The System Teaches You How to Be Human

Lin Xian was the first noble heir to quickly reach an agreement with his father and head toward the prison.

However, before he could arrive, a spy planted by the Shuling Kingdom had already found Si Yisi first!

Si Yisi only heard a few faint swishing sounds, and the patrolling prison guards in front of him suddenly collapsed limply to the ground! A man with an unremarkable appearance stepped forward to face him.

“Who are you?”

Si Yisi’s mind worked rapidly. If this were an operation by the high-ranking officials of the Kaz Empire, they would never have used such a crude and troublesome method, which meant the person standing before him was most likely a spy from the Shuling Kingdom, the Kaz Empire’s enemy!

The man relayed the Shuling Kingdom’s message in a few brief yet concise sentences. Though his words were few, the benefits he offered were incredibly generous! He was clearly putting in significant effort to lure Si Yisi over to the Shuling Kingdom.

If this had been the old Si’an, who had no backing, he would have surrendered immediately.

But Si Yisi said, “I’ve been identified as a cultist connected to the Blood Moon Mist. Aren’t you afraid I might do something harmful to the Shuling Kingdom?”

The spy replied, “The cultists are targeting the Kaz Empire. The Blood Moon Mist was created for the sake of the Kaz Empire. What does that have to do with us in the Shuling Kingdom? You have nothing to worry about.”

Targeting the Kaz Empire? Si Yisi fell into deep thought, trying to grasp a crucial clue, but his limited knowledge left him at a disadvantage. He would need to find another way to gather information on this matter.

Si Yisi glanced at the spy. “Your offer is tempting, I…”

A trace of satisfaction flickered across the spy’s face.

“I refuse,” Si Yisi declared firmly, leaving no room for negotiation!

The spy’s expression froze. In the next moment, he formed his hands into claw-like shapes and effortlessly sliced through the prison bars as if cutting through tofu. In the blink of an eye, he lunged toward Si Yisi!

Since persuasion had failed, he decided to take him by force! Brainwashing or coercion, whatever it took, this rare A-rank or higher mental power wielder had to belong to the Shuling Kingdom!

Si Yisi ducked effortlessly, dodging the capture attempt with ease. He had refused the Kaz Empire’s spies precisely because he didn’t want to get entangled in unnecessary conflicts. Moreover, all the forces behind the scenes were ultimately targeting Tru, who was in Kaz!

Si Yisi’s expression hardened. After dodging lightly, he took the initiative to counterattack, charging straight at the spy’s pair of mechanical arms.

***

Meanwhile, Lin Xian remained unhurried as he entered the prison. He contacted the warden, and after going through a series of complicated verification procedures, he finally gained legal access to the facility.

However, shortly after stepping inside, he sensed an eerie silence; something felt very wrong!

Lin Xian’s trained mental power specialized in perception rather than combat, making his danger sense far sharper than that of ordinary people! The footsteps of the patrolling guards should have been impossible to miss, yet at this moment, the prison was unnaturally quiet!

Silence this deep could only mean danger!

Lin Xian shed his usual lazy demeanor and quickened his pace toward the only area that felt slightly off to him!

When he arrived, he caught the final moments of the battle between Si Yisi and the spy!

The slum boy he had once helped had a few droplets of blood splattered on his face. His hand was deeply embedded in…

Wait—was that a person?! The slum boy’s hand was buried in the man’s abdomen!

Si Yisi and Lin Xian locked eyes. Recognizing the noble who had helped him greatly before, Si Yisi forced a faint smile, signaling goodwill.

Lin Xian was stunned, frozen in place. He watched as Si Yisi, looking like a crazed serial killer with blood on his face, smiled at him!

…Absolutely terrifying.

“Give me a hand,” Si Yisi said next. “This guy is a spy from the Shuling Kingdom. Hmm… He should still be alive. You handle him.”

Lin Xian: “……???”

Why did it feel like I was just effortlessly ordered around?

After throwing out the Shuling Kingdom’s spy, Si Yisi felt completely at ease, unaware that the prison guards who had rushed over after hearing the commotion were all horrified by the bloody mess before them!

No one dared to mention that Si Yisi should wipe the blood off his face. Even Lin Xian felt deeply uncomfortable, needing a long moment to regain his composure before finally speaking with him.

Si Yisi listened as Lin Xian tried to win him over with various offers. Legal citizenships, several houses in the imperial capital…

To be honest, these conditions were far less tempting than those offered by the Shuling Kingdom. After all, a massive gap still separated the imperial family from the nobility.

Si Yisi maintained a harmless expression, quietly listening until Lin Xian finished speaking before responding, “I think… I’d like one more condition.”

“What?”

Lin Xian was stunned. He hadn’t expected Si Yisi to be so greedy! The current conditions were already the best he could negotiate! His gaze darkened.

If Si Yisi demanded anything excessive, he wouldn’t be able to offer any more valuable bargaining chips. He could only watch helplessly as the only surviving super A-rank mental power wielder slipped away like water!

For a brief moment, Lin Xian even considered using force. Though the spy’s fate still left him uneasy, just because Si Yisi could take down one opponent didn’t mean he could withstand a group assault!

But for some reason, the moment this thought crossed his mind, an overwhelming sense of crisis surged through him. It was an incredibly ominous feeling, as if using force would be a completely wrong decision.

Si Yisi hesitated, speaking in fragments, “I… I want a spot at Anderson Military Academy. I want… to learn mecha piloting.”

When he said that, he fully embraced Si’an’s emotions.

As someone born and raised in the slums, a lack of knowledge had always been Si’an’s greatest weakness.

So, beyond his first wish; to protect his mother and find the true murderer who killed him, deep down, he had another, less urgent but still deeply rooted desire.

He wanted to learn. He even dreamed of piloting a mecha to defeat his enemies, to slaughter the Zerg; the race that brought disaster to interstellar humanity!

At that moment, Si Yisi’s eyes seemed to hold a sky full of stars, their brilliance illuminating the depths of his dark pupils, making him look almost like a hopeful young man with ambition and dreams.

Lin Xian froze for a second.

“Is that possible?” Si Yisi looked at him.

Lin Xian responded with a confident smile. “Of course, no problem. Anderson Military Academy will always welcome you.”

Si Yisi could see the confusion in Lin Xian’s eyes. He didn’t understand why such a simple request had been made.

For those born in the slums, Anderson Military Academy was an unattainable existence. But for commoners or nobles, the admission threshold wasn’t high at all!

From the very beginning, slum dwellers who weren’t registered as Kaz Empire citizens; no matter how strong their mental power was, no matter how hard they worked to rise above their station, could never be acknowledged by the academy! They had always been the marginalized figures in the empire’s shadows, unrecognized and ignored.

Si Yisi couldn’t deny the surge of resentment welling up in his chest.

In the end, they weren’t acknowledged simply because they were too few and too weak. This had become the original sin of those labeled as “outcasts.”

And now, Si Yisi was about to offer them a dagger to shatter those shackles of sin! If one could succeed, others would follow. The saying was true, ‘when one person ascended, even their followers benefited.’

Right now, Si Yisi was paving the way for those unacknowledged people!

Aside from their poverty and misfortune, how were they any less deserving than the empire’s citizens?! Desire breeds resistance, and Si Yisi had already foreseen the future that might unfold.

This would be the “outcasts’” declaration of war against the empire. And it could be called—

Revolution!

“I accept your terms.” As Si Yisi’s voice fell, the shackles binding him also fell away.

Lin Xian raised a gentlemanly, polite smile. “The mental power contract is being prepared. Please Q…”

“Si’an.” Si Yisi interrupted him. “My name is Si’an now.”

“Ah, then please, Si’an, allow me to escort you to Molin Manor for a brief rest.”

Si Yisi paused. “I have things to take care of. I need to go back to the slums to pack my things.”

Lin Xian immediately changed his approach. “Then I’ll assign an attendant to accompany you. That way, your mother’s safety can be ensured in such a chaotic environment.”

Of course, “ensuring safety” was just an excuse; it was nothing more than surveillance.

***

After being exposed as a heretic, Q actually returned to the slums with a noble’s attendant in tow! News traveled fast in the slums, and everyone who heard about it looked as if they had seen a ghost.

What had Q done to deserve a place among the powerful? The people of the slums were envious, resentful, but none of that could change the fact that, even an outcast, one could one day rise to the top!

They, too, had a chance to leave this wretched place!

Not everyone in the slums was content to stay in this broken place. But because they lacked legal citizenship, transportation and job opportunities were rarely open to them. Many had been pushed to the brink, forced to return to the slums and continue their miserable lives.

But now…

They hid in the shadows, watching as Si Yisi changed into a clean, luxurious outfit, his hair neatly groomed. A transport vehicle; something only nobles could command, waited behind him as he stepped into that dilapidated house, tossing out one worthless item after another.

From start to finish, the noble’s attendant remained respectfully by his side, showing not the slightest hint of dissatisfaction.

The slum dwellers then saw Si Yisi press a small card against a machine. At that moment, a semi-transparent holographic terminal appeared before him!

Only those with legal citizenship could afford to use such technology!

Q had made it; he even had a proper citizen ID!

Each of these sights shocked the slum dwellers to their core, igniting a fire in their hearts that had long been extinguished.

“Mother, let’s go. I’m taking you out of the slums.” Si Yisi smiled, his expression warm and reassuring. “You’ll have legal citizenship, we’ll have our own home in the imperial capital, and I’ll be able to attend the military academy.”

Lisa’s eyes widened as she looked at him, trembling like a frightened little lamb.

“It’s okay… Don’t panic, they didn’t do anything to me.” Si Yisi gently comforted her.

Before leaving, he had one more thing to do. He left Lisa in the care of the B-rank mental power attendant, then turned and disappeared into a narrow alleyway.

Deep in the alley, a tattered shelter was crudely built, weighed down by stones on all sides.

A girl, curled up and covered in wounds, clutched a bundled infant tightly in her arms. She was slow to realize Si Yisi’s presence, but when she did, she bared her tiny, sharp teeth at him, hissing in warning, refusing to let him approach.

From within her embrace, a frail, nursing infant let out a weak cry.

This girl was the only one in the slums ever tested to have an E-rank mental power.

Si Yisi didn’t move closer. He simply met her gaze in silence for a while before slowly taking something out.

A card flipped once in the air before landing steadily beside the swaddled infant.

The girl flinched warily, hesitating before cautiously reaching out to touch the card’s edge. She felt it for a long time before finally picking it up and looking at it. Her pupils shrank in shock as she took in the full image of the card.

A citizen ID!

Real? Fake? Why is he giving this away for free?! The girl couldn’t understand Si Yisi’s intentions. Even after the initial shock, she continued to glare at him with undisguised hostility.

Si Yisi simply said, “You can judge for yourself whether it’s real or not.”

He extended his hand toward her from a distance. “I want us, the people of the slums, to live with a little more dignity. So I want to take a gamble; Now that you have a citizen’s status, how far can you go?”

“Consider it… a high-stakes bet.”

With that, Si Yisi turned and left. From the start, all he had wanted was to leave behind a spark for this possible revolution. What the girl did from here on out; he wouldn’t interfere.

“My name… Lu Yizhi.” The girl’s weak voice came from behind him.

Suddenly, fine strands of rain began to fall, followed by a steady drizzle that cleansed the entire world.

Even in the slums, the stench of blood and the weight of despair seemed to fade away for a brief moment under the rain.

No one could have known that this frail girl, who looked as if she might die at any moment, would one day become the only female politician to rise to the top with nothing more than an E-rank mental power!

A simple act by Si Yisi would become a monumental turning point in the future!