After breakfast, Huo Haocheng carried a basket on his back, picked up his tools, and prepared to go up the mountain with Ruan Ruan.

"The dew is a bit heavy today, hold my hand, watch your step, be careful."

Today's main focus is on checking if there are any prey in the traps set yesterday.

"I know, I go up the mountain often too. Don't worry, you won't fall."

I used to go into the forest often when doing missions, so this mountain path is nothing to me.

Seeing that Ruan Ruan didn't take it seriously at all, Huo Haocheng shook his head helplessly and could only keep a closer eye on her movements.

"You sit down and rest for a bit, I'll go see if I've found anything."

After entering the mountains, Huo Haocheng settled Ruan Ruan on a large rock, took a machete from his basket for her to use in self-defense, and then carried the basket towards the trap.

Yesterday, the three brothers set up a total of five traps to prevent any fish from escaping. Huo Haocheng started by checking the outermost one. There were no traps on the outer two. As they went deeper into the mountains, they started to see pheasants or rabbits. The innermost one even had a roe deer, weighing about 70 or 80 pounds.

Seeing Huo Haocheng come out carrying things, Ruan Ruan jumped off the rock and helped Huo Haocheng put down the basket.

Looks like I'm having pretty good luck today.

This was the first time Ruan Ruan had ever seen a real roe deer. She had heard that roe deer would not run away when they saw people, acting like a complete idiot. Although she had seen a dead one today, she thought that if she went up the mountain a few more times, she might see a live one.

"Sister, you stay here for a while. I need to go find something to rearrange the traps."

"Okay, go ahead. I think the wild vegetables here look nice; I'll pick some to take back. We'll make dumplings tonight."

In May, plants grow wildly, and wild vegetables cover the mountains. Because she was deep in the mountains, no one picked them, which benefited her.

"Then be careful, just pick a little bit, that's enough."

After Huo Haocheng left, Ruan Ruan began to pick...

"Call system, call system"

"Host, I'm here."

The system revealed a physical entity, lying on the rock.

When the system was at home, it would hide and perch on Ruan Ruan's or Huo Haocheng's shoulder. At first, it was too scared, but after they went on a mission together, Huo Haocheng promised to give it dried fish, and yesterday afternoon it actually went and caught some for itself. Now, it and Huo Haocheng have become comrades-in-arms who have gone through life and death together.

"Do you think there are medicinal herbs like ginseng and lingzhi in these mountains?"

"Host, please empty the delusions from your head."

The system glanced at its big blue eyes, and it wanted to roll its eyes back, but unfortunately, it couldn't.

"How is this wishful thinking? Isn't that how it's written in those time-travel novels? The female protagonist can find ginseng when she goes up the mountain, so why can't she find it for me?"

"Host, there is a difference between novels and reality."

"Couldn't you at least give me some ginseng?!"

At this moment, the system no longer wanted to talk to Ruan Ruan. It was a savior system, only capable of collecting information about people, not a treasure-hunting system.

The system ruthlessly stated "No".

"Really not."

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, I'm the system, I have no emotions," the system said after calming itself down.

"Or you could try looking in the mountains; you might just find it there!"

Ruan Ruan looked up in the direction of the mountains, pondered for a moment, and then said, "Forget it, I won't go. Otherwise, my brother will worry again if he doesn't see me when he comes out."

As Ruan Ruan looked towards the deep mountains, the system thought she was really going and was trying to figure out how to dissuade her when it heard her say she wasn't going. Her reason was that she was afraid Huo Haocheng would worry. You know, in the past, even her grandfather had a hard time dissuading Ruan Ruan from her ideas. It seems that Huo Haocheng has a great influence on Ruan Ruan!

Ruan Ruan herself didn't realize that she wanted to do something now. If it were before, she would have already reached the heart of the mountains by now. But now, her first thought was not to make Huo Haocheng worry. She didn't like to see his helpless expression of worry for her.

Not hearing the system's voice for a long time, Ruan Ruan turned her head to look in its direction; "Why did it suddenly stop talking?"

"No, I was just thinking about some things."

"You can still think?"

What do you mean?

"Shouldn't you be a bunch of program code?"

Ruan Ruan always thought that this system was just a bunch of code.

System OS: 'He can't be serious for more than three seconds.'

"I'll say it again, please listen carefully, I am God," the system said, enunciating each word clearly.

"But besides the functions you mentioned before, you can't do anything else? Shouldn't a god be able to do everything?"

In the eyes of mortals, gods are omnipotent, able to go to heaven and earth, but the cat in front of her only has four functions: 1, 2, 3, and 4.

"Because it's restricted. My name is the Salvation System, so there has to be a distinction. Otherwise, if every system is the same and can do anything, wouldn't the bound host be able to do whatever they want with the system?"

What you said makes some sense.

"It's not just that there's some truth to it, it's just the truth."

“Oh, okay,” Ruan Ruan replied dismissively.

"No, host, please correct your attitude," Ruan Ruan really had the ability to drive people crazy with just one sentence.

"Where did my attitude go wrong? Isn't it perfectly proper? Don't be unreasonable."

"How come I'm being unreasonable? It's clearly your attitude that's off."

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Just as the man and the cat were arguing fiercely, Huo Haocheng returned.

"What's going on? What are you arguing about? I could hear you from inside."

Upon seeing Huo Haocheng return, Ruan Ruan preemptively accused the system of being unreasonable and recounted the events that had transpired. Her words implied that the system was useless, refused to admit its mistakes, and criticized her for her improper attitude.

"No, you're turning the tables and twisting the truth. Do your family know about this?" It was too late. Ruan Ruan had already accused her, and her accusations were getting more and more outrageous. The system really couldn't stand it anymore. There was no one in the world as shameless as her. The Ruan Ruan of the past wasn't like this. Where did things go wrong?

“I’m asking you! Your family, do you even know that?” Ruan Ruan nudged Huo Haocheng with her elbow.

Seeing Ruan Ruan's cunning gaze, Huo Haocheng simply smiled indulgently and said, "Now you know," which could be considered a response to the system's words.

The system was completely driven to despair by the two of them, lying on the rock, not wanting to move, closing its eyes, and trying to avoid seeing them.