Little Black Man had plotted deeply indeed. His plan had begun to take shape the moment he met Guste.
To break through Guste's defenses, he used the system's self-check and virus purge to let Guste escape, then made him kill his own companions with his own hands.
And in their repeated clashes, he used his overwhelming strength to crush Guste's will for revenge.
Finally, he exploited Chen Cheng's desire to destroy him, prompting him to activate administrator privileges and open a breach in the sealed system.
Then he could use the system's rules to take away the powers that had tormented his mind for years and perform Soul Possession Rebirth.
To keep anyone else from interfering, he had even taken special care of She Li and the others.
Only Kui Niu, that simple-hearted fool, had fewer thoughts weighing on his mind than the rest. He had woken early at the final moment.
All it took was a slight twist of cause and effect, and the outcome went in the opposite direction.
The target of the possession was wrong. The system changed the designated target to Kui Niu.
But the power Little Black Man carried was too vast. At Kui Niu's current level, his body could never withstand or absorb it.
He would end up like the unlucky boy on whom this technique had first been tested. The sudden influx of power would dissolve his body, then break it apart until not even a speck remained.
Chen Cheng watched cracks race across Kui Niu's body and roared at the space around him:
"Extract the power from his body! Take the power back out of Kui Niu!"
Chen Cheng had no other way. He could only rely on the system in these ruins.
But the answer he received was the system's cold