Cannon Fodder Counterattack System (Twenty-One)

[In this cage, all supernatural powers will become ineffective. ]

[If you can't activate it, you still can't escape even if you have the most powerful superpowers. ]

294 said in a mechanical voice without any ups and downs.

【Host, the goal has been accomplished. 】

As soon as the words fell, blue data symbols emerged from thin air, forming a phantom.

Then the shadow gradually solidified and became a slightly thin and short young man.

The young man had short light pink hair, a loose white knitted jacket on his upper body, and dark grey tight jeans on his lower body, which stood out in the yellow desert.

It was Jiang Mingyu.

Shang Li leaned on Cui Lan's shoulder and glanced at 294 quietly. The pink jelly had already taken off her disguise.

Its outer layer turned translucent white, and one could vaguely see a crystal emitting a brilliant rainbow-like luster inside.

He shifted his gaze to the young man again.

The person in front of him was undoubtedly Jiang Mingyu from their timeline.

"You finally found me."

Jiang Mingyu put his left hand behind his back and put his right hand to his face and said hello to the two people standing in the cage. "Long time no see. I really miss you."

He put his fingertips on his lower lip and tilted his head to think, "How many years has it been since we last met?"

"Four or five years?"

"Oh, I forgot."

Jiang Mingyu sighed, "But it must have been a very long time."

Shang Li and Cui Lan looked at each other.

For them, the separation was no more than three days.

It seems that the time chosen is not completely accurate.

Shang Li thought.

"Although I think it's still a little early, I'm still very happy to be reunited with you in this state."

Outside the cage, Jiang Mingyu continued.

He crossed his fingers in front of his chest and looked at the two people in front of him expectantly, "I have changed a lot now."

The two people in the cage: "..."

"To be fair, yes."

After a while, Cui Lan gave his evaluation in a calm voice.

Jiang Mingyu seemed to be encouraged. He jumped lightly with joy and made a small sand pit on the ground.

Then he turned his gaze to Shang Li, "What about you, Brother Li?"

“It’s undeniable.”

Shang Li twisted his long hair around his fingers and agreed helplessly, "It feels like you've become a different person. I almost suspected that you were someone else in disguise."

Jiang Mingyu smiled even more deeply, "That would be great."

"Well, why would it make you happy if we said that?"

Shang Li looked up and down at the young man whose appearance had hardly changed twice through the railing of the cage, "Do you hate your past self?"

"Brother Li, this is not a good place to have a heart-to-heart talk."

Jiang Mingyu did not respond directly, but changed the topic, "If we want to reminisce, why don't we go to my newly renovated house and have a seat?"

Cui Lan glanced sideways at the endless sand, "In this crack?"

"Well, otherwise it would be easy for us to be caught by the Supernatural Bureau."

Jiang Mingyu laughed, "It is indeed very safe to follow Brother Lan's approach."

"By the way, Lu Yao is also at home."

He extended an invitation enthusiastically, "It's been a long time since you last met for a family gathering."

"I'm happy to do so... But Xiao Jiang, since this is a reunion after a long separation, why did you lock us up?"

Shang Li pointed at the cage that was flashing with lightning and said, "We won't escape."

He could tell at first glance that this cage was specially made to capture the two of them. Cui Lan's supernatural powers were sealed, and Shang Li was overloaded when he touched it.

"There's no particular reason, I just want to talk to you guys."

Jiang Mingyu heard this and immediately rubbed his cheeks in embarrassment. "After all, if I didn't take the initiative, you would definitely take me back without saying a word."

"So follow me, my dear brothers."

He extended the invitation again, "As long as we can be reunited, it doesn't matter where we are, right?"

Shang Li and Cui Lan fell into silence.

After a moment, seeing that both of them were motionless and did not respond, Jiang Mingyu's raised lips gradually fell.

With an indifferent expression, he stretched out his hand towards the cage, with his five fingers spread out and bent as if to grab.

The electric cage immediately began to shrink according to his command, and the space soon became small enough to accommodate only one person.

The unconscious body was carried on Cui Lan's shoulder, not taking up much space, and Shang Li simply took advantage of his lack of physical form and overlapped most of his body with Cui Lan like a character in a game.

He saw Jiang Mingyu take two steps towards this side.

The young man's hands seemed to be unable to feel the electric current rising from the cage, and he clasped them directly, "Aren't you here to see me anyway?"

"Well... I think there is a difference between pursuit and capture."

Shang Li, who was a conjoined twin with Cui Lan, lightly touched the cage with his fingertips and bounced back at the speed of light, "Just like you said."

There was no trace of worry on his face, and Cui Lan was also calm. Jiang Mingyu did not show it on his face, but he couldn't help feeling a little annoyed in his heart.

"It's not up to you now."

He said in a deep voice, raising his hand to order the system to come over.

However, the hot wind blew past with sand, and the only response he got was a warm voice suddenly appearing behind his ear.

"Really?"

Shang Li asked with a smile.

? !

Jiang Mingyu's breathing stagnated and he turned his head quickly.

The ghost with red eyes had appeared outside the cage at some point, and was now floating in the air, looking down at everything that was happening on the ground with a smile on his face.

"This little thing is really sharp. It almost discovered the movement."

Shang Li held the struggling translucent system and opened the data transmission channel to allow his bright red data stream to invade. "When we were chatting just now, I fought it for three hundred rounds without stopping."

When he was looking for a landing point among the group of monsters, he created dozens of clones and spread them all over the desert.

The moment he discovered the existence of the system, he secretly communicated with Cui Lan and immediately replaced his original body with the clone that was floating outside.

The clone in the cage had its powers sealed, and naturally its connection with the original body was cut off, but...

Isn’t 568 still there?

He handed over some of the control of the clone to 568 in advance, and at the same time quietly directed it outside the cage to make certain expressions and movements, and what to say.

It was normal that Jiang Mingyu couldn't find it, but what surprised Shang Li was that the system in his hand didn't find it either.

As the system gradually turned bright red, the authority to control the cage fell into his hands.

“Click.”

The cage was unlocked immediately, and Cui Lan raised his knife and slashed.

Although they were in the hot desert, Jiang Mingyu suddenly felt a bone-chilling cold wind blowing towards him.

“Shua——”

He dodged the attack as quickly as possible, but a shallow wound was still left on his arm.

"Although I'm glad that you've grown up to be so strong, it's still too early for you to step on your parents."

Shang Li released the severely trained system and threw it back to 568, who had returned to his original form. He said to his brother, "When you learn how to bluff from me, you should also learn how fast your brother Lan is."

"...It seems you have made sufficient preparations in advance."

With the sensation in his legs blocked, Jiang Mingyu could only kneel on the sand.

He covered his wound with his hand and said, "Yes, it's not difficult for you to guess."

"Really? You have no mercy at all?"

Jiang Mingyu raised his chin and looked at Cui Lan, whose knife tip was stained with blood. His originally gentle face showed no sign of softening at this moment.

"Now it's about favors."

Cui Lan sheathed his sword and said, "Since you want to be treated equally, don't expect the other party to show mercy."

“…”

Jiang Mingyu pursed her lips.

"Xiao Jiang, you've gone through so much trouble to come here. If you just want to know what we want to do, there's no need to go through so much trouble." Cui Lan said again.

“It’s necessary!”

Hearing this, Jiang Mingyu immediately retorted, "You say that, but if I don't leave, you will keep it a secret from me for the rest of my life."

"Even if I follow you back now, you will definitely return to your previous state of not saying a word."

He took a few deep breaths and suddenly pointed at Shang Li who was watching the show on the side, "I'm sure that if Lili hadn't been able to discover so many things by himself, you and Lu Yao would definitely want to keep it a secret from him forever!"

Shang Li, who was suddenly called out, said: “…”

"Anyway, I have something I want to do now."

Jiang Mingyu lowered his head and slapped the stone tablet beside him.

"Bang——"

The weather suddenly changed.

The fine sand beneath their feet began to flow with the sudden strong wind, and a strange tide-like thing appeared from the edge of their vision, rushing towards them at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A strange snake-like creature that was three meters wide emerged from the sand below Jiang Mingyu.

The huge mouth with two fangs opened and swallowed the man into its stomach in an instant, then burrowed back into the sand and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Mingyu sat in the strange belly that was like a subway car, covering up all the traces he left behind, and finally arrived at a very inconspicuous location in the entire desert.

A stone tablet similar to the previous one stood quietly in the silent desert.

Jiang Mingyu gently touched the stone tablet again, and water-wave-like energy spread out from the place where his palm touched it.

The endless desert before my eyes began to twist and turned into the appearance of Lu's house.

It was a quiet night, almost exactly the same as when he had left.

After making sure that the two people did not follow, Jiang Mingyu took a few deep breaths, then slowly walked into the main house and went straight to the master bedroom on the second floor.

【They are more difficult to deal with than I thought. 】

The milky white ball slowly condensed beside him. [Fortunately, this was just a test.]

"Um."

Jiang Mingyu responded calmly.

He took the cold handle and opened the bedroom door.

In the room, Lu Yao was turning on the bedside lamp and leaning on the pillow reading a book.

The man hadn't exercised for a long time, and his originally muscular body had become much thinner. His exposed wrists were fastened by an iron ring two fingers thick, with a metal chain of the same thickness hanging on the iron ring. The other side was connected to the head of the bed, which was just the right length for movement within the bedroom.

"Did you see them?"

Noticing movement not far away, Lu Yao closed the book and looked up at Jiang Mingyu who was standing in front of the door.

There was a hint of fatigue in his eyes, and his former high spirits had long been worn away.

"Well, it's a pity that I didn't win."

Jiang Mingyu walked over, pinched Lu Yao's chin and put his face close to his, "Brother Yao, it turns out that I can only do something to you."

“…”

Lu Yao said: "Yuyu, you already know everything you want to know, so why don't you stop?"

"Of course, I like the way we are with each other now."

"That's not what I'm talking about."

Jiang Mingyu: "But I just want to say this."

Lu Yao was silent.

On the other side, the two people, surrounded by monsters, started the marathon again.

"So what now?"

Cui Lan ran wildly, and asked with a wooden face: "You are so soft-hearted that you let him escape. Then what?"

"Let's go back first." said Shang Li who was following closely.

"Where to go?"

"The original timeline."

Cui Lan: "I'm serious."

"I'm serious, too."

Shang Li stretched out his hands and gestured, "Go back to find Xiao Ye, and then severely train his supernatural power to directly return Xiao Jiang to the original time."

“…”

Cui Lan stopped abruptly and chopped the monsters that were rushing towards him into pieces with one knife.

He angrily said to the ghost: "Why didn't you tell us earlier? We have come here for nothing."

"I wasted a tool and got chased by a monster here."

"I don't have hyperamnesia—"

Cui Lan: "Why, is your memory data damaged?"

"You can't blame me anyway!"

Shang Li narrowed his eyes and said angrily: "Don't you support it too?!"

“Hmm…”

While the two were arguing, Shang Li, who belonged to this timeline and was dragged to the ground by Cui Lan, fluttered his eyelashes and opened his eyes.

"Why am I here? Who are you?"

He asked ignorantly.