After I Was Erased by the System, She Went Mad

Su Huan, sensing her gaze, looked over and tilted her head, seemingly puzzled by her shock.

"Xiaoyu, what's wrong?" she asked aloud, her gaze dropping to look at Shen Xiaoyu's phone, a hint of inquiry flashing in her eyes.

What had she seen? Or had someone sent her something?

Shen Xiaoyu's eyelashes trembled slightly, her face tightly drawn. Her gaze softened considerably when she looked at Shen Nian'an. "An'an, go get your clothes. You're sleeping with Mama tonight."

"What about Mommy?" Shen Nian'an asked.

"Mommy is going home." After saying this, Shen Xiaoyu looked at Su Huan, her eyes slightly cold. "I'll see you out."

After speaking, she got up and headed outside.

"Mommy~" Shen Nian'an reluctantly held Su Huan's hand.

Su Huan rubbed her head. "I'll come pick you up and take you home once I finish my work in a while. Take good care of Mama, okay?"

"Alright then."

Shen Nian'an saw them off at the door, standing there watching as she and Shen Xiaoyu entered the elevator together.

The moment the elevator doors closed, Shen Xiaoyu raised her hand to show her the webpage. "What's this about?"

Su Huan looked down to see the news about the villa explosion. The publication time was in the evening, and in the live broadcast background, villagers were still fighting the fire, afraid it would spread to the forest.

She blinked and calmly said three words: "Still investigating."

"You don't know?" Shen Xiaoyu stepped closer. "How could you not know? Isn't this the place you took me to last? What was really inside? Did you cause the explosion, or was it the system?"

Su Huan: "Someone told Ning Yu that I was hiding Tang Tang, so she's investigating my properties and following the trail found this place. She even sent people to try to round up my researchers."

"So you had someone blow up the house?" Shen Xiaoyu's voice suddenly rose, her tone shocked.

"It wasn't me. The moment I got the news, I had the researchers evacuate with the research data. I only just learned about the explosion."

As they spoke, the elevator had reached the first floor.

As the elevator doors opened, Su Huan became extremely alert, observing the surroundings as she walked out, especially in the underground garage where there were many vehicles and blind spots everywhere. If someone ambushed her, probably no one would hear her calls for help.

Shen Xiaoyu walked ahead in the open space, and her voice involuntarily grew louder. "Su Huan, when will you ever tell me the truth?"

Su Huan wasn't in the mood for small talk right now. She just wanted to quickly call Ning Bai, so she said: "You should go back up. An'an is still waiting for you."

Shen Xiaoyu stopped walking and glared angrily. "I just wanted to tell you not to come over anymore. I don't want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings."

After saying this, she turned and left.

Only then did Su Huan notice her agitated emotions. Frowning, she turned and quickly walked toward her car.

Fortunately, her car was parked not far from the elevator. By the time Shen Xiaoyu entered the elevator, she had already reached her car.

Before getting in, she deliberately checked around—the car hadn't been tampered with.

Only after sitting in the driver's seat and taking out her phone did she see the message Ning Bai had sent her fifteen minutes earlier—

'I've dealt with everyone, don't worry.'

Su Huan finally breathed a sigh of relief, leaning back in her seat and opening the news to search for information about the house explosion.

After reading through it, she didn't see any media reporting on the experimental equipment inside the house. Either it had been suppressed, or everything had been destroyed.

Su Huan called the researcher. "Did you set the fire in the lab?"

"No."

"No?" Su Huan frowned, her thoughts complex. "There was no explosion when you left the lab?"

"Explosion?" The researcher was shocked. "Boss, the lab exploded? How is that possible?"

What they were researching didn't have chemical properties—how could there be an explosion?

"Everything was fine when we left. Didn't you ask Uncle Zhao to come help us? Wait—" The researcher suddenly thought of something serious. "Then our experimental data..."

Su Huan closed her eyes and changed the subject. "Have you reached Yancheng?"

"Still heading toward Yancheng. We had a little accident on the road." The researcher said. "Tang Tang seems to be showing signs of awakening. According to mobile device detection, the system in her brain also showed fluctuations. The sleep state could end at any time."

Su Huan's frown deepened. "Contact the Yancheng base and have them meet you halfway. Also have them verify the experimental data—try to recover what's lost, and re-collect what can't be recovered. We must make a breakthrough in the research in a short time!"

"Yes, bo—bo—boss—"

The researcher's smooth voice suddenly became choppy, as if the signal was having problems.

"Bo—boss—we—we—we're under—under attack—"

The researcher's voice was intermittent and then disappeared completely. When Su Huan tried calling back, it showed the number was out of service.

Su Huan's heart suddenly turned cold. She immediately turned the steering wheel and floored the gas pedal.

While leaving, she called the Yancheng base, gave them the researcher's number to contact, and told them to send people to search and find out what happened. They had to bring everyone back!

Especially Tang Tang!

Tang Tang's system was the top priority in their investigation. Without controlling the system, Shen Xiaoyu would be in danger at any time. If Tang Tang completed the system, this entire world would be reshuffled.

They had to hurry!

The people at the Yancheng base also understood the importance of the matter and immediately sent people to search along the route.

Because the first base had exploded, they didn't dare make too big a commotion now. After all, imprisonment and research were illegal activities. They had originally set up the base domestically purely for convenience—Tang Tang couldn't leave the country for long periods, and once someone crossed borders, records would inevitably be left.

In the long run, her bases would quickly be discovered by Ning Yu as well. But Su Huan had thought of so many methods, hiding and concealing so much, yet things still went wrong.

Su Huan slammed the steering wheel hard, driving toward Yancheng while trying to contact Uncle Zhao, but the call wouldn't go through—something had obviously happened.

Su Huan's face was so dark it could drip water. Finally, she called Ning Bai. "Where's Ning Yu?"

"At the old mansion. Didn't you ask me to divert her? So I found her some trouble at the company and specifically had someone drag her back from outside. She's getting lectured at the old mansion now." Ning Bai was gloating.

The sounds on his end were noisy—even through the phone, you could hear the old man's scolding.

"I see." Su Huan responded and was about to hang up when she heard the person on the other end ask, "Su Huan, what are you doing? Why are you so concerned about Ning Yu's movements?"

"Nothing." She deflected. "Let me know if Ning Yu leaves."

Su Huan hung up on Ning Bai and cursed under her breath.

Now, regardless of whether it was Ning Yu or not, she had to find Tang Tang.

By the time Su Huan reached Yancheng, it was the next morning. She had driven all night but showed no signs of fatigue.

"Did you find them?" she asked.

The head of the Yancheng base shook his head. "We've searched the entire route but didn't find them or discover any clues."

"We've already investigated the number you sent me yesterday, but the number shows up in Xinzhou."

"Xinzhou?" Su Huan was surprised. "Why would it be in Xinzhou?"

Xinzhou was a ten-hour flight away from them, and the people had disappeared last night. The researchers' phones all had GPS tracking devices developed by the lab—they could locate them under any circumstances.

But from last night until now, for such a long time, the Yancheng base couldn't track their location, and the only position they found was actually in distant Xinzhou.

Unless whoever took the researchers also had powerful signal blockers that could block the signals they developed, but... how was that possible?

Su Huan couldn't figure it out, and neither could the researchers at the Yancheng lab.

The head suddenly remembered something and said urgently: "Also, boss, we detected extremely strong fluctuations in this world last night! The same as the fluctuations we detected five years ago. Please take a look."

Su Huan immediately followed her over and saw two charts placed together. Looking at the times, her expression suddenly changed.

"The system is occupying Tang Tang's body!" she said with certainty.

This situation had happened five years ago when Tang Tang strongly resisted the system's demand for her to have intimate actions with Ning Yu, so the system occupied Tang Tang's body to complete the plot for her.

The lab had also detected strong fluctuations at that time, identical to today's.

So the awakened system had once again occupied Tang Tang's body and then disappeared with the researchers?

Su Huan's thoughts were heavy. After thinking for a while, she sent another message to Ning Bai asking her to help monitor Ning Yu's movements.

If the system was using Tang Tang's body to leave, then what she would do is go find Ning Yu to complete the subsequent plot.

"Continue your research based on the materials you have. I'll find a way to bring Tang Tang here."

"Understood."

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Waking up, the sky was bright, the familiar sun hanging high, sunlight streaming into the room. It was a bit hot, but with the air conditioning blowing, it made one reluctant to get out of bed.

Summer was the same as every year, yet Shen Xiaoyu had a strange feeling that this world seemed to have undergone subtle changes while she slept.

But looking at the things around her, she couldn't see anything unusual.

Shen Xiaoyu rubbed her sore arms and looked at her sleeping daughter, carefully moving her aside.

She stretched her arms as she walked into the bathroom, chatting casually with the system while washing up.

[Do you feel something's wrong?] she asked casually. [I feel like today is different from yesterday. Is it because we changed locations?]

This time the system didn't play dead. The electronic voice was very serious. [Host, this world is about to collapse. You must quickly complete the pursuit mission and leave this world with Shen Nian'an.]

Shen Xiaoyu's hand brushing her teeth suddenly paused. [Didn't you say the pursuit time was one year? Even if I wasted so much time, there should still be more than half a year left from now. How did it suddenly fast-forward so much?]

[The system has awakened and once again helped the female lead Tang Tang break free from control. There's only a little bit of plot left, and no one can stop it.]

The system was rarely rational, a small face flashing across the blue screen. [Host, I can't estimate how much time is left. You...]

The system couldn't speak and simply said nothing, gradually disappearing.

Shen Xiaoyu braced her hands on the counter, looking at her worried reflection in the mirror, the system's words echoing repeatedly in her mind.

The system awakened... broke free from control...

Broke free from whose control? Who could control the system?

A name flashed through Shen Xiaoyu's mind—

Su Huan.

She was the only one in this world with that capability. So her sudden visit yesterday was also because of the system repair?

Shen Xiaoyu quickly finished washing up and ran out of the room, unlocking her phone.

The phone page was still on yesterday's explosion news. She had been looking at it before bed, and because of Shen Nian'an's urging, she had closed the phone without exiting.

However, today the page had changed to another violent social news story, published at exactly the same time as yesterday.

"How is this possible?"

She murmured as she clicked into the news homepage and read through all of yesterday's and today's news, but couldn't find the explosion news.

"Impossible! I clearly saw it on this page yesterday. How could it have changed to social news?" Shen Xiaoyu's brow furrowed, her fingers quickly refreshing. After searching again, she still couldn't find yesterday's news.

She closed the news app and switched to Weibo, searching for explosion keywords. The results had nothing to do with yesterday's explosion, and the most recent news about house explosions in forests was from last year.

All the explosion news had disappeared overnight!

From when she saw the news last night until now, what everyone online had been discussing was the violent social news she had just seen.

Was it suppressed from above, or—

Shen Xiaoyu didn't dare think further. She turned and went out to knock on Shi Qiubai's room, showing her the phone. "Do you remember the news we discussed last night?"

"Sister, are you talking about yesterday's? Is there new information today?"

Shen Xiaoyu looked hopeful. "Today's news is all different, completely unlike yesterday. Take a look."

Shi Qiubai leaned in to look and casually scrolled a few times. "Isn't this all the news we saw yesterday? What's different? Though I guess even if it was a violent incident that happened last night, investigations would take two or three days."

She sighed. "I do feel like it's been unsafe lately. Last week I heard about an artist friend whose home was broken into by a sasaeng fan who lived there for half a month before being discovered by the artist's girlfriend."

Shen Xiaoyu's mind went blank and she couldn't process her words. "Wait, what did you just say?"

"Sasaeng fan?" Shi Qiubai blinked in confusion. "Is Sister interested in this too? It really was dangerous though. She had been living at home for a week and then encountered this. Fortunately, that sasaeng didn't do anything extreme, or they would have been in danger. So you have to be careful about safety no matter where you live. You never know how many people might be in the house. But I'm okay—every time I come home, I have Qiu Ye help me check, or I hire hourly workers to clean the house from top to bottom. That way, even if someone got in, I'd discover it immediately."

Shen Xiaoyu stared blankly, looking down at her phone. "This news is what we discussed yesterday? Are you sure?"

"Yes, yesterday I even begged Sister not to move out. It's so dangerous outside—I don't feel safe letting Sister live alone with a child." She said, "If you really wants to move out, just rent a place in our complex. That way I can visit you anytime and help take care of An'an."

Shen Xiaoyu finally realized what was wrong.

The information in this world had been altered.

Yesterday's explosion had obviously touched on this world's secrets. The system couldn't hide it, so it could only erase it.

What about those researchers?

Shen Xiaoyu clearly remembered that when she was taken there, there were quite a few researchers in the villa. Had their traces been erased too?

'The correction system will fix the errors in this world.'

A sudden sentence echoed in the depths of her mind. The explosion was an error, the system data was an error... she was also an error. The system would spare no effort to correct her too, and An'an as well... Read complete versıon only at NoveI[F]ire.net

No wonder the system was so urgent for her to complete the mission.

Shen Xiaoyu closed her eyes tightly, breathed steadily, then opened them again to meet Shi Qiubai's concerned gaze and smiled slightly. "It's nothing. I had a nightmare last night and came to confirm with you."

Shi Qiubai made an "oh" sound, not believing her. "Is Sister still going to look for houses today?"

"Yes, I already contacted the landlord yesterday. I'll go take a look today, and if nothing goes wrong, I'll settle on a place." Shen Xiaoyu said, "You don't need to come with me. I can go by myself."

Her lips moved, and after a long while she reluctantly said: "Alright then. I'll wait at home for you to come back."

Shen Xiaoyu smiled at her and turned back to her room.

After closing the door, the smile completely disappeared from Shen Xiaoyu's face.

She felt a chill run down her spine, the blade of death hanging overhead, as if it could fall at any moment.

Shen Xiaoyu opened her phone, wanting to contact Su Huan, but she typed and deleted, deleted and typed, hesitating for a long time without being able to send anything.

She wasn't sure if Su Huan knew about these things, but she could be certain that Su Huan's abnormal behavior was definitely because of the system.

Shen Xiaoyu closed her eyes, took a deep breath to calm herself. Regardless of whether tomorrow was the end of the world, today she had to spend quality time with her daughter.

Shen Xiaoyu went back to bed and held her daughter tightly in her arms.

Outside the door, the smile gradually faded from Shi Qiubai's face. She stared at the door for a while, then turned and entered her room, sitting on the bed and looking at the space she had cleared out, wondering absent-mindedly when Sister would discover her if she secretly lived in Sister's house.

Maybe she should try it sometime?

Shi Qiubai's face lit up with a smile, eager to try. How exciting!

In the morning, Shen Xiaoyu stayed in bed with Shen Nian'an for a while. The two of them played around and dozily fell back asleep. When they woke up again, it was already noon. Shi Qiubai had ordered takeout and said she'd have Qiu Ye drive them to look at houses in the afternoon.

When leaving, Shen Xiaoyu still hesitated, worried about encountering danger outside. But then she thought, she had to move out. If she didn't act because she was afraid of danger, the system could just arrange an earthquake and everyone would die.

But based on the typhoon's zero casualties last time, the correction system only wanted her dead and didn't want to harm anyone else in this world.

Earthquakes weren't something the system could control—if the magnitude was too large, countless people would die.

Besides, you could avoid the first day but not the fifteenth. Everyone must die eventually—better not to die in someone else's house.

Shen Xiaoyu took a deep breath. "Let's go!"

Shi Qiubai also wanted to go, but her manager suddenly threw her a live streaming job, requiring her to reassure fans of her safety.

Shi Qiubai had no choice but to reluctantly bite her handkerchief as she saw them off.

The houses Shen Xiaoyu looked for were all near the city center with great surroundings, and of course, very expensive rent. Fortunately, all the money from the variety show had been paid, plus the money she had saved six years ago—together it was enough for her luxurious lifestyle for the next half year.

Shen Xiaoyu held her card and shook her head with emotion. Good thing she had the foresight to leave herself assets, or she'd be drinking the northwest wind with her daughter.

The houses they saw in the afternoon were in different complexes, but not far from each other. Shen Xiaoyu had Qiu Ye park the car and walked over holding Shen Nian'an's hand, treating it as exercise.

"So tired!" Shen Nian'an wailed after coming out of the second complex. "Mama, why aren't we driving?"

"Walking is better than driving—low carbon and environmentally friendly." Shen Xiaoyu said while looking at the map. "Don't you remember what the doctor said when we went for your checkup? If you want to stay healthy, you must exercise more. Walking is also exercise."

"I don't want to walk anymore!" Shen Nian'an squatted down and looked at her pitifully. "Mama, I'm so tired and thirsty. Can I rest for a bit?"

Shen Xiaoyu looked at her, then looked around. "How about this—you rest here with Sister Qiu Ye for a while, and I'll go buy you some milk tea?"

Shen Nian'an's eyes lit up as she bounced up happily. "Okay!"

Shen Xiaoyu fondly pinched her nose, then walked to the nearby crosswalk, waiting for the green light before crossing to the milk tea shop on the other side.

But that's when the accident happened. A car came from nowhere, speeding recklessly straight toward Shen Xiaoyu.

"Ah—" Screams suddenly erupted.

"Mama!"

[Host!]

Shen Xiaoyu spun around to see the car heading toward her. Her pupils contracted sharply and her body instantly froze—she couldn't move at all.

Just as the car was about to reach her, she felt like someone had pushed her hard from behind. She stumbled forward two steps and then fell to the ground.

The car wheels grazed Shen Xiaoyu's feet and crashed heavily into a streetlight with a bang.

Shen Xiaoyu's arms and legs were scraped, but she didn't have time to worry about the pain. She turned to look at the car not far from her—the front was already crushed and wisps of smoke were rising, quickly catching fire.

As people around her scattered in terror, they also shouted for others to get away: "Get away quickly! Get away! The car's going to explode!"

"Ah—"

In the chaotic crowd, Shen Xiaoyu heard Shen Nian'an's crying voice: "Mama! Mama!"

Shen Xiaoyu braced her hands on the ground, trying to stand up, but she had twisted her ankle in that instant. Every time she applied pressure, pain shot through her entire body—she couldn't stand up at all.

[Host! Get away quickly! The car will explode in 30 seconds! You have to go!] The system issued a sharp warning, wishing it could control her body to get her away from the danger zone.

Shen Xiaoyu bit her lip tightly. [I know, but I twisted my ankle and can't put weight on it. I can't walk!]

[Host, there are 25 seconds left. If you die, Shen Nian'an will die with you—a death where she'll never exist again!] The system's voice was cold and cruel.

Shen Xiaoyu's face went pale. She gritted her teeth, forcibly ignoring the pain in her ankle, dragging one leg as she limped away step by step.

[Faster! Even faster! The farther you get, the safer you'll be!]

Faster! Even faster!

She couldn't die! She couldn't let An'an die with her!

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In the chaotic crowd, someone brought a fire extinguisher to put out the fire while more people were kept back. Some wanted to help but were held back.

No one could be sure when the car would explode.

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