LOT -Chapter 320 Childhood Arc: The “Most Perfect” System

The system had already run through several worlds. At first, it thought it was pretty fun, but later on it began to feel that its worldview was slowly collapsing.

Although it had now become a system, it had once been human. A human’s values had long since sunk deep into its very soul.

Every world had its own characteristics, and there were some new worlds whose traits it truly couldn’t accept.

Finally, the system found a world similar to ancient times. It picked a middle-aged auntie who especially loved snooping around and listening to all kinds of gossip.

Following an auntie meant there would definitely be plenty of “melon energy.” After all, in this world, aunties were a special kind of combat force.

Once the target was chosen, the next step was binding.

It had already completely tossed aside the “girl” the main system mentioned. Anyway, up until now it hadn’t found a single girl it found pleasing to the eye.

While the auntie was at home cooking in the kitchen, the system appeared.

【I am the Gossip-Eating System. May I ask if you’d like to bind with me?】

The auntie froze for a second, then the expression on her face slowly turned terrified. She let out a scream and bolted straight out, shouting, “A ghost! There’s a ghost in broad daylight!”

The system was startled too.【A ghost?! Where is there a ghost? Don’t run! Don’t leave me here alone! I’m scared too~】

As it spoke, the system ran off as well. Ghosts should only follow people with physical bodies, right? It didn’t even have a body—surely ghosts wouldn’t be able to notice it.

The system was so frightened that it didn’t dare come out again that night. Maybe there really were ghosts in this world; otherwise why would that auntie have been so terrified?

At this moment, the auntie had found her husband and was telling him what happened in the kitchen.

“You have to believe me—there really was a ghost! It even talked to me while I was cooking!”

Her husband looked annoyed, feeling his wife was embarrassing him. “What ghosts are there in this world? Don’t scare yourself. I’m out here doing business, and you rushing over like this—how am I supposed to hold my head up in front of my friends?”

The auntie was truly about to die of anxiety. Why wouldn’t he believe her?

“You have to believe me! Don’t you know what kind of person I am? Why would I make up something like this just to lie to you?”

The system had already followed them over. Watching the couple argue, it couldn’t help but say, 【I was also in the kitchen just now. I didn’t see any ghosts.】

The moment it finished speaking, the couple’s bodies stiffened. Then they collapsed into screaming and ran outside.

“A ghost! There really is a ghost! Granny Zhao, hurry up and save us!”

System: ……It suddenly seemed to know who the “ghost” they were talking about was.

Seriously—was it actually being mistaken for a ghost? Did these people have no taste at all?

The system completely overlooked one crucial point: logically speaking, it had only marked that one auntie, and only she should have been able to hear its voice.

But her husband had just heard it too—that was why he’d been scared like that.

However, the system was now completely focused on being angry and totally ignored this detail.

Before long, an old granny with a cane came in, leading the couple back inside.

After the granny went through a whole series of mysterious, mumbo-jumbo rituals, the system was so bored it almost fell asleep.

Looks like it couldn’t find a suitable person in this world. Just randomly picking someone would get it mistaken for a ghost anyway. Better change worlds.

After returning, the system complained to the main system.

“Main System, how am I supposed to bind like this? Worlds with ancient settings are all superstitious. As soon as I appear, everyone thinks I’m a ghost. How am I supposed to find a binding target?”

It didn’t know how other systems managed to bind. It had followed the main system to a few ancient worlds before—those systems seemed to be doing pretty well, and their hosts trusted them a lot. So why couldn’t it find a host like that?

The main system was nearly laughing itself to death listening to this. How come things like this never happened to other systems?

Maybe at the beginning, those hosts also thought the systems were ghosts—but they still successfully bound in the end.

This fellow went in empty-handed and came back empty-handed, and even got subjected to an exorcism ritual. Although the ritual was useless to them, that Granny Zhao actually seemed to have a bit of real skill.

“Oh my god, this is killing me—why is everything that happens to you so funny? And you’re not even a comedy system.”

“Too bad the comedy system is still around, otherwise I’d just set you as a comedy system. You’ve got real talent in being funny.”

At this moment, the comedy system, who had come to report on its work, was so frightened it was practically about to glitch.

What did the main system mean by that—was it planning to destroy it?!

Sure, it had been muddle-headed before and had been misled by the previous gossip system, but it eventually returned to the right path!

And afterward, it had worked diligently and conscientiously, winning Top Ten Employee every year. Which system’s performance was better than its own?

The main system couldn’t possibly be that cruel… right?

The comedy system now didn’t even dare go inside. Back then, how had it ever been fooled? All because that previous gossip system was just too good at deceiving systems.

“You’re still laughing! Laugh again and I won’t go do missions anymore. None of the worlds I’ve been to are reliable.”

“That beastman world really scared me to death—they don’t even wear clothes, and I couldn’t understand a word they said,” the system said, shuddering as soon as it recalled that horrifying world.

If it had to bind with someone in that world, how was it supposed to work?

What kind of gossip could there even be in that world—arguing over whose ‘bird’ was more mighty and magnificent?

They didn’t wear clothes at all. There was no need for gossip; one glance was enough to tell everything.

Hearing this, the main system froze for a moment. Looking at the clueless blob in front of it, the main system voiced its doubt.

“That’s impossible. Every world may have different languages, but I remember you all have built-in language modules. Once you enter a world, it automatically loads that world’s language. There’s no way you wouldn’t understand it.”

What on earth was going on? Could it be that it had made a defective product? That shouldn’t be possible—the gossip system looked perfectly normal.

The system itself was now completely baffled. So that was how it was supposed to work?

No wonder it had to spend time learning languages in every world—it had thought that was normal. Only that beastman world’s language was truly incomprehensible; in other worlds, it could at least guess half of it. At least they were spoken by humans.

So it turned out its language module was broken.

“Come here quickly, I’ll check you. You’re a system I personally transformed—you should be the most perfect one.”

While being inspected, the system raised a fatal question:
“Then, Main System… before me, have you transformed any other systems?”

Main System: “Of course not. Do you think I act that easily? Anything that makes me step in must be a major matter. You’re the first system I’ve ever transformed—absolutely the most perfect one!”

System: ……Really the most perfect one? Then why couldn’t it even understand what other people were saying?