Chapter 60 Li Nai, I've really become the host!
What could be more shocking to Li Nai than not being able to turn back into her original body?
have.
The system possesses autonomous consciousness.
As for how Li Nai discovered it, it all started on the night Qi Shuihan, who had noticed it before her, infiltrated the base to find the system.
Two o'clock in the morning.
Li Nai was awakened by a gust of shadowy wind.
Opening my eyes, I was met with complete darkness, when suddenly a familiar female voice came through, repeatedly explaining with a sigh.
"I'm just here to deliver a message. This person is your target."
Qi Shuihan?
Li Nai instantly regained consciousness.
Who is she talking to?
He remained still and continued eavesdropping.
“I know you understand.” Qi Shuihan’s voice sounded irritating. “You’re not a robot without self-awareness, are you?”
Li Nai had a question.
Then I heard Qi Shuihan say...
"Lin Jingru wants you to find out where the special medicine is hidden. Then tell me the location, and I'll take over the rest." There was a pause. "However—"
Li Nai couldn't help but imagine Qi Shuihan's fox-like eyes darting around.
"I'll inevitably need your help in an emergency."
Li Nai: ? What are Lin Jingru and the others going to do?
"Hey, don't just stay silent and act like a robot. If you can help, there might be an 80% chance of completing Lin Jingru's conquest mission."
After Qi Shuihan finished speaking, the air became still and stagnant.
Li Nai: Killer Sister's mouth is so tempting. Sorry, the "person" occupying my body won't answer you, because they simply don't have the capacity for thought or response.
"good."
Li Nai was shocked.
What was that sound just now? Was it her body talking?
Someone was chuckling smugly.
“Bingo! I guessed right,” Qi Shuihan said. “You do indeed have independent consciousness.”
"How did you find out?" The voice was flat.
"The female assassin's insight."
Qi Shuihan continued, “At first I was unsure, until you spoke up and told me the answer yourself. Hmph, your actions towards Lin Jingru clearly showed a pause after careful consideration, rather than a purely mechanical action of following orders.”
The system remained silent.
"I've delivered the message. If you have any definite news, come find me, or I can come find you. I'm hiding in the base."
Step by step.
Li Nai quickly closed her eyes and started snoring.
The footsteps stopped abruptly above her head.
The next second, a hand grabbed her furry ears.
The kneading motion suddenly froze.
"Oh, don't be nervous, it's just petting the cat. How stingy."
Qi Shuihan seemed to have been warned, muttered something, withdrew his hand, and quickly left.
I switched to the spot I had just been standing in with my other pair of feet.
Let's be quiet for a while.
"What do you want to say to me?"
A flat, monotone voice came from above.
She opened her tiny eyes and looked at her own face.
His usually empty black eyes now appeared eerie, a kind of eerie calm.
My vision is blurry.
So it turns out her face can also have a villainous look.
Calm your mind of jumbled thoughts. After a moment of contemplation.
"You're deliberately taking over my body, aren't you?"
He mustered up the courage to look directly at his own face.
Two eerie lights appeared in his normally lifeless eyes.
After a while.
System: "Yes".
"Why should I!" Li Nai retorted confidently. The next second, her arrogance was extinguished by his deep and terrifying gaze.
"Your progress is too slow; even the characters you're trying to recruit can guess your identity. Regardless of what happens next, you've already failed halfway."
Li Nai scratched his ear, his eyes darting around, and muttered, "Who said there's no progress? Didn't one succeed? The other one will be here soon too."
"I'm temporarily occupying your body, which is also a way of saving your life."
"Your system is quite user-friendly."
"During this time, you should focus on being the host and absolutely avoid dying. If it dies, you die too."
Li Nai felt a chill run down her spine. She obediently nodded her head.
"When can I switch back to my original body?"
"It's hard to say. What's certain is that things will return to normal after the mission is completed, and there will be a big prize to be won then."
Li Nai's two black bean-like eyes shone brightly.
Three days later.
In a European-style luxury office.
Missy looked down at the red dot on the locator, where the distance display showed 100 kilometers. The kilometers increased as the red dot moved.
Someone knocked twice on the door, and then a man came in.
"The person has been locked in the interrogation room," Ah Liang reported.
Missy looked up. "Let's go."
Interrogation room.
Missy sat in the other room, separated by glass.
Across from me sat a man in his fifties. He sat calmly, his hair perfectly styled, showing no signs of being a prisoner, but rather like a government member attending a meeting.
Lin Zhijun looked up and calmly stared at Misike. After observing her for a few seconds, he said with some emotion, "You've grown up so much. To be honest, you don't really look like your mother."
Missyco's eyes were filled with disdain. She asked, "Have you ever thought that one day you'd fall into my hands?"
Lin Zhijun's phoenix eyes shone with a gentle light.
"No. If Ji Fenglan hadn't suddenly betrayed you, how would you have met me?"
The man's gaze suddenly lowered, his dark eyes deep and still, as if he were gathering his strength.
Suddenly, the man relaxed and began to lecture people. "You shouldn't have trusted Ji Fenglan. Even if there was an agreement, it's just a piece of scrap paper."
Mishiko, with deep eyes similar to a man's, stood in a victor's pose without saying a word.
Lin Zhijun shook his head: "The group she gave you is an empty shell. During the days I was imprisoned by her, your mother's hard work was completely transferred away. And you, on the other hand, took it over as a treasure."
Missy remained unmoved.
"If you don't believe me, you can send someone to verify it."
After speaking, the man revealed a piercing smile.
Missy glanced at A-Liang out of the corner of her eye.
Ah Liang understood and turned to leave.
The man inside the glass wall saw this, and his smile widened, the wrinkles around his mouth deepening.
An hour of anxious waiting.
A phone call broke the silence.
Missy answered the phone. His expression instantly turned cold. His hand holding the phone clenched tightly and trembled slightly.
The call continued, the phone still pressed tightly against my ear.
Missy's face turned deathly pale.
"...The special medicine was stolen."
Inside the glass, the man, unable to hear anything, noticed something unusual with his phoenix eyes and revealed a hint of pleasure.
Missy lowered her phone, letting it slip from her palm and fall to the ground.
Anger filled his eyes.
"My dear daughter, you don't look too well."
Misiko suppressed her anger and glared fiercely at Lin Zhijun.
"As long as you ask, as your father, I will definitely help you get everything back. After all, we are father and daughter."
Missy didn't say anything, her eyes were obviously red, and her gaze seemed to melt glass.
Lin Zhijun urged, "No matter how much hatred exists between us, father and daughter, let's put that aside for now and join forces to deal with outsiders. That's the most important thing."
Missy suddenly closed her eyes.
Open your eyes again after a moment.
She spoke, but it was to give instructions to Ah Liang, who had just come in.
"As originally planned, he was sent to the laboratory and experiments were conducted on him until he died."
The man's composed expression crumbled, and a few strands of hair slipped down his forehead in a disheveled manner.
Seven days later.
News came from the laboratory that someone had died.
"Old man, you won't even last a week. You got off easy."
Missy caressed the hollow pendant, a strange emptiness welling up in her chest after finally avenging her great grudge. Was this the revenge she had dreamed of fulfilling for over a decade?
[Congratulations, host! Mission #2 of the Villainess is complete. We hope you'll continue your efforts!]
...
Five days ago.
[Congratulations, host! Mission #3 is complete. Keep up the good work!]
A construction site building in a desolate city.
"Now that you have the miracle drug, how do you plan to get back at Misik?"
Qi Shuihan put on an outer garment to cover the bandages wrapped around her body.
In a corner of the rooftop, Lin Jingru sat with her back to her, her feet dangling over the edge of the building. The orange sunset turned her silver-white hair a deep gold.
Seeing that Lin Jingru did not respond for a long time.
"Young Miss, are you going to sit here until dark again?"
Qi Shuihan slowly approached, noticing the other person gazing at the distant clouds, the unusual glass jar in their hands reflecting the colors of the sunset. Her gaze paused slightly—the sunset color on the glass jar was far too red.
The fox-like eyes narrowed as it examined the other person closely. A red liquid was slowly flowing from the other person's wrist, sliding down into a stained glass jar.
In an instant, she understood.
Will he summon Li Nai again, mimicking self-harm?
Qi Shuihan crossed his arms and they gazed together at the clouds in the distant sky.
"Stop the bleeding quickly. If it stops, she won't be able to come."
"Why?"
"It's too far. By this time, they've already arrived at Ji Fenglan's base."
Lin Jingru turned her head sharply, nearly dropping the glass jar in her hand. At the height of an 18-story building, it would have shattered. If that happened, all their efforts would have been in vain.
Qi Shuihan looked away from the glass jar.
"You don't know, do you? I stumbled upon Missy sending someone to take Li Nai to the plane outside the airport when I was stealing the special medicine. The plane had graffiti on its exterior, which was Ji Fenglan's property mark."
"Why did Missy do this? Would she really give up so easily?"
Qi Shuihan glanced sideways and chuckled: "Who would do a losing deal? Of course, it's exchanging your father."
Lin Jingru suddenly realized, touching her dizzy forehead. She snorted coldly, "Only he could make Missy willingly give up such a treasure as Li Nai. Right now, she must be very happy."
He gave her a teasing look with his fox-like eyes: "Hmm~ What a loving father and filial daughter."
"A loving father and a filial daughter?" Lin Jingru scoffed. "As a father, he never paid attention to me. I was just a pawn in his efforts to consolidate his power in the group."
His pale face, etched with blood loss, looked gloomy.
The fox-like eyes fell on the other party's bloodied hand.
"Miss, please stop the bleeding quickly. Aren't you going to report back to Missy? I'm very interested."
Lin Jingru's gaze fell, and she suddenly reached out and grabbed the exposed end of the bandage around Qi Shuihan's waist, pulling hard, causing Qi Shuihan to involuntarily spin twice.
On the third lap, she grabbed the bandage with one hand. Following the long bandage, Lin Jingru rotated her wrist, wrapping the bandage around and around.
"Why did you take someone else's bandage? It was just wrapped up." She said, feeling a little wronged, and pulled the bandage back a little.
Lin Jingru countered with the force of her wrist, bringing it back a little.
The two were connected by bandages, locked in a tug-of-war, neither giving an inch.
Crack!
The tailor's scissors make their dazzling appearance, cutting open the secret struggle between the two.
"Beautiful ladies, dinner is ready!"
Seeing the two women step back, Little Chili, clutching her scissors, walked away without looking back, leaving behind her accomplishment and fame.
Lin Jingru: "Let's go rescue Li Nai. Interested?"
Her fox-like eyes gleamed, and her index finger innocently pressed against her lips, as if she were having a hard time making a choice.
"Idiot! Load the cargo!"
Lin Jingru coldly cursed a couple of times, then turned and left.
On the other end, the little girl was calling them to eat.
Qi Shuihan followed behind.
"I'll go save Li Nai for you!"
"What? You like her?"
"Who told me to be bored? And you, you didn't even want a reply, you were in such a hurry to save people, you like her that much."
"Hmph—idiot."
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