Chapter 74 He Already Knew
It was half a month later that we arrived at Chiping City.
Li Xiaogou's injuries were almost healed. He did not stay in the tent for the next few days. He followed Jiang Yao all the way and asked him some questions from time to time.
Jiang Yao naturally discovered his intention, but Li Xiaogou pulled Jiang Mu, and Jiang Yao glanced at them. In the end, they both compromised. Li Xiaogou simply enjoyed it.
Jiang Mu slowly let down his guard and began to accept Jiang Yao as his adopted father. However, no matter how the atmosphere in the team changed, in the dead of night, a shadow would once again cast a shadow over everyone's heart.
Ever since the battle with the Special Investigation Bureau, Li Xiaogou hasn't had a good night's sleep. Whenever he closes his eyes, Yunlou's bruised and battered body appears before his eyes.
So much time has passed, and the power to track them is not strong enough, at least not as strong as expected.
No one jumped out to analyze the reason, but obviously they all thought that someone must have delayed the battle and bought them time.
No news is good news. A sigh came from the silent tent in the darkness.
In addition, there was another thing that made Li Xiaogou very worried.
He had been holding it in for a long time, and after settling down in Chiping City, he finally exploded.
Along the way, he never stopped for a moment, and when the time came, he used his supernatural powers on anyone he saw.
In the past, he was bound by the rules of the bureau, and he had no interest in prying into other people's privacy, so he never used this self-exhausting method to improve his supernatural powers.
Now he knows the importance of having strong superpowers. This will not only help him improve his superpowers as quickly as possible, but also allow him to detect spies around him. It is a good way to kill two birds with one stone.
But soon, he realized something was wrong.
The system is gone.
Li Xiaogou calculated that according to the normal progress, he would have advanced at least two levels, but the system remained silent from beginning to end.
Locking himself in the room in the name of "having a good rest", Li Xiaogou tried to call the system.
Finally, after he threw out the threat he had prepared long ago - "exposing his true identity", the system finally "arrived late".
"What is the matter with the host calling me?"
"Why hasn't my ability been upgraded yet?"
"The system is currently being updated. Once the update is complete, the host will be upgraded all at once."
"Oh? What new features have been updated?"
…
He actually stumped an artificial intelligence with his question.
Li Xiaogou sneered: "Just tell me, where have you been recently?"
"Fix the bug..."
Li Xiaogou actually heard a hint of pity in his voice.
"What's there to hide?"
Silence, silence again.
He raised an eyebrow and threatened, "If you keep hiding anything, I'll abandon our agreement. Go do whatever task you want on your own."
The system was clearly intimidated, its mechanical voice emitting a sense of urgency: "I will tell the host, but the host cannot use this as a reason to demand a breach of contract."
"But you can ask for compensation." Li Xiaogou said.
The system uttered an "hmm" with difficulty.
"It's like this... Actually, according to the original timeline, this world was destroyed when we traveled through it."
"For some unknown reason, our presence stopped the progress of this world line, and eventually led to the current situation..."
Li Xiaogou narrowed his eyes: "Our appearance?"
System: "...Okay, I'm here."
"Finding the Destroyer was a mission you gave me privately. Originally, I didn't need to carry out this plan, right?"
"You can't say it's done privately. If we don't find the destroyer, this world will be destroyed sooner or later. You're in it, so naturally you can't stay out of it."
Li Xiaogou nodded.
"You are so reasonable, why didn't you just tell me the truth instead of lying to me for so long?"
The system hesitated for a long time before saying, "We weren't familiar with each other back then, so I could only judge your behavior based on big data. You committed suicide in your previous life, so how can I know if you'll commit suicide again after I tell you the truth?"
There is some truth to it.
Li Xiaogou snorted coldly: "Are you sure now that the Destroyer is Yan Jiang?"
"right."
"Um?"
"I guessed it unexpectedly? It's not hard to guess actually."
"You've been asking me to find the Destroyer, which means you weren't sure about his identity before. But after Yan Jiang showed up, you mysteriously disappeared again, which is enough to prove that there must be a connection between him and the Destroyer."
"Plus, you said your appearance delayed the apocalypse..." Li Xiaogou examined the system. "You're a system without any hands or feet, so your ability to influence the apocalypse is limited, right? Unless the process is related to the system."
"To put it bluntly, it's a system from the outside. I guess your forced intrusion caused fluctuations in the data, which forced the original process of world destruction to be delayed."
"Taking all the evidence into consideration, the answer that the Destroyer is Yan Jiang is clear in front of us."
"Wow, host, you are so smart!"
"Stop the flattery. Tell me, what did you do while you were gone? You didn't even receive the level-up reward."
Li Xiaogou heard two low mutters of "stingy", but they quickly dissipated.
"I'm going to see Yunlou."
The body that had been curled up in the chair suddenly straightened up, and Li Xiaogou's breathing became rapid unconsciously: "Yunlou is not dead? Is he okay?"
"Very good." The system paused delicately. "He was the one who came to me on his own initiative. In reality, you had already been exposed."
"How did he find you?"
"How would I know? Anyway, one morning when you were lying in bed soundly asleep, I suddenly received a message with only an IP address in it."
"And then, you just went there directly? Aren't you afraid there might be some trick?"
"So what if it's a trick? I'm just a weak, helpless, and pitiful string of numbers."
"...Go on."
"I went over there and found a video Yunlou left behind. He said he couldn't reveal his whereabouts right now, so this was the only way to report his safety. Oh, he also said Jiang Yao wasn't a bad person, but you don't have to listen to his orders. That's all. I haven't figured out why he did this yet."
"Considering that Yan Jiang has transformed into the system controller, this behavior of leaving the IP address is likely to expose Yun Lou's whereabouts. This is different from his previous cautious and cautious style of action. However, the video does not show any signs of editing or fabrication. The probability of it being authentic is nearly 90%."
"No need to analyze." Li Xiaogou interrupted the system, "It's Yunlou."
After a pause, he slowly raised the corners of his lips: "The reason is actually very simple."
"What is it?"
"He didn't want us to rescue him, and would rather risk being discovered to deliver this message."
"but."
Li Xiaogou changed the subject, and the smile on his face made the system vaguely uneasy.
He just said in a joking tone: "I'm a very rebellious person. The more you tell me not to do something, the more I will do it!"
"You're going to save Yunlou?!"
"You want to stop me?"
The system came to an abrupt halt. The sound wave analysis results from the host showed that although the host appeared emotionally stable, there were actually undercurrents beneath the calm surface. In this situation, the only thing to do was to go along with it, otherwise something terrible would happen.
"The system believes that the rescue operation should have a complete plan. The host's current strength is not enough to confront Yan Jiang head-on."
"You also know that I'm not strong enough right now? Where's my level-up reward? Where's the mental compensation for not being able to find you these past few days?"
As soon as Li Xiaogou finished speaking, two mechanical sounds rang in his mind.
[Congratulations to the host for upgrading the melon-eating system and opening the field function. ]
[Field Function: At the current level, all creatures within a 10-meter radius radiating outward from the host's standing coordinates will be damaged by the host's attacks. The direct target receives 100% damage, while the remaining targets receive decreasing damage per meter of distance, with the outermost circle receiving only 10% damage.]
[Congratulations to the host for upgrading the Melon Eating System and opening the Melon Eating* Direct Hit Vital Point function.]
[Direct Hit: Only one target person can be selected at a time. The selected target person has a 90% chance of revealing a psychological weakness. This function can only be used once a day. Please use with caution.]
Group attack and mental attack!
The first domain function, in particular, was exactly what Li Xiaogou wanted and lacked the most. With group attack skills, the entire team's strength could be greatly improved. These two functions were truly timely.
Li Xiaogou forced down the corner of his lips that was about to rise. "Why don't you have any defensive skills? Other people's systems have high-speed particle cannons and golden bell shields, but mine only has this?"
There was a strange creaking sound in the air.
"This is the reward I gave you for forcibly raising your level without the knowledge of the main system!"
"I" have come out, it seems that I am really angry.
Li Xiaogou coughed lightly twice. "Okay, then next time I level up, you have to give me a powerful defensive skill. Also, you've been lying to me from the beginning, so I won't count on you giving me any skills. You've read novels, right? Give me some weapons that can hit anything you point at."
"I'm just a melon-eating system! Why does a melon-eating system need weapons???"
"Who just boasted about breaking the world line?"
"That's not showing off!"
"Oh, I'm so miserable. I work so hard to save the world, but I don't even have a weapon to defend myself. I wish I had just ended it all. Why are other people's systems so powerful..."
"stop!"
"Stop your PUA system!"
"I don't have it, but I can rub it. I'll go and rub it, okay?"
Li Xiaogou's eyes lit up, and he rubbed his hands together and said, "Can you rub it? Then give it to our team."
Although it is said to be rubbing by hand, the actual operation is not as simple as it sounds.
The system must first hack into the weapons depot, find the blueprints that can be produced, and then hack into the system of the production base to find an opportunity to produce some.
"To prevent you from being wiped out, I'm going to the country across the ocean and do whatever I can to you! But you have to promise not to do anything until I return, and you have to upgrade the system by two levels."
Li Xiaogou narrowed his eyes and said, "Tell me honestly, is your real KPI the system level?"
"Ah! Time is running out, I have to go. It's settled then!"
…
Li Xiaogou called a few more times, but the system had already walked away and did not respond.
However, even without the system telling him, he would seize every opportunity to upgrade the system.
Soon, Jiang Yao took a group of people to Jigu to investigate the whereabouts of Wang Zheng and others. After they left, Wang Bo quietly followed them in the dead of night.
Li Xiaogou saw it, but did not stop it.
You may regret doing some things, but you will definitely regret not doing them.
He didn't want Wang Bo to regret his whole life.
During the month they were away, Li Xiaogou was not idle either. In the morning, he would pull Jiang Mu to practice fighting together. At this time, Sus would usually watch from the side and open a small betting to earn some pocket money.
In the afternoon, Li Xiaogou would leave their base and wander around the streets and alleys of Chiping. Everyone he met along the way would be the target of his supernatural powers.
He often felt like he had been digitized, a database-like existence. The gossip that once shattered his perspective wouldn't stay in his mind for more than three minutes. It was only when he collapsed in bed, exhausted, that he felt the illusion that he was still alive.
The only thing that made Li Xiaogou feel at ease was that he was eating melons everywhere in Chiping, and he had no taboos about who to eat, but he didn't find anyone related to the Special Investigation Bureau or the organization.
This also indirectly shows how meticulous Jiang Yao's mind is, as he was able to find such a place under the surveillance of several major forces.
A month passed in a flash, and finally, Jiang Yao returned with his men, exhausted, and brought news about Wang Zheng and others.
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