The System Wants Me to Play Nice [Apocalypse Farming]

[Apocalypse + Farming + System

A sweet, well-behaved bottom who can actually punch a zombie to pieces X a love-struck top with an 800-mile-thick protagonist filter and the eyes of a blind dog]

The apocalypse arrived. On the road to escape, the powerful ability user Cheng Weizhou gained a companion.

The person was obedient and sweet, an ordinary person who could only hug a flowerpot and relied on Cheng Weizhou and a cat for protection.

Some people looked down on someone as "useless" as Xie Lan, sneering at him and gossiping behind his back.

Xie Lan lowered his head and let the other person mock him.

When everyone went to look for supplies, Xie Lan turned around and kicked the person in the butt. He and the cat beat him until his face was swollen and bruised.

"Still going to gossip about me?" Xie Lan landed punch after punch.

"No, no! I won't do it again!" The other person had no way to explain himself.

If you were going to say you were this strong, why let people protect you? If he'd known the truth, he wouldn't have dared pick on you.

The System screamed frantically inside Xie Lan's head. [Stop! Stop right now! You're breaking character! Aaaaaah!]

Xie Lan ignored it and punched him again.

System backend: [Character completion: 25%]

The System slowly typed a question mark.

What was going on? How had the character not broken, and the progress even gone up?

When Cheng Weizhou returned, he saw his teammate's grimacing, battered state. "Did someone come here to cause trouble?"

With a guilty conscience, Xie Lan tried to fool himself as well as everyone else. "It wasn't me! It has nothing to do with me! He fell on his own!"

Cheng Weizhou's expression darkened. "Did he bully you?"

Xie Lan was so well-behaved, he couldn't have beaten someone up. But he must have been bullied.

So, after Cheng Weizhou found out what the other person had said behind his back, he walked over with a cold expression and beat him up again.

"..."

The teammate, beaten twice, was numb. Was this really necessary?

He'd only gossiped a few times! Just a few! He was practically beaten into a pig's head!

The zombie smashed the flowerpot where the first shoots had just sprouted.

The little seedling he'd been looking forward to had only just come up. Before he could even enjoy it, a rotten, foul-smelling zombie smashed it to pieces.

Xie Lan stared at the wreckage on the ground, expressionless, and crushed the zombie's skull.

By the time Cheng Weizhou and the other teammates rushed over, this was what they saw.

Xie Lan stood among a pile of twisted, misshapen zombies. At his feet lay the seedlings, brutally destroyed, and in his hand was a zombie with its head blown apart.

The air froze.

Who was this great demon before their eyes? They'd been promised a pitiful little weakling.

The System screamed again.

[Aaah, it's over, it's over! They all saw!]

[Your character has definitely broken this time. There's no covering it up!]

Xie Lan blinked, his gaze blank for a few seconds.

When he saw Cheng Weizhou was there too, he instantly tossed the zombie aside and threw himself into Cheng Weizhou's arms, wrapping both arms tightly around his waist. He buried his face against Cheng Weizhou's chest and rubbed against him, his voice trembling.

"Waaah, a zombie! It's so scary!"

Everyone turned to look at Xie Lan, who was "shivering in fear" in Cheng Weizhou's arms, showing them only the back of his head. Then they glanced at the zombie on the ground with its head crushed, and felt their own heads start to ache.

The teammates: "You call that scary?" Who was the scary one here?

Xie Lan raised his face. His eyes were faintly red, and his lashes still held a trace of moisture. He looked innocent and aggrieved. "My hands were shaking from fright. Look."

Cheng Weizhou held the hand that kept rubbing against him, his gaze tender as water. Carefully, he wiped the blood from each of Xie Lan's fingers. "Does your hand hurt?"

The teammates: ...

Everyone wanted to shake him awake.

Wake up! Look at those zombies on the ground!

Your wife killed them all! Aaaaaah! What could possibly hurt? What could possibly be scary?

System backend: [Character completion: 50%]

The System: ??

Was this thing broken or what?

Everyone noticed that the flowerpot Xie Lan carried around every day really had grown a vegetable. But it was only one plant, a drop in the bucket in this world.

Who could have guessed that Xie Lan would later grow lush fields of grain across thousands of acres of wasteland, harvest thousands of acres of crops in autumn, and feed everyone at the base?

Everyone at the base sincerely admired and respected Xie Lan. So what if he wasn't an ability user? He could make sure everyone had enough to eat.

People competed to work for him, swinging their hoes as they farmed.

"You're frail. Go sit in the shade before you wear yourself out!"

"Leave the hard work to us!"

Xie Lan obediently cheered them on from the shade. "Keep it up! There's only one more mu to plant today!"

His teammates, who knew him well, were practically numb by now, watching the little liar with the adorable canine teeth grin as he wrapped everyone around his finger.

Then one day, zombies surrounded the base, leaving it on the brink of collapse.

Xie Lan stepped forward and turned the tide.

Powerful abilities erupted from him, instantly wiping out hordes of zombies and stunning everyone.

The System had already given up. It wailed a couple of perfunctory times. [Hey! You've broken character again...]

But then the backend displayed: [Character completion: 100%! Congratulations, Host, on receiving the ultimate farming gift pack!]

The System was stunned.

To this day, it couldn't understand why the mission hadn't failed, but had actually been completed, when Xie Lan had broken character so many times, and had just broken it spectacularly in front of so many people.

Xie Lan blinked and smiled. "Oh, that? Of course it's because this is who I really am."

How can someone break character as themselves? Whatever he does is right, okay!

The System: ...

Then why didn't you say so earlier? You had me worrying for so long for nothing!

Xie Lan kept his accomplishments to himself.

At last, everyone at the base saw through their filter of Xie Lan and realized the truth.

Xie Lan wasn't some obedient, sweet, adorable little weakling at all. He was playing the fool to catch the tiger!

After the battle, Xie Lan nestled in Cheng Weizhou's arms, all sweet and cuddly, smiling adorably.

Everyone fell silent. It was hard to connect the person before them with the powerful fighter who had just slaughtered his way through the zombies.

The teammate who had once been beaten black and blue for gossiping, along with those who knew Xie Lan could crush a zombie with his bare hands, shouted excitedly.

We told you ages ago that he was strong, but you didn't believe us!

Now do you believe us?

Reading Guide:

1. The top: Only other people will bully Lanlan. There's no chance Lanlan would bully anyone. And if he does, then the other person must have done something!

2. The protagonist is very strong. The System is just here for laughs and to hand over a golden finger.

3. I haven't thought of anything yet. I'll add it when I do.

4. Happy reading, dears!

Theme: Farming, farming, the more you farm, the sweeter it gets