The System Teaches You How to Be Human

Si Yisi: “…”

He couldn’t stand it!

He blocked Chen Mengxi’s dagger attack with one hand, and his jet-black, pearl-like eyes were filled with tears. His expression in that moment seemed as if the sky and earth were collapsing; despairing and incredulous.

Seeing that, Chen Mengxi gently smiled, mouthing the words, ‘You will be killed by me, dear cousin.’

Si Yisi’s eyes darkened for a moment. Tears still clung to his eyelashes, but his demeanor suddenly changed.

“Who will be killed by whom, cousin?” He smiled, as if gazing into the abyss, his eyes deep and indifferent, radiating an inorganic gleam. An inhuman feeling.

“Yingqing!” Chen Mengxi, who had been locked in by that almost tangible murderous aura, quickly called out to her “boyfriend.”

Shen Yingqing’s blade was about to fall but was entirely distracted by Chen Mengxi.

“Phew, you scared me to death.” Mo Wuchang jumped around, trying to dodge, his whole body drenched in sweat. He couldn’t help but complain, “Those who play dumb to eat the tiger are so annoying!”

“Eh—that wasn’t that about you, boss…” Mo Wuchang suddenly realized he had included his boss in his complaint and quickly tried to correct himself.

Si Yisi shot him a faint look.

Who was playing dumb? This system would never do something so tacky!

Shen Yingqing embraced Chen Mengxi, and as he swung his long blade, an invisible pressure forced Si Yisi and the others to retreat! Then Shen Yingqing turned, as if he had grown wings, easily leaving their sight and heading straight for the second floor.

“That woman must be insane!” Mo Wuchang cursed, “A player being able to survive in the hands of a ghost is already lucky, and now they’re putting on a self-destructive show?!”

“Insane? My cousin is perfectly normal,” Si Yisi thought of the dagger Chen Mengxi had used to attack him, which had disappeared without a trace in front of him, surrounded by black mist, and he cried out, “She’s like… possessed by a ghost, or has the abilities of a ghost!”

“Catch up” Si Yisi didn’t hesitate for a moment and quickly began climbing the stairs again.

At that moment, Chen Mengxi was released by her “boyfriend” Shen Yingqing. She viciously scratched his arm with her nails, leaving several marks, and her behavior was extremely domineering.

“Why didn’t you kill them! Aren’t you a high-level player?!”

“Xi Xi,” Shen Yingqing replied in an overly sweet tone, “I’m too worried about you getting hurt, so we should rely on external forces to kill those you hate.”

“Hmm?” Chen Mengxi smiled, like a poisonous snake sticking out its tongue, “Then you must torture them properly. Don’t let them die too easily.”

“Of course, Xi Xi’s wish is my wish.” Shen Yingqing’s body radiated a thick, ghostly aura. “Wait a little longer, and this place will become my ghost domain.”

“By then, all the ghosts will be under my control… They’ll make Shen Chen wish he were dead.”

***

“Boss, don’t you find it suspicious that they suddenly ran away?” Mo Wuchang asked. “This is clearly a trap!”

Si Yisi wiped away his tears and looked at him. “Trap? It’s just ghosts and monsters. Do you think I’m afraid? Just… kill them all.”

Mo Wuchang instinctively straightened his back. Right, even if they were high-level players, so what?

This was undoubtedly an escape game with a terrifying background. If they could really exchange skills, they probably would have chosen something related to ghosts and monsters.

Mo Wuchang wasn’t religious, but at this moment, he silently drew a cross and kicked the closed door with force!

“Creak.” The door creaked open wide. It wasn’t even closed properly.

This is awkward.

Mo Wuchang scratched his head, facing Chen Mengxi and Shen Yingqing.

The pair, who had been cozying up to each other, were exchanging a kiss. When they saw them enter, they gave them a disdainful, condescending look, as if they were looking at someone beneath them.

Mo Wuchang immediately wanted to explode. They could look down on me, but looking down on the boss?! What was that about?!

He grabbed a nearby broom and threw it at the couple.

“Crack!” The broom was sliced in half, but as it fell, dust scattered all over Chen Mengxi and Shen Yingqing’s heads!

Si Yisi looked at the pale faces of Chen Mengxi and Shen Yingqing and had to admit that Mo Wuchang really had a knack for disgusting people.

Seeing Chen Mengxi trembling with anger, a sinister black flame ignited in Shen Yingqing’s pupils. With an arrogant, condescending posture, he reached out with his hand and took control of the entire room into his grasp!

Black mist poured out of the floor, ceiling, and walls, quickly transforming the simple rented room into a terrifying ghost domain!

“Heavens!” Mo Wuchang opened his mouth wide, quickly poking Si Yisi with his pinky finger. “This guy… he’s no longer human, right?!”

Both of them are cheating! How could anyone play properly like this?!

“Ghosts and monsters of all kinds, hear my command, kill them!” Shen Yingqing’s gaze was sharp. The moment his words fell, several ghostly heads burst through the walls, floor, and ceiling!

Mo Wuchang was still stunned when Si Yisi, seeing the ghost heads lodged in the wall, got an idea. He grabbed a wooden stick and used it like a hammer, whacking a ghost each time!

Isn’t this like a mutated version of whack-a-mole?

While playing whack-a-mole, Si Yisi, with his tear-streaked eyes, didn’t blink as he stared at the menacing ghost heads, even seeming to take joy in it, as if immersed in such a fun game!

While hitting the ghosts, he had Ah Tu assist him. Some of the ghosts hadn’t even fully emerged before they were already knocked out by Si Yisi!

Chen Mengxi, who had been waiting to see Si Yisi tortured and killed by the ghosts, froze with a stiff smile. However, when she saw dozens of ghosts crawling into the room, her smile returned to its usual self.

Si Yisi stopped after knocking a few ghosts away. He had to leave some fresh fun for himself, didn’t he?

The ghosts crowded into the small room.

They surrounded Si Yisi and Mo Wuchang in a circle, as if a pack of wolves were eyeing two weak little lambs. However, who the hunter was and who the prey was… well, that was something to consider carefully.

After all, the food chain could sometimes be reversed.

Mo Wuchang shivered as the sudden chill filled the room, as if the cold was seeping into his bones. But when he clearly saw the faces of the ghosts around him…

Well, if it weren’t for the wrong timing, Mo Wuchang would have whistled.

Most of these ghosts were familiar ghosts.

That bald-headed ghost with no eyebrows and long hair hanging from its neck; wasn’t that the Hair Ghost?

The ghost, unnaturally twisted and stuck inside a large porcelain vase; the Toilet Ghost.

Even the two female ghosts, whose eyeballs were about to fall out and whose bodies smelled dry and rotten, looked shockingly familiar. The Air-Condition Ghost and the female driver.

Two beetles were hopping around beside the Air-Condition Ghost, whose eyeballs were stretched long.

The elderly landlord was holding his waist, each step accompanied by heavy panting. The cane he was leaning on had turned into a neatly severed human leg.

Shen Yingqing had mentioned the “ghosts and monsters of all directions,” but it seemed that he could only summon the key ghosts in this escape game.

Mo Wuchang recognized the familiar ghosts, and these grotesque creatures also recognized their two old acquaintances.

The ghosts: “…”

***

“Rip them apart!” Shen Yingqing issued the command, a bloodthirsty gleam flashing in his pupils.

Chen Mengxi was clutching Shen Yingqing’s arm, her brow still holding a soft smile, like a cloud. But in such a scene, there was only one word to describe that smile; out of place.

The unaware ghosts, with their claws bared, lunged toward Si Yisi and the others. The cold winds swirled around them with each of their movements, charging toward them!

Mo Wuchang, with sharp eyes, noticed that the ghosts, quietly retreating from the circle, didn’t show any fear or other emotions despite the pressure from the many ghosts.

Si Yisi sobbed intermittently, clearly unnerved by the situation. He trembled like a lost little bunny, blinking his eyes, desperately holding back his tears.

Si Yisi faced the ghosts rushing at him, blinking once.

“Ow?”

“Hee hee…?!”

The ghosts were suddenly knocked back by a powerful force. When they regained their footing, the ghostly heads with bodies began to feel a chill on top of their heads!

They touched their heads; each one had been shaved into a bald patch! Strands of hair fell to Si Yisi’s feet!

The ghosts seemed to be thrown into a boiling pot, instantly exploding, their bodies inflating like pufferfish!

“Ahhhhh!”

But that was just an appetizer!

Si Yisi first swept away all the sharp weapons from the ghosts’ hands, claiming them as his own! Even the trembling landlord’s cane, which had become a human leg, wasn’t spared.

Si Yisi seized the moment, wielding the cane like a weapon, striking with incredible speed, thrusting it into the mouths of the open-mouthed ghosts. Then, using a long blade he had taken, he skewered several ghosts, stringing them together like sugar-coated haws!

Mo Wuchang stood stunned, watching Si Yisi’s one-man show!

Boss, you’re amazing!

The ghosts who had been skewered gurgled blood from their mouths, and Si Yisi, the culprit, had tears streaming from his eyes.

After making a long string of ghostly skewers, he swung his long blade, sweeping in all directions! Wherever the blade passed, the ghostly energy dissipated, and the ghosts fled.

The Hair Ghost, Toilet Ghost, and others stopped their stealthy retreat, their pupils reflecting the figure of Si Yisi, who was filled with murderous intent and a chilling aura!

In the next moment, they lunged at Si Yisi, as if attempting a final struggle!

Si Yisi raised his blade.

In the next instant, several arms reached out, grabbing Si Yisi’s legs, while some ghosts, with dark expressions, bit back at the one who summoned them, Shen Yingqing!

The ghost holding Si Yisi’s thigh tried to show him its teary eyes, its gaze full of pleading, sending a shiver down the spine of anyone who saw it. It was also… absurdly funny.

The Air-Condition Ghost’s eyeballs hung down, unable to achieve the difficult task of looking up at Si Yisi.

Panicking, she immediately grabbed her decayed eye with her rotten hand, desperately trying to push it toward the demon lord’s face!

Si Yisi: “…”

He moved his foot, but… he couldn’t shake them off. The ghosts were as rooted to the ground as if they were planted there.

Another group of ghosts, with bald or receding hairstyles, slammed their heads into Shen Yingqing one by one, using their semi-transparent bodies to grab his arm and pull him toward the room’s wall.

Chen Mengxi didn’t expect this turn of events. She too was in the range of the ghosts’ hunt for rewards, and one ghost grabbed her long hair, forcefully tugging at it, as if trying to tear off her scalp with it!

“Ahhhhh!” Chen Mengxi screamed in terror.

In that moment, her vengeful expression overlapped with the one she had when she killed Shen Chen in the past life. But now, she was no longer the high-and-mighty hunter, but the prey being hunted!

***

“Calling Ah Si, calling Ah Si!” Suddenly, Chi Chun’s voice echoed in Si Yisi’s mind, breaking through in intermittent calls.

“…Here.” He rasped, answering as if nothing was wrong, still savoring the exhilarating feeling.

Chi Chun’s voice continued, “Ah Si, are you okay? …No, wait, I mean, are you enjoying yourself?”

“The world you’re in is a corrupted small world. The main system wants you to bring back the female lead, Chen Mengxi, to purify it.”

“There’s… Another way…” Si Yisi answered, panting and shedding tears.

“Huh?”

“Kill the female lead. Wouldn’t that solve everything?”

Chi Chun replied, “Hey, hey, hey, Ah Si, don’t be impulsive! The main system will be furious—ah… never mind, as long as you’re having fun.”

He added softly, “Just don’t let the small world collapse completely.”

Si Yisi listened through the entire conversation. He had to admit that Chi Chun understood him best. If Si Yisi were to rob a merchant, Chi Chun would be there setting fire to the place; such a friend was truly the ideal type.

“I know my limits.”

With that, the communication between the two systems ended tacitly.

Shen Yingqing was dragged into the wall by the ghosts, becoming embedded in it like a drowning person, suffocated by the wall.

When he truly merged with the wall, the entire rented room emitted a brief buzzing sound!

Only his eyes remained visible, but he had already been claimed by the rules of this escape game. He was destined to become a permanent fixture in the rented room from now on!

Useless, except for scaring people!

The ghosts, as if showing off, dragged the living Chen Mengxi to Si Yisi. Several patches of her scalp were torn off, leaving her head drenched in blood. She shed large tears, but they couldn’t mask the sharp resentment and unwillingness in her eyes.

Yet, Chen Mengxi was completely unaware. She begged, trying to awaken Si Yisi’s other “personality.”

“Chen Chen… save me, cousin. I was forced to do this. That man threatened me. If I didn’t, I would die…” Her tone was gentle and sorrowful. If it were the original Shen Chen, he would have believed his cousin’s words immediately.

Did she think that another, weaker, more gullible personality existed inside me?

Si Yisi’s demeanor suddenly changed, becoming panicked and confused. “Cousin, I… how did you end up like this?”

A glimmer of hope flashed in Chen Mengxi’s eyes. She gripped the dagger she had managed to conceal in her sleeve.

“I… I’ll free you right away. Don’t worry, cousin!” Si Yisi said, flustered, tears streaming down his face.

He appeared both heartbroken and terrified.

Chen Mengxi’s dagger slid out. A hand seized hers, turning the blade around, and thrusting it into Chen Mengxi’s side.

Si Yisi smiled. “Cousin, did you really think Shen Chen had two personalities?”

His expression was still one of panic and innocence, but his tone was filled with mocking sarcasm.

Si Yisi pulled the dagger out, seeing Chen Mengxi’s pupils dilate. Ah, it seems she’s on the verge of breaking down.