Cannon Fodder Counterattack System (XIV)

[Host, please——]

[Host, host, please pamper me. :3]

【Host--】

Seeing that the man was still unwilling to give in, the system that Shang Li played in his "dream" took a deep breath and said, "If you don't agree, the original owner will die."

"Threatening me?"

The male voice responded indifferently, "I don't even care about my own life, so why should I care about this brat?"

【Wow! 】

The system was hit hard.

Seeing that it couldn't win with words, it shook its body, intending to take coercive measures and force the liquid into the baby's body.

"etc!"

In the snow in the real world, Cui Lan noticed that the red gourd began to accumulate power and suddenly raised his body.

Shang Li is also integrated into the system!

He forced his dry supernatural power to move between the two.

However, at this moment, a small paw was raised and stood in front of the baby.

Xiao Shangli, who was only six years old, opened his eyes at some point.

"Ha, I knew I couldn't be wrong."

He raised his head and looked at the long-haired man who was kneeling on one knee in front of him, and raised his obsidian eyes, "I finally found you."

“Shh——”

The rushing red light finally separated in the air and turned back into two round balls.

One half was held by Cui Lan miraculously, floating in his palm due to the barrier of supernatural power.

And the other half...

The red light crashed straight into Xiao Shangli's body and disappeared completely.

"Hey, isn't this red thing some new type of firework?"

Xiao Shangli turned over his palm and looked at it. "I clearly touched it, but I didn't feel anything at all."

Tsk, you were too gentle.

Cui Lan lowered his eyes and stared at the child in front of him who had no idea of ​​the seriousness of the situation.

Previously, he had been concerned about Xiao Shangli's age, fearing that he might accidentally hurt him, so he used much less force when throwing the stone.

But perhaps because of the heavy clothes he had to wear in winter, Xiao Shangli woke up early.

No, this guy probably didn't faint from the beginning.

Cui Lan quickly grasped Xiao Shangli, who was trying to escape, and turned him over to examine his body carefully.

The supernatural energy flowed into the child's meridians along the two people's connected palms, slowly searching for traces of the system.

But he didn't have the ability to search after all, and after a while, he still found nothing.

However, what is certain is that Xiao Shangli does not yet have the familiar aura of the system.

"Do you know how dangerous this was?"

Seeing that the child was no longer moving, Cui Lan slowly released her control and asked seriously, holding the baby half-lying on the ground.

"Well, I don't know."

Xiao Shangli responded cheerfully, "But if I don't block it, the thing will hit the baby you secretly gave me."

"I think you are not happy about this situation, so I decided to help you~"

At this point, he pouted and muttered, "Humph, your true love is really gone."

"We have no connection, and I helped you for nothing, but you didn't even say thank you. You are really an impolite adult."

"But it's okay. I forgive you."

Xiao Shangli changed the subject and said with a chuckle, "As long as you can be my pet to entertain me in the future, that's all."

Cui Lan: “…”

This sounds so familiar.

To be honest, he hadn't felt so angry that his head was about to explode for a long time.

And now, Cui Lan tasted it again after a long absence.

When they first met, Xiao Shangli said something similar to him as he lay dying in the snow.

"Be my pet to entertain me and I will take you home."

His tone was threatening, "Otherwise I will leave you here."

"Um……"

Cui Lan's mind was in a daze at that time, and the only consciousness left was the instinct to survive, so he agreed without thinking.

So after returning to the old house, Xiao Shangli naturally and domineeringly formulated several "pet clauses" and asked Cui Lan, who was the same age, to abide by them.

"You must stay around me 24 hours a day, treat me like an emperor, serve me tea and water, and meet all my needs..."

On the second night after Cui Lan moved into the old house, Xiao Shangli, wearing an old quilt he had taken out of the closet, stood on the bed in a "big" posture, looking at his peers who had just finished taking a hot bath and changed their clothes.

"Yeah, I understand."

Cui Lan thought this was just a pretend game played by children, and tried to echo a few words in a lively tone, "It's late, Your Majesty, please go to bed."

"Let the little one rest for a while, too."

He hasn't fully recovered yet. He played with Shang Li all day and now he's so sleepy that his eyelids are starting to fight each other.

After saying that, Cui Lan planned to go to bed.

"Hmph, pets are not allowed to order their masters around." Shang Li raised his chin and ran back and forth beside the bed like a crab, interrupting Cui Lan's progress on getting to bed again and again.

"?"

Cui Lan raised her eyelids and met the boy's gaze.

The rising sleepiness and the anger at being blocked began to fight against the gradually sparse rationality in my mind, "Are you serious?"

Shang Li was frightened by this situation, but he just stiffened his neck and did not retreat.

"It's the way it is. Pets have to listen to their owners. If I say you can't sleep, then you can't sleep!"

Cui Lan: “…”

In a trance, he seemed to hear the sound of a string breaking in his head. When he came to his senses again,

His hand was already grasping Shang Li's collar.

"Slavery disappeared thousands of years ago. Stop dreaming about it here!"

Cui Lan, who was so sleepy that he had lost his mind, easily pressed his powerless savior onto the bed, then nimbly mounted his waist and, ignoring Shang Li's miserable screams, punched him twice on the head.

"I am your master, don't do this to me!"

Two children started quarreling in the room.

"You haven't been to school yet... Well, I've only been to elementary school, but I'm here to tell you what equality means!"

"Don't treat others as pets!!"

The battle ended with Shang Li, with lumps all over his head and sniffling the snot from being beaten, being forced to sign an equal treaty with Cui Lan again.

And now, Cui Lan raised his hand and was about to swing it at the child.

"Don't hit me!"

Xiao Shangli instinctively hugged his head for no apparent reason, and rolled over on the snow with his small body. Then he immediately stood up and ran away as fast as he could, holding the baby in his arms.

But how can his speed compare to that of an adult?

Cui Lan's knife landed accurately on the back of the neck. Xiao Shangli rolled his eyes and fainted.

"568."

Cui Lan held Xiao Shangli in one hand and called out twice casually into the void.

【I am here...】

The little blue ball came out from behind a tree not far away, "Sir, is there anything I can do for you?"

"Can you find out whether he is Shang Li or 031?"

Cui Lan took out the system in his hand and pointed it at 568, "...or which parts of the two of them were divided here?"

[Let me see…]

568 shook like jelly for a moment, then jumped in the air. [There is no data belonging to the host in it.]

It has been in Shang Li's body for a long time, so it can naturally tell which data belongs to Shang Li.

Cui Lan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

This should be considered good news, as Shang Li’s was not cut in half.

[But... these are all energy, personality and emotion modules. The core of the system has all fallen into another part.]

"Core?" Cui Lan raised his eyebrows.

「Hmm……」

568 hesitated.

It didn't know whether to tell Cui Lan the information it knew.

After all, it could see that the people in front of it and the host actually had no good feelings towards them.

568 remembered that after the host came out from the bottom of the sea, he promised himself that he would follow the plot and correct the world line.

But it understands that the host is willing to follow the plot line not because he is moved by its persistence and decides to complete the task, but because he wants to use it to do bigger things.

For example...

The scene had only just emerged in outline in his mind when 568 quickly interrupted his thoughts.

It has followed its host all the way to the present, and now it doesn't know what to do.

It is impossible to return to the system space and report to the main system.

The mission was not completed, and its results were only to be destroyed as defective products that failed to complete the mission.

In that case...it's better to completely switch sides and stay here!

568 thoughts.

The host is also data, and I am also data. If I perform well, maybe I will be able to get my own body like host Xiao Chen in the future!

When the systems were merged before, didn't the host let me go?

Thinking of this, 568 finally comforted himself.

So it continued:

[The core includes the tasks we have to complete, for example, I want to correct the plot, 031 wants to save the host, just like your human instinct. ]

[In addition, it also includes the most important function...the function of connecting to the main system. ]

On the other side, Shang Li had no idea what was happening outside, and the entire dream began to shake violently.

[Host, our journey through time and space has been interrupted. We have crashed into the plane!]

"Just what I want."

The male voice remained calm, "I'm glad you can die with me."

[No! I'm here to give first aid... No, where's my energy?! ]

[It’s over. I’m going to sleep…]

The system is still struggling desperately, but the whole dream has collapsed.

"brush--"

Shang Li's perspective suddenly rose.

The sky, the clouds, the universe... It was as if he had passed through layers of barriers, and along with the flowing data, he was sent to some wonderful world.

In the pitch-black space, countless symbols, some bright and some dark, flow in all directions, with no visible end to their coming and going.

And somewhere near the top, a dangerous red light was like an eye looking down, constantly monitoring every move in this space.

"Where is this?"

Shang Li was startled when he suddenly heard his own voice.

Can I control my body again?

He tried to reach out his hand, but found himself turned into a bright red data ball.

[031, Aren't you heading to the target point to carry out the mission? ]

A green ball slid down the data bridge and asked the business that looked identical to them in a calm mechanical voice, "Why are you still here?"

Is this where the systems stayed before they arrived?

Shang Li reacted quickly and began to imitate the personality of 031 in his impression, pretending, [Emm, actually I'm not ready to go yet...]

Upon hearing this, Green Dumpling immediately expressed dissatisfaction, "You loaded another personality template?"

[Didn’t I tell you to download the “serious” personality template? How can you complete the task? ]

Shang Li shuddered and whispered, "Why is this personality template not acceptable? I quite like it..."

[No! This mission target is very difficult! ]

The green dumpling swelled up twice like a pufferfish. [Our predecessor 001 died there, not to mention you who has no mission experience! ]

[If you don't choose a more serious personality to protect yourself, you will be eaten up by the monsters lurking there as soon as you enter! ]

I want to bite you off right now.

Shang Li thought unkindly, but asked for help, "Then, then what should I do now?"

Green Dumpling thought for a moment and said, "Anyway, the mission can directly locate the landing time, so there is no need to rush."

[I will take you to change your personality template first. ]