Chapter 428: Jiang Ke'er’s Endless Tricks! (2)

Jiang Ke’er’s notebook recorded most of her plans in detail.

Starting from her choice of the Ancient God, the Villain System, as her primary partner.

“Why choose the Ancient God? Not me?” asked the Nine-tailed Woman.

“I want to negotiate, so I must have equal leverage,” Jiang Ke’er said softly while stroking Qiao Xiaoxian’s hair.

“The Protagonist System won’t easily give me power. You all hope I can train little by little, grow little by little, without relying on external forces… But I can’t wait. Every day I can’t be honest with Qiao Xiaoxian feels like a year.”

“You’re too impulsive. You don’t know what a huge price you’ll pay.” The Nine-tailed Woman sighed and shook her head.

“I’m willing to pay any price.” Jiang Ke’er smiled indifferently.

“So I chose the Ancient God, because he is already at his last gasp. Besides me, he has no other choice. He must cooperate with me to complete all this.”

“Clever. If it were me, I would have done the same.” The Nine-tailed Woman praised.

“The key to the plan is how to make you all anxious, so that you would send a sufficiently powerful expert to negotiate with me.” Jiang Ke’er continued to explain.

“The best way is to make me seem like I’ve already fallen and lost my mind. That way you’ll naturally get anxious.”

The Nine-tailed Woman smiled and nodded. “And then?”

“This process of falling must also be reasonable, so that you see no logical flaws.” Jiang Ke’er paused for a moment and showed an apologetic expression to Luyia and the others.

“I’m sorry, I was the one who poisoned you, to prevent you from arriving in time to stop me from siding with the Ancient God.”

“Holy crap?!” Luyia was stunned.

“I also deliberately didn’t go to the Secret Realm. I knew it was a trap you set to seal the Ancient God’s power. When I heard that the Secret Realm was related to Peerless Beauty and Frost Shadow, I understood everything.”

“…”

Luyia felt her brain wasn’t enough.

She asked unwillingly, “Why did Qiao Xiaoxian have to die?”

Jiang Ke’er was momentarily dazed.

“Her death was the most important part.” After a moment, Jiang Ke’er answered with a bitter smile.

“It was her death that made everything seem reasonable. It was also the key to tricking Epsilon into entrusting me with his power…”

“You even fooled the Ancient God.” Even the Nine-tailed Woman was shocked by Jiang Ke’er’s scheming.

“Yes, I never fully trusted the Ancient God. I didn’t reveal my entire plan.” Jiang Ke’er raised her hand, admiring the Nebula Energy dancing at her fingertips.

“To make Qiao Xiaoxian escape all this, I couldn’t trust any of you. I had to… take fate into my own hands!”

“Nice work.” The Nine-tailed Woman praised again.

“Using Qiao Xiaoxian’s death as the logical foundation, everyone could only see you being pushed to madness. The Ancient God thought you would fall into extremes from then on, but who would have thought you were just going with the flow to accept power, with the real purpose of coming to negotiate with me… Truly impressive!”

Everyone listened with their scalps tingling. Every word Jiang Ke’er said was like a bombshell, leaving people dizzy. This… what kind of monster layout is this?!

Jiang Ke’er looked solemnly at the Nine-tailed Woman.

“Then, can we start the negotiations now?”

“I agree.” Without even waiting for Jiang Ke’er to state her demands, the Nine-tailed Woman gladly responded.

“You did all this for Qiao Xiaoxian, to keep her from being drawn into the war between us. I promise you. Regardless of whether we end up as enemies or not, I will not lay a hand on Qiao Xiaoxian, nor will I use her to threaten you… Not only that, I will do my best to protect her safety.”

“As long as you don’t act, I’ll protect her.” Jiang Ke’er said coldly.

“In this world, the only one I fear is you. You are too terrifying…”

Looking at that familiar face, Jiang Ke’er could even feel the familiar sensation of a blade piercing through her chest.

Countless deaths were still vivid in her memory, but Jiang Ke’er’s fear of the other did not come from life and death. It was from the terrifying, endless Calculation Power.

If even the weakened System Dummy had such terrifying calculation ability, then how powerful must the original System Dummy’s calculation ability be?! It was that kind of calculation ability that made Jiang Ke’er deeply feel the threat, realizing that her entire remaining life would probably be lived under the other’s schemes, realizing that everything happening to her was the other’s plot…

That was why she had to risk everything to negotiate clearly with the other, so that she could feel at ease.

After all, she couldn’t see through the other, didn’t know what she really wanted. Perhaps one day, she would take away everything she cherished.

“The Ancient God really knows how to choose a candidate,” the Nine-tailed Woman said with a helpless bitter smile as she looked at Jiang Ke’er’s hostile expression. “What kind of monster have we trained…”

“I’m sorry, but if I want to be with Qiao Xiaoxian, I must eliminate all potential threats.” Jiang Ke’er hugged Qiao Xiaoxian tightly, as if afraid someone would take her away.

“But she is already dead.” At the mention of life and death, Jiang Ke’er smiled, revealing two small, immature canine teeth.

“In the eyes of the Queen of the Earth, what life and death? It’s just a matter of a single thought.”

“As long as you have a plan.” The Nine-tailed Woman sighed softly.

“Young people nowadays are really something…”

After Jiang Ke’er left, Luyia still had a wisp of the Nine-tailed Dharma Aspect’s consciousness before her.

Luyia chuckled softly and said, “She thinks she won.”

“She really did win,” the Nine-tailed Dharma Aspect’s aura gradually thinned and scattered.

“But it’s not quite the way you imagine winning…”

“How is it different?”

“Just because I can see through her plan doesn’t mean I’ve won anything,” said the Nine-tailed Dharma Aspect.

“Of course she knew I could see through it. She knows the strength of the System Dummy very well; how could she have any hope of luck… She was waiting for me to see through it, so that I would receive the signal she wanted to send.”

“Signal? What?” Luyia scratched her head in confusion.

“No one really believes a verbal promise. This wasn’t a negotiation. Insisting on meeting was just to confirm that I had received the signal.”

“What? What are you doing?!” Luyia was completely bewildered.

“The barrier’s power is too strong. I can’t stay any longer. I’ll explain next time we meet…”

With that, the wisp of remaining aura dissipated without a trace.

Luyia stomped her foot in anger.

“Damn! A bunch of gods fighting! Can’t you just speak normal human language?! What crap is this? I’m giving a bad review!”

Placing Qiao Xiaoxian on the bed, Jiang Ke’er sat sideways on the edge, her gaze like water as she stared intently at Qiao Xiaoxian’s face.

She could finally look at Qiao Xiaoxian openly. No need to hide, no need for pretenses.

“I’m probably just a small pawn in their long river of life.” Facing Qiao Xiaoxian’s silent and motionless face, Jiang Ke’er murmured to herself.

“But this game is staked on my entire life…”

Smiling, she leaned down and lightly pecked Qiao Xiaoxian’s cheek.

“I bet everything on one purpose. To be with you, steadily and securely!”

“Qiao Xiaoxian. I like you!”

“You’re so good, what reason do I have not to like you?”

“I want to watch the sunrise and sunset with you, lying on the grass, wearing wedding dresses, watching the clouds drift slowly by…”

“I can play for you. Whatever you like to hear, I’ll play it!”

“I’m sorry for making you sad for so long.”

“This time I won’t run away.”

“Forever, forever, I won’t run away again…”