[TCFO] Arc 3 – Chapter 147
The Vicious Princess Wants to Reverse Fate (41)
"How would I know? I don't have the authority to look into these things!" Seeing Zhou Min's expression, it couldn't help but laugh with a touch of schadenfreude, challenging her threat.
"Darn it, you good-for-nothing system, what use are you..." Zhou Min cursed outright, "We've been through two worlds together. We may not be friends, but at least we're partners, aren't we? You tell me which of the two previous tasks I did not give my all to? But you, you still find ways to screw me over... Now, when I need your help, you're throwing in the towel. Do you want me to complete the task or not?"
Listening to Zhou Min's accusations, it felt a bit guilty. But it honestly didn't know how to help. It was the lowest tier system among all systems, or rather, the most useless, surviving barely by the skin of its teeth. None of the systems recognised it; they even mocked it for its uselessness.
That's why it wanted to constantly upgrade, to become a higher-level system, hoping it could become the most powerful one day. To show these systems that it, too, could win over the male lead! Fulfil the wishes of the supporting female characters and the cannon fodder, clean up the heavenly path, and be useful, not useless!
Once it completes a few more tasks, it will be qualified to open that door and enter the system leaderboard. But now, aside from the skills it needs for bed, the rest of its functionalities, including this mall, are only barely allocated to it by Zhou Min due to her good completion rate of previous tasks.
But there's so little in there!
For those female supporting character systems, female lead systems and the like, these things are all leftovers people didn't want, which it then picked up.
But even so, it still has no authority to investigate the entire storyline...
Because the ability to have a God's-eye view is something you can only get when you become a female lead system. Right now, it, damn it, can only choose the relatively simple tasks left over by other systems.
After all, who wouldn't want to simply be responsible for falling in love, meeting the right person at the right time, with no misunderstandings, no setbacks, no third parties, no nauseating green tea bitches, white lotuses, and annoying relatives? But it simply doesn't have the right to choose!
So, its host has to suffer a bit... meeting the male lead at awkward times, then starting to snatch people from the original female lead of the story, eliminating the obsessions of the supporting female characters or cannon fodder, receiving their pure wishes, and then upgrading...
That's still good. If it encounters a main or supporting female system, it can only hope that its sometimes thoughtless host won't die too miserably. After all, if it doesn't snatch the lead, it means death for both the host and the system!
A system can only contract one host, but there are many peculiar systems like the female lead, female supporting character, etc. Systems are formed from people's obsessions, so whatever you're obsessed with, that's the kind of system that will appear. But sometimes, it wonders how it came to be. Did someone feel like they weren't having enough sex and wanted to have more sex...
And so it appeared, but because this sex thing is too embarrassing, is that why its abilities are so single and weak?
Other systems have powerful backup forces, but it seems to be alone in the world, laughed at and despised by those systems, kicked around like a football, and not worthy of joining them.
It has only contracted one host for thousands of years, Zhou Min. It doesn't know whether it's lucky or Zhou Min is unlucky. No, no, no, how is it unlucky? It's lucky. It can also become stronger, even though it's extremely weak now...
Remembering these past hardships, it said with some melancholy, "Host, it's not that I don't want to help you, but the things you want to know, I don't have the authority..."
"You still have authority restrictions?!" Zhou Min was stunned, licked her lips, and frowned, "Authority?! Are there levels to it? Even you, a system, have levels?!"
It really wanted to roll its eyes. Helplessly, it said, "Otherwise, why do you think I appeared in the three thousand worlds for no reason? I do have a big boss above me..."
"Heh, heh." Zhou Min felt like she had opened another door with its words and asked, "What do you mean by big boss?"
"Sigh! With a host like you, I think we're stuck together. I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. The Great Dao has three thousand paths, the world is woven with love and hatred, the Heavenly Dao is profound, and the world's destiny is prosperous. The obsessions and pains of the world have touched the rules of the Heavenly Dao, so we began to appear following its evolution. But also because of opportunities, or you can say the obsessions of the world, many small systems evolved to dissolve the resentment of the world..."
When it said these words, its voice had an indescribable excitement and enthusiasm: "You should know that among systems, there are also differences in strength and weakness, just like there are chicken ribs and delicacies among cheat codes..."
"Which one are you then?" Zhou Min suddenly felt curious.
It was taken aback, and didn't know what to say. But thinking back to its previous haughty character, wouldn't it have been boasting about it already instead of remaining silent if it was really powerful?
"You aren't low-ranked, are you!" Zhou Min joked with a laugh. She had only intended to probe, but she could feel a sudden surge of sadness from the system.
"Are you okay?" For the first time, Zhou Min felt that it seemed to have its unspeakable secrets, which seemed to carry a hint of sadness.