Little System felt as though it was about to shatter. "Why? Why didn't I cherish it properly when there were so many soul bodies for me to choose from?"
Little System hung silently in mid-air, having completely abandoned hope. It waited quietly for itself to turn into a pile of corrupted code and vanish.
"Granted!" A soft, delicate voice rang out.
"What's granted? Who?? Who's speaking? Who on earth is it?" Little System heard a female voice ring out and couldn't help crying out in surprise.
It felt as though it had regained its strength, instantly leaping up from mid-air to search all around for the source of the voice.
If it had a backside, one would be able to see a pair of sticking-out buttocks...
After a long while, Little System finally realized that in this black hole, the only things that seemed to exist were itself—a system—and, not far away, a mass of pure white soul energy condensed into a human female shape.
Yet, just now, when it had proactively tried to bind with this exceptionally powerful soul body, hadn't the binding failed? What was going on?
"Could it be..." Pushing itself to the limit, Little System wobbled as it flew cautiously over to Luo Yuanyuan. After panting heavily a few times, it tentatively called out to her: "H-Host Great One?"
"Mm!" Luo Yuanyuan parted her red lips and finally responded to it.
"Wuwuwu... System knew... System knew Host Great One is an absolute saint... Yingyingying..." Little System wept tears of joy.
"Shut up!" Luo Yuanyuan got a headache from the little system's alternating wailing and whimpering. She spoke up to stop this drama queen of a little system. Who knew where the little system had learned such bad habits?
She would certainly never know that the system had learned them from her. It had scanned Luo Yuanyuan's soul body earlier while she was still unconscious.
(>_<) Yet it hadn't managed to scan even a single strand of hair!
"Are we going to bind or not?" Luo Yuanyuan asked, speechless.
"Ah, ah... Binding... Binding successful!" Little System hurriedly replied.
Then, sounding very official, it blurted out: "Ding! Binding successful! Congratulations to the Host for binding the Tool-Character Supporting-Role Counterattack System! I am your system! Very glad to serve you!"
"Cut the crap! What do you mean by a tool-character supporting-role counterattack system?" Luo Yuanyuan interrupted impatiently, narrowing her eyes.
"Uh... Host Great One, when I was created by Lord God, Lord God set this program for me! Oh, oh! The so-called tool-character supporting role is actually commonly known as cannon fodder! The purpose of this cannon fodder is to act as a tool character, providing cheat items to the male and female leads in the small worlds, or acting as a tool to heat up the romance between the male and female leads... Then the male and female leads live happily ever after, while the tool character kicks the bucket for various reasons. Because these supporting female roles are killed off as cannon fodder, they harbor deep resentment and refuse to let go! This turns into a powerful wave of grievance that shoots straight up to the heavens, eventually alarming Lord God Daddy. That's why Lord God Daddy created a Supporting-Role Tool-Character Counterattack System to help these resentful supporting females get a chance to redo their lives and counterattack, thereby eliminating the grievance in their hearts. But since they are supporting roles and were killed off as cannon fodder, it means their original intelligence or emotional intelligence wasn't very high. If given another chance, they probably still wouldn't be a match for the male and female leads. That's why Lord God Daddy created us counterattack systems, randomly transmitting us to the three thousand worlds to pick suitable hosts to complete the counterattack missions of these supporting female roles. And once the hosts complete their missions, they can obtain corresponding rewards..." The system explained cautiously.
"So basically, I'll be transmigrating into those worlds to help these supporting females counterattack their lives and set things right?" Luo Yuanyuan understood.
"That's right, Host Great One!" The system was thrilled that its host was so smart, and its tone grew excited!
Gradually, however, it began to feel that something was wrong. Why did the air feel far too quiet?
In a flash, the system was grabbed by the scruff by Luo Yuanyuan's soul body. She looked at it with a sinister glare and said: "Trash! Unbind me right now!"
The system froze instantly, then burst into howling tears. "Wuwuwu... Yingyingying... Ahahaha... System's life is so miserable! It's more bitter than gentian in the fields! Once unbound, the Host and the system will both vanish at the same time... Yingyingying! This is a program set by Lord God, nobody can be an exception..." the system cried as it explained.
Luo Yuanyuan tried unbinding herself as well. There were three threads in total.
Yet no matter what, the moment she tried to use spiritual power to form scissors and cut that thin thread, even her very soul began to tremble unsteadily.
"Damn it, that hurts a thousand times worse than giving birth combined with period cramps!" Luo Yuanyuan cursed inwardly.
Fortunately, however, she had managed to sever two of those threads, allowing her to escape the Main System's control and refuse to be forced into doing these so-called missions.
Still, it didn't matter. She would never tell the system about this. It seemed to still be a little newbie, and she was currently the very first master it had ever picked?
And so, under her coaxing, the system spilled everything it knew about that Lord God.
Unbinding was out of the question. The system told Luo Yuanyuan that it had already applied for a grand reward for her: upon completion of all the small world missions, Lord God agreed to give her a brand-new physical body and promised to send Luo Yuanyuan directly back to the Cultivation World.
The system showed the details of this reward to Luo Yuanyuan.
Luo Yuanyuan had no choice but to reluctantly agree to go to the small worlds and complete the missions, because she had horrifyingly discovered that without external aid, her soul would forever remain trapped within this black hole.
Being a wandering ghost was already miserable enough, and in the end, she wouldn't even get to be a ghost anymore...
Because ghosts would eventually exhaust their spiritual power and slowly dissipate into the boundless universe.
Luo Yuanyuan would never tell the system this truth, so she half-heartedly agreed to the system's proposal.
"Host Great One, to help you complete your missions quickly, the system has already opened the system mall! The items sold in the mall will update according to the needs of each small world!" the system said to Luo Yuanyuan, as if fishing for praise.
You must know that opening the system mall required mission points. Only it—the biological son of Lord God—had the authority to actively open the mall for its host without requiring any points from Luo Yuanyuan.
Because when the system rolled off the assembly line, it had acted spoiled with its Lord God Daddy and begged for tons and tons of points, claiming it was saving them up to buy snacks for Lord God Daddy.
Anyway, Lord God had been immensely pleased by its flattery and had given the system plenty of points and permissions. Who told this little system to look straight at Lord God and shout "Daddy" the moment it appeared?
"Is there a beginner's gift pack?" Luo Yuanyuan asked.
"Yes, yes, yes! There has to be!" the system replied excitedly.
It had lingered in this black hole for hundreds of years and was about to dissipate. Fortunately, its luck was good, and it ran into Luo Yuanyuan, who bound with it. Otherwise, it would have ceased to exist in this world altogether.
It was endlessly grateful to Luo Yuanyuan and decided that it would rather pay out of its own pocket than fail to help her complete all her missions.
Yingyingying... Who told Luo Yuanyuan to be its true master now, and one who had a firm grip on its lifeline to boot!
Hmph! Don't think it didn't know that out of the three connecting threads bound to Luo Yuanyuan, only the very last one remained. Once that final thread broke, it would be utterly gone for good!
So no matter what, it had to go all out to help its meal ticket and benefactor, Luo Yuanyuan! To stay alive, it was risking everything!