Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

The surging seawater instantly submerged the entire interior of the barrier. Zhou Yanshu's fish tail was silvery-white, and a faint white light appeared and disappeared in the vast expanse of dark seawater.

Tamo bypassed Yu Zhuo and soon locked his target on Zhou Yanshu, unleashing a dense current of electricity at that figure.

"elder brother!"

Zhou Yanshu showed no sign of weakness. He faced the whirlpool on the seabed head-on and took on the high-voltage current head-on.

After a few sharp, sizzling sounds, Zhou Yanshu shoved all the murky seawater aside. Half of his body was numb, but he pursed his lips, indicating he wasn't seriously injured.

"System energy..."

Tamo stared at Zhou Yanshu's figure, slowly narrowing his eyes: "You have other system energies on you, whose are they?"

Besides Yu Zhuo, Zhou Yanshu also had other systems assisting him.

No wonder... no wonder that after so many years, Zhou Yanshu was able to awaken again and successfully help Yu Zhuo be resurrected.

It turns out that there were also disloyal members within the system group he controlled.

“You’ll have to guess that yourself.” Zhou Yanshu wiped the traces of blood from the corner of his lips and said, “Not all systems have to listen to you; their fate is in their own hands.”

“They have no life.” Tamer waved his hand, splitting the seawater in front of him. Black waves swept up the broken fragments below. He said calmly, “They’re just machines.”

The mechanical fragments spun and closed together, enveloping Zhou Yanshu once again.

Zhou Yanshu crushed all the machines in front of him. A fierce look rose between his brows. He saw the machines regroup densely after they were broken, chasing him like black insects that he couldn't shake off.

The surrounding pressure grew stronger and stronger. When Zhou Yanshu saw Yu Zhuo trying to approach him, he immediately changed direction and swam to the deeper part of the seabed.

"Brother, don't go—"

A cold light flashed across Zhou Yanshu's eyes. Tamo gathered spikes at his fingertips and hurled them at Zhou Yanshu's fish tail.

The piercing pain seemed to reappear on Zhou Yanshu's fishbone. Zhou Yanshu's eyes reddened, and he suddenly rushed upwards towards the sharp spike that was enough to pierce his body.

Maintain a safe distance.

Once the spikes pierce his body, Zhou Yanshu only needs to cut off the fish tail to swim upstream... and pierce Tamo's heart in one fell swoop.

The taste of blood seeped into Zhou Yanshu's throat, and the sharp tip of the long thorn was reflected in his silver eyes. He reached out and secretly gathered his spiritual power.

"Zhou Yanshu!!! Come back!"

Yu Zhuo's furious voice exploded in Zhou Yanshu's ears. That voice was completely different from before, and even sounded sinister because of the excessive force.

Zhou Yanshu seemed not to hear, and continued swimming upstream against the current. Suddenly, he felt a weight on his fish tail.

He paused for a moment and looked down, only to see Yu Zhuo using system energy to bind his fish tail and forcefully drag him down from above.

"...Yes! Yu Zhuo, let go!"

His fishtail was his vulnerable spot. Yu Zhuo tied it tightly and mercilessly, and Zhou Yanshu felt a tingling sensation in his lower body, followed by a dull pain.

Zhou Yanshu gritted his teeth, his fishtail thrashing as he struggled upwards. Seeing this, Yu Zhuo exerted even more force, dragging his lower body and pressing him down beneath him.

"Yu Zhuo——"

Zhou Yanshu's eyes were bloodshot. Before he could finish speaking, Yu Zhuo threw a rope formed from system energy into the crack beside him: "Take him with you!"

Yu Xiangwan caught the rope; he nearly suffocated as the seawater plunged into the abyss. He relied on the little energy Yu Zhuo had given him to hold on, and when he received the spiritual rope, he immediately swam upwards with Zhou Yanshu.

"Yu Zhuo! You're not allowed to go! Come back—you lied to me again! You lied to me again!" Zhou Yanshu frantically tore at the chains binding him. He stared ahead and saw the two figures gradually disappearing into the distance amidst surging waves of black water.

“Zhou Yanshu…”

Yu Zhuo raised his head, blocking and severing the spikes that were chasing Zhou Yanshu. Tiny particles fell, from which countless densely packed tendrils of system energy burst forth.

This time, instead of tracking Zhou Yanshu, they changed direction and descended from the sky like a net, pouncing on Yu Zhuo.

Yu Zhuo could no longer see Zhou Yanshu and the other person in his peripheral vision. He silently turned his head and released the long knife in his hand.

"You just wanted to take me back, didn't you?" Yu Zhuo floated in the sea, looking at Tamo, and said, "Why are you threatening him?"

He could tell that the main system had no intention of killing Zhou Yanshu. This was true a hundred years ago, and it was even more true a hundred years later.

Even though the attack on Zhou Yanshu was launched with such a massive barrage of spikes, the actual power contained within was minimal, posing no fatal threat to Zhou Yanshu whatsoever.

“Why should I punish him for your mistake?” Tamo stood on the high place, looking down at Yu Zhuo, and said, “He’s just too annoying and stubborn… He needs to be taught a lesson.”

Yu Zhuo smirked: "Don't pretend."

Tamo's expression was blank as the energy bar that had been poured down from above had already formed a complete envelope, engulfing Yu Zhuo entirely. Yu Zhuo stood motionless in his original position, as if he had expected this, allowing the main system's energy to rampage into his body.

“Let’s go upstream…”

With a deep, resonant voice, Yu Zhuo's consciousness went haywire, and he collapsed into the space that enveloped him.

The chaotic and murky seawater gradually calmed down, and the barrier outside the abyss was re-erected, throwing out and isolating all the floating, unknown fragments.

"Snapped."

Yu Zhuo's figure had been completely submerged in the seawater, the black space disappeared, and only a small black cell phone fell from the sky.

The phone screen was cracked from being dropped, and the data on it kept flashing, emitting a faint, cold light in the dark environment.

[Activating rescue equipment... Searching for backup team members. Requesting rescue—beep, data connection successful, initiating transmission—]

A mechanical sound rang out for a moment, followed by a trickle of energy flowing from the phone. It meandered and crawled along the ground, searching for something.

Two or three minutes later, the phone screen went dark.

[Backup rescue team is ready; transfer complete.]

As the mechanical voice finished transmitting the message, rustling sounds echoed from the depths of the abyss.

The humanoid dolls that had been thrown into the corner were enveloped in silvery energy, and they grew rapidly in no time, developing bones and hearts.

The skin on the doll's surface continued to soften, flesh and blood filled in, the plastic eyeballs turned into pupils, and silver-white hair hung down. In just ten minutes, it grew into a complete human being.

“Sheng Shixian…” one of the puppets murmured. He stood up, rubbing his forehead, and placed one hand on the shoulder of the person next to him. “I’m a little dizzy.”

Doll: "..."

"Brother, don't do that." The other puppet moved a little to the side, coughed, and said uncomfortably, "I already have a female lord's insect."