Lin Muci nodded.
The subsequent competition made her somewhat absent-minded.
Even when the director of the show finally announced that she and Ling Qianhe had once again secured first place, she couldn't muster any excitement.
After filming concluded, as the sun began to set, she sat by the coast.
Ling Qianhe was beside her, watching her.
Hanks, unable to bear it any longer today, took Vivian to his yacht to rest.
His own luxury yacht, valued at thirty million US dollars, was always docked in the nearby waters.
Lin Muci sat by the coast.
The sea was a deep blue, and beside her, Ling Qianhe, dressed in a white shirt, watched a yacht approach.
Blue sky and white clouds.
In the sea breeze, he was as picturesque as a painting.
"Do you know how I escaped from the 'Ice Queen' back then?"
Lin Muci was slightly taken aback; she was indeed very curious and wanted to know the details.
Ling Qianhe's expression was slightly stern.
"I jumped overboard."
"Then I was picked up by fishermen and brought ashore. But even so, I hadn't escaped Madam Ling's clutches."
"She found me three months later."
"She said she would take me to pay respects to my mother. She took me to where my mother's tombstone was, and told me that my mother's ashes were buried beneath Qingshan. She said if I would obediently listen to her and be a mere puppet of the Ling family."
"She would bring me to pay respects to my mother once a year."
"But she lied. Everything she said was a complete fabrication."
"That was just an empty grave."
Ling Qianhe's eyes were filled with mockery.
"She just wanted me to be a puppet, a marionette in her hands. I don't know why she changed her mind and didn't continue to kill me. But letting me live was probably the worst decision she ever made."
Ling Qianhe turned to look at Lin Muci.
"You must know that I've always hated her."
"As long as I have a chance, I won't let her off, will I?"
Lin Muci nodded.
She had known about Ling Qianhe's deep-seated hatred from the very beginning.
Ling Qianhe was silent for a moment, then raised an eyebrow.
"Since you knew, what was your mood when you approached me back then?"
Lin Muci: "..."
What other mood could there be?
Nervous. Fearful.
It felt both thrilling and dangerous.
Every second, she worried about not provoking this little brat.
She had to pay attention to appeasing his emotions.
She couldn't let him blacken.
If he did, she would be finished.
In the end, it still escalated significantly.
Lin Muci sighed.
"Let bygones be bygones... There's no point in arguing about it now; we can't possibly determine who was right or wrong anymore. Why don't we talk about something else, for instance, how exactly do you plan to get revenge on Madam Ling?"
She was very eager to know Ling Qianhe's plan.
And how far he had progressed in implementing it.
One must never let their guard down with a major villain.
A slight lapse in vigilance, and he might... blacken to the point of wanting to destroy the world.
Ling Qianhe raised an eyebrow and looked at her.
"You want to pry into my plans?"
"What, is your system in a hurry to progress? What kind of existence is it, does it force you to do things you don't want to do?"
Ling Qianhe narrowed his eyes, a faint glint passing through the depths of his pupils.
It was as if he could see through everything.
"So, you went to find Feng Yuting before, not of your own free will, but driven by the system in your mind?"
"Did it threaten you in some way?"
"If you didn't do as it said, would something terrible happen?"
Lin Muci's eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at him!
Was he... this intelligent?
The little system frantically shouted in her mind.
"Make him shut up, woo woo woo... We've revealed so little of our secrets, and he's guessed it all!"
"He's probably not even human, but cunning like a fox, woo woo woo!"
"He's a monster!"
"Make him shut up quickly, stop talking, woo woo woo... I'll be punished to death by the system!"
The little system's voice was choked with sobs.
But Lin Muci was also helpless.
Even if she wanted to make Ling Qianhe shut up, it wasn't something she could decide on her own.
Lin Muci forced a bitter smile.
Ling Qianhe leaned closer to her ear.
The breath from his lips brushed against her ear, faint yet alluring.
Lin Muci heard him chuckle lightly.
As if he had discovered her secret.
Which would make him exceptionally happy.
"So, all along, my Muci sister didn't like that idiot Feng Yuting at all?"
"Indeed, Feng Yuting is not worthy of you."
"He's so stupid, he knows nothing."
"But I know."
"I know your unspoken hardships, I know what you've sacrificed for me, I know I must have hurt you in the past, and I know that your leaving me was out of necessity."
Before she could speak,
Ling Qianhe had said it all.
It was true, Ling Qianhe was excessively intelligent.
His eyes shone as brightly as stars, and Lin Muci noticed the bright, radiant look in his eyes.
She thought to herself, he really could embellish things so much...
But what he embellished were all the parts that were beneficial to her.
So she didn't really need to explain.
Ling Qianhe suddenly hugged her tightly.
"You must have had many difficult situations."
"Being controlled by that system, you must have worked hard too."
"I will save you."
The little system grumbled in her mind, unconvinced.
"Nonsense! We don't control the host... We have a cooperative relationship with the host... At worst, we can just stop the mission and leave this world..."
Upon hearing its retort, Lin Muci immediately asked it,
"Then who threatened to obliterate me before? You can't have forgotten that, can you?"
Hearing Lin Muci say that, the little system's voice became meek.
"Woo, it wasn't me. We've been together for so long, our bond is the strongest—I would never obliterate you!"
"It's all the main system's fault... Pfft."
After saying that, it also felt a pang of fear.
"It's not the main system's fault either... The main system is always the smartest, the most powerful! The main system is never wrong, woo woo woo..."
Indeed, it was quite timid.
Lin Muci was somewhat lost in thought, and Ling Qianhe whispered in her ear.
"You were communicating with your system?"
"If I expose all this, will it trouble you?"
"Tell it not to bother you. If it has the guts, let it come for me."
Lin Muci's eyes widened, full of disbelief.
What on earth? Wasn't this considered a public challenge to the system?
Lin Muci scratched her head and could only change the topic.
"Wait a moment, that..."
"What about your friend, Franklin?"
"You've never mentioned him before, why did you warn me?"
A hint of a smile flickered in Ling Qianhe's eyes.
"Franklin... You haven't heard of him, not because I deliberately kept it from you, but because I only met him during the five years you were gone."
"Franklin is a genius, but you could also call him a madman. He was the most promising rising star in a top European and American laboratory, but he believed that the laboratory's research methods and experimental results were flawed. He personally overturned his mentor's research findings and was blacklisted by the lab."
"Then he provoked the financial group behind the laboratory. After being blacklisted, he decided to conduct his research independently."
"I met him during a performance overseas. He was being chased and fled to my hotel. I helped him escape and we became friends."
"In his words, I am also the only friend he has ever acknowledged!" Da Feng Novel Network
Franklin?
Lin Muci thought of what the system had hinted at before.
The world's will in this world might let Franklin replace Ling Qianhe as the great villain who destroys the world, but he was currently Ling Qianhe's friend. Thinking of this,
She couldn't help but get a headache.
"So, is he your only friend?"
Unexpectedly,
Ling Qianhe flatly denied it.
"Of course not."
"He's just someone I consider a useful partner."
Lin Muci wondered if Franklin would spit blood from anger if he heard this.
Lin Muci asked him,
"So what exactly is the Super God Potion?"
This matter was far-reaching, and Lin Muci wanted to clarify it.
Ling Qianhe explained it casually, his expression unfazed.
"It's a potion that can greatly enhance a person's basic qualities. Although it has been weakened and doesn't have the astonishing effect of the original version in greatly increasing a person's energy, stamina, and various indicators, its negative side effects are also not as prominent."
"It can be used to cultivate super soldiers."
"Top mercenaries."
"It's a very dangerous potion."
"Franklin's actions indeed put him in a precarious position; the whole world might be looking for him."
Lin Muci's headache worsened upon hearing this.
"So, are you going to help him?"
Ling Qianhe smiled.
"That's his own business. Although I've cooperated with him on 'Beast God,' and he promised to use the first batch of Super God Potions on the Beast God's mercenaries, however—"
He said calmly.
"I don't trust him that much."
"I did save him. But in the face of greater interests, there's a possibility of divergence between us."
He was extremely calm.
Rational.
But he was always like this.
The only one who could make him lose his reason was probably Lin Muci alone!
Lin Muci was about to say something more.
But the distant horn sound interrupted her. She frowned and looked into the distance, suddenly startled. Was that—
A massive cruise ship?
Approaching this island!
She gasped.
A cruise ship?
Unpleasant speculations flooded her mind, and she frantically called out to the system in her heart.
"What's going on?"
"It can't be Madam Ling, can it? She's gone mad to this extent?"
"She's cornered and wants to drag us down with her?"
Her heart was filled with unease!
Fortunately, the system appeared promptly and gave her an answer.
"It's not Madam Ling."
Before she could fully relax, she heard the system continue,
"This is the cruise ship prepared by the program crew."
"In the next segment, you will be boarding the cruise ship."