Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

Qi Mohan witnessed and knew everything about every world Zhou Yanshu visited and every event that happened to Yu Zhuo.

He went from observing indifferently to empathizing with the situation. Finally... he felt a strange sense of resentment and dissatisfaction.

Systems are merely machines; after their lifespan, they become scrap metal. The same applies to Yu Zhuo, but it always operates outside these norms.

Zhou Yanshu, the mermaid, followed his fragments everywhere. Everything he poured into Yu Zhuo had exceeded Qi Mohan's expectations.

Crying, tears, arguments, hugs...

Qi Mohan observed them carefully through the screen. He couldn't understand how a person could be so different before and after. When speaking to him, the other person was cold and sarcastic, as if even half a word was too much. But when facing the other person, he visibly softened and smiled warmly.

The blatant discrimination instilled a strange sense of jealousy in Qi Mohan.

After his initial jealousy subsided, he began to observe the situation again, almost as if in self-torture.

Putting aside his own feelings, to some extent, Zhou Yanshu did indeed complete the task perfectly as agreed.

The world was reborn, the main system appeared in person... These were all the best possible outcomes that Qi Mohan had ever envisioned.

Nothing wrong with that.

Qi Mohan found it amusing. He turned off the tap, wiped his fingers clean, and then pushed open the door and went out.

He doesn't need to worry about these messy things now. Things have already developed to this point, and the main system will soon track him down.

At that time, he would probably end up like Yu Zhuo.

Qi Mohan slowly furrowed his brows. Before things were exposed and before he was discovered, he wanted to give Zhou Yanshu another push.

*

Zhou Yanshu finally met Pei Du and his party the next day at noon.

They were undoubtedly very good at evading detection, and their counter-surveillance capabilities were top-notch, so the soldiers sent to search for them always returned empty-handed.

After a moment's thought, Zhou Yanshu sent someone to bring Adrian out of the cell. Adrian was doing alright in prison; he didn't suffer much. Zhou Yanshu simply had someone go and intimidate him a few times at set times each night.

Adrian, this male insect, is quite calculating. He doesn't easily trust others and is often full of bad intentions.

Zhou Yanshu knew his temperament well. He waited all night and, when Adrian was dizzy and disoriented, he personally went to the prison to rescue him.

He disguised himself and pretended to be a servant sent by Pei Du to rescue him.

Although Adrian still had some doubts, he was confused and nauseous, and in his dizziness, he still told Zhou Yanshu their secret code.

Not long after Zhou Yanshu obtained the clue, he headed straight for a cave hidden in the dense forest and wiped out the remaining people in one fell swoop.

"You think you can just live like this and come to me for refuge?"

The conversation took place in the bedroom inside the inner palace. Zhou Yanshu didn't shy away from them, sitting directly on the chair by the bedside, asking them questions while looking at the documents in his hand.

Those papers recorded the spiritual bodies and ranks of Pei Du and the others.

Four good-for-nothings, three of whom are D-rank and Shen Yu is an E-rank without a spiritual body. Their levels are so low that it's simply unbelievable.

Adrian stood in the doorway, touched the tip of his nose, and took a step back, exposing the people behind him.

Pei Du: "..."

He showed no resistance to being arrested. Their original purpose was to see Zhou Yanshu, and now that Zhou Yanshu had taken the initiative to "invite" them, it reduced the cumbersome procedures for them to plan further.

Furthermore, the fact that Zhou Yanshu arrested them but did not punish them at least shows that he had no ill intentions towards Pei Du and the others for the time being.

“That’s right, it was the struggle to survive that brought us here. We’re homeless now, and he and you are the only people we know in this world.”

Zhou Yanshu glanced at them. The people in front of him all had white hair and golden eyes. Although the colors of their hair and eyes varied, they all looked pretty much the same.

They were all puppets that had been thrown into the abyss, but unexpectedly, their survival led them to stuff their souls into these things.

"I can take you in, but I don't support useless people." Zhou Yanshu crossed his legs. "Tell me yourselves, what use are you?"

Shen Yu took out the phone that Yu Zhuo had left behind: "We are in contact with him. We can sense where he is."

Zhou Yanshu narrowed his eyes slightly. He shifted his gaze and saw that Qi Mohan had also leaned against the door at some point, giving him a half-smile.

“We’ll determine where you can survive,” Shen Yi said, pointing to Qi Mohan beside him. “Once we’ve determined it, he’ll take you there.”

Zhou Yanshu tapped his finger on the table: "And what about you? Are you still in this world?"

“We can’t go back even if we wanted to,” Adrian said casually from the doorway. “Besides, your world isn’t peaceful.”

"...Not peaceful?"

Zhou Yanshu frowned. Before he could ask any more questions, he suddenly felt the ground tremble violently. The entire room shook violently, tables and chairs were knocked over, and things were scattered all over the floor.

Zhou Yanshu steadied himself by pressing against the wall beside him. His voice was low as he asked, "What happened?"

"Look outside," Qi Mohan said in a low voice.

The windows were covered in spiderweb-like cracks, and the highest-level earthquake alarm was playing on a loop within the Mermaid Kingdom, constantly broadcasting a message urging people to evacuate and find safe areas.

The three-dimensional triangle that had been suspended in the air descended several thousand meters. It emitted a faint, soft light, and the surrounding energy fluctuated as it rapidly absorbed the white light that was gathering and being drawn away from below.

"what is that?"

“Life.” The data on Qi Mohan’s system screen was also jumping wildly. He squinted and said, “It’s drawing life energy from this world.”

“…Life?” Shen Yu’s pupils paused. He asked, “So the earthquake just now was also because…?”

“That’s true.” Qi Mohan said with some helplessness, “A small world that loses its life will eventually be destroyed. At first, it will just be earthquakes, tsunamis, floods... Once all the life energy is drained, the planet will die as well.”

"The end of the world? Is it really going to be the end of the world?" Adrian asked in surprise.

A few seconds of silence fell over the air. Shen Yisui, who was usually taciturn, suddenly spoke up, seemingly lost in thought, and asked, "Earthquakes, ice ages, tsunamis, storms... these things happened before the apocalypse."

"It's a pity this world won't end," Qi Mohan said, turning his eyes slightly. "It will only be drained and then destroyed."

Zhou Yanshu silently gripped the edge of the window: "What does it need all this for?"

“Heh…” Qi Mohan chuckled and said, “Perhaps it’s for… to revive another planet.”