his head and saw Zhou Yanshu understand. He reached out and cut off the thousands of data cables on it.

The black data cables fell in large numbers, and Yu Zhuo seized the opportunity to quickly collect all the energy that was spraying out from them.

“This energy is enough. You can go back and try it out first.” Yu Zhuo stored all of these things into a small square 3D box, set the password, and handed it to Yu Xiangwan.

Yu Xiangwan had never seen these things before; to be precise, everything he had seen along the way was beyond his comprehension.

"There's a password on this too." Yu Xiangwan frowned, looked at Yu Zhuo, and asked, "What's it?"

“You’ll have to ask His Majesty.” Yu Zhuo glanced meaningfully at Zhou Yanshu. “His Majesty knows everything.”

Yu Xiangwan: "...What do you mean?"

Zhou Yanshu also looked up at Yu Zhuo. He silently clenched his fingertips, feeling that ethereal and elusive feeling from long ago resurface in his heart.

He stared at Yu Zhuo without saying a word, but his eyes gradually turned sinister.

Yu Zhuo silently turned his face away, and said in a casual tone, "We are all under the rule of the Mermaid Royal Family. Your matter is of great importance and should be left to His Majesty to handle."

"Leave it to me?" Zhou Yanshu chuckled inexplicably. He looked at Yu Zhuo's figure and said, word by word, "Then what are you going to do? Leave everything to me, where are you going?"

Yu Zhuo sensed the chill in Zhou Yanshu's voice. He took two steps forward, grasped Zhou Yanshu's hand, and whispered, "What are you saying? I was just lying to him, I didn't mean anything else..."

The 3S-level Yu Xiangwan was the second layer of protection that Yu Zhuo left for Zhou Yanshu. He wanted to ensure that if the main system wanted to kill Zhou Yanshu, someone would be there to help him.

The final layer of protection... hasn't been introduced yet.

Zhou Yanshu's eyes were dry. He glared at Yu Xiangwan and hooked his fingertips in Yu Zhuo's palm.

"...Don't you plan to go back?" Zhou Yanshu's voice deepened.

Before Yu Zhuo could answer, he suddenly tightened his grip, the force so great that Yu Zhuo's hand bones almost cracked. "If you dare to abandon me again like before, I will absolutely not let you off! Do you hear me?!"

Yu Zhuo stopped, silently looked at Zhou Yanshu for a few seconds, then hugged him and ruffled his blond hair: "Brother, you have such a temper."

Zhou Yanshu pressed the tip of his nose against Yu Zhuo's soft neck and said in a muffled voice, "...Did you hear that?"

"I heard you, I heard you a long time ago." Yu Zhuo said affectionately to him, "I'll go with you after we get the energy, I won't lie to you this time."

Zhou Yanshu blinked, and after hearing this, he snorted coldly and stepped out of Yu Zhuo's arms: "Then hurry up and leave."

The place was eerie and deathly silent, filled with machinery and utter stillness. The few living people standing inside felt as if their life force was being drained away and squeezed dry invisibly.

Zhou Yanshu gripped Yu Zhuo's hand tightly, his brows furrowed, his face showing a hint of coldness and hostility.

Yu Zhuo let him pull him forward, then turned to look at Zhou Yanshu's slightly cold profile and sighed inwardly.

Zhou Yan's estrangement was sharper and more sensitive than he had imagined.

"Actually, he's lying to you again this time."

A somewhat familiar voice rang in their ears. The entire abyss was empty, and the voice spun back and forth inside like a boomerang.

Yu Zhuo paused, gripped Zhou Yanshu's hand tightly, and stepped forward to block most of his body.

“He never intended to go back with you. From the moment he entered this place, he was waiting for me to take him away.”

Zhou Yanshu's breathing was heavy, the cold air rushing towards him made it almost impossible for him to breathe. His silver eyes were fixed on the front, and he clenched Yu Zhuo's hand tightly.

The ethereal black shadow gradually became clearer, its pale yellow, bright robe trailing to the ground, with a faint light hanging down from above, slowly revealing the figure.

Zhou Yanshu's pupils trembled; it was actually Tamo!

Yu Zhuo narrowed his eyes and channeled some of his energy into Zhou Yanshu's body through his palm to alleviate the increasingly intense pressure under the control of the main system.

He looked at Tamo and sneered, "What, you're now capable of stealing other people's bodies?"

Tamo's expression was indifferent. He stood about two or three meters away from Yu Zhuo and said, "I only entered the data after he died. And you, you plotted to kill him."

Yu Zhuo slightly raised his chin: "So... I made a mistake again?"

“Indeed,” Tamer said, a smile playing on his lips. “But it’s not unforgivable; it can be spared.”

"You can keep me?" Yu Zhuo found it amusing. He scoffed, "You just can't find any other substitutes, so you think I'm useful. What do you want this time? Let me guess... to dismember me again?"

Tamo looked at Yu Zhuo and his smile faded: "You shouldn't bring up such unpleasant memories."

As he spoke, his gaze shifted to Zhou Yanshu. He stared at their clasped hands, and a flicker of unidentified emotion flashed in his eyes: "Poor little thing, you have no idea what kind of system he is."

He doesn't love you.

"He's a machine; he doesn't love you."

"I don't need you to tell me what kind of person he is." Zhou Yanshu frowned in annoyance. "Don't give me this useless nonsense, get out of my way!"

Tamer remained expressionless. He silently stared at the people in front of him for a moment, then suddenly reached out and shattered the barrier that was used to isolate them.

Suddenly, seawater surged in, and Yu Zhuo's vision went black. He immediately reacted and pushed Zhou Yanshu aside.

The energy spikes that pierced in from the outside pierced several deep holes in the ground beside Yu Zhuo. Yu Zhuo's expression turned cold, and he used his own system energy to cut off all the spikes.

"Don't drag them into what's between you and me." Yu Zhuo's expression darkened.

Tamer stood at the center of the upward-spinning vortex, glancing at the few almost invisible black dots below, as a mechanical voice rose.

"They are guilty as well as you."