Chapter 3: He's not the one who's tasked with completing the strategy? My mind is momentarily stuck...
My mind was briefly stuck, buzzing, and trembling.
Lin Xicai stared blankly at a small, translucent, aqua-blue system that flapped its wings and flew towards her. "Hello, host."
The thing that looked a bit like an elf was talking, and the people around seemed to be unaware of it.
Lin Xicai stared at it, her heart beating wildly and her breathing quickening. In that instant, it felt like she had grabbed a lifeline and communicated with it in her mind, "You finally showed up! Tell me quickly, why am I here? What can I do to get back?"
"You've gained a general understanding of this world, and you should have adapted to your new identity. Now you can begin your conquest mission!"
Lin Xicai's heart skipped a beat - a little surprised, but not that surprised.
The child's voice sounded again, its tone brisk. "The protagonist of this world is called Xie Shi. He comes from a poor family and has a tragic fate. He has already shown obvious antisocial tendencies. Based on his current trajectory, he will become a very dangerous existence. Your task is to capture him in your current identity, influence him with love, and redeem him with your heart. If you succeed, you will be granted an additional fifty years of life."
"Wait," Lin Xicai frowned, "extend life?"
"Host, you won't forget how you got here, right?"
"I'm having heart surgery... Are you saying I failed?"
The system shook its head and corrected, "It's too early to say that. Everything that happens here determines the success or failure of your operation."
Lin Xicai's chest thumped twice. "What do you mean? If my strategy succeeds, the surgery in real life will be successful, and I can live an extra fifty years. If my strategy fails, my surgery in real life will fail, and I will die immediately. Is that right?"
"You can understand it that way."
Lin Xicai was silent and suddenly speechless.
So much had happened in the past two days, and she was randomly exiled to this place and left to face this lousy script without knowing anything.
She finally showed up, and right away she was asked to redeem a prison inmate with a sociopathic personality.
Lin Xicai sneered, smiled bitterly, and then laughed out loud - why not let her die directly on the operating table?
"Uh..." The system noticed her emotions and said weakly, "Please pay attention to your expression. I can see it."
"Why do you want to conquer a man?" Lin Xicai asked soul-searchingly.
She has read too many novels like this.
In one word, vulgar.
Two words: vulgar.
What kind of vulgar taste is this?
Who set up this kind of rubbish task?
"Bringing men and women from two different worlds together, using coercion or bribery to force an innocent girl to revolve around a man, what kind of special fetish is this!"
"You still want to save him? I saved him, but who saved me? If he committed a crime, he should go to jail. Otherwise, what are the police for? If he needs education, let the teachers come. I can just coax him into a relationship and he'll be fine. Who on earth enjoys seeing girls get so caught up in the cold embrace of stinky men?"
"I'm only eighteen! I have a great age, so why do I have to do anything else? Why do you have to make me conquer a man?"
She was going crazy these days. Lin Xicai couldn't help but vent, and the more she spoke, the angrier she became. "The guy who set up the task must be so romantic and love-minded. The task is so simple. If you had replaced this strategy task with studying hard, even if I got first place in the grade, I wouldn't be so speechless. This is simply..."
Ding Dong——
"Your strategy task has been successfully changed to first place in the grade. The number of changes has been used up. Please focus on your strategy. I wish you success soon."
Suddenly, a metallic broadcast voice rang in my ears, cold, hard, and clear.
Lin Xicai's crazy output came to an abrupt end.
A pair of almond-shaped eyes opened slightly, looking a little confused——?
In the corridor, a slender figure paused, a red elastic ball bounced on the ground, and the bony hand stopped in mid-air, forgetting to catch it for a moment.
He stood there, lost in thought for a moment as he watched the red bouncy ball escape his control and jump farther and farther away.
The coldness and stagnant feeling that had always been contained in those narrow and deep eyes became stagnant for a moment because of this moment of distraction, revealing a rare sense of bewilderment.
There was silence in my ears for a while. After a while, that noisy voice sounded again, this time with a little more obedient and timidity, "...Actually, I'm just a little bit arrogant. Can you change it back?"
He listened to the woman's voice, bent down to pick up the bouncy ball on the ground, and his facial expression returned to normal, but he seemed to be waiting for an answer.
The next moment, the child's voice rang out, "Sorry, host, I can't. As you wish, you don't need to capture men anymore. Instead, capture the top student in the grade. Achieving first place in the college entrance examination will be considered a success!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp explosion sounded in his ears. "How dare you change my strategy mission without permission! Who gave you the authority?"
"That's right, host," the system said politely. "Regarding the issue you raised earlier, we are indeed upgrading and optimizing internally. Therefore, we have recently added some new strategy mission types. This one is new and is currently under testing. You are welcome to be the first challenger."
"Using me as a guinea pig?"
"You agreed to it yourself. The contract has been concluded and it is irreversible."
"Don't you feel guilty about assigning such a task to the last-placed person? This is simply murder!——"
The noisy sound in my ears came one after another, and the frequency of the vibration pulled at the sensitive nerves, causing that familiar headache. I held the red elastic ball tightly in my hand, and my knuckles turned white.
Xie Shi pushed open the door, his gaze following the sounds, looking straight in the direction of their source. His expression was cold, indifferent, with only a hint of irritation visible.
At that time, Lin Xicai was sitting in her seat in a daze, breaking down alone. The originally noisy crowd suddenly became quiet - there was no warning, no foreplay, a cliff-like silence, as if someone had pressed the pause button.
She looked up blankly and saw a slender figure at the door.
The leaves outside the window rustled in the wind, and the man just stared at her, not knowing how long he had been looking at her.
Lin Xicai looked back at that face. She didn't like his look, but was surprised by those overly deep and focused eyes.
He was wearing a high school uniform that was no different from everyone else's, but his whole demeanor was totally out of tune with the uniform.
The gloom and compassion in those eyes were like a pool of stagnant water, silently stirring up dangerous ripples the moment their gaze met hers...
His hair was very long, the kind that was unruly and untidy, with almost no grooming. His uneven bangs almost covered his eyes, the hair around his ears was slightly shorter, and the hair on the back of his neck was unruly like a wolf's tail. Combined with his sharp and cold facial features, he looked like a wild beast living among the crowd.
Lin Xicai stared at the beast. His gaze was clearly indifferent, yet his presence was extremely strong. Almost instantly, the pervasive, familiar, intense feeling of being stared at, which she had felt since her first day here, returned with a vengeance...
While I was distracted, the system's voice came coldly, "Don't look at him anymore. He has nothing to do with you anymore."
Lin Xicai was worried and had some guesses, but she still asked, "Who is he?"
"Your former capture target." The system paused. "Yes, your current deskmate."
Lin Xicai looked at the words "Xie Shi" on the title page of the textbook next to her and took a deep breath.
The tall, cold figure approached her in the blink of an eye. The head teacher looked at the two of them and said in a conciliatory tone, "There are currently no other seats in our class. Zhong Fei, please sit here first."
The two people's seats were in the second to last row by the window, and that person's seat was inside.
Lin Xicai came back to his senses, was slow for two seconds, and stood up stiffly to let him go. When he stood up, he said obediently, "Hello, thank you for your guidance."
The man seemed to look at her again, but did not respond.
After he entered, Lin Xicai quietly sat down at her seat. Her face was calm, but her heart was shattered. "I'm not even trying to win him over, so why did you let him sit next to me? Isn't he said to be a sociopath? Am I really going to be okay being so close to this pure prison type?"
Why do you treat me like this? I'm just an eighteen-year-old girl. I would be scared too, okay?
Lin Xicai lowered her head to look at the textbook and felt that compared with the evil spirit next to her, the math problems looked much more clear and elegant.
The classroom was very quiet, even eerily quiet.
She looked completely different from when she first came in.
Lin Xicai knew very well that these people had not become obedient, they were just deliberately not making any noise. If you looked closely, you would find that those who were chatting had started passing notes, those who were watching videos had put on headphones, and even the two guys eating instant noodles at the back table had become much more elegant, secretly suppressing their smacking of lips.
And this strange change started when her crazy classmate entered the classroom.
The noise was so loud that even the head teacher couldn't control it. This person didn't even need to say a word, as if he had his own suppressing effect. It was simply astonishing.
This guy is indeed a dangerous person. So what did he do before to scare them so much?
Lin Xicai felt like there was a huge time bomb sitting next to her. In order to avoid accidentally stepping into the minefield and getting into trouble, she needed to figure out some things in advance.
Lin Xicai blinked and summoned the system in her mind: "I am a strategist, I should have the script of this world, right?"
The system that had just gone invisible heard her voice and jumped out from somewhere, flapping its aqua-blue wings a few times in front of her eyes.
"It originally existed," the system said, "and it records all the preferences and experiences of the target."
Lin Xicai was delighted when she heard this: "That's great, I..."
"However," the system interrupted her, changing the subject, "your current mission is to get first place in the grade. This benefit is not suitable for you, so it has been cancelled."
"Cancelled? Fine then," Lin Xicai cleared her throat. "Since this benefit isn't suitable, give me another one based on my mission."
Other things? The system blinked and asked cautiously: "For example?"
"Take IQ, for example. Learning doesn't require a script, but it does require IQ. You provide the script for conquering men, but why can't you increase my IQ for my study? Why," she lowered her voice, "is my study less noble than my man?"
system:"……."
You can draw inferences from one example.
The system tried to continue playing dead, but it seemed to sense her slightly depressed mood. After a pause, the system said in a muffled voice: "Then I'll give you some space to play with."
Almost in the next second, Lin Xicai felt a heat between her fingers, and a metal ring-like object suddenly appeared on her little finger.
As that thing appeared, a space actually appeared in Lin Xicai's consciousness, a vast and mysterious space.
Lin Xicai felt the mysterious space and couldn't help but ask, "What can this be used for?"
"Storage." The system said, "When no one is around, you can go in and rest, or..."
"Oh, I understand," Lin Xicai nodded and murmured, "You want me to hide the textbooks and review materials in there and take a peek during the exam, so that I can..."
"I didn't say that!" the system exploded. "This is cheating! You'll immediately be deemed to have failed the mission if you do this!"
The system seemed to be frightened by her expectations and suddenly changed its mind, "You are too dangerous. I won't send you."
As he spoke, he was about to retract it, but as soon as he made the move to retract it, a clear alarm sounded -
"Permissions have been changed. You are not authorized to access without the owner's permission."
The system was stunned: "This is..."
Lin Xicai raised her eyes and smiled, "Sorry, I was a little quick."
The system stared at that sweet and seemingly harmless face, and at a certain moment, it inexplicably felt some inexplicable uneasiness - she had just obtained the space, and the next second she was able to set permissions without any instruction. It couldn't tell whether she was lucky by accident or she was too smart.
Even though nothing had happened yet, it felt that this attacker was different from the others before, as if it had accidentally planted a huge bomb with its own hands.
Lin Xicai lay on the table with her eyes closed, pretending to be asleep, and was controlling the space with her consciousness, as if she had obtained a new and interesting toy.
This thing is not simple. If she was not still in class, she would almost go in and feel it immediately. Lin Xicai felt the endless energy inside and felt a little trembling in her heart.
At least she had a cheat to rely on. Even if the "Pure Prison System" sitting next to her suddenly went crazy, at worst she could hide inside and take shelter...
…
Xie Shi closed his eyes and said nothing from beginning to end.
The hypocritical voices beside him poured into his ears like maggots. It was disgusting, but he couldn't get rid of them.
Just like every raider who had appeared and disappeared in his life before.
There seemed to be a little surprise this time. Her task was not to capture him - but it seemed no different. He could still hear those voices. This person was just like the previous capturers, hypocritical, artificial, and self-righteous.
He didn't care whether she was dead or alive in the end, but he was a little curious about how she would continue to play this play.
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