Chapter 67 The True Face of the System
"Are you awake, baby?" a soft voice said.
It took Han Bao Wang a while to recover. Yes, he was now with his sister.
He lingered reluctantly in his sister's arms for a while before finally getting up.
Looking at his sister who had been lost and found again, he was filled with excitement. "Sister, how could you..." The rest of the question was self-evident: How could she be brought back to life?
"Because the world is about to collapse?" the older sister replied with a smile.
Burger King looked bewildered. "What?"
"Will you help me, Prince Hanbao..." "Sister" whispered softly in Prince Hanbao's ear.
Before Han Baowang could react, she swiftly withdrew.
"This world...this world is pathetic, controlled like a dream, shattering at the slightest touch! I saw the truth of the world on the other side of death. And now the world is finally facing its end. I saw the truth of the world and returned through the cracks. Not only 'me,' but many more like me will come here through these cracks!"
She stared intently at the crack in the sky, a crack that those born there generally cannot see.
In a corner unseen by the King of Hanbao, her eyes were filled with greed.
She quickly composed herself. "I said I shouldn't exist in this world. It's only because the world's order is collapsing that I was able to come into this world. If the world returns to its original state, I will return to where I was before. Prince Hanbao, you don't want to lose me again, do you?"
King Hanbao fell silent. This world? What did that mean? He knew that many people besides him knew certain things, but he had been kept in the dark all along.
He was a little overwhelmed by the overwhelming amount of information he was receiving all at once.
After realizing what his sister meant, he fell silent again.
If it's for her sister's sake, he doesn't care about the lives or deaths of everyone else, and he has no say in how the world changes.
But he also has other people he cares about, such as Jie Laoban.
As he thought about it, his heart began to pound violently.
His eyes became unfocused, and...
At this moment, his sister cupped his head and turned his face toward him, her eyes glowing red.
As the red light appeared, King Hanbao gradually calmed down and looked at his sister.
Seeing him like this, his sister's voice was soft and seductive. "Don't worry, this world can get better. As long as I obtain godhood, this world will still get better, and I won't disappear. Isn't that good?"
Seeing that Prince Hanbao was still struggling, she calmly continued, "Do you want your sister to disappear again? You will help me, won't you, Prince Hanbao?"
Finally, she said, "I... want my sister, I will help her."
Ah, finally she hugged Prince Hanbao and comforted him, "Don't worry, your sister will always be with you, don't worry..."
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After the doctor killed another monster he couldn't even name, he finally had a little time to rest.
He turned back to look at the person who had gotten off, rubbing his shoulder. "Can someone explain to me what's going on?"
The person in front of him knelt down with a thud. "Thank you for saving our lives, sir. We had no choice. We had to leave the base. We thought they wouldn't let us leave because they wanted to keep an eye on us, and that it was just a way for those big shots to exploit us. We never expected to encounter such a monster as soon as we came out."
The doctor pondered for a moment. Sometimes he felt like a viewer who ran to the bathroom halfway through watching a TV series and missed a large part of the plot.
"That doctor?..." A timid question drew the doctor's attention away.
"Nangong Qi?" The doctor looked puzzled. What was she doing here?
Nangong Qi looked quite disheveled, dressed in coarse linen, her face smeared with black, making it impossible to see any of her original skin color.
Noticing the doctor's gaze, the men who had seemed quite afraid of him immediately became wary.
He looked at the doctor with a wary expression, as if he was about to be attacked if things went wrong.
Nangong Qi felt a little embarrassed. Only now could she realize how well she had been treated at the research institute.
Her original world was so peaceful that she felt no sense of crisis whatsoever. Shortly after being brought back to the base by Aji, the base was completely sealed off.
Only a small number of people are allowed to leave to carry out their missions once approved.
For her, it was like being restricted from appearing in a game—this wouldn't do; she was completely unaware of what was happening outside. Besides, nothing had changed outside in the original story; it must be some kind of conspiracy.
So she quickly used the charm aura of her system to attract more than a dozen people, and under the system's planning, she successfully led more than a dozen people to sneak out.
She regretted it soon after she left. Compared to her naivety, the other dozen or so people had a much stronger sense of crisis.
They immediately realized something big must have happened outside after sealing off the base.
But they all followed along with some inexplicable thoughts.
Within a few days of being away, these dozen or so people revealed their true intentions. They weren't bound by the rules of the research institute, so their moral compass was very low from the start.
It's just that a new leader has come and set too many rules, and they've been forced to behave themselves due to the situation, so they've come out now.
At first, they were just trying to take advantage of others, but as they gradually discovered that they weren't the only ones with this idea, their evil intentions were aroused.
The few who held onto their last line of defense were beaten black and blue, barely alive, and tied up in a corner. It wasn't that they were kind-hearted, but rather that they were running out of food outside.
When Nangong Qi was almost stripped naked, she was so anxious that tears welled up in her eyes. In the end, she used all her points to ask the system for help.
Sizzle—
Before the burly man's ferocious and excited expression could change, his face rapidly paled, withered, and finally just a layer of skin remained.
The sudden turn of events caught everyone off guard. With the system's prompting, Nangong Qi forced back her tears and sprinkled the powder given to her by the system on herself and the several dying people on the ground.
Then he squatted down without moving, not uttering a sound, tears streaming down his face, his heart pounding and his whole body trembling.
The powder was indeed effective; the monsters didn't touch them, while the others were brutally murdered without any chance to fight back.
After a long time, Nangong Qi didn't know how much time had passed before she finally stood up, leaning against her body which was still trembling from the intense shock to her heart.
Seeing that she had gotten up, the other burly men who were not so badly injured also got up.
After confirming that it was safe, the big man found Nangong Qi's clothes and wanted to wash them and give them to her.
But Nangong Qi refused, her teeth trembling as she ripped off the still-intact clothes from a corpse.
Seeing the bright and gorgeous clothes held in the big man's hands, she didn't hesitate to "throw them away".
Then she smeared her face with blood, ash, and dirt. Of course, she did this not only for the sake of convenience, but more importantly for the alluring aura!
This halo that led her to this predicament!
Her face contorted with rage; she finally had time to ask!
"System, I need an explanation! Why?!"
The system answered in her mind in a mechanical voice without the slightest inflection, "All the points have been used to fulfill your wish, help you kill them, attract the nearest monsters, and provide the host with safe medicine powder. This is a voluntary transaction between both parties."
The system's words made her face turn even paler. In that crucial moment, her last thought was—kill them! Kill them all! All of them!!
In fact, the entire system can use teleportation to send her to a safe place without requiring too many points.
But at that moment, the system used a quoting tone, making her agree to use all her points to kill them.
The thought of it made her stomach cramp; she wanted to kill...
No! No! You know perfectly well that's not what I'm asking!!! What's with this halo! Why! They're targeting me!
This was the question she most wanted to know. Under the influence of this aura, they had become visibly greedy, with a desire to devour her whole.
"Host, your aura is an allure aura, the essence of which is desire," the system voice announced.
"Why! Why did you lie to me! You didn't tell me any of this!"
"You didn't ask me, so I didn't lie to you. You can also exchange for the female lead's halo; it has no side effects."
"What female lead halo? How many points?" Nangong Qi mocked, saying that she didn't have any points at all.
"No points are needed, host. All you need is a 'divine spark.' With a divine spark, you can become the female lead of this world." Here we go again. Nangong Qi is now certain that the seductive tone used to tempt her to use up all her points is not a delusion!
Godhood! This system absolutely, positively has another purpose!
As she witnessed the world gradually crumbling outside, and saw descriptions so different from those in the original story, she gradually came to understand.
This was a real world, and it seemed as if her eyes were finally seeing it clearly. This system was absolutely not benevolent. Perhaps she shouldn't have let the plot deviate; perhaps it was precisely because the plot had deviated that this terrible situation had arisen.
She silently swallowed all her words and prepared to leave with a few people.
She glanced at the exhausted group. Previously, she had only thought they all looked ordinary and silently labeled them as NPCs, no longer paying attention to them.
Now she finally realized that they were no different from the people going to work, the uncle buying breakfast, and everyone she passed by on the street in her original world.
They remained silent the whole way, and no one spoke. Nangong Qi was originally planning to return to the base but was given an electric shock warning. It seemed that after realizing that she had been exposed, she simply stopped hiding. In the end, Nangong Qi could only grit her teeth and head in the direction indicated by the system.
One night, Nangong Qi suddenly felt that she had an extra pair of hands on her body, and she immediately wanted to go to that day.
He immediately pulled out his only self-defense weapon, a dagger, and looked on alert.
It turned out that the big man had covered her with a piece of clothing.
The burly man chuckled sheepishly and said he had originally planned to leave alone, but he hadn't expected her to wake up.
He said he originally had a wife and daughter, whose daughter was about the same age as her. He said he felt sorry for his daughter and wife, and he didn't know why he had followed her as if possessed, taking all the family's belongings and money with him.
But now he wants to go back and see his daughter and wife, so he won't go with her.
Yes, before the halo effect, he was a husband and a father. Under the halo, he lost his rationality. Now that Nangong Qi has concealed his appearance, his rationality has returned.
But this other woman's husband and father did not survive; soon after he finished speaking, a monster attacked.
In order to protect him, he eventually died outside.
"Was it you?! You did it! It was you!" Nangong Qi no longer cared about being discovered by the system; she shouted in a frantic tone.
The only response she received was a cold, mechanical voice: "Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying."
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