3 | System 514

Who wouldn't want such a system?

Hearing the increasingly depressed tone of her lovely system, Xi Ning knew that she had gone overboard this time.

"I'm just kidding, Xiao Wu! Don't cry! You know you're my favorite system, right? When have I ever treated you badly? You can have your upgrade now, then you can finally transform into a corporeal form!" Xi Ning's eyes sparkled brightly as she imagined walking side by side with Xiao Wu along the streets in its corporeal form. She was even more excited to see her upgraded system than Xiao Wu itself. "Which form would you like to have? Do you want to be a cute little fox? No, no. Foxes are sly and cunning. How can you be a fox? You're obviously suited for the image of a husky! Yes, yes! That one! Which color..."

Xiao Wu, who had become a silly husky in its host's eyes (figuratively), was speechless.

It suddenly didn't want to speak with its host anymore.

After rambling on and on about huskies for a good while, Xi Ning grew a bit tired and hungry. She also wanted to try that Bluefin tuna at the System Restaurant, so after hastily cheering for her system and telling it to go have its upgrade, she went out of her room without waiting for Xiao Wu's response.

The only thing the poor system could do was watch as its host's chubby figure vanished into the crowd full of systems and transmigrators.

Xiao Wu let out a quiet sigh.

It should have known that its position in its host's heart was much lower than her love for food.

After wallowing in self-pity for a minute, Xiao Wu turned itself into a blob of light.

The blob of light was white in color with a tinge of a very light blue hue around its edges.

It might as well go to the System Hall to apply for its upgrade by itself, Xiao Wu murmured as it headed to its destination, feeling slightly nervous and excited at the same time.

Along the way, it saw its fellow systems—some were still blobs of light like itself while some were already in their desired corporeal forms—as well as their bounded hosts.

Everyone seemed to be enjoying their stroll. It was only it who was alone while floating amidst the crowd, so it couldn't help but feel sad again.

While Xiao Wu was wondering if it should ignore its host for the next two days of their vacation, it heard someone shouting, "555! 555! Hey, System 555!"

Xi Ning had been calling it "Xiao Wu" for a long time now, as a result, it couldn't quite adapt to someone suddenly calling it by its name.

"Yo, 555! We haven't seen each other for a long time. Why are you ignoring me? Aren't we friends? Did you forget about this handsome friend of yours? Do you still cry 'wu wu wu'? Hey, hey, why aren't you saying anything? Could it be... you've gone mute?! Oh no! What happened? Tell me! This big brother of yours is not that powerful, but this small problem, I'm handsome sure I can help you with it!"

That annoying chattering, Xiao Wu couldn't be anymore familiar with it.

Which could ever mistake the most narcissistic system in the whole System Headquarters for any other?

Sure enough, not long after the other party's voice reached itself, Xiao Wu saw a small red fox come into its view.

"514! Sorry, I didn't hear you clearly earlier. How's it going? Wu~" Xiao Wu called the other system by its name as well.

If not for its form still being a blob, the small red fox would have seen a grimace on Xiao Wu's face.

Anyone who had heard the name of System 514 would know that this system was the system they should not dare cross the most. It was not because System 514 was overpowered, but it was for the sake of retaining their sanity.

Whoever said that 'words could kill' was definitely right. System 514 had this ability of making anyone it chatted with wish they were dead.

To chatter away like a Gatling gun for hours on end, it could really suffocate someone with words to death.

And now, Xiao Wu felt its end was near.

Facing System 514 as though it was its sworn enemy, Xiao had just resigned itself to its fate when it noticed the non-stop chattering had actually ceased at some point.

"Wu?" Xiao Wu floated down a bit to look more closely at the small fox staring dazedly at itself as though it was its long lost child. "514? Are you okay? Don't scare me. Wu wu wu~"

Although it found System 514 annoying most of the time, Xiao Wu still regarded this chatterbox of a system as its friend.

Especially after its powers were nerfed because of its host's tragedy, System 514 would seek System 555 to temporarily ease its sadness for not being able to traverse through worlds.

Who knew what it was thinking about when a cunning glint flashed in its slitted pupils. System 514 shook its small fox's head and said to Xiao Wu, "I'm fine, I'm fine. Where are you headed? Do you want me to accompany you? Oh, right! Did you put up the recording of your previous mission world for sale? I suddenly feel like watching it right now..."

Xiao Wu was glad to know that its friend was alright, and it didn't notice System 514's abnormality.

Like a docile sheep, the small red fox led the naive Xiao Wu to the System Hall and watched it enter the Upgrade Booth for its upgrade, which would approximately last for 36 hours.

"Sorry, 555. Let this brother compensate you when we get back later. I promise to bring her back safely." As it whispered this, System 514's fox form turned into a white blob of light with a tinge of blue around its edges.

It had turned itself into Xiao Wu!

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The time it took for Xiao Wu and System 514 to reach the System Hall was enough for Xi Ning to finish the small serving of the Bluefin tuna she ordered.

The "small serving" of Bluefin tuna, which cost her thousands of gold, was literally just a few mouthfuls.

Although it was extremely delicious, Xi Ning couldn't help but feel her heart bleed when she saw the balance in her account decrease by the thousands.

Aaahhhh!!!

It really was not easy to be a foodie these days!

She had just left the System Restaurant when it met 'Xiao Wu' floating towards her.

"Xiao Wu!" Xi Ning quickened her steps and pulled the white blob of light into her arms. "Didn't I tell you to go have your upgrade? Why are you here?"

Of course, the 'Xiao Wu' in her embrace wouldn't dare say anything at this moment for fear of blowing up its cover.

Xi Ning thought it was still upset because of her teasing earlier, so she tried to coax it: "I'm sorry for teasing you, Xiao Wu. Don't be upset. Why don't I accompany you to the System Hall? Right, I'll wait for you outside the Upgrade Booth while you're upgrading, then we'll go back here to eat. Let me tell you, that Bluefin tuna was soooo good! I'll let you have a taste later. I promise you'll never find anything more delicious in this life! After you upgrade..."

'Xiao Wu', or should we say System 514, felt like it suffered 1000 points of damage as it silently listened to Xi Ning's nonsensical ramblings.

Tasting the bitterness of his own medicine, System 514 vowed to stay far away from System 555's host after this.

If not for the fact that it sensed the familiar soul aura of its own host, albeit a faint one, on System 555 when they met earlier, it wouldn't think of approaching this weird woman.

As was previously mentioned, System 514's host was met with a tragedy, which caused its power to be nerfed.

Its host had been unconscious since they came back from their previous failed mission. System 514 had been looking all around for any possible cures to awaken its host to no avail.

Today, as if controlled by an invisible entity, System 514 went out of their dwelling and walked around the streets without a clear purpose in mind.

It was then that it saw the sad System 555, and the rest was history.

Now, the most urgent matter was to bring this host back to her previous mission world and see if it could detect the origin of the soul aura it sensed on System 555.

It had already purchased the recording from the archives and had a deep understanding of the previous mission world's progression. But the recordings were only able to record the audio-visual happenings in the world, after all.

If it wanted to verify the soul aura, System 514 needed to make a trip there personally. But since its host was unconscious, it could only make use of another system's host to bring it out of the System Headquarters.

Thus, without further ado, System 514 acted as though it received some instructions from the Main System and used System 555's voice to relay them to Xi Ning, [Host, a special situation has arisen. You will now be transmigrated in the next mission world in three... two... one.]

Xi Ning had yet to process what the system had just said when she suddenly felt the familiar jolt in her head.

[Greetings, Host! You are once again in the A-ranked mission world "Ms. Superstar Has A Secret: The CEO Is Hiding In My Closet". Your mission this time is to help Ye Jiang forget Xiao Feng and ensure that he will live a happy and blessed life with a successful career and love.]