Chapter 78: You Are Even More Perverted Than That Fat Pig

Xu Nuo was just about to open an old laptop with a damaged casing. Hearing Xu Yunzhou's words about taking her to see Song Jiaru, her finger hovered over the power button for a moment.

Immediately after, without even raising her head, she replied coldly, her voice unable to reveal any emotional fluctuation:

"Are you very free? Do you have to stick to me twenty-four hours a day like a guardian spirit, peeping at my everything?"

Xu Yunzhou's illusory figure spread his hands:

"Currently speaking, yes. This is my job."

Xu Nuo finally turned her head sideways, glanced at him with those cold eyes, her tone carrying undisguised disgust:

"Then you are much more perverted than that fat pig downstairs."

Xu Yunzhou: "..."

He felt his virtual image almost had its data disrupted by being choked by this sentence.

This damn girl, her ability to retort is simply grandmaster-level!

The sets of gorgeous rhetoric he prepared beforehand—things like "Chosen Daughter of Heaven" and "Person of Destiny"—appeared so pale and ridiculous in front of this cold and hard stubborn stone.

Looking at that long-lost [Punish] button flashing with faint blue electric light on the game interface, Xu Yunzhou felt his fingers itching a bit, a primal impulse named "itchy hands" restless and eager for action.

It indeed had been a long time since he electrocuted someone; he somewhat missed that feeling of "control."

Since discovering that the people in the game were living, breathing humans, his heart that pitied the fragrance and cherished the jade made him put away this simple and crude "motivational" method, and he couldn't bear to lay a hand on Song Jiaru.

"Hey, Xu Nuo."

Xu Yunzhou's voice took on a trace of deliberately created oppressiveness,

"I am here to help you. Rejecting my guidance will result in punishment."

He attempted to re-establish the majesty a "System" should have.

The fingers Xu Nuo used to type on the keyboard didn't even pause for half a second, not even a single hair of her eyebrows moving, as if what she heard wasn't a threat but a greeting:

"Suit yourself."

Very good! Tough enough!

Xu Yunzhou hesitated no longer, his mouse precisely clicking the [Punish] button!

"Zzzt—"

A subtle blue electric arc instantly exploded on her thin back!

"Ugh!"

Xu Nuo's whole body abruptly stiffened. The violent spasm made her curl up uncontrollably.

Her thin fingers dug firmly into the rough edge of the desk, her knuckles instantly losing blood color and turning deathly pale due to the force.

Fine cold sweat almost instantly seeped out from her forehead and the tip of her nose, converging into beads and rolling down.

But her tightly gritted teeth abruptly didn't even let out the most muffled groan.

As the electric current effect passed, she lay on the desk, panting violently for a few seconds, then abruptly raised her head, glaring in Xu Yunzhou's direction, an almost provocative arc curling up at the corners of her mouth:

"Just... this?"

Xu Yunzhou raised his eyebrows. Yoho? Still not convinced?

Without hesitation, he clicked the [Punish] button again. This time, directly raising the intensity by a notch!

"Crackle!"

An even stronger, more destructive electric current instantly pierced through her body, which hadn't fully recovered from the first strike!

"Ugh ah—!"

A stronger electric current pierced through her whole body.

Xu Nuo was in so much pain her whole person curled up. She abruptly grabbed a towel nearby and stuffed it into her mouth to prevent herself from crying out, her body trembling violently.

When the punishment ended, she panted heavily, sweat soaking her bangs, yet she raised her head and said through gritted teeth:

"Refreshing! Come again!"

Xu Yunzhou was completely speechless.

This [Limitless Will] talent... turns out it's not used to overcome difficulties, but specifically used to fight against him, this System?

This girl is simply a smelly and hard stone, accepting neither oil nor salt!

Staring at that stubborn figure on the screen, Xu Yunzhou complained crazily internally:

"What exactly is going on with this damn girl? When normal people encounter supernatural phenomena, shouldn't they either scream in terror, or dance crazily with ecstasy feeling they are the Chosen One? What the hell is this attitude of 'do whatever you want, I only have one life'?"

"Does she really treat me as the kind of water ghost who needs to find a scapegoat to be reincarnated? So she guards strictly, rejecting all my sweet talk, not giving me any opportunity to take advantage of, terrified of being tricked by me into becoming a substitute?"

"Motherfucker, I have traversed past and present, nurtured a business Queen worth hundreds of billions, propelled a Queen of Pop with explosive national popularity, is it possible I really have to encounter my Waterloo at the hands of this sixteen-year-old brat today? Then where would my face be!"

Seeing him inactive for a long time, seemingly not planning to continue the "electrotherapy," Xu Nuo also stopped wasting energy fighting with him.

She struggled, using her last bit of strength to climb back into that creaking broken chair, almost "throwing" herself in front of the computer.

Turning it on, the screen lit up faintly, the pale light reflecting on her pale little face.

She forcefully shook her head, trying to disperse the residual numbness brought by the electric shock.

Then, with an exceptionally focused expression, she began typing on the keyboard, as if those two rounds of electric shocks—which were enough to make an ordinary person cry for their parents—were just insignificant background noise.

Xu Yunzhou forcefully suppressed the depression in his heart and leaned close to the virtual screen to take a look.

He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly—she was actually using Python to write a crawler program with quite a complex structure.

At this moment, she was stuck on a debugging error, her progress stalled.

Almost instinctively, his occupational disease flared up.

Based on the compiler error information, he hit the nail on the head and pointed out the key issue, his voice carrying the unique calmness of a tech guy:

"Hey, brat, right here, your loop boundary condition judgment is wrong. The end index of range is an open interval, you calculated it one extra time, leading to an index out of bounds."

Xu Nuo frowned, staring at the place he pointed out. Her fingers hesitated on the keyboard for a moment, and she asked back carrying a trace of uncertainty:

"Open interval? You mean, range(0, len(list)) actually won't take the value of len(list) itself?"

"Exactly."

Xu Yunzhou affirmed,

"It stops at len(list) - 1. You trying to access list[len(list)] will naturally throw an error."

Following this train of thought, she quickly modified the termination condition of the loop.

Her finger hovered over the Enter key for a moment, then pressed down forcefully.

The command line window on the screen scrolled rapidly, and finally, impressively displayed—Run Passed!

For the first time, she proactively turned her head, looking squarely at Xu Yunzhou, a trace of surprise and exploration flashing through her eyes:

"You... know how to program?"

So it's a ghost who keeps pace with the times!

Xu Yunzhou felt he had kept the clouds away to see the moonlight. His tone carried a long-lost slight smugness belonging to a tech otaku, his tail almost pointing up to the sky:

"Hmph, just my old profession. Back when bro was typing code, you still didn't know where you were playing with mud."

Hahaha! Finally found a breakthrough point! As expected, once you learn math, physics, and chemistry, you aren't afraid to travel all over the world!

In her heart, Xu Nuo instantly slapped a brand-new and specific label on him:

An old programmer geezer who died suddenly from overwork due to the 996 blessing, causing his ghost to linger in the human world with sky-high resentment, but who hadn't lost all his professional skills yet.

She pursed her lips, as if making some hard decision, and spoke stiffly:

"Teach me."