Cannon Fodder Counterattack System (IV)

"Is it really okay?"

A few hours later, when he could no longer hear any noise outside, Ye Bai, at the urging of the system, gently opened the door and tiptoed out.

Shang Li: [Don't worry, with the help of this system, nothing will go wrong. ]

“…”

Despite saying this, Ye Bai didn't feel relieved at all.

As he moved, he kept repeating in his mind, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean any harm."

They had just started to act, but it seemed as if they had already committed some heinous crime, causing Shang Li's head to ache from the noise.

In a way, the kid is pretty moral.

Shang Li rubbed his brows speechlessly.

The lights in the entire villa were off, and the only illumination inside was the moonlight coming in from the windows. The crystal chandelier in the hall refracted the moonlight, casting spots of light on the walls that looked like fish scales.

"Where do I go now?"

He thought to himself, "What hidden secrets are there? You can't just let me search this big place bit by bit."

【Not really.】

The mechanical voice in my mind laughed twice, "Let's go to the second floor now. There is a study room at the end of the opposite corridor."

Ye Bai then took a light breath, bent his body, and walked along the wall in the corridor in the direction indicated by the system.

Shang Li was like a ghost lurking in an old house for a hundred years, floating silently behind the young man and following him to the study.

"It's locked."

Ye Bai half-crouched in front of the door stealthily, grasped the handle and twisted it, "What should I do?"

It was quiet all around, and he subconsciously lowered his voice in his heart.

[Host, Jiang Mingyu came to the study two hours ago.]

Shang Li reminded.

"!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Bai immediately knew what to do.

He pressed his palm on the keyhole and activated his supernatural power.

During this period of time, under the training of the two adults, Ye Bai has been able to control the scope and extent of the influence of his supernatural powers very well.

A faint golden light overflowed from the palm of his hand, and the lock core hidden in the door lock was instantly restored to the open state two hours ago.

Ye Bai entered the study smoothly.

Without Shang Li's reminder, he turned around and traced the entire door back to a few seconds ago.

Now, even if someone stuck a hair in the crack of the door, it would be restored completely.

"We won't be discovered, right?"

This was the first time Ye Bai did such a sneaky thing, and he quickly and nervously sought approval from the system.

Shang Li: [……]

[Of course, the host did a great job. ]

He patiently praised the child.

In fact, it didn't matter that Ye Bai just kicked the door open and swaggered in.

Anyway, he had already blocked off all movement in this area and the surveillance was under control.

The ghost took out the 568 that he had forgotten for a long time from the small dark room, pinched the blue data ball and let it spit out the current plot, and then listened to it carefully again.

[The protagonist has no intention of becoming friends with cannon fodder Jiang Mingyu. Since they have nowhere else to go, Jiang Mingyu invites the protagonist to spend the New Year at Lu's house.] 568 said in a dead voice.

[On his way to the night, the protagonist accidentally entered the study because he got the wrong way, and accidentally discovered the hidden...]

"Why would he go through someone else's bookcase?"

Shang Li glanced at Ye Bai, who was almost soaked with guilt, and asked 568, "This kid has such high moral standards that he doesn't look like someone who would mess around in someone else's house."

[Uh, it’s not mentioned in the plot…]

568 hesitated whether to continue calling Shang Li the "host". After all, this person was also a system and should be considered a colleague in theory.

But after thinking for a while, it still added a title.

"Is it true or false?"

The ghost raised an eyebrow.

【I really didn’t write it!!】

The blue data ball swelled up. [In the original work, it only said that he seemed to notice something wrong, and then he started searching! ]

Okay.

Shang Li took back 568 and looked up at Ye Bai who was at a loss.

【Time is short, let's act quickly. 】

He continued to play the role of system.

After saying that, Shang Li leaned against the ceiling somewhat bored.

The study is very large, almost the size of an average family's two bedrooms and one living room combined. On both sides are bookcases that take up the entire wall, filled with all kinds of heavy books.

The mahogany desk in the center of the room was facing away from the window, with the curtains drawn on both sides. The moonlight from outside shone through, drawing squares on the floor.

Under the bright moonlight, the child began to rummage through the drawers.

Actually, there is nothing useful in this villa, Shang Li thought.

The fact that Lu Yao was willing to let an outsider come to his home to celebrate the New Year meant that he was confident that those secrets were foolproof.

But who says clues can't be conjured up on the spot?

When Lu Yao was questioning the child, Jiang Mingyu secretly informed him and left some small items in the study room in advance, such as...

Under Shang Li's instruction, Ye Bai opened the secret compartment of the desk and took out a completely broken cell phone.

The phone was fairly new, with a faint fishy smell remaining on it, as if it had been taken out of the sea after being soaked for a long time.

[Xiaoye, can you trace it back to the state a few days ago? ]

Ye Bai nodded and held the phone in both hands.

Soon, the phone's status was traced back to a time when it was still intact.

He turned on his phone, checked its contents carefully, and finally found a video in the files.

【That’s it.】

Ye Bai clicked on the video as he was told.

The video is only a few minutes long and is a shaky surveillance camera angle.

Half of the camera was submerged in the murky water, but two small standing figures could still be vaguely seen from the upper half that was not blocked.

One red and one black.

When Ye Bai saw the two familiar people, he immediately covered his mouth with one hand.

He stared at the small screen with his eyes wide open.

In the video, the long-haired man picked up a silver knife in the heavy rain and decisively slashed at the short-haired man.

Then the camera shook, and the two people on the deck were lifted up and fell into the sea with the new teacher Luo.

"This is what happened to Teacher Shang at sea..." Ye Bai murmured.

【About the same. 】

Shang Li responded.

Some of them have been artistically processed, which has put Cui Lan in a bad light.

Oh, who asked my wife to play the villain?

"This phone belongs to... Brother Xiao Jiang?"

Ye Bai's tone was filled with disbelief.

【That’s right.】

The young man kneeling on the ground trembled again when he heard the system's affirmation.

"Since he has this video... does that mean he already knew about Teacher Shang's death?!"

Ye Bai's arm holding the phone drooped weakly, and he muttered to himself: "Even the things at sea may be related to him. Why?"

"Isn't Jiang Mingyu Mr. Shang's younger brother? Why can he pretend that nothing happened?"

He grabbed his hair anxiously. "Was everything he said before a lie? To get close to me?"

Having been friends with Jiang Mingyu online for such a long time, Ye Bai had already regarded the young man as a true friend beneath his gentle appearance.

The 996 system never said much, so he naively thought that Shang Li's "deep relationship" actually meant that Jiang Mingyu, like himself, regarded Cui Lan as an enemy and approached him only to become an ally.

[Not completely, but at least it's true that I have no hostility towards you.]

The system finally refuted it a little, [Don't forget, the reason why you became friends with him was not simple. ]

[This has finally returned to a simple relationship of mutual benefit. There is no need to be sad. 】

“…”

Ye Bai let out a long breath and tried to calm himself down.

He silently took out his own camera from his pocket, intending to transfer the video to his mobile phone and save it.

The boy drummed for a long time, and just when the video transmission bar was stuck at 99%, he heard a crisp sound from behind.

“Click.”

The door of the study opened suddenly.

A man walked slowly into the study.

Before the man's sight reached the room, Ye Bai had quickly hidden under the table.

He huddled in a corner, curling his body into the smallest possible shape, squeezing into the shadows where the moonlight could not reach.

The phone was restored to its original state and put back into the secret compartment.

The man walked steadily towards the desk.

Ye Bai pursed his lips nervously, listening to the thumping of his heart, not daring to move.

Fortunately, when the man reached the place where he could find the hiding person if he went one step further, he stopped.

"Oh, this is giving me a headache."

A deep voice came from above, and Ye Bai recognized it as Lu Yao's voice.

Have you been discovered?

The child was very nervous.

"Strange, Yuyu isn't here, where did he go?"

Lu Yao continued to mutter to himself, "He suddenly ran away without saying a word, and it took me a long time to find him."

"Could it be hidden under the desk?"

Seeing the man getting close again, Ye Bai couldn't help but scream in his heart.

“Aaaaaaaah!!!”

“System, system! Save me, save me, save me!”

Shang Li: [. ]

[Shut up host, he can't see you. 】

Ye Bai suddenly calmed down.

From where he couldn't see, a ghost slowly emerged.

"I took Xiao Jiang out to play."

He blocked the child and said to Lu Yao who raised his eyebrows when he suddenly appeared here.

"At this late hour?"

Lu Yao's tone was extremely dissatisfied, "You broke into my house and took him away without even telling me?"

"Isn't this just a greeting?"

Shang Li sat in the void, winding up his long hair leisurely, "Don't worry, go back to sleep, Xiao Jiang will be fine with me by her side."

"oh."

Lu Yao sneered, "I just called Cui Lan, and he is almost on his way now."

"Guess what he did?"

He raised his chin and met the gaze of the ghost looking down upon him.

"You probably don't know yet." Lu Yao said.

"I specifically reminded him to cut off contact with you."

Shang Li narrowed his red eyes and smiled, "Threatening me?"

"Well, how about we see now whose side Cui Lan will stand on if we two are in conflict?" He randomly pointed his index finger in the air twice.

Lu Yao's face darkened.

At the same time, under the cover of his supernatural powers, Ye Bai flipped out of the window and fell into the bushes below.

The young man rolled over twice on the ground with steady movements, then knelt on one knee to steady himself.

Then he saw a pair of boots standing quietly in front of him.

Ye Bai slowly raised his eyes and met a pair of cold silver pupils.