Cheng Lang, who had come to carry out this mission with a vacation mindset, immediately became wary.
Chapter 75
The system, hiding in the consciousness space, trembled in fear. It had not expected Cheng Lang to notice something was wrong so quickly. After a long silence, it could only answer resignedly, "The character Qin Mu has indeed awakened self-awareness."
Cheng Lang cursed under his breath. He could not help swearing in his mind.
He knew it. Whenever the system went suspiciously quiet, it was bound to pull some stunt. But he had never expected it to unleash such a devastating move just to screw him over.
It was practically hurting the enemy for eight hundred while losing a thousand itself.
Cheng Lang shot Qin Mu a troubled glance.
As mentioned before, Cheng Lang was a mission executor. His job was to travel to novel worlds whose plotlines had gone astray and do his best to pull them back on track, ensuring that the story ended as it had been set up in the novel and allowing the novel world to keep running.
Usually, a novel world's plotline went astray for one of two reasons. The first was interference from an outside force. That was when illegal interlopers used methods the system could not detect to possess characters. Unwilling to follow the story laid out in the original work and mechanically act out their assigned lives, they rose up to resist. Put simply, outsiders transmigrating into a book.
The other reason was the awakening of a character's self-awareness. Dissatisfied with the plot arranged by the original work, they gradually awakened their consciousness over countless cycles of the story. To avoid repeatedly living through those miserable lives in endless reincarnations, they wanted to resist and end that tragic fate. Commonly known as