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Chapter 287 in order of appearance
Good news! Longinus has officially appeared in the comics.
Unlike before, where she had an impact on the story but readers could only see her in side stories or flashbacks.
Whether it's good or bad news, Longinus seemed to be more popular when she appeared than when she first appeared.
Jiang Xingni fell into deep thought.
【…How could this be?】The system was confused and completely baffled.
Even after spending so much time browsing the internet, the system still can't understand the preferences of villain fans.
Jiang Xingni did have some ideas.
There has never been a shortage of people who like villains.
However, in a perfectly good shonen manga, most of the villains encountered are bizarre and unique characters that only appear in the manga.
As for the main villains, readers only know of one VOID, and no other iconic villains have ever appeared in the organization.
Now, finally there's a character who's blatantly villainous from the moment he appears.
And he led the main characters away the very first time he appeared!
This perfectly hits these people's fantasies!
Jiang Xing felt no remorse for deceiving these readers. She shifted her gaze and naturally incorporated their preferences into her own.
Love me.
she thinks.
Although I have nothing and nothing to give back to you.
The forum, which had fallen silent because the comics weren't being updated—or more accurately because of the constant fighting over character pairings and other topics—finally had a new topic.
The discussion revolves around who the newly introduced character actually is.
Jiang Xingni had just scrolled down when he heard the system's voice.
"[Stars, stars.]" the system whispered in her mind. "I've blocked a communication signal. Do you want to take a look?"
—You might as well watch it!
Jiang Xingni was just wondering what to do about his sources of information after getting the protagonist away.
It seems that screenwriters are still somewhat useful.
Jiang Xingni thought to himself, and then received a message intercepted by the system.
The sender's name and other information were not provided.
There is only one line of coordinates.
Jiang Xingni smiled thoughtfully.
"Could this be a trap?" the system asked worriedly.
Jiang Xingni denied the system's speculation.
VOID only entered by taking advantage of a bug in the instance, and Jiang Xingni's current situation just happens to be stuck on that bug.
Even the watches worn by the students could hardly detect Jiang Xingni's location, let alone VOID.
In addition, Jiang Xingni did not actually kill them; he simply used a bit too much force in his chop to prevent them from waking up.
In the entire instance, probably only Xie Yungui knows that Jiang Xingni is actually Longinus.
The main characters might have a premonition about something because of Xie Yungui and the sudden change in the mission—maybe they just haven't died, and they won't know about Longinus's existence.
If only I could have the ability to create a clone of myself from the sky.
Jiang Xingni deciphered the coordinates in the message and headed in that direction.
He even fantasized in his mind what would happen if a clone ability appeared out of nowhere, and after everything was resolved, Longinus left with Bureau 49, and Jiang Xingni suddenly appeared, giving the main characters a surprise...
What a happy little girl she will be.
Of course, Jiang Xingni didn't do nothing while on the road.
She instructed the system to continue upwards along this intercepted message, and finally unearthed the entire chat log.
Of course, the person receiving the message is not an important figure; he has no right to ask why and can only passively accept the instructions of the message sender.
Not even a single question—or doubt—can be raised.
But thinking about it, it makes sense. After all, they aren't official members of VOID yet; they just came from the academy and somehow ended up affiliated with VOID.
Jiang Xingni suddenly recalled the time when she and Xiao Jiming were spying on their teacher's conversation.
...Surely all the other schools have already been infiltrated?
With this suspicion in mind, she silently began scrolling through the chat history.
[Go here and use the stone tablet to guide people away from the center.] One hour ago.
The accompanying location coordinates were the spot where Jiang Xingni had just knocked them unconscious.
[Handle Lu Xianqing properly.] Three hours ago.
Below that sentence was the question: "What happened to Lu Xianqing?"
But there was no reply.
【Trap Jiang Xingni and Xie Yungui. If that's not possible, have Lu Xianqing kill them.】Three hours ago.
[Midterm exams begin tomorrow.] One day ago.
Ok.
Jiang Xing narrowed his eyes.
She seems really honored.
To stand out among so many students and to be able to stand alongside Xiao Jiming and Xie Yungui in VOID's sight.
The system suddenly remembered.
[If you don't have a location tracking system, then you'll be...]
The system fell silent the moment it saw what Jiang Xingni was holding.
The girl with black hair and golden eyes carried Lu Xianqing's bones on her back and held the severed hand of some unlucky guy in her hand.
Thanks to the copied healing ability, Jiang Xingni was able to stop the bleeding from that unfortunate guy's wound and keep the severed hand alive even under these circumstances.
The system fell silent.
Jiang Xingni shrugged.
Looking at the map panel, the blue dot representing the hand followed her all the way.
Jiang Xingni rested his chin on his hand thoughtfully.
"...Given that this instance has such a prominent location marker, what kind of opportunity would an organization use if they wanted to gather offline?"
They need an excuse.
Otherwise, it would be like shouting at the 49th Bureau for no reason that so many people are gathered together—"We're here, come and wipe us out!"
The system was completely bewildered.
So what are you going to do?
*
Xiao Jiming, who was leading three people, had fewer and fewer smiles on his face along the way.
One of the three was completely indifferent to the mission, another pretended not to speak, and the third was boredly trying to kill himself.
Song Juexiao turned his head to look at Lu Xianqing, his eyes crinkling with a smile as he gestured with his hands, asking, "When your superiors sent you here, did they consider that you would also be attacked by that thing along with us?"
Lu Xianqing blinked. She couldn't quite understand Song Juexiao's sign language, but Song Juexiao's expression was anything but concealed.
—The obvious, undisguised, schadenfreude of watching the enemy suffer.
Lu Xianqing: "Anyway, I won't die."
So she had long been used to others using her death as a bargaining chip, serving it up on the table.
Even she herself didn't really value her life that much.
The smile on Song Juexiao's face faded.
This is a very interesting question.
Song Juexiao thought to himself.
Is her indifference to life due to her own indifference, which then influences those around her to be indifferent, or is it because those around her are indifferent, which leads to her being taught to be like this?