Seized by the System

In Underground Greater Rat Kingdom.

In the side hall of the palace, Demon Rat King Ba Shixin was silent after hearing Vigilante A’s request. Unlike before, its behavior was not as obedient.

A wise man would always have a tendency to overthink. It was thinking if it should switch allegiance and jump down from Vigilante A’s boat…

There was no strategic problem with its previous choice to be tied to humans, because humans beings were very resilient.

There were a lot of individuals with high moral character. For the sake of individual dignity, they would rather die in glory than to live in dishonor.

As a collective, they would think of all ways possible to reproduce and grow their community.

As long as they could continue living, nothing else mattered, even if they had to be a servant.

It never despised the idea, because it would do the same as well.

It came from the Upper Realm, and it clearly knew that all the deities and buddhas from the Upper Realm would never choose to wipe out the human beings on Earth. On the contrary, some of the deities hoped for as many mortals as possible.

That was because they needed a lot of loyal servants to worship them, to collect resources, to build pavilions, to clean their yards, and to maintain their honor.

Perhaps some of the deities enjoyed solitude, and hope to live a carefree life. However, the majority of them were pretentious and preferred extravagance.

It chose to obey Vigilante A because it feared his strength. After all, he was the one with the strongest combat powers on Earth two years ago.

The situation had now changed. The almighty Gods from Upper Realm were starting to descend to the Lower Realm.

If it chose to stand together with Vigilante A, it would be extremely dangerous.

Powerhouses were everywhere in the Upper Realm. Vigilante A took advantage of the right time and the right place, and relied on some of his own strengths. He might be able to defeat some of them, but there was no way to counterbalance the situation that was unfavorable to him.

Just like Monkey King when he went against the heavenly palace, his strategy had already determined his fate of failure.

He might have extraordinary supernatural powers to oppress Yama and Dragon King, and to defeat all the troops and generals from heaven. However, in the face of the enormous sacred deity system, he could only be crushed, suppressed and transformed.

“You’ve not spoken a word. What do you think? You must know that you colluded with the beings from the Upper Realm, and changed the flow of vitality without authorization. That was going against the orders of heaven. I’m only asking you to make up for it by providing me manpower, what’s so difficult about this?” Vigilante A said coldly.

Bai Shixin smiled and shook its head, “The Venerable One, you shouldn’t impose this on me. Most of the deities from the Upper Realm are unforgiving and narrow-minded. Our Greater Rat Clan was newly established, and we couldn’t bear the huge consequences. I hope you seek help from someone else.”

Bai Shixin pondered over this, but it decided to decline Vigilante A’s request.

After all, Vigilante A was a heroic man, always living by his chivalrous principles. Even though it rejected his request, he would never exterminate the Greater Rat Clan. At most he would torture it and let it suffer a little.

As for the holy deities and Buddhas from the Upper Realm, their so-called mercy was just a facade.

Anyone who disregarded their will would be labeled as a defier of the heavens. “Disrespecting the saints” would be one of the reasons, and genocide was a common operation.

Hundreds of millions of races from the Upper Realm disappeared because of this.

They did not even have it do it themselves, all it took was a natural catastrophe or a human disaster.

The choice that had to be made was apparent.

“Oh, I see. That’s what you’ve decided at last. Be careful in the future, the punishment from heavens is not fiction,” Vigilante A was not angry, nor did he lose his temper. He just turned around and left.

“Wait a moment, the Venerable One. Don’t resent me, we’re just a minor clan and I had no other options. The impact of providing manpower would be huge since we don’t have much to begin with. However, I can still make some contributions in funding.” Bai Shixin was intimidated after hearing that. It put on a wry smile on its face, and then it handed over a Interspatial Ring.

Needless to say, it must be filled with lots of gold and jewellery, or even just a huge amount of cash. However, cash would take up a huge amount of space, so it was highly unlikely.

Vigilante A reached out his arms to receive the Interspatial Ring, then he nodded and left in a flash.

Surviving was hard when one was caught between both sides. As a king, one should have the awareness to endure everything. Otherwise, one would not be qualified.

Bai Shixin was never overly obsessed about this matter. Only the worthless scoundrels who could never get a second chance to start over in life would hold a grudge against the past. In contrast, he would only immerse himself in loads of work.

The day would eventually come, and he would not have to be caught in the crossfire anymore.

…

Vigilante A had already left Underground Greater Rat Kingdom.

“That’s despicable. Describing those bunch of rats as overcautious and indecisive would be exceedingly accurate,” the System felt unjust.

“I underestimated the deterrent power of the Upper Realm. After all, you’re neck deep in chivalry and you could never exterminate the whole race. That’s why those who were self-righteous were always taken advantage of. Similar events took place in history, some servants feared the evil but they were never afraid of the good. They even went to the extent of betraying the good to please the evil.

“Your plan has failed, what do we do now? I don’t have so much energy to do everything on my own. That’s impossible,” the System quickly said.

“Calm down. Oh, you can go to Black Robe. Didn’t he say that he wanted to bring forth numerous robots in Land of Sanguinity? That should be right about now since it has already been almost two months,” Fang Ning came up with an idea.

“Why didn’t you seek help from Ren Ruofeng and the rest? I remember that we advanced to lake-level in the Land of Heritage back then because their engineering team helped to dig a ditch. Speaking of that, New Year’s around the corner, the curse will be effective again. Countless bloodthirsty monsters and demons will show up, I guess it’s time for me to harvest again. After all, the flesh of a mosquito is still flesh,” the System chattered.

“You’re really foolish. Even Bai Shixin was on the fence about this, don’t you think Ren RuoFeng would be in a dilemma as well? They’re both leaders and are responsible for their entire clans. Like I’ve said earlier, I’m the only one who’s standing on your side and the only one you can trust. Trusting anyone else would highly result in you being sold off without you knowing. I’m pretty sure you know where your intelligence level lies,” Fang Ning said proudly.

“You’re low-key insulting me again. So the same problem won’t happen with Black Robe?” the System said bitterly.

“Of course. He’d been contending with the deities and Buddhas all long, he’d be very eager to see us taking a stand against them as well. So I’m certain that he’d help us to build the checkpoint in the Space Passage quickly to worsen the tension and conflicts,” Fang Ning said with conviction.

“Wouldn’t the demons from the Upper Realm be restricted as well?” the System did not understand.

“Didn’t I tell you before? The beings from the Upper Realm that descended to Earth are different from the beings staying in the Upper Realm. Both parties have unresolvable conflicts. Demon Lord Zhi Nan’s greatly ambitious, he wouldn’t hope to see the Upper Realm demons coming to Earth to seize his powers,” Fang Ning was annoyed.

The System was competent, capable and all that. However, when it came to the bigger picture, he would not know what to do and could never distinguish between a friend or a foe.

“I don’t understand, you’re beating around the bush. You’re saying that former enemies became friends, and the former friends became strangers?” the System was confused.

“The reality’s harsh, my little System. There will never be eternal friendships between forces, only personal gains exist. There might be individuals who would be willing to trust each other with their lives and not be tempted by personal interests. However, if you look at an entity, benefits would always be prioritized,” Fang Ning said earnestly.

“Oh, is that so? Then I’ll look for Black Robe,” the System finally listened to Fang Ning’s advice.

…

In the riverside of the Land of Sanguinity.

After a month, a huge factory had already been built. The factory was fully enclosed with only one exit. Now and then, a line of robotic monsters would come out from the exit. They were nothing like humans, they looked like mutated spiders with eight legs and an extra pair of hands. In fact, a human form did not have any biological advantages, it could not run fast and it was vulnerable to attacks. However, its biggest advantages were the brain and the ability to move the hands freely, which could make up for the drawbacks. The robots did not have to take up the form of humans, otherwise the difficulty level would be increased tremendously.

The robotic spiders had many limbs that were good for climbing, traveling far distances, drilling the grounds, and enduring heavy weights… All the functions could be easily developed and enhanced.

Black Robe was standing aside, looking at the robotic spiders marching out one by one with extreme satisfaction.

Production was only the first step. The next step was to let them learn and train them.

Fortunately, the artificial intelligence cores were made of humans’ souls, which were equipped with the learning ability of humans. No extra work was needed to be done.

At this moment, Vigilante A suddenly appeared beside him.

However, Black Robe was not startled. He had no time to get himself into any trouble because he was too busy with the production of robotic spiders.

After making some small talk and listening to Vigilante A’s request, he shifted his glance and said, “This is not a difficult matter, but I must ask my master for permission first.”

“Don’t forget I provided the souls for you to produce the robotic spiders,” Vigilante A said flatly.

“That’s true, but I was the one who taught them how to use the body. You would never understand the technology involved,” Black Robe was unfazed.

“Alright. Just do what you’re supposed to quickly,” Vigilante A nodded.