Chapter 28 - Self-Rescue Manual of a Villainess

Chapter 028: Commence Battle 《My Life has been Chirped by the Cicada》 __________________________ 【Emergency Mission Released: Save Li Meng, who is about to lose her legs. Mission requirements: Protect Li Meng from sustaining any major injuries in the upcoming attack. Mission deadline: Two hours. Mission Completion Reward: Random. Mission Failure Punishment: Become a fragile, animal-eared little Lolita for three days.】 In the original plot, Li Meng visits this hospital to see her family and astoundingly comes across hired mercenaries who aim to assassinate her grandfather. She ends up losing her legs due to a bomb – leaving the once arrogant lady confined to a wheelchair throughout the plot; though it's one of high-tech design... But now, with Nan Yin, perhaps her fate will be different? …… On the rooftop, Nan Yin is momentarily stunned as she looks over the mission that Can Yin just released in her mind, especially the randomly assigned reward. "Can Yin, what's the deal? Can't you give me some tangible rewards?" Nan Yin speaks coldly. This seemingly system-like entity always gives random rewards, never what you’d typically consider favorable -- the first time, it was to repair the original owner's voice box; the second time, a locator to track the female lead, Su Xiao Yu. Nan Yin really can’t fathom what she can do with it; follow Su Xiao Yu around? Wouldn’t that make her a stalker? And the punishment for failing the mission? Turns her into a fragile, animal-eared little Lolita? How does that benefit Can Yin? After all, it's Nan Yin’s body! As Nan Yin ponders on this train of thought, her expression gradually changes. Perhaps... this little fellow has a weird Windows system fixation and yearns to see her body transforming into a weak, animal-eared Lolita... Naturally, Can Yin hears Nan Yin's complaints, but she can't do much about it. “The body you are using now is mine and yes, I’d naturally want to give you a strong tool, something that can knock down Su Xiao Yu in one punch-- but the truth is, I can’t. These mission rewards have been pre-determined from above. I have no say in them.” "And this is my original body. How could I possibly want to see it turned into a weak Lolita?” Believing Can Yin’s denial to be genuine, Nan Yin suppresses her dissatisfaction and focus on picking up her sniper rifle again. Regardless, she cannot neglect the mission. Even though it's not her body, Nan Yin would certainly prefer not to become a weak, animal-eared little Lolita… __________________________ Though the City of Tianzhou bustles at night, the tranquility quickly encompasses the hospital. After all, it's a private hospital for the members of Long Qian Group. Normally, there aren't many people, but now, with the former chairman from their group taking up residence, the place is under strict security control. The nightfall relaxes the guards from the Long Qian group; after all, they're in the city center of Tianzhou, where there’s extremely tight security, nothing out of the ordinary ever happens. With drones patrolling every nook and corner, the moment something happens, contingents from multiple corporations’ armed forces, as well as city defense officers, rush to the scene. However, these corporate guards who generally lead a privileged life have no idea, not only is somebody planning mischief tonight but they’re plotting something unthinkable -- assassinating the former chairman of the Long Qian group; dozens of elite mercenaries hired from Basileus are lurking around stealthily… One second... Two seconds… Nan Yin holds her sniper rifle, watching her holographic stopwatch strapped near her scope, calculating the mercenaries' expected time of action. Fifteen seconds... Sixteen seconds...! The instant the stopwatch resets, Nan Yin on the building's top clearly sees a magnificent building in the distance of the Tianzhou city sector erupt into brilliant “fireworks”, plunging one-third of the city's main area into darkness. “What's happening? The city hall has been attacked?” “No … that seems to be the central node of the drone network next to the city hall?!” “Call the police immediately!!” “……” In reality, good Samaritans need not bother themselves to call the police. An attack on somewhere as important as the city hall means police forces and other relevant agencies are already rushing to the scene. While the power cannot be restored instantly, the mercenaries' real objective is to wait for the hospital to kick on backup power. Upon ascertaining this, Nan Yin immediately lifts up her sniper scope and peers into a certain direction. _________________ Just as the power failed, the security guards at the medical center indeed retightened their surveillance -- only to relax as soon as they discovered the explosion had occurred at the city hall. This world’s city council in Tianzhou, due to its geographical location and populace, attracts a lot of hostility, periodically falling prey to rebel mutants, so these security guards are somewhat conditioned to it. After waiting for a while and seeing nothing occur, they get ready to kick-start the backup power. Considering Tianzhou city's high level of technological development, numerous places require electricity; for instance, the drone network is useless without power. However, it is at this moment that the guards realize their communication system seems to be malfunctioning. “Alpha group? Alpha group, can you hear me? What's the situation at the entrance?” “Our communications appear to have been intercepted – where are the security hackers? Fix this immediately!” “Maybe the power outage caused a glitch, let’s... Huh?!” As the guards start realizing something is wrong, the Basileus mercenaries manage to tap into their military grade tech to remotely control the security robots at the medical center. These security robots are all integrated with the Long Qian Group's main system, extremely difficult to control under normal circumstances -- but the brief outage caused a momentary lapse in the connection between the network and the main system, and this fleeting moment was all the Basileus' genius hackers needed to seize control over the robots. “What's going on……?” A guard just recovers from the blackout, only to see their armed robots activating the attack mode. As she attempts to alert her team, the robots raise their weapons, safety already turned off. “Thunk--Bang!!!!” __________________________ Medical Center, 23rd Floor Hallway. The sudden sound of gunfire startles Li Meng and Nan Xi, who are waiting for their butler. Before they can even react, their supposed security bot, a mechanical hound, starts to charge at them! However, at this critical juncture, a spark of electricity erupts outside the window causing the mechanical hound to shatter like it's been hit by something. The guards react to the situation. Sensing that their robots have been remotely controlled, the captain with a bit of combat experience quickly realizes the situation. As for the attack that shattered the mechanical hound... It was a sniper rifle! The captain takes the initiative commanding the frightened Li Meng and Nan Xi, and rushes toward the safe passage. Meanwhile, Nan Yin, who just took the shot from atop a distant building, watches this development and frowns: “Why is Nan Xi here?”