Chapter 31: I Also Want Cake (31)
“You don’t love her at all. She’s so happy here. You’ve messed up my world and now you’re saying you want to leave? On what basis?” It shrieked.
“Let her go.” Jiang Zhiyan warned, a skill card appearing in her hand. She held Liang Xi’s shoulder tightly. “You know I can snap Yan Yanzhuo’s neck. He has no way to resist.”
“There’s a chance I can escape with her, but you will definitely die.”
“This is just one of her soul fragments.” It said. “Look, it’s only a small fragment, her personality is still complete, it means losing a bit won’t make any difference.”
“Three…” Jiang Zhiyan didn’t bother responding, discussing this with the world’s consciousness was meaningless. She didn’t understand why it insisted on keeping Liang Xi, she only knew that she wouldn’t let it happen.
The skill card began to glow, a sign that it was activating.
It cursed and tried to stop Jiang Zhiyan, but she wasn’t going to waste any more time.
In the blink of an eye, Jiang Zhiyan and Liang Xi vanished.
Even a world consciousness that considered itself highly civilized couldn’t help but want to curse.
Yan Yanzhuo was still awake. He had just been whipped with a rattan cane, the wounds on his body freshly treated and stinging so badly he couldn’t sleep. Seeing the two suddenly appear in front of him, he froze for a second, slightly surprised. He glanced around, as if pondering how they appeared.
“As expected of the male lead, not even panicking after encountering something so unscientific.” The system sighed. “Great, now there are three lunatics in this room.”
Jiang Zhiyan carefully placed Liang Xi on the sofa and looked at Yan Yanzhuo.
In the plot, the female lead would find the beaten-up male lead and carefully treat his wounds. Because of the skin contact, their hearts would race, and their feelings would rapidly develop.
She had always wanted to kill Yan Yanzhuo. Even though Liang Xi didn’t interact much with him, and even though this plot point was now impossible, just thinking about it made her feel uncomfortable.
Jiang Zhiyan grabbed a tie from nearby and swiftly wrapped it around Yan Yanzhuo’s neck.
Her movements were so fast that Yan Yanzhuo barely had time to react. Just as he reached out, he heard a crisp “crack,” and his wrists went limp.
He gasped and stared at Jiang Zhiyan, his face pale. He had seen Jiang Zhiyan fight before, but she had held back then. Now, he could sense a clear killing intent in her gaze.
She clearly wanted him dead.
“What a psycho, not even screaming?” The system was shocked. “But Host, are you really going to kill him? Wait, let me write a will, save my basic data, I think I still have a chance to be reborn…”
The world consciousness, seeing its precious son being tortured without making a sound, felt a phantom heart attack coming on.
What was wrong with these people?
Yan Yanzhuo stared at Jiang Zhiyan. The pressure on his neck increased, and he couldn’t suppress his physiological reaction, coughing violently.
He felt like Jiang Zhiyan was in a tug-of-war with something, and his life was the bargaining chip.
“Jiang Zhiyan! I compromise!” It roared.
It had finally awakened and couldn’t disappear so quickly. Although soul fragments could help it upgrade the world, it was nothing compared to its own life and death.
However, it wouldn’t let them go so easily. It had already written a complaint letter accusing Jiang Zhiyan. A tasker who threatened the world consciousness should be erased, otherwise, who knew how many small worlds she would harm. These two suddenly appearing in front of Yan Yanzhuo would require it to expend a lot of energy to fix this bug.
Jiang Zhiyan released her grip. Yan Yanzhuo collapsed weakly, his wounds hitting the nightstand, causing him to wince. He covered his neck with his forearm and coughed, each cough aggravating his treated wounds.
“What are you doing?” Yan Yanzhuo asked hoarsely.
She glanced at Yan Yanzhuo coldly, not answering the question, and walked over to Liang Xi, helping her up. Liang Xi still seemed to be trapped in her dream, showing no signs of waking up.
Jiang Zhiyan frowned and looked at Yan Yanzhuo again, her hand resting on a vase.
The next second, her head began to spin. Through the static, she saw a translucent spirit emerge from Liang Xi’s body and fly towards her.
When she woke up again, she saw the familiar ceiling of her tasker lounge.
She immediately sat up, saw the spirit floating beside her, and breathed a sigh of relief.
The spirit couldn’t speak and didn’t have much self-awareness, but it still floated over to Jiang Zhiyan and nuzzled her face. Jiang Zhiyan couldn’t feel it, but she could see it.
Jiang Zhiyan looked at her tenderly.
“Host…”
“Hmm?”
“Mission failed, ha, minus 100,000 points.” The system said, exasperated. “And congratulations on becoming the first tasker in history to be personally kicked out by a world consciousness. You could have gotten a completion bonus for the side plot, but now that the mission failed, there’s nothing.”
Jiang Zhiyan responded indifferently, not really caring. She took out the jade pendant she had exchanged for 500,000 points to nourish souls and placed Xie Liaoyi’s soul fragment inside.
She had spent almost all her savings to buy this, hoping it would work.
She got out of bed and placed the items she brought back from the mission world on the shelf.
The housewarming gift Jiang Zhiyan gave her was placed in the center. It was a jade carving, the craftsmanship clearly amateurish, practically ruining the material, but she loved it.
“Host, just a reminder, you now owe 96,236 points.” The system sighed again. “Other taskers at most earn a little less, you’re directly in debt.”
“It’s fine, I still have points.”
“Where did you get them?”
“Hers.” Jiang Zhiyan touched the jade pendant in her hand. “Quite a lot, actually.”
System: ???
“Why can you access her points?” The system’s eyes widened. It had never heard of something so absurd.
“I just can, ask the Main God if you have any questions.” Jiang Zhiyan lay back down on the bed, placing the jade pendant on her chest.
Looking at Jiang Zhiyan’s lovesick appearance, the system showed her the mission settlement page. The four words “Mission Failed” were starkly visible. Jiang Zhiyan glanced at it and then looked away.
After Jiang Zhiyan and Xie Liaoyi’s soul fragment left, the world consciousness quickly dumped Jiang Zhiyan onto a busy street and began tampering with the memories of everyone involved.
“Heehee, this is better, you two are a match made in heaven, you should be together.” The world consciousness looked at the two sharing a room, its mood improving despite having expended a lot of energy.
Liang Xi, lying on the sofa, woke up with a headache. She opened her eyes, looked around, her face gradually paling, and screamed when she saw Yan Yanzhuo.
“Who are you? Why am I here?” Liang Xi looked at Yan Yanzhuo in terror, wanting to call the police, but realized she didn’t have her phone.
Yan Yanzhuo frowned at Liang Xi, not saying anything, just went out of the room and called for someone. A few minutes later, Yan Yanzhuo and Liang Xi were rushed to the hospital. Liang Xi was so scared by the bodyguards in black that she kept crying.
Yan Yanzhuo got his wrists checked, Liang Xi got her head checked.
The world consciousness, seeing the plot develop completely differently from what it had imagined, panicked. After carefully checking and finding the problem, it wanted to drag Jiang Zhiyan back and beat her up.
Jiang Zhiyan had actually used a skill card before leaving, making the female lead forget all plot points related to Yan Yanzhuo.
To save effort, it had tampered with the memories starting from the first day Jiang Zhiyan and Liang Xi met. But it had tampered with too many memories just now. Its previous attempts to control Xie Liaoyi, and the creation of the small world to trap Xie Liaoyi, had depleted its energy reserves, so it couldn’t tamper with Liang Xi’s memories any further.
It suspected that Jiang Zhiyan had calculated all of this.
And now, if it wanted to tamper with Liang Xi’s memories, it would have to wait at least two years. But in two years, these two would have gone their separate ways, it would be too late.
It angrily wrote another long complaint letter against Jiang Zhiyan.
Looking at Liang Xi, who was asking the nurses to call the police and looking for her mother, it closed its eyes and went back to sleep.
Whatever, let it be.
…
“Host, what have you done again? You’ve received another complaint letter.” The system looked at the “Complaint Received” notification in the inbox, its vision darkening, then chuckled dryly. “Host, I think I’ll be scrapped before you even finish working for the Main God.”
“Oh, whatever.” Jiang Zhiyan closed her eyes. “Stop talking nonsense, take me to the next world.”
“Why are you in such a hurry? Don’t you want to rest?” The system sighed. “Host, please prepare yourself, connecting to the next world.”
“This world is perfect for you, it’s just the character setting that’s not quite right.” The system chuckled. “Host, friendly reminder, you used your wife’s savings to pay off your debt, now your wife has 396,000 points left.”
“I know.” Jiang Zhiyan was very satisfied with the system’s address and, for once, wasn’t annoyed by its chatter.
The familiar dizziness hit.
Perhaps because she was kicked out of the previous world, her current state wasn’t good. After landing, Jiang Zhiyan instinctively moved to adjust, then suddenly tasted something strange in her mouth, like dirt.
She heard screams around her, saw the situation in front of her, and instinctively dodged a stool thrown at her. She looked at the person behind her who was hit by the stool, their body a bloody mess.
She pushed herself off the ground and, ignoring the sharp pain in her legs, ran towards the approaching alien creatures.
“Give me the script, quickly!”
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