Chapter 353 – Your family’s plum blossom is lost again (30)
Yan Luo instinctively looked up and saw a black figure that had appeared behind Wang Shi at some unknown moment.
It was a shadowy figure, tall and imposing, standing very close to Wang Shi, as if it had emerged directly from her body. It wore a black cloak and a ferocious black mask, exuding a terrifying aura that sent an icy chill through Yan Luo’s limbs almost instantly.
Her voice trembled with hints of sobs, full of fear.
“Is that a ghost or something else?! Scam Pink, you tricked me again! This was supposed to be a simple and clean school-life dimension, QAQ!”
Yan Luo’s panicked voice echoed in her mind. Even Little Pink, who usually had a playful attitude, was too preoccupied to joke and immediately began scanning the data of that entity.
It had already found it strange that it couldn’t retrieve any data on Wang Shi before. There had been an inexplicable feeling when it first saw her.
Now, as soon as that thing appeared, Little Pink detected a familiar fluctuation and captured it immediately, presenting the data to Yan Luo.
But Yan Luo was even more impressive—she turned her head directly and saw the entity clearly, perceiving it in much greater detail than Little Pink’s analysis. It was through Yan Luo’s perception that Little Pink was able to lock onto the entity completely.
Even in her previous world, Yan Luo had never encountered such a direct shock. Though she had experienced some hardships during the apocalypse, she had always been sheltered and protected. If she didn’t want to see something, someone would let her be. Most of the time, she and that person would just stick together, rarely venturing outside.
So this was her first time seeing something like this with absolutely no mental preparation. Realizing this, Little Pink continued scanning while also trying to comfort her.
[Dear Host, stay calm. This isn’t the kind of ghost you’re thinking of. I’m scanning the data right now, don’t panic!]
“Wuwuwuwu QAQ,” Yan Luo whimpered, burying her pale face, shivering in fear.
Thankfully, Little Pink came through in the critical moment. The scan completed, and with a sigh of relief, it quickly explained to Yan Luo.
[Dear Host, I’ve identified what that thing is, calm down.]
“Then what exactly is it?” Yan Luo trembled, refusing to lift her head for another look.
[Well… you could call it a type of system. But unlike us, who are converted from spirit bodies collected by the Dimensional Management Bureau, this thing didn’t fully transform. Instead of disappearing, it gained its own consciousness.]
Little Pink continued reading the information in front of her.
[It can also bind to a host, but compared to real systems like us, its level is too low. It offers very limited assistance. Though rare, these entities do sometimes appear in the dimensional realms. Since they failed to complete their transformation, they usually carry out destructive missions in normal dimensions. When we encounter these kinds of systems, they typically need to be eliminated. We call them ‘pseudo-systems.’]
It quickly finished its explanation and reported the information to the Dimensional Management Bureau before glancing back at Wang Shi.
By now, the pseudo-system had hidden itself again.
After hesitating for a moment, Little Pink spoke again,
[It looks like Wang Shi is the host of this pseudo-system. That might explain why we can’t retrieve any data on this dimension. The real question is, what are this pseudo-system’s upgrade conditions, and what kind of missions is it issuing?]