System, You Didn't Say the Villain Can Read Minds! - Chapter 39

Chapter 39

◎Can Die Now.◎

“How is the relationship between the Four Seasons Goddesses?”

“Light and Dark devour each other. The relationship between the Goddess of Zenith and the Goddess of Stars and Moon must be bad?”

“No, wrong, wrong. The night is devoured by dawn, dawn is devoured by noon, noon is devoured by dusk, and dusk is devoured by night. So the Four Seasons Goddesses should have a cyclical, counter-balancing relationship, like rock-paper-scissors.”

“According to you, the Goddess of Zenith and the Goddess of Stars and Moon don’t have a counter-balancing relationship?”

“I don’t know if the Goddess of Zenith and the Goddess of Stars and Moon have a good relationship, but the relationship between the Goddess of Dawn and the Goddess of Dusk should be good. Both are at the time of day and night transition, and one governs life while the other governs desire. Only with desire can life be born, right?”

Mo Jiu woke up to the sound of several female voices discussing the goddesses.

She opened her eyes and met a pair of melancholic eyes.

Yun Wenzhou’s beautiful and seductive eyes were now filled with guilt and anxiety.

Seeing Mo Jiu wake up, she was joyful for a second, then immediately frowned gloomily again: “Sister, you’re awake? Are you uncomfortable anywhere?”

Mo Jiu’s gaze lingered on her face for a second, then shifted to the hair on one side of her head.

Yun Wenzhou’s hair had been sliced halfway through by Ye Lan’s sword during their escape, making it noticeably shorter.

Although Yun Wenzhou was still beautiful like this, Mo Jiu’s heart still twinged when she thought about how much Yun Wenzhou usually cared about her appearance.

She wanted to say something, but Yun Wenzhou spoke first: “My fault, it’s all my fault. I’m sorry. I should have listened to Sister. Sister’s judgment is never wrong. I failed Sister’s trust… I wanted so badly to kill her to eliminate future trouble, but I was overestimating myself. I didn’t even know what her ability was. I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”

As she spoke, she lowered her head, her voice clearly choked with sobs.

Mo Jiu sat up and lovingly brushed her hair: “Let me trim it for you.”

Yun Wenzhou carefully lifted her gaze: “Sister… don’t you blame me?”

Mo Jiu was silent for a moment.

Yun Wenzhou’s sudden action did catch her off guard, but despite her annoyance, she could understand her motive.

If she hadn’t known what Ye Lan’s ability was, Mo Jiu would also have looked for an opportunity to strike first, though not with the goal of killing her. After all, she was the protagonist, and if she died, the world that was her stage would also end.

Moreover, Yun Wenzhou accidentally helped her complete the System mission. Although the process was extremely dangerous, the outcome was quite good—her reward points exceeded 5000, and she could partition the space.

So Mo Jiu’s response was: “Yes, I blame you for not listening, but you’ve already learned your lesson, so I won’t punish you further. Let me trim your hair.”

Yun Wenzhou whimpered: “Okay.”

The current time was early morning, and the location was the gazebo in the garden of acting Alliance Leader Liu Baiying’s villa in the Ability Users Alliance.

Several female ability users were chatting nearby, looking carefree and out of place in the apocalyptic atmosphere.

Mo Jiu carefully used scissors to trim Yun Wenzhou’s hair straight. It was clear that the angle of Ye Lan’s sword swing was not parallel to the ground but slanted, resulting in Yun Wenzhou’s hair being long on one side and short on the other, with the shorter side nearly shoulder-length.

Mo Jiu was reluctant to cut off too much of such beautiful hair, so she trimmed Yun Wenzhou’s hair into a straight, diagonal line.

During the trimming, she thought of the discussion about the Four Seasons Goddesses she heard when she woke up.

If the Goddess of Stars and Moon’s prototype was Yue Xinghe, then the one most likely created with Ye Lan as the prototype was the Goddess of Zenith—the Goddess who governs war, who is invincible in battle.

However, Ye Lan’s ability was Light to Shadow. She was both light and dark, devouring both dawn and dusk. There was no cyclical counter-balance, only absolute supremacy.

As expected of the protagonist, truly a bug.

System: Host, your next mission is to slaughter the entire Ability Users Alliance. Don’t forget.

Mo Jiu: …I want to slaughter you.

System: Mission completion will award 2500 reward points. Successfully condensing the Abomination Core will award an additional 2500 reward points, totaling 5000 reward points.

Mo Jiu: 6 (A Chinese internet slang meaning “great” or “awesome”)

Mo Jiu: Let me think about how to approach this mission.

First of all, outright killing everyone without explanation was impossible.

Although many here were chaotic-evil and didn’t deserve to live, at least the female ability users here had never harmed her, and Liu Baiying had unconditionally given her and Yun Wenzhou some supplies.

Since she could complete the mission “kill the Alliance Leader” by making Liu Baiying abandon the title of Alliance Leader, then she could also complete the mission “slaughter the entire Ability Users Alliance” by making the name “Ability Users Alliance” disappear, right?

With that thought, after trimming Yun Wenzhou’s hair, Mo Jiu spoke calmly: “Call Liu Baiying here. I have some tasks to assign her.”

“Okay.” Yun Wenzhou obediently replied.

Yun Wenzhou found Liu Baiying, and Mo Jiu informed her of the City Lord’s death.

Liu Baiying seemed more disappointed at the loss of a goal than happy.

It seemed she wanted to prove something to the City Lord more than she wanted to kill him.

But what she wanted would never be realized—the Ability Users Alliance, as it currently was, could never be better than the City of Hope.

Mo Jiu gave her three minutes to process the City Lord’s death, then ordered: “Summon the leaders of all the gangs. Have them hand over all criminals under their command who have harmed innocent people within three days. I will execute this batch of people after three days, and then conduct checks on each gang. If I find any new criminals—then the gang leader can die.”

“This…” Liu Baiying felt that if this task were actually carried out, at least half the people in the Ability Users Alliance would die.

Yun Wenzhou expressionlessly made several flying knives point at her neck: “Do you have any objection to the Alliance Leader’s command?”

“No, no.” Dared Liu Baiying to voice any objection?

“Then hurry up, or I’ll kill you and go in your stead.”

“I’ll go, I’ll go!” Liu Baiying bit the bullet, accepted the task, and went to execute it.

Mo Jiu sat down in the gazebo, looking at the chessboard on the stone table, and placed a black piece in the center.

Is this what it feels like to be a villain? She had to admit, when she didn’t have to face Ye Lan, it felt quite exhilarating.

“Xiaozhou, come play a game of chess with me.”

“Okay.” Yun Wenzhou obediently sat down opposite Mo Jiu.

Since her disobedience led to both of them being injured, Yun Wenzhou had become incredibly compliant, acting like Mo Jiu’s professional, paid attendant.

Feeling that she owed her sister, she didn’t even dare to listen to her sister’s inner voice.

Yet, sometimes she couldn’t help but hear it.

I’ll bluff here. If she blocks here, I’ll win by placing my piece on that side!

Yun Wenzhou silently placed a white piece on the spot Mo Jiu “bluffed” about.

Mo Jiu quickly placed a black piece on the other side: “Five in a row! I win! Again!”

Yun Wenzhou raised the corner of her lips and cheerfully said, “Mhm.”

Three days later, the nine gangs in the Ability Users Alliance handed over a total of seven people.

One gang handed over three people, two other gangs handed over two people each, and the remaining six gangs handed over no one.

Mo Jiu couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh, mocking Liu Baiying: “Is this your efficiency?”

No one knew the members of the Ability Users Alliance better than Liu Baiying. With a territory of about a hundred people, half of them were beasts. Who would believe that only seven people had harmed others?

However, she hadn’t relied on Liu Baiying to actually catch the bad guys. She issued this order and gave three days’ time so she could catch them herself—using the System.

After Liu Baiying relayed the order, the gang leaders would definitely discuss it with their members, and some crimes would be self-confessed during the process.

For example.

A certain gang leader: “I don’t know what crazy idea the Alliance Leader suddenly has. Don’t worry, I won’t hand any of you over.”

A certain gang member: “Nonsense, you were involved in those things too.”

Mo Jiu had the System tag all these people.

So, as she walked past the seven people, she didn’t need to ask anything; she just listened to the System.

System: This person is tagged.

System: This person is tagged.

System: This person is tagged.

After walking a full circle, Mo Jiu returned to the gazebo: “Xiaozhou, kill them all.”

“Yes.” Yun Wenzhou controlled seven flying knives, which flew towards the seven people, killing them all instantly!

All the gang leaders were present, and they were startled by the seven bodies collapsing simultaneously!

She killed them without even asking questions?

What a powerful object manipulation ability… Who are these two? Are they running the Ability Users Alliance now?

Blood splattered, but Mo Jiu didn’t even blink, as if Yun Wenzhou had just killed seven small monsters in a game.

She sat in the gazebo with her legs crossed, calmly saying: “I said that if I found any more criminals in your gangs starting today, the gang leader can die. It seems many of you don’t understand human language, or perhaps you don’t know the definition of a criminal?”

“For example, you, the one wearing green, the leader of the Dragon Slaying Gang? You have at least eight more criminals under you, don’t you?”

The System tagged people based on their self-confessional remarks within the three days, so being tagged eight times didn’t mean there were only eight. Mo Jiu could only say “at least.”

She stopped pretending. Anyway, Yun Wenzhou knew she had abilities other than her ability and space.

The Dragon Slaying Gang leader instinctively wanted to refute, but he looked at Yun Wenzhou next to Mo Jiu, whose knife still had fresh blood on it…

He could only swallow his anger: “Give me another chance.”

“Too late.” Mo Jiu snapped her fingers. All of Yun Wenzhou’s flying knives flew towards that person, stabbing him until he looked like a sieve!

One gang leader, realizing things were bad, turned and ran!

Mo Jiu raised her hand to control the person, then hooked her finger, making him retreat on his own: “Trying to run? Looks like you have a guilty conscience… Oh, the Killing Gang. The entire gang is unclean. No wonder.”

Yun Wenzhou made the flying knives fly over.

“Kill.”

Killed.

One gang leader knelt down: “Please give me another chance! I will hand over all the criminals this time!”

Another gang leader knelt down: “I will personally execute all the criminals in my gang and be your servant!”

Then another, and another.

Few people who attained the position of gang leader in the Ability Users Alliance were clean. Aside from the three who had handed people over, the rest all knelt down.

After having Yun Wenzhou collect all the Abomination Crystals from the dead ability users’ bodies for her, Mo Jiu had these gang leaders take her and Yun Wenzhou to their territories one by one to “hunt” the ability user criminals who truly deserved to die.

It took another three days to thoroughly clean up the Ability Users Alliance from top to bottom. After establishing new rules, she had people carve the words “City of Abilities” on the stone walls around them.

“From now on, there is no Ability Users Alliance, only the City of Abilities,” Mo Jiu announced.

System: Detection complete. The Ability Users Alliance has disappeared. The mission to slaughter the Ability Users Alliance is complete. 2500 reward points awarded.

Mo Jiu opened the space panel. The amount of Abomination Crystals was sufficient.

Late at night, while Yun Wenzhou was asleep, she left the City of Abilities, found a few Abominations, released all the crystals from her space, sat on the pile of crystals, controlled the Abominations for fun, and absorbed the crystals.

Until her eyes and hair became as red as high-concentration Abomination Crystals.

System: Successfully condensed the Abomination Core. 2500 reward points awarded. Your next mission is—”Final Battle.” Control all Abominations in the Fallen Zone to launch an attack on the City of Hope, and then be killed by Ye Lan. Once this is done, all missions in this world will be complete.

All complete?

Mo Jiu looked up. Her vision was stained red by the Abomination Crystals. No matter where she looked, the world was shrouded in a blood-like crimson.

She could sense the location of all Abominations and ability users and control them by her will.

Including Yun Wenzhou.

Now that she had promised Yun Wenzhou never to leave her, if she forced her to stay in the City of Abilities and went alone to battle Ye Lan, would Yun Wenzhou hate her afterward?

Or would she follow her in death after she died?

This seemed like something the extremely strong-willed Yun Wenzhou would do.

Love was never the entirety of one’s life. People who died for love were foolish. The only reason Mo Jiu had this kind of awareness was that she wouldn’t truly die. Otherwise, she, who was usually more rational than emotional, would never do such a foolish thing.

She wanted to tell Yun Wenzhou that her life was still long, and she shouldn’t focus only on her.

But Yun Wenzhou definitely wouldn’t listen, would she?

Mo Jiu: System, what is the time limit for the Final Battle?

System: Seven days.

Mo Jiu: Okay.

In these seven days, she would satisfy Yun Wenzhou as much as possible, no matter what she wanted.

After seven days… the world after seven days, it didn’t matter what happened. It was all irrelevant.

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