Chapter 633 – Let Go of That Commander, Let Me Handle It (10)
The clattering mechanical voice disturbed her peaceful sleep.
“Jiang Pengji, damn you Jiang Pengji—don’t play dead on me! I know you’re awake. You had the guts to lock me up, so now you have the nerve to reply! Come on, talk to me! If you keep pretending you can’t hear me, I’ll annoy you all night long! I’ll stop bugging you only when you start paying attention to me.”
As the System droned on, it even found a rhythm, making it hard for Jiang Pengji to ignore it. She almost wished she could just smash the System into oblivion.
“What new nonsense do you want now?”
Jiang Pengji coldly asked herself, cautiously sitting up without waking anyone.
On the city wall, the soldiers were still patrolling the night. Upon seeing Jiang Pengji in her red and white military uniform, they all straightened up and saluted.
She waved her hand and quietly said, “I just can’t sleep tonight, and I needed some fresh air. You guys carry on, don’t mind me.”
The patrolling soldiers nodded slightly and stepped aside to let Jiang Pengji pass.
She found a secluded corner, and the chill of the night wind brushed against her face, shaking off some of her drowsiness.
“System, you’d better give me a reasonable explanation for suddenly popping up in the middle of the night. Are you trying to get yourself killed?”
The System retorted, “Well then, show me how you’d kill me?”
Oh—such confidence!
Jiang Pengji narrowed her eyes dangerously.
The reason she chose to keep the System captive rather than completely obliterate it was the fear of the main body catching on and alerting it.
Now it had turned into a source of mischief for the System, making her chuckle in disbelief.
She had no idea how the main System was, but this sub-System, tsk, its intelligence was really low.
Times have changed, did it really think she would always be cautious?
Jiang Pengji exhaled a puff of white breath and internally asked, “I want to sleep, not chat with you. Just get to the point, if you keep acting smug, you know what? You can go wild all you want; see if I even care about you? That’s my mental realm we’re talking about; you better understand that.”
The System had been imprisoned by Jiang Pengji for nearly two years and had developed a subconscious fear of her.
How could it not be afraid? Jiang Pengji was sharp; she only provided the System the minimum required popularity points, and she did it precisely.
For the System, popularity points were its source of energy needed for survival and growth, similar to food for humans.
Whether human or System, being trapped in a silent world and only given the bare minimum of sustenance every day for one or two years… people would go mad, and so would the System. This time, it was really for a reason.
The System hesitated.
“Um, can I negotiate something with you?”
Once proud and arrogant, the System was now timid and cowardly, making Jiang Pengji find it laughable.
System, can you get any more cowardly?
“Reasonable conversations are fine, but if you think I’m going to release you and give you freedom, forget it.”
The System quickly replied, “No, no, no—it’s not for that, I mean… could you please tone it down a bit recently? If possible, it’d be best to keep me locked up tighter… there are some unusual circumstances lately, and I’m afraid there’s a dimensional merchant patrolling around…”
A dimensional merchant patrolling around?
Jiang Pengji raised an eyebrow, her expression turning serious. “What do you mean by that?”
The System said, “Nothing much… could you not be so defensive? I’m serious this time! For both you and me, we absolutely cannot be caught by a dimensional merchant with a patrol order, or it’s game over… we’re like grasshoppers on the same rope; if I’m done for, you’re toast too. If it weren’t for Liu Xi’s body, you would’ve been expelled from here’s rules long ago…”
Jiang Pengji scoffed lightly, “I don’t care.”
Federation soldiers have no one afraid of death.
The System fell silent for a long moment.
“You’re really annoying! What will it take for you to agree?!”
The System “pouted,” causing Jiang Pengji to frown.
“Dimensional merchants with patrol orders, what are they? You seem pretty scared?”
The System retorted, “Duh, have you ever met a smuggler who isn’t afraid of the police?”
Jiang Pengji: “…”
The System continued, “I am the Dimension Palace Fighting Live Broadcast System. Opening the broadcast channel will temporarily connect two unrelated dimensions, disrupting the balance of several dimensions, which leads to so-called ‘reborn’ or ‘travelers.’ Whether reborn or travelers, all are classified as unlicensed smugglers. As for the dimensional merchants with patrol orders, they are the certified cross-dimensional travelers.”
Jiang Pengji grew interested, a hint of malice blossoming in her heart.
“If you get caught by them, what would happen?”
The System snickered, seeing through Jiang Pengji’s plans.
“Jiang Pengji, I advise you not to entertain any thoughts of mutual destruction. Do you even know how much energy it takes to break through the barriers of two dimensions? I’m on the same level as that dimensional merchant! If he catches me, I might be locked up for a few years, but it won’t end me. However, you’re different; you don’t belong to this world; you’re an anomaly that affects the development of this dimension. To put it bluntly, you’re a virus. If that happens, you’ll die a gruesome death! You could live many more years, isn’t that better? Why do you have to be at odds with me?”
Facing the bluster of the System, Jiang Pengji remained unafraid.
She smiled mockingly, her contempt unhidden in her words.
“Oh really? So you’re that powerful, huh? Then why are you stuck as my prisoner in the mental realm?”
If the System had a face, it would definitely be as black as soot.
If it hadn’t been careless and Jiang Pengji hadn’t played “pig to eat tiger,” would it have fallen into this trap?
After so long, it was the first time it had suffered a setback at the hands of its host.
That’s why it hated such clever and unmanageable hosts the most.
Wouldn’t it be better if a host were a bit silly, naive, or even a bit too smart for their own good…?
Although the host had to pay some “small fees,” at least during the host’s lifetime, they could be a winner in life.
Living a second life, wearing the protagonist’s halo, with supporting characters’ IQs collectively dropping, the host walked a path of glory to the peak of their life.
Isn’t that exciting just to think about?
Yet it just had to meet a freak like Jiang Pengji!
The System wanted to cry from frustration.
Jiang Pengji said, “You’re full of lies and have too many past offenses. I’ll believe maybe thirty percent of what you say, and I’m seventy percent skeptical. Your recent comments inspired me—you said, ‘Which smuggler isn’t afraid of the police?’ So in other words, the dimensional merchants are the police, and you’re the smuggler? You also said you’re on the same level as those merchants, yet here you are trapped by me… tsk, that’s a lot of information… I think I’ve realized something…”
The System felt a hint of panic.
“What huge information?”
Jiang Pengji asked it nonchalantly, “Why would I tell you?”
System: “…”
Jiang Pengji questioned the System, “What do dimensional patrol merchants look like? Are they just as venomous as you?”
The System almost choked on its words.
What do you mean “just as venomous as it”?
That was called a fair trade!
