A Cannon Fodder, Yet I Reform the Tragic Villain [Quick Transmigration]

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The story will continue to be revised.

Zhu Zhou, a top-ten employee at the quick transmigration bureau, enters a series of face-slapping power fantasies just before his retirement.

The villain-conquest System comes with him. For special reasons, the protagonists can’t defeat the villains themselves, so Zhu Zhou must personally win them over. Otherwise, these fantasy worlds are doomed to collapse.

Well, as a brainless cannon fodder who gets killed off from the start, Zhu Zhou has carefully read a few of these power fantasies and set himself a short-term goal: survive.

First World (complete):

A wasteland world ravaged by severe biological mutations. Humanity turns its attention to dragons, whose genes remain stable and unchanged, hoping to find a way to survive.

Zhu Zhou transmigrates into a senior researcher at a genetic research institute. His test subject is a dragon hatchling raised in the laboratory from birth. In just one month, the hatchling will reach maturity, kill all the researchers, and become the final villain.

By this point, Zhu Zhou has already performed many cruel experiments on the hatchling, delighting in tearing down the young dragon’s psychological defenses.

In the original story, he is the chief culprit behind the villain’s corruption. The young dragon tears off his legs and grinds his bones to dust.

Looking at the syringe in his hand, Zhu Zhou ignores the hatchling’s whimpers and continues. If he does his experiments well enough, the villain won’t get the chance to turn evil.

Second World (complete): Keeper of a Brutal Merman

In an ocean world where merfolk and humans coexist, the merfolk empire that once ruled the seas falls to ocean pollution. Most of the surviving merfolk now live on land, kept by humans.

As the keeper of the most brutal black-tailed merman, Zhu Zhou carefully feeds him and tries to soothe his moods. Otherwise, the merman will smash through the glass, take Zhu Zhou’s life in passing, and become the villain of the merfolk sanctuary arc.

Unfortunately, he has already starved the merman for days. The carefully selected fish sinks to the bottom of the tank, and the merman’s eyes follow him.

Question: What do you do when you’re raising a brutal merman with no sense of security and no regard for life?

Zhu Zhou shrugs and gives up. A merman may have a broad diet, but surely he won’t actually eat him?

Third World: Guardian of a Humanoid Weapon (complete)

In a future where bionic weapons are widespread, people with special abilities face the threat of corruption and increasingly favor using bionic weapons to resolve crises.

Zhu Zhou wakes up in a shelter and is told he is a high-level esper who must continue giving his all. The System goes offline, and he can’t find his target, so he has to improvise and outsmart a fake System as well.

But Zhu Zhou doesn’t panic. A bionic being at the shelter shows him kindness and even becomes his teammate.

When the System finally returns, he discovers that this apparently harmless bionic being is actually the story’s greatest villain. As the first-generation bionic being, it is widely recognized as a humanoid weapon.

Before long, Zhu Zhou will be assigned to kill the bionic being. He will lose and be killed in return.

Zhu Zhou looks at the man blushing because Zhu Zhou returned his kindness, and falls into thought. A humanoid weapon?

So, given how things are now, why would he accept a mission that will get him killed?

Fourth World: Scholar Obsessed with an Evil Spirit (Western fantasy)

Upcoming story blurb:

Some villains have the fortune and power to rival the protagonist, yet are broken apart by the trials of the plot. Swept along by fate, they destroy themselves and ultimately become stepping stones for the protagonist, dismissed by readers as useless and fit only for exploitation.

System: “Your mission is to help him survive for 30 days. As a reward, you’ll receive a spoiler about a pivotal part of his life.”

The supporting character, bound to the System for no apparent reason, says, “I don’t need it!”

[Arc One: Cool, gifted top × escaped experimental subject villain]

System: “You have no connection to the villain, but your cold indifference is the final straw that breaks him. He’s plotting revenge against the protagonist and debating whether to kill you. In the original plot, the protagonist manipulates you into dying together with the villain.”

Yun Song: “Die together?”

He looks at the villain charging straight toward him at the banquet, concealing the coldness in his eyes. “What if I take away that final straw?”

Later, the System watches the villain go mad with possessiveness over Yun Song, while the protagonist is left severely weakened. “?”

The final straw is gone, but the villain’s tail feathers for courting are now in hand.

[Arc Two: Indifferent, insane reborn top × naive, sunny villain]

System: “You know the villain better than anyone in the world. Only you can save his life. In the original story, the protagonist’s group holds him hostage, drawing his blood every day to research medicine, until he dies of genetic collapse. You must stay with him through the chaos of his differentiation and get him out of the research facility.”

Luo Shu: “I know.”

He watches the naive, ignorant villain, whose thoughts are confused by his nonhuman genes. “I know everything he’ll go through. I won’t let him become like me.”

Later, the protagonist’s group falls apart, the base collapses, and the villain remains sunny and carefree, spending all day orbiting Luo Shu. The System: “?”

The gloomy, world-weary villain has become a sunny little crybaby. Now you’re the villain?!

[Arc Three: Calm, gentle immortal master top × defiant demon dragon villain]

Theme: Every little thing is a touch of warmth