Chapter 99 Crisis of Trust
The system was silent for a moment, then finally confessed, "Yes. This world's original plot has been distorted by the intervention of the Reborn. My mission is to assist the Corrector, that is, you, in repairing the world line. However, the identity of the Reborn is hidden. Only through your actions and choices can we gradually lock on to our target. The system cannot interfere."
This situation is like a bug in the program, but the program itself cannot automatically fix the bug and the programmer must intervene. However, the programmer himself cannot enter the program, so Jiang Fei became the chosen "program patch."
Jiang Fei suddenly felt a little absurd, "So I'm a walking antivirus software?"
"That's pretty much what I mean. However, you, the host, are much smarter than the antivirus software. You were able to guess this." The system added, "But I absolutely have no intention of harming you. We are on the same side."
"How can I trust you?" Jiang Fei's voice was as cold as ice. "From the very beginning, you didn't tell me the truth."
The system was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly sighed, "Host, if I tell you the whole truth, will you still work hard to correct the plot? You're already a little tempted to give up, aren't you?"
Jiang Fei did not deny that if she had known from the beginning that it was such a difficult task, she would most likely have given up.
Instead of working yourself to death and failing in the end, it is better to enjoy the last bit of your life from the beginning.
But now that it has come to this, she can't give up, at least she doesn't want Wei Ciying to succeed.
"Why me?"
"It can only be you."
"What do you mean?" Jiang Fei became alert instantly.
"Although I'm called a system, I'm actually just a small branch within the main system, governed by it. I know some things, but they're keywords blocked by the main system. If I open my mouth, the system will block me, and only the host can answer."
"You can't even say that?"
System: "You were once a ring, so only you can correct it."
Jiang Fei frowned, and caught a hint of the key point from the interrupted words, "You mean, I was also a part of this?!"
System: "&…*@%…%&**&…%%&&, did you hear that?"
Jiang Fei was speechless, "I only heard the last sentence."
"It's over. Everything has been blocked by the main system." The system said aggrievedly: "It's not that I don't want to talk about it, but once the main system detects it, it will be blocked. I'm just an employee, okay?"
Jiang Fei sighed.
The system asked cautiously: "Then, are you still going to do this mission?"
Jiang Fei gritted her teeth, "Do it! I've worked so hard for so long, how could I let Wei Ciying succeed? I'm going to fight her to the end!"
The system breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard Jiang Fei say sinisterly: "However, it's time to renegotiate our terms."
System: “…” I know that this host will never suffer any loss.
"I can't open permissions restricted by the main system. The only thing we can discuss is the reward after completing the mission."
"What if you lie to me?" Jiang Fei said.
System: "All rewards will be recorded in the main system and will be distributed uniformly by the main system at that time. However, I can only give you what is within my authority."
"for example?"
"For example, the original body arranged for you would have a wealthy family, a happy life, and a smooth life."
This is very attractive. You only need to work hard for one year to get a comfortable rest for the rest of your life. Not to mention fighting with the reborn person, you can even make her eat shit.
Just kidding, Jiang Fei still didn't want to eat shit, she narrowed her eyes, "It sounds good, but I need to collect a deposit first."
"Deposit?" The system became alert.
"That's right," Jiang Fei raised the corner of her lips, "Since we want to cooperate, we must show some sincerity. For example, tell me a little bit——"
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the system: "The system cannot reveal the main character's information and life trajectory."
"Please listen to me." Jiang Fei said, "I can reveal some information about marginal characters that won't affect the main plot. There should be some, for example..."
She thought for a moment and said, "For example, the life trajectory of Princess Anping."
System: "This requires favorability points. Why don't you exchange it for the favorability points of Wei Mingzhen or Pei Jing?"
"That's not even a deposit." Jiang Fei retorted directly, "Are you going to give it or not?"
The system complained, "Well, Princess Anping's final fate was that on a rainy night, she walked alone into the cold center of a lake and never returned."
Jiang Fei was shocked. That gentle and kind woman who held a high position actually chose to commit suicide in the end.
“It doesn’t seem to be written in the book.”
"The story will end, but their lives continue--" The system's voice stopped abruptly.
"System, system?"
Jiang Fei shouted several times, but there was no response in her mind.
This time he logged off too suddenly. In the past, he would have told her at least a little bit, but this time it seemed like he was forced to log off?
That night, Jiang Fei lay in bed unable to sleep, her mind full of thoughts about what had happened during the day.
Too much information came in, making her mind a little confused for a moment. She had to sort out these things one by one before she could unravel the mystery.
Wei Ciying's reaction and the few words that leaked out when the system was blocked made her more and more certain that she had had some interactions with them in her childhood.
But she grew up in modern times, so how could there be any intersection?
Jiang Fei fell asleep while thinking.
There was pure darkness before my eyes. The floor beneath my feet was hard, and the rough cement surface hurt my soles. Every step was damp, cold, and hard.
Jiang Feiyi was familiar with this feeling. When she was a child, she would sneak out of the orphanage at night, always barefoot, for fear of waking up the sleeping aunts.
The dream gradually became clearer. The pale moonlight fell on the rusty iron railings, casting spider-web-like shadows.
There was a small, thin little girl in the shadow, and the fence was twice as tall as her.
She stood on the ground, looking up, muttering to herself, "I can find Mom and Dad if I turn over."
Jiang Fei seemed to know who she was.
She had never seen her childhood self from this angle, so small and thin, wearing washed-out pajamas, and walking barefoot on the cold ground.
The little girl's hands gripped the iron railing tightly, her knuckles turning white from the exertion.
"Don't climb, it's useless." Jiang Fei subconsciously wanted to stop him, but found that he couldn't make a sound.
She was still young at that time and still had the fantasy that she might have been abducted and her parents might be looking for her all over the world.
So at that time, all she thought about every day was how to escape from this place called "home" but full of indifference. If she escaped, she would be able to find her parents, and she would no longer be an orphan. There would be people who would love her, buy her a cake on her birthday, and no children would bully her.
This is what the caring little volunteer who came to the orphanage told her, saying that parents and home are so warm.
But those were just her imaginations when she was young. After running away and being found again and again, she gradually realized a fact.
——She was abandoned and no one wanted her.
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I am about to gradually reveal the past. Some of you may find the setting a bit complicated, so I will try my best to make it easy to understand.
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