System, You Didn't Say the Villain Can Read Minds! - Chapter 17
Chapter 17
◎A Dangerous Idea.◎
When Mo Jiu and Yun Wenzhou were discussing killing the man, the man didn’t react much.
When Yun Wenzhou pulled out the knife from her dress, the man panicked for a moment, but quickly calmed down: “Carrying a knife? Aren’t you afraid of hurting yourself? Throw the knife away, and we can still negotiate. Otherwise, I’ll go to the broadcast room and announce your theft to the entire shelter!”
I don’t believe she really dares to act.
Yun Wenzhou raised her hand, and the boning knife flew up.
Seeing this, the man finally realized something was wrong and showed a terrified expression: “Wait! We can talk! I won’t say anything!”
An ability? Are there really ability users?
She doesn’t really want to kill me, does she?
Damn it! She’s serious!
Realizing that the two were not simply threatening him, but genuinely intended to murder him to silence him, the man abruptly turned, trying to pull the door open and escape.
However, the moment his hand gripped the doorknob, he became immobilized, as if grasped by an invisible giant hand.
His pupils trembled violently from extreme fear.
I’m going to die! I’m going to die! I’m going to die!
Did he regret it? No.
If he regretted anything, it was provoking an ability user.
Mo Jiu held one hand out toward the man, using her newly awakened ability to restrain him at the doorway.
Yun Wenzhou then controlled the boning knife to fly toward his neck: “Go to hell with your despicable desires.”
With a “whoosh,” the sharp blade cut the man’s carotid artery, yet not a single drop of blood flowed out.
It wasn’t that Yun Wenzhou cut too shallowly, but that Mo Jiu’s control over flesh and blood had reached a new level.
Mo Jiu could clearly feel the warm fluid trying to gush out. Worried about staining the door and floor, she forcibly contained it within the man’s body.
But this unexpectedly prolonged the man’s death, making him endure more suffering.
The man’s fear of death filled Yun Wenzhou’s mind.
Mo Jiu couldn’t hear the man’s screams or his inner despair, but she could feel his pulse and knew that inhibiting the blood inside his body like this was not a solution. So—she extracted the blood from his body.
The bright red liquid poured out from the man’s slit throat, yet it neither touched the door nor the floor. Instead, it condensed into a red sphere in mid-air.
Yun Wenzhou blinked in surprise: “Sister, is this your ability?”
Mo Jiu was even more surprised than her: “I don’t know how I…”
Halfway through her sentence, she suddenly sensed something and looked at the drawer containing the Anomalous Crystal. A faint red light flowed out from there, dancing toward her like seaweed swaying in the ocean, gradually invading her body.
Yun Wenzhou followed her gaze to the drawer, took two steps over, pulled it open, and retrieved the bag of Anomalous Crystals. She noticed that a portion of the crystal inside was visibly missing.
A shiver ran down her spine.
Mo Jiu said nothing and had no further thoughts. After confirming that the man’s life signs had disappeared with the extraction of his blood, and finding nowhere to put the blood, she roughly smashed the bright red sphere against a corner of the room.
Then, she said to Yun Wenzhou: “Let’s go.”
Yun Wenzhou clutched the Anomalous Crystals in her hand, hesitated for a moment, but ultimately didn’t put it back in the drawer. Instead, she tucked it into her pocket and followed Mo Jiu out of the murder scene they had created with their own hands.
At this hour, most people were resting, with only the guards on patrol.
The two cautiously avoided all the guards and returned to the residential area.
Back in the room, after closing the door, both sighed in relief, with many questions they wanted to ask each other.
But before that, one thing had to be dealt with first.
Yun Wenzhou took the bag of Anomalous Crystals out of her pocket.
At the same time, Mo Jiu’s inner thought was: I got the Anomalous Crystals, but where should I put them?
Yun Wenzhou looked at Mo Jiu and tentatively asked: “Isn’t Sister going to ask me why I stole this?”
And why does Sister want the Anomalous Crystals?
Yun Wenzhou had originally planned to find an opportunity to throw this bag away, but she brought it back because she heard Mo Jiu’s inner thoughts and knew Mo Jiu wanted it.
She was curious why her Sister wanted it, but she didn’t want to expose her mind-reading ability, so she couldn’t ask directly, only probe like this.
Mo Jiu similarly didn’t want to expose that she had a system, so she couldn’t drop spoilers. She could only follow Yun Wenzhou’s lead and ask: “Why?”
Yun Wenzhou silently stared at Mo Jiu, trying to hear something from her heart, but only encountered a blank void.
Her mind-reading failed on Mo Jiu for the umpteenth time.
She had to change the question: “Sister didn’t know why I stole it, yet you still indulged my actions, why? Also, how did Sister know I was in the meeting room?”
Mo Jiu: …How should I answer?
System: System analyzing…
One second, two seconds, three seconds…
Five seconds passed, and the system yielded nothing.
The system took the opportunity to go offline again under the guise of analysis.
Mo Jiu resisted the urge to roll her eyes and was forced to improvise: “I have an ability too. Everyone is on night duty. How can I rest alone with a clear conscience? I wanted to come out and find you, but I didn’t know where the guards’ office was or the Director’s office, so I thought I’d try my luck at the meeting room. Who knew I’d just happen to run into you stealing something… I stopped you. I told you to put it down, but you insisted on taking it back. You must have a reason, right?”
Mo Jiu’s acting skills had been honed over seven years and could be described as exquisite.
Without access to her inner thoughts, Yun Wenzhou couldn’t find any flaws, even if she suspected she was lying.
However, this wasn’t important to Yun Wenzhou.
Words spoken by her Sister were never credible, whether they were words of dislike or words of affection.
But the fact that her Sister wanted the Anomalous Crystals was very important.
Whatever her Sister wanted, Yun Wenzhou would obtain it for her, even if it meant climbing mountains of knives or descending into seas of fire.
Sister, I am still useful, right?
You can’t be without me.
So, look at me. Never take your eyes off me.
Yun Wenzhou gave up on questioning and directly handed the Anomalous Crystals to Mo Jiu: “You should keep this for now, Sister. You can use it however you like.”
Mo Jiu: ?
Weren’t you supposed to use it to rule the world? Why are you giving it to me!
Though confused, Mo Jiu reached out and accepted the bag of dangerous red crystals.
Yun Wenzhou noticed the fleeting confusion in her eyes, assuming she was surprised that she was willing to “part with it,” and explained: “Sister, we became accomplices again. This time, you not only witnessed it but participated. This is the reward you deserve.”
Mo Jiu: “…”
Accomplices?
Indeed.
She genuinely participated in a murder this time.
Although she knew the people in this world weren’t real people, if she truly didn’t regard them as human, then what were she and Yun Wenzhou?
However, even if she acknowledged that the creature who was still thinking about sex in the apocalypse was human, Mo Jiu didn’t feel much guilt.
The effectiveness of law depends on the normal functioning of the judicial system. When the judicial system is paralyzed, delaying and retreating in the name of law-abiding behavior would only lead to being walked all over.
Besides, Mo Jiu had given him a chance.
When she told Yun Wenzhou to put the crystal down.
She had no doubt that if she had arrived a step later, the man wouldn’t have even had the chance to propose his transaction before leaving this world.
“Since you want me to keep it, I’ll keep it then.” Mo Jiu tucked the Anomalous Crystals into her pocket, planning to give it back to Yun Wenzhou later when the relevant plot demanded it.
“Are you still going on patrol?” she asked.
Yun Wenzhou “Mm-hmm’ed”: “I’ll kill more anomalies and collect more crystals.”
Mo Jiu: “…Alright.”
Yun Wenzhou: “As for Sister, just stay here and rest well. You still have to get up early to make me breakfast tomorrow.”
Mo Jiu: “It’s for everyone in the shelter.”
Yun Wenzhou: “I don’t care.”
Mo Jiu: “Then… be careful yourself.”
“No need. No one can hurt me, except you.”
Leaving that sentence, Yun Wenzhou turned and left.
The door closed. Mo Jiu stared at the door, lost in thought for a while.
To the end, she didn’t understand why Yun Wenzhou wanted to steal the Anomalous Crystals or why she was entrusting them to her.
It wasn’t until Yun Wenzhou was far away that the system came back to life.
System: Host handled that well! You resolved a crisis that could have drastically changed the main plot. Awarded 500 reward points!
System: But why did the Host indulge the villain in getting the Anomalous Crystals prematurely? Although the shelter can’t analyze anything from it, and the loss of the Anomalous Crystals doesn’t affect the main plot, such an important item being stolen will definitely lead the Director to order a full search. It would be bad if they tracked it back to the Host!
Mo Jiu: You also said, ‘obtained prematurely.’ Yun Wenzhou was going to collect the Anomalous Crystals sooner or later. What’s wrong with stockpiling some early?
Mo Jiu: As for a full search… System, I want to activate the storage space.
The Anomalous Crystals seem to be absorbable by the human body. Even if she stockpiles them, she shouldn’t carry them on her person.
System: Are you sure you want to spend 5000 reward points to activate the storage space?
Mo Jiu: Confirmed.
System: Storage space activated.
Two translucent electronic panels appeared before Mo Jiu’s eyes. One was the Mall panel; the items and prices hadn’t changed, and her remaining reward points had become 600. The other was the Space panel, currently blank.
Mo Jiu placed the bag of Anomalous Crystals onto the panel.
The pink Anomalous Crystals vanished into thin air. Simultaneously, the words “Anomalous Crystal” appeared on the panel.
Furthermore, it displayed characters like “.”
Mo Jiu guessed the reason for this annotation almost immediately.
Mo Jiu: Can kilograms of Anomalous Crystals form the Anomalous Core?
System: Yes.
Mo Jiu: How many anomalies would that require killing?
System: Assuming the crystal content inside each anomaly is between and kilograms, then collecting kilograms would require killing two thousand to ten thousand anomalies.
System: Oh, right. Ability users also have Anomalous Crystals inside them, usually in higher concentrations than anomalies, so killing ability users works too. The villain in the original book achieved the Anomalous Core after slaughtering an ability user’s base.
Mo Jiu: …
Mo Jiu: Let me confirm. Did the villain in the original book carry the Anomalous Core in her hand, or did she absorb it into her body?
System: She absorbed it into her body. She didn’t know the Anomalous Crystals had condensed into a core inside her until it was extracted after the female lead killed her. I strongly suspect the original author thought having kilograms of crystal hidden inside a human body was unscientific, so they compressed it. The core was about half the size of an olive pit.
So that was it.
So, it wasn’t an illusion—when she used her ability to draw the blood out of the man’s body, a portion of the crystal did integrate into her body, enhancing her ability.
She guessed that the original villain didn’t collect the crystals at first to control anomalies but to become stronger. Only after collecting a large amount did she realize she could control anomalies.
Simply put, crystals can not only fuse with each other but also influence each other. In this world where almost everyone is infected by the crystal, whoever possesses more crystal holds greater dominance.
Mo Jiu increasingly felt that stockpiling crystals in advance was necessary.
And she developed a somewhat dangerous idea.
Mo Jiu: Whoever obtains the Anomalous Core and controls the world is the ultimate villain. This person can be Yun Wenzhou, or it can be someone else, right?
System: Uh… You’ve stumped me. Allow me to analyze.
Mo Jiu: Similarly, having the SS-class anomaly destroy the shelter doesn’t necessarily have to be done by Yun Wenzhou, does it?
System: System analyzing…
Mo Jiu: Yun Wenzhou’s character setting has already deviated. When she gains the power to dominate the world, I will also be under her domination. At that point, no one can guide her actions. What she does will be entirely up to her, not something the Book Repository can influence.
Mo Jiu: But I’m different. I’m an NPC. I am completely controlled by you. You tell me to save the world, and I save the world. You tell me to destroy the world, and I destroy the world. Don’t you think letting me replace Yun Wenzhou as the villain would make it easier to achieve all the plot points?
System: But…
Mo Jiu: I would even obediently let the female lead kill me. Otherwise, with my ability, how could the female lead even get close to Yun Wenzhou?
Mo Jiu: If, during the final battle, I am dominated by Yun Wenzhou, what reason would Yun Wenzhou have not to let me restrain the female lead?
System: …
The system went silent. The system had no reaction. The system went offline once again.
Mo Jiu patiently waited for it to come back online and give her an answer.
She lay flat on the bed, staring at the pale ceiling, thinking to herself—Since she had already gone out of her way to protect Yun Wenzhou for seven years, why not simply help her escape her destined fate?
Her own life was worthless. If she died, she could start over or switch worlds, and she could never escape the system’s monitoring and guidance.
But for Yun Wenzhou, both her life and this world are unique. Every minute and every second is real and precious.
As an NPC with a mission, Mo Jiu was outside the world and couldn’t cast aside all settings just to give Yun Wenzhou a hug, but she wanted to help her achieve a better life.
After some time, the system responded.
Its response was: Your proposal has been submitted to the Book Repository. The Book Repository is analyzing it and is expected to give you an answer in 24 hours.
Alright then.
Mo Jiu closed her eyes.
Time to sleep.
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