After Transmigrating into a Book as a Cannon Fodder Character, The System Turned out to be Completely Unreliable! - Chapter 33

Chapter 33: So Scary

“Then hurry up and investigate! Otherwise, my little life will really be gone. I don’t want to keep repeating here.” The more Ye Lingxi spoke, the more she broke down.

Spirit Cat: “Don’t worry, Host. Leave it to me.”

“Waaaahhh~”

Spirit Cat: “Host, why are you crying?”

“What I’m afraid of is exactly your guarantee. When have you ever been reliable!”

Spirit Cat: “…”

Ye Lingxi felt like dying.

“Why am I so unlucky? I’ll never complain about the author’s bad writing again.”

Ye Lingxi hugged her knees and cried loudly: “I want to go home, I want to go home.” She sobbed and sniffled: “This place is really too terrifying. There’s not a single normal person.”

Spirit Cat: “…”

It flew to her side: “Host, aren’t you a normal person?”

Ye Lingxi stared at it, then cried even harder: “Waaahhh~ I have to talk every day to this ugly-looking piece of code, and on top of that, it keeps CPU-ing me. It’s not even reliable itself.”

Spirit Cat: “…”

Ye Lingxi was crying without tears. Even the system beside her had nothing to say.

After crying for a long while, she finally stopped, but still didn’t dare step out of the room.

It wasn’t until Mo Huaishu sent word that she reacted.

Spirit Cat: “I want to go back.”

The system spirit cat whooshed and returned to the broken sword.

The one who entered was Lan Mushu: “Xiao Xi, your master is calling you.”

“Master?” Ye Lingxi asked uncertainly, “Wasn’t she in seclusion cultivating? Why is she out?”

Lan Mushu said, “Because just now, the sealed sword at Qingyang Sect was stolen.”

“What?” Ye Lingxi was indeed shocked. Didn’t Ji Fuyu create a sword identical to hers? Has it already been discovered so soon?

“Then… the one who took the sword…”

“It was Yu’er.”

Thank goodness, her involvement hadn’t been discovered.

“I know Yu’er was already defeated by you in the final assessment, but she fought to enter Qingyang Sect. Who would’ve thought her goal was to take the demon sword.”

Ye Lingxi didn’t answer immediately. Lan Mushu continued: “Even more unexpected, she turned out to be that person’s subordinate.”

Ye Lingxi: “…”

“So that’s how it is.”

“Mm-hmm.” Lan Mushu pulled her along: “Let’s not talk so much. Let’s hurry to Qingyang Sect.”

“Oh, okay.”

In the main hall.

Mo Huaishu stood before Yu’er with her anger. At this moment, Yu’er, who was bound, kept begging for mercy: “Master, it wasn’t me! It really wasn’t me!”

“The evidence is conclusive, and you’re still trying to argue here.” Mo Huaishu’s cold and elegant voice struck down every word of her pleading.

Ye Lingxi watched Yu’er kneeling, her face full of confusion. Her heart felt tight, and she unconsciously leaned back a little.

“Xiao Xi?” Lan Mushu supported her from behind: “Are you alright?”

Ye Lingxi shook her head: “I’m fine.”

At this moment, Mo Huaishu noticed them: “You’ve arrived.”

“Master.” Ye Lingxi saluted.

Mo Huaishu opened her mouth and came to their side: “Are your eyes alright?”

“Thank you, Master, for your concern. This disciple is already fine.”

Mo Huaishu patted her shoulder: “You’ve worked hard.”

Ye Lingxi never expected that her injury was already known: “Master, you…”

“You want to ask why I came out of seclusion early?”

Ye Lingxi nodded.

“Maybe I was lucky and managed to complete my cultivation early,” Mo Huaishu explained. “After that, I sensed the barrier being forcibly broken. I didn’t expect to encounter this problem as soon as I came out.” She glared at Yu’er.

Ye Lingxi had probably forgotten—the plot had already developed self-awareness and was no longer the same as the original.

“It wasn’t me!” Yu’er crawled on her knees to Mo Huaishu’s side. She kicked her away: “Even if it wasn’t you, you’ve already violated the rules here.”

Tears streamed down Yu’er’s face. Suddenly, she looked fiercely at Ye Lingxi, her gaze cold and terrifying: “It was her! She’s the one who harmed me!”

Ye Lingxi took a step back. Then Lan Mushu said: “Xiao Xi has been resting at my Baicao Sect the whole time. How could she have framed you? I think you’re just jealous because you didn’t pass the assessment.”

“You’re talking nonsense!”

“I… I didn’t…”

“Really?” Lan Mushu exposed her lie: “Then how come I heard you came to my Baicao Sect?”

Yu’er’s pupils shook: “I… I was worried about Senior Brother.”

“And the large area of destruction at our Baicao Sect was also out of worry?”

Yu’er was already speechless.

“Master!” Yu’er placed her last hope on her.

Mo Huaishu looked at her with disgust.

“You’ve been cultivating demonic energy—you’re no longer one of our sect!” Lan Mushu declared righteously.

Yu’er lowered her head in despair: “Yes… I did cultivate it, but it was all for the sake of the sect…”

“Then why did you take the demon sword?”

“I don’t know.” She truly didn’t know why she had gone to that place or why she was holding the demon sword.

Mo Huaishu kicked the demon sword on the ground: “Where did you hide the real demon sword?!”

Clang—a sound rang out, and the demon sword shattered.

It shattered!

Lan Mushu’s eyes were filled with disbelief.

“This was made from ten-thousand-year-old meteorite—how could it break from just a light kick?” Lan Mushu stepped forward to pick up a piece of the broken sword and realized this wasn’t a demon sword at all.

She glanced at Mo Huaishu. She knew this one was fake.

“I didn’t hide it. I really don’t know! I really don’t know!”

“Then let me ask you—who taught you demonic energy?” Mo Huaishu interrogated her.

Yu’er tried to think, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t remember: “I don’t know…”

So many consecutive “I don’t knows”—how could they still believe her?

“Take her to the dungeon.”

“No! Master! Master!” Yu’er kept begging for mercy: “Master, it really wasn’t me! I never had the heart to betray you! I didn’t!”

Yu’er was dragged away.

Ye Lingxi was terrified.

In the end, Yu’er was still cursing Ye Lingxi: “Ye Lingxi, I curse you—may you die a horrible death! A horrible death! Hahahahahaha…”

Ye Lingxi’s whole body trembled. If that person had been me, would my ending have been the same as hers?

So scary.

“Ye Lingxi.” Mo Huaishu called her name.

Ye Lingxi panicked: “Mas… Master…”

“Thank you for your efforts during this time.”

Honestly, Ye Lingxi had only done one thing. She hadn’t really done much else.

“This is what a disciple should do.” No matter what, she still stayed humble.

Mo Huaishu smiled.

Ye Lingxi could tell that what she was really thankful for was that she had taken Bai Luotang’s punishment in her place.

“Where’s Su Yunli?” Mo Huaishu looked around and asked.

Lan Mushu said, “He seemed to have left right after you returned.”

Su Yunli—he was just here? How come I didn’t see him?

Su Yunli belonged to the only sect that had men. Normally that wouldn’t be surprising, but this is a GL world after all.

Still, she really did want to meet this elegant young man.

“Ran off again?” Mo Huaishu sighed helplessly. “Forget her for now. Where’s Senior Sister?”

“Senior Sister is still soaking in the medicinal bath,” Lan Mushu said. “It’s a new formula I developed. Soaking in it will help her open her two meridians.”

Mo Huaishu let out a breath of relief: “That’s good. I’ll go see her tomorrow.”

“What about you?”

“I’m going to pry open Yu’er’s mouth and see where she really hid that demon sword.” Mo Huaishu’s eyes were filled with anger.

Lan Mushu responded with an “oh.”

“Oh right, your eyes are very pretty.”

As Mo Huaishu left, she complimented her eyes.

Ye Lingxi touched them.

“Let’s go back too.”

“I still have to go back?”

“Of course.”

“But I’m a member of Qingyang Sect,” Ye Lingxi explained.

Lan Mushu said, “So what? She’s already out of seclusion. You won’t be that busy anymore. What’s wrong with spending more time with me?” She pulled her, trying to take her back to Baicao Sect.

“I… really shouldn’t bother you.”

“Aiya, it’s fine, it’s fine. I like being bothered.”

Ye Lingxi: “”

This doesn’t seem right…

Lan Mushu dragged Ye Lingxi back to Baicao Sect and brought her into her secret chamber, saying: “The main reason I brought you here is because I want you to help me research the Hundred Herb Spirit.”

“Research?”

“Yes.”

“After I got it, I found that it seems like it can’t be cultivated. I don’t know why.” She took out that petal of the Hundred Herb Spirit. It floated from her hand, glowing green, the petal rising and falling.

Ye Lingxi said, “So where exactly is the problem?”

“The problem lies with the person who gave you this thing.”

The system?

Ye Lingxi raised an eyebrow. What does this have to do with the person who gave me this thing?

“Xiao Xi, we must find that old man you mentioned. Otherwise, the Hundred Herb Spirit will truly disappear from this world, and your Uncle Bai might die because of it.”

Ye Lingxi: “…”

Is it possible this thing had already disappeared long ago?

“But I don’t know where that old man is now either,” Ye Lingxi said, trying to let her know that this thing was already gone.

It was all something she made up.

“Xiao Xi, I need you.”

Ye Lingxi: “…”

I also want to beg you—please stop messing with me.

“But—”

“No buts!” Lan Mushu’s tone was firm. “We must find that person.”

“Why are you so obsessed with finding that person?!” This was something she really didn’t understand.

Lan Mushu said, “Because that person is very likely to be my senior brother.”

Oh no—has the plot really gone off track?