Chapter 110
Chapter 110
At the foot of the mountain, Liu Ye and No. 1 climbed off Steward Wang.
Trembling, Steward Wang raised one hand and gave Liu Ye the middle finger. Then he transformed into a streak of light and returned to the jade pendant.
No. 1 stared in fascination.
“Where did you buy an airbag like that?”
“A fellow villager gave it to me. You can’t buy one anywhere outside.” Liu Ye sounded proud. This was proof of how well-liked he was.
No. 1 looked at him enviously, then said, “The mission is over. I’ll let everything that happened before go. From this day forward, neither of us owes the other anything.”
“Don’t be like that. I thought we had a great time together,” Liu Ye said.
After so long without a playmate, he had finally found one-only for the man to leave so soon.
No. 1 had nothing to say.
You certainly had a great time playing with me.
“I have some business to take care of.”
That much was true. He had originally been sold here as a test subject. Now that he was free, revenge was naturally his first priority.
With no reason to stop him, Liu Ye reluctantly said goodbye and hoped they would meet again someday.
[Bzzzt…]
Static suddenly sounded inside Liu Ye’s head. He immediately shouted in excitement.
“Little System! I won! Wasn’t I amazing?”
[Amazing… You were truly amazing!]
The System sounded angry, as though suppressing a towering rage.
“Little System, what’s wrong?”
[What’s wrong? What do you think is wrong? Didn’t I tell you not to attack them?]
“You’re accusing me unfairly. I absolutely did not cause them any physical harm!”
[You subjected them to catastrophic mental contamination! More than eighty of them went insane! What kind of deranged monster thinks of blowing up someone else’s septic tank?]
“Brother Guiwa told me you can use any means necessary to achieve your goal!”
[Of all the idioms in the world, why did you have to remember that one?! You! @#$%… bzzzt… beep, beep…]
Liu Ye had angered the System so badly it crashed.
At the same moment, every player in the world heard a voice.
[Thanks to the combined efforts of players around the globe, the world threshold has been reached. The Fiendish World will now undergo an upgrade. All players, please wait patiently…]
Tension appeared on faces across the planet. Nothing like this had ever happened before.
Everyone assumed the future was about to become even more difficult. Every nation in the world began making urgent preparations.
Only a handful of people suspected that the upgrade might not actually have anything to do with the combined efforts of players around the globe…
“Little System! Little System!”
Liu Ye called repeatedly, but received no answer.
“Honestly, Little System. It promised to give me something if I won, and now it’s going back on its word.”
Not that Liu Ye coveted its little rewards, of course. But refusing to give him anything was no reason to ignore him.
While he was thinking, he spotted a little girl of seven or eight. Her face was smudged with dirt, and she wore a tattered dress. She stared up at him with round, tearful eyes.
“Uh, little girl, what’s wrong?”
The girl pointed a chubby finger toward Nine Worlds Mountain and said through her tears, “Qiqi’s home is gone!”
Liu Ye fell silent.
No wonder she was looking at him like that. This one really was his fault.
Embarrassed, Liu Ye crouched and stroked the girl’s hair.
“Your name is Qiqi? That’s a lovely name. Um… where are your parents?”
“Qiqi doesn’t have parents,” the little girl said with a pout.
The sight of her clothes weighed heavily on Liu Ye’s heart. So the poor girl was an orphan.
There was no helping it. He could hardly leave a little girl here alone. He scooped Qiqi into his arms, intending to take her back with him.
The moment he picked her up, however, Qiqi produced a Notebook.
“What’s that?” Liu Ye asked curiously.
“It belongs to those uncles,” Qiqi replied.
She had found it by chance while running down the mountain.
Liu Ye sensed that it might be important and decided to return it.
He did not know where its owners were, but he had a mouth beneath his nose. If he asked around, he would find them eventually.
And so he left with Qiqi in his arms.
After Liu Ye was gone, Wang Xu arrived at the foot of Nine Worlds Mountain with a dark figure.
He looked up at the state of the mountain and fell silent.
“Th-that girl should be all right, shouldn’t she?” the dark figure asked cautiously.
Wang Xu said nothing.
“Go up and look for her.”
The dark figure stared at him in shock. “Me?”
“I have work to do.”
With that, Wang Xu got into his car and sped away.
The dark figure watched him disappear, then looked back at the mountain, utterly at a loss.
…
One week later, in a certain hospital, Swan stood over Fox’s bed with a mocking smile.
“Still not planning to talk?”
“What do you expect me to say? Don’t forget, I’m a member of the Fiend Investigation Bureau too. I’ve contributed vast sums of money to the Bureau. Even if I haven’t earned merit, I’ve certainly put in my share of effort. Interrogating me like a criminal could easily dishearten the public,” Fox said playfully.
Fox had purchased his position so he could receive priority treatment whenever he encountered a Fiend incident.
Many wealthy people used the same method. It was also one of the Fiend Investigation Bureau’s sources of funding.
He did not belong to the Huicheng branch, so Swan had no authority to interrogate him.
And everything they had done on Nine Worlds Mountain had been destroyed by that disaster. The Fiend Investigation Bureau had recovered no evidence.
“I see…”
Swan smiled sweetly and produced a box of chocolates.
Fox’s eyes bulged.
“Get that away from me! Get it away!” he roared.
“Why are you panicking? It’s only a box of chocolates. Would you like one?”
Swan offered the box with a sinister smile.
“Aaaah! Take it away! Get it away from me!” Fox thrashed and screamed.
He was now allergic to everything that resembled feces. After using the bathroom, he could not even wipe himself or flush the toilet. Someone else had to do both for him.
“Oh, come now. We’re colleagues. There’s no need to be polite. Here, let me feed… let me pick one up for you!”
“I am warning you, this method won’t work! If you have the ability, show me some evidence!”
Click.
The door opened, and Swan’s superior walked in.
“Swan!”
She rolled her eyes at the sight of him and put the chocolates away.
Then two more figures entered behind him, one tall and one small. Swan tensed the instant she recognized the man.
It was none other than Liu Ye.
She knew he was a formidable figure. Ever since his first appearance, everything he had done had been ruthless and merciless. Even this latest incident had gone far beyond anything they could have imagined.
In fact, Liu Ye was partly why she had ordered Nine Worlds Mountain completely sealed off. In her mind, this man hated evil with a passion. She had feared that what happened on the mountain might leave him with a poor impression of them.