Chapter 424: I've laid my cards on the table—I have a system cheat

"Yin Yin."

Qin Hao also ate an orange segment, then slowly said, "Do you believe there are repairers in this world?"

Qian Yin raised her head from the holographic screen's data flow, eyes dubious: "Repairer? You mean maintenance engineering robots?"

"No, it's about repairing this universe."

Qin Hao pointed at that expanse of starry sky, his tone calm.

"That slash was too brutal. Although it took down the Overlord, it also shattered the underlying logic of the Laniyakaiya region. Those constant fluctuations you see are actually the delay phenomenon produced as the universe self-repairs."

As the Chief Scientist of the Yanhuang Civilization, she understood the meaning in Qin Hao's words.

Causality Law

The thing made into a ring and placed on her hand at the wedding was not just a love token; it was also a seal Qin Hao used to suppress some catastrophic consequence.

"So..."

Qian Yin's voice sounded a bit dry: "The sudden demise of the X-799 Star System, is that also one of the prices?"

"That's a loan."

Qin Hao nodded: "To kill the Overlord, I overdrew time from some future event. For the universe to balance its books, it can only rob Peter to pay Paul. This fluctuation will persist for a long time until a new equilibrium is established."

Qian Yin fell silent.

She looked at the man before her.

He wore loose lounge clothes, legs crossed, looking every bit a retired idle person.

"Qin Hao."

Qian Yin suddenly leaned forward, her bright eyes gazing at him,

"I won't ask about causality anymore; I just have one question for you after all these years—I've held it in for a long time."

Qin Hao smiled:

"What question? I'll tell you the answer to anything you want to know today."

Upon hearing that, Qian Jun blurted out all the doubts in her heart.

The Yanhuang Civilization has come this far too smoothly. Controllable nuclear fusion, warp drives, antimatter weapons, even dimensional technology...

We, in just a few hundred to a thousand li, have traversed the path that other civilizations took tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.

Every time we hit a technical bottleneck, you can produce a solution so mature it's unbelievable.

"I used to think you'd inherited relics from a higher civilization, or that you were a once-in-ten-thousands-years genius."

"But now it seems, even if you burned your brain, you couldn't figure these out."

Qian Yin tapped Qin Hao's head: "What exactly do you have in there?"

For a moment, the atmosphere fell into silence.

Only that jazz piece still echoed, the saxophone's sound lazy and enchanting.

Qin Hao looked at Qian Yin.

Knowing the system's secret could no longer be concealed.

Actually, there was no need to hide it anymore.

Before, I stayed silent to keep it secret.

Now that he's strong enough, and Qian Jun has become his wife, he can certainly tell her.

"Because I have a system cheat!"

Qin Hao lightly uttered a few words.

"System? Cheat?"

Qian Yin froze for a moment: "Do you mean some kind of super AI assistant system? Like a superbrain?"

"No."

Qin Hao shook his head, pointed at the void, and said: "It's the kind of thing you'd see in early Blue Star web novels—a 'ding' sound, issuing missions, giving rewards, exchanging for tech, upgrading and allocating points."

"……"

Qian Yin opened her mouth wide; that expression was more exciting than seeing the Overlord descend.

As a scientist who champions logic and truth, she had imagined countless possibilities.

Extraterrestrial possession, future-person rebirth, higher-dimensional being projections...

The only thing she hadn't considered was this most "bullshit" answer.

"You... you're saying this for real?"

Qian Yin felt her worldview being restructured: "That kind of brainless feel-good novel's golden finger?"

"Although it sounds low-IQ, it's indeed the case."

Qin Hao shrugged: "In my mind there's a panel; as long as it absorbs enough Energy Points, it replicates technology, materials, and even bodily enhancements beyond the current era."

"The initial controllable nuclear fusion data was replicated like that, and the gene potion that makes everyone's power surge is the same."

"Even..."

Qin Hao pointed at his own chest: "This indestructible body of mine is also thanks to the system."

Qian Yin stood dumbfounded for three full minutes.

Her brain raced, comparing the Yanhuang Civilization's millennia of historical milestones with each of Qin Hao's strokes of genius.

Everything that seemed unreasonable became reasonable in the face of this absurd answer.

Why does Qin Hao always turn the tide in desperate situations?

Has the Yanhuang Civilization's tech tree ever gone astray?

Why can he always produce those black technologies she can't even comprehend?

Turns out, he cheated.

"Pfft—"

Qian Yin suddenly laughed, laughing so hard she shook, tears almost coming out.

"What are you laughing at?"

Qin Hao was a bit dazed.

"I'm laughing at myself."

Qian Yin wiped her tears while shaking her head.

"I was still foolishly staying up late researching those drawings, thinking it was you working out all night, I was so moved I even boiled chicken soup to nourish your brain... After all that, you're just an emotionless copying machine?"

"Hey hey, you can't say that."

Qin Hao protested, "Copying also requires using your brain, okay? And I really did work hard."

"Yes yes yes, hard at absorbing Energy Points."

Qian Yin stopped laughing, shifted her body, and pressed tightly against Qin Hao.

She grabbed Qin Hao's hand, placed it on her cheek and rubbed it; her eyes showed no fear or distance, only complete ease.

She softly said, "No wonder you're always so confident; even if the sky fell, you'd dare to push back."

"I used to worry that the secret you bore was too heavy and would crush you. I also worried it was some kind of evil alien parasite that would someday take over your consciousness."

"Now that I know it's just a stupid system that only goes 'ding ding ding', I feel relieved."

Qin Hao laughed helplessly.

"Stupid system?"

"That's why Qian Yin dares to say that."

"If the system heard that, who knows what it might go crazy over."

"Yin Yin."

Qin Hao put his arm around his wife's shoulders, gazing at the twinkling starlight outside the window,

"Actually, even if it's a system, it didn't appear out of nowhere. It definitely has a creator; I just don't know why it chose me."

"Creator?"

Qian Yin keenly caught the keyword.

"Yes. Its copying ability is actually more like... a kind of transfer.

"Or rather, it's a program deliberately scattered throughout this universe by a more advanced civilization."

Qin Hao's gaze grew deep.

"The side effect of the Causality Law weapon is to cause unknown changes in the universe. This shows that the system itself is actually not part of this universe's original operating logic."

"It's a plug-in program."

"Since it's a program, there must be a programmer."

"Of course, all this is just my speculation; with my current strength, I still can't observe the system's existence."

Upon hearing this, Qian Jun's eyes showed worry.

In her worldview, there is no such thing as a free lunch, nor any power that doesn't require a price.

System.

Those two words to ordinary people mean a golden finger, good luck,

but to her they look like a trap.

So she spoke up: "Have you considered what the being that created the system might want from you?"

Qin Hao joked, "It's definitely after my good looks!"

"Don't be cheeky!"

Qian Yin's expression turned serious: "Raising pigs still requires feeding them fodder; when the pigs get fat, it's New Year's time."

"What if you're the container being raised?"

"What if, when the time comes, that being descends and directly possesses your body?"