Chapter 291: Volume 1 Chapter 291 You Are My System (1)

In 2022 on Blue Star, humanity was attacked by a mysterious monster; the monsters only appear at night and hide during the day.

The monsters' speed and strength are astonishing; their skin grows steel-hard scales, bullets can't pierce them, so the government tried to destroy them with bombs, but the monsters reproduce extremely fast, making it impossible to kill them all.

The entire Blue Star fell into a devastating disaster.

Ten years later.

As the government collapsed, various forces sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain, establishing base defenses and battlefronts.

Those humans excluded from the bases all came to a place called the Pinminku.

Most of the people in the Pinminku are the old, weak, sick, and disabled waiting to die, plus some criminals who can't enter the bases and can only stay in the Pinminku.

This place lies at the edge of the various bases, with high walls built that can resist the monsters' night attacks.

But resources are extremely scarce, making food and drink a major problem.

Pinminku.

A boy in dirty clothes climbed over the wall, his shaved head dark and glossy, only a pair of eyes showing a hint of white, his narrow eyes squinting; he exerted his arms, smoothly and skillfully flipping over a wall taller than anyone else, throwing down a rope woven from cloth strips, and descended slowly.

Only when his feet touched the ground did he answer the strange voice that had mysteriously appeared in his head.

"Don't."

The strange voice was Jiang Zhi, who let out an "oh".

Today is her first day here; the boy avoiding roadside surveillance is this world's villain, Xie Xunze, still just a twelve-year-old radish head—small in stature but big in scheming, with extremely high IQ, clever and thoughtful.

He came from a bad background; his parents both died in the monsters' mouths, he was dumped in the Pinminku to scrape out a living, living worse than a dog.

Jiang Zhi's current mission is to help him complete the plot mission.

Mainly, the affection and hatred value mission needs to be unlocked after he reaches adulthood; now he's only twelve, so the God Pillar System isn't that impatient yet.

Before, the characters she possessed were either cannon fodder or background extras; now she has possessed a system, and it's a system belonging solely to the villain.

Just now she found the villain and asked if he wanted to bind; as expected, he refused without even thinking.

As the world's boss villain, he naturally wouldn't rely on a system to destroy the world but on his own abilities, so he refused himself, and Jiang Zhi could understand.

From his perspective, watching the distant patrol guard team, the boy clearly had made countless rounds, easily evading their patrols, and left the Pinminku on his modified small electric cart.

Right now it's only eight in the morning; during the day, the monsters won't come out.

Their weakness is clear: they fear sunlight.

As long as we wait for the sun to set, they will come out in groups to hunt prey.

Jiang Zhi is still experiencing the world from the villain's perspective for the first time; the system's treatment is great—she doesn't have to do anything, just watch him act with peace of mind.

"You're pretty impressive, you can even modify a small electric vehicle." She praised him without reservation.

In this world, no one sets rules, so she just needs to be herself.

Heitan boy is only twelve, yet he's neither arrogant nor impatient, ignoring her voice and focusing on driving.

Jiang Zhi doesn't mind him ignoring her, and continued: "The road ahead isn't easy; you can take another route."

This time the boy replied to her: "Why?"

Jiang Zhi got to the point: "There's a gas station ahead."

With his smart little head, he should be able to guess that there are many people in the gas station, though he doesn't know which base they belong to.

They hold firearms, wear heavy armor, yet their steps are light and steady.

This is after the monsters appeared; when humans kill monsters, they gain various ability boosts.

It's like leveling up in a game; reaching high levels also grants a special ability.

But since the monsters arrived, ten years have passed, and those humans who have gained abilities are few and far between, basically only in those few major bases, where they are protected as endangered species.

Jiang Zhi had checked the boy's level; not bad, he's level 13.

The maximum level is 200, the limit unknown, because currently the highest level among humans is only 63.

Heitan boy: "Oh."

A cold, indifferent reply.

After saying that, he still took a detour.

Jiang Zhi knew why he went out adventuring today.

When he was still in swaddling clothes, a scavenging old man picked him up and raised him to now, but as the old man aged, he developed many ailments; last night he caught a chill, got a fever and cold, and hasn't woken up yet.

So he left the Pinminku to go outside and find medicine for the old man.

A few dozen kilometers from here there's a street where many people set up stalls, selling everything.

The boy desperately rushed there, just for some fever-reducing and anti-inflammatory medicine.

After riding for three or four hours, Jiang Zhi, being a system, isn't tired, just bored.

After arriving at the destination.

Having checked all the stalls, he finally stopped in front of a middle-aged man's stall that looked like he knew how to do business, which displayed various medicines and even contraband.

Xie Xunze asked: "What do I need to give for the fever medicine?"

The middle-aged man wearing black sunglasses looked him up and down, his eyes showing contempt.

Obviously, a mere kid like him wasn't even in his sight.

He casually quoted a price: "D-rank weapon."

Here, D-rank weapons are similar to game items; when killing monsters, there's a certain chance to drop loot, but the probability is low.

The items can be used against monsters and also grant self-defense ability.

The higher the monster's level, the higher the drop rate, but the danger is also high.

For a level-20 human, obtaining a D-rank item is already difficult; let alone a level-13 boy like him, it's virtually impossible.

But the vendor still underestimated the boy; no matter what, he's a villain, and although he appears only level 13, his worth is immense.

Xie Xunze rummaged in the pack on his front, took out a D-rank item, and handed it to him.

The vendor, seeing this, stared wide-eyed.

He immediately sat on the ground and raised the price: "I just misspoke, it's a C-rank item."

This area is unregulated, so such situations happen easily.

Jiang Zhi said lightly, "Do you need me to kill him?"

Xie Xunze is no fool; he quickly put away the D-rank item, flashed a nonchalant smile, hands in his pockets, and said: "Actually, besides this D-rank item, I really do have a C-rank one, but if you're not sincere, forget it; anyway, I'm not lacking this bit of medicine."

Having said that, he turned to leave.

Seeing this, the vendor, unwilling to let him go, hurriedly shouted, "Wait, wait, I'm just joking! You kid have quite a temper—come over and take another look."

Xie Xunze rubbed his ear, responded to the other side: "I'll be fine soon, bro."

Having said that, he turned back to the stall.

The vendor glanced in the direction he had spoken, his heart tightening.

I had thought he came alone, so I could look for a chance to see what good stuff he had in his pack, but now there's no chance.

As for the boy being dirty and ragged, the vendor had seen many like him; when killing monsters, who has time to worry about clothes? So in their eyes, the more ragged the clothes, the stronger the ability.