LOT -Chapter 318 Childhood Arc: The Thick-Skinned System Xiaobai

The system’s life was indeed quite colorful. While others were working themselves to the bone carrying out missions, it happily tagged along beside the main system every day, watching the drama unfold.

In its own words, it was originally a gossip-eating system anyway. Watching the show counted as part of its job. This was also a way to refine its professional skills—so why wouldn’t it be allowed?

The main system was rendered speechless by this argument, and after thinking it over carefully, it actually seemed to make some sense.

Wasn’t this guy studying every day with that silly sweet system? How had its brain suddenly started turning so fast now?

The real Xiaobai: “Scheming System, you’re seriously amazing. The things you just taught me— the main system couldn’t refute a single word.”

The Scheming System was utterly pleased with itself: “Of course. Don’t forget what kind of system I am. In the whole world, there’s absolutely no creature with more tricks up its sleeve than me.”

Although the system didn’t actually work, it still made quite a few friends.

As a gossip-eating system, its innate ability was considered fairly high-tier among all systems. And gossip systems were usually very smart—after all, they could eat all kinds of gossip and learn all kinds of things.

The previous generation’s gossip system was insanely powerful. Every host it bonded with ended up becoming someone above tens of thousands, standing at the very peak.

Using its gossip ability, it grasped all kinds of secrets and mastered all kinds of skills, directly nurturing its hosts into top-tier figures.

A gossip system could truly be said to be omniscient and omnipotent. Ordinary systems really couldn’t compare to this kind of innate ability.

The only problem was that the previous gossip system’s ambitions were a bit too big. After deciding it was the strongest system of all, it actually started setting its sights on the main system.

This kind of “setting sights on” was completely different from Xiaobai’s verbal talk. That one genuinely put it into action.

The previous gossip system directly united half of the systems and started a rebellion. Although the main system suppressed that rebellion, it also lost quite a lot of talent.

That was why it began searching through various worlds for suitable candidates. Even now, those vacant system positions still hadn’t been fully filled.

All the previous systems had been destroyed. They had perfectly good lives but insisted on courting death themselves.

If you didn’t want to be a system anymore, that was fine—you could become some other kind of being. Just exchange your energy for it. As long as you were willing to give up immortality, you could become anything you wanted.

So now, the other systems felt both curious and fearful toward this newly born gossip system.

They feared its abilities—after all, the shadow cast by the previous gossip system was truly enormous.

But they were also genuinely curious. After all, this one had been personally brought back by the main system, and it had even been arranged some kind of “internship,” personally kept by the main system’s side and taught directly.

A system personally taught by the main system—that status was anything but ordinary.

Maybe this time, the main system really was cultivating a successor. The previous gossip system was just too unlucky—it missed the right timing!

Look at this one. The moment it arrived, it caught the main system’s eye.

Xiaobai, sensing some inexplicable atmosphere: ???

Although it didn’t have a neck, why did it feel a chill at the back of its neck?

The main system was completely out of options with this guy now.

If it said it would destroy it, the system would immediately lie flat and say, “Destroy me then.”

If it said it would send it to a good world to enjoy life, it would say it was already enjoying life just fine right now.

And every day, who knew what kind of weird nonsense it was learning from that silly sweet system.

Things like: if you want something, just look at the other party pitifully.
Brother, even if you want to look at someone pitifully, you need to have a physical form and eyes first!

That system was teaching hosts to look at others pitifully. You, a system, looking pitifully at me—what I see is just a blurry string of data.

The main system was truly speechless.

Some time ago, it had even specially investigated what this guy was like back when it was human.

After that investigation, it became even more devastated.

When it was human, this guy was already unreliable, with a bizarre way of thinking. Born into wealth but with thin family ties, its daily ambition was simply to spend all the money its parents left behind.

It could come up with every imaginable way to burn money. Its mindset back then seemed to be: spend all the money while still alive—otherwise, if you died before spending it all, that would be such a waste.

And this proved that the idea was actually pretty correct. When it died, there really was still money left unspent.

The main system conveniently donated that money. After all, the person was already dead—there was no way it would leave it to those strange relatives. It was better to donate it and gain some good karma.

Although this guy wasn’t very smart, it was a good person. After becoming a system, even though it didn’t work much, it also hadn’t caused any trouble.

Wait—he seemed to have forgotten something important.

The main system looked at the slacking system in front of it and suddenly remembered the girl who had died together with this guy.

They had been a couple, right? Even when they died, they were holding hands.

It was just a pity that they couldn’t reincarnate together—after death, they couldn’t even meet each other at the Naihe Bridge.

Should it try using that girl to tempt this guy? Though it wasn’t certain it would work, since this guy no longer had any memories.

Still, no matter what, it was worth a try.

“Ahem. Gossip System, you’ve rested for several years now. It’s time to start working. I have a very important mission for you—this mission is related to a girl.”

Gossip System: ???

If it’s related to a girl, why give it to me? I’m just a system. If you’re assigning someone, assign me a female system!

“Let’s do this. Go to the various small worlds and find someone. Find the person you find most pleasing to the eye and bind with her—but this person must be female.”

Even if the memories were gone, deep down there should still be some kind of reaction, right? A couple who loved each other so deeply that they even wanted to be together in death—there might really be some kind of spiritual connection. Once the gossip system met that girl, it would definitely feel different!

(Lin Mo: May I ask how long you plan to keep spreading rumors about me?!)

Gossip System: “What if I don’t run into anyone pleasing to the eye?”

The main system replied casually, “Then just bind with the person who loves gossip the most. Either way, it’s not a loss.”

It just needed to get this guy out of here first. Out of the little energy it collected every day, more than half ended up being eaten by this thing.

As the main system, it had no offspring, but it had truly experienced the hardship of raising a child. Kids really were expensive (in energy)!

This was the final ultimatum. Whether the gossip system wanted to or not, it had to comply.

So it was forced to travel through the various worlds—while conveniently eating some gossip along the way.

With so many small worlds, if it lingered a bit longer in each one, it could still slack off a little, right? Take it slow—hehehe. It really was so smart!