Fate Trading System – Chapter 214

Plan A

Heavenly Voice 5

Youth

A faint, unpleasant odor permeated the air. The sounds nearby were enough to make one want to cover their ears—agonized cries tinged with the scent of blood. Yet, Su Xin remained expressionless.

She had witnessed far more disgusting scenes than this more than once; this barely qualified as child’s play.

Su Xin didn’t even bother looking closely at the scene, just swept her gaze over it briefly before looking away. It was a bit hard on the eyes¹.

Since it’s a game, it’s only fun if everyone plays together.

Su Xin stood up. At her movement, the two men on the ground abruptly stopped, watching her in panic, terrified she would fly into another rage.

Su Xin walked over to the unconscious man tangled in telephone wires. She stomped on a certain spot on his body, jolting him awake from the pain.

“Go.”

The man looked as if he’d seen a ghost, staring at Liu Yan and his own friend… All in all, it was utterly disgusting, incredibly shocking.

“Just do it to him. If you don’t, then you’ll be the one on the bottom.”

The exact same threat. It didn’t matter if it was repetitive; what mattered was that it worked.

When left with no choice, weighing the pros and cons is something everyone does.

Liu Yan lowered his head, his face etched with hatred.

Su Xin then woke the youth and stood aside, watching with detached composure.

“Big Sis, I was wrong… Spare me… I don’t want to… I won’t play…”

The youth was crying his eyes out. Just a kid, after all.

“Are you an adult?”

“No…”

“How old?”

“Eighteen.”

“Hm, same age…”

The original host of this body had started school late. Her single mother had been constantly moving them around back then, causing her to miss the enrollment window. Without connections², they could only wait.

“Big Sis, I know I was wrong, please let me go! I absolutely won’t tell anyone about what happened today!”

“So, already an adult…”

Su Xin’s face turned cold.

“Just turned adult and you can already commit r%pe? Your parents really taught you well! Any sense of decency must have gone straight into your stomach³, huh? I bet this isn’t the first time you’ve pulled something like this, hmm? Since your parents can’t teach you properly, I’ll teach you how to be a decent human being.”

“Go. If you don’t cripple him, I’ll cripple that measly bit of flesh⁴ you’ve got.”

Su Xin’s expression was savage, the blade between her fingertips still stained with blood.

He’s still a child… just strangle him and be done with it.

Little bastard⁵. Needs a good beating to learn his place⁶.

Liu Yan was the one tortured most miserably. Since he was the one who lured the original host, it was only natural he bear the brunt of the resentment.

The scene was utterly chaotic, the mixed odors nauseating.

Liu Yan was already on the verge of death⁷, having lost consciousness several times.

Su Xin knew he was fine, of course. He wouldn’t die, anyway.

Sometimes, reasoning with scum is pointless. People in this world share the same despicable trait: bullying the weak and fearing the strong⁸.

Su Xin advocated meeting violence with violence. She wasn’t a good person anyway. If someone bullied her, she would definitely bully them back twice as hard—not just with words, but with actions too.

“Your performance today was perfect.”

The youth’s injuries were relatively minor, as the first three men had little strength left. But his rear was breached⁹ all the same. If only the front was used, what would be the point? How could it achieve the desired effect?

Liu Yan was the worst off. Su Xin always did what she said she would; if she said rectal prolapse, then prolapse it would be.

“Was it fun? Wasn’t it interesting? Yo, look at those eyes. Really want to hit me, huh? Want to kill me?” Su Xin clicked her tongue at Liu Yan, her words laced with a rising amusement designed to provoke fury.

“When I was drugged and humiliated by you all, I felt the same way—hating you enough to want to kill you, then subject you to death by a thousand cuts¹⁰.”

Su Xin spoke calmly as she walked over to the camera and picked it up.

“Thank you for your performance. I also very happily recorded everything you just did. I learned this from you guys, you know. Behave yourselves. If you do anything that displeases me, maybe I’ll release the video. Don’t worry, I won’t engage in blackmail or extortion. As long as you don’t appear in my life again, we can all live in peace. Understand?”

Using their own methods against them¹¹.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth¹²—that’s what Su Xin liked to do.

Su Xin departed coolly, not the least bit afraid.

The four men remaining in the room began spewing vicious curses, already thinking about how to torture her later.

“Yan-ge, we still have backups on our phones!”

Liu Yan lay weakly on the floor. In his current state, going to a hospital and facing that humiliation was impossible. Even seeing a private doctor felt shameful. Yet, in his condition, not seeking treatment was unthinkable.

This was all because of that damned woman!

Liu Yan had the youth hand him his phone.

Enduring the pain, he checked his backup.

“How is it gone? Did she tamper with it¹³?”

“That shouldn’t be possible… She never touched our phones. Mine’s gone too.” Another man pulled out his own phone; it had been in his pocket the whole time, and that woman hadn’t come near him.

A dreadful silence fell over the room.

“Yan-ge, maybe we should call the police? Say that woman broke in illegally and seriously injured us.”

“Have you no shame?! Forget the fact that four grown men couldn’t handle one girl, can we let anyone know about this?! Besides, if the police dig up¹⁴ what we did before, do you still want to live?!”

“Wait… how come the previous videos are gone too…” The videos they had previously taken of other victims were also missing.

“I won’t let her go.” Liu Yan’s eyes glinted maliciously, sending a shiver down the spines of the other men.

Su Xin directly hailed a Didi¹⁵. This was the suburbs; hailing a cab off the street was basically impossible, and it was too far to walk back.

After returning, Su Xin also backed up the video several times.

Who’s afraid of who?

Su Xin bought a ticket online, planning to go home and see her older brother and parents.

Anyway, Su Xin didn’t particularly like the original host’s brother. Whatever. No need to be intimidated¹⁶.

The ticket was for tomorrow morning. Su Xin planned to stay home for three days before returning to work.

It wasn’t even noon yet. Su Xin sat cross-legged on her bed, wondering how to solve her lunch problem.

The original host wasn’t wealthy. Her monthly salary was limited; after covering her own food and living expenses, she had to send the rest home to help out. Su Xin had ordered takeout, hired a housekeeping service, eaten out once, taken two taxis, and bought a train ticket home. Now, the balance in her account was almost negligible. She hadn’t received this month’s salary yet, having skipped work for half a month.

So, the current situation was: Su Xin didn’t even have money for food. There were only a few yuan¹⁷ left in her account, enough to buy a bowl of wontons at most.

Su Xin felt it was absolutely necessary to start earning money, otherwise being stuck in this embarrassing predicament would be awkward.

Lord Fourteen, what do you think I should do now?

【Emmmm, that is a problem.】

Su Xin’s original profession was an assassin. In her previous world, just taking one random mission would allow her to live freely and comfortably for a long time; the reward for a single mission was substantial. But things were different now. She couldn’t possibly engage in those dark activities in this world. Besides, she had no way to access that world, no understanding of the channels¹⁸. Acting rashly would only invite fatal disaster¹⁹, and she wouldn’t do something like that.

Su Xin could also sing and act, but those skills were f%cking useless²⁰ for making quick money. Her cooking skills were still a lost cause. As for live streaming, building up fame would take who knows how long.

So, Su Xin decided to do something else first.

In an arcade²¹ in D City, Su Xin, armed with five coins scrounged from home, walked up to a slot machine²².

She used to be very good at this kind of thing. Her training had included gambling techniques and research into these entertainment machines. Su Xin was exceptional at cheating²³.

Gambling is bad. Just for entertainment is enough. It can only be a temporary path, definitely not a long-term one.

Clink, clink, clink—the five coins went in. Su Xin pressed the buttons, made a slight mistake, and only four came out.

Su Xin didn’t give up. She put the four in, and this time, seven came out.

Su Xin had no money; she couldn’t just dump ten or twenty coins in at once like the people next to her, clank, clank, clank. She had to take it slow.

After four tries, Su Xin already had thirteen coins in her hand.

Su Xin calculated the probabilities, tapping the edge of the slot machine.

【Host, need help?】

Fourteen’s cracking speed was incredibly fast; a supercomputer could calculate it instantly.

No need. Su Xin still had that much confidence.

Su Xin tapped a few buttons on the slot machine. This time, it spat out thirty coins.

People had already started gathering around to watch—elementary schoolers, teenagers, and middle-aged men. The owner stood closest.

The owner handed Su Xin a small basket to hold the coins.

Su Xin threw all her coins in every time, seemingly unafraid of losing everything²⁴.

The next time, the sheer number of coins pouring out made the onlookers’ eyes turn red with envy.

Starting with five yuan, Su Xin had won over a hundred yuan.

Su Xin gave up on the slot machine. She exchanged one hundred coins for their equivalent value in game tokens and moved to the fishing game machine²⁵.

She liked this game too.

Su Xin sat down, and the crowd from the slot machine gathered around again, gasping in amazement.

Su Xin turned one hundred game tokens into over four hundred, nearly smashing the buttons on the fishing game machine in the process.

“She’s a god-tier player²⁶!”

Some of the teenagers’ eyes sparkled.

After exchanging her tokens for cash, Su Xin left the arcade, humming happily.

She had come in with five yuan and left with four hundred and thirty-two.

Just as Su Xin was pondering where to eat dinner, she heard footsteps approaching.

“God-tier player, why’d you leave so fast?” It was a boy of about seventeen or eighteen, panting, a smile on his face.

“Something you need?”

“No… wait, yes! Can I become your disciple²⁷? How are you so amazing!”

The youth scratched his head, looking a bit bashful, his admiration unconcealed. He was thoroughly impressed²⁸ by this girl who seemed about his age.

“If there’s nothing else, I’m leaving.”

“No, no, wait! Can we be friends? Where are you going? I’ll follow you! It’s noon, have you eaten? If not, my treat!” The youth chattered on.

“Okay, let’s go.”

“Huh?”

“Weren’t you treating me to a meal?”

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The author has something to say:

【Prosperity, Democracy, Civility, Harmony! All is Vanity²⁹! Go, banner of Socialism! Socialism is harmonious and good! Love the country, love the people! If you see sentences like this written by me, then I have 100% been locked before. The heart is bitter. The world is only good if it’s harmonious. Crackdowns and strict investigations are awesome.】

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