Sighing at the system, who had bragged but knew nothing about its opponent, Luo Qi explained about the final assessment and team formation.
111 stuck out its tongue and licked the fur on its leg. This was supposed to be an instinct of this body, but it couldn't control it.
"Those teammates, do you think you can win against Mo Jue's team?"
Luo Qi pondered, "I think we can definitely win against Mo Jue's team, but I don't plan to let Mo Jue and that defective system help us."
111 paused.
Luo Qi lay on his back on the bed, his voice clear, "This is our business, isn't it?"
111 curled itself into a ball and nestled down. "That's true. System battles don't need foolish life forms to interfere!"
Luo Qi: "??? Foolish... life forms?"
111: "..." It had accidentally spoken its mind.
111 coughed dryly. "Ah, well, that's what I mean. I feel like that system is also itching to cause trouble. We'll avoid people and deal with it then."
Luo Qi hummed, his fingers unconsciously fiddling with the bedsheet beneath him.
Once this matter was resolved, this world would likely fully enter its proper course, and he would be completely integrated into it.
If he and 111 were truly inferior to Mo Jue and that system, Luo Qi would consider the past few years of good living a bonus, not a loss.
Therefore, from any perspective, he shouldn't involve his good friends in this.
Luo Qi knew his own capabilities. He only had a wing buff that was sometimes reliable and sometimes not. He didn't know if he would be pinned to the ground and beaten.
If things got too ugly, Luo Qi didn't want his friends to see it.
Luo Qi sighed. His friends still had very, very long futures ahead of them. They absolutely couldn't be buried less than a year later because of him.
His eyelids drooped and trembled slightly. It was then he realized that he was still that lonely child who had come out of the orphanage, unwilling to trouble others or involve them.
But it was also a little different. This time, it wasn't fear of owing them, but because he also wanted to protect them.
Luo Qi spoke softly, "We will win."
It was as if he was answering 111, or perhaps trying to hypnotize himself.
Mo Jue's team formation was slow because he, or rather the system behind him, was constantly being picky about candidates.
It was wrapped in a pitch-black robe, wearing a black hood that was pulled down tightly, revealing only a hint of its chin, which showed a touch of cold metallic color.
This system called itself "Shi Shen" (Devourer of Gods), fully expressing the dissatisfaction of a certain rebellious system towards the main system.
It was about the same height as Mo Jue. When it could appear in reality, it always had this appearance, but more often, it stayed in Mo Jue's consciousness space.
Mo Jue's feelings towards this suddenly appearing system were actually quite complex.
He had heard rumors about other spaces before. In those rumors, space travel could be easily achieved, and there were many lives or intelligences that current technology couldn't comprehend.
But rumors were rumors because they were too unrealistic. People took the prosperous scenes in rumors as a future to strive for, but no one would truly believe the rumors themselves.
Until this system crossed millions of years and even space-time to come to his side, claiming it wanted to bind with him.
Shi Shen showed him a completely different scene, a picture that Mo Jue couldn't even imagine, so he believed it very easily.
Shi Shen said that it wanted to bind with him, and in return, it would help him kill that insect race's little highness, Luo Qi.
It could easily voice Mo Jue's deepest desires buried in his heart and easily help him achieve things he could never do before.
Mo Jue was moved.
For so many years, he had been striving to be the best of the Mo clan, constantly demanding of himself as an heir, but it was still too slow.
Not only was he growing, but the Mo clan was also growing, and even Mo Xuan within the Mo clan was growing.
More frighteningly, their growth rate could match, and even far surpass, Mo Jue's speed.
The stable and peaceful Mo clan seemed to be on the verge of collapse. Mo Jue panicked. Meeting Shi Shen at this time was like grasping the last straw of hope.
However, later, the capabilities and ruthlessness displayed by Shi Shen made Mo Jue feel uneasy.
No matter who it was, they could be used in Shi Shen's eyes, and no matter what kind of methods, Shi Shen could employ them.
The classmates who were instructed, or rather controlled, to tamper with the mechs and try to disguise the incident as an accident to eliminate Luo Qi, lost their memories afterward.
Not only their memories, but their brains seemed to have suffered some damage, which would definitely affect their future.
Mo Jue had no kindness and wouldn't feel sorry for these people who were just used as pawns. In fact, he hadn't killed anyone since he was young.
However, such clean and efficient utilization and then disposal of loose ends still made Mo Jue tremble for a moment.
He remembered Shi Shen's utter disdain at the time: "Aren't those children also of the human race? This is a win-win situation. Why are you thinking about these womanly acts of kindness?"
Mo Jue moved his lips, unable to speak. Shi Shen was right. Whether they were of the insect race or the human race, they were enemies of the Mo clan, his enemies. What did it matter if they all died?
But Mo Jue still felt some unease. He heard Shi Shen's subsequent words in a daze.
Shi Shen stopped talking, feeling even more disdain. After all, he was still a green, immature kid, hesitating because of a few children, and wouldn't achieve great things.
It was also very strange. When it first entered this world, it didn't know the world line or who the protagonist of the world was. It inquired for a long time.
Finally, it was very surprised to learn that the protagonist of this world was actually a child of eight or nine years old.
What surprised it even more was that such a young child, under normal circumstances, hadn't yet grown according to the world line, so it should have been very simple to deal with.
But in reality, this child was protected by countless people, and even it couldn't get close easily.
Shi Shen had to find another way, looking for people who were hostile to Luo Qi or forces hostile to the insect race, but it couldn't find many.
If it weren't for the urgency of finding someone to hide its tracks, it wouldn't have found Mo Jue.
No matter how much Mo Jue could grow in the future, if there were no other options, Shi Shen wouldn't spend so much time accompanying a little brat.
The more it thought about it, the more irritable it became. It no longer cared about Mo Jue's little thoughts and hid back in its consciousness space to secretly recover its strength.