Chapitre 2: The System is Here

[Hooooosssstttt!]

A meek and childish voice suddenly appeared.

The childish voice sounded like that of a ten-year-old boy.

[Ashdvbsiufhkjewfiuewgfuiwo…]

The childish voice spoke in incoherent words, as if he wanted to express many things, but his heart and mind were overwhelmed, leading to mere complaints.

Niu Chang was slightly surprised by this development. "Can my system speak? But why does it sound like a little boy? Wouldn't it be better for it to sound like a mature woman or a little girl to attract more readers?"

Nevertheless, Niu Chang remained silent and waited.

[Why? How? Why? Just why?]

[How can you be like this, host?]

[Why are you unmoved by anything?]

[Three years ago, one day after you came to this world, your parents were poisoned, and they needed herbs that are rumored to exist in the forest. Why didn't you choose to enter the forest and search for those herbs?]

[Why didn't you follow the rules?!]

[You're not playing by the book at all!]

The voice of the little boy was clear and weak, but it didn't hide his emotions. Anger and resentment were evident.

The system truly hated Niu Chang for what he did three years ago.

The system had received education about such matters and the rules in the book. Its host should be responsible for his new parents, but no!

Its host didn't even bat an eye at such a thing, and there wasn't even a slight turmoil in his heart!

What a heartless bastard.

The system still remembered what Niu Chang felt that day.

'Why do I bother with them? They gave birth to and took care of Niu Chang, not me. I don't owe them anything.'

Because this was inside Niu Chang's heart. The system couldn't hear it, but it clearly sensed the emotion in Niu Chang—none at all.

He didn't feel anything, and instead, he felt pity for his sister, as she would now be the backbone of this family.

Heartless bastard. The system cursed at that time.

Hearing what the system said, Niu Chang remembered that event. Indeed, it happened one day after he reincarnated.

But he didn't feel any responsibility at all. He wasn't Niu Chang.

"Sorry, I'm not the main character you're looking for."

"I'm not such a wimpy, naive, and hot-blooded teenager with a high moral self-righteousness."

"You do yours, and I'll do mine."

[Then the next event. Host! You don't play by the book for the second time!]

The next event in Niu Chang's reincarnated life in this world was when he went to the forest and found a dying old beggar. The old beggar was wearing old clothes full of patches, his body full of wounds, and blood dripping from him.

[When encountering such a scene, shouldn't you follow the rules and help him?]

]But no! You just watched from where you were and observed your surroundings until he passed out due to blood loss. Then you waited for another ten minutes to make sure he was truly unconscious and killed him!]

]What the f*ck, host! Are you even a candidate for the main character? And then you brought that old beggar's body deeper into the forest and took away his belongings.]

Recalling the second event that the system mentioned, Niu Chang vaguely remembered the scene where he found five old books with the old beggar.

He was really happy at that time, even though he couldn't read. He was still happy and left the forest.

'Well, that was actually a good encounter. Thanks to that, my clueless research became easier,' Niu Chang replied.

[Then the third event…]

The system stopped speaking. The next words choked him.

[What kind of reincarnator are you?! You found an unconscious woman in the forest, and what did you do?]

The system's voice was high-pitched and full of sarcasm.

[Heh. You picked up the dagger from her waist and slit her throat, but you didn't stop there. You completely beheaded that poor woman. You monster!]

[And then… and then you desecrated that headless body by playing with her breasts and genitals. Seriously, what's wrong with you?!]

Niu Chang remained as calm as ever, his face placid. He said, 'Well, what can I do? I'm not only human, but I'm also a man! As a bachelor, naturally, I'm curious about the opposite sex's body. After all, such a beautiful face and alluring body were in the perfect place at the perfect time.'

He shook his head as if the system was wrong this time. Not only this time, but the previous two as well.

[But that is a corpse! Are you sick? Even the dead won't stop you.]

'Hey, watch your mouth,' Niu Chang said without a change in his voice. 'I'm not interested in corpses or anything like that. Like I said, it's because of the right place and the right time. I mean, it will be wasted after a few hours. What do you call it? Taking advantage of it! I'm not into necrophilia!'

If the system had a physical body, its mouth would agape, and it would slap such a ridiculous and sick man.

'Also, I'm not playing with it. I'm doing it to fill the gap in my knowledge. It's purely for pursuing knowledge!'

Niu Chang said with righteousness.

Although the system didn't have a physical body, it could sense Niu Chang's heart and mind. It naturally sensed what Niu Chang felt at that time.

He was indeed doing it to fill the gap in his medical knowledge.

[But still, how could you get aroused at that time?]

The system tried its best to retort.

'What can I do? Isn't it normal for a man to get aroused when he gets excited?'

'Are you trying to blame me for how my body functions? I dare you to survey young doctors when they observe naked corpses of the opposite sex for the first time!'

Hearing about surveys and young doctors, the system fell silent. Although it didn't know much about doctors, it had some information about them.

The system couldn't help but curse in its heart. 'Such a shameless man with such a lack of conscience is just disgusting.'

It chose to stop discussing this topic because it intuitively felt it would lose when arguing with Niu Chang.

This man is just too disgusting.

Then the system brought up the fourth, fifth, sixth, and finally the seventh events in Niu Chang's second life.

The seventh event was naturally when his sister, who had always taken care of him after their parents passed away, went missing.

[How can there be a human like you? Indifferent towards everything, detached yet compassionate, full of emotion yet oblivious to all of them?]

The system was in a dilemma, doubting the teachings it had received before fulfilling its role as a golden finger for transmigrators or reincarnators.

It was still remembered when it was drawing the lottery, evaluating the qualification of its host, Niu Chang. It was very high!

The system was thrilled at that time and started bragging to other systems of the same generation.

The management team at that time had only given one sentence about Niu Chang's potential: "Immortality is only a matter of time."

Such an evaluation was naturally very good. The system had heard many stories about its seniors being the golden finger for the main characters in other worlds. They bragged about how their hosts were the true owners of their respective realities.

Becoming the strongest entity and ruling over everything, omniscient and omnipotent.

With such a successful mission, those seniors now lived a lavish and grand life that many systems envied.

Naturally, as a newcomer, Niu Chang's system also wanted to have such an easy mission. It only needed to latch onto a good candidate and ride the coattails to success.

The bigger the thigh to hug, the easier life becomes.

Watching over Niu Chang for three years had subverted its worldview. All its preparations for its first mission had gone right into the trash bin.

If that wasn't enough, its preparations had also been spat on and defecated on by every choice Niu Chang made.

"This is not how it should develop. Everything is wrong! What a 'very good' evaluation? What 'immortality only about time'? This psycho doesn't fit any template for the main character at all!"

While the system was preoccupied with its own thoughts, Niu Chang thought that it should be finished complaining about him. So he asked, 'So, system, when do I receive the golden finger? Where is the system interface?'

Since it was his golden finger, naturally, Niu Chang believed the system could hear his thoughts.

There was no need to take any risk by speaking out loud and potentially being seen as crazy. It was also a good habit so that in the future, no one would notice anything amiss from him.

As a stable and careful person, Niu Chang didn't want to take any risks. If someone were to regress to the past and jump in front of him saying, "You bastard!" He knew his character in the present and future would undoubtedly make him many formidable enemies, and none of them who were still alive would be ordinary. Those ordinary mobs would die without even knowing the reason.

So, naturally, those regressors would greet him with such heartwarming words.

The system stopped lamenting its fate, organized its thoughts, and switched to professional mode.

"I'm a system, the golden finger for the main character," the system tried to hypnotize itself.

[Currently, the host doesn't have any supporting system. The host is still in standby mode, waiting for a fateful event to trigger the support mode of the system.]

[Normally, the host would immediately encounter such a fateful event, and due to the host's determination, the system would be triggered and activate the support mode.]

[But... due to the host's uniqueness, such fateful encounters are useless because of the host's choices at that time.]

The system no longer had the voice of a little boy but a clear and cold mechanical voice.

'So, you're saying that I still need to wait for such a fateful encounter and then make a choice that is the opposite of my own way?'

Niu Chang asked, getting to the crux of the problem. If he failed to activate the support mode due to his personality, naturally, he only needed to change the course of his life at crucial times, and after activating the support mode, he could return to his normal routine.

When thinking about this, Niu Chang's mind flashed with many memories of his first life. 'If I'm not mistaken, many of the web novels that I read were like this. The system arrives right when the main character needs it, or rather, when the story starts.'

'So, in short, my story hasn't actually started yet?'

Niu Chang felt a sense of strangeness. Three years of suffering from hunger, fatigue, and cold, and his story hadn't even begun.

He laughed.