Cannon Fodder Counterattack System (II)

"Yes, I know you."

Ye Bai subconsciously tightened his grip on Xiao Chen and responded nervously.

"When I was about your age, he suddenly left home one day, abandoning me and my elder brother."

Jiang Mingyu began to recall the past, "After a while, he wanted to come back, but my eldest brother beat him with a broom and drove him away, and ordered him not to come near the house again."

What the hell.

Shang Li, who was eavesdropping secretly, frowned.

"Since that day, I have cut off contact with him under the supervision of my eldest brother. Until now... it has been about ten years."

The green light came on, Jiang Mingyu stepped on the accelerator and continued talking.

"I don't know how he's been doing lately."

He let out a long sigh, "I still really want to know what he's doing on a daily basis."

The three people in the back seat didn't dare to say a word.

Ye Bai quickly called out to Shang Li in his mind, "System, system! Why didn't you remind me that Teacher Shang had such a deep relationship with him!"

[Host, our system doesn't know everything. 】

Shang Li heard this and responded slowly, "And I don't think there's any need to remind you."

"But I almost exposed the news of Mr. Shang's death..."

Ye Bai slowed down his voice, "If I had known earlier, I would never have said that."

【……】

[What if I tell Jiang Mingyu? ]

The tone of Shang Li's mechanical voice became flat, [He will know sooner or later, so I might as well take advantage of the current opportunity and use the news of Shang Li's death to get closer to him. Find out Cui Lan's information.]

"No! I can't take advantage of others like that!"

Ye Bai immediately retorted, "And it's news of Mr. Shang's death. This is disrespectful to him!"

“…”

Shang Li rubbed his brows, [He won't mind. ]

"But I do mind."

Ye Bai said angrily: "You machines have turned into systems that really don't understand human nature."

【……】

The inhuman Shang Li was too lazy to continue the argument. When he saw that the car had returned to silence, his consciousness slipped back to the yacht.

Cui Lan was lying on the bed in the room, bored and browsing on her phone.

He saw a prompt box suddenly pop up on the screen saying "You have received a new message", and then bright red data floated out of the phone, slowly condensing into a ghost lying intimately on him.

"Your brother said you kicked me out."

The first thing Shang Li said after regaining consciousness was to complain, "You beat me with a broom and told me you didn't allow me to have contact with him."

Cui Lan: “?”

"It's the original thing."

He put down his phone, and with the corner of his eye he saw two people's hair tangled together on the clean white sheets beside him, and he changed his words and said, "Well, actually I was holding a knife."

“…”

Shang Li pouted in grievance.

"You know that he is a time traveler at heart."

Cui Lan said without any apology, "What's wrong with me chopping it? It's not real anyway."

The ghost hummed twice, indicating that he was barely coaxed into submission.

Then he raised his upper body and snapped his fingers crisply.

The supernatural energy fluctuations instantly blocked the connection between the flow of information indoors and the outside world.

"Has your supernatural power been upgraded again?"

Seeing Shang Li display abilities he had never used before, Cui Lan felt unusually curious.

"Yeah."

Shang Li nodded. "After completely digesting the energy of more than ten systems, the supernatural power has risen to the third level, and has obtained abilities similar to those systems."

For example, telepathic communication and range shielding.

"It's a pity that we still can't construct entities without freedom." The ghost said with regret.

"I actually like your current state of being invisible."

Cui Lan responded lightly.

Shang Li: “?”

He immediately became interested and put his hands on Cui Lan's sides. "Xiao Cui, you're not afraid that I'll force something on you after I get my physical form, right?"

The ruby-like eyes were completely open. If you looked carefully, you could see data flowing in them. "For example, blocking some senses and leaving only the most sensitive one, and then doing this and that to you..."

“Not really.”

Cui Lan passed through the ghost's arms, got out of bed and walked to the small table on the other side of the room. "Although I have lost all my strength now, I still know Shang Li better."

He took a sip of cold water before picking up the cup on the table, and then paused for a long time before turning back and continuing, "We talked so much that I almost forgot to ask you why you suddenly brought up the past."

Cui Lan looked at the ghost who was kneeling on the bed and smiling, "Did you secretly hear Jiang Mingyu talking about you in front of Lu Yao?"

"In fact, my clone who stayed in Yan City saw another Xiao Jiang who was exactly the same as me."

Shang Li shook his head.

“…”

Cui Lan was silent for a moment, then raised his eyes to meet those red pupils, "Do you think Lu Yao knows about this?"

"I have a subjective feeling that he doesn't know, but who can be sure whether the prophet deliberately let the big fish catch."

Shang Li said helplessly: "I know too little about him."

He clenched the five fingers of his right hand and moved them across his neck twice, "That guy, as your subordinate, hid so many things from you and had two hearts."

"Still not chopping it off?"

Cui Lan raised her eyebrows. "Are you trying to sow discord?"

"Yes, it is to sow discord."

Shang Li smiled and said, "I belong to the Superpower Bureau, and you belong to an illegal superpower organization, so of course I will attack you if I can."

Cui Lan remained silent.

After the two left the seafloor rift, they tacitly agreed not to mention what they had experienced or learned during the time they were unconscious.

Shang Li raised his eyes, his gaze fixed on the man with silver pupils.

There was no denying that he did have some doubts about Cui Lan in his heart.

It’s not true or false, but it’s important nonetheless.

Shang Li knew that Cui Lan had also hidden a lot from him.

He couldn't confirm whether it was due to a lack of trust or some other reason. He might also be like Xiao Jiang, who simply kept it a secret because he felt that if he got involved, it would make things more troublesome.

All in all, Shang Li is well aware that the relationship between him and his wife is actually far from being as harmonious as it appears on the surface, as if they are just one step away from being completely reconciled.

...It is better to say that my wife, Lu Yao and I all have our own agenda. Even though our ultimate goal is the same, the process of achieving it is not entirely similar.

Shang Li thought.

Anyway, there is still a lot of time, so let's take it one step at a time.

——

On the other side, Yan City.

Ye Bai grunted for a long time, but finally held back his words all the way to school.

"Now we're there. I'll take you there."

The car slowly stopped in front of the school gate. Jiang Mingyu took out his mobile phone, opened the QR code and waved it at the two teenagers.

"Why? Do I have to pay money?"

Lin Siyuan tilted his head back.

"What I mean is, do you want to add a contact method?" Jiang Mingyu explained in a very good-tempered manner.

The young master was dismissive, but Ye Bai obediently took out his phone and added him as a friend.

A few minutes later, two people, each a puppet, stood at the school gate and watched the car drive away.

"Hello."

Lin Siyuan put his arm around Ye Bai's shoulder and asked, "Why didn't you tell that partner in the car that the teacher was dead?"

"Because he would be very sad if he knew."

Ye Bai put away his phone.

"He has many more ways to receive information than you do. He will know it sooner or later. You can't hide it."

Lin Siyuan couldn't help but complain: "It's so pitiful. As a relative, even my brother's death was kept secret."

"If my brother really died suddenly in the realm, and I kept it a secret from my parents, they would be pissed to death."

"Maybe I'll even hate you then."

Ye Bai stepped on a small stone, rubbed it under his feet, and did not respond to these words.

He didn't know whether he had done anything wrong.

After all, he was simply resisting using this incident to suddenly get closer to Jiang Mingyu.

Originally, the 996 system did not mention the word "exploitation", but he might have really said it in the car.

But as soon as it was mentioned, Ye Bai felt that his behavior had become not so good.

well.

He sighed sadly.

Shang Li did not continue to stay with Ye Bai, but chose to run away with Jiang Mingyu who was driving.

"Brother Lili, you are in the car, right?"

When they were almost at their destination, Jiang Mingyu looked at the road conditions without looking away.

"Hmm."

Shang Li slowly appeared in the passenger seat, "It looks like you already knew this."

"After all, he's been my younger brother for so many years."

Jiang Mingyu smiled and said, "I can still detect something."

"The two kids are still struggling, especially the one holding the doll."

"Your brain must be burned out. I don't know who you can hide this from."

Noticing the subtle look from the person next to him, he subconsciously tightened his grip on the steering wheel and said, "I am at least 24 years old."

"Brother Lili, in some ways I am two years older than you now. There is no need to treat me like a child." Jiang Mingyu said.

Shang Li's expression remained unchanged. He crossed his arms and said, "I'm just surprised that you know so much about me."

"These things...just ask that uncle named Zhang and you will know."

Jiang Mingyu said: "I am also quite familiar with him."

Shang Li nodded, as if he believed this reason.

"So, why did you suddenly create a clone?"

He asked, "Just to be clear, I have already told them this."

“Chi——”

Jiang Mingyu stepped on the brakes and the car stopped abruptly on the side of the road.

"Brother Lili, why are you running off to complain so quickly?"

He put his forehead against the steering wheel helplessly, "You didn't even keep it a secret for me."

Seeing that the ghost was not going to respond, Jiang Mingyu raised his upper body again, leaned back on the chair, and lowered his voice and said, "Nothing, I just secretly took the supernatural props and wanted to have a sense of existence."

"I am an ordinary person without any special powers. What kind of waves can I make?"

"I'm just a little curious about the kid you're all paying attention to, and I want to make friends with him."

He turned his head to face Shang Li, who looked exactly the same as he did ten years ago, and said softly, "Don't worry, this clone will naturally disappear when you return from the sea."

"After all, if Lu Yao comes back, my every move will be under his sight."

Hearing this, Shang Li was stunned.

Ten years later, his attention was always on Cui Lan, and he was not aware of the private life between his brother and the prophet's target. Jiang Mingyu's words made him frown, "He was spying on you?"

"Not really."

Jiang Mingyu said: "For him who has the prophecy, it is difficult for me to do anything beyond his expectations."

"Now... it's just a try."

He put his hands together in front of him, "So help me one more time, Lili brother."

"How about we work together? You definitely don't want to be kept in the dark by Lu Yao and Lan Ge, two people who know everything."

"ha."

Shang Li couldn't help but laugh.

It turns out that he is waiting for me here.