Fate Trading System – Chapter 114

Plan A

Rise in Another World 26

Rules

Everyone was waiting for Su Xin’s death scene, but they discovered that it was someone else who fell.

Ruyi Bei died.

“What did you do to our family head!”

The people of the Ruyi family were shocked and hurriedly inquired.

Su Xin coughed twice, amazed to find that she hadn’t died.

It shouldn’t be like this. According to her body’s endurance, she should have died long ago, at the same time as Ruyi Bei.

What Su Xin didn’t know was that behind her, a huge feline creature was floating in mid-air, its eyes the blue of the sky, watching her figure, emitting a gentle light.

Everyone was horrified by this scene. Lang Xun immediately understood what was happening.

It turned out that the cat was an ancient mythical beast, the Nine Lives Cat. However, the price of sacrificing oneself for others was even greater, equivalent to double the price of one’s own death. In other words, if a Nine Lives Cat mythical beast blocked a life-and-death calamity for someone else, it would lose two of its tails.

Ruyi Si, who was running inside the Sky-reaching Tower, felt her body lighten and stopped moving.

“Ranr`an… she succeeded.”

At the same time, the human-form Nan Cheng spat out a mouthful of blood, frightening Ruyi Si and Yu Si.

Nan Cheng’s body was swaying, but she smiled.

She had still managed to block it.

Now she had to go back. If she went back, would she be able to save her?

With only one life left, Nan Cheng’s heart was full of reluctance. If something unexpected happened to her this time, she wouldn’t be able to grow old together with that person.

But if that person didn’t survive, what meaning would there be in her own survival?

“You go ahead, quickly leave this place.”

As Nan Cheng spoke, blood was still dripping from the corner of her mouth, looking extremely painful.

“Are you really going back? In your current physical condition, you’d only be going to your death, and besides…”

Besides, she might not even be there anymore.

“I want to see her, even if I die, I want to die with her!”

Nan Cheng gritted her teeth and returned to where she had just come from. But after taking only a few steps, she fell heavily to the ground.

“Nan Cheng!”

Yu Si quickly ran over, her heart full of helplessness.

What should be done?

If I can’t be with her while alive, then I want to die with her.

Just this one small wish…

If possible, I hope she survives.

Actually, I really, really want… to live on with her…

Nan Cheng’s hand waved slightly in the air, and she fell into unconsciousness.

Nan Cheng returned to her cat form, and Yu Si held her in her arms.

“What should we do now?”

Ruyi Si looked at Yu Si.

“Go!”

That person absolutely wouldn’t want her plan to be ruined. She actually wanted Ruyi Si to leave this place, so they must make sure she leaves!

“Don’t look at me. I’m not the one who killed him, it was you all, himself, and him,” Su Xin said, licking her lips and pointing at Lang Xun.

There must be a reason why she didn’t die, but apart from that guy, who else could it be?

Actually, it wasn’t necessary.

Ruyi Si released her own pressure. In this Sky-reaching Tower, she still had an intimidating effect, after all, she came from the eighth floor.

They left the Sky-reaching Tower smoothly and without obstacles. When they really stepped out and breathed fresh air, Ruyi Si almost knelt on the ground.

They had escaped.

Ruyi Si looked back at the Sky-reaching Tower, but kept crying.

The price was another life. If many years ago, she hadn’t said those words to her daughter, would all of this not be happening now?

If she hadn’t said anything, her daughter probably wouldn’t have known anything, and then she would have lived happily in their world, isolated from ugliness.

【Congratulations to the host for completing the mission. The mission world is freezing. Returning to the system space to hand over to the client.】

Su Xin returned to the pure white world, still feeling a bit unadapted. After all, although it couldn’t be called a sea of people just now, it could be said to have been packed with people.

The girl in front of her still had tears in her eyes, continuously thanking Su Xin.

“Thank you so much. If it were me, I definitely couldn’t have done it.”

She might have died somewhere early on. She didn’t have that kind of ability, but she was very glad to have found someone like this.

“My mother should be completely safe now. I have no regrets left. Thank you for fulfilling my wish, using an insignificant life to save my mother.”

“You’re welcome. This is what you deserve for paying the price of your soul.”

The girl walked towards the other end, the end of her soul.

【Host, you really impressed me this time.】

“Of course, just look at who I am.”

“I am Su Xin, after all.”

【Now I’ll send you back to the mission world. You can choose to stay or leave on your own.】

“At that time, choose to leave. Who wants to stay in that ghostly place…”

But Su Xin hesitated again, thinking of the little cat that had always been sacrificing for her.

She had just worked so hard to save her life. If she really left and died like this, she would definitely be very sad.

“Let me think about it. If I can survive, I’ll try my best to live on.”

Su Xin was sent back to the original place. Everyone was still in the same state as before, not knowing that she had left for a while.

“This time you can’t escape,” Lang Xun said, hooking his hair and looking at Su Xin.

“Although I don’t know what you used, this move of ‘borrowing a knife to kill someone’ (idiom meaning to use another’s strength to achieve one’s goal) was really well done.”

“Lang Xun, she committed the capital crime of killing our family head. Even if she’s a woman, we can’t let her go. What do you want to do?” The second young master of the Ruyi family stepped out and confronted Lang Xun, who was in mid-air.

“You think you can compete with me for her? Even if she killed your family head, what does that have to do with me?” Lang Xun raised his hand and attacked towards Su Xin.

Su Xin nimbly avoided it, hoping in her heart that these two groups would start arguing. She really didn’t want to experience the feeling of being pierced by arrows and turned into a hedgehog again.

However, it was a pity that they didn’t do as Su Xin wished. Instead, they started to discuss.

“How about this, Family Head Lang? You help us capture this person first, and after we punish her, we’ll give her to you. How about that?”

The second young master of the Ruyi family gritted his teeth. Who knows what other tricks this woman had up her sleeve? She didn’t die even with that thing above her head just now. What if she escaped?

She was an outsider to begin with. Even if she left this place, there wouldn’t be any consequences.

Su Xin was observing things she could use to escape. She didn’t want to get hurt. Suicide was really the last resort. She actually quite wanted to see her cat.

Before the discussion between the two groups had ended, something shocking happened.

Su Xin looked at the transmission array forming under her feet, her expression innocent.

She really didn’t know what was happening!

What was this transmission array? She didn’t want to go to the ninth floor at all. Who knows how to get up there and how to come back from that ghostly place.

“How is this possible! How can you possibly!” Lang Xun seemed to have received some huge shock, looking at the transmission array under Su Xin’s feet with a ferocious expression.

Everyone present, except for Lang Yan, couldn’t help but swallow, looking at Su Xin’s transmission array with greedy eyes.

But the result of breaking the transmission array had already been tried by someone, and it was simply too horrible to look at, so everyone just looked without daring to step forward.

No one knew the consequences better than Lang Xun. He had a vicious smile on his face, preparing to destroy it.

Even if he couldn’t go up, he absolutely couldn’t let anyone else go up.

But that transmission array seemed to know his thoughts and sped up the transmission.

In just the blink of an eye, the person disappeared.

The people of the Ruyi family all felt angry and sighed.

Who could have imagined that the person who went up would be an outsider?

Su Xin was also confused. In a flash, she found herself in a strange place.

This was a sea of stars. It felt like stepping on the starry sky beneath her feet, mystical and vast.

Could this be the ninth floor of the Sky-reaching Tower, the legendary place close to the gods?

Su Xin pulled at the corner of her mouth. She had no interest in becoming a god.

But a strange feeling came over her in the next moment. Su Xin felt a kind of surveillance. That feeling was everywhere. Although there was no one around, it felt as if thousands of eyes were watching her.

It was a feeling that made one’s scalp tingle and sent chills down one’s spine.

Su Xin’s head was a bit dizzy, and her body was unsteady.

A huge sense of weightlessness. Su Xin couldn’t help but sit down.

What kind of ghostly place is this… My head hurts so much…

It felt as if something was trying to forcibly tear her body apart and suck out her soul.

【Detected that the host’s soul is being attacked by an alien species. Activating maintenance mode.】

Fourteen’s voice sounded cold, seemingly carrying a murderous flavor.

The Fate Trading System came from the hands of a genius programmer in the year 4049 of the Galactic Calendar. What backward civilization dared to try to snatch their person?

Su Xin felt like her head was about to explode. She was dizzy and wanted to vomit.

But the next moment, those symptoms completely disappeared. Su Xin saw a man wearing a suit.

That person was just as she had imagined Fourteen to be in her mind: cold, serious, and even cool.

A hand wearing a white glove appeared in front of her. That person reached out his hand to her.

“Host, it’s our first time meeting like this. I’m Fourteen, your partner.”

Su Xin was pulled up to stand, looking at this face that was like a beautiful visage from a 2D world, cold and solemn. She nodded.

Indeed, he was a very serious person.

“After going back previously, I don’t know who suggested it to the master, but the master designed a body for all of us. This is my first time using it, so I’m still a bit unfamiliar.”

Fourteen spoke formally, without a smile.

“I have already dealt with the trouble for you. You can return to the eighth floor on your own now.”

There were no gods in this Sky-reaching Tower at all. Everyone here was indeed cursed.

What lived on the ninth floor should be considered the Heavenly Dao (the way of heaven or nature’s law).

All the strong who reached the top would be absorbed here, then their souls would be devoured, and their bodies would crumble to dust.

But the people outside? They just thought they had become gods, transcending the rules.

But who can truly break free from the rules?

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