Activating the Mission

The system asked softly: [Host, isn't what you're doing a bit too much? Aren't you afraid of being criticized by the readers?]
Da Qiao glanced at the foolish crow perched on the window frame, her voice icy. "You told me to carry out the mission, and now you blame me for going too far. Why don't you do it yourself?"

The system coughed twice: [Using something as sacred as signing a Sentinel contract to humiliate someone is truly something I never expected. As expected of a fallen immortal turned demon, you are ruthless enough.]
With every humiliation point she gathered, Da Qiao felt her strength gradually recovering. Now, she could barely cast a minor fire spell.
This was the lowest-tier spell.
She rubbed her fingertips together and flicked a tiny spark, which flew straight toward the system, singeing two red feathers on the black crow.
The system shrieked and immediately changed its tune: [I was wrong, I was wrong! You did the right thing! It's my fault!]
Da Qiao's eyes were filled with killing intent, the aura of a fallen immortal turned demon fully manifest. "I agreed to help you save this world, so do not be picky. Otherwise, you won't even know how you died!"
She cultivated the Dao of Emotionlessness, caring for no one and holding no affection for the world. For her goals, she would stop at nothing.
She believed that this was what the Dao of Emotionlessness entailed.
She still did not understand why she had failed during her tribulation to ascend to godhood.

The sunlight shone on the red booklet discarded in the corner of the room. The Guide section only bore Da Qiao's name, while the Sentinel section remained blank.
Da Qiao glanced at the booklet on the floor, her eyes dark and unreadable, harboring unknown thoughts. "That's just a fake booklet bought from the market. If he had looked closer, he would have spotted the flaw."
The little crow shrank back, shivering.
"Fools are born to be deceived, what can we do?"

Da Qiao checked the mission on her optical computer. After accepting the mission, the screen displayed her companion for this operation: [S-rank Sentinel Shen Hanqiu, spiritual manifestation Qilin, S-rank physique.]
S-rank Sentinel, spiritual manifestation Qilin.
He didn't seem like someone who would ever become a companion to this body.
After all, she was just a trash Guide who didn't even possess spiritual power.
Since C-rank spiritual power was the minimum requirement for a Guide to accept missions, the system had helped her forge this rank.
System: [The number of Guides is extremely scarce. Most are protected by the Bureau of Order and rarely go out on missions.]
Understood. It turned out she was one of the few Guides who accepted missions, so being paired with an S-rank Sentinel was not surprising.
Da Qiao pondered for a moment, lightly tapping the screen displaying the Sentinel's name. "Isn't Shen Hanqiu a mission target?"
System: [No. Our mission targets consist of only four people. Aside from Ling Feng, whom you just met, the other three are Zone Z Director Xu Yuan, the Nine-Tailed Snow Fox Xi Youzhi, and the French Rose Gu Yan.]
Those messy nicknames again.
"How impolite." Da Qiao frowned slightly. "Do not casually give nicknames to others."
The system felt a bit aggrieved, clinging to the window frame. [It's not casual at all...]
Before it could finish, a loud "boom" resounded! The ground shook and the house trembled. The originally sturdy structure of the room began to sway, and cracks appeared at the joints of the ceiling beams!
[Ting! Phase 1 of the world-saving mission has been activated. Eliminate the invading contaminated creatures. Mission reward: 10.000 humiliation points.]
Da Qiao looked out the window. The sky, which had been clear just moments ago, was now covered in dark clouds.
Within the thick clouds, contaminated creatures writhed and moved, as if about to break out of their cocoons.
Not only in the sky, but also on the distant ground, countless contaminated creatures of unknown shapes appeared. They merged into a single mass, like filthy carpets covering everything.
The defensive line had been breached.
Inside the base, Sentinels were fighting with all their might against the contaminated creatures.
Seeing that the house was about to collapse, Da Qiao did not hesitate. She grabbed the foolish system crow, spun around, and leaped out of the window!
Fortunately, although her spiritual energy had not recovered, her physical condition was still excellent.
Da Qiao relied on the external water pipe, found a handhold, and landed gently on the ground, retreating to an open area.
Dust billowed as the house behind her collapsed with a loud crash!
Before Da Qiao could even catch her breath, a foul-smelling dark shadow lunged at her. Reflexively, she formed a hand seal and blasted the contaminated creature away!
A flash of white light flickered.
The eight-tentacled contaminated creature drew an arc in the air before crashing heavily to the ground.
Da Qiao took a step back, avoiding the splashing liquid. Her cold gaze locked onto the injured mutated monster.