Chapter 208: First Battle with the Main System

Chapter 208: Chapter 204: First Battle with the Main System

The hulking Beastman, an Eight Pattern Priest named Xiang Ze, led his prison guards to completely surround the entrance to Li Yun’s burrow.

Xiang Ze’s demeanor was completely different from usual.

The once-gruff man waved his hand with an uncharacteristic, effeminate flourish. Despite his brawny physique, he spoke in a high-pitched voice like a eunuch’s. “All of you, go down there and drag out the black-haired female!”

The prison guards stared blankly for several seconds before entering the cave one by one.

System 006 floated over to the Main God to report.

It communicated with System 006. “006, are you saying there’s another human girl with Li Yun?”

“Impossible. Aside from Li Yun, aren’t all the other girls already dead?”

“The human girl bonded to System 007? That girl? Hasn’t she already returned to Earth?”

The Main God System waited outside the burrow for a while. Before long, a few Beastmen emerged with a laptop, a cell phone, and a solar charger.

“Lord Xiang Ze, we didn’t find the black-haired, black-eyed female, but we found this.”

“Lord Xiang Ze, what is this stuff? Should we smash it open to see?”

The Main God System glanced at the Beastmen with contempt, as if looking at lowly insects.

“This is a laptop computer. Place it on the ground.”

“Alright.”

“Xiang Ze” bent down to touch the laptop. His mechanical prosthetic eye whirred as it spun, a rather frightening sight.

‘Is this the Earth girl Li Yun’s laptop?’

System 006 wrapped itself around Li Yun’s phone. “Main God, this is Li Yun’s phone.”

A cable emerged from “Xiang Ze’s” fingertip and, along with System 006, connected to Li Yun’s phone. “You Earthlings love using these low-grade devices. And you love storing your private information in them…”

After it finished reading the data from Li Yun’s phone, another cable appeared from its fingertip and began to read the data on the laptop.

“This… doesn’t seem to be Li Yun’s. It looks more like a human boy’s laptop.”

“Computers, AI… This is about all you Earthlings are capable of.”

“And what is all this?”

“Xiang Ze” copied the data from the phone and the laptop directly into its own system.

Then, it frowned deeply.

“What is this?”

“Main God?” System 006 called out anxiously.

Nan Zishi and Li Yun hid in the distance, watching Xiang Ze’s every move.

Li Yun asked through gritted teeth, “Nan Zishi, why did you give them the phone and the laptop? That’s a phone and a laptop! They’re irreplaceable in the Beast World.”

Besides, that phone had precious photos of her father and grandmother. They were too precious.

Nan Zishi handed her another phone. “I’ve already transferred your photos and other data to this phone. Use this one for now. As for why I gave the laptop and phone to it, I just wanted to exploit its curiosity.”

Li Yun repeated, “Exploit its curiosity?”

“That’s right, Li Yun. An AI can’t distinguish between true and false information. So, amidst all the correct data on the laptop and phone, I planted a huge amount of false information. For example, that you, Li Yun, are a man.”

Li Yun: “?”

‘There was a lot more, too. For instance, that the sun is green, the ocean is red, and that male Beastmen in the Beast World can give birth, and so on and so forth.’

‘Her brother’s classmate had suggested it: implant a massive amount of junk data. Even if it doesn’t kill it, it should at least slow its behavior!’

However, Nan Zishi couldn’t be sure if the Main System would be affected.

But she had also planted something else: the virus Nan Zhinian gave her.

“Li Yun, the system isn’t invincible. You, and all the girls who came before, we’re all finding ways to defeat the system, one step at a time.

This time, let’s see if you and I can beat it!”

…

“Xiang Ze” continued to read the data from the laptop.

Finally, it opened a file it shouldn’t have.

“Xiang Ze’s” eyes went blank for a moment.

Nan Zishi and Li Yun tensed up, their nerves stretched taut.

The two girls were waiting for this very moment. Success or failure would be decided now!

But in the next instant, “Xiang Ze” roared in fury, “Damn you, Earthlings! Damn you! To think you’d use a virus attack!!!”

“Xiang Ze” smashed the laptop and phone on the ground.

Li Yun felt a pang of regret. But with her new phone, the feeling quickly faded.

“However, a virus of this level can do nothing to me.”

“Xiang Ze’s” mechanical eye flickered between green and red before finally settling on green.

“Search! The Earth girl must still be in the mining area! Find her for me, now!”

Nan Zishi pulled Li Yun down behind a rock. When the time was right, she led Li Yun away in secret.

“Nan Zishi, we failed,” Li Yun said, disheartened.

Nan Zishi felt a pang of frustration as well.

‘The junk data my brother gave me was implanted, and the virus was successfully delivered, but it wasn’t enough to take down the Main System.’

Nan Zishi said, “It’s okay. I believe the junk data and the virus must have had some effect on the Main System. There have to be other ways to eliminate it completely.”

Li Yun was already losing her will to fight. “We’ve done everything we could possibly do. What else is there for us to do?”

Nan Zishi turned back and said to her, “Li Yun, you are a bug in the Main God System. The very fact that you’re alive is the biggest threat to it.”

Li Yun thought for a moment, and her spirits lifted. “Right, my being alive is the biggest threat to it! Nan Zishi, what do we do now? Should we go back and kill Xiang Ze?”

Nan Zishi shook her head.

“The system isn’t a physical entity. Right now, it’s a parasite in Xiang Ze’s body, so at least we know who the Main System is. If we kill Xiang Ze, it will just find someone else to possess, and it’ll be even harder to track down.”

“In any case, for now, we’re heading back to the Eastern Coast.”

As Nan Zishi walked, she continued to think.

‘Before, it was always the smaller systems that came to the Beast World…’

‘Killing a smaller system is pointless; it won’t protect the girls who come after.’

‘The High Priest actually did something good for once by bringing the Main System itself to the Beast World.’

‘Only by destroying the Main System can this battle be considered a true victory.’

After they left the mining area, Chi Xiao took flight with Nan Zishi and Li Yun on his back.

Wolf Day and Wolf Night ran at full speed on the ground below.

Everyone headed for the Eastern Coast together.

…

The sky grew dark. Nan Zishi took out a tent and a sleeping bag for Li Yun.

Li Yun set up the tent.

The dark circles under Chi Xiao’s eyes had grown more pronounced. He stood there dutifully and asked, “Little Female Master, is there anything you need me to do?”

Nan Zishi smiled and hugged Chi Xiao’s head. “What you need to do is get a good night’s sleep.”

Chi Xiao’s face flushed slightly. “Let’s sleep together. Okay?”

“Okay.”

Chi Xiao quickly set up a tent for Nan Zishi and laid out the sleeping pads.

As soon as Nan Zishi lay down beside him, his head tilted to the side, and he was instantly fast asleep.

Nan Zishi gently stroked Chi Xiao’s cheek.

‘This tall, handsome Eagle Beastman had tirelessly rushed about for her sake, so exhausted he didn’t even realize it.’