At this moment, the system had shed its previous cold and indifferent demeanor, reverting back to its lively and cheerful tone.
Shen Tang quietly breathed a sigh of relief; her guess was correct, the system indeed had a malfunction.
"What exactly happened?"
The system huffed and explained, [I was invaded by an external virus! But don’t worry, host, this system has completed the cleanup and even upgraded its defenses, it won’t be invaded a second time!]
"No wonder that ’you’ issued such strange tasks, with punishments for failure... Have you found out who invaded?"
The system was silent for a moment, then answered, [It was the main system.]
Shen Tang was taken aback, "Then how did you manage to counter successfully?"
The system got proud again, [I’m the latest version of a growth-type system, different from those ordinary ones! I have built-in countermeasures, and my underlying code states ’serving the host above all else,’ even the main system can’t interfere with my decisions!]
These words were indeed full of bravado.
Shen Tang was even more surprised.
Doesn’t this mean, in some situations, the system is completely autonomous—could this be why someone wants to destroy it?
Her eyes darkened, her voice turned cold, "Do you remember the question I asked you before? Why are you collecting quality Beastman genetic data from this world?"
The system once answered that it didn’t know either, the task was just to collect.
This time, Shen Tang spoke out the answer for it,
"It’s to artificially create Beastmen, right?"
The system suddenly fell silent.
Shen Tang continued slowly, "Only by collecting a richer and better gene pool can stronger Beastman Warriors be created, becoming the sharpest blade."
"That impostor was cloned using my genes, wasn’t it?"
During this period, Shen Tang had thought a lot.
Since the Aliens could create impressive Deputies in the lab, they could theoretically use genetic data to replicate a female exactly like her.
If they have enough of a gene pool, they could even replicate anyone, including her Beast Husbands!
This is by no means unfounded.
From Jia Lan saying that the impostor had exactly the same genes as her, from Xue Yinzhou saying that the body was identical to hers, Shen Tang actually had already guessed—the only existence in this world fully aware of her physical data, memories, and even private stories with her Beast Husbands is one.
That is the system.
So, was it the system that extracted her physical data and memories to upload to the main system, which then created that impostor?
Was the main system and the Alien colluding from the beginning!?
The system listened to her analysis, shocked to the point of almost petrification.
It hurriedly explained, [Host, I really have not actively uploaded anything! I also don’t know what’s going on, but I definitely haven’t harmed you!]
Shen Tang closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "I believe you."
After all, the system is just a "worker." If the main system really wants to retrieve something from its database, it’s simply a breeze.
Shen Tang had long been skeptical about how the aliens knew about the system’s existence. But if she opened her mind and thought about it, if the system was involved with them from the beginning, everything makes sense.
It’s just that the system she is bound to seems a bit special, able to counter the main system to some extent, becoming a "variable." Precisely because of this, the main system wants to eliminate her and the system through the hands of the Deputy.
Yet Shen Tang still felt puzzled about one thing, if the main system really was in cahoots with the Deputies, why did the system, after being infected with the virus, require her to kill Necro?
If it was just to make both sides suffer, killing two birds with one stone, it would make sense.
But listening to those Deputies, they apparently preferred to capture Necro alive.
A living Blood Clan is more valuable.
Doesn’t this contradict their purpose?



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