Low-Level Bandit System

The scorching sun hung high in the sky, its venomous rays like a mass of burning flames, mercilessly roasting the boundless wilderness.

The air was thick with the parched, scorched scent of baked earth, and waves of heat rolled over one another, causing the distant horizon to appear distorted and blurred by the extreme temperature.

The weeds across the wilderness grew with wild abandon, reaching over half a person's height, their leaf edges lined with fine, serrated teeth that would leave a bloody scratch on the skin if one were the least bit careless.

Su Yu and Tang Wu had been walking along this desolate, uninhabited path for over an hour.

After leaving Holy Soul Village, they had set foot on this road, the only way to reach Nuoding City.

Although Old Jack had applied a Breath Concealment Talisman to them, sparing them the risk of being detected by other high-level cheaters, this wild, natural environment remained a significant challenge for two children who had just turned six.

"Brother Yu, I'm so hot, and my feet are sore..."

Tang Wu held Su Yu's hand tightly, her small face flushed red from the sun, her forehead covered in a fine layer of sweat.

Her short, deep blue hair was already soaked with perspiration, sticking limply to her cheeks.

Her rough cloth shoes crunched against the uneven dirt road, and every step she took seemed like a struggle.

Su Yu stopped, took a canteen from his pack, pulled out the stopper, and handed it to Tang Wu.

"Be good, San'er, drink some water. Hang in there a little longer; once we cross this stretch of wilderness, there should be some shade ahead where we can rest."

Su Yu raised his hand, gently wiping the sweat from Tang Wu's forehead with his sleeve, his tone carrying a hint of comfort.

Although he possessed the soul of a transmigrator and the mind of an adult, this six-year-old body was indeed prone to fatigue.

However, the physical improvements brought by his Innate Full Soul Power made him much stronger than his average peers; at the very least, he could still manage to push forward for now.

Tang Wu held the canteen with both hands, gulping down several mouthfuls before her parched throat finally felt some relief.

She obediently handed the canteen back to Su Yu, her large eyes sparkling with reliance: "As long as I'm with Brother Yu, San'er isn't afraid of being tired."

Su Yu smiled, just about to take the canteen, when his gaze suddenly sharpened.

"Swish, swish, swish—"

The grass ahead suddenly swayed violently, and immediately following a burst of crude cursing, two tall, burly figures leaped out from the waist-high weeds like two starving wolves, blocking their path dead in their tracks.

The two men were bare-armed, their bodies knotted with muscle, their skin tanned dark and glistening.

Each held a rusted, wide-bladed machete, the edges still stained with dark red blood, emitting a nauseating, metallic stench.

The one on the left was Scarface, a hideous scar stretching from the corner of his left eye to the corner of his mouth, making his already vicious face appear even more terrifying.

His eyes, filled with greed, were glaring fiercely at the grey pack on Su Yu's back, as if it were filled with mountains of gold and silver.

The one on the right was Baldy, his head gleaming brightly under the scorching sun.

He didn't look at the pack, but instead leered at the delicate Tang Wu, his mouth curling into a lewd arc, revealing a set of yellow-black, rotting teeth.

"Yo, Big Brother, our luck is great today! We've been squatting in this godforsaken place for half a day, and we actually run into two stray little lambs!"

Baldy cackled strangely, waving his machete casually in the air, producing a dull whistling sound.

Scarface spat on the ground and sneered: "Two brats who haven't even grown their hair out yet, daring to run wild in the wilderness. Kid, if you're smart, hand over the pack, and maybe we'll leave you two with a whole corpse!"

These two bandits didn't take the two six-year-old children before them seriously at all.

In their eyes, these were merely ants that could be crushed with a flick of the finger, not even worthy of putting up a fight.

Tang Wu had never seen such a scene; she screamed in terror, immediately closing her eyes and grabbing Su Yu's arm tightly, hiding her entire body behind him.

Due to extreme fear, her small hands gripped with all her might, her nails nearly digging into Su Yu's flesh, her thin body trembling like a leaf in the wind.

"Brother Yu... I'm scared..."

Tang Wu's tearful voice sounded from behind Su Yu.

Su Yu reached back to hold Tang Wu's cold little hand, shielding her firmly behind him.

Facing two adult men armed with lethal weapons, Su Yu was not only devoid of any panic, but his breathing rhythm hadn't even changed in the slightest.

Within his deep pupils, a brilliant golden light began to circulate silently.

Eye of Truth, activate!

In an instant, the colors of the entire world changed in Su Yu's eyes.

He clearly saw that above the heads of these two vicious bandits, each had a cheap, translucent green panel floating.

The edges of these two panels even had slight fraying, the UI interface as crude as a low-quality web game from the last century.

Low-Level Bandit System.

Two lines of green system names hung brightly over their foreheads.

Su Yu sneered in his heart.

He had thought he'd encountered some formidable character, but after all that, they were just two cannon fodder with the lowest-end systems.

Systems of this caliber weren't even as good as the Villain Luck Plunder System belonging to Li Hu, who had been killed in seconds by Old Jack; they were simply the bottom-tier trash of the system world.

Just then, Su Yu's Eye of Truth clearly captured the data stream on the green panel above Baldy's head on the right suddenly refreshing.

A line of glaring red mission prompts popped up instantly:

Ding! Random robbery mission triggered!

[Task Content: Rob the two children before you and seize their belongings.]

[Task Reward: 100 points (can be used to exchange for 1 point of Strength attribute or 1 Gold Soul Coin).]

[Failure Penalty: Deduct 50 points.]

Looking at this pathetic excuse for a task reward, Su Yu nearly burst out laughing.

For a mere 100 points—the equivalent of a single Gold Soul Coin—these two cheaters were actually willing to resort to murder and robbery.

Hosts cultivated by such low-tier systems likely had nothing left in their brains but the greed dictated by their system tasks.

"Kid! Are you deaf? I told you to throw that bundle over here!"

Seeing Su Yu standing motionless, Scarface assumed he had been scared witless. He let out an impatient roar and took a step forward, unleashing his fierce aura without reservation.

Baldy licked his lips, his gaze locked onto Tang Wu behind Su Yu as he leered, "Big brother, the bundle is yours, but that little