Can a System Have Bad Intentions? - Chapter 109

The prison cell of the Yu Province Prefecture was dark and damp.

When the jailer shoved Lu Tang into the cell, she almost stumbled and fell into a pile of straw.

“Behave yourself!”

The jailer locked the cell door with a large padlock, barked a warning, and turned to leave.

Feeling pitiful and aggrieved, Lu Tang looked around the cell.

The room was about five square meters, low and damp, with three walls and one side facing the corridor. Besides the firelight from the corridor, there was no other light.

The only place to sit in the entire cell was that pile of straw. Lu Tang bent down to touch it, finding the straw so damp it was practically decomposing.

In a burst of genuine anger, she shouted a heartfelt, “Damn!”

What a crappy life.

“Hey, young fellow, what did you do to end up here?”

A weak voice sounded from behind. Lu Tang turned and saw an old man in the opposite cell.

Due to the dim light, she couldn’t make out his appearance, but his voice sounded very old, and his tone seemed like he was just bored and looking for a conversation.

Lu Tang didn’t plan on sitting on the damp straw, so she took two steps to the door, leaned against the bars, and smiled bitterly at the old man, “I got in here for doing something brave without thinking.”

Lu Tang thought the old man would continue the conversation, but he fell silent after she spoke.

After waiting a while, Lu Tang, feeling bored, asked, “Old man, what did you do to end up here?”

There was still no response from the opposite cell.

Leaning against the bars, Lu Tang peered through the dim light in the corridor and saw the old man sitting with his back against the wall, head slightly raised, either resting his eyes or staring blankly.

She couldn’t tell.

After a while, with no response from the opposite cell, Lu Tang gave up and turned back to look at the pile of straw, scratching her head in worry.

What should she do now?

Qin Mo, where the hell are you?

As a young master who was pampered from a young age, she couldn’t bear such suffering. Sitting in the cell, Lu Tang pouted and wanted to cry.

What do heroines in time-travel novels usually do in such situations?

Lu Tang racked her brain, recalling the time-travel novels she had read in her past life, but after searching for examples for a long time, she found nothing useful.

Those heroines either had extraordinary martial arts skills, allowing them to break out of prison and cause havoc, or they had powerful families and unique abilities, with some magical space that even the Yu Province Prefecture’s prison couldn’t contain them.

But she only had a lousy system.

With a sigh of frustration, Lu Tang was about to call out to the system for a chat when it suddenly exclaimed excitedly, “Host, good news, good news!”

Lu Tang, feeling dejected, ignored it.

What good news could there be in this place? Unless the plot suddenly twisted and she was revealed to be a princess, or the Yu Province Prefecture’s magistrate was her father.

“Stop dreaming. You are just the small inn owner. That’s your identity,” the system retorted.

Lu Tang sighed.

“But there is still good news. I can issue rewards now.”

“The Champion System has generated rewards. Please prepare to receive them, Host.”

“Ding~”

With a ding, a huge object fell to the ground with a thud, scaring Lu Tang, who fell on her butt, her tailbone stinging with pain.

“What is this?”

Quickly getting up, Lu Tang went to check the huge object.

“Invisible Simmons mattress,” the system announced.

Lu Tang:!

“Damn! Did you know I was going to be arrested all along?”

The system immediately complained, “Heaven and earth conscience, if I had known you were going to be arrested, I would have… “

It paused mid-sentence.

Lu Tang glared, “Would have what?”

The system wilted, “Even if I knew you were going to be arrested in advance, I couldn’t change anything. I can only issue tasks, give rewards, and punishments. Boohoo, I’m so useless, I’m a worthless system.”

“Good to know!”

“Can’t you comfort me a little? Where is your conscience?”

“You want me to comfort you? Did you have a conscience when you set me up? We’re both old ghosts, stop pretending to be innocent.”

Though she scolded, Lu Tang’s body was honest. She quickly spread the straw flat and placed the invisible Simmons mattress on it.

With a roll, she sprawled out on it, sighing in comfort, “This feels good!”

After being scolded, the system was silent for a while, then said dryly, “There is a second reward. Please receive it.”

Lu Tang, with her legs crossed, rolled her eyes, “Is this how you speak to your dad?”

The system paused.

Taking a deep breath, it continued, “The second reward is about to arrive. Please prepare to receive it, Host Daddy~”

Lu Tang:.

“Ding~”

A small object fell into Lu Tang’s palm. She held it up to her eyes and recognized it, “Identity Detector?”

“Yes, Host Daddy. I hope you like this reward, but it has a time limit. If not used within half an hour, it will lose its effect.”

Lu Tang immediately sat up straight.

Half an hour?

An hour?

There wasn’t even anyone in this place…

Lu Tang’s gaze fell on the opposite cell.

The old man was still sitting in the same position, motionless.

“I want to use it on him.”

“Alright, go for it, Host Daddy!”

Lu Tang sneered, “There are two cell doors between us. I don’t have the skill to get this thing onto his head. You do it.”

The system gasped, “Host Daddy, I don’t have a physical form.”

Lu Tang interrupted, “I don’t care. Either you do it, or we let it expire and both of us face the punishment task together. Anyway, I’m in jail now, and I probably can’t complete the punishment task. We might as well die together.”

With that, Lu Tang lay down straight.

Assuming a posture of awaiting death.

System:!

“How can you be like this!”

“Time passes relentlessly. Good luck, System~”

The system fumed for a long time. Seeing that Lu Tang was indeed not planning to move, it reluctantly took the detector from her hand.

Lu Tang peeked through squinted eyes.

She saw the detector float up and fly towards the opposite cell. Seeing this, Lu Tang’s eyes widened.

Yes, she had just wanted to trick the system.

If the system hadn’t confessed it could only issue tasks, rewards, and punishments, she wouldn’t have thought to trick it.

A system, only able to do those things?

Hmph~

It could do more.

The detector hovered above the old man’s head, and his identity information was instantly revealed.

Lu Tang sat up straight to read.

Zhou Jing, Yuhang resident, male, forty-six years old. Three years ago, he was the innkeeper of the Prosperity Inn. He was ruined after being falsely accused for performing a good deed.

Falsely accused for performing a good deed?

Lu Tang’s heart skipped a beat.

This is somewhat similar to my situation!