"Rustle, rustle..."
Ye Feng twisted his body, trying to adjust his position so he could lean against the wall and stand up. Even though the handcuffs on his wrists could be unlocked with a master key, the ropes coiled tightly around his waist were impossible to break free from. That left him with only one option...
To use the jagged rocks in the cave, relying on their sharp edges to cut through the ropes binding him.
With this plan in mind, Ye Feng wasted no time putting it into action. If he didn’t act now, Xie Yuyan would return soon, and once she did, no amount of tools would help him escape her grasp.
After some fumbling, Ye Feng finally found a relatively smooth section of the cave wall. Sticking to the principle of saving his trump card for later, he didn’t immediately use the master key. Instead, he focused on rubbing the sturdy ropes against the rock to fray them.
"Scratch, scratch..."
As his strength gradually returned, Ye Feng put more force into cutting the ropes. Finally, the thick hemp cords snapped under the sharp rock, and with one last effort, he collapsed onto the ground, exhausted.
"Haah... Hah... Haah..."
Finally... finally, he’d done it! But this was only the first step. He couldn’t afford to relax just yet.
Taking a few steady breaths to clear his lungs, Ye Feng turned his attention to the solid shackles still locked around his wrists.
"Clink."
With a metallic clatter, the shackles fell to the ground. Ye Feng scanned his surroundings, his gaze hardening with determination.
Good! So far, so good. There were no unusual movements outside the cave. All he needed to do now was disable the alarm at the entrance, and he’d be free.
But... how was he supposed to deactivate it?
As Ye Feng pondered this, a memory surfaced—a reward from a past mission, something called an "electronic jammer."
"That’s it!"
The words burst from his lips before he could stop them. Without hesitation, he summoned the signal jammer from his system interface.
A small black box materialized in his hand. He examined it closely, noting its cube-like shape and the thirty-minute countdown displayed on one side.
Realizing that the timer had started the moment he took hold of the jammer, Ye Feng understood—he now had only thirty minutes to escape.
"I have to hurry. Thirty minutes should be enough."
Just as he muttered this to himself, the infrared detector at the cave entrance flickered and went silent, as if deactivated.
"The jammer’s working. Time to take the healing pill and get out of here."
But the moment a golden pill appeared in his palm, a sharp, crackling noise erupted from his chest.
"Huh? Wh-what was that?!"
Before he could even step out of the cave, Ye Feng clearly heard the piercing buzz of electricity coming from his own chest. A jolt of current surged through him, startling him so much that he nearly dropped the pill.
"What the hell is this?! Why is there an electric sound coming from my chest?!"
Following the stinging pain, Ye Feng looked down and spotted a faint scar on his chest—one so subtle he wouldn’t have noticed it if not for the sudden shock.
"This... this is a wound?! When did I get hurt here? And it looks like it’s already healing, meaning it’s been here for a while... but I never felt anything before..."
The unexpected electric interference threw his carefully laid plans into chaos. A growing sense of unease told him that if he didn’t figure out what was happening with his chest, it could jeopardize his entire escape.
What now? The jammer was already active—he couldn’t stay in the cave. If he wanted to investigate this, he’d have to find a safer place first. For now, he had to leave.
Gripping the black box tightly, Ye Feng hurried out of the cave and made his way down the mountain...
"L-Lady! Something’s happened!"
Just as Li Mucheng and Su Yuxin were following the trail of blood up the mountain, a scout rushed toward them in a panic.
"What is it?"
Li Mucheng kept her voice steady, though the tension in her furrowed brows betrayed her concern—any unexpected development was bad news right now.
The scout gasped for breath. "Our team was scouting ahead when suddenly, a black figure darted through the woods. Before we could react, huge boulders came crashing down out of nowhere! They’ve completely blocked the path up the mountain. Thankfully, no one was hurt."
"Xie Yuyan knows the terrain this well?"
Listening to the report, Li Mucheng grew more convinced that Ye Feng was somewhere on this mountain. Xie Yuyan’s desperate measures only proved she was running out of options.
"Yuxin, has Xie Yuyan ever been to this mountain before?"
She turned to Su Yuxin, whose face had gone pale with worry.
"Huh? N-no! Xie Yuyan has never come here! Ever since she fled to me, she’s been hiding in the basement."
"Then she must’ve just prepared some countermeasures. But if she’s doing this, it means she doesn’t plan to stay and fight. This could be a diversion!"
"A diversion?"
Su Yuxin caught on quickly, her expression shifting as she considered the possibility.
"Mu Cheng, are you saying Xie Yuyan is using the rocks to make us think she’s making a last stand at the summit, when really, she’s trying to sneak Ye Feng out from another route?"
"Exactly. Given her actions, that’s the most likely scenario. After all, moving alone with the professor wouldn’t be easy for her."
"Then I’ll send people to cut her off on the other side!"
"No—Yuxin, wait. There’s another way."
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
ave】 Shen Qingling was a man with peerless looks, a cunning mind, and the ability to play both the aloof noble and the innocent sweetheart—a master of seduction who could outplay any player. But after an untimely death, he found himself bound to a system and transmigrated into the tragic "true young master" of a melodramatic novel. In the original story, his childhood sweetheart treated him as a backup plan, his fiancée swore to break off their engagement for the sake of the "fake young master," and his own sister saw him as the family's disgrace. He was nothing more than a rat everyone wanted to stomp on. System 077: "Your mission is to change the original fate and conquer the goddesses." Shen Qingling: "Thanks for the invite. If seduction had tiers, I’d be max level." His childhood sweetheart knelt, begging for forgiveness: "Qingling, I was wrong. Please give me another chance." His ex-fiancée refused to marry anyone else: "Shen Qingling, I was blind before. In this life, I’ll marry no one but you." A yandere CEO went mad for love: "Shen Qingling, you can only like me. I’ll stop at nothing to make you mine!" His green-tea sister clung to him daily: "Brother, look at me, won’t you? I’m more obedient than them—I love you the most~" At first, they scorned and trampled on him. Later, they burned themselves like moths to a flame, all for his sake. His looks were his weapon, his sweet words the bait—heroines obsessed over him, villains turned to madness for him. Shen Qingling became a true male siren, igniting battlefield after battlefield of women fighting for his affection. Years later, when System 077—now one of the elites—was asked how to become as outstanding as it, it lazily exhaled a smoke ring and replied: "Just know how to cheer ‘666’ at the right time."
