After I Was Erased by the System, She Went Mad

Chapter 68 : We Will All Die

Shi Qiubai understood its implication. After being stunned for a moment, she began laughing softly.

Her eyes gradually moistened, and everything before her became blurred.

Serving the protagonists...

This was the meaning of her existence.

No! Not just her—the meaning of her entire family's existence was only to serve those damned protagonists!

Shi Qiubai's mocking laughter grew louder and louder, almost ready to shake the roof, but her tears fell drop by drop down her cheeks.

"Fuck being cannon fodder!"

I am not! No one can decide my fate!

[Emotional fluctuation detected in cannon fodder, with serious destructive tendencies. Please respond promptly!] The system suddenly issued an alarm.

This was originally meant for the host Tang Tang to hear, but she was still unconscious and couldn't hear anything they were saying.

Su Huan stood not far away, watching Shi Qiubai and hearing her angry mental shouting. Her expression wasn't very good.

Shi Qiubai's current mindset was almost identical to her own from before.

When she first learned that Shen Xiaoyu was a pursuer and she was just a villain in a book, she had the same thoughts.

No one could decide her own fate.

Only herself!

Su Huan looked toward the system, her deep eyes cold and her aura chilling.

"You're so eager to repair the plot because you're about to fail, aren't you?" she said. "The pursuit system said every system has its own energy, and yours should be almost depleted, right?"

The system remained silent.

It was just a mass of energy difficult to capture. Su Huan couldn't discern its emotions and could only continue speculating.

"You're so eager to marry Ning Yu because you want to quickly resolve everything. So what if Ning Yu dies?" she asked softly, her face showing undisguised malice.

[What do you mean?] The system finally spoke.

Su Huan made a phone call in front of the system, speaking viciously: "Stop the Ning family at all costs! Life or death doesn't matter!"

Ning Yu wouldn't die, but the Ning family members weren't necessarily safe.

She didn't believe that under such circumstances, this wedding could continue!

Behind her, Shi Qiubai raised her eyebrows slightly, a cold electric light shooting from her eyes, her voice hard and cold: "Su Huan! Let me go!"

Su Huan turned around, picked up a knife nearby, and cut the ropes binding her.

Shi Qiubai rubbed her aching wrists and asked again: "Where's my phone?"

Su Huan said nothing, her gaze scrutinizing.

Shi Qiubai's face darkened as she gritted her teeth: "At a time like this, you're still guarding against me!"

They had a common enemy!

Su Huan looked her up and down, then opened a chat and sent a message: "Li Xiang! Bring Shi Qiubai's phone over."

Soon the laboratory door opened and Li Xiang entered from outside.

Due to the laboratory's lighting, she couldn't see the situation inside clearly, but from the sounds she'd just heard, she knew things weren't optimistic inside.

She groped around to return the phone to Shi Qiubai, then groped her way back out.

The first thing Shi Qiubai did after getting her phone was to pull up Qiu Ye's number, but before dialing, she looked at Su Huan suspiciously.

Although everything was laid out before her, her wariness of Su Huan still made her doubt the authenticity of these events.

From the past few days' situation, the technology of Su Huan's researchers had far exceeded her imagination, making her inevitably suspect that all this was fabricated by Su Huan to make her give up on Sister.

But looking at this laboratory again, and that blurry shadow...

Shi Qiubai made the call. Without waiting for the other party to ask, she said: "Qiu Ye, bring people to Su Huan's villa outside the city. If you see Ning Yu's car on the way—"

She took a deep breath: "Stop it at all costs!"

"...Understood."

After hanging up, she looked at Su Huan again: "What's next? What should we do?"

Su Huan had heard her inner thoughts just now but didn't respond. She looked up at the system.

Unlike the pursuit system, the repair system had nothing to say to them. The equipment at hand had all malfunctioned and couldn't maintain the established channel.

The system's red light grew weaker and weaker, and even that faint shadow of the system gradually disappeared. If the system didn't actively speak, they couldn't determine whether it was still there.

The laboratory fell into silence for a moment.

"What else can we do?" she murmured.

Countless thoughts flashed through her mind—she wished she could tear the system to pieces!

But without equipment, without researchers, she couldn't catch the system on her own. More importantly, there was no time left.

Su Huan could vaguely see the researchers lying on the ground in the red light. She ground her back teeth.

Things had come to this point—they had no other options.

Su Huan walked to the bedside and skillfully removed all the electrode patches from Tang Tang's body. Before the red light disappeared, she splashed a cup of water on Tang Tang's face.

The overhead lights came on at that moment, illuminating the mess in the laboratory.

Tang Tang's eyes snapped open as she gasped heavily, leaning over the bed and coughing violently.

"Tang Tang, the experiment failed." Su Huan looked down at her and spoke flatly.

Tang Tang's face immediately turned pale as she asked tremblingly: "How could it fail? Wasn't your research going smoothly? Why did it fail?"

Only then did she notice where she was. Her eyes widened as she searched around in the darkness: "Su Huan, what experiment were you just conducting? Was it the system? Did you communicate with the system?"

Su Huan nodded and revealed everything: "Last time the system took control of your body, it made a batch of my researchers disappear and destroyed part of the experimental data. So our experiment could only proceed to communicating with the system—we couldn't capture it."

After saying this, she checked the time:

"While we were communicating with the system, it contacted Ning Yu. There's less than an hour and a half left before people arrive."

"So what?" Tang Tang's mind was completely blank, unable to think at all.

"So this world is about to end." Shi Qiubai behind them was still staring at the red light above Tang Tang's head, murmuring to herself: "We're all going to die."

"Die..."

Tang Tang frowned tightly, her lips trembling as she tried to say something but couldn't make a sound.

'Still can't escape…'

Her hands fell limply, her eyelashes trembling slightly as large tears fell.

"Why can't I escape..." she sobbed and murmured. "What am I supposed to do?"

"Tang Tang, can you control the system?" Su Huan's voice came from above.

Tang Tang looked up in disbelief: "What did you say?"

"Can you control the system?" Su Huan asked again. "The system said countless worlds have collapsed because of invaders. I think we can too. Since we can't escape, why not destroy it!"

"What?"

Both Shi Qiubai and Tang Tang were frightened by the sinister expression on her face and frowned simultaneously.

Only then did Tang Tang notice there were others in the laboratory: "Why is Shi Qiubai here too? When did you two get together?"

Soon she figured it out, a mocking glint flashing in her eyes: "It's because of Shen Xiaoyu, isn't it? You actually fell for a pursuer! What's so good about her?"

'Why does it have to be Shen Xiaoyu? If, if it weren't for her, I could definitely escape my ending. How would I be controlled by the system?'

Tang Tang closed her eyes as tears streamed down her cheeks.

"Su Huan, if I had met you first, would you..." She seemed to gather all her courage to ask: "Would you have liked me?"

Su Huan shook her head: "No. Liking you was just a plot setting. If I weren't controlled, I would never like you."

"What about Shen Xiaoyu? She approached you because of the system too. Why do you like her?" Tang Tang's tears fell as she roared in questioning: "But you clearly liked me so much! You were even willing to fight Ning Yu to the death for me!"

'I've already tried so hard, why still can't I escape?'

Shi Qiubai figured out what was going on from their few words and immediately became furious.

"Damn it, at a time like this, is there any point in dwelling on these things?"

"What right do you have to judge me? You're just cannon fodder in the plot who will die without even experiencing pain. Do you know how I feel after awakening? I clearly have thoughts, but my body is still controlled to complete that so-called abusive sweet romance, satisfying the creator's fantasies!"

Tang Tang's shoulders drooped as her slightly trembling body revealed her current confusion and despair:

"No thoughts, no personality, not even allowed to think—only able to be a puppet. I can't even share my pain with others.

I don't want to be such a protagonist!"

Hearing her words, Shi Qiubai gradually calmed down and asked in return:

"What about me? I haven't awakened. Under the plot's design, I have to frame you and end up with my family destroyed. Although you're controlled, you've also enjoyed all the benefits of being the protagonist! Even at this point, the system has never given up on you! But we're different. The system doesn't care about the lives of supporting characters like us. It looks down on us and claims we should feel honored to serve the plot! But fuck that!" She suddenly swore: "Why should I be manipulated by it? Even if it's impossible, I won't let the system succeed!"

Tang Tang was questioned to the point of forgetting to cry. She stared blankly at the person before her, her heart shaking violently.

Su Huan bent down to stare at Tang Tang's face, speaking word by word: "Listen clearly—you're the female lead, destined to be with the another female lead! Even without Shen Xiaoyu, you couldn't escape the system!"

"So I should accept my fate? Give up resistance and let the system complete the plot?" She sneered, sarcasm evident in her expression: "Impossible!"

'I refuse to become a tool!'

Suddenly, her expression changed. She stumbled down from the bed and grabbed a nearby stool to smash the glass on the instruments.

Bang! Glass shards crashed down.

Tang Tang picked up a shard from the ground. The shard cut her palm, and blood kept dripping down. Her tear-filled eyes flashed with hatred.

"I will never let you control me!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she raised the shard in her hand and stabbed it fiercely toward herself.

Everything happened too fast for Su Huan and Shi Qiubai to stop. They watched with wide eyes as the shard stopped just before piercing her chest.