“Wow, that’s amazing! So all you can do is hack to check people’s identities? Why should I care who they are and what their relationship is? Even if they’re gay, it has nothing to do with me. By the time you’re strong enough to hack the main system, I might be able to take those two down myself,” Ning Shu said and scoffed. Once she was strong enough to get to that level, she would already know their identities.

  You entered each circle based on your status. There was no need for 2333’s sneaky hacking!

  How come the system never talked about helping each other back when she was weak? But now that she had some value, the system started acting like this? How irritating.

  There was a saying that people only noticed you if you had value to them, but she and 2333 were tied together as a single entity. Yet the system never bothered to teach her anything, or even be kind to her.

  Feelings grew from the way people interacted. Ning Shu didn’t have any positive feelings towards 2333. The two of them were just a person and a system forcibly bound together.

  Doing a task just because 2333 wanted her to? She refused.

  2333 was silent for a while and finally sighed. “If you don’t want to do it then forget about it. I won’t force you.”


  “I wouldn’t do it even if you forced me to.” Ning Shu continued reading the book in her hands, her heart as calm as a still pond.

  The system space was so quiet that the atmosphere became somewhat depressing. However Ning Shu was unconcerned. She just finished her book and then continued doing little chores.

  As for whether the system was angry… Ning Shu just didn’t care.

  The system had ignored her to the point of not even doing the most basic work. Sometimes he didn’t even respond when she asked questions during a task.

  Yet he still wanted her to upgrade him? Keep on dreaming.

  Even if he wanted to upgrade, it could only happen if she was willing to help. She would do tasks she wanted to, not tasks she was told to do.

  The system was nothing more than an aid.

  Even if Ning Shu had no system or the weakest possible system, it wouldn’t make a difference.

  Ning Shu picked up the water can and hummed a little tune as she watered the potted plants. She heard the chat system ding again and continued watering even as she opened the menu.

  There was a message from Zhang Jiasen, followed by one asking her to meet him at the restaurant in the fabricated space.

  He went on to say that fabricated space prohibited fighting, so he wouldn’t do anything to her. He just had some things he wanted to discuss.

  Ning Shu: Ha. Ha. Ha …


  Ning Shu’s face was expressionless as she closed the chat system. Why would she go? She didn’t even want to see him and sooner or later she would kill him.

  With Zhang Jiasen’s sinister and cunning, he could find a way to harm someone even if the rules prohibited fighting.

  It wasn’t Ning Shu’s style to approach someone she knew harbored bad intentions towards her just to let herself get hit.

  The moment she’d closed out of the chat system, another message came through. Of course it was Zhang Jiasen. Again, he said there was something important they had to discuss.

  Ning Shu narrowed her eyes, and then opened up the system marketplace. She’d already decided to kill Zhang Jiasen; she might as well do it now.

  She browsed the marketplace to see if there were any props that could deal with him while he was in his spirit form and still be untraceable.

  The fabricated space prohibited fighting so she needed to avoid getting caught.

  Ning Shu’s gaze rested on the soul nail. The soul nail could be driven into a soul and would then absorb the soul’s energy, completely consuming it.

  An item that could steal other people’s soul energy?

  It sounded quite sinister. It was also very expensive: it cost 1000 merit points and 2000 faith points.

  The product introduction was very, very tempting though: there was no escape as long as the other party was in their spiritual state.

  And the energy gathered by the soul nail could be used for her own purposes.

  A soul nail was equivalent to an intermediary energy converter.

  She was able to buy it but…was spending 1000 merit points and 2000 faith points just to deal with Zhang Jiasen worth it?