Let's give space a touch of Chinese horror!

Chapter 5 System

"How's the investigation going?"

"You guessed right, the space pirates on this spaceship are the same ones who hijacked the passenger ship in the previous reports."

"Why are these people here instead of trying to escape?"

"I don't know. All the space pirates are dead, so there's no way to interrogate them. The spaceship was also damaged too badly in the crash, so the system can't be restored and we can't get any data." Therefore, we can't figure out what these space pirates were thinking or what they were up to, nor can we know what happened on the spaceship.

"It seems we can only ask the sole survivor..."

Luo Feng sighed. "Speaking of which, how is she? Has she woken up?"

Ever since they found the girl unconscious in the escape pod inside the pirate ship, they immediately packed her up and sent her to the team doctor.

Thanks to their decision, according to the team doctor, when the hibernation pod was opened, the person inside was already barely breathing.

Especially her clothes, which were soaked in blood and unrecognizable. The team doctor was so frightened that he quickly carried her into the medical pod.

Perhaps because of their severe injuries, even now, after thoroughly investigating the group of space pirates who had mysteriously all died, they still haven't regained consciousness.

Jiang Yi... Jiang Yi had actually been awake for a while.

To be precise, she was never unconscious from beginning to end.

At this moment, she was frowning, listening impatiently to the system's incessant chatter in her ear.

"Beep—Insufficient energy!"

"Warning! Low energy!"

"The current remaining energy will be depleted in 24 hours, making it impossible to continue maintaining vital signs data. Please replenish it immediately!"

"The current remaining energy will be exhausted in 24 hours, making it impossible to continue maintaining vital signs data. Please replenish it promptly."

Before the last word "charge" could be finished, the impatient woman in crimson grabbed her body—

It was a small black bell.

It was strung together with a red thread and hung on the wrist of the woman in crimson.

Only when the annoying sound stopped did Jiangyi release her grip on the bell.

Jiang Yi only recently learned of the existence of the "system"—

Just as the countdown on the spaceship reached zero, she suddenly heard a "beep" sound in her ear—a system notification tone that she was very familiar with.

Sure enough, the next second she heard the cold, emotionless electronic voice of the horror game system: "Energy collection complete, system activated."

Jiang Yi subconsciously followed the sound and found that it came from the black bell hanging on her wrist.

Jiang Yi's first reaction was to rip the red rope, throw the black bell containing the system to the ground, and stomp on it.

Just as her fingers touched the red string, she suddenly heard another familiar voice coming from inside: "Long time no see, Little Red Dress~"

The hand that was about to tear the red string stopped moving.

The voice coming from the bell was still as nonchalant as ever. Jiang Yi could almost picture that person's carefree manner of speaking right before her eyes.

"Has Little Red Dress arrived in the new world? How's the new world?"

"Isn't it just like I said, much more interesting than horror games?"

"And, were you startled when you heard my voice?"

"I bet you're secretly cursing me in your heart right now, Little Red Dress~"

Jiang Yi pursed her lips.

Her fingers loosened the red string, and she gently fiddled with the small black bell, as if... agreeing with his statement.

The familiar sound coming from the bell was still babbling on and on.

"Speaking of which, when Little Red Dress heard that annoying (horror game system) voice again, were you startled?"

"But don't worry, the system's consciousness has been completely destroyed by us. So the system you see now is just an ordinary system without self-awareness. Little Red Dress, just use it as a normal tool."

"I specially made it in the shape of a bell. Does Little Red Dress like it?"

"That unfortunate game made you work for it for free for so long, Little Red Dress. Now it's its turn to work for you, Little Red Dress~"

"Don't throw it away, or it would be too easy to let it go!"

"Oh, right, I also left a gift inside."

At this point, the previously carefree and lighthearted voice suddenly turned low and somber.

"I'm sorry... Little Red Dress, I broke my promise."

"I can't take you to see the new world."

The woman in crimson robes paused, her fingers still gently twirling the bell.

After a moment, she slowly spoke, addressing the bell, or perhaps talking to herself: "I...I know..."

She knew what was going on when she saw the system consciousness of the horror game, unwilling to be destroyed, try to self-destruct and drag all the players and bosses down with it, and that person turned back without hesitation.

Jiang Yi has never regretted her decision.

She just hadn't expected that she would be able to wake up.

She thought she would disappear along with the collapse of the horror game.

This was something she had already prepared when she promised the players that she would join them in their plan to overthrow the main system of the horror game.

She hadn't expected that even though that person was already gone... he still left her a gift before disappearing.

Jiang Yi stared at the black bell on her wrist for a few seconds, but in the end, she didn't try to pull it off.

Even though the voice left by that person in the bell had disappeared and been replaced by an electronic voice that she was both very familiar with and very disgusted by.

"drop--"

"Abnormal energy fluctuations detected. Host 'Crimson Robe' is in a dangerous environment. Environmental scanning function will be activated shortly."

"drop--"

"Environmental scan initiated."

Current environmental hazard level: A.

"The host's flight vehicle is in an uncontrollable crash."

"The current stored energy is insufficient to protect the host's body from harm."

"Restart scanning the environment."

"The location of the escape pod has been detected. The shortest route has been planned for the host. Please proceed as soon as possible."

The woman in crimson robes did not move.

She knew the system was right, and she knew the electronic voice wasn't from the horror game, but she still reflexively hated it.

I loathe everything that voice says.

Presumably because the host's location had not changed, the cold electronic voice issued another warning: "In 60 seconds, the host's body and all belongings will crash along with the aircraft."

"Please proceed to the escape pod location as soon as possible."

"Please proceed to the escape pod location as soon as possible."

Jiang Yi knew the fragility of the human body, but... she lowered her head and glanced at the black bell hanging on her wrist.

The items being carried may also crash...

Whether Jiang Yi is alive or dead, she can't ignore the gift that person left behind.

So in the end, she did move.

She lay down inside the escape pod, successfully protecting her current body after the spaceship crashed.

Just as she was about to leave the escape pod, she realized that someone had entered the spaceship.

Thinking of all the dead space pirates outside, even if Jiang Yi was completely ignorant of human relationships, she knew it would be a huge problem. So, she simply and decisively chose to... play dead.

She planned to wait until those people threw her away like a corpse, then wake up and leave when no one was around.

In any case, neither she nor her current body was originally dead.

Unexpectedly, she actually "came back to life"—