books44 Chapter 322
Chapter 322
"Alright, everyone's standing around. Have a seat."Old Master Ji's voice rang out slowly, drawing Yaoyao's attention.
She looked at the elderly man before her in disbelief.
This old gentleman had the highest fortune value of anyone present.
He was destined to be isolated from his kin.
He lost his father while still in the womb.
At eight years old, he watched his mother die with his own eyes.
In his twenties, he bid farewell to his beloved wife.
In his sixties, his son and daughter-in-law both died unexpectedly in an accident.
He suffered from psychological illness, plagued by pain in his later years. One rainy night, he suddenly fell ill and was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. On the way, a car crash killed him instantly. He was seventy-eight years old.
But now, his fate had completely changed.
It changed at the age of seventy-eight—when his life was supposed to end, it suddenly took a sharp turn upward...
How strange—how could someone destined to be kinless have both parents alive in their old age?
In the end, he passed away peacefully with his parents by his side, at the age of one hundred and three.
"Why is Miss Yaoyao staring at an old man like me?"
Old Master Ji felt a little unnerved by her gaze and showed displeasure. When a person of authority frowns, the presence is undeniable.
Yaoyao quickly explained, "Sorry, I was rude. I was reminded of my grandfather. My apologies, sir."
She then noticed Rong Yu, who had been sitting on the sofa all along.
That woman—she couldn't read her at all.
Ever since she got the fortune-transfer system three years ago, she had been able to see everyone's fortune value and take it for herself.
But why couldn't she see Rong Yu's fortune?
What was different about Rong Yu?
Still, this wasn't the time to figure that out.
Who should she target first among the Ji family?
She would start with the old man.
Older people had weaker control—taking their good fortune would be easy.
Yaoyao smiled and stepped forward quickly. "Grandpa Ji, let me help you sit down."
She reached out to take Old Master Ji's arm.
"Miss Yaoyao!"
Ji Mohan grabbed her abruptly.
Yaoyao didn't mind. Her fingertips tightened, firmly clasping Ji Mohan's hand. Her red lips curled slightly. "Thank you..."
In an instant, the energy field inside her activated. Invisible quantum tendrils wormed through the skin where they touched, burrowing into Ji Mohan's body. But just as she was about to seize his fortune—
Buzz!
The quantum protective wall that had been set up in the Ji family living room suddenly lit up with a chilling blue glow. The nano-scale superconducting coils instantly formed a closed-loop magnetic field.
The moment Yaoyao's energy extended outward, it disappeared as if swallowed by the vast ocean—sucked away by an even larger, more precise force.
"What...?"
Her pupils contracted sharply, and her face turned deathly pale.
The energy was flowing backward!
The system inside her let out a sharp alarm. The originally stable quantum state began to collapse. Countless fortune quanta she had stolen over the years gushed out of her like a bursting dam, draining away endlessly.
"No... stop!"
Yaoyao tried desperately to flee, but Ji Mohan held her wrist firmly in return. The grip was gentle, but she couldn't break free.
He smiled. "Miss Yaoyao, quantum entanglement has a very interesting property: the force is always mutual."
Yaoyao trembled all over. She could clearly feel her internal system collapsing. The nano-scale quantum nodes inside her body went dark one by one, like candles being snuffed out.
She lost all her strength and collapsed to the ground.
Ji Zhiyuan's hand remained pressed against his lower back, where he hid a gun he had bought abroad, ready at any moment to send a bullet into Yaoyao.
Ji Yanting blocked the main entrance, determined not to let Yaoyao escape.
Ji Jingchuan stood behind Yaoyao, prepared to take over from Ji Mohan at any moment and restrain her.
But Yaoyao was already unable to resist.
"System, my system..."
She cried out in panic.
An even more terrifying transformation followed... Her long, jet-black hair, from the roots, visibly began to lose its color, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a glaring expanse of white.
Yaoyao raised a trembling hand and grabbed a strand of white hair, her entire body struck as if by lightning.
When the energy collapsed, the youth, luck, and life force she had plundered... all of it backfired...
Rong Yu stared at the data screen, her face full of shock.
The quanta extracted from Yaoyao's body, the life force was wild, actively devouring the surrounding quanta, growing stronger on its own... This was a miracle in the history of scientific research, something that should not exist.
"You, all of you..." Blood seeped from Yaoyao's lips, her eyes bloodshot as she looked up at the group before her. "You took my system away from me. Give it back, give it back!"
Ji Mohan crouched down: "What is this 'system'? Explain it to me properly."
He even pulled out a notebook and began to write carefully.
Yaoyao's throat turned bitter and metallic, a mouthful of blood spraying out: "So from the competition day on, your whole family was scheming against me, huh. Hmph, the system only recognizes me as its true master. You've taken it, but you can't make it work..."
Ji Mohan wrote quickly: "The system has a master-bonding mechanism. The energy will backfire..."
"Interesting." Rong Yu approached, looking down at Yaoyao. "I'm curious, where did this so-called system come from?"
"You, you..." Yaoyao stared at her. "Do you have a system too? Is that why I can't detect your luck value?"
She suddenly grabbed Rong Yu's leg. "Miss Rong, we can cooperate. My system can steal everyone's luck and convert it into system energy. If you help me take these people's fortune, I'll give you all the converted energy. Help me, help me, please..."
Ji Mohan was shocked, writing furiously: "The system can convert luck into energy and transfer it to others..."
"Are other people just supposed to be your energy bank?" Rong Yu's voice was icy. "Your family had their luck stolen by you. Your father fell from a high-rise construction site, both legs permanently disabled. Your mother made a work mistake, and all your family's savings became compensation. Your brother was hit by a truck, left half-paralyzed..."
"What do you know? You don't understand anything!" Yaoyao screamed. "They deserved it, they deserved it! Who told them to favor sons over daughters, always only thinking about my brother, forcing me to drop out of school to work, forcing me to marry for a bride price so they could build my brother a house and get him married. They all deserved to die, deserved to die!"
Her stubbornness made Rong Yu shake her head. "And what about the fans? Did they deserve to die too?"
"They got emotional value from me. Taking just a little bit of their luck—what's wrong with that?" Yaoyao said slowly. "Besides, their original lives were all miserable. It was because luck favored them that they got smooth lives. I just... put them back on their original path. What did I do wrong? What exactly did I do wrong that made so many of you band together to target me!"