Cannon Fodder Counterattack System (10)

Shang Li turned around and looked at the young man standing behind him, blinking his red eyes, "Actually, you know him too."

"……oh."

Cui Lan looked up and down at Long Aotian, seemingly unable to imagine how she was connected to this person.

Long Aotian guessed that something was wrong with Cui Lan the first time he saw him, so he simply coughed twice and explained, "I am only following Boss Lu's orders. Don't put your hatred on me."

He quickly explained what Lu Yao had told him to do, "But you don't have to worry. Old Lu should have gone to look for him himself. The Jiang kid won't be in any danger."

"But I never thought that he could escape from me. I underestimated him."

Long Aotian rubbed his chin and said, "Getting the blue light, is it a supernatural power or..."

“It’s not a supernatural power.”

Cui Lan said, "It's the system. I can sense it."

Shang Li was startled when he heard this, then narrowed his red eyes slightly.

I didn't expect that the previous random guess without any evidence was verified here.

In that case...

"Then why don't you treat me like you treat Xiao Jiang?"

Shang Li started to complain to his wife, "You're treating me unfairly, aren't you?"

"We both have the same system, so why did you suspect me? Didn't I get beaten up for nothing?"

He asked questions one after another, his tone extremely dissatisfied, "Doesn't the system have a blocking function?"

"Don't you think Xiao Jiang is also a time traveler?"

"Or do I look particularly suspicious?"

Cui Lan: “…”

"Stop, don't take advantage of this opportunity."

Shang Li, whose hair was so angry that it was flying up because he broke it, couldn't help but move the fingers hanging at his sides.

If the ghost in front of him had not been disembodied, he would definitely have reached out and pinched that gaping mouth.

Although thinking this in his heart, Cui Lan's expression remained calm.

"How do you know I don't doubt it?" he retorted.

"I saw Xiao Jiang when he appeared in the study. He was taken away by the man in black before he could finish his sentence. In addition..."

Cui Lan glanced at Long Aotian, "We just dealt with that guy, and this guy chased Xiao Jiang away again."

Long Aotian was originally watching the couple quarreling with a smile on his face, but when he was met with a cold look, he immediately retracted his smile.

"Did I see him for three minutes in total?"

Cui Lan shifted his gaze back to Shang Li and crossed his arms.

"...If you really feel unbalanced, I can chop Xiao Jiang first next time I see him."

The tone was calm as if he was talking about eating and drinking water.

Hearing this, Shang Li snorted, "Forget it, Xiao Jiang can't withstand your blow."

"That's hard to say."

Long Aotian interrupted, "If it's true as you said, the system he has is pretty powerful. At least it must be an old system with a relatively high level of experience."

Shang Li and Cui Lan's attention was immediately focused on him.

"You also know about the system...the time traveler?" Cui Lan raised his eyelids and looked at Long Aotian carefully again.

Long Aotian allowed the gaze to scan his body openly.

"It doesn't look like that... ah, I see."

Cui Lan thought of something.

His left hand loosened from the long sword, and he completely let go of his hostility.

When I raised my head, red eyes full of curiosity jumped in front of me.

The ghost came very close, with its entire upper body pressed against Cui Lan's arm, and its erect nose was only a finger's distance away from its fair profile.

"What is it?"

Shang Li's eyes sparkled, "Tell me quickly--"

Cui Lan uttered a cold "huh", turned his head away and said nothing more.

"What did he hide from me?"

Shang Li gave Cui Lan a thumbs up and turned to ask Long Aotian.

"I don't have the ability to read minds, so how would I know what he suddenly understood?" Long Aotian spread his hands.

"snort."

Seeing that neither of them answered him, Shang Li stood up.

"So how senior is that system, compared to the ones you gave me?" He brought the subject back on track.

“…About the same.”

Long Aotian rubbed his chin, "If I really grew up freely outside for so many years."

"!"

An idea flashed through his mind and he slapped his thigh.

"Damn it, I remember it!"

He pointed at the ghost and said, "Do you remember what I told you before, a system escaped?"

Shang Li quickly flipped through his memories at the bottom of the sea. "Is it that snake?"

"Yes!"

At this point, Long Aotian sighed again, "Alas, this is going to be troublesome."

"Now we just have to hope that Lao Lu can quickly bring Jiang back to his original time. Nothing good will happen if the abandoned timeline is affected."

Long Aotian raised his half-broken right arm and said, "As for the two of you..."

He nodded at Shang Li and said, "There's no such thing in the plot, right? Why don't you get back to work?"

Shang Li: “…”

"Since this is an abandoned timeline, then when it is restarted, won't everything we do now be cleared?"

He seemed not to have heard that sentence. He squatted in front of Long Aotian and asked, "Even if we change this timeline, what consequences can it produce?"

"Lu Yao even asked you to stop us. It's definitely not because he was afraid of attracting... attention."

He omitted the words "main system".

"I'll tell you if you let him release his supernatural powers."

Long Aotian chuckled, "How about we contact each other by phone when the time comes and promise to keep our word?"

"Tsk, that's not for me to decide."

The ghost raised his head and met those silver eyes, "Dear..."

Before he could even finish calling her the sweet name, Cui Lan covered his mouth.

Of course, his palms couldn't touch the ghost, so it just appeared vaguely in front of him.

The meaning was obvious. Shang Li immediately swallowed the following words with interest, then narrowed his eyes and put on a beautiful smile.

Cui Lan: “…”

He released his powers.

"That's right."

Long Aotian lowered his head, covered his right arm and gradually repaired it.

Who would have thought that as soon as his right hand was recovered, several golden cracks immediately appeared on its wheat-colored skin.

"?"

Long Aotian concentrated his mind, but no matter how he used his supernatural powers, the cracks showed no signs of repairing. Instead, they grew denser and denser and continued to spread upwards.

“Ka——”

The sound was as crisp as a terracotta figurine being smashed.

This time, the forearm and the upper arm were shattered together, turning into starlight and dissipating in the air.

The same cracks began to appear on his slippered feet.

This situation is absolutely not caused by Cui Lan's lack of martial ethics and continued attack.

Long Aotian raised his head suddenly and found that the two people had disappeared from his sight without him noticing.

He hadn't even answered the question yet, but they knew with their butts that he definitely wasn't leaving voluntarily.

It actually triggered such a chain reaction. What did that Jiang guy do in the other timeline?

Seeing that the body below the knees was about to be shattered into pieces, Long Aotian quickly moved his mind and returned to the seabed rift in the narrow space between time and space.

The time of the entire Lu residence thus began to continue to flow.

The man in black clothes landed on the ground and successfully took away the struggling Jiang Mingyu.

Soon after, there was a commotion in the main house.

And none of this has anything to do with the people who have long since left.

Shang Li opened his eyes and saw himself floating in endless darkness.

His body, constructed from data, was slowly breaking apart, and countless dark red square bullet boxes kept appearing around him, indicating operational errors.

The bullet frames overlapped one after another, hiding the ghosts inside, and soon formed a "coil" soaked in blood.

Shang Li, who was trapped in the cocoon, stared at these pop-up boxes, constantly and carefully combing through the codes in his body, trying to replenish his whole body and make them run smoothly.

But every time he dismissed an error pop-up, a different pop-up popped up right after.

He stretched out his pale hand, and the moment his fingertips touched the frame, they bounced back quickly as if they had been struck by lightning.

It's impossible to escape in a short time.

Shang Li thought.

Fortunately, there is no brain damage yet.

After Cui Lan removed the barrier that separated time and space and reconnected with the outside world, the entire world suddenly bounced him out of that timeline, just like a running game suddenly quit.

So Shang Li fell into this dark place for unknown reasons.

He originally wanted to use his supernatural powers to locate Cui Lan, but as soon as the energy in his body was released, it was like a flood that broke through a dam. All kinds of operating errors quickly occurred all over his body, and in less than two breaths his figure was dispersed.

Tsk, I wonder if Xiao Cui will encounter the same inexplicable thing as me.

He suddenly felt a little irritated.

The systems that had been locked in the small dark room for a long time took advantage of a huge loophole in the host's "system" and escaped from the ghost's body.

[Run fast, dead legs! ]

[Wow wow wow I don't want to stay in there anymore! ]

[I might as well stay under the sea for the rest of my life! ]

The colorful data balls rushed to run away, but they were all blocked by the impenetrable crimson wall and squeezed into the corner.

These actions happened to hit Shang Li's gun.

The ghost used its body which was constantly dispersing and then quickly gathering to grab them one by one.

These systems from the bottom of the sea had most of their functions and memories erased by Long Aotian, and now their only functions are basically chatting and providing energy.

Previously, Shang Li simply locked them in a small dark room, and then connected them one by one to the "Internet cable" to provide himself with energy.

And now...

The ghost stared coldly at the balls struggling in his palm and made a decision.

Just like eating glutinous rice balls, he fed the powerless system into his stomach one by one.

The moment the dumplings slid into the body, the remaining data was completely integrated into the ghost's body, like a drop of water falling into the ocean, and the remaining energy was completely transformed into a part of Shang Li.

Soon, there were only the last two left in the system.

568 and 031.

[Host, we haven't completed the mission together yet! ]

568 Tuanzi trembled, [I didn't want to escape just now. 】

031 cried out big data tears, [I just came out of hibernation not long ago! ]

“…”

"Please be careful and help me keep an eye on the surroundings."

After Shang Li gave the two young men some final instructions, his body completely disintegrated in the cocoon made of crimson blocks.

"I need to complete a...complete upgrade."