Transmigrating Into a Book, the Villain Becomes the White Moonlight!

147: Chapter 147 Su Bai’s basic stats: Charm?”Xiao You? Xiao You, are you okay?” Liu Ruyan waved a hand in front of her eyes.

Xiao You snapped back to reality and practically lunged at the console. Her hands flew across the controls as she whipped the screen toward Liu Ruyan, pointing at Su Bai’s file for this world and the ”Original World” tag next to it. Her voice trembled with excitement and disbelief:

”Ruyan! Are you sure?! Are you one hundred percent sure that this ’Original World’ is a novel world? Are you sure that protagonist was named Su Bai?! The same name as my current host—maybe even the same person?!”

”I’m sure.” Liu Ruyan was a bit unnerved by Xiao You’s reaction, but her answer remained firm.

”The Dimensional Encoding and Basic Framework Information match, and I remember the protagonist’s name. Although a host’s Soul Fluctuations undergo compatibility adjustments after crossing over, the Core Imprint is very hard to change completely. Unless there’s intervention from an extremely high authority... but that’s very rare.”

Xiao You slumped back into her chair. She felt like her Logic Processor was overloading; a ridiculous chill seemed to permeate through the stream of cold code.

Everything made sense now!

Why Su Bai was so familiar with ’Protagonist Tropes’ that he could even turn them to his advantage!

Why he could always nonchalantly neutralize various crises and schemes, as if he had anticipated them all along!

Why he clearly had a system but refused to open it, preferring to use ’clumsy methods’—because he might have already experienced system assistance and even ’graduated.’ He knew exactly how systems operated and their limitations, or... he simply didn’t want to be bound by any system ever again?

Why his personality combined lazy slacking with sudden bursts of decisive planning and execution—those were likely the marks and composure left behind by a ’retired Protagonist’ after a long career of missions!

A former novel world Protagonist who graduated with a maxed-out Male God Charisma System, whose soul didn’t perish after death and was mistakenly pulled into another novel world, only to take over the identity of a Villain?

This wasn’t just an ordinary transmigrator!

This was a Double-transmigrator.

Xiao You looked at the surveillance screen. Su Bai was solemnly following a dazed Dragon Two through a basic defensive move. His expression seemed focused, but deep in his eyes, there was a hint of boredom and knowing...

She suddenly felt that all her previous worries, analyses, and complaints might have underestimated the complexity of this host.

How was Su Bai some rookie Villain she needed to worry about?

This was clearly a ’former child of destiny’ who had hidden his max-level main account and come to the starter village to experience life!

”You just said that after a host crosses over, their Soul Fluctuations undergo compatibility adjustments?” Xiao You asked, staring intently at Liu Ruyan as if seizing a key clue. ”Is this adjustment automatically performed by the new world’s rules whenever a protagonist—or any host—transmigrates to a new world?”

”Yes, that’s standard procedure.” Liu Ruyan nodded affirmatively, then tilted her head in confusion, trying to retrieve more distant memory fragments.

”It’s mainly to avoid soul-level conflicts or rejection with the current world’s core characters. The system assists with a certain degree of localized fine-tuning so the host can better embed themselves into the new world line. But... hiss, strange, why can’t I remember the specific name of the female Protagonist in his world? I only remember she was a very pure campus goddess type...”

That’s it! Everything clicked!

Xiao You felt a flash of inspiration pierce through all the fog!

No wonder Su Bai’s Soul Fluctuation signal was identical to the Protagonist she was supposed to bring when she performed the fuzzy matching in the vast soul database.

It wasn’t some ’Villain aptitude’ at all! It was because Su Bai himself was a genuine ’protagonist’!

A former protagonist who had completed his main quest and honorably ’retired’!

This was as absurd as matching a fingerprint database and finding that a new suspect’s prints were highly similar to those of a decorated, retired veteran officer!

”Then that Male God Charisma System of yours... when a host completes a world mission, does the system... get inherited? Or rather, does the host retain certain abilities or traits of the system?”

Xiao You’s heart pounded as she asked the most critical question.

If Su Bai retained that max-level charisma system, or even just part of its effects, then all his abnormal behavior in this new world—like easily gaining attention, influencing others’ judgment, or even that faint, irresistible aura—had a much more terrifying explanation!

”Inherited?” Liu Ruyan was taken aback, clearly having never considered this.

”Systems are bound to world lines and missions. Once the mission is complete and the world is archived, the system is naturally unbound and recycled. The host themselves... theoretically, they only retain the character growth or memories brought by the experience. Temporary abilities or attribute bonuses granted by the system should be stripped away. After all, dimensional balance must be maintained.”

As she spoke, she felt her theory might not be comprehensive enough and added, ”Oh, how would I know the details? I’ve never dealt with a host double-transmigrating with a legacy from a former system! These are obscure clauses in high-dimensional protocols; you’d probably have to ask someone at the supervisor level.”

She tried to recall more specific details: ”Also, I remember clearly that when Su Bai bound that Male God Charisma System, his starting point wasn’t high. At first, he seemed to be a somewhat introverted, even slightly chubby ordinary boy. It was only by completing system missions and gradually increasing his charisma, temperament, social skills, and so on that he became a campus male god and finally won the beauty. When the system ended, all his stats were indeed maxed out. But as for what happens after max level or how the data is handled... why don’t you just pull up his current Underlying Base Information and take a look? If there are any abnormal residues, they should show up there.”

Underlying Base Information!

Xiao You was jolted awake by those words. Previously, she had only focused on Su Bai’s dynamic data and character tags in this world; she really hadn’t carefully checked that most basic, theoretically empty ’Initial Attribute Panel.’

Because in the Villain system’s evaluation framework, a host’s past life is usually considered an irrelevant background unless there’s a special annotation.

Simply put, this information wasn’t supposed to be important. But if Su Bai had inherited things from that charisma system, then a base charisma of seventy or eighty would definitely have become one hundred.

“Let me see!” Before her voice even faded, Xiao You’s fingers turned into afterimages, flying across the console. She bypassed the standard character file interface and directly pulled up the lowest, most primitive data base of Su Bai’s Dimensional Projection.

This was the raw data, theoretically closest to the host’s soul origin after stripping away all world rule additions and temporary system influences.

The deep blue light screen refreshed, and a simple, almost crude interface popped up. A few lines of basic values and status bars came into view.

Normally, this base information should look like this:

[Life Status: Active]

[Soul Strength: Standard]

[Special Status: None]

However, the base information Xiao You saw for Su Bai made her gasp!

[Life Status: Active]

[Soul Strength: High]

[Base Attributes: Strength (?), Agility (?), Spirit (High), Charisma (???)...]

[Special Status: (Presence of unknown high-level rule blessing/contract residue)]

[Rule Residue: (Detected trace amount of ’Destined to Rule’ imprint (faded)), (Detected blurred historical traces of System Coupling)... (Warning: Data incomplete, source tracing difficult)]

”This...” Xiao You’s virtual avatar blurred for a moment due to data fluctuations.

How was this an ordinary transmigrator’s base panel?

This was clearly a monster file of someone carrying a former halo and even residues!

Especially that Charisma (???) and the unknown high-level rule blessing/contract residue made Xiao You’s scalp tingle.

Charisma value unmeasurable?

Was the passive effect so strong it exceeded the normal measurement range?

Xiao You stared at the string of shocking abnormal data on the light screen, along with those glaring question marks and warning prompts. She felt like her core code was about to stop running.

This had completely exceeded her processing authority and understanding as a junior system administrator!

Liu Ruyan was also dumbfounded nearby. The two of them stood like two virtual statues, dazed for a long while before the flowing waterfall of data light.

”...This situation must be reported upward immediately!” Xiao You suddenly snapped back to her senses, her voice cracking slightly as she realized the severity of the problem.

She scrambled to pull up the emergency report interface, preparing to submit Su Bai’s abnormal file and her conjectures to the superior supervisor system.

This was no longer a simple case of abnormal host behavior; it involved cross-world line soul residues, undeclared high-level rule interference, and even potential system protocol loopholes!

”Report?!” Liu Ruyan seemed scorched by the word and also woke from her shock. Reacting quickly, she grabbed Xiao You’s arm just as she was about to operate. The virtual contact transmitted a heavy force. ”Wait! Xiao You! You can’t report this! At least not directly like this right now!”

”Why?!” Xiao You was held back and turned her head in confusion and anxiety. ”Concealing such a serious problem is the ultimate taboo, isn’t it? If this causes dimensional disorder or rule conflicts, neither of us can take the responsibility!”

Liu Ruyan didn’t answer immediately but nervously ”looked around”—even though there was no one else in the System Administration Bureau’s independent monitoring room, the action was clearly a subconscious precaution.

She pulled Xiao You closer and lowered her voice, her tone urgent: ”Calm down and think! Do you know what would most likely happen if you report this discovery exactly as it is—especially the part about Su Bai being a max-level Protagonist in his past life with potentially uncleansed high-level rule residues—according to the ’Cross-Dimensional Abnormal Incident Handling Protocol’ and the ’Host Soul Management Regulations’?”

Xiao You was stunned by the question. As a junior administrator, she really wasn’t as familiar with the details of those long, harsh high-level protocols as Liu Ruyan was.

She shook her head, her eyes full of inquiry.

”The handling method depends on the abnormality level and risk assessment,” Liu Ruyan spoke quickly, clearly retrieving relevant clause memories.

”In a case like Su Bai’s, where the soul carries a strong former Protagonist imprint and causes high-correlation interference with current world characters... a lighter treatment would be forced intervention: erasing or sealing his memories of his past life as a Protagonist and the related system, while using rule authority to forcibly adjust or even strip those abnormally solidified attributes, restoring him to a relatively clean ordinary transmigrator who fits the current world’s Villain template.”

Xiao You listened, her brows furrowed. Erasing memories, adjusting attributes... that sounded like forcibly formatting the most core part of a person.

”Then... what if the assessment concludes the risk is higher, or that forced adjustment might trigger even greater instability?” Xiao You’s heart sank; she already sensed a worse answer.

”If it’s more severe...” Liu Ruyan’s voice dropped even lower. She checked her surroundings once more before saying with a hint of lingering fear, ”...Based on case discussions I overheard during my internship, the Bureau has the right and the ability to... directly recycle and erase the entire Derivative World, along with all abnormal soul projections inside, starting everything over or simply discarding that faulty world number.”

”Recycle... erase...” Xiao You gasped.

She knew exactly what world recycling meant—formatting, returning to nothingness.

Her voice trembled as an even more chilling thought occurred to her: ”Are you saying... Su Bai himself... might also know this rule?”

”Yes, very likely!” Liu Ruyan nodded vigorously.

”Otherwise, there’s no way to explain why he’s been shielding the system so stubbornly from the start, refusing to open the connection! I used to find it strange—even if you took over this Protagonist and he’s lazy, having system assistance is always a good thing when facing a Protagonist-template opponent, right? Thinking about it now, his shielding the system likely isn’t because he forgot or doesn’t want to use it, but a form of active self-protection!”

She analyzed rapidly, her thoughts becoming clearer: ”Think about it. If he opens the system and accepts missions, he gets rewards. But if those rewards are useless on him, the system would directly detect the abnormality and report it.”

Xiao You followed Liu Ruyan’s logic and suddenly saw the light: ”So... Su Bai is intentionally not opening the system! He’s avoiding a deep system scan. He’s not ignoring a tool; he’s... evading a potential judgment!”

They looked at the surveillance screen at Su Bai, who was clumsily following Dragon Two’s practice of basic footwork with a hint of impatience on his face. Their perspective had completely changed.

How was this a stray Villain-in-training who needed system guidance?

This was clearly a clear-headed traveler who knew part of the world’s truth—maybe even vaguely understood the hidden dangers of system rules—and was dancing on a knife’s edge based on that knowledge!

He used laziness and slacking to disguise himself, his family power as an overt shield, and the experience and intuition from his past life to secretly plan. He carefully avoided any behavior that might expose his abnormality, including... never activating that Villain system which could become a surveillance camera and a death warrant.