Chapter 311: Volume 1 Chapter 311: You Are My System (21)

As soon as the words fell,

They walked out, preparing to rest a few more hours before setting off.

Over Xintangshi, the heavens were blanketed with thick layers of black clouds, blocking out all sunlight.

Thus, even in daytime, this urban area was filled with night, an endless darkness that monsters loved to inhabit.

Several hours later.

Duyan walked up to him and said, 'I have a task for you; as long as you complete the task I give you, we can take you away from here together.'

Xie Xunze felt panicked and uneasy: 'What… task?'

Duyan smiled, the scars on his face tightening, making him look even more ferocious: 'I'll tell you when we get there.'

Not giving him a chance to negotiate, they had someone control him and leave the pharmacy.

This group had already figured out the city's layout and knew where the monsters gathered, trying to avoid direct encounters.

But when they had only covered half the route, they encountered another group.

A group led by the male protagonist Mu Tianyi ran toward them from the front, faces tense: 'Run! Those monsters are catching up.'

Upon hearing this, Duyan glared at them fiercely, then was forced to follow them to evade.

Only when they reached a desolate wetland park overgrown with weeds did they stop.

Jiang Zhi noticed that Mu Tianyi's team was missing several people.

Only the male and female leads, Mengqi, and Tao Wei remained—four people.

The female lead Wenqian had no visible injuries, but her mental state was terrible, on the verge of collapse.

Meanwhile, Mu Tianyi kept trying to think of ways to comfort her.

Wenqian's eyes were unfocused, her voice weak, speaking incoherently:

"Sys… system, what's wrong with you… answer me… don't… don't ignore me…"

They couldn't understand what she was saying.

Only Xie Xunze, hiding far behind the team, could clearly hear her words.

A hint of strange color flickered in his pupils hidden beneath his black hair, dark and chilling.

Jiang Zhi saw the female lead's state and recalled a plot point.

The female lead, after using the Golden Finger once beyond her permitted authority, caused the system to fall into a dormant sleep; it took several years to recover, which was undoubtedly a fatal blow for her first loss of the Golden Finger.

But that had nothing to do with her; Jiang Zhi suddenly sensed a terrifying pressure.

It was a hundred times stronger than the B-rank monster they had encountered in the rift cave.

She quickly warned the boy: 'An A-rank monster is nearby.'

Xie Xunze had already sensed the danger approaching before she spoke.

But the male and female leads and the others hadn't noticed.

Seeing the crisis pass, Duyan stood up, leading his members to prepare to leave.

Mu Tianyi observed the situation and said, 'You're from the South China Base, right? We just arrived in Xintangshi; could you tell me about the city's situation?'

The male lead had strong observational skills and didn't forget to observe them even while fleeing.

Duyan scanned each person's level attributes, frowned, and clenched his fists.

Aside from the middle one in poor condition, the other three were strong, especially the speaking man, whose level surpassed everyone else's.

Moreover, Duyan and his group were merely defeated remnants; how could they possibly win against these people?

A few seconds later, Duyan briefly described the city's situation, then said, 'We just want to leave this place as quickly as possible.'

Before Mu Tianyi could speak, a sharp scream came from the mist.

Duyan turned his head to look, and one of his teammates suddenly vanished.

Before they could react, one, then two people disappeared, leaving only a scream.

The monsters in the mist were deliberately left there to make them panic, playing hide-and-seek with them.

"Monsters… an A-rank monster…" Duyan dared not move, staring intently at his surroundings.

Mengqi, as a member of the male lead's team, reacted quickly when the monster attacked him, activating his ability to grab the monster's tentacle lurking in the mist with all his strength and swiftly cut it off.

"Back to back!" Mu Tianyi immediately said.

Duyan recalled the boy with maxed-out luck attributes, turned to look, and saw no one there—likely the monster had eaten him.

He felt hopeless; his teammates were dead, he surely couldn't retrieve any gear, and it seemed hard for him to get out alive.

Just then, a piercing, shrill roar echoed through the clouds, the ground trembled, and the monster revealed itself before them.

Its body stood as tall as a two-story building, covered in hard scales, with countless tentacles swaying in the air, and two snail-like eyes like blood-red lamps, chilling to behold.

This monster had mutated, its power rivaling S-rank; none of them could match it.

They could only run.

But before they realized it, the monster's tentacles had already surrounded them, leaving no escape; they could only become its fodder.

Jiang Zhi, following Xie Xunze and standing beside a nearby high-rise, saw this and felt disgusted by the monster: 'What kind of monster is this?'

The tentacles were covered in eyeballs that twitched like nerves, coated in sticky slime.

【Warning! Warning! The male and female leads are about to die! If they die, the mission fails outright! Warning! Host, please hurry to save the male and female leads.】

The incessant alarm noise annoyed her so much she wanted to hit someone.

"Saving them is pointless; they're recklessly rushing here on their own, and I'm still just a system—tell me how to save them."

No one had ever dared speak to the God Pillar System like that; the system grew angry and wanted to punish her.

777 reminded it: 'I am the host's system; you are merely a plot system—no matter how much you manage, you cannot reach my host.'

Previously, 777 was a basic system; after passing through many worlds, it advanced and is now a high-level system, no longer needing to endure oppression from the God Pillar System as before.

【God Pillar... beep beep... is a position under the Main God... beep beep... I am the system created by the God Pillar... beep beep beep...】

Jiang Zhi couldn't be bothered to listen to what it said, and directly shut it down.

"What the fuck."

Although she disliked the God Pillar system's pretentiousness, what it said was correct.

If she allowed the male and female leads to die, the mission would be declared a failure outright.

Jiang Zhi issued a mission to the villain in the system's name.

［Special mission opened: Save Mu Tianyi and Wen Qian, reward unknown. ］

Upon hearing this, Xie Xunze's pupils contracted sharply, his expression fierce and menacing.

"You want me to save Mu Tianyi?"

Jiang Zhi explained: "It's not me telling you to save him; it's the mission."

Xie Xunze gave a gloomy smile and summoned her from the Character Card.

Looking at the stunning girl before him, he gripped her jaw with considerable force, pulling the corner of his mouth into a cold, thin arc.

Beg me, and I might just feel merciful enough to consider saving him.

Jiang Zhi felt that the boy before her was utterly unfamiliar, completely different from before, his behavior faintly revealing an extremely uncanny sense of danger.

As if she had caught a glimpse of the edge of the dark desire hidden deep in his heart.

Suppressing the urge to flee, she asked slowly: "How... to beg?"

Xie Xunze closed his eyes, his hoarse voice suppressing his surging desire: "Kiss me."