Plot Correction System (XIV)

"...That depends on whether you have the ability."

Lin Sirong pulled out the knife that was inserted into his neck.

The life-threatening wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye and soon disappeared completely.

His brows furrowed and he casually threw the dagger aside, making a crisp sound of collision.

"Do you think you can hurt me with just these two tricks?"

"Shang Li."

The red-eyed man raised his lips and took off his black-framed glasses and put them in his pocket. "It turns out that you have gained more supernatural powers since that day."

"How did you find out that I was Shang Li?"

“It’s very simple.”

Lin Sirong said: "The NPCs composed of data will not be as interested in Cui Lan as you are."

"Don't forget, I also met Shang Li in my time."

He said meaningfully, "Given the cautious character of that guy, he would definitely not step into this space as rashly as you do. Based on this alone, I can make a judgment."

Shang Li laughed, "So confident?"

"This is my experience as a person in power, knowing people over the years."

Lin Sirong raised his chin slightly, "Obviously, I was right."

"So you chose to play along."

Shang Li twirled his hair with his fingers. "Since I took the initiative to enter this space, you might as well just take care of me as well."

"Hmph, a very crude but very useful plan."

Lin Sirong slowly approached and picked off the leaves of a green plant that was as tall as a person.

A layer of frost froze on the surface of the leaf at a speed visible to the naked eye, like a dagger held in his right hand, while his left hand stretched forward with five fingers forming claws.

"You are also one of the prey."

Lin Sirong showed an extremely happy and sly smile, "Run for your lives, everyone will be mine."

Shang Li: “…”

He couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

The sharp ice spikes attacked his eyes, and Shang Li dodged them swiftly by leaning to the side. Then he rolled a few times and quickly approached the office door, reached out and grasped the handle and twisted it.

“Click.”

locked.

"I remember your ability is to distort other people's senses."

Lin Sirong stood in front of Shang Li. The faint light on the table was blocked and the whole person seemed to have turned into a dark shadow.

"It suits my ability very well." He looked down at her.

"It's a pity that it's sealed by that NPC, so I can't see the whole picture." Lin Sirong stared at the red eyes that glowed slightly in the dark, "But it doesn't matter, I'll know soon--"

"!!"

Before he could finish his sentence, the person in front of him suddenly twisted.

When he came to his senses, he found himself back in the center of the office.

No, maybe I never left from the beginning to the end.

The red-eyed man was still leaning against his desk in a leisurely manner, with his eyes crossed.

Seeing that Lin Sirong finally reacted, he pointed upwards and said, "Hey, what time is it now?"

“…”

Lin Sirong opened his eyes and saw that three hours had passed on the clock.

The seal on Xu Ge's supernatural powers has been released.

"It was my negligence."

He sneered, loosened his grip on the leaf and let it fall slowly to the ground.

With the leaves as the center, frost began to spread outward rapidly until the entire office was covered with a layer of white, and as time went on, the layer continued to thicken and condense into fierce thorns.

"Your special ability can indeed prevent me from causing direct harm." Lin Sirong narrowed his eyes.

"But if it's an indiscriminate range attack and you're trapped in this space, how can you avoid it?"

As he spoke, the man's figure gradually became transparent. "I'm quite curious about how you will choose to make your final struggle before death."

"However, I still hope to get a beautiful ice sculpture when I come back, haha."

He spoke his last words to Shang Li who was trapped in the ice and snow in an arrogant tone, and then completely disappeared from the room.

So the timeline returned to the present, and everyone gathered together.

Three identical men with red eyes were facing each other in the corridor.

"Oh, this is a rare situation."

Shang Li, with long hair, held his face with his hands and said with a smile: "Is this a game of 'choose the Shang Li you trust, and then fight for him'?"

Shang Li, who has short hair and wears glasses, said gently: "I think my chances of winning are quite good."

Shang Li, who was standing in front of Ye Bai, frowned and said, "Now that everything has come out, it seems that there is no need for me to keep pretending."

He took off his disguise and turned back into Lin Sirong. "I have isolated that space. How did you escape?"

"Who knows?"

Long-haired Shang Li spread his hands and acted helpless, "Maybe he didn't come out at all, and Shang Li is being pitifully locked up in the room by you, shivering in fear?"

Lin Sirong obviously did not believe the ghost's words.

But he never expected that this was exactly the truth.

Initially, Shang Li and Huan Xiang secretly reached a cooperation agreement in the conference room.

The illusion pretended to kill him and brought the original body with the chip into this area.

Then, under the secret command of Shang Li, the illusion confronted Lin Sirong in the room. At the same time, the pixel man who had been hiding in Cui Lan and whose abilities had not yet been sealed successfully restored contact with the original body and "connected to the Internet" again.

As a result, Xu Ge's seal became meaningless. Shang Li directly broke away from the chip, was transmitted along the "network cable" to Cui Lan, and then appeared here.

Ah, I knew that I knew Xiao Cui very well, and he was indeed here.

What would I do without him? I could only be plotted against by the bad guys. Cui Lan is indeed my idol. He always saves me from danger.

Shang Li looked at Cui Lan's face, and his whole ghost mood began to become happy involuntarily.

"Hello!"

Lin Siyuan spoke suddenly, attracting Lin Sirong's attention.

"You are my big brother?!"

His eyes widened, he hugged Xiao Chen tightly in his arms, and spoke with a trembling voice to the man who looked somewhat like him.

“…”

Lin Sirong glanced coldly at his shocked brother and nodded in response: "That's right."

Lin Siyuan didn't expect that he would admit it so straightforwardly, and he just stood there in a daze.

"Then why did you lock us up here?"

After a few seconds, the boy's eyes turned red and he clenched his fists tightly.

"What do you think?"

Lin Sirong sneered, "It's such a pity to have an S-level ability in your hands."

He snapped his fingers, and four walls of frosted glass quickly rose from the ground, surrounding Lin Siyuan, and then quickly moved into the glass on both sides and disappeared.

“Brother!!”

Lin Siyuan screamed loudly in the small space.

He knocked hard on the glass, but suddenly found that a thin layer of frost had condensed on it without him noticing. The temperature dropped suddenly and warm white air began to come out of his mouth and nose.

"The Superpower Bureau has taught you for so long, but all you've learned is the barking of incompetence?" Lin Sirong was nowhere to be seen, but disdainful voices came from all directions.

As the words were spoken, several thick ice spikes suddenly shot out from the ice-covered glass, instantly piercing Lin Siyuan's limbs and pinning him firmly into a position where he could not move.

Blood immediately flowed out from the punctured wound, slid down the ice edges, and then quickly solidified into irregularly shaped white, transparent and red crystals.

The young master, who had never suffered any hardship in his life, suddenly had tears welling up in his eyes.

The tears solidified quickly in the extremely low temperature and hung on his face.

“Boy!!”

Little Chen, who was only knee-high, fell to the ground as soon as Lin Siyuan was locked in this space.

He jumped up and hugged the ice spike that was stuck in Lin Siyuan's thigh, trying to break it with his soft puppet claws, "Fuck, Shang Li, you evil person!!"

Xiao Chen howled in his heart, "Your mother gave me such a useless body and now I can't save anyone even if I want to!!"

The sound traveled through the ice and glass into Shang Li's ears.

The ghost looked quietly at the glass that also trapped him on six sides.

Lin Sirong used the same trick again, and the temperature around him dropped below zero in an instant. The piercing ice cones were occupying the already narrow space at a rapid speed, as if they were determined to poke Shang Li into a meat paste.

Unfortunately, Shang Li doesn't even have a body, so the ice cone will be useless even if it fills up the entire space.

Just as he was about to pass through it and save the students in trouble, 568, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke up: [Originally, the host didn't have a role in this plot. ]

[According to the original work, the protagonist should now save the cannon fodder Lin Siyuan who is being tortured by the villain, and then command him to defeat the small boss Lin Sirong, and from then on make Lin Siyuan bow down to the protagonist. ]

"oh."

Shang Li said to the system in his heart with a cold tone: "Didn't you say that the plot was not written?"

568: [……]

[Host, you have to give the protagonist a chance to grow. ]

It used that mechanical voice that should have been smooth to advise sincerely, [The supernatural power of the villain Cui Lan has been sealed, and it will not cause a huge collapse to the plot now. The plot line is on the right track. ]

[In order to save the world, please do not intervene at the critical moment. ]

568 finally understood that as long as his host didn't interfere, the plot wouldn't be ruined.

...So the unknown factor that the main system mentioned that disrupts the plot is the host Shang Li.

Plot Correction System 568 suddenly realized.

“…”

Shang Li raised his eyelids. The rising mirror-like ice wall did not reflect the figure of the ghost. He didn't know what his expression looked like.

There was a continuous "dong dong dong" sound coming from the other side of the ice wall. At the same time, he heard Lin Siyuan yelling at the top of his lungs: "Brother!"

"I am willing to give you my supernatural powers, please let us go!"

However, all that was heard was another loud collision and the sound of broken bones.

“…”

Shang Li sighed and was about to walk into the ice wall.

【Host!!】

Tsk, it’s so noisy.

He moved his fingers and locked the troublesome 568 into the small dark room.

Who knows if the original plot is true, just leave it here "to save the world".

Shang Li created several clones and began to search around in the small isolated spaces.

The clones passed through layers of ice walls and saw the situations in different rooms.

Cui Lan stood silently in the small room with his head lowered in a daze, white air coming out of his mouth and nose steadily.

The silver long sword that had been unsheathed was held by five gloved fingers, and at his feet were several corpses of Lin Sirong that were turning into starlight and dissipating.

As expected, it’s Xiao Cui, so amazing!

Shang Li's figure slowly appeared on the smooth ice mirror, and his bright red eyes looked at Yinhui with a smile.

"Want to 'connect'?"

He smiled and stretched out a pale hand.

“…”

Cui Lan half closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and finally chose to grab his sleeve.

The ghost's smile deepened.

At the same time, in the space where Ye Bai was locked up.

Unlike the others, the room where Ye Bai was was peaceful and calm. Not only was there no invasion of ice or snow, but Lin Sirong's little clone also didn't seem to come over to chop anyone, as if it was completely ignored.

Shang Li half-poked his body out from the glass behind him and gently poked Ye Bai, "Xiao Ye."

Ye Bai, who was bored and dazed, heard the voice and quickly straightened his waist, "Teacher Shang!"

Looking at the familiar red eyes, he lowered his head and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you the first time."

"Yeah, nothing."

Shang Li put his hand on the child's shoulder and activated his supernatural power.

The next moment, his consciousness had already reached the target room.

In the narrow space covered with ice and snow, most of Lin Siyuan's body was stuck on the icicle, while Lin Sirong was standing in front of his brother with his chin slightly raised and a haughty posture.

Lin Siyuan's face was covered with icicles from frozen tears, and he looked extremely pitiful. Unfortunately, his eldest brother did not show any affection or sympathy. Instead, he pinched his chin and lifted it up with some disgust.

"Originally, I only needed to resolve Shang Li's situation, and my mission would be complete."

Lin Sirong's fingertips slowly wiped away the broken ice on the boy's chin. "But luckily you are here too. Haha, this is a good opportunity for me to take action."

"Why?"

Lin Siyuan panted and asked, "Aren't we brothers?"

"Is this the reason why you act so recklessly in front of me?"

Lin Sirong suddenly used his strength to move his fingers, and said in a grim tone: "How can a mere idiot be so arrogant in front of me? Do you think that you can step on my head just because you have awakened an S-level supernatural power?"

"I, I didn't."

Lin Siyuan choked up and replied, "I never thought about surpassing you."

Not sure if it was out of pain or sadness, his eyes became red again.

At this moment, Lin Siyuan felt as if something sour and astringent was blocking his throat. Breathing, which was already very difficult, required almost all his strength.

He knew very well that since birth, his parents had favored him as their younger brother.

Even though his elder brother Lin Sirong was better than him in every aspect, the attention he received was far less than when he fell down in a fight at school.

Especially after awakening the S-level supernatural power.

He had long known that his parents had already considered pushing Lin Sirong down from the position of head of the Lin family.

He really had no intention of surpassing Lin Sirong, and continued to be a playboy without any scruples.

only……

"You turn a blind eye to everything."

An icy spike condensed in Lin Sirong's hand, and the tip poked at Lin Siyuan's Adam's apple, which had not yet fully developed.

"Xiao Lin."

At this moment, Lin Siyuan heard Shang Li calling him softly in his ear.