Seize the Throne

Chapter 40

Jiang Shi has completed his body check and there were no issues. He was taken to the rest area that was prepared earlier with Jian Yi.

He originally wanted to take out the system to study it, but now he can’t even touch the biologically advanced instrument, so he can’t conduct any experiments. He can only take care of Jiang Shi for now and wait for Kou Li to make a suitable tool in the future so he can play with it slowly.

After Jian Yi left, only Bian Yi and Kou Li remained in the laboratory. Oh no, there was also a system that looked like a bug.

Bian Yi leaned on the lab bench and sat on a chair, taking a long breath of relief. He had been tense since Jian Yi gave Jiang Shi an injection, afraid that something might go wrong.

Fortunately, they finally caught it.

The paper maze was actually a gift prepared by Kou Li and Bian Yi for Xiao Shu, but the icons on the cards concealed a virus. Most of the icons on the cards were fine, but every now and then, there was an incomplete virus icon.

As long as the system scanned and pieced together the icons, the virus would be planted.

This virus was somewhat similar to the anesthetic used by humans, but its effect was shorter and could only paralyze the system for fifteen minutes.

It was actually quite simple to ensure that it would scan. Presumably, it had been alert since it followed Jiang Shi into the laboratory. In order to prevent it from escaping after being alerted, the entire laboratory had been shielded from the beginning, using the shielding device that Kou Li used on systems when they were on E Island.

Fortunately, the system did not try to escape, so it did not discover the problem with the shielding, and Jiang Shi did not suffer more.

Bian Yi relaxed for a while and finally felt relieved. He looked at Kou Li’s back and asked him, “When did you make the virus?”

Kou Li had been studying the network problem for the past three days, and after he had this plan, he quickly designed the paper maze. It didn’t look like something he wrote in a hurry, so it should have been something he had before.

As for why it wasn’t used on E Island, it was probably because Guan Xi wasn’t qualified. Who cared if he was tortured by the system?

Kou Li turned to look at Bian Yi and said lightly, “It was made before.”

Although Kou Li’s words were not very clear, Bian Yi still understood his meaning. He seemed to always be able to understand Kou Li’s unclear words. Perhaps this was their tacit understanding over the years.

Just like now, Bian Yi knew that when Kou Li said “before”, he meant the previous life.

In the previous life, Kou Li must have tried many methods, right? How long did he spend designing this virus? And after making it, he tested it on Guan Xi, only to find that it was useless against the system and couldn’t threaten it. He demanded that it return Bian Yi and couldn’t even kill it.

At that time, what kind of mood was Kou Li in?

Now, however, things were easy and carefree.

Bian Yi gritted his teeth and raised his chin towards Kou Li. “Come here.”

Kou Li glanced at the various computers on the console, made sure there was no abnormality, and then turned and walked towards Bian Yi.

Kou Li stood in front of Bian Yi, looking down at him. His eyes behind the lenses contained a smile, as if asking Bian Yi, “What’s the matter?”

Bian Yi reached out and grabbed Kou Li’s coat. With a forceful tug, Kou Li bent down to cooperate.

Bian Yi changed the position of his hand holding Kou Li’s coat, then wrapped one hand around Kou Li’s neck and the other hand around his collar.

Kou Li let him do as he pleased, and was pressed onto the experimental table, where Bian Yi kissed his lips.

After just one kiss, Bian Yi frowned and raised his head. He glanced at the experimental table underneath Kou Li, and only when he confirmed that there was nothing important or fragile on it did he lower his head again.

Kou Li’s posture was not comfortable at this time, after all, the height of the experimental table was a bit low for him, and his waist was not as soft as Bian Yi’s.

So he straightened up a bit, holding Bian Yi in his arms, and gradually changed positions with him.

The person pressed onto the experimental table became Bian Yi, his waist against the edge of the experiment, feeling a bit hard and uncomfortable. Just when he was about to complain, Kou Li’s hand was placed on his legs.

He took him and eventually put his legs around his waist.

Bian Yi didn’t feel uncomfortable or hard, but another feeling was increasing rapidly.

They both opened their eyes at the same time and looked at each other, seeing the emotions in each other’s eyes.

Kou Li buried his head in Bian Yi’s neck, his rough breathing close to his ear. His whole body was almost pressing down on Bian Yi.

The chest was heaving violently, and because the two were pressed together, they could clearly feel each other’s heartbeats. Their frequencies were different, but equally unsteady.

After embracing for a while, the two gradually calmed down. They both knew it wasn’t time to act yet.

Kou Li reached out to tidy up the hair on the side of Bian Yi’s face, which was a bit messy. Bian Yi turned his head and picked up Kou Li’s glasses from the side, which he had taken off at some point, and put them on for him.

The two were silent for a moment before getting up from the experimental platform.

The system, which witnessed the whole process and was locked in a cage, just wanted to curse. God knows why it could still see the surrounding environment and hear their voices. God knows Kou Li could actually make a cage that could catch it and keep it trapped. God knows no matter how it struggled, it couldn’t get out! If it had solved the simple problem earlier, it wouldn’t be trapped now without enough energy.

It was already 98% done! As long as Jiang Shi touched Jian Yi, it could successfully extract Jian Yi’s innate energy. It was just a little bit away! It knew that the playing card looked problematic, so why did it go and scan it?

The system regretted it. However, it wasn’t at the end of the road yet. Kou Li couldn’t do anything to it, just trapped it. It still had enough energy left to use for a hundred years, and even longer if it went into hibernation.

And by then, if its mission was not yet complete, there would naturally be new systems coming into this world, and it could ask for help then. Although it was a bit embarrassing to ask colleagues for help and would lose some energy, those were unnecessary losses. As long as it was still here, it could still find a host to complete the mission and earn energy and points.

After making up its mind, the system was no longer in a hurry. It wanted to see what else Kou Li was capable of.

Bian Yi got off the experimental platform, straightened his clothes, and Kou Li had already moved away from him. He glanced at the transparent worm still moving in the holographic image and said to Kou Li, “I’m going to see Jiang Shi. You can do whatever you need to do.”

Kou Li put his hand on the frame of the mirror, made a sound of “Hmm,” and watched as Bian Yi left the laboratory.

After the others left, he seemed to have not seen the conspicuous holographic image and quickly focused on his work.

He needed to fix the last loophole within 48 hours, and then the system would be completely unable to escape.

No one had used the lounge where Jiang Shi was before, and it was specially prepared for him. In addition to a single bed, there was also some medical equipment in the room.

When Bian Yi left, Jiang Shi had not yet awakened.

It was not all due to the effect of the simple drug, but because the child was really tired and had fallen asleep.

After confirming that Jiang Shi was okay, Bian Yi did not stay for long. It was not until after three o’clock in the afternoon that Jiang Shi woke up.

“Do you think it was caught?” Just waking up, Jiang Shi was still a little dazed. After hearing from Jian Yi and Bian Yi that the system had been extracted from his brain, he repeated it dumbly.

“Yes,” Bian Yi gave him an affirmative answer.

Jiang Shi was still in a daze. He didn’t know what he was waiting for, but after a few seconds, he knew. The system did not speak in his mind, did not punish him, and did not do anything.

No matter what he thought, he couldn’t hear another voice to tempt him, control him, or dominate him.

This feeling – ha!

Hahahaha! He was free!!!

Was he really free?

Jiang Shi laughed halfway, then stopped and fell silent for a minute. He cursed the stupid X system a hundred times in his mind, but still heard no response.

Hahaha! It’s gone! It’s really gone!

It felt so good hahaha…

Jiang Shi laughed uncontrollably, tears streaming down his face.

Bian Yi: “…” Is this child really stupid?

He looked at Jian Yi beside him, hoping that the doctor could give some advice, but who knew that the irresponsible Jian Yi was covering half of his face with his hand, and his shoulders were trembling as he laughed along with Jiang Shi.

“…” Are they crazy?

Jiang Shi’s laughter was understandable, but what was Jian Yi doing there?

As confusion crossed the edges of her mind, Jiang Shi’s laughter suddenly stopped. His gaze finally landed on Jian Yi who was beside him, and then his eyes widened. A red flush spread from his ears to his whole face, and finally wrapped around his neck.

“98% approval rate,” he thought.

He didn’t forget.

And he also took advantage of Dr. Jian to hold back the system. Oh, he was so bad!

Fortunately, Bian Yi’s question saved Jiang Shi who wanted to bury himself.

“Jian Yi, can you tell me when that thing found you?” Bian Yi asked him.

After asking the important question, the warmth on Jiang Shi’s face gradually faded. He explained to Bian Yi in detail how the system had started from a book and then revealed the entire process of how he maintained the plot system.

“Teacher Bian, and Jian, Dr. Jian, I really appreciate you both, I really don’t know what to do.” Jiang Shi lowered his head and thanked them sincerely.

If it weren’t for them, including Bian Yi’s lover, Jiang Shi would probably have to die to get rid of the system’s control.

No, that might not even work.

Bian Yi said that the person who pretended to be him before, Guan Xi, might be the soul of someone from another world who had died.

Thinking about that situation made Jiang Shi’s back shiver, and he felt scared.

Fortunately, he was saved.

Bian Yi patted Jiang Shi on the shoulder. “It’s good that you’re okay,” he said.

Jiang Shi looked up, chuckled stupidly, and asked, “Can the system really not run away now and harm others?”

“‘Don’t worry, my husband is really powerful’, right Bian Yi?” Jian Yi said.

He finished speaking and winked at Jiang Shi.

Bian Yi rolled his eyes and coldly laughed, but still said to Jiang Shi, “Don’t worry, my lover is really powerful.”

After Bian Yi finished speaking, he hesitated for a moment, as if savoring the words “my lover,” but also seeming a little disdainful of his own slightly proud tone.

It was just like when he got married, and he would brag about his perfect husband to everyone he met.

He was obviously not young anymore, how could he still do such childish things?

Bian Yi had just furrowed his brow when Jian Yi analyzed, “From what you said, it seems like it’s a human.”

“What?” Jiang Shi didn’t react. Wasn’t it caught? And didn’t it look like a bug? Shouldn’t it be an alien, like the parasitic ones in movies?

Simple touched his chin and explained, “It’s too emotional, and too stupid. Its way of thinking is actually more like a human’s, not like an emotionless calculating machine.”

“But you know what, maybe it doesn’t even know that, or perhaps… just like how it brainwashed Guan Xi, that idiot, it has also been brainwashed, thinking that it is a super AI that is superior to humans and can do anything.”

“If it were really such a powerful existence,” Jian Yi looked at Jiang Shi meaningfully, “how could it not even be able to convince Xiao Shitou and end up crashing here with him?”

Jiang Shi nodded, thinking it made sense.

But wait, did he feel like that sentence was actually insulting him?

“Poorly executed, with all sorts of made-up stories, and only daring to find useless people like Guan Xi. I’ve said it before, only the useless will dare to find the useless, because it knows very well that it can’t handle smart people. Why is that? Because it’s originally not intelligent, and it’s greedy. It looks for hosts who are similar to its own character, so that it can know everything about them and perfectly control them. If it encounters a host who is more capable and ambitious than itself, it’s afraid that it will be used as a springboard and be left behind easily.”

Jian Yi sighed disappointedly, muttering to himself in a very low voice, “It’s boring if it’s just human, studying it is so uninteresting. But at least its shell is quite beautiful.”

Jiang Shi didn’t hear clearly, so he asked, “What?”

Bian Yi knew that Jian Yi was a lunatic and had a feeling that what Jian Yi didn’t say clearly was not a good thing, so he didn’t wait for Jian Yi to answer Jiang Shi’s question and said to Jiang Shi first, “You’ve been sleeping for quite some time. Let’s eat something first, and if you still want to see what it looks like, I’ll take you there later. If not, I’ll send you back. You still have training to do, right?”

It was like a bolt from the blue for Jiang Shi.

He thought his life was hopeless, and then he had his last performance, his farewell performance. After that show, he did choose a song according to the plan, but he didn’t practice for a whole day!

How much time was left until the next performance again?

Jiang Shi panicked and thought, “How can I still eat at a time like this?” He immediately took out his phone and called Jiang Jie, saying that he needed to go back to the company.

Meanwhile, Bian Yi escorted Jiang Shi to the laboratory and saw him rushing to the nanny car in a hurry, with his shoes almost falling off along the way. Although this looked a bit funny, it was the kind of energy that a young person should have, unlike before when he was depressed and about to lose his vitality.

Therefore, when faced with difficulties, don’t give up. Try to seek help and find ways to overcome the obstacles. There is always hope.

Life is long, especially when there are people who love you around.

Bian Yi returned to the laboratory and made a cup of coffee for Kou Li in the pantry. He put the warm and hot coffee on the empty lab bench, and Kou Li didn’t turn around, but he was very clear who was behind him.

He glanced at the time at the bottom of the screen and said to Bian Yi, “Xiao Shu will finish school soon.”

Bian Yi replied from behind him, “Okay, I’ll go pick him up.”

Bian Yi approached Kou Li and hugged him lightly from behind. “Take a break if you’re tired,” he said.

After speaking, Bian Yi was about to leave, but Kou Li grabbed his wrist.

Bian Yi felt the touch of Kou Li’s thumb rubbing against his wrist and became a little impatient. Before he could say anything, Kou Li let go of his hand and went back to work.

It was only after Bian Yi left the laboratory that he realized what Kou Li had done. He found it cheesy and annoying.

Kou Li stopped working and held his hand. When he was tired of touching, he was taking a break. When he had enough rest, he could work again.

Bian Yi’s expression was slightly uncomfortable. Oh my god, when did this man become so insidious?

He was really annoying.

I’m so happy for Jian Yi, the poor child has been through so much.