Chapter 200: The Ones Who Can’t Be Shaken Off (19)
Su Mingxiu picked Rong Rong up. She didn’t stay in the restaurant for long. When the waiter came to ask if they needed any help, she only shook her head and left, carrying the person in her arms.
But when she was paying the bill, the other customers frequently cast confused glances at her arms, as if they suspected that Su Mingxiu was someone who had ill intentions toward others. But after those gazes landed on Su Mingxiu’s overly detached face—
The suspicion immediately dissipated.
These NPCs were following the setting that humans were visual animals, and they felt that someone as beautiful as her couldn’t possibly be a criminal, let alone do anything to a beautiful girl in such a public place.
So no one stopped them along the way. Instead, there were many people who came up to her, offering their help and asking if they needed any assistance.
Su Mingxiu rejected all of them. After leaving the restaurant, she carried the unconscious Rong Rong around the corner and entered a hotel. She only said that the person in her arms had fallen asleep, and then she successfully booked a room.
Because she had booked it randomly, the place was inevitably cramped and narrow. There wasn’t even a window. Su Mingxiu glanced at the bed and, with some distaste, took off her coat, then sat down, carrying Rong Rong in her arms.
With her slender white fingertips pointed at the girl’s forehead, Su Mingxiu activated her soul power, which had been restored, and invaded Rong Rong’s mind—
[You’ve made me search for you for a long time, stepmother system.]
System: “…”
In order to stop Su Mingxiu from forcefully dragging it away from the protagonist’s body, the system activated its self-defense mechanism in a timely manner. As long as Su Mingxiu tried to pull it out of Rong Rong’s body, it would give Rong Rong a splitting headache and even trigger a lightning effect.
[Your methods are as monotonous as ever,] Su Mingxiu gave up after her consciousness touched the system and noticed that Rong Rong was showing a pained expression even while she was unconscious. She only communicated with the system from afar, “But do I need to remind you about what happened last time when you used lightning on us?”
The system didn’t say anything, acting as if it was barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes.
Seeing how self-destructive it was acting, Su Mingxiu became even more certain that it was definitely feeling smug in this world and had dug a lot of pits for herself. That was why it was acting so fearlessly and putting on an act that it wasn’t afraid of being threatened by her.
Although Su Mingxiu couldn’t pull it out of Rong Rong’s body, it was still easy for her to make the system behave and not affect Rong Rong’s body.
“Do you miss the maze that I designed for you last time? Do you want to relive it?” The soul power that had invaded Rong Rong’s body gradually surrounded the system’s location, like thousands of soldiers surrounding a city, blocking all paths of escape. And the one who was trapped inside could only choose to slowly die.
System: “…”
Feeling that its will was being affected, Su Mingxiu felt that her guess was correct. At the same time, she had some guesses about the system’s origin.
If this thing was truly an artificial intelligence that had been created by humans, it wouldn’t be affected by the fact that she had used lightning and a maze to trap it before. Because data wouldn’t have any feelings after all.
But this thing that was calling itself a “system” wasn’t.
It was also afraid, and it was also annoyed by Su Mingxiu and the protagonist for resisting the fate that it had arranged for them time and time again.
Su Mingxiu quickly had a new idea, “Let’s play a game. Next, I’ll ask you questions. You can choose not to answer, but I can’t guarantee the consequences—”
[Before Rong Rong wakes up, please try your best to make me feel that you’re not so boring.]
“Buzz.”
The sound of her phone vibrating in her pocket repeatedly pulled Su Mingxiu’s attention away. She took out the phone and saw an app that she didn’t know when had been installed. The app looked like a map, and it showed two red dots. One location was the hotel that they were at right now, and the other one was rapidly flying in their direction.
At the same time.
There was also a message from an unknown number. The latest message read, “You dared to ask me for money back then. Now that I want to give it to you, why won’t you take it?”
In addition, there was also a pile of missed calls.
Su Mingxiu raised her eyebrows and glanced at them. She put the phone back in its original place and said, “Tell me, who are these people?”
[It’s useless. Even if you know now, so what? Rong Rong will soon be able to successfully leave this world. For her, no matter how powerful and dazzling you are here, you’re just a game character. You’ll never be able to set foot in the reality that she’s in—]
[Unless, you keep her here.]
And as long as Su Mingxiu did this, she was destined to follow in the footsteps of the characters that Rong Rong had strategized before. At that time, Su Mingxiu would never be able to complete the mission in this world.
…Not getting the protagonist’s love was her biggest failure.
Su Mingxiu hadn’t expected that the dog system’s ability to be annoying had become even more refined after not seeing it for the past few days. But the more mad it acted, the more it showed that it was at its wit’s end. As long as she could get through this hurdle, she would be able to solve the mystery of her shattered soul and her original world.
She already knew most of what she wanted to know anyway. Even if the system hadn’t given her the correct answers most of the time, she had already guessed what the other party’s plan was—
This time, the system was truly attacking her heart.
Even though people’s hearts were difficult to calculate, it was precisely because of this that it couldn’t calculate the protagonist’s thoughts. With Su Mingxiu’s identity in this world, where she couldn’t even participate in the plot, it was very difficult to get close to the protagonist Rong Rong.
And Rong Rong herself was someone who had never even been in a relationship and had suddenly been thrown into this chaotic shura field that was filled with all kinds of coercion. After facing a dangerous love where she could lose her life with just one wrong step, it was already a blessing that she didn’t have PTSD. How could she so easily jump into the grave of love?
It had even carefully calculated that, based on Su Mingxiu’s personality in the previous worlds, she was very assertive in love. When facing someone she liked, she wouldn’t mind using some harmless tricks… She even had a bit of a tendency for coercion.
If in this last world, facing the pressure of only being one step away from reshaping her soul, and the protagonist’s wavering heart that she couldn’t stabilize, would she be able to resist using the methods that she had used in the past on the protagonist?
[And this is the last world where you can return to the beginning and find all the answers.]
“Rong Rong.”
A nice voice calling her name woke the person whose consciousness had fallen into slumber. Rong Rong raised her hand to rub her eyes. She looked at the ceiling that wasn’t decorated like that of a restaurant, and belatedly remembered what had happened to her earlier.
But unexpectedly, her body didn’t have any of the aftereffects of feeling dizzy or unwell. Instead, she felt quite refreshed.
But…
Feeling that the position that she was in with Su Mingxiu wasn’t right, she blushed and hurriedly tried to get out of the other person’s arms. And the woman didn’t stop her either. She only remembered something and reminded her, “When you fainted earlier, many people were looking for you. There are messages on your phone.”
Rong Rong opened it and took a rough look, and her face turned pale.
She was done for.
It was a shura field situation that had a very high mortality rate—
And she hadn’t even managed to complete her breakup mission with Yu Wu yet. She was so close… How had all of these people found out? Why did it seem like they had all found out the truth at the same time?
Besides Wei Shang, whom she had comforted earlier and who had been out of contact since being plotted against, everyone else had come.
Oh no.
…According to Murphy’s law, the more you don’t want something to happen, the more likely it is to happen. Maybe she would have to face all five of them on the rooftop tonight.
“Your face looks terrible. Have you encountered any trouble?”
Su Mingxiu didn’t care about her coat, which had been crumpled with many creases, and simply got up, planning to take her out. She even leaned down to adjust the collar of Rong Rong’s clothes.
Actually, after waking up in a hotel like this, especially in this kind of homosexual love game setting, where the characters would mostly turn dark, Rong Rong should have suspected what had happened while she was unconscious.
But perhaps she had been flustered by these girlfriends who had surrounded her and had forgotten about this matter. Or perhaps… Su Mingxiu’s consistent performance had made her completely ignore those bad possibilities.
Even now, when the other person’s fingertips were wandering, adjusting her clothes while brushing against her skin, Rong Rong didn’t have any ambiguous thoughts. She only bit her lip and said with difficulty, “A little.”
“Do you need help?”
Su Mingxiu raised her eyebrows. Her question was as calm as always, as if as long as the other person nodded, she would be able to protect this person safely, even if the world was about to be flooded.
“You… don’t you really want anything?”
Rong Rong knew that she was very unusual. Not to mention anything else, the fact that she had been able to walk out of Wei Shang’s octagonal cage, unscathed after being surrounded by more than a dozen vicious dogs, showed that her fighting power was very unusual. Those yanderes and artists probably wouldn’t be able to withstand two punches from her.
So if she brought her along, Rong Rong felt that her chances of survival would be much higher.
“If you really have to thank me—” Su Mingxiu blinked her eyes, easily hiding the gloomy love that was as firm as a rock in her heart. Her acting was flawless, “Then treat me to a beer when you have time. Juice is also okay.”
…Would there be time?
Rong Rong thought about Yu Wu’s line that was left for her, and she was a bit afraid to agree. Even though she knew that she would be leaving this world soon, she should have felt happy. But her heart was in a mess now. Even something as simple as nodding her head had become difficult.
“Rong Rong.”
Su Mingxiu suddenly called her name very calmly. In her confused stupor, she continued, “You can’t be more timid than you were when I first met you. Once you’ve chosen a path, you should walk forward without hesitation.”
Even if it was a separation—
The you from before had never been afraid of it.
Even after being reincarnated so many times, her soul should be unchanging. That little rose had known that her time was running out, but she still wanted to have that love that was destined to end in separation with her. Now that Rong Rong had seen the light to escape hell, she should have grabbed it without any hesitation.
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