Let the system try to save the world

Even though he knew that the main system would not die as a result, Meng Ruyan still couldn't help but stagger. No matter which soul was in this body, he found it hard to imagine the fact that Xitong was dead.

How could Xitong/System die? He is the protagonist.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Gu Yugui quickly wiped the ice chips on his hands onto his coat and reached into Xitong's clothes.

"He's not dead." Gu Yugui said in a deep voice. He held Xitong's forehead to ensure his airway was clear, and began to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation quickly. "There is still warmth in his heart, and there is a very weak heartbeat."

Meng Ruyan thought he was seeing things, but when a white shadow flashed by, he saw that Gu Yugui's face seemed to have suddenly changed into that of another person. Meng Ruyan rubbed his eyes and quickly called the emergency number.

Before the ambulance arrived, Xitong finally opened his eyes, and his lips moved, "Hurry..."

"What are you doing?" Shu, who was holding Gu Yugui's shell, was almost unable to kneel steadily. He felt his knees go weak and he couldn't lift his arms.

"Run, run..." Xitong whispered. Due to the sudden drop in body temperature, he couldn't speak at all.

"It's me, it's okay." Shu said softly. He held Xitong's hand and squeezed it. "Don't fall asleep now, hold on a little longer."

Xitong felt a lot more relieved immediately. He had always believed that even if all the monsters and goblins in the world were piled up together, they would not be enough for Shu to crush with just one finger. This made him feel much more at ease than letting Meng Ruyan take care of Gu Yugui, a rookie.

"Sorry." Shu said solemnly. He tore apart the mist that was wrapped around Xitong's limbs on the ice. At this time, Meng Ruyan's mediocre kung fu was no match for the opponent.

There's nothing to be sorry about.

If Xitong could still speak, he would have said this. But in fact, he was on the verge of shock due to lack of blood and oxygen in his organs, and he could not say anything.

Xitong closed his eyes tiredly, and Shu picked him up from the ground. For the first time, he felt that the protagonist of this world was made too thin and unhealthy by him, and as light as a butterfly.

All it takes is a hurricane to shred a butterfly's wings.

I'm sorry for putting you in danger over and over again.

I'm sorry for having put all the burden on you alone for so many years.

I'm sorry... there's nothing I can do.

"Follow him." The weight in his arms was gone, and Shu stood there in a state of loss. Before he withdrew his consciousness, he told Meng Ruyan and T233, "Take good care of him for me."

"I'll look into this matter." Gu Yugui said.

When Xitong regained consciousness, he found himself surrounded by a familiar smell of disinfectant and white color.

He subconsciously pulled the quilt over his head.

Please, this time he didn't come here on his own initiative. He didn't want to see any familiar doctors or nurses now.

"Host, I said he would wake up soon!" T233's proud voice came into his mind.

Meng Ruyan pressed the bell the moment Xitong woke up. After the doctor's chaotic examination, they confirmed that Xitong was conscious and his vital signs were very stable. Only then did they feel relieved and gave the space to the two of them.

"I'm fine." Xitong spoke first. "Although the other party pulled me into the ice floe very quickly, I also used basic body training techniques to protect my heart meridians, so it shouldn't be a big deal."

"Next time something like this happens, you should discuss it with me." Meng Ruyan's expression showed no emotion. "I thought that by agreeing to hand over T233 to me, you at least recognized my ability."

"I agree." Xitong said, "If you hadn't found me quickly this time, I'm not sure if I could have survived on the ice. You did a great job."

"What if I can't hold on?" Meng Ruyan asked, "What if I don't find you? What if Xitong's body is really dead?"

"Have you thought about all this?"

"Change my body." Xitong thought for a moment and replied, "There are still some bodies in this world that have signed contracts and can be used. Although my identity is not so convenient, I can..."

"Have you ever considered that you are a human being now?" Meng Ruyan growled, "What do you think humans are now?"

"It's sugar, it's protein, it's amino acids, plus a bunch of DNA?"

"Will your system never die?" Meng Ruyan buried his face in his hands, his shoulders shaking as if he was crying. "Xitong is dead, and you can't just change your body and continue to pretend nothing happened!"

"This makes me feel like a failure! Even if I have super powers and a golden finger, I still can't save the people I don't want to lose!"

"I don't understand." Meng Ruyan wiped away tears. He found that he could never understand Xitong's understanding of life. "I don't understand..."

While waiting, the doctor examined Xitong's body. However, the body of a 17-year-old young man had been made like a rag during this period, with major injuries piled up on minor ones, and not a single part of his body was completely healthy.

The opponent always likes to get his body covered with wounds, and so many fights with the god of death seem like a game.

No matter what plan you make, it seems that the only purpose is to avoid dying.

So what was his experience of coming back from the dead?

Since his rebirth, he has been working hard to make up for his family, accompany his father who passed away early in his previous life, improve his own value, and make new friends whom he is unwilling to lose.

Are these all frivolous, insignificant things?

"I don't understand either." Xitong picked up the bed sheet and wiped Meng Ruyan's face. He had no toilet paper or handkerchief, so he could only use this. "This question is too difficult. You have to teach me."

"Don't cry." Xitong held his face and said seriously. He could only vaguely see some blocks of color in his eyes. "I can only coax human cubs, and I'm not good at it. You are no longer a cub, so I won't coax you."

"Humans are like this, they can cry like cubs in front of some people." Meng Ruyan sniffed and sobbed.

"Okay." Xitong thought for a moment and said seriously, "My little cub, tears are actually made of pearls. If you cry too much, you won't be as beautiful and moving as you are now."

"Where did you search for this?" Meng Ruyan couldn't help laughing. He opened his bag and took out a tissue, wiping his tear-stained face. "Don't do such dangerous things in the future."

"I see." Xitong nodded. "I didn't sense any killing intent from that mermaid, so I was bold enough to approach it to see what it wanted to do."

"I came into close contact with it, and it only smelled of blood, but no resentment." Xitong said, "This shows that it has never taken the initiative to kill anyone. Even if it has, it has only eaten corpses, which is not the most serious crime in human society."

"That doesn't explain why it locked you in the ice," Meng Ruyan said. "It just wants to kill you."

"Not necessarily." Xitong shook her head. "When I was half asleep, I heard the staff at the penguin house say the room temperature was minus fifteen degrees Celsius."

"It was indeed very cold when we arrived," Meng Ruyan confirmed, "I thought that was the normal temperature of the penguin house. After all, they are Antarctic animals."

"The temperature in Antarctica is not always -80 or -90 degrees Celsius," Xitong said. "The environment where emperor penguins live, especially in the aquarium, is generally -2 to -4 degrees Celsius."

"If we calculate based on the distance between the penguin house and the theater and the speed at which you came, the temperature dropped little by little to minus 15 degrees Celsius. That's why the people queuing outside didn't react much." Xitong said.

Meng Ruyan said, "There is tempered glass blocking it, and the temperature is gradually decreasing, so it is possible that you didn't feel it for a while."

"So, since it has this ability, if it wants to freeze me to death, it can just drop the temperature to minus 15 degrees Celsius, so that the water in my body will directly turn into ice crystals and pierce all my cells in an instant." Xitong concluded, "It doesn't want to freeze me to death, it just wants to put me in the refrigerator and keep me."