Chapter 833 – The Tracker of the Transmigration Girl (Part Four)
“Catch a mouse?”
“Catching what mouse?”
The audience was puzzled. Had a mouse recently invaded the streamer’s room to steal her midnight snack?
Jiang Pengji didn’t bother with explanations; instead, she put away the yin-yang pendant and, for the first time ever, took a break from her stream, shutting it down early.
What came next was not something the audience should see.
Once that was sorted, Jiang Pengji found a secluded spot and poked the System.
“I know you’re still alive, so stop playing dead. You saw what just happened, don’t you have anything to say?”
After her words, silence greeted her ears.
If she wasn’t sure the System was still locked up, she might have doubted that it had run away.
“If you want to live, at least make a sound. We’re past the point of no return here!”
With the appearance of the yin-yang pendant, Jiang Pengji had a stronger grip over the System.
Without holding back, Jiang Pengji spoke, forcing the System to reluctantly respond.
“Chirp!”
Faced with the System’s playful attempt to act cute, Jiang Pengji rolled her eyes. “I’ll give you half an hour to speak honestly.”
The System spat in disdain, saying, “What honesty? You think you can trick me? You’re not up to par.”
Since their last disagreement, the System hadn’t communicated with Jiang Pengji at all.
It knew very well that every time she approached it, it was never about good news.
Dealing with such a host was like being doomed for eight lifetimes!
“Can you tell me where your core vessel is?”
Jiang Pengji asked with a smile, her tone casual as if she were just asking about today’s weather.
The System secretly scoffed but replied, “Aren’t you my host?”
“Stop pretending! You know exactly what I mean by the core vessel.” Seeing that friendly banter wasn’t working, Jiang Pengji shifted her approach. “Having seen this yin-yang pendant, I’m reminded that you, as a System, are a virtual being. By design, a virtual being cannot leave its original environment without a special vessel. Not even the Heavenly Brain can escape that principle, and neither can you.”
Hearing Jiang Pengji compare it to the Heavenly Brain made the System want to explode in fury.
“Don’t compare me to that lowly creature! I don’t have that kind of thing—give it up.”
It could traverse various dimensions, a true higher life form—there was no way a mere Heavenly Brain could compare!
Seeing that the System was stubbornly denying it, Jiang Pengji let out a cold laugh. “You sure say that without a guilty conscience.”
The System’s heart skipped a beat, but it still clung to its original denial, refusing to let Jiang Pengji trap it.
“Alright, alright—since you’re adamant that there’s no core vessel, I can’t force you. But there’s one thing I’m very curious about—how do you film the livestream? Or more simply, where’s the ‘camera’ for the stream? I’ve studied the angles in the livestream room and, based on my position, the filming is from hundreds of meters high with no blind spots. Yet, no matter how I search, I can’t find any ‘camera’… This issue has puzzled me for a long time, and I’ve been unable to figure out how your streaming works. But today, I found this thing, which gave me an idea.”
Jiang Pengji shook the yin-yang pendant in her hand, a faint smile on her lips. “As a virtual being, you should be familiar with it. Earlier, when I activated this item, my perspective shifted to high above, and when I zoomed in towards the ground, it perfectly matched the livestream angle. So, System, don’t you have anything to say about this?”
The once-proud System now fell silent as a chicken, not making a sound.
Jiang Pengji was confident. “You have a vessel! I will find it eventually.”
As mentioned before, the life structure of virtual beings is not stable; if they leave their natural environment, it’s like a fish out of water—they can’t survive long. The vessel is akin to a water-filled, oxygen-rich fish tank; with it, fish can swim freely!
Jiang Pengji had two strategies in mind for dealing with the System.
First, she could restore her brain domain to its peak state and confront the main system head-on, but this method was too risky. Who knew how many pieces the main system had split into? If she accidentally released a few subsystems, she would be fine, but what about the people around her?
Second, destroy the vessel to which the System was bound. Regardless of whether it’s the subsystems or the main system, they wouldn’t survive long without it.
Compared to the first option, the second was much easier and more thorough.
But where was this vessel hiding?
Given the System’s cunning nature, it would have stashed something so crucial well out of sight, ensuring no one could find it easily.
The System fell silent once again.
Rather than a stubborn silence, it was more like sitting and waiting for doom.
Because it knew that no matter what it said, it couldn’t mislead Jiang Pengji.
If the System’s core were here, it could still argue with Jiang Pengji and call it a 50/50 chance of winning.
However, it was merely a subsystem split from the main system.
At best, it could fool unsuspecting transmigrators or natives, but trick Jiang Pengji?
Hadn’t it spent these years imprisoned by her?
Jiang Pengji was unconcerned. No matter how the System reacted, it was still her captive.
With such low-level skills, it dared to contend with her—it was laughable!
However, before dealing with the main system, she felt she could catch some smaller fish first.
Jiang Pengji closed her eyes again and, following her previous steps, experimented with the yin-yang pendant mentally. Soon enough, she discovered a peculiar vortex.
To put it simply, this yin-yang pendant was actually a terminal and login port for a mental network, which only those with a strong enough mind could “log in” to. Ordinary people’s mental faculties weren’t strong; they could only passively adjust to it over time. So-called spirit communication and entering dreams were essentially entering this mental network in a state of mental unconsciousness.
However, Jiang Pengji was different.
When that vortex appeared, she didn’t resist but let it pull her mind inside.
With her mental preparations in place, when a high-altitude cloud scene appeared in front of her, she wasn’t surprised. Instead, she followed the red line down toward the ground.
Before long, the ground’s scenery zoomed in, and she “saw” an “old friend.”
Hehe, this long-lost “old friend” was none other than the transmigration girl who had secretly infiltrated Wanzhou.
The girl had changed her looks again, masquerading as a young woman in distress, blending in with a crowd of refugees.
Jiang Pengji could clearly see what was happening below and hear their voices, but the people on the ground were completely unaware.
She focused her attention on the “young woman.”
Having learned from past lessons, the girl’s disguise was much better this time.
