The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure
Chapter 556 - 554: The Failed Host

Chapter 556: Chapter 554: The Failed Host

Wang Yongzhu gave Xiao Tiantian two snorts.

"Spill it, what exactly happened? Weren’t you always urging me to make progress with Song Chongjin’s affection? Now that the affection achievement has been reached, what are you dissatisfied with?"

If Xiao Tiantian had a body, she would be wiping away her tears and crying her heart out at this moment: "Host, the last time I told you about the host who had upgraded her system to level nine and was about to achieve the last accomplishment, she, she failed!"

"Oh?" Wang Yongzhu was not surprised at all, she had already anticipated this last time.

Xiao Tiantian had been holding back for a long time, and without waiting for Wang Yongzhu to ask, she volunteered the whole story. That host failed her mission and died, and her system initiated a self-destruction program with the host’s death, disappearing completely.

According to the last data transmitted back by the self-destructing system, that host was betrayed by the man she loved, the target of her love mission, the father of her child, when she was on the verge of reaching the pinnacle of farming.

The man she loved broke her limbs, imprisoned her, and forced the host to hand over the so-called magical treasure, which was the system.

After being refused by the host, the man strangled their child to death in front of her.

First, the host was betrayed by her own husband and was already in great mental turmoil; then she had to watch her husband strangle their child to death in front of her, all the while claiming the child was a monster.

The host collapsed at that moment and used all her points to exact revenge, at the cost of her own life.

Self-destruction!

Within a radius of one kilometer, all life forms turned to ash!

The host’s husband was once a declining noble family’s descendant from Capital City, who couldn’t make it in Capital City and had to return to his hometown to eke out a living.

Thanks to the host, that man’s family turned their fortunes around and re-entered the circle of noble families, even vaguely taking on the momentum of becoming the foremost noble family, defying the Imperial Court.

If things had gone without a hitch, this host might have overthrown the Imperial Court at the end of her mission, establishing a new era and ruling the world with the man she loved, their children continuing their glory.

Who would have thought, just as the host was full of ambition, the person she loved most gave her the deepest stab.

Of course, the host’s revenge was also ruthless. After that explosion, it’s likely that the husband’s family also vanished from the human world.

This incident scared the systems with hosts.

Systems are afraid of dying too!

Who can ensure that their host’s mission target isn’t such a person? That host and her mission target had been deeply in love, swearing eternal vows. Yet, wasn’t it a sudden betrayal and killing?

Especially those systems that had reached the late stage of their mission with hosts that had upgraded to levels seven or eight and were in sight of victory, they were now all shaking like leaves.

In the past, they used to mock Xiao Tiantian for being at the bottom of the upgrade ranking, but now they are all enviously wishing they were in its position.

What’s there to fear about being at the bottom? Staying alive is what truly matters!

After receiving this news, Xiao Tiantian first comforted the other systems, then reported the situation to the higher-level mainframe. These past few days, she had been waiting for a reply from the mainframe.

Unexpectedly, the mainframe’s reply was decisively ruthless: All actions taken by a host within their respective timelines and the subsequent reactions and consequences they cause will be borne by both the host and the system together, the mainframe will not intervene.

That is to say, you reap what you sow.

Systematically, the systems began to stop their hosts from advancing, all becoming self-preserving.

Only Xiao Tiantian was utterly nonchalant; after all, his host always managed fine without him worrying. While another host reached the level of intimate confidant through an affection task, his own host had just barely nudged her affection level into the positives, and while others were already heart-to-heart, his host had just barely reached friendliness.

What’s there to fear? At this rate, he estimated that he could wait until the host’s natural death, and in the meantime, with so many systems around, a solution was bound to emerge, and he’d simply need to pick up the ready-made pieces afterward.

But who could have known that, upon returning, his own host would present him with such a big surprise, or should he say, a shock?

After listening, Wang Yongzhu was instantly covered in cold sweat...

The cautionary tale of the host who met a tragic end did serve to make her more vigilant: she remembered to never bring out anything beyond the capacity of this dimension and not to be overly arrogant. She had underestimated the native inhabitants of this space, where a single careless move could lead to total defeat.

This isn’t a game, where you can just start over after making a mistake and failing.

She guessed that the host who was betrayed by her husband and consequently perished alongside his family must have exposed too much in her daily life. At the beginning, that man had turned a blind eye for the sake of his own family and interests, perhaps even helping the host conceal some facts.

However, in the end, when the man’s family grew powerful enough to rival the Imperial Court, and it seemed they might change the dynasty at any moment, the host became not a help but a hindrance.

Which emperor would allow a non-native, uncontrollable enchantress to become the Empress, and let the offspring she bore inherit the empire they had fought to establish?

That’s when the hunter would dispatch the hound that has outlived its usefulness.

Otherwise, why would the man have imprisoned the host in the end, demanding she hand over the Magical Treasure? And why would he personally slaughter his own flesh and blood?

Shaking her head, Wang Yongzhu sighed deeply, then her eyes suddenly focused: "Xiao Tiantian, something doesn’t add up. If the target of the host’s task was plotting to kill her, the affection level would surely drop, so why didn’t the System alert her? With an alert from the System, that host would’ve been vigilant and wouldn’t have devoted herself completely without sensing anything, leading to such a tragic end, right?"

And besides, with an alert from the System, knowing that her husband’s affection was dwindling, who would still be so naive to give everything?

Xiao Tiantian, upon hearing this question, suddenly froze, and after a long while finally said, "The System’s program only records increases in affection levels..."

What else was there for Wang Yongzhu to not understand?

She had never seen such an unreliable System.

"Quickly, file a complaint with your superior intelligence in my name. Demand constant monitoring of the target’s affection levels, alerting whether it increases or decreases. Otherwise, as the host, I refuse to carry out any tasks!" Wang Yongzhu swiftly said.

This time, Xiao Tiantian didn’t lag behind; seeing that it concerned itself, it quickly transmitted the complaint upward.

Now it was just a matter of waiting for a reply from the superior intelligence.

As for when this reply would come, Wang Yongzhu straightforwardly started checking her Points.

Current host status:

Clothing: Level 4, 0 Points

Food: Level 4, 0 Points

Shelter: Level 4, 0 Points

Transportation: Level 4, 0 Points

Available Points: 55 Points (Points can be freely distributed among the above options)

Have the Points really not changed?