Food delivery services are available in every world, and the big shots are going crazy for me.

Chapter 353 Looks so much older
"Did they just send us straight to the cold palace?" Chen Min looked at the table, which was covered in dust that was almost five millimeters thick. "This doesn't look like a place where anyone has ever lived."

"I guess she didn't intend to stay here long, so she only cleaned the bed and table, and didn't bother with the rest of the place." Mo Qianxun stared at the clean bed and table for two seconds.

Chen Min: ...This actually works?
This is incredibly lazy.

"Alright, the system inside Shen Ru's body has been removed, so she can't cause any trouble now. Let's hurry up and deliver the goods!" Mo Qianxun said, pulling Chen Min along as they walked out.

Then... the two of them got lost.

Most importantly, the palace is so big and the cold palace is so remote that hardly anyone passes by. Even if they wanted to ask someone for directions, they couldn't.

"Fly, we definitely won't get out if we walk." Chen Min looked helplessly at the increasingly remote direction they were heading in.

Mo Qianxun nodded. She really had to fly, mainly because it was her first time visiting the palace and she was a little disoriented.

The two of them took off and were just flying in mid-air when they were suddenly startled by a scream, which made them tremble and almost fall from the sky.

"What direction is that? There's such a pitiful scream coming from there. Could it be some kind of prison idiot?" Mo Qianxun looked curiously in the direction from which the sound was coming from.

“That direction… no way, it doesn’t look like there’s a prison there, but it feels like the direction of the Cold Palace.” Chen Min also looked back curiously.

The two exchanged a glance: The Cold Palace? Could it be that Shen Ru has woken up?

With a whoosh, the two rushed over, peered through the window, and watched the woman inside smashing things frantically. And sure enough, it really was her.

"Strange, Minmin, don't you think she seems... to have aged a lot all of a sudden? Her face looks so much more weathered." Mo Qianxun frowned slightly as she looked at the woman who was going crazy inside. Something was wrong; when they came out just now, Shen Ru's face was perfectly fine.

“She has indeed aged a lot. When I first met her, I thought she was in her early twenties, but now, people would believe she is fifty. Could it be that removing the system would shorten her lifespan?” Chen Min’s expression was also very serious.

If the system has side effects, then Chihiro...

She looked at Mo Qianxun with some concern.

Mo Qianxun couldn't help but notice her worried gaze. She turned her head and looked at herself with some confusion: "Sister Minmin, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Qianxun, have you ever considered that if 008 were to unbind you, the problems that happened to Shen Ru might also happen to you?"

Mo Qianxun paused for two seconds, then waved her hand: "I don't think so. Don't you know what 008 is like? Even if that little guy really unties me, he won't extract my life energy."

[Host, I knew you trusted me.]

The sudden appearance of 008 startled the two of them.

"When did you come back?"

[When you were discussing how Shen Ru ended up like this.] He had originally intended to answer their questions, but then he heard Chen Min's question and wanted to see how his host would respond.

However, his host never disappointed him.

"008, what happened to Shen Ru? When you separated the system, did you also take away her lifespan?"

"[Honestly, I wouldn't do such a wicked thing. She brought this on herself; it has nothing to do with me.]" 008 quickly distanced herself, not wanting her host to misunderstand. "What do you mean?"

[That strategy system is actually a modified version of a luck-stealing system. It retains the ability to steal luck but uses the guise of a strategy system to conceal its true nature. The reason she's become like this is probably because she made a final deal with that system.]

Mo Qianxun and the other person suddenly realized.

“I get it. Did she tell that luck-stealing system that she's willing to pay any price to get rid of us?” Chen Min put her hands on her hips, looking like she had seen through the whole truth.

[Yes and no. At first, she didn't suspect us, and she didn't even know you were actually mission takers. It was only later, under the subtle instigation of that system, that she realized everything.]

"Oh, so she traded her lifespan with this system?"

008 nodded. [Her deal with that luck-stealing system was to kill you all, then steal your luck to nourish herself. That way, she might have a chance to return to the emperor's side, and then she could manipulate him however she wanted.]

Mo Qianxun shook her head helplessly: "Does this person treat this world like a game, where they can save and start over?"

[But she probably didn't expect that the system had already been secretly planning to abandon her ever since she entered the Cold Palace. The so-called big deal was just to get rid of us, seize our luck, and then drain her luck before binding her to the next person.]

Mo Qianxun and Chen Min both widened their eyes in disbelief.

"No, they've spent so much time together, don't they have any affection for each other at all?"

008 looked at her arrogantly. [Host, do you think all systems are as good as mine? We systems are similar to you humans; we have many different personalities.]

"What you just said, could it all have been told to you by that system?"

[Hmph, it was the main system who told me that, and besides, this system is ranked quite low on the wanted list.]

"So how many points did you earn this time?"

【Hehe, this number.】008 spread out his five fingers.

Five hundred? That's a bit low!

008 shook his head and stretched his hand forward forcefully.

"Five thousand?" That's alright, I can accept it.

008 shook his head again. [Host, open it up, open it up, open your imagination.]

"...Fifty thousand! That's a lot."

008 sighed. "It's five hundred thousand!"

"Holy crap! Five hundred thousand?" Mo Qianxun and Chen Min couldn't believe their ears. "Isn't he lower on the wanted list? How come it's so much?"

[Oh, after checking him out, the main system suddenly realized that this kid must have encountered other systems before. Those systems didn't recognize him, so he devoured them all. Although he's not very capable, he must have devoured quite a few systems, so the main system's reward was naturally higher.]

008 is still a little scared. Luckily, he was careful, otherwise he would have been swallowed up too.