"How could this be? 00009425, 00009425, get out here!" Huang Shi Yao yelled, dragging her big red suitcase down the steps with a series of loud THUMPS.
"Didn’t you say the original female lead’s luck had run out? What the hell is going on? Why am I the unlucky one? Me?!"
"Host, I warned you about hacking into your father’s communicator. You were the one who insisted! The system issued repeated warnings. Actions have consequences."
"No, how was I supposed to know the consequences would be this severe?" Huang Shi Yao was practically hysterical. "Well, can you figure it out for me? Is that woman dead yet? Is she?"
"I am sorry, Host," 00009425’s cold, electronic voice chimed in. "The system is not a fortune teller. It cannot predict another’s future based on calculations alone."
Huang Shi Yao stopped in her tracks, still dragging the large suitcase, and roared angrily, "Then what good are you to me? What can you even do for me?"
"You’re the one who told me that I’m the new master of this plane. That I’m special and different, aren’t I? The Daughter of the Plane and the Chosen One—didn’t you say all that??"
"Host, that was indeed a fact the system inferred from the data at the time. But even as the Daughter of the Plane, the Chosen One, you still have to put in the effort."
"What do you mean by that!" Huang Shi Yao’s face twisted as she roared, "Are you saying I didn’t work hard enough? That’s why I’m facing this failure now?"
Following behind her, shivering in a thin trench coat, Wu Xuehua was on the verge of being scared witless by Huang Shi Yao’s frantic muttering.
In her eyes, Huang Shi Yao looked like a lunatic, standing in the middle of the road, pointing and yelling furiously at thin air.
’Did she have a mental breakdown because she was kicked out of the courtyard residence?’
"Shi... Shi Yao," Wu Xuehua stammered, but Huang Shi Yao didn’t notice at all, too busy arguing with the system.
"00009425, you have to take responsibility for all of this!"
was clearly angered by her shameless attitude, its electronic voice echoing coldly in her mind, "Host, you can only blame your own poor choices for all of this."
"You were the one who made a fatal mistake, dragging your father down with you and leading to this irreversible situation."
"If the system hadn’t used its ejection mode to desperately save your life, do you think you’d still be here on the street, yelling at me??"
"You were the one who said the original female lead’s luck had run out!!"
"I WAS the one who said it!!" 00009425’s electronic voice let out a mechanical roar of anger. "But Host, you also have to fight for yourself and train!"
"Other hosts exchange for things like Protective Clothing and laser guns, arming themselves to the teeth to boost their combat power! And you? You’ve always subscribed to the ’be beautiful even in the apocalypse’ theory. It’s always flowing long skirts or enchanting long hair. Ask yourself, have you ever undergone a single decent combat training session since the apocalypse began?"
"No. You have consistently focused only on your appearance, not your strength. So isn’t it perfectly normal for you to lose to the original female lead?"
Huang Shi Yao’s eyes widened in disbelief. Her lips trembled, and she used almost all her strength to squeeze out a sentence, "Are you blaming me for wanting to be beautiful?"
"It’s not that you shouldn’t be beautiful, but that you shouldn’t have spent all your points on flashy, impractical appearances. The gap between you and the original female lead now can only be described as worlds apart!"
"In a dog-eat-dog apocalypse like this, instead of strengthening your combat abilities, you exchange for Beauty Potions and Soft Skin Potions. How do those things help your combat power?"
Huang Shi Yao trembled with anger. "If you thought I was doing the wrong thing, why didn’t you warn me sooner?"
"I am sorry, Host. The system cannot use its own subjective judgment to influence any of the host’s decisions. Those are the rules of the game, and 00009425 cannot disobey them."
"And forgive me for being blunt, but you really need to change that short fuse of yours. Now that you’ve lost your father’s protection, you’d better keep your head down and be careful. You always thought you were the destined Phoenix Girl, that you deserved to live a happy, carefree life in this apocalypse without having to strive or struggle for anything yourself."
"Even the Crystal Cores you used to exchange for points from the system were actually provided by your father and his bodyguards. You never had to kill a single zombie yourself."
"You always thought you were so powerful, but in reality, you’re just a weakling who doesn’t work for anything and relies on her daddy for everything. The gap between you and the original female lead? Heh, calling it ’worlds apart’ is actually giving you too much credit!"
Huang Shi Yao’s eyes widened in terror. She could barely hold on to the big red suitcase in her hand.
As if all the strength had been drained from her body, she collapsed onto the steps, letting the suitcase go tumbling down with a series of THUMPS.
She sat slumped on the ground, her eyes staring blankly, with no desire to say a single word.
She truly never expected that 00009425—the system she had relied on to survive since the apocalypse began, her strongest partner—would judge her so harshly.
’A good-for-nothing weakling?’
’She, Huang Shi Yao, had suffered a complete and utter defeat!’
"Oh, Shi Yao, if you don’t want that suitcase, Aunt Wu will take it! I’m going to get it." Wu Xuehua glanced at her, then quickly dragged her own suitcase to chase after the big red one rolling down the steps.
’Are you kidding? It’s full of Huang Shi Yao’s high-end cosmetics, jewelry, clothes, and more. Better for me, Wu Xuehua, to benefit than to let someone else pick it up.’
’Now that we’ve been kicked to the curb, we have to go look at rental listings. From now on, food, drink, housing, and travel will all cost Crystal Cores. It won’t be like before, when we lived in the Jingxin Study Room, where life was comfortable and we could do as we pleased.’
After finishing its barrage of criticism, 00009425 saw that its host’s spirit had completely collapsed and felt even more exasperated.
’What a useless host!’
’Why did I ever choose this useless woman as my host?’
’Was it because she was easy to fool?’
’If I’d known she wouldn’t even be able to rely on her daddy anymore, I should have just abandoned her back on the helicopter.’
’Instead of spending a fortune on a ridiculously expensive potion from the store that could allow for a rapid escape from the current node via a spatial jump.’
’I managed to save her, but can this good-for-nothing really pull herself back together?’
’I’m filled with so much regret!’
"Host, if you don’t pull yourself together, you might lose the last valuable things you have left. Do you just want to give up on living? You need to remember, only by staying alive do you have a chance to defeat the original female lead."
Huang Shi Yao snapped back to her senses with a jolt and reached for the suitcase beside her.
Her hand met empty air. She let out a nearly hysterical scream, "00009425, where’s my suitcase? My suitcase! Who stole my suitcase?"
’My entire fortune is in that suitcase! If it’s been stolen, I don’t know how I’ll survive. I really don’t!’
didn’t even have the desire to respond.
’Idiot!’
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