System, You Didn't Say the Villain Can Read Minds! - Chapter 34

Chapter 34

◎Say That Again, Save Who?◎

Yun Wenzhou: “Is Sister not afraid of being chased and killed by Ye Lan after being discovered?”

Mo Jiu: “She can’t fly, and even if we can’t kill her, can’t we run away?”

I’ve absorbed so many crystals; there’s no way I can’t control her.

Yun Wenzhou: “Is Sister not afraid of being wanted by the City of Hope and having her reputation ruined?”

Mo Jiu: “Can reputation be eaten?”

Hasn’t our reputation already been ruined?

Yun Wenzhou: “Then does Sister still feel that stealing is bad behavior?”

“Of course.”

Mo Jiu didn’t hesitate.

To judge whether something should be done, just use empathy. If you don’t want to be stolen from, then you shouldn’t steal from others.

Empathy.

Yun Wenzhou chewed on these four words.

The term was unfamiliar to her because, having been able to hear other people’s inner thoughts since childhood, she didn’t need that ability to know what others truly thought deep down.

Having heard too much filth, she genuinely felt that most people in this world were not worthy of sympathy.

Take Liu Bai Ying, for example. She looked very kind to them, but she was only afraid of death. Gathering girls around her wasn’t for their protection but for her own self-preservation.

If they killed her, what they would gain would definitely be more than what she gave them.

The reason why Sister was indecisive when doing certain things was because she was hampered by the ability to “empathize.”

But the reason Sister was so gentle to her was also because she “empathized.”

Therefore, being indecisive, gentle, and kind—all of these were Sister, her most beloved Sister.

It was she herself who didn’t understand Sister because she wasn’t good at empathy.

“I’m sorry.” Yun Wenzhou looked down in reflection. “I was too willful.”

“You did nothing wrong. I failed to take care of your emotions.” Mo Jiu raised a hand and carefully touched Yun Wenzhou’s face, gently wiping away the warm dampness beneath her eyes with her thumb.

Yun Wenzhou’s injury was on her finger and had already healed, but Mo Jiu’s movement was like treating a fragile treasure, afraid that a little pressure would hurt Yun Wenzhou.

When does a person hurt themselves to prove a point?

When the pain in their heart cannot be healed.

Persistent people are prone to hurting others, but they hurt themselves even more deeply.

So when Yun Wenzhou made such a crazy gesture, Mo Jiu didn’t feel afraid, only heartbroken.

She was so focused on stopping her from harming others that she didn’t realize how much harm she had inflicted on her.

Thinking back now, was she too overbearing and self-righteous to unilaterally try to stop Yun Wenzhou from walking the villain’s path?

“Do you want to rest before leaving?” Mo Jiu asked Yun Wenzhou.

Yun Wenzhou shook her head.

Her body was now in the best possible condition, but… “Is Sister really planning to steal the crystals?”

Mo Jiu gave a low “Mhm.”

Yun Wenzhou couldn’t hear her inner thoughts, but she felt this wasn’t the truth.

She tried to organize her words to express her feelings more accurately: “Sister doesn’t need to do anything she doesn’t want to do for my sake. I want to become strong, but I don’t want to make Sister unhappy just to become strong.”

“I’m not unhappy,” Mo Jiu replied. “If you want to steal the crystals, then we’ll go steal them, but you must know that this is theft, and theft is bad.”

I don’t want to steal, but I have to steal.

There was no choice. If the main mission wasn’t completed, there was a certain chance the world would reset.

To Mo Jiu, even if Yun Wenzhou was still Yun Wenzhou after a reset, she would no longer be the Yun Wenzhou she knew and loved. She wouldn’t know how to face that world.

Yun Wenzhou heard Mo Jiu’s inner thoughts, yet couldn’t understand them. She couldn’t understand them even with empathy. But that wasn’t important. What was important was: “I remember: taking without asking is theft. Whatever Sister thinks is right, I will do. I will completely take Sister’s thoughts as my guiding principle.”

Mo Jiu “Mhm’d,” wrapped her arm around Yun Wenzhou’s waist, placed her other hand on the back of her head, and gently embraced her. She leaned down and lightly kissed her forehead: “I trust you.”

I trust you.

Yun Wenzhou leaned against Mo Jiu in a daze, her heart rate accelerating uncontrollably.

Happiness came too suddenly, like an illusory dream.

She instinctively wanted to find a clue to prove that everything was fake, but even the inner voice was sweet like a honey-glazed cake, so beautiful it was unsettling.

…Until Mo Jiu received a mission.

System: Emergency mission! “Emergency Rescue,” someone is trying to harm the female lead. Go save her now!

Mo Jiu: Say that again, save who?

System: Save the female lead! Ye Lan!

Mo Jiu: ?

Here’s what happened: Mo Jiu and Yun Wenzhou entered the City of Hope under the aliases “Mo Shi” and “Yun Shi Yi.”

Anyone could enter the City of Hope after registering their name, gender, and age.

They arrived at an opportune time, just catching the City Lord’s wedding. They saw two people standing on a black convertible decorated with big red flowers in the distance.

The one in the black suit was clearly the City Lord, looking all prim and proper, but judging from the reaction of the surrounding people, he was deeply loved by the residents of the City of Hope.

And the one in the wedding dress next to him was even more significant.

Mo Jiu: “…Xiaozhou, don’t you think the bride looks a lot like the director of that old shelter?”

Yun Wenzhou: “It is her.”

Mo Jiu: “Huh? She actually didn’t…”

She actually didn’t die!

When the shelter was attacked that year, the only person Mo Jiu wished dead was the director. But the director actually didn’t die? And had even become the City Lord’s wife in the City of Hope?!

It’s utterly ridiculous! Ridiculous to the extreme!

Yun Wenzhou let out a quiet laugh, then whispered: “That’s good. When we kill the City Lord, we can kill her too, while we’re at it.”

The two didn’t stay long in the crowd. They found a hotel and exchanged four compressed biscuits and two bottles of water for a seven-day stay in a double room.

The City of Hope advocated “free trade,” where both sides exchanged supplies based on the principle of voluntary agreement.

Thieves and robbers weren’t non-existent, but no one dared to guarantee that their target wasn’t an ability user or didn’t have ability user friends. Once discovered, the price could be one’s life—in the City of Hope, all retaliatory killings based on self-defense were considered justifiable.

The rule of law was similarly lacking, but relying on a small group of righteous ability users and a certain subtle social consensus, the overall security was significantly better than the Ability Users Alliance.

If one had to describe it, it was somewhat like the Jianghu (martial world) in wuxia novels, where law wasn’t discussed, but chivalry was.

Mo Jiu checked the bed in the hotel, made sure it was clean enough, and then lay down with peace of mind.

Just as she was about to rest and confirm the laboratory’s location with the System, she unexpectedly received the mission.

System: Emergency mission! “Emergency Rescue,” someone is trying to harm the female lead. Go save her now!

Mo Jiu confirmed that the System wanted her to save the female lead, Ye Lan, and she was utterly confused.

Mo Jiu: I’m the villain. I’m saving the female lead? Isn’t that OOC?

System: The female lead has never harmed you. You simply have incompatible values; there is no deep hatred.

Mo Jiu: Did the original book’s villain ever save the female lead?

System: No.

Mo Jiu: Then why do you want me to save her? Don’t you have other NPCs under your command?

System: No.

Mo Jiu: Huh?

System: The original book’s villain destroyed the entire shelter and killed everyone. The Host failed to kill the shelter director, Zhang Youyi, causing the timeline to shift. Both the female lead and the villain are important characters in this world. If the female lead dies, the world will reset, and all the reward points the Host has earned will be wiped clean.

Mo Jiu: Wait, the director didn’t die, and someone trying to harm the female lead… The director is trying to harm the female lead?!

System: Yes. The female lead, Ye Lan, inadvertently discovered that Zhang Youyi’s motive for marrying the City Lord was impure. Zhang Youyi is afraid she’ll tell the City Lord, so she wants to strike first and silence her.

Mo Jiu: …

What was that saying? It’s not that old people turn bad; it’s that bad people get old.

A year ago, to maintain the trust of the people in the shelter and eliminate what she considered a hidden danger, she expelled them without clearly investigating the truth.

A year later, to maintain the City Lord’s trust and eliminate what she considered a hidden danger, she wanted to kill Ye Lan to silence her.

The director was still the director, not changed one bit.

But…

Mo Jiu: How do I know she’s trying to harm the female lead? And how should I save her? How do I explain saving her to Xiaozhou?

System: A driver of one of the wedding cars was bribed by Zhang Youyi. He will crash the car into the female lead and the people around her when passing by. You feel this is an opportunity to gain the City Lord’s trust and allow you access to the laboratory, so you ask Yun Wenzhou to help you control the car.

Mo Jiu: Excellent. Everything is clearly planned.

System: Important mission. Completion will earn 1000 reward points.

Mo Jiu: I’m leaving right now!

Mo Jiu leaped out of bed and pulled Yun Wenzhou with her: “Xiaozhou, let’s go watch the wedding!”

Yun Wenzhou let her pull her along, but her face was puzzled: “Sister wants to watch the wedding?”

What was there to see at the wedding of a scumbag and a schemer?

“If we want to steal the crystals, we need to know where they are stored. The number of people who know is very few, so we need to find an opportunity to get to know the people around the City Lord,” Mo Jiu explained.

At the same time, her inner voice was: Only Xiaozhou can truly pull this off. I must bring her with me.

What thing?

Yun Wenzhou couldn’t understand Sister’s inner voice again.

However, Sister needed her.

“Okay.” Yun Wenzhou happily agreed, following Mo Jiu out the door.

Both changed into more inconspicuous clothing.

Mo Jiu wore a beige windbreaker, and Yun Wenzhou wore a gray two-piece skirt set.

They rejoined the crowd, following the route of the wedding car.

Suddenly, a sentence from Mo Jiu’s inner voice entered Yun Wenzhou’s mind.

Where is Ye Lan?

Yun Wenzhou looked up in astonishment at Sister’s profile. She could see her eyes moving quickly, clearly looking for someone.

Sister is looking for Ye Lan?

Why?

Does Sister want to strike first, take the initiative, and kill Ye Lan?

As expected of Sister!

Mo Jiu pulled Yun Wenzhou through the crowd, never forgetting to shield her along the way, preventing anyone from bumping into her.

Finally, in the distance, she saw the two figures who stood out clearly in the crowd.

One had a high ponytail and wore a relatively formal, gender-neutral suit, looking as heroic as she did a year ago.

The other had long, slightly curly chestnut hair and wore a long purple dress, looking as beautiful as a doll, just like a year ago.

Found her.

Rescue operation beginning!

Yun Wenzhou: ?

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