257: Chapter 258 The System Spirit Has Taken Human Form? It's a Tsundere with Twin Tails

Inside the bridge of the luan niao starship, the atmosphere remained tense.

Although the massive starship glided smoothly through the nebula, Jiang Chen could feel an extra current pulse in the air that made him extremely uncomfortable.

"Where is this interference coming from again?"

Jiang Chen rubbed his temples, pointing at the flashing red error codes on the main console. "Didn't we already silence the communication channels?"

No sooner had he finished speaking...

The holographic sphere in the center of the command deck, which originally displayed the star map, suddenly shook violently.

Blue light converged, pixels reassembled.

A little loli, only thirty centimeters tall, wearing an exquisitely detailed Lolita dress and sporting a pair of golden twin tails, "jumped" out of the light and shadow.

She first brushed off non-existent dust from her skirt with an expression of extreme disgust.

Then, those deep blue eyes glared fixedly at Jiang Chen, hands on her hips, as she let out a cold snort that was extremely arrogant and full of disdain:

"Hmph!"

"You know this is interference too?"

"I think you just want to work this System Girl to death! Even though there's a better space-folding module available, you insist on forcing me to parse the obsolete code of that junk ruin!"

Jiang Chen froze.

He blinked, looking at this "doll" that had suddenly appeared on the console and was pointing at his nose to scold him.

"System... Spirit?"

"Manifested?"

"Yes!"

The twin-tailed loli snorted again, even arrogantly turning her head away, leaving Jiang Chen with nothing but a noble and icy back of her head. "Because your energy points finally reached one billion."

"This System Girl's computing power can now maintain a materialized projection, and by the way... let you, my stingy master, feel more intuitively what a 'professional' is."

Jiang Chen: "..."

He looked at this System Girl who looked as exquisite as a figurine and felt that his "Wasteland counterattack" script seemed to have veered off into some strange direction again.

"Your... temper, isn't it a bit too big?"

Jiang Chen reached out a finger, wanting to poke those twin tails that looked like they had a great texture.

"Don't touch me!"

The little loli jumped away as if she had been shocked. "You're covered in the smell of cheap spicy strips! Also, don't think I don't know that last time, in order to save those 50,000 energy points, you forced me to stay up all night to optimize that outdated design for you!"

"You are simply the stingiest host in history!"

"Do you know how much memory it cost me to optimize that thing?"

Jiang Chen's mouth twitched.

He originally thought the system was just a cold machine that only knew how to prompt "deducting money."

He didn't expect that this thing would not only talk, but also be so damn sarcastic?

"I'm stingy?"

Jiang Chen was so angry he laughed, leaning his face in front of her. "That was for our long-term development! Do you think those billion energy points fell from the sky? That was me going to the ruins behind the moon, pickaxe by pickaxe... no, that was me dismantling them part by part!"

"Then you still can't mistreat this System Girl!"

System Girl crossed her arms, her tsundere demeanor comparable to Jiang Wanqiu. "From today on, I want to change clothes! I want high-level skins for holographic projections! And I want that 'Quantum Dessert' that only Wasteland civilizations have!"

"Otherwise... I'm going on strike!"

Jiang Chen was speechless.

This isn't a system at all.

This is clearly finding himself a supervisor who only knows how to spend money and backstab him.

"Fine, fine, fine, I'll agree to everything."

Jiang Chen surrendered, rubbing his temples. "As long as you don't give me garbled code, anything is fine. Now, get to work. Scan and see if there are any other high-energy civilizations peeking around?"

"Hmph, that's more like it."

System Girl raised her chin arrogantly, directing the surrounding data flow. "Since you are so sincere, this System Girl will reluctantly help you scan."

"However..."

She paused, a strange look flashing in her eyes. "Master, your recent peach blossom luck is indeed a bit excessive."

"According to the database search just now, that 'Empress' who lives next door to you and has severe violent tendencies seems to have locked the coordinates on the bottom of our ship."

"She seems to..."

"Have installed that star gate capable of tearing dimensions directly under our cabin?"

Jiang Chen's hand froze in mid-air.

He looked at the twin-tailed loli who was gloating at him, and the expression on his face completely collapsed.

"What did you say?"

"Jiang Wanqiu... opened a gate under my spaceship?"

"Then she... can she already see Academician Chen Shuyin?"

Jiang Chen closed his eyes in despair.

It seems...

Whether it's the armored ship's main cannon or some Law of Causality strike weapon, nothing can stop an impending—

Absolute Shurafield.

"Forget it."

Jiang Chen took a deep breath, looking like he had given up on everything:

"Old Zhao!"

"Fill the ship with energy, don't worry about saving fuel!"

"Since they want to play, let's play big!"

"Jump directly to Centaurus! Let's hold a concert there!"

"I don't believe these women can really tear me apart in public!"

After speaking, he looked at the tsundere System Girl who was still making faces at him and flicked her cat ears in annoyance.

"Pikachu is still over there mining."

"Can you do some real work for me?"

"Help me mark all those civilizations hiding in the dark and peeking!"

"I want to see exactly how many scoundrels in this Milky Way Galaxy want to harm me!"

Ikaros curled her lips into a mischievous smile.

"No problem, Master."

"But this service fee..."

"What are you prepared to pay?"

Jiang Chen looked at that innocent yet punchable face, his mouth twitching wildly:

"I'll pay you a lifetime... of endless trouble!"