IBO -Chapter 126 Under Currents Surging

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Song An took a deep breath, then rattled off at lightning speed:

“Brother, a bad thing calling itself a system ran into my mind and tried to forcibly bind with me!
It said if I didn’t bind, it would electrocute me! It said if I didn’t complete its tasks, it would still electrocute me! It kept sowing discord between me and Song Yang! It wants me to completely erase Song Yang’s soul! It also said that if I dared tell anyone, it would electrocute me! And it kept provoking our feelings, saying you like Song Yang more and don’t like me! It kept urging me to hurry up and erase Song Yang’s soul!”

[Damn it! You actually dared to tell—I’ll electrocute you to death!]

[Pah! If you’ve got the guts, then electrocute me! Even if you electrocute me to death, I won’t erase the silly sweet kid’s soul!]

[Aren’t you supposed to dislike your little brother? Why are you acting out some brotherly-love drama now?!]

[What’s between me and the silly sweet kid is none of your damn business! Since when is it your turn to meddle in our relationship?
Silly Sweet is my little brother—no matter how dumb or stupid he is, he’s still my little brother!]

[You’re making me furious! An ignorant brat like you—I’ll let you taste the pain of electricity right now!]

Song An immediately complained to Song Yiran:

“Brother, that bad thing got angry from embarrassment! It’s going to electrocute me now!”

Song Yiran was first shocked by what Song An revealed—his poor little brother had actually been targeted by an unregulated system!

And now hearing that the unregulated system even dared to electrocute his brother, his lungs were about to explode with rage!

Did it think this older brother was dead? That he didn’t exist?
How dare it bully his little brother right in front of him!

Xiao Zhong’er was also about to explode with anger. A mere unregulated system daring to show off in front of a legitimate system?

Did it think this system was dead?

Xiao Zhong’er immediately took out a small protective shield and snapped it onto Song An.

“Don’t be afraid. With this protective shield, that bad thing won’t be able to electrocute you at all!”

Song Yiran also comforted him tenderly:

“Good boy, don’t be scared. Big brother’s here. Big brother won’t let that bad thing bully you.”

[Damn it! I was only planning to teach you a lesson, but today I must electrocute you to death!]

[Idiot.]

[Say that again if you dare?!]

[A brainless moron. Idiot.]

[Damn it, how can a kid your age have such a filthy mouth?!]

[The idiot’s mad from embarrassment—hahahahaha!]

[I’m furious! I’m electrocuting you right now!]

The next second, a squad of elf guards surrounded the area, led by none other than Celeste.

Su’er also suddenly appeared at the scene.

They sealed off the entire forest. Celeste rapidly summoned vines from her palm; the vines plunged straight into the depths of Song An’s mind and dragged out a pitch-black mass. The entire process took less than three seconds.

The black mass was tightly bound by vines and thrown to the ground, still shouting incessantly:

“You idiots!”

Seeing this, how could Song Yiran not understand?

They had been used as bait.

Song Yutu also realized it, raising an eyebrow in displeasure:

“So this is the way Karen Dir handles things? Using a child as bait?”

Xiao Zhong’er was furious and immediately protested to Celeste:

“How could you do this? How could you use us as bait? We’re even carrying so many children with us!”

“Using us adults as bait is one thing, but how could you use children? If something happened, could you bear the responsibility?!”

He was livid—these elves were going too far!

Although the matter was resolved, the atmosphere became even more tense.

Song Yiran silently pulled all his younger brothers behind him and stared at Celeste with a condemning gaze.

Xiao Zhong’er followed suit, condemning Celeste with his eyes.

At this moment, Su’er stepped forward to smooth things over:

“We just didn’t want to alert the enemy.”

Song Yiran understood—Su’er had been part of the plan too. He asked coldly:

“Then did you consider what would happen if my brother was hurt? How confident were you that you could guarantee their safety?”

“Actually, the necklace I gave you earlier has—” Su’er began to explain, but Celeste cut her off.

Celeste’s tone was calm:

“We made full preparations. I dispatched many elves to secretly protect you, and the necklaces you received are imbued with protective magic that can block three attacks.”

Song Yiran was still dissatisfied, but at that moment the black mass on the ground started yelling again.

[Hahahaha! This show is really interesting! Fight! Fight! Fight!]

Song Yiran found it unbearably noisy. On top of that, it had bullied his brother. With old and new grudges combined, he walked over and kicked it several times.

As he kicked, he muttered:

“I’ll teach you to bully my brother!
I’ll teach you to bully my brother!
Is my brother someone you’re allowed to bully?!”

[Ow ow ow! Stop kicking me!]

Xiao Zhong’er flew over and gave it a headbutt:

“I’ll teach you to bully kids! Bah! You’re shameless—bullying children of all things!”

[Ow! It hurts!]

Fully recovered, Song An jumped down from Song Yutu’s arms, ran over, and spat several times at the black mass.

“Ptoo, ptoo, ptoo! Letting you bully me, letting you bully Song Yang! Is my little brother someone you’re allowed to bully?!”

[I’m really speechless! If you like your brother so much, why pretend to hate him? Otherwise I wouldn’t have messed up!]

“How my brother and I get along is none of your damn business! You don’t get to tell me how to treat him! You bad thing!”

Still not satisfied, Song An stretched out his claws and viciously scratched the black thing’s pitch-black face.

[Ow ow ow! Hit the system, not the face—my face!]

The other kids also gathered around, angrily shouting at it.

Song Buli pointed at it furiously:

“Bad thing! Annoying bad thing!”

[Say whatever you want!]

Song Xiuhu looked at it with disdain:

“Shame, shame! Bullying kids—shame on you!”

[That ‘kid’ you’re talking about has a filthy mouth, you know! A potty-mouthed kid—that’s a first for me!]

Song Fu made a face at it:

“Bleh bleh bleh! You bullied An’an and Yangyang—regret it now? Even if you regret it, it’s useless!”

[If you’ve got the guts, untie me! Let’s PK one-on-one!]

Song Chiyu rolled his eyes:

“You’re ugly as hell and still dare to come out and do bad things! Your soul is as ugly as your looks!”

[Hey hey hey, that’s a personal attack on a system!]

Song Xianyue scolded angrily:

“Bad thing! Bad thing! Your heart is as black as your appearance!”

[Can you stop with the personal attacks?!]

Song Yuexin used a metaphor:

“Ugly thing, you’re disgustingly ugly! You’re more nauseating than trash in a garbage dump!”

[Five…]

Song Yinyun condemned it with his gaze:

“All you know is bullying children. Shameless!”

[Say whatever you want…]

Song Yutu also looked at it with contempt:

“Not even sparing kids—I despise you!”

[……]

The pitch-black system gave up completely, stopped struggling, and just lay flat, letting them curse it.

The victor is king, the loser a bandit—it had already lost.
Curse all you want.
Hit all you want.
It couldn’t escape anyway.

Seeing its unrepentant attitude, everyone swarmed it and gave it a thorough beating.

Su’er watched from the back. Logically speaking, Song Yiran and the others beating up the system like this wasn’t very appropriate—but given the circumstances, it was understandable…

She hesitantly looked at Celeste. Celeste was sending messages on her light-brain; sensing Su’er’s gaze, she said without looking back:

“Let them be. As long as they don’t beat it to death.”

Half an hour later, the system—beaten black and blue—was escorted away by Celeste and her people.

Song Yiran held Song An in his arms, comforting him with a pained expression:

“Oh, my precious little baby really suffered. Big brother’s heart aches so much!”

“You must’ve been really scared just now, right? Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid—the bad thing is gone. We’re not scared anymore.”

The little companions also gathered around to comfort Song An.

“An’an, don’t be scared—the bad thing’s gone!”

“That’s right, that kind of bad thing can’t stir up much trouble. If it dares come again, I’ll beat it away!”

“Exactly! That ugly thing dared to bully you—what a delusion!”

“That phrase is ‘a fool’s dream’.”

“Hehe~ same meaning! Anyway, that bad thing was just dreaming!”

Song An nestled comfortably in Song Yiran’s arms, enjoying everyone’s concern, feeling utterly content and happy~

After the pitch-black system left, Song Yang regained his connection with Song An. He looked at Song An seriously and said, “An’an, thank you!”

“So cheesy. What’s there to thank me for?”

“Thank you for protecting me!”

Song An was still being stubborn. “Don’t overthink it. I just couldn’t stand that guy, that’s all!”

Su’er summoned Flying Flying Flowers and carried Song Yiran and the others back toward the royal palace.

This time, the atmosphere on the return trip was extremely fractured.

All the children clustered around Song Yiran’s side; not a single one went near Su’er.

Everyone was still chatting—the kids talking about that bad system from earlier, Xiao Zhong’er and Song Yutu whispering to each other—but no one spoke to Su’er.

This time was different from the last.

This time, it involved the children.

Even though they knew that Su’er was most likely just following orders, a barrier had still formed in their hearts toward him.

Not only Su’er—by extension, they were also on guard against Celeste.

The children’s little heads didn’t yet understand too many conspiracies or schemes. Right now, they simply didn’t want to talk to Su’er or Celeste.

In their hearts, Su’er and Celeste were on the same side—on the opposite side from them.

As for Song Yiran and the other adults, they were thinking about much more.

In Kallandil, there was only one person who could give orders to Celeste—

—Wang Hu.

There was a high probability that everything behind this was a setup arranged by Wang Hu.

Xiao Zhong’er whispered with Song Yutu, discussing how they should keep their distance from Wang Hu in the future.

Song Yiran thought about many things. The emotions in his eyes flickered on and off, and in the end, all of them were swallowed by the night.

Suddenly, his light brain chimed with a notification. He looked down—it was a message from Wang Hu.

[FrenziedFlashyCoolTyrant]: This matter was arranged by me. If you have anything you want to ask, come back and ask me in person.

Song Yiran typed and deleted his message over and over in the chat box before finally sending a single line.

[Guardian of History]: When you set this trap, how confident were you that you could protect them?

[FrenziedFlashyCoolTyrant]: 100%. This data was obtained through my own experiments. If I didn’t have absolute certainty, I wouldn’t casually use human lives as bait.