Chapter 290 Me and the System

The quilt on the bed was wrapped up into a bulge. Yu Zhuo hugged Zhou Yanshu through the quilt, closed his eyes and kissed his long-dried glands.

"Brother, that's not what I meant." Yuzhuo rubbed against him, "I'm just sad."

Zhou Yanshu only showed half of his face: "If you are sad, go and cry, don't be hypocritical."

Yu Zhuo squeezed into the quilt, hugged Zhou Yanshu's warm body, and sobbed twice inside.

Zhou Yanshu: "..."

"What did you smear on me?" Zhou Yanshu felt the touch of water drops sliding down his back.

Yu Zhuo said in a muffled voice: "My tears."

"It must be your saliva." Zhou Yanshu turned over, lifted the quilt, pinched Yuzhuo's chin and looked into his eyes.

Yu Zhuo's eyelashes were a little wet, but her golden pupils were bright and she didn't look like she was crying at all.

Zhou Yanshu stared at him without saying anything.

"..." Yu Zhuo was silent for a moment, then said, "Well...my sweat."

Zhou Yanshu almost laughed out of anger. He said coldly, "Wipe it off for me. Hurry up——"

Yu Zhuo took two tissues from the table next to him and wiped Zhou Yanshu's back with them: "It's not like we haven't done this before, you're so stingy..."

Zhou Yan looked at him with his eyes closed: "What did you say?"

Yu Zhuo crumpled the tissue in his hand and threw it aside: "No, I didn't say anything."

"Do you know why I asked you to wipe it?" Zhou Yanshu's voice slowly rose, "It's not because I think you're dirty, it's..."

"It's a matter of attitude," Yu Zhuo continued familiarly.

Zhou Yanshu paused for a moment, then sat there. A few seconds later, Yu Zhuo suddenly grabbed him and threw him onto the bed.

"Brother, I won't say those words anymore... Honey, your body smells like me. I'm the same as you... I'm an Alpha."

Yu Zhuo carefully stroked Zhou Yanshu's back with his palm, from the shoulder blades, to the spine, and down to the coccyx.

Zhou Yanshu's body shuddered for a moment. He narrowed his eyes and enjoyed Yuzhuo's touch: "Of course you are the same as me. I raised you. How could I not know what you are? Yuzhuo, never talk about yourself like that. You are mine..."

Yu Zhuo also raised his eyes and said obediently: "I am yours."

Zhou Yanshu actually hummed with pleasure, allowing Yu Zhuo to follow the curve of his body and touch the bottom.

Yuzhuo knew why Zhou Yanshu was so obsessed with this. Because the main system had said that Yuzhuo was his.

He gave him body, life, and even...soul.

He gave Yuzhuo everything, but Yuzhuo went against his original intention.

[…Why did I create you? ]

[Is it to make you... a human? ]

[Is it to make you... fall in love with him? ]

[Do you know what love is? Do you know?! ]

The mechanical sound of the main system echoed in Yuzhuo's ears. He frowned and actually heard unspeakable rage and grief in it.

Does he understand?

Maybe he doesn't understand.

Yu Zhuo pressed his cheek against Zhou Yanshu's chest. He could hear the beating of his heart underneath his body and unconsciously touched his own chest.

His heart was beating too.

Before - during those years in the abyss, Yu Zhuo never understood, he was just a machine. But now... he seemed to understand a little.

The main system gave him life, Zhou Yanshu gave him humanity. In addition, there are also various emotional nurturing.

Yu Zhuo pinched the soft flesh under his palm with an ambiguous meaning. He looked up at Zhou Yanshu's face, then leaned in and exchanged a long, wet kiss with him.

Zhou Yanshu felt a burning aura again. He lowered his head and said in a hoarse voice, "That's it. There's no end to it."

Yu Zhuo glanced at Zhou Yanshu's legs, which were still being repaired, and could only take his hand back: "Okay, I won't continue."

"You'll have plenty of opportunities in the future..." Zhou Yanshu kissed the corner of Yuzhuo's lips soothingly, "Have you figured out what to do now?"

Yu Zhuo narrowed his eyes and said, "My body has been shattered into pieces. It is impossible to find it again. Now... I want him to find me."

Zhou Yanshu was stunned when he heard this: "Let him find you?"

"The strength of the high-altitude triangle detector is increasing." Yu Zhuo said, "It's only a matter of time before he finds me, unless I never use system energy again."

Zhou Yanshu: "But your soul has just been pieced together, and some of the small fragments have even disappeared long ago. What will you do when you face him?"

Yu Zhuo touched his chin and said, "Brother, why don't you have confidence in me?"

Zhou Yanshu raised his eyebrows. He thought that Yu Zhuo had learned some great skills after his experience in the small world. "Can you beat him?"

"Well... I can't beat him." Yu Zhuo said honestly.

Zhou Yanshu: "..."

"He is the main system. All the systems combined cannot defeat him alone. As for my current situation...it is even more impossible for me to defeat him."

Zhou Yanshu narrowed his eyes: "So you're still going to seek your own death now?"

"He won't kill me this time." Yu Zhuo said slowly, "More than five hundred years have passed, and he still hasn't been able to create another 'me'. To him... I am also unique to a certain extent."

Zhou Yanshu: "You know all this?"

"We are all systems. Of course I know his movements."

Yu Zhuo was able to disguise himself as the Escape System largely because he secretly hacked into the main system and stole a little energy from the main system's huge database to speed up his escape.

The connection between them has long surpassed ordinary systems.

"I can feel that he is very anxious recently because he can't find any other replacements."

Yu Zhuo said, "Recently, the small systems distributed in various worlds have experienced problems of varying degrees. Perhaps they were affected by him."

Zhou Yanshu was still a little worried. He asked coldly, "What on earth does he want to do?"

Yu Zhuo sat on the bed silently. He thought for a moment and said, "I guess... he doesn't want to do it anymore."

Zhou Yanshu: “……?”

"I just want to strike." Yu Zhuo sighed, "There are so many system tasks, and each small system will cause various troubles. In fact, the main system has to deal with all these. If I were him, I would also want to find a sucker to do the work for me after doing this kind of crap for thousands of years."

Zhou Yanshu asked suspiciously, "Is that really the case?"

He knew that Yuzhuo's mind was always simple, so he became even more suspicious after hearing his answer.

"Well... I guess so." Yuzhuo insisted, "Why else would he create me? He must have wanted me to work for him."

Zhou Yanshu: "..."

After Yu Zhuo finished speaking, he looked at Zhou Yanshu and asked, "Brother, you haven't told me yet what's going on with the system energy in your body?"

Zhou Yanshu looked at it for a few seconds, then tilted his head and said, "That was also given to me by a system."

Yu Zhuo was surprised and asked, "Another system?"

"Yes, it was another system." Zhou Yan sighed, and he recalled, "After you died, that system found me. It also collected a piece of your soul fragment and gave it to me."

Yu Zhuo's expression suddenly became subtle. Zhou Yanshu looked at him and continued speaking.

"It's a strategy system that relies on collecting the host's strategy success points to complete the target, and it chose me to be its host in this world."

Yu Zhuo frowned and said, "It won't help you for no reason. Did you promise it something?"

"...Yes. But its request is very simple." Zhou Yan said, "It gives me system energy, allowing me to follow the guidance of the soul fragments in my hand to go to various small worlds to capture you."

Yu Zhuo: “…”

"After the attack is successful, it will gain the attack success value, and I will gain your soul fragments. As a special benefit, it will help me hide the main system's actions."

Yu Zhuo: “…”

"But it has blocked me now." Zhou Yanshu was speechless. "I failed in four worlds in a row. I didn't help it collect any success points, and it also had its performance deducted."

"It has now been bound to a new host."

"It really knows how to find shortcuts for itself." Yu Zhuo sneered, "You did all the work, and it just did nothing but earn success points."

Zhou Yanshu rubbed his slightly curly white hair and said helplessly: "But it also helped me, otherwise... I don't know how to find you."

Yu Zhuo pursed his lips, hugged Zhou Yanshu's neck and bit his Adam's apple, then continued to ask, "What does it look like?"

"I don't know. It's different from other systems. It has no entity." Zhou Yanshu hugged Yuzhuo tightly. "Its system level is very high and it often possesses others."

Yu Zhuo paused: "Possessed?"

"Hmm..." Zhou Yanshu thought for a moment and explained, "To put it simply, it can directly invade the human body like you are doing now."

"If it doesn't use system capabilities, I guess other people won't be able to notice the difference."

This was the first time Yu Zhuo had heard of this kind of system. He was always wary of this kind of weirdness rather than curious about it, so he asked, "Where did it go after it blocked you?"

"I don't know." Zhou Yan frowned and recalled what happened before, and said, "But it has stayed in this world for a long time and has not left. Now it is working again, and I don't know where it will go."

Yu Zhuo didn't say anything else.

If this system has never left here, then it is very likely that it has not left this world yet...

"It's not a threat for now." Yu Zhuo said, "Our focus now is still on the main system. Once we solve the main system, the rest of the system problems will be solved."

"I know." Zhou Yanshu nodded. "When will we start?"

Yu Zhuo smiled and said, "That depends on our General Lin Shuang."

The main system regards the fixed rules of the world as above all else. If the stereo triangle detects changes in this world, the main system... will come over.

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In the following days, Zhou Yanshu stayed in the house to recuperate and did not go out.

He was already able to walk like a normal person. With the help of the little energy that had accumulated, Zhou Yanshu's body was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Yu Zhuo would go out for a walk from time to time. Recently, things were not going well for the mermaid royal family, and he heard a lot of secret news on the road.

Lin Shuang insisted that it was a guard in Qi Mohan's family who poisoned Yan Shu, and based on the testimony, he insisted that the man was instructed by Qi Mohan.

He asked Tamo to severely punish Qi Mohan.

In the hall, Qi Mohan refused to admit it. Tamo was overwhelmed, but in the end he chose to protect Qi Mohan as he did in the past, and directly ordered the execution of the guard.

As for Qi Mohan, Tamo punished him by confining him to reflect on his mistakes for three days just because he was not strict with his subordinates.

After hearing Tamo's verdict, Lin Shuang turned and left without saying a word.

That night, the guard who was supposed to be executed escaped from prison and no one could find any trace of him.

Tamo was furious. He angrily accused Linshuang of incompetence and ordered Linshuang to return to the border that day without permission. After resolving these issues, Tamo symbolically sent someone to Zhou Yanshu's home to tell him about the incident and gave him a few boxes of supplements to comfort him.

Zhou Yanshu sneered and did not pursue the matter further.

Yu Zhuo kept an eye on the news outside. He waited for nearly a month, and finally heard news from the border one day.

Lin Shuang led the troops at the border and attacked the palace without any orders.