Chapter 20 The Crybaby's Endless Escape (Part 1)
Logging out is not a very long process.
Si Yisi reassembled his body amidst the torrent of data, his fingertips entwined with Ah Tu's hair, which had been tied into a bow.
His gaze swept across the passing torrent—due to the different flow rates, Si Yisi saw Si Mobai's later experiences after regaining control of his body.
After this incident, Si Mobai probably really listened to Si Yisi's advice.
He went alone to the mortal world to gain experience, measuring every inch of the land there with his own feet.
Upon his return, Si Mobai shed his title as a candidate for the Jinghua Sect Master and truly gained the approval of his master.
Qingzhi, Lu Weizhi, and a group of other "confidantes" still caused Si Mobai a lot of headaches, but Si Yisi saw that he finally made things clear and resolved everything.
Si Mobai ascended to immortality at the age of one thousand. When he ascended, he was accompanied by colorful clouds and a natal spirit sword that had developed a sword spirit.
When Si Yisi noticed that Si Mobai had given the sword spirit of his sword the nickname "A-Tu," even the system couldn't help but chuckle.
Si Yisi also saw the moment Si Mobai ascended. A small ball of white light surged from his body and fed back into the Qingmo Small World, making the Small World even more solid.
Similarly, the small world also gave Si Yisi a surprise, as it gave her a small wisp of white light representing the "original heart".
As Si Yisi left the area that this small world could reach, another scene unfolded before her—something that did not exist in Si Mobai's memories of his previous life.
Lu Weizhi's figure appeared on the screen.
She underestimated the demon's abilities and his arrival at the Fallen Immortal Mountains to ambush Qingzhi, but regretted it because of the demon's disgusting scheme.
She fled with the unconscious Qingzhi, but was killed on the spot by the demon.
No wonder... In the same period of his previous life, Lu Weizhi disappeared without a trace.
[Logout complete.]
[Start calculating the performance of host #414...]
Si Yisi stood on the system platform again. When A Tu arrived in the completely unfamiliar environment, he couldn't help but untie himself and fly around Si Yisi.
System No. 2333, Chi Chun, had just completed a task and jumped out of the teleportation hole.
"Seriously, the system is terrified!" Chi Chun rushed towards Si Yisi as soon as she saw him, expressing her utter despair. "Si, you're out too! You have no idea how terrible this mission was!"
Si Yisi knew what he was going to say the moment she saw his expression, and sure enough—
Chi Chun stopped in front of Si Yisi, hugging her arms and trembling: "This mission is actually haunted! My host is also afraid of ghosts, what am I going to do! My mission evaluation this time will definitely be just barely passing!"
The task evaluation is divided into five levels: A, B, C, D, and E, with D being the passing grade. The points that can be accumulated for each level are 1000, 500, 200, 100, and ... 1, respectively.
As for Si Yisi... his previous ratings were all E, the lowest level, and his total score was pitifully only thirty or forty points. He always squeezed into a house with Chi Chun.
Si Yisi stared at Chi Chun with her dark eyes without blinking, a reaction that startled Chi Chun.
"Oh, I forgot—sorry, Asi." Chi Chun changed the subject. "Hey, what's this?"
He pointed at Ah Tu, instinctively wanting to grab him.
A-Tu bared his teeth at him and lunged at his neck.
...Crunch, my tooth broke again.
Chi Chun grabbed Ah Tu's small body: "Snake?... No, Little Dragon? Why are you so bald!"
“That’s why he’s called Baldy.” This time, Si Yisi didn’t listen quietly to his complaints and instead chimed in.
"Great name!" Chi Chun agreed. "Hey, my assessment is out."
Currently, only these two systems are running on the system platform. Recently, it has been the peak period for system overtime. In order to have a possible rest time after working overtime, a bunch of systems are working like crazy.
A light screen appeared on the task watch that Chi Chun took off:
[System 2333, Rating: D]
Si Yisi was a little slower, and Chi Chun noticed that his wristwatch also lit up.
Chi Chun rubbed her hands and stomped her feet, looking even more nervous than Si Yisi.
He even read it aloud in a low voice: "System 414, rating—A!"
"Oh my god, A!" Chi Chun looked at Si Yisi with admiration, shook off Ah Tu, rushed up and hugged Si Yisi tightly, "Si, you're going to make a comeback!"
Si Yisi agreed and nodded: "So I don't need a host."
After all, they're just too trash.
Chi Chun immediately became worried again. He glanced at Si Yisi and whispered a reminder: "Don't break the small world, please don't break it."
Si Yisi: "..."
He felt he couldn't answer the question.
Whatever gets damaged, it still depends on whether that little world is stable or not, right?
Chi Chun misunderstood his gaze, and he thumped his chest loudly: "It's okay, whatever happens, your good friend will take responsibility for you!"
Si Yisi was a little touched, but he felt that it was better not to make promises he shouldn't keep...
A-Tu whimpered and snuggled into Si Yisi's hair again. He gave it a perfunctory, half-hearted attempt to comfort it before preparing to go about his mission.
The main character of this mission didn't even appear in sight.
Si Yisi was thrown into the mission world before she even had a chance to ask a question.
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"Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen, are you awake?" A girl in white shook the body that Si Yisi was possessing frantically. "How did we end up in this godforsaken place while we were talking..."
Si Yisi was shaken awake by her.
He was currently in a small, sealed house with seven or eight people inside; the scene was quite chaotic.
The original owner's memories arrived late, and Si Yisi finally understood why this small world had been so eager to throw him in this time.
The original owner of this body, Shen Chen, was an ordinary 18-year-old high school student. He was not good at speaking, had particularly developed tear ducts, and did not know how to refuse people.
His cousin dragged him shopping, and after she scanned the QR code for a claw machine to save money, they suddenly found themselves in a small, enclosed room.
Shen Chen's nightmare began from there.
He and his cousin were forcibly pulled into an escape game where they had to evade monsters within a certain time. Failure would result in them being gradually assimilated by the game, leading to a living hell.
Because of his slender build and poor communication skills, Shen Chen was ostracized and marginalized by other players in the same survival game.
However, Si Yisi noticed something else. The non-team players were different each time in the escape game, so how could those players have concluded that Chen Chen was useless and would drag the team down?
—Unless someone is spreading this in secret.
However, Shen Chen was not entirely useless. Although he was excluded, he still managed to hoard many key items little by little, like a hamster, and survived many escape games.
But he didn't realize that his only family member, his cousin, who was in this situation and even borrowed his props from time to time, secretly despised and disliked him.
This condescending disdain pushed Shen Chen into the abyss.
During an escape game, Shen Chen used an item while being chased by ghosts, only to find that the item was malfunctioning—no, it had been replaced!
His dear cousin stood by, watching him struggle in his death throes, playing with Chen Chen's real props, and revealing a mocking smile.
She was leaning against a man, no, not a man, but a male ghost with an ethereal form.
"Don't worry, Xixi, this is my territory. No ghost will hurt you," the male ghost said.
"Hmm." Chen Mengxi replied with a smile, then turned her face to one of superiority, "I've always thought, cousin, you're so annoying."
"You're such a crybaby and useless, yet I still have to take care of your feelings and treat you well."
She sighed, as if it were the truth: "I had no choice... So, goodbye. No, farewell forever."
Shen Chen was "killed" by ghosts and monsters. He was even assimilated into a new ghost and was driven by his "good cousin" and her ghost boyfriend in a daze.
In his rare moments of lucidity, he finally seized the opportunity and, driven by his obsession, found Si Yisi.
Si Yisi: "..."
He searched through his memories but found no trace of this small world's involvement. It was simply that Shen Chen's one-sided obsession was so strong that it generated a task.
What the heck?
Is he working illegally this time?
Whether or not she was working illegally or not didn't really matter to Si Yisi; the key thing was...
Si Yisi opened his eyes and saw his cousin, Chen Mengxi.
Chen Mengxi wasn't exceptionally beautiful, but she gave off a very comfortable and gentle feeling. At this moment, her delicate eyebrows were slightly furrowed, yet there was no trace of affectation in her expression.
The best way to describe it is in two words: good at pretending.
Si Yisi completely disregarded whether her face was pleasing to the eye or not; it was simply a structure of two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
He just thought it was... troublesome.
Especially after meeting Lu Weizhi... tsk.
However, Si Yisi, the ghost boyfriend of Chen Chen's cousin Chen Mengxi, has piqued her interest.
"Cousin..." Si Yisi said softly, befitting his persona; he looked rather clumsy.
A burly man stood in the middle of the room. He was the first person to wake up, and Shen Chen knew from his memory that he was a veteran player who had gone through two escape games.
The burly player silently watched as a newcomer entered the room. After a moment of disbelief, roaring, and even cursing, he stepped forward, drawing everyone's attention.
"Shut up! If you want to live, listen to me!"
The burly player had a sullen face, his expression full of impatience.
Chen Mengxi and Si Yisi both looked at the man.
His voice was incredibly loud, deafening, and amplified several times over in a room.
Si Yisi felt a heat in her eyes, and then tears welled up uncontrollably.
Si Yisi: "..."
Oh right, why does Shen Chen cry so much? It's because he has exceptionally developed tear ducts; even the slightest stimulation is enough to make his tears flow like a river.
System 414, Si Yisi, wants to quit right now!
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