Cannon Fodder Counterattack System (V)

Cui Lan looked down at the young man kneeling in front of him.

As early as a few days ago, he heard Shang Li's plea, saying that he wanted to come over and help catch the child.

"Why?"

At that time, Cui Lan was sitting cross-legged on the sofa in the Rift Apartment, with his arms stretched forward and pinching the short waist of the doll possessed by the ghost.

The calf-length doll changed into an exquisite dress, with a dark red lining and a black suit on the outside. Various small metal accessories were hung all over his body, all of which were changed by Cui Lan before he went to the ghost.

"Because we have to follow the 'plot'."

The puppet shook its head, which was weighed down by the metal accessories, and said, "My system says that according to the original storyline, after the kid accepted Xiao Jiang's invitation to go to Lu's house, he was caught by you on his way to escape."

"Why?"

Cui Lan frowned and asked again: "What exactly is written in the plot? Why would I go there for no reason?"

"In the plot, you went there specifically to catch the children."

Shang Li placed his paws on his wife's hands and said cheerfully, "The kidnapping attempt at the school rift failed before, so you tried the same trick again after a while. You followed the man all the way, squatting in the bushes of Lu's house for a long time in the cold weather before you finally found the opportunity."

Cui Lan: “…”

What the hell?

He was speechless for a moment, then said, "Even though that's the case, why should I cooperate with you?"

"Even if you don't follow the plot, what's more, you must have other ideas."

Shang Li immediately put his hands on his face and laughed, "Yeah, same to you."

"My dear, you have a lot of ideas. If you tell me what you are hiding, I will tell you all my plans. How about that?"

Cui Lan lowered his eyelids when he heard this.

After a long silence, he spoke again, his tone somewhat helpless, "It's not really a very important thing, it's just my personal matter, and it has nothing to do with the work you are about to do."

"It's useless even if you know it. It's already completely over in the past and can't provide any help for our ultimate goal."

"Hmm, what I'm most curious about is your personal affairs."

The puppet's eyes lost their luster, and its body slumped. The red ghost appeared in the living room and leaned lazily on Cui Lan. "Your little secret comes first in my life."

“…”

Cui Lan sighed.

So time went back to the present, he arrived at Lu's house as he was told, and successfully met Ye Bai.

"Help! System! System?!!"

Unexpectedly seeing the final boss, Ye Bai began to anxiously call for help in his heart, "What should I do now?"

However, the 996 system seemed to have suddenly run away from home and did not respond at all.

Damn it, it just happened to fail at this moment!

Ye Bai clenched his teeth.

He never imagined that he would fall into a snake pit just after escaping from the tiger's den.

Compared to this person, it is better to face Lu Yao directly!

He hunched his body, like a stressed cub, staring at the culprit who killed Shang Li.

If it had hair on its body, it would have exploded into a ball.

"Give up, no one can save you now."

Cui Lan spoke the classic lines in a calm voice.

He had long expected that he would be blamed for "murdering Shang Li", and was not surprised that the kid would hate him.

However... this kid didn't run away screaming at the first moment, which was completely different from his previous state in the field.

If you don't run away quickly and keep some distance, are you going to let me fight right in someone else's house?

Cui Lan thought.

Even though it was the house of our ally Lu Yao, we had already destroyed one of his cruise ships before, and now we might accidentally destroy someone else's house, which still felt a bit bad.

The main thing is that Xiao Jiang may feel wronged because of this.

While he was lost in thought, he silently watched Ye Bai kneeling on the ground and hesitating for a moment, then suddenly jumping up and rushing towards him with an attitude of "I'm going to fight you".

Wow.

Cui Lan dodged nimbly, then swung the long sword in his hand and hit the child.

He deliberately turned the blade and used a relatively thicker back to avoid accidentally killing someone by hitting too hard.

What surprised Cui Lan was that, whether it was the unleashing of his inner potential or Shang Li's effective teaching, Ye Bai actually lasted two full rounds under his hands before his legs were broken and he collapsed to the ground powerlessly.

"That should be enough."

Cui Lan put on gloves that could block superpowers and prevent herself from being affected.

Shang Li once reminded him that this guy could make things he touched go back to their past state, so Cui Lan specially brought insulation equipment with him.

He ignored Ye Bai's screams of pain and picked up the child by the collar and dragged him outside.

"Really? How could things turn out like this? If I had known this earlier..." Cui Lan muttered to himself as he looked ahead.

However, he did not notice a ball of light golden slowly emerging from the chest of the young man under his hand.

The ball of light spread out and turned into an almost invisible barrier, covering the entire Lu residence.

Ye Bai suddenly activated his supernatural powers.

——

On the other side, half a minute ago, Jiang Mingyu, with the help of Shang Li, arrived at the basement hidden in the deepest part of Lu's house.

"Lu Yao never allowed me to come here, saying there were many things I shouldn't see."

The pink-haired young man put his hands on his hips and snorted twice, "But now I've stepped in anyway."

Shang Lipiao folded his arms beside him and nodded in agreement, "That's right."

The two looked at each other and began to search separately.

The basement is not like the classic TV show with dark walls and dim lights.

The six walls of Lu Yao's room are covered with large white square bricks, and the incandescent lights above make the environment extremely bright.

In the middle of the basement is a long table with a movable whiteboard at the end of the table. The overall layout is similar to that of Ximing Company's conference room.

Unfortunately, the entire room had already been carefully cleaned and nothing useful was left.

"Brother Lili, do you think he would have expected us to come in?"

Jiang Mingyu, who had gained nothing, leaned against the table and said in a low voice, "It's so clean, it's like they were specifically guarding against us."

"Even if we expected it, it wouldn't have any impact."

Shang Li turned his gaze to the clones left outside and took a look. "And I don't think there is any."

Lu Yao was standing in the study at this moment, and the irritated look on his face did not seem to be fake.

He is nothing like the prophet who seemed to know everything before.

"Well, since we've taken the trouble to come here, we can't just go back empty-handed."

He regained consciousness and glanced at his brother, "Where's your system?"

His tone was calm, as if he was talking about something very normal.

"Isn't there anything it can do?"

Jiang Mingyu looked back. Facing this unexpected question, he stammered, "What, what system? What are you talking about? I don't have any system."

"Oh, I guessed wrong."

Shang Li narrowed his eyes.

He pretended to twirl his hair and made up an excuse, "I just feel that you have been so brave since you were a child. If you didn't have other help, it's unlikely that you would be as...active as you are now."

"After thinking about it, I think maybe you suddenly awakened some system like what is written in the novel, which gave you the confidence to interfere with the plan of those two guys."

"No...Brother Lili, aren't you helping me now?"

Jiang Mingyu raised his head and smiled, "Even if there was no system, I would still be standing here now."

Shang Li also smiled and did not comment.

"So what do we do now?"

The pink-haired young man shifted his gaze from the ghost to the snow-white wall, and his fingers began to draw circles on the table in boredom.

"Don't worry. Isn't this the reason why we called Ye Bai here?" Shang Li said in a relaxed tone.

Using Ye Bai's special ability, the basement was traced back to the time when the clues had not been erased.

His second-level supernatural ability [Networking] has a certain range limitation. The closer the distance, the better the "network speed" will naturally be.

Shang Li transferred his consciousness to the original body that remained beside Ye Bai, [Host, are you willing to give me your ability? ]

The 996 system is now online again.

However, the one who did not respond this time was Ye Bai.

Shang Li: “?”

What's going on? Didn't I specifically remind my wife not to knock the child unconscious?

Otherwise, how can I apply for permission to use supernatural powers?

He looked carefully and found that his original body had followed Ye Bai to the edge of Lu's residence, far away from the villa.

The young man lay on the ground with his eyes closed quietly. No matter how Shang Li affected his senses, it was of no use.

And standing next to him... was Cui Lan, who seemed to be a few years younger.

The younger version of Cui Lan had hair that only reached her waist. She was wearing a black windbreaker, her brows were deeply furrowed, and she exuded a strong murderous aura.

Although Shang Li did not show up, the young man with silver eyes still keenly noticed that there was something beside Ye Bai looking at him.

"System?"

Recognizing the breath, he raised his sword without hesitation.

A cold wind blew, and several silver sword lights accompanied by tremendous energy instantly cut off all of Shang Li's "network cables".

He also cut off the connection between the small space around them and the outside world, trapping the ghosts easily.

“…”

Shang Li knocked on the wall of the space and found that unless Cui Lan took the initiative to cancel his supernatural powers, he would have no way to leave.

Headache.

He compressed himself into a fist-sized red data ball and huddled in the corner. He looked at his wife who was slowly approaching and couldn't help but shivering twice.

Outside the space, many clones lost contact with the main body and soon dissipated due to exhaustion of power.

When Lu Yao realized that the power that trapped him was gone, he quickly turned around and left the room.

His senses were affected by Shang Li, and his footsteps towards the basement were led all the way to the study on the second floor. From the moment Lu Yao saw Shang Li, he knew that this was the reinforcement that Jiang Mingyu had brought in to delay him.

Without paying attention to the changes in the surrounding environment, Lu Yao went to the basement as fast as possible with a gloomy face.

Jiang Mingyu in the basement witnessed with his own eyes that the ghost had just said "Let me see what's going on" and then his body disappeared bit by bit.

The sound of footsteps was faintly heard. He gritted his teeth and reached out to press the snow-white wall.

"System!"

As soon as the words fell, a blue light with data flowing faintly enveloped Jiang Mingyu in an instant, and then suddenly burst open.

The moment before Lu Yao pushed open the door of the basement, the young man disappeared into the basement without leaving any trace.

“…”

Lu Yao panted and walked slowly around the room.

Seeing that he couldn't find Jiang Mingyu, he was still worried, so he picked up the energy detector he carried with him and scanned a few times to confirm that the basement was empty.

"Not here?"

The prophet murmured, "This is strange. Where else can he go?"

He took a few deep breaths and began to look through his past memories for clues. "Obviously the key points haven't changed, so how could the development of things deviate so much?"

"Everything that shouldn't have changed has changed, and everything that should have changed... I've done so much, but I'm still heading in the same direction."

"Is it because of Shang Li, a relatively free variable?"

Lu Yao couldn't help but laugh at himself.

"Guys with superpowers are different from us ordinary people."