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Chapter 136 Elder Abuse
[Wait a minute?] The system was caught off guard. [Why did I immediately think you were going to die?]
Jiang Xingni shrugged: "It was just a casual question."
"After all, everyone dies eventually, and I can't guarantee I'll have a future, can I?"
"What I'm doing now is simply trying to increase my chances of survival."
She cannot guarantee that she will gain enough popularity to survive, nor can she guarantee that she will emerge unscathed from the subsequent plot.
Unlike Xiao Jiming, she doesn't have the protagonist's halo.
Moreover, in shonen manga, the protagonists often suffer losses as well.
Jiang Xingni didn't think that just because he could access a real-world forum, he was lucky enough to be one of the lucky ones.
"I don't believe it." The system huffed. "You're just imagining things again."
I chose you, isn't that enough proof that you definitely have a future? Believe me, Star, you are definitely special.
—They tricked them out of it.
Jiang Xing narrowed his eyes, not taking the opportunity to ask the system any further questions.
"Readers always get bored when everything goes smoothly," Jiang Xingni said. "To leave a lasting impression, you have to suffer, you have to lose something and then gain something else."
It's heartbreaking; the beautiful and strong character suffers a tragic fate, and I feel a deep sense of injustice.
That's how you gain popularity.
The smoke swirling around Jiang Xingni gradually dissipated, leaving only a small pile of burnt-out ashes.
If she had the writing skills, Jiang Xingni thought she could write down Zhao Henshan's story and let more people know about the story Zhao Henshan once had.
Unfortunately, Jiang Xingni didn't have that ability. At most, she could only remember him and occasionally mention him in the following plot so that she wouldn't be forgotten by the readers.
Just as Jiang Xingni was thinking about these things, her phone suddenly rang.
—It was a call from Song Juexiao.
"Xingxing?" The girl on the other end of the phone sounded wary. "Are you alright?"
"It's nothing, what could possibly happen to me?" Jiang Xing chuckled. "Sorry, next time I'll remember to let you know first."
Of course it's a lie.
They might not tell the main characters next time.
Otherwise, if the author were to draw this scene and put it in a comic book—how would Jiang Xingni escape the identity of "Jiang Xingni" and deceive the readers' feelings?
"So you are now...?" Song Juexiao had a vague sense of what was going on.
Jiang Xingni's words confirmed her thoughts: "I'm offering flowers to Zhao Henshan."
"You actually did that?" Song Juexiao sighed. "Teacher Lin is coming, and we have to go back to school today."
This was exactly what Jiang Xingni expected.
It's easy to imagine that this group of people caused such a huge mess—revealing how many children died at the school back then, and how the surviving school leaders also died because of them.
Although they didn't actually kill anyone, the real killers, whether Zhao Henshan or Ji Shanqing, are nowhere to be found—or rather, have vanished.
If anyone wants to investigate, they will naturally target those students who were the easiest to bully.
Jiang Xingni could understand. After getting the time and place from Song Juexiao, he hung up the phone directly.
Jiang Xingni could understand the academy's desire to protect its students, but this meant that Jiang Xingni wouldn't have much time left.
She had never attended a school with superpowers, and her biggest dream was to receive a letter from an owl saying that she could go to Hogwarts.
However, this dream naturally shattered after Jiang Xingni learned that Hogwarts did not accept foreigners.
Therefore, Jiang Xingni was unsure whether she would still have so much time to do what she should do after starting school.
We can only take advantage of this short period of time.
"So, how should you set up your organization?" The system was completely bewildered. "You don't understand what's behind the scenes, and you can't possibly overcome everything with sheer force."
[And you don't even have that much money!]
The more the system thought about it, the less reliable the idea seemed. It would be better to continue to ride the coattails of the main characters and try to increase its own favorability.
Jiang Xingni had no idea where the system's thoughts had gone, and she tilted her head in confusion.
"Why make such a fuss?" She raised an eyebrow. "I'm not actually building an organization."
What Jiang Xingni wanted to do was clearly to create such an impression in the readers' minds.
There is such an organization that will make an appearance.
that's enough.
The rest is up to the author to fill in when the time is right.
It's impossible for Jiang Xingni to have clearly explained the entire organization's origins and structure without having any understanding of what's behind the scenes.
If there is any conflict between the organization's setting and the author's setting of this world.
—The ending will either be that Jiang Xingni becomes a laughing stock, or that the organization she painstakingly built becomes a short-lived villain.
"I just need it to appear," Jiang Xingni said softly. "It doesn't even need to appear for long, just once."
The best way to demonstrate the nature of an organization is to allow people to understand it in a short period of time.
The system pondered deeply: [What? What do you want to act in? Do you have the money to hire actors?]
Jiang Xing raised his head innocently: "Of course, it's to recruit new people."
All she had to do was find some clothes for herself to wear and then find a lucky person to be the new bride—that would be enough.
Jiang Xingni's first thought about this newcomer was Xu Niannian.
She appeared, she had a connection with herself, and although she wasn't a superhuman, she was also aware of these things. Xu Niannian also had the talent to see those strange creatures.
No matter what the circumstances, Xu Niannian is a good choice for Jiang Xingni.
However, Jiang Xingni did not want to choose Xu Niannian.
She also had her own selfish reasons—Jiang Xingni didn't want her friend to end up in the same situation as her.
She didn't want Xu Niannian to face monsters day after day, getting caught up in this endless battle for her own selfish desires.
If this weren't a world from a comic book, Xu Niannian would have had a bright future.
She has a loving family, a wealthy background, and will get into a good university in the future.
If Jiang Xingni drags her into this—being a superhuman is never a safe profession, even if she doesn't have superpowers, living with monsters day and night is hardly safe.
Jiang Xingni hopes that her friend can be protected safely, and she hopes that Xu Niannian will never be captured by the camera lens of the comic again.
[So...Xu Niannian?] The system saw Jiang Xingni shake his head.
Besides Xu Niannian, who else meets this requirement?
The system's thoughts drifted in another direction.
—Grandma Ji.
system:.
Holy crap, this is elder abuse!!