I don't want to be your wife.

If it were just routine clearing operations by the government forces, it would be easy to fool them. With inside connections, they would naturally turn a blind eye. But now the government has issued a declaration to the uneasy citizens, which means they are serious.

No matter how arrogant they are, they can't compete with a national government.

"Never mind that, have you pried that guy's mouth open yet?"

"No."

It was obvious that the person they were referring to was the arrested cult leader.

Sitting at the head of the table, the White Wolf's elder slammed his fist on the table in anger, then helplessly withdrew his hand.

"Let's go, I'll go see for myself. As long as we grasp that guy's strange power, the government is nothing. I'll be the boss here!"

After wandering around for a while, the group arrived at the dungeon.

The leader and San were both tied up, and several people were guarding them outside. The preparations here were thorough to prevent the leader from escaping.

The door was welded shut. Even if the leader could manipulate time, the things inside wouldn't allow him to break through the door. Besides, the leader himself was also welded shut into a small area by iron chains.

Although it was a dungeon, the conditions were not bad. The leader and San were tied up like this, while Qin Congzhi and Qin Congwen were tied up on the other side.

"When you framed me, did you ever think this day would come, Master?"

They'd only been tied up for three days, and to be honest, the conditions here were much better than when the sect leader had tied them up. Not only were Qin Congzhi's wounds treated, but they were also provided with three meals a day, so they didn't have to find food for themselves in the wild.

During those few days, they ate practically everything imaginable.

Of course, this only applies to Qin Congzhi and Qin Congwen.

"Damn it! If they hadn't ambushed me, would I have ended up like this? I am an apostle of the gods, born superior to you all, how could I possibly have fallen to this state!"

Here we go again. Lately, the leader has been talking most about his so-called deity.

But, the church is about to die, has a god appeared?

No.

How pathetic! Is this what cult members are like?

I actually listened to a cult member, and now my current predicament is my way of atoning for my sins.

"Boss."

The guard at the entrance bowed his head in greeting, and then a familiar figure walked into the dungeon.

"White Wolf! Let me out! You don't deserve to lock me up here!"

The leader of the White Wolf gang, most people have forgotten his name. In the underworld of this region, everyone calls him the White Wolf.

White Wolf casually picked up a stool and sat down in front of the iron gate without a care in the world.

"Be careful, boss, he can still pose a threat."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the leader appeared in front of White Wolf, reaching out through the iron cage to grab White Wolf's throat, but instead White Wolf grabbed him instead.

Sweat soaked the leader's clothes, and he continued to exert force unwillingly, but the hand held by the white wolf remained motionless.

Just escaping from the chains would require him to overuse his strength.

The price to pay is exhaustion, dehydration, and fatigue.

His seemingly strong hands could actually hold any child easily.

"Give him water and give him a stimulant."

His men immediately sprang into action, and soon the instructor was on an IV drip, leaning excitedly against the iron gate, but he couldn't muster any strength.

"Please figure out your own position and recruit people sooner rather than later, so you might suffer less."

White Wolf has decided to use torture.

Originally, there was no rush, and everything could be done slowly. But now that danger is imminent, we can no longer wait.

"Ha! You are not worthy, not worthy of such power. You don't even believe in the existence of the gods, how can you possibly be tainted by their power?"

Although weak, there was still a faint trace of pride in the coach's voice.

Even so, the leader still considered himself superior to others.

"What's with all this nonsense? If you don't want to talk about it, then let's just get straight to the point."

White Wolf beckoned, and the person behind him walked over with a red-hot branding iron. White Wolf didn't even glance at it before leaving.

Would someone with blood on their hands believe in gods and ghosts? They are the evil spirits of this world.

"Ah!!! White Wolf, wait until I get out of here, I'll make you pay!"

Even after he left, the White Wolf could still hear the leader's roar.

Why bother? Wouldn't it be better to be free sooner?

Inside the dungeon, everyone except the leader looked away.

After losing the blessing of the leader, San was just an ordinary person who knew a little about fighting. In this situation, he had no ability to change the course of the battle, nor could he take action. After being tied up, he didn't say a word, and no one asked him anything.

White Wolf knew that the leader was the true holder of the time-manipulation ability.

Qin Congzhi and Qin Congwen simply couldn't communicate due to their different languages. After stammering for a while, they managed to exchange a few words using their English, which had deteriorated by more than a decade.

Seemingly because of their Eastern features, the white wolf didn't make things too difficult for them, and they behaved themselves.

Until today when the incident occurred.

Chapter 299 Su Mu and Su Mumu

"Excuse me, miss, may I interview you?" At the anime convention, Su Mu was stopped by a girl with a microphone. "I'm a content creator on Pixiv. I'd like to take a picture of you to use in one of my videos, is that alright?"

"Uh..." Su Mu was about to speak when the boy next to him, who was also dressed in cosplay, laughed, "Little Mu Mu is still so popular, hahaha." At this moment, Su Mu, no, it should be said that Su Mu Mu was wearing a yellow wig and a Japanese JK uniform. He was only 1.7 meters tall and weighed just over 100 pounds. He had fair skin due to being a homebody, slender limbs, a pretty face, big double eyelids, and a layer of pink lipstick on his lips.

The girl holding the microphone was stunned. From behind, it was impossible to tell how beautiful this girl was. But when the girl turned around, it became clear that the girl in front of her had a face that could captivate anyone.

"Excuse me, may I ask a few questions?" The girl holding the microphone swallowed hard. "Who are you cosplaying as, miss?"

"Shiina Mashiro, the female lead in 'The Pet Girl of Sakurasou'," Su Mumu adjusted her voice, speaking in a female tone. The sudden interview almost made her revert to her natural voice.

"I played SilverAsh in Zhouzhou," Lin Xiuyun, standing next to Su Mumu, chimed in. "You wouldn't mind interviewing me one more time, would you?"

"Yes, yes," the girl holding the microphone quickly said. "May we publish this interview video as material?"

"Please blur my face and my friend's face," Su Mumu said after thinking for a while. "After all, we're only in our final year of high school, and we're taking a break from our busy schedules to attend this comic convention. We don't want our lives to be disturbed for the time being."

The girl holding the microphone thought for a moment, then hesitated and said, "Hmm~, that's fine too. But we might ask a few questions. Also, my name is Xia Han. If you don't mind, you can just call me Sister Han."

"My first question is, how did you get involved with anime?"

This was Su Mumu's first time encountering anime, and his thoughts slowly drifted back to several years ago. It was the first time he, as a boy, had worn a skirt, the reason he was now studying alone in P City, and the first time he saw the room that led him to become an otaku.

It was a villa in the Lingjiang Villa Complex. The window of the first-floor room facing the river was wide open. Su Mu glanced at it from the outside and was immediately lost in thought. The walls were covered with anime and game posters. A boy of about the same age as him looked at him through the window and then looked away.

Su Mu vaguely remembered that he was sulking with his sister at the time. In order to appease his angry sister, he was forced to wear a little skirt and go to his sister's boyfriend's house with her. So after entering the villa community, he saw the room with walls covered with anime and game posters.

Looking back now, it still seems unbelievable. A 14-year-old boy fell in love with anime at first sight, and even argued with his parents over cross-dressing cosplay, coming to another province to study high school alone. Even Lin Xiuyun, whom he had known online for so long and had met him in person several times, did not know that he was a boy.

"I saw it on the street, found it very interesting, and became completely absorbed in it," Su Mumu replied. However, from that day on, whenever he secretly entered that neighborhood and found that house, that window was never opened again. And the boy who happened to see him through the window when he first saw that room was also never seen again. "I really wanted to get to know him, after all, he was kind of my introduction to the world of otaku."

"What else did you say next? The microphone didn't record it, can you repeat it?" Xia Han asked, puzzled by the seemingly random words that followed.

"It's nothing, just a fleeting thought. I saw it on the way here and liked it, and after learning more about it when I got home, I became completely absorbed in it." Su Mu's pretty face flushed slightly, but he still didn't realize how attractive he was to the otaku at the comic convention. Soon after, a series of low gasps of surprise came from the side.

"Hahahaha, Mu Mu is blushing," the boy with her joked. "Mu Mu, you're almost an adult girl, why are you always blushing, hahaha."

Hearing this, Su Mu, who had just calmed down, blushed again and immediately grabbed the hand of the person next to her. "Lin Zi, you still dare to say that? You know my personality." Su Mu stood up to leave. "I'm sorry, Sister Han, let's leave it at that this time. We'll be going now!"

Lin Xiuyun, who was being pulled along, could only say to Xia Han, "That little Mu Mu is shy, so I'm sorry about the interview."

"Wait, young man, do you cosplay female characters? Do you think boys who cosplay girls would actually become real girls?" Xia Han quickly stopped Lin Xiujun, who was about to leave, and asked eagerly, "This is the topic of our interview, could you please answer it?"

Before Lin Xiuyun could react, Su Mumu stopped in her tracks. "A real girl?" Su Mumu thought to herself, "If there were some kind of system or some kind of high-tech drug like in novels that could turn me into a girl, it wouldn't be so bad to give it a try."

Lost in thought, Su Mu even forgot to leave until she heard Lin Xiuyun reply, "I haven't tried it, how would I know what they're thinking? Anyway, I won't. No one who's been a boy for eighteen years would suddenly want to be a girl, right?" After saying that, Lin Xiuyun quickly led Su Mu away from the crowd, completely unaware that Su Mu's face was already flushed.

"Uh, that's the same as not answering at all. But why is that girl blushing? Could it be... hehehe..." Xia Han thought for a moment and a strange smile appeared on her face. Then she shouted in the direction they left, "Follow 'Hanhan's World Tour' on Pixiv! It should be ready in a few days. Remember to watch it!"

Outside the convention venue, Su Mumu and Lin Xiuyun, who had been running all the way, were breathing heavily. "Mumu, what are you shy about? You could easily take on two of me by yourself, and you're shy even when surrounded by people," Lin Xiuyun said between heavy breaths.

"Linzi, you still dare to say that," Su Mu's face turned red again, "How would I know? Besides, you can't beat me because you're too weak. I'm a third-degree black belt in Taekwondo, you know."

"Mumu, why did you learn Taekwondo if you have nothing better to do?"

Su Mumu paused for a moment, then said after a while, "I just went to study when I had nothing to do. Why is there a reason?" *Do you think I'd tell you it was because I almost got grabbed by a drunkard and lost my virginity that night?* Su Mumu thought to herself.

"Let's go," Su Mumu said, pulling on Lin Xiujun's sleeve. "I haven't even done much sightseeing yet."

In the crowd that had just surrounded them, a cosplayer took off her mask, revealing an abstract face that looked like an old-fashioned black-and-white television with no signal. "You can try being a girl, right? I've found a host."

Chapter 300 The Secret Exposed

At the airport in P City, Su Mu's plane was taxiing to the runway. With the National Day holiday over, Su Mu, who had enjoyed a pleasant holiday in S City, had changed out of his women's clothing. As he disembarked from the plane, he met his roommates waiting for him at the airport arrival gate.

"Brother Mu, how was it? Did you have fun at what's supposedly the biggest anime convention in the country?" Zhang Chi was the first to come over and put his arm around Su Mu's shoulder. "Did you bring any souvenirs for the brothers?"

“Yeah, Mu-ge, in our dorm’s financial situation, only you have the spare money to go to a comic convention in a big city like S City,” another roommate joked to Yangxuan. “We helped you keep it a secret from the dorm manager for three days, so we have to give you some reward, otherwise why would we risk cleaning the toilets to help you?”

"Alright, alright, everyone's here, not a single one's missing. By the way, where's Yuxuan? Why didn't he come?" When he was a boy, Su Mu always had a sunny smile on his face. Coupled with his already good looks, he could be considered a sunny boy if he were in the entertainment industry.

"That guy, he hooked up with a girl to play games on the first day of National Day. He was lucky to meet a female player who is rare in high-level games, and he was even willing to play games with her. Could it be a fake voice like Mu's?"

Having spent years in the world of anime and manga and being well-versed in cross-dressing, Su Mu naturally mastered a skill that could be both genuine and fake. Although the shadow of his family prevented him from revealing his cross-dressing secret to his roommates, he had no choice but to work hard to earn his own living expenses after running away from home.

Fortunately, Su Mu's voice imitation was quite good, so as a somewhat well-known voice actor, he voiced many characters in small games, and his income was not low, enough to support his daily life and cosplay expenses. However, no matter how well he hid it, his roommate still discovered his secret as a voice actor more than half a year ago.

"No way, if someone really has Mu's skills, wouldn't doing voice acting like Mu be a faster way to make money than swindling that guy Old Chen?"

"You two, keep your voices down. You promised to keep this a secret for me." Although Su Mu rarely agrees to be photographed at comic conventions, and even when he is interviewed like today, he asks for his face to be blurred, he is still afraid that someone might secretly take photos of him and circulate them online. In order to prevent the secret from being discovered, the fewer people who know about his ability to disguise his voice, the better.

"Okay, let's go, my Didi should be here soon." Xiang Yangxuan showed his phone the page showing that the driver had arrived, and headed towards the airport exit.

"Hmm," Su Mu also started moving. The short National Day holiday was over after the start of the senior year of high school. In order to prepare for the college entrance examination, the school reduced the National Day holiday for senior students to three days. Su Mu, who went to S City, hundreds of kilometers away, to spend the National Day holiday, felt that the holiday was over in an instant.

"I'm already a senior in high school," Su Mu thought to herself. It had been over two years since her parents discovered she was dressed as a girl in her third year of junior high, prompting her to decide to attend P City No. 1 High School in the neighboring province. She hadn't been home once during that time, not even a phone call or text message. "My parents are so heartless," she thought. "How much longer can I drift around alone like this? I can't just never go back, can I?" Su Mu thought listlessly.

Sitting in the Didi Express, Su Mu looked at the scenery rushing past the window and pondered her future direction. "How did I even have this thought in my head back then? I actually thought becoming a real girl was acceptable. Sigh..." Su Mu began to doubt herself again. "Just wearing women's clothes makes me want to run away from home. If I really became a girl, we'd probably have to cut all ties."

After more than an hour's drive, we finally arrived at our destination. The huge sign at the school gate, with its gold-plated characters "P City No. 1 High School," symbolizes that it is one of the best high schools in the southern part of the country. It is precisely because of this that Su Mu was able to be admitted from a neighboring province with excellent grades. Su Mu's high school grades are indeed outstanding. As an excellent student whose grades are enough to compete for a 985 university, he is not ranked low even in this school.

"Little Orange, how was your chat with that girl?" Su Mu teased Chen Yuxuan, who was still sitting in front of his computer, as soon as he entered the dorm room. "Speak up and let a professional listen to see if the girl on the other end is really a girl."

"Okay, Mu's here. There's a new couple skin recently. If the other side is a real girl, I'll give her one." Chen Yuxuan had a satisfied smile on his face as he took off his headphones. As soon as he took them off the computer speakers, a clear and crisp voice came out, "Hey, Orange, you come to top lane. I'm level 15 with Kayle. Help me gank the enemy top laner. Sixteen, I'll carry you."

Upon hearing this voice, Su Mu suddenly felt playful and adjusted his voice to his usual female tone, saying, "Orange, you're not going to play with me just to play games with other women?"

The woman's voice on the other end paused for a moment, then said, "Mu... the mummy is here," and then fell silent.

Su Mu and the other side fell silent, but Chen Yuxuan shouted, "Brother Mu, what are you doing? Hey Xiaoyun, don't be angry! That's my roommate, don't misunderstand! Also, there are no mummies this round!"

Upon hearing the notification "Yunxia Linhai exits the game," Su Mu skillfully switched QQ accounts, found Lin Xiujun's QQ, hesitated for a moment, and decided to say nothing.

Although the "Mu" that just came out of the speaker had a slight falsetto, he instantly recognized who it was. Therefore, he was certain that the other person had recognized his voice—no, it should be Su Mumu's voice.

Just as Su Mu was about to put down her phone, Lin Xiuyun sent her a message saying, "It's you, Mu Mu," followed by several more messages.

No need to answer, I know it's you.

"Let's forget about this for now, and talk about it next time we meet, okay?"

Su Mu fell silent, and after a long pause, he typed "Mmm" in response. Then he put down his phone and collapsed onto the bed, completely ignoring Chen Yuxuan's incessant questioning beside him.

"Brother Mu, it's ten o'clock. The water and lights will be turned off in half an hour. Aren't you going to take a shower?" Xiang Yangxuan's voice rang in his ears, and Su Mu opened his eyes.

"Ah, it's already ten o'clock," Su Mu's voice carried a sense of dejection. "Yang Xuan, what if you ran away from home because of a fight with your parents and didn't come back for two years, but one day you suddenly found out that the secret you were trying to hide by running away from home had been discovered, and you realized that you would have to face your parents again soon? What would you do?"

Xiang Yangxuan was stunned. This was the first time Su Mu had talked about his family problems in front of his roommate. Seeing Su Mu's blank look, Xiang Yangxuan could only squeeze out a sentence, "Well, family members don't hold grudges overnight, right? What if you meet with your parents and everything is cleared up?"

"Overnight? It's been two years. They haven't even sent me a single message, let alone called," Su Mu sighed, took a change of clothes from his wardrobe, and headed to the bathroom.

In the bathroom, Su Mu had just turned on the faucet, and water from the showerhead flowed down from above. "Why wasn't I born a girl?" Su Mu thought to herself. "Oh well, I'm not going to give up my eighteen years of being a boy just for cosplay." Thinking of this, Su Mu fell into deep thought again.

"Perhaps I can help you make the decision," a voice suddenly appeared in his mind, startling Su Mu. But the voice continued, "According to your understanding, you can call me System."

Chapter 301 System?!

"A system?" Su Mu couldn't help but ask, after all, this kind of thing was a standard feature of protagonists in novels, but it was something he had never heard of in reality. "Is it the kind of system that I imagined could turn me into a protagonist in a wish-fulfillment novel?"

"No, the system is just using a way of expressing things to make it easier for you to understand," the system's calm voice rang directly in Su Mu's mind. "You can think of me as an alien being. It's just that the help I can give you is similar to the system you know, so you can think of me as a system."

"Alien beings? They seem more credible than the system." After a moment of silence, Su Mu slowly asked, "Why did you come to me? You said you could help me solve my problem, but how exactly?"

“I found you to better navigate the world. The things I brought with me to Earth are all on a plane that overlaps with the plane of your city, P. Once I leave here, without myself as an anchor point, the location of that plane may drift. I signed a contract with you so that you could replace me as an anchor point, since my hope of returning home rests on these items.”