Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

The sudden alarm startled Qi Mohan. A dense current surged from beneath him, causing pain in his fingertips. He immediately withdrew his finger.

what happened?

Qi Mohan was secretly surprised. He lifted his eyelids to look at the source of the electric current and met a pair of silver eyes that were half-exposed and cold.

"week……"

Zhou Yanshu abruptly pushed Qi Mohan away from the bedside. Qi Mohan's back hit the table and chairs behind him, and after a heavy thud, the things on the table crashed to the floor.

"What are you doing?" Zhou Yanshu's silver eyes were downcast. He stood up, half supporting his forehead, and his slightly curly blond hair fell to his waist, obscuring his unpredictable expression.

The mechanical voice from before had long since dissipated into the air. Qi Mohan slumped against the wall and looked up at Zhou Yanshu, as if nothing had happened: "Did you sleep well?"

Zhou Yanshu kicked away the small bottle containing medicine in front of him: "I'm asking you, what were you doing just now?"

As he spoke, he looked around and saw that the door to the inner hall had been opened a crack.

"I came to tell you some news, but I didn't expect you to be sleeping." Qi Mohan slowly stood up and said, "I have confirmed the whereabouts of the remaining people, so I came to tell you."

Zhou Yanshu stared at him silently as the electric current surrounding him slowly dissipated, leaving a tingling sensation on his skin as it left.

Zhou Yanshu frowned, suppressing his strangeness and discomfort. He said, "We'll talk about this tomorrow. No one is allowed to enter the inner palace. Leave."

Qi Mohan didn't move: "When I came to see you before, I didn't need to follow these rules."

“You weren’t a person before either.” Zhou Yanshu’s gaze shifted. “Now that you’ve possessed a human body, you have to abide by human rules.”

"Oh...Is that so? So if I were still a sphere, could I come in anytime?" Qi Mohan asked.

Zhou Yanshu gave a cold laugh that was hard to decipher: "Have you forgotten? I've already severed our bond."

“I haven’t forgotten, I know.” Qi Mohan patted the dust off his clothes, glanced at Zhou Yanshu, and said, “So I’m just here to tell you the news. As for anything else… I don’t have time to worry about it.”

"I've already sent their information to your phone. You can figure out what to do yourself." Qi Mohan didn't say anything more. He turned around, bowed respectfully to Zhou Yanshu, and stepped back. "I'm leaving."

The inner hall's doors opened and closed, blocking out all the light and leaving only the same silence and dimness as before. Zhou Yanshu watched the doors close tightly, then slowly reached up and covered the glands on the back of his neck.

There was a strange burning and throbbing sensation there, as if it had been triggered by some pheromones, causing a sudden physiological response.

The remaining tiny electric currents lingered in Zhou Yanshu's palm. With a slight twitch of his fingertips, Zhou Yanshu felt those tiny currents quickly disappear into his body.

Was it a hallucination... or was there something wrong with his body again?

Zhou Yanshu put his hand down, picked up his phone from the bedside table, and glanced at the messages that had been sent to him.

Pei Du, Shen Yu, Shen Yisui, and Adrian.

Their desperate struggle for survival somehow pulled them all from that other world.

Zhou Yanshu's pupils slowly moved. He had read the information and sent a message to the guards to bring them all over.

He really should calm down and have a proper talk with them.

*

Soon after Qi Mohan returned, he detected the changes inside the palace. Zhou Yanshu, who always acted swiftly, sent someone to pick up Pei Du and the others after confirming the location.

As expected, Zhou Yanshu didn't need his extra help. Qi Mohan only needed to give him a few pointers each time, and he was able to handle most things on his own.

He was the most worry-free host Qi Mohan had encountered in all his years of work. He was also... the most unique host.

Qi Mohan returned to his residence. He didn't linger and went straight to his room to wash his hands with water. The skin on the tips of his fingers was blackened from the electric shock and even bled slightly.

The water stung his skin as it washed over him, but Qi Mohan remained expressionless. Dark red blood slowly flowed from his current body, and he looked at it as if it were some liquid unrelated to him.

Electric current, machinery, defense.

Qi Mohan smirked. He didn't know Gou Qiechoing before, and he could only learn a little about him from Zhou Yanshu.

This smaller system, created by the main system, was treasured and hidden deep within the abyss from the moment it was born. The main system created its body and soul for it, making it different from the other systems from the very beginning.

After all, all the other small systems besides him could only possess a sphere, while Yu Zhuo could have a body as flexible and free as a human.

And... a beautiful little mermaid.

Qi Mohan wiped the blood off his hands expressionlessly. His fingertips were numb and tingling with pain, but he seemed oblivious and continued wiping away the blood bit by bit.

He wasn't entirely without suspicion of Yu Zhuo; on the contrary, Qi Mohan had been watching Yu Zhuo's every move ever since he returned.

He knew that Yu Zhuo had permanently marked Zhou Yanshu again soon after returning, but he did not expect that Yu Zhuo would also take the opportunity to bind Zhou Yanshu and become its host.

Once a host is bound to the system, all of their physical stats and activity levels will be recorded in the system's monitoring system.

That bastard who cowardly lives on never intended to let Zhou Yanshu go from the very beginning.

Even now that it has left this world, it is still remotely monitoring and even manipulating things around Zhou Yanshu, and launching attacks on anything it considers suspicious.

"Ah……"

Qi Mohan found it somewhat amusing. Recalling what had happened before, he felt a strange sense of comfort welling up inside him.

He is a strategy system, and he has a strong interest in all things that are difficult to conquer.

For example, Zhou Yanshu, and Yu Zhuo.

His initial choice of Zhou Yanshu as his host was merely a spur-of-the-moment decision.

The storm that swept across the world almost destroyed everything. Qi Mohan didn't care how Yu Zhuo died; he simply hid in the shadows, silently observing the changes above.

At that moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and dark clouds obscured the entire blank scene. Occasionally, small pieces of mechanical debris fell from above, hitting the ground and splattering blood.

"Going upstream—"

The mermaid in the center of his vision was crashed to the shore by the waves. The rocks hurt him so badly that his body almost cracked. He didn't say a word, staggered to his feet, and continued to rush upwards.

Indistinct points of light flickered in the sky above, and Qi Mohan looked up as well. The phantom of the main system remained motionless, and a cold blade sliced ​​through the waves, so sharp that it seemed to pierce even Qi Mohan's pupils.

He knew the damage that energy could cause. Qi Mohan watched as the arc-shaped blade swept past, piercing through most of the mermaid's tail.

For that minute, Zhou Yanshu's screams echoed across the entire sea.

The main system didn't even look at him, and waved his hand to throw him into the sand pile on the ground.