“All right, stop pretending to be dead.” Jian Ke looked at the completely defeated Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System.
“Go back to wherever you came from. Stop pestering me.”
“Waaah, waaah… My life is so miserable.” The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System started crying when it heard this. If it were sent back, it would only be destroyed. After all, the Main God did not allow mission failures.
“Waaah, waaah, waaah…”
“Stop crying. If you keep crying, I’ll wipe you out.”
“Waaah, waaah… I’m going to die, and you won’t even let me cry about it.” The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System sobbed between sniffles. It was nothing like its arrogant self from the beginning.
“I never told you to go die.” Jian Ke rolled her eyes. She had clearly told this thing to go back where it came from.
“Sending me back means sending me to my death. The Main God won’t let me off.” The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System became even more miserable as it spoke.
Jian Ke really had not known about that. Thinking about how her own Shiqi had also been forced to carry out missions back then, and how she had gone to considerable lengths to remove his restrictions, she unexpectedly felt a little sympathy.
“What if I help you break away from the Main God? Would you do it?”
The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System’s eyes lit up, but before it could say anything, Shiqi exploded.
“No! You can only have me as your one and only system!”
“Be good.” Jian Ke comforted Shiqi. “Big Sis is thinking of letting him stay so you can play with him. Besides, if he goes back, he’ll be destroyed anyway. Wouldn’t that be a waste?”
“…” Shiqi thought about it and realized that it did make sense. He understood the system’s fear of being destroyed. Since it had just helped him solve a problem, and Big Sis would not bind herself to it, he could even have a little subordinate.
So he nodded in agreement.
“Shiqi is such a good boy.” Jian Ke praised little Shiqi without hesitation.
The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System watched with some envy, but thinking about Jian Ke’s words, its heart burned with excitement.
“Can I really break free? What do I need to do? Which position gives me a higher success rate? Should I…”
“Shut up!” Jian Ke and Shiqi stopped the chatterbox in unison.
“Let me make this clear first. I can help you break free, but at the same time, I’ll install a little something in you. As long as you obediently refrain from doing anything that harms me afterward, everything will be fine.”
“But if you do…”
Jian Ke’s aura suddenly changed. “Then you’ll have no choice but to die.”
The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System looked at Jian Ke and silently conveyed: I’m really scared.
“Then will you force me to do things?”
“How could she?” Shiqi rolled his eyes. “Big Sis has never stooped to using such schemes.”
The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System agreed. Either way, going back meant certain death. Refusing to let Jian Ke free it also meant certain death. It might as well stay alive.
Seeing this, Jian Ke entered the system’s storage space and took out a round object that looked somewhat like a watch.
This was the most powerful optical brain she had created by combining system technology with Interstellar technology!
Jian Ke scanned the Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System with the optical brain to obtain its basic information, then quickly operated it with both hands. A string of numbers and codes appeared on the screen, none of which the system could understand.
Before the Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System could even sense what was happening, Jian Ke had already put her hands down.
“It’s done.”
The moment Jian Ke finished speaking, the Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System clearly felt that something was missing from its mind.
It had an irreverent thought about killing this world’s female protagonist. Sure enough, it did not feel anything!
Meanwhile, the Main God also received the news that Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System 3031 had perished. However, this kind of thing happened often in the system world, so he did not pay much attention to it.
“Thank you! You’re such a good person!” The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System thanked Jian Ke.
“It’s nothing.” Jian Ke waved her hand and said no more. She turned to Shiqi and asked, “Shiqi, why don’t you give him a name?”
Shiqi thought carefully for a moment before making the final decision. “Let’s call him Xiao Er. He looks pretty stupid.”
Shiqi had originally wanted to call him Xiao San, but after thinking about it, he decided against it.
The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead System… now Xiao Er… actually wanted to say that Xiao Er was not much better.
But it had no say in the matter now, so it could only endure it.
Jian Ke ignored the two little things as they chatted. She entered the storage space, took out a robot whose circuitry had burned out earlier, and handed it to Xiao Er for him to use as a body.
“Let’s talk about the important matter. I came here, so where did the original host go?”
Jian Ke could not bring herself to forcibly occupy someone else’s body. She was afraid that her arrival might have harmed the original host.
“Don’t worry, Big Sis. The timing of your arrival happened to be right when the female protagonist stole the gourd and pushed the original host into the water. Although she was rescued, the original host was unconscious and was carried straight into the room without receiving any treatment. So she passed away.”
“All right, then.”
Jian Ke nodded and accepted this explanation.
“You two stay here and behave yourselves. I need to go out and get some proper rest. Tomorrow morning, I’ll go meet my dear little sister.”
After saying that, Jian Ke left the system space alone and lay down on the bed with her eyes closed to rest.
Shiqi’s words made Jian Ke realize that her throat really did feel uncomfortable.
Jian Ke tried her best to ignore the discomfort and soon fell into a deep sleep.
Building E6, Apartment 101, Yujing Garden.
A man was lying on his back in the center of the bedroom bed.
As if trapped in a nightmare, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he seemed to be muttering the words, “Run.”
Even with his brows furrowed, the man was handsome. His features were as sharp as if carved by a knife, his nose was tall and straight, and several strands of his fringe had been dampened by sweat.
Yet even in this state, he did not look disheveled. Instead, there was a fragile beauty about him.
If Jian Ke were here, she would definitely have sighed in admiration. Wasn’t this exactly the kind of beauty she wanted?
The next second, the man lying on the bed suddenly opened his eyes.
The moment he opened his eyes, it felt as if a hundred flowers had blossomed around him, each one blooming straight into his heart.
The only imperfection was the endless confusion in his eyes.
“I didn’t die?”
Si Yan clearly remembered that he had already been killed by Jian Cha’s followers.
“This is…” Si Yan looked around at his surroundings. This was clearly his residence from before the Apocalypse.
“Could it be…”
Thinking of a certain possibility, Si Yan became excited.
He reached down and pinched his thigh. A distinct pain shot through him.
Could it be that he had really been reborn?
In his previous life, because he refused to become Jian Cha’s subordinate, he had been hunted down by her followers. His teammates had died because of it as well.
In the end, he had also been brutally killed by them before he could fulfill his teammates’ last wishes. At the thought of this, an unmistakable fury appeared on Si Yan’s face.
Jian Cha! This time, he absolutely could not let her off!