The consciousness suddenly transformed into a furry little animal with short, pointed ears, big, round eyes, and a three-lobed mouth below a small nose.
With its short forearms clasped together as if in a gesture of respect, it kept muttering, "I'm useful, I'm very useful..."
Xiao Li and Xiao Jiu exchanged a glance. "This can't be a system, can it...?"
"What is a system?" Xiao Jiu asked curiously.
"I am System 123. I can take you through time and space, and travel the world. Bind to me now, and I can help you become more beautiful and stronger. I am omnipotent..."
Xiao Li was speechless. He was already a prisoner, yet he was still all-powerful.
"Behave yourself, you're not allowed to speak unless I ask you," Xiao Jiu threatened fiercely.
System 123 pitifully covered its mouth with its forelimbs. Aren't girls supposed to like fluffy balls? Waaaaah…
Xiao Jiu cast a protective barrier on it and whispered to Xiao Li for a while.
...
"We're willing to bind with that system. You can begin."
Happiness came too quickly, and System 123 was overjoyed, "Okay, I'll start right away."
"Host detected, binding in progress, 1%...10%..."
Xiao Jiu watched as System 123 entered Xiao Li's sea of consciousness, and it followed.
“99%...100%...Binding complete. Ah...What did you do? Why are you the main one and I the secondary one?” System 123 screamed in disbelief.
Xiao Jiu laughed loudly, "You little punk, you think you can outsmart us? You're not even close."
"So it's a wild system, specifically designed to absorb luck. Oh, and there's even a shop with some items inside." Xiao Li said, taking out a talisman.
"This is a bad luck charm; it's quite effective at playing pranks on others."
"How could you produce this talisman? Don't you have enough points to redeem it?" System 123 screamed again.
"You can redeem it with your points." Xiao Li smiled cutely, but unfortunately, in System 123's eyes, it was incredibly evil.
"Ah~ my points, no, my points~ no..." System 123 shouted angrily, but there was nothing it could do.
"Shut up! You're making my ears ring." Xiao Jiu shouted, picking at his ears.
System123 glanced at the two big shots and started crying again.
Xiao Li carefully checked the system and found no hidden dangers, so she felt relieved.
Xiao Li misses her cell phone, the internet, air conditioning, ice cream... If only she could travel back in time.
"Tongzi, is it true that you can take me through time and space?"
"Well, of course, yes, I can." System 123 sounded evasive and unsure, which made it hard to believe.
"Tell the truth, or I'll kill you. It doesn't really matter whether you're here or not." At crucial moments, Xiao Jiu's threat was the most effective.
"Waaaaaah... Why am I so unlucky? My energy is almost gone, and the host I finally found has turned into a master, and a powerful one at that who's always trying to kill me. Can't he just leave me alone? I just wanted to absorb a little bit of luck, sob sob sob..."
Seeing System 123 crying its eyes out, Xiao Li inexplicably felt like she was bullying a child.
"Hmph, don't try to fool me. You're not pitiful at all. You absorbed the host's luck, so the host isn't pitiful? In the end, when she's no longer useful, you'll abandon her and leave her to suffer terribly and fend for herself."
Xiao Jiu looked like she had seen through you long ago. System 123 paused in its crying and said hesitantly, "It's not that bad. If she could control her own heart and not make a deal with me, she wouldn't be so unlucky."
Besides, what's wrong with doing business with me? We each get what we need. I can even help her reach the pinnacle of her life and achieve heights she can't reach. Isn't that fair?
In the end, System 123 became self-righteous again. Ultimately, it's the host's own greed that's to blame; no wonder it's acting this way. Yes, that's exactly it.
"Yes, you may have a glorious life in this life, but what about the next? Without good fortune, you won't even be able to be a human being in the next life. You've really harmed others."
Xiao Jiu snorted coldly and continued to press for answers.
"You only absorbed a little bit of luck? Nothing else?"
System123 flinched and whispered, "It's just a little bit of merit, really just a little bit."
To make sure Xiao Jiu didn't believe him, he gestured with his hand, trying to stick out his little finger.
Xiao Jiu was almost laughing in anger. How difficult it is to accumulate merit! And it's just a little bit. Ordinary people don't have any merit at all. Having as much merit as a hair is already extraordinary.
I stopped arguing with the system and just trapped it, planning to give it a popcorn treat.
"No, I can do it. Only I can find the coordinates. Without me, we can't travel through time. Leave me here. I'll obey. I'll obey."
System123 no longer dared to play any tricks; the ruthless and insane big shot was not to be trifled with.
Upon learning that System 123 could use merit points to travel through time, and that she had many, Xiao Li immediately expressed her desire to return to the modern world, her long-missed hometown.
After releasing all the spirit pets in the space back into the mountains and forests, leaving only Xiao Jiu inside, and giving some instructions to her family, Xiao Li returned to her room, closed the door, and lay down on the bed.
"Master, there's one more question. Will I starve to death in this body after I transmigrated back?"
Xiao Li suddenly realized that she was going to stay in another world for the rest of her life, so what would happen to this body?
"Don't worry, Master. I will send your body to the transit station. Time stands still there. You will return exactly as you were before. Moreover, the flow rates are different on both sides. Only one day has passed since we returned here."
"That's good, let's begin."
Xiao Li embarked on her first time-traveling journey.
In a dilapidated warehouse, several girls in their late teens and early twenties were bound and lying unconscious on the cold ground. One of the girls, wearing a light blue t-shirt, slowly opened her eyes.
After the initial confusion, she tried to move, but found herself bound and unable to move, so she gave up. Looking around, she saw only silence, and closed her eyes again. She silently recited, "System, accept the memories."
A throbbing pain shot through her mind, and after a moment, Xiao Li finally realized where she was.
The original owner's name was Tao Tao, a seventeen-year-old high school student. Her parents were both workers at the Yinhe Machinery Factory. Because she was their only child, their family was relatively well-off.
She grew up under the careful care of her parents and was the kind of child everyone admired.
She grew up step by step until she was seventeen, without ever experiencing any setbacks. That year, she made a good friend, and that's how she ruined her life.
Not long after the start of the second year of high school, a transfer student joined the class. The teacher arranged for him to sit next to Tao Tao. The transfer student was outgoing and quickly became good friends with the introverted Tao Tao.
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