Chapter 7 Cannon Fodder Ex-Boyfriend 7 What a beautiful day!

[Host, are you alright?!]

The first thing 888 did after emerging from the small dark room was to scan Li Qingran from head to toe. Relieved to find he was only slightly wet and had no obvious injuries, she then inquired about other matters.

What exactly happened? Why was I suddenly thrown into a dark room?

"Yes, I just ran into an Alpha in his sensitive period in the alley," Li Qingran said honestly.

His tone was very calm, as if he were simply answering a question about a simple experimental procedure.

888 simply erected the power lines.

Alpha in its vulnerable period!

Generally, the system will put the host in the "black room" because the host will be going through some censored scenes.

To protect the privacy of the hosts, the systems will be locked in a closed room during this period, cutting off all communication between them and the hosts.

Although these pixelated scenes don't only refer to those with color, an Alpha in a sensitive period, if completely out of their mind, could rub against a tree trunk a couple of times!

Its host is an Alpha with a delicate and beautiful appearance, who is easily mistaken for a beautiful Omega when not releasing pheromones. In addition, as a cannon fodder, its pheromones probably won't be particularly strong...

Having never seen Li Qingran use pheromones to suppress an Alpha, 888 grew increasingly frightened, his eyes involuntarily scanning Li Qingran's lower body.

[Host, you weren't just...]

"no."

Before 888's detection beam could sweep over again, Li Qingran denied its guess.

However, although he did not have an overly intimate relationship with that Alpha, that does not mean that it was written that way in the original story.

Thinking of the man's terrifying ability to paralyze an entire street in his pursuit of influence, and the lingering, unyielding aura of tension surrounding him, Li Qingran pursed her lips and still suggested to 888:

"I think you can request the original plot from the main system. That Alpha seems to be an important plot character."

【ah? 】

Upon hearing this, the current that was changing color from red to orange suddenly paused, as if it had frozen for a moment, before recovering in the next second.

[An important character? An important character?!]

Whether it was due to a data glitch or simply disbelief in Li Qingran's guess, 888 suddenly laughed after repeating Li Qingran's words twice.

【How could that be? Impossible! Host, you must have guessed wrong. How could he possibly be an important character? Maybe your role is even more important than his, hahaha…】

Li Qingran did not speak.

888, however, couldn't stop talking; it even started comforting Li Qingran.

[Don't worry, host, he definitely won't be an important character. After all, we're just lowly employees in a cannon fodder department. How could we possibly have that much screen time to encounter so many important... ...

888 can't continue.

Its sound grew fainter and fainter until it finally disappeared completely.

Li Qingran's mind was quiet for a while before she heard 888's desperate scream.

How could he possibly be an important character?!

How could an important character in a small world end up in a "black room" scenario with a cannon fodder character, especially one who's about to be eliminated?!

888 doesn't believe it, and doesn't want to believe it.

However, looking at the plot fragments that the main system had just sent it, it didn't even need to read the rest of the content carefully. Just the dozen or so words in the first line that the main system had specially pinned, enlarged, and bolded were enough to make it want to stuff itself into the system modifier and be remade.

The first line of the plot excerpt:

The characters involved in this part of the story include: the villain – Jiang Siran.

Jiang Siran.

Villain.

888 wanted to laugh again, and it was the kind of laugh that comes from taking off your clothes and running around in the street waving your hands.

But it can't do that.

Because he had no clothes.

It also has no hands.

So at this moment, even though it desperately wanted to scream and run away, 888 could only stand there, watching the plot fragments sent by the main system, and desperately accepting a reality it didn't want to accept—yes, the plot really went off track.

Once again, it's completely biased...

888 stared at the three characters 'Su Jingyi' following 'Jiang Siran' and felt that it would be better to just crash the computer.

According to the original timeline, this part of the plot should be that after Su Jingyi was cheated on by the scumbag Alpha, she went out for a drive to clear her mind because she was in a bad mental state. However, she did not want to be followed by Gu Shiyu. While hiding from the protagonist, she chose this deserted alley, only to encounter the villain who had collapsed in the alley and been drugged and forcibly put into a vulnerable period.

Although the two did not have a physical relationship, after Su Jingyi's flustered and accidental reassurance, Jiang Siran still became hopelessly infatuated with the scent of his pheromones, thus beginning her battle with the protagonist for his wife.

However, due to the excessively harsh and extreme methods used, not only was the protagonist's restrained love highlighted as touching, but the protagonist also became the biggest villain in the story.

As a result, the main character who was supposed to appear is nowhere to be seen, and the character who had a storyline with the villain has become cannon fodder who should have been eliminated...

So let me ask you, how should this battle for the wife unfold? Who will highlight the protagonist's restrained love? And can this villain even be a villain anymore? Huh?!

Looking at this chaotic mess of a plot, 888 felt like exploding on the spot.

God knows, the reason it was transferred from the main character department to the cannon fodder department was to have less work and leave earlier, but now it seems to be worrying even more than when it was in the main character department, and the plot to be dealt with is even more troublesome!

[Host, what do we do? I feel like we're about to die...]

888's current worry isn't when they'll get off work, but whether they'll cause the world to collapse...

"Probably not, after all, I told him my name is Su Jingyi."

【What?】888’s eyes widened slowly.

"That is to say, when Jiang Siran asked me what my name was, I told him my name was Su Jingyi."

Li Qingran patiently repeated it once more.

"So, generally speaking, this part of the storyline shouldn't have fallen apart."

888: [...]

Really?

Dear host, please look me in the eye and answer again: Do you really think this plot hasn't fallen apart?

[You're an Alpha, and the protagonist is an Omega. Anyone with a brain should know you two aren't the same person.]

Su Jingyi isn't Cinderella, who transforms into an Alpha at midnight.

Jiang Siran will definitely find out then that the person in the alley isn't the main character.

"So what?"

Li Qingran wasn't as nervous as 888; in fact, he was incredibly calm.

"Since he can't find the Alpha who can truly help him, he will naturally keep pestering the Omega that the other party has explicitly mentioned."

If the two people interact, Jiang Siran can become infatuated with Su Jingyi's pheromones just like in the original storyline.

It's just that it might be a bit late, just like his situation where he still hasn't been able to get off work.

But, I can't find it?

At this point, the program, which was in a semi-paralyzed state, failed to understand Li Qingran's meaning.

"What I mean is, by then I was already out of touch with the world, so how was he supposed to find me?"

During the conversation, Li Qingran, who had changed into her bar uniform, adjusted her tie and then closed the wardrobe. With a soft "click," Alpha's figure in a suit appeared in the slender mirror pressed against the wardrobe door.

He lowered his eyes slightly, slowly rolling up his sleeves, his handsome features carrying a natural air of aloofness, yet his words were gentle and soft.

So relax, things aren't as bad as you think.

Li Qingran looked up at herself in the mirror, her eyes meeting 888's.

"Didn't you say that today was a beautiful day and we could definitely leave work?"

"Ah...that's definitely right..." 888 whispered.

But... watching Li Qingran roll up her sleeves, turn around, and leave the lounge, preparing to go through the final scene, 888 felt that something was not quite right.

Moreover, this feeling of something being wrong didn't stem from Li Qingran's logic, but from the world itself.

Beginner level...

888 stared at the world level assessment on the mission panel and fell silent.

The clouds in the sky seem to have gotten thicker.

Even though the rain had stopped, the sun was still completely blocked by the clouds. The dark clouds pressed down on the city like mountains, and the wind that blew out carried an indescribable sense of oppression.

Dull.

Irritable.

"grass!"

Qi Ziyan scratched the back of his neck twice, then kicked the coffee table in front of him hard.

The bottles on the table rattled and collided with each other, and several fell off the edge of the table, making even more noise as they hit the ground.

"How am I supposed to know why he hasn't come to work yet? Shouldn't you be the one asking that? You told me he was supposed to start work at eight today, and now I've been waiting here for an hour and haven't seen a single person. Gu Shiyu, tell me the truth, are you really not playing me?!"

Qi Ziyan reached up and scratched the back of his neck again. The itch that kept building up in his glands, along with a strange sense of irritation, made him completely unable to listen to anything Gu Shiyu was saying.

"I've really had enough! It's just a lousy Alpha, is it really worth all this trouble and effort we put into designing this? We even have to sacrifice myself... No way! I've changed my mind! I'm not going to personally step in and let that stupid Alpha get away with it. You wait, I'm going to find a dozen or so powerful Alphas right now. Won't the effect they create be more stimulating to Xiao Yi than if I were an Omega myself!"

"No? No way! I'm going to do it today—"

"Bang!"

While talking on the phone with Gu Shiyu, Qi Ziyan strode aggressively toward the door. However, instead of rushing downstairs to the dance hall and dragging away a dozen oddly-shaped Alphas as he had imagined, he bumped into a fleshy wall.

The phone next to his ear was knocked to the ground, and he instinctively reached out to retrieve it, only to touch something damp and cold.

Time suddenly slowed down, the lights blurred, and the surrounding music abruptly disappeared, leaving only Qi Ziyan staring at the Alpha in front of him, his eyes slowly widening and his mouth slightly opening.

A few more words seemed to come from the phone that hadn't been hung up, but Qi Ziyan couldn't hear them clearly. All he knew was that the bubble that had been popped in his dream was now perfectly intact in front of him.

He opened his mouth as if to say something, but a very faint yet very noticeable woody scent wafted toward him first.

There was also a faint smell of gunpowder mixed in, like sparks blown by the wind landing on the back of Qi Ziyan's neck.

Qi Ziyan seemed to hear a "boom," and the next second, something burst out from the soft flesh behind his neck.

The itching became even more pronounced...

Li Qingran watched as the Omega in front of him winked at him. Before he could even greet him, a flush suddenly rose on the Omega's face, and at the same time, an extremely rich honey scent quickly spread around.

He instinctively wanted to back away, but the other person had already wrapped around him like a vine clinging to a tree.

The alarm immediately went off when it detected excessively high pheromone concentrations in the air. At the same time, two robotic arms quickly extended from inside the room and pulled the two people who were stuck at the doorway into the room.

"Bang--"

As the main gate slammed shut, a heavy iron door slammed down onto the ground from above.

"What happened?"

The moment Su Jingyi and Gu Shiyu stepped into the bar, they suddenly heard someone ask a question.

"It seems like an Omega upstairs has gotten into a mating frenzy..."

A note from the author:

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888, thrown into the dark room again: ...Can't you just give me a yearly membership? [crying emoji] [crying emoji] [crying emoji]