Sheh hugged him, her body relaxing slightly, but she still felt it wasn't quite real, lacking that sense of stability that comes with everything settling down.
"It was easier than I expected; I thought it would be difficult."
"You two are originally from the same source. The black mist absorbs the evil in human nature to grow. You drain me to grow, so I am also half of the source of life. Absorbing me is no better than those inferior emotions?"
"If you can't speak, you don't have to."
"Let's face it, I used all the life force I had saved up to block damage from your skills." Shi Jin hugged her and pretended to put his hands on Shehe's back. "I couldn't even stand up when that charge hit me."
Shekh lifted his head, which was resting on his shoulder: "Are you hurt?"
"He almost recovered."
Upon hearing the third voice, Shekh turned his head and saw Bai Weishuang standing at a distance with her arms crossed, smacking her lips and saying, "You still have plenty of time to catch up, let's get down to business first."
Shekh then released his grip: "Could there be anything important?"
"have."
Inside the pure white space, Bai Weishuang shouted into the air, "Come out!"
When Shekh went to check, the walls were completely broken. "What happened?"
Shi Jinzhe: "Your attack in Puxian brought back an old friend we haven't seen in a long time. It's thanks to you that we were able to successfully lock onto the Black Mist in this instance."
He also shouted into the air, "Come out, hiding won't help. I'll give you a good place to go while I'm in a good mood."
Why is my home gone when I come back...?
The system's aggrieved tone was just like the one when it was bullied by Shekh back then, and Shekh was still a little skeptical when it spoke.
"You're not dead yet?"
[...]
That's really unpleasant to hear, the system said. "Just moments before it was almost formatted, the black mist severed its connection with the main system, allowing it to steal it away."
Shi Jinzhe said to Shehe, "You're surprised, aren't you? Me too. But thinking about it, it makes sense. Without help, the Black Mist couldn't create such a realistic dungeon to deceive people. It understands the game's operation best, so doing this is not difficult for it."
In the instance, he wondered why, given the nature of the black mist, it should have issued some rather wicked quests, but rescuing Apu was a positive quest, which didn't make sense. He didn't understand the problem at the time, until Shekh tracked down the source of the black mist and destroyed the red flesh, allowing the thing to escape and return here. Only then did he understand what was going on.
Shi Jinzhe explained, "The main system disappeared, so it couldn't enter the pure white space. It was I who opened the spacetime channel and sneaked in by itself, but I was in a hurry to pick you up and didn't pay attention to it."
In a completely unexpected turn of events, Shekh found a place to sit down and said to the anxious system, "Tell me the details of what happened, everything, starting from when you left my brain."
At that moment, the system suddenly felt incredibly lonely.
This is clearly its territory, but it can't even get into its own home.
[...It's nothing, because I kept giving you backdoors and even revealed some information that made you realize something was wrong, which was considered dereliction of duty, so the main system decided to format me and send me to monitor others...]
Shekh: "Is that why you rarely appear after that?"
Yes... the main system is monitoring you personally in my place, but I still want to check on you sometimes. That time you asked me to choose a dungeon was when I was trying to give you a backdoor again, and I got caught...
Sher could tell it was embarrassed; if the system had hands, it would definitely cover its face with its hands and not want to see anyone.
"I was forcibly removed from your mind, but during the transfer of my functions, the black mist seized the opportunity to infiltrate me, using me to create the terrifying 'Lovers' instance..." The system hesitated before adding, "I wasn't doing this voluntarily; I tried to find a way to regain control of the instance..."
Shekh chimed in, "But it didn't work, right?"
No, later it used me to bypass you and create other fake copies.
"So the reason the main system is in a hurry to retrieve Shekh is also because of your loss." Shi Jinzhe understood. This was no small matter. With the Black Mist controlling the subsystems, the dungeons would only become playgrounds for monsters to chase and hunt players.
He then asked, "And then what? Did you specifically choose this instance?"
[Yes, after observing for a long time, the Black Mist felt this was a good opportunity. Appetite and lust are two of the most fundamental human desires, and it wanted to use the psychological reflection of red flesh and blood to trigger a side of your hearts that the other person was unaware of.]
"You've miscalculated." Bai Weishuang rubbed her temples. How could she not know her son? He's not a normal person.
“I have a question,” Shekh asked. “Were the seven real players who came in with us the ones you gave us the hints about?”
The names are too coincidental. The clues for the dungeon shouldn't appear on outside players, but the fake dungeons created by the black mist are all useless clues. They won't provide information that can truly advance the progress, nor will they allow useful clues to appear in the dungeon. Therefore, if the system wants to give her and Shi Jinzhe clues, it can only start from other places.
Players are a good choice; these seven people are clues that the system specifically captured to enter the dungeon, in order to give them hints using their names.
Since the person has already entered the instance, even if the black mist has objections, kicking them out would be suspicious.
The system acknowledged: "These seven people I specifically chose are the only hints I could provide given the limited resources."
"There's something I don't quite understand. The extra Ding Xun doesn't match the character 'Pu' and has little connection to the character 'Kui.' How was he captured?" Shi Jinzhe asked.
"His name is Pu Kui?" Bai Weishuang suddenly asked. "Is he an important character in your current instance?"
Shi Jinzhe: "Yes, she is an important person; both of her characters have the grass radical."
“Pu Kui… Ding Xun…”
Bai Weishuang read out the two names and pointed with her fingers, "If you remove the grass radical from the character '葵' and only take the surname '丁洵,' these two characters can form a term in feng shui called '癸山丁向' (Gui Mountain Ding Direction)."
After hearing what she said, Shi Jinzhe vaguely remembered it.
“The Gui Mountain facing Ding direction has heavy evil energy. If a house is laid out like this, there will be little Yang energy and much Yin energy. It will be easy to see bad things, and the house will definitely have a big problem. This kind of layout is rarely used by the living or the dead. Both Ding and Gui belong to Yin. Unless it is a person with a specific attribute, others cannot suppress this Feng Shui. If there are also problems with the Five Elements, it will directly affect the prosperity of the family and easily lead to the extinction of the lineage.” After Bai Weishuang finished speaking, she glanced at Shi Jinzhe and said, “You are not good at your job.”
"We only found out her name was Kui much later," Shi Jinzhe tried to save face. "Mainly because we had almost finished investigating the clues by then, and we didn't think of it for a moment. Besides, my major isn't fortune telling..."
"Alright, alright," Bai Weishuang told the system to continue.
There's nothing more to say; you all know the answer, don't you?
Why ask about the two clues, the palm leaf and the house, after we've already analyzed them?
The pure white space fell silent. The system didn't know where to go now. Judging from the situation, it would be better to go back and wander. The main system was gone, and it wouldn't fare much better.
What are you planning to do to me?
Sheikh: "What do you want?"
It shamelessly pleaded: "Can't you spare my life? I don't want to be formatted..."
"What do you guys think?" Shekh asked the other two.
"Demote me," Shi Jinzhe said. "There are new subsystems called [Overall Planning] and [Coordination] that will replace your previous work. Considering how much you helped this time, demote me from [Supervisor] to [Assistant Consultant]."
The system remained silent for a while before agreeing.
Downgrading is better than disappearing altogether.
Time imposed a whole host of restrictions on it, revoked its old permissions, and granted it new ones. The system discovered that its main task was to serve Shekh…
So, the assistant consultant means a private butler, which makes it convenient to keep it under Sher's watchful eye.
……never mind.
OK.
The system quickly came to terms with it; it was used to being threatened by her anyway, so it didn't bother it.
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