Searching for "Jiang Yuanshi" (Ten)

[I once picked up a puppy. It was brown and yellow, had black gloves, its ears were pulled up on both sides, and its eyes were so dark that they had no light.]

[But I killed it.]

What did you do?

[Bringing him home, that was... my original sin.]

Xiao Jiangyuan stood at the door of his house and looked up at his mother inside. His mother had a cold expression and frowned when she saw what was in his bag.

It looks like it still failed.

Jiang Yuanshi was holding his schoolbag and had already started thinking about whether to find a cardboard box to put the puppy in the corridor of the community to shelter from the rain and wait for kind people. Just when he had made his plan, a gust of wind blew in from the window of the stairwell and the door behind him opened.

The neighbor opposite opened the door, and the moment it was completely opened, Jiang Yuanshi was allowed to bring the dog in. Jiang's mother quickly and gently closed the door before the people opposite came out. If outsiders saw the child in this state, who knows what they would say.

Why did it happen at this moment? It's so weird.

Jiang Yuanshi was asked to wash it clean. After receiving the order, the child came out of standby mode, moved his feet off the floor mat at home, carefully returned to the house, took out the puppy and put it on the schoolbag, stuffed the dog and the bag under the bed, and told the puppy not to leave.

The puppy had fallen asleep a long time ago. Seeing this, the thin child got up from the ground and walked away quickly and quietly.

At the same time, there was another gust of wind outside the window, and a small red ball flew in, passed over the desk, fell on the small bed, and then rolled along the edge of the bed, rolling under the bed, and disappeared after hitting the puppy.

The puppy opened his eyes and lay on the schoolbag, looking weaker than before.

Z01 returned to the puppy's body.

For some reason, the situation did not develop in the direction the host had said before, and the neighbor had not made any movement. When Z01 was planning to experiment whether there would be any new developments, he felt the arms getting tighter and tighter and the trembling through his schoolbag.

Please don't throw it away, just one day will do... Z01 heard the host's voice.

If this is the wish, Z01 chooses to make it happen.

The original body of "Grudge" is invisible to the human eye. Although Z01, who has weak energy, cannot generate any clones, he can go into battle himself. So Z01 leaves the puppy's body, turns into wind and crashes into the neighbor's door, making a knocking sound that only the neighbor can hear.

Jiang Yuanshi’s wish came true, but what should he do next?

Z01 does not have much energy to realize them one by one, and he himself has no awareness of being a resentment, cannot draw resentment power on his own, and has no resentment power supply.

The previous system prompt sound was halfway through playing, and the task was not completed. There was a 90% chance that the host would die. How could it be changed at that time? Z01 silently calculated the results, and the analysis of survival was spinning in circles but could not come up with a result.

……never mind.

Now that we are here, let’s take it one step at a time.

Z01 is well versed in Jiang Yuanshi's rules. He lies on his schoolbag with his eyes closed, waiting for Jiang Yuanshi's return.

Z01 could smell the fragrance of the food through the door and heard the clinking of dishes and chopsticks. It seemed that they had finished eating.

Not long after, the door opened.

He saw a pair of small feet in sandals, black pajamas, black slippers, and gray skin. When Z01 was thinking about the colors of the world through dog eyes, amber broke into his world.

The pair of eyes appeared under the bed, looking at him blankly.

The puppy made eye contact and winked at the other person. Xiao Jiangyuan dragged out his schoolbag, with the puppy holding its hands on top of it. It didn't move, and looked up at the other person obediently.

The child carefully reached out to touch the puppy's head. Seeing that the dog did not resist, he boldly continued to touch it.

Ears, eyebrows, mouth, nose, body, and paws.

Xiao Jiangyuan just stretched out his hand, and before he said anything, the puppy took the initiative to put its paw on it.

"You are so smart." Xiao Jiangyuan gently held the dog's paw and shook it up and down. He looked very happy, and it seemed that there was more flesh on his cheeks when he smiled.

However, the wound seemed to be still oozing blood, probably because the skin was pulled by talking and laughing. The child hissed, then remembered something, and said to the puppy, "Wait a minute, I'll put food for you first." He looked around stealthily, carried the puppy to his bed, took out two small bags of dog food for samples from his schoolbag, folded a small box with draft paper, poured the dog food into it, and placed it on one end of the schoolbag, then put the puppy back on the schoolbag.

"Okay, let's eat. The ground is cold. Fortunately, the back of my schoolbag isn't soaked."

Z01, who is in dog form, is indeed a little hungry after smelling the dog food. He doesn't care about the material of the food at all and lowers his head to eat. Maybe because he is a dog now, the dog food tastes quite good, but it's a little dry.

At this time, a small tray appeared on the side, filled with water.

Is this... a paint palette?

"I don't have anything else to hold water for you. If you use a bowl your parents will scold you. If my cup hadn't been snatched away I would have given it to you." The child squatted on the ground, watching the puppy eat, while he took out hydrogen peroxide and cotton swabs from his pocket and wiped the wound in front of the small mirror on the desk.

In the end, it seemed that the wound was too big and it was difficult to wipe it with a cotton swab. Z01 watched as the other party took the hydrogen peroxide and pointed the bottle mouth at the wound, fitting it tightly against the wound. He tilted his head back and the liquid poured onto the wound and then returned to the bottle. Water marks were left on the child's face, which dripped onto the ground and were wiped away with a tissue. The child naturally screwed the bottle cap on, with white foam still coming out of the wound on his face.

Z01: “…”

If he could speak, he really wanted to say: This is unhygienic.

But a real dog cannot speak human language, and the puppy had already died, otherwise Z01 would not have been able to enter.

There was also a problem with the body's vocal cords. It took a long time for Z01 to make a sound. Even if he wanted to bark, he couldn't.

Z01After dinner, Jiang Yuanshi's parents came into the room and looked at him once. They looked at him calmly, as if they were looking at a dead object, but they didn't say anything and left.

When Xiao Jiangyuan finished his homework, it was time to go to bed, and his parents did not come during that time.

When Z01, who was sleeping on the backpack on the ground, woke up again, he looked at the desk. It was past one in the morning... ?

Something was wrong. He couldn't see the table from the ground. The touch under him also became soft. Z01 turned his head and met a pair of large amber eyes.

“……”This kid, what is he doing up in the middle of the night?

When Xiao Jiangyuan saw the puppy open his eyes, his eyes were blank, and he was startled. He asked in a puzzled voice: "Why did you wake up? I should be very gentle. Don't be afraid, my bed is very soft, much better than a schoolbag, right?"

Z01 blinked: "Yes, but it's unhygienic. It's a stray dog that hasn't been washed."

The child happily gave half of his pillow to the puppy, and lay sideways to touch the dog's head. The puppy obviously didn't understand, but still said: "Mom and Dad don't like small animals. If the neighbor hadn't opened the door, you would not be here today. We should have separated tomorrow, but I can only put you in the corridor. I hope you can find someone to adopt you... It would be great if Mom and Dad agreed to let me raise you. If grandma is still alive, I can give you to grandma. But grandma is allergic to dog hair and can't raise you. Otherwise, I will isolate you and take you to the village to give you away. People in the village are actually very nice and there is freedom there."

When the child talked about his grandmother and rural life, his tone and expression were full of nostalgia and yearning. The child's energy was unpredictable. He was very energetic one moment and then he started to feel sleepy the next. His tone became vague and his hands that were petting the dog slowed down. But he still insisted on fantasizing non-stop: "If grandma comes to pick you up, it would be great if she could take me with her... If I were a stupid kid, would my parents let me see grandma? But they wouldn't like a stupid person like me..."

"Why don't they like me? Everyone seems to dislike me. In fact, my grandma was also very fierce at the beginning. She probably didn't like me either. It's just that they have raised me for a long time and have developed feelings for me, just like raising a puppy." Xiao Jiang Yuanshi looked at the puppy's black eyes and said, "Dog, how long do you think I will have to be raised before mom and dad will like me? But we are all puppies, and I didn't hate you from the beginning... Why, no one likes me, what can I do to avoid being hated? Why..."

The child's voice became weaker and weaker, and gradually became quiet. The puppy quietly looked at the sleeping Xiao Jiangyuan, and finally came close, licked the wetness from the corners of the other's eyes, curled up in the child's arms, and completely forgot about hygiene issues.

The perceived temperature was always 36.8 degrees, and there was no fever. The next day, when Z01 woke up and looked at Xiao Jiangyuan, he found that the direction was different from what he had originally said.

Is there a new change?

Xiao Jiangyuan got up and went to school. When he was about to leave with the puppy, his parents asked him to keep the puppy for the first time, saying that they would think about it. The child was frightened and unbelievably surprised to get this answer. When he asked carefully for the second time and got permission, the child smiled.

"There are requirements. You have to pass the exam. Otherwise, forget it."

"Okay, I'll try my best! Thank you, Mom and Dad."

Xiao Jiang took the milk that his father handed over, which he disliked the most, and drank it in one gulp in front of the adults without hesitation. He then watched the puppy go to school while looking back every few steps.

The door closed, the bright smile disappeared, and Z01 sat in front of the two adults. Father and Mother Jiang looked at him expressionlessly. After looking at each other, they said, "Has the neighbor across the street left?"

"I left. I heard that the family is going out for dinner after get off work today. I guess they won't be back until around 7pm."

"Okay, throw it out and bring it back in the evening."

"What if that unlucky star suddenly comes back?"

"No way. I have exams all day today."

"Don't think I don't know what you put in his drink. What if he can't hold on and comes back halfway? And you can't guarantee that the dog won't run around."

"Why don't we just do it now? He's destined to fail the test anyway, but that won't be new. I've been under a lot of pressure at school lately and I don't know where to vent. Otherwise..."

Jiang's father and mother looked at each other and understood each other.

Z01 looked at the couple and probably understood that Jiang Yuanshi was not sick from being caught in the rain. Everything was just a way for the couple to vent their emotions. The child and the dog were just tools.

Looking at the couple heading towards the broom and the stick, the puppy stood up and ran away without blinking. It was not very fast, but because of its small size, it only ran to corners. For a while, the house was in chaos. The couple were exhausted and looked like a complete mess, but they had work to do today, so they had no choice but to give up. They tidied themselves up and slammed the door angrily.

Z01, huddled in a corner of the storage room, began to think about his next step.

First, bury the body.

Z01 was probably infected by Jiang Yuanshi, and the first thing he thought of was not to implicate innocent people.

He sighed, climbed up along the debris, stood up and opened the window. Jiang Yuanshi's house was on the fourth floor, not too high.

Z01 calculated the landing position and drove his remaining energy downstairs.

Z01 walked for a long time and came to the innermost part of the woods in the fitness trail park. He used his claws to dig a hole, then leaned over and straightened it. A small red ball floated out. Countless long red tentacles extended from the surface of the sphere, weaving the shape of a puppy bit by bit, and finally turned into the appearance of a puppy. Z01 looked at the puppy in the pit, bowed his head to express his gratitude, and finally covered the soil back with his claws, picked up a branch and stuck it on the hole, which was considered a small tombstone.

Z01 turned and left. Having exhausted all his strength, he did not notice that the pile of earth behind him was disappearing silently.

Z01 used his last bit of strength to transform into a puppy and was now just an ordinary dog, so going home became impossible. In this case, he simply went to Jiang Yuanshi's elementary school.

He walked along the way, smelling Jiang Yuanshi's scent, but it rained again and the scent of Jiang Yuanshi became lighter. When Z01 saw Jiang Yuanshi, it was noon.

It was time for lunch, but strangely, Jiang Yuanshi did not follow the group to eat in the cafeteria. Instead, he was surrounded by a group of people in the small alley of the food street outside the school. Each person was much taller than Jiang Yuanshi. It seemed that he was injured because of them. Jiang Yuanshi in the crowd looked different from what Z01 had seen before. The ten-year-old child was still so pitiful and helpless last night, but now he looked completely indifferent: "Sorry, I don't have any money. You guys better do it."

"You are so shameless!"

When several people from the other side started fighting, Z01 was about to rush over to help with his short legs, but it was of no use at all.

In the blink of an eye, several aggressive children who were demanding money fell to the ground. Xiao Jiangyuanshi stood in the middle, his face numb, without any injuries. He patted his clothes and said to himself, "Boring."

"You...you hit someone! I'm going to sue the teacher!" said the child lying on the ground. Xiao Jiangyuan looked disgusted and said, "Go ahead. When the time comes, you must show the teacher your injuries. But compared to your minor injuries, the ones on my face are more obvious, right? I'm not sure who the teacher will believe then, after all..."

Xiao Jiangyuan tried to avoid those people and walked out of the alley.

"After all, teachers prefer the students with good grades that you hate, right?"

Before leaving, Jiang Yuanshi, who was standing at the entrance of the alley, turned around and smiled at the group of people with a sarcastic tone.

They left amid the angry scolding of the kids. During that time, they heard someone asking how Jiang Yuanshi had become so powerful. Jiang Yuanshi did not answer. On the way to school, he muttered to himself, "Because even if they get beaten, they don't care."

Z01, who was following behind him, fell silent. The child in front of him was completely different from the one he remembered before, but more like Jiang Yuanshi when he was a young man. Could it be that he had recovered his memory? Was he looking for him?

Just as Z01 was thinking this, someone squatted in front of him. Z01 met their gaze and both of them were startled.

Xiao Jiangyuan's eyes widened and he took a breath: "So it's not you, so the little dog looks so similar?"

Z01: What is similar?

Xiao Jiangyuan took a closer look and asked, "Do dogs have black and red eyes? I don't think so? Mutant?"

Z01 never expected that he couldn't change the color of his eyes after the transformation, and Jiang Yuanshi discovered it. Seeing that the puppy was very well behaved, Jiang Yuanshi stretched out his finger, rubbed the dog's head with his fingertips and said, "Don't follow me. My family doesn't allow dogs. Although my parents said it's okay today, I guess they will tell me when I go back that the puppy ran away. Most likely it was thrown away. But there are many surveillance cameras in the community, so they can't throw it into the trash can. I can always run into acquaintances along the way. It just so happens that the reporting time is tight. Maybe he will be given to some easy-to-talk, familiar grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc. This may be better than me throwing him in the corridor."

"So don't follow me. I don't have the courage or energy. Goodbye."

After saying that, Xiao Jiang Yuanshi turned around and left. His words sounded decisive, but he kept looking back. When he was about to look back for the third time, he decided to try to adopt the child if the other party was still there, but his attempt failed.

When I turned around for the third time, there was no dog behind me. It seemed that it had left.

He felt somewhat relieved, worried, and regretful, but the puppy was gone.

Xiao Jiang shook his head and went back to school to take the exam. Today was full of tests. In the afternoon, he found himself feeling a little dizzy. He forced himself to speed up and finish the questions, but finally failed in the last class. Fortunately, he handed in the paper early.

When Jiang Yuanshi woke up again, he had returned home. He remembered that before he fainted, he got rid of the teacher and stuffed the test paper with results into his schoolbag, so there should be no problem.

Xiao Jiangyuan looked around and found that the puppy was no longer in the room. He felt disappointed but only smiled bitterly. Then he got up, opened the door, and carefully looked at his father who was looking at his phone at the dining table and said cautiously, "Dad... my puppy is gone."

My father said that the puppy ran away when the door was opened, just as Jiang Yuanshi expected.

But suddenly his mother came out from the kitchen and said that the puppy did not run away. Jiang Yuanshi was a little confused and he suspected that he had burned his brain.

But the mother said gently and affirmatively: "No, he is not running away. Just sit here and he will be here soon."

The room was filled with the smell of food. Xiao Jiangyuan was fidgeting on the stool. His body calmed down after being scolded, but he was anxious inside. He had a bad feeling. His paste-like brain was churning slowly. The sound of his mother's kitchen utensils clinking and his father's breathing seemed to be very close to him.

What followed was the sound of the door opening, followed by the smell of heat and heat.

"It's time to take medicine."

What medicine?

When Xiao Jiang made the wish, his eyes were dull and empty. His parents placed the tray in front of him and said with a smile, "Here it is."

The puppy on the plate was curled up with its eyes open.

"You got sick and didn't do well in the exam because of him. Dog meat is a tonic, so eat it."

Xiao Jiang opened his mouth but couldn't utter a word. The image of the puppy was firmly imprinted in his eyes.

"You have to be a good child and eat it and your illness will be cured."

But...that wasn't the puppy he picked up.

This is a puppy with black and red eyes.

Xiao Jiang regretted his decision immediately. He could no longer hear his parents' words. If the puppy he picked up ran away, then was this puppy the scapegoat caught by his parents?

If he had taken it away and looked for an adoptive parent at the beginning, would things be different now?

Why did it turn out like this?

Why would they hurt innocent lives if they didn't love him?

"Because you are sick."

…

It's all his fault.

But it turns out that his parents weren't good people either.

I wish I had never existed in the first place.

If only he didn't have a mom and a dad.

Then he wouldn't be craving their affection and nothing would happen.

But...why him? Why?

Why?

Xiao Jiang shed tears as she wished, looked into those dark red eyes, and whispered softly: "It would be better if everyone died."

He hates it so much.

The room was filled with steam, and the white mist was gradually dyed red, which was emanating from Xiao Jiang Yuanshi's body.

blame.

Resentment enveloped the entire room. All objects were still for a moment. The parents' eyes were empty and their skin began to peel off. Xiao Jiangyuan looked at the puppy in front of him and said to himself: "If only I could save your life, I will pay for your life."

[Beep——]

The red mist paused, and the dark red eyes glowed. They began to twist and rotate, forming a vortex. The red mist was sucked in bit by bit, continuously, absorbing this human being, and finally returned to calm.

When Xiao Jiangyuan came to his senses, he found himself in the woods of the fitness trail park. He carried the puppy to the deepest part, closed the puppy's eyes and hugged the puppy with his coat, dug a hole with a spoon in his hand, buried the puppy in it, and finally picked up a fork-shaped branch and inserted it in front of the tombstone as a tombstone.

Xiao Jiangyuan felt that a piece of his memory was missing, but it didn't matter. He said, "I will pay for your life after I die. If you need me to, you can ask me to do anything."

Little Jiang Yuanshi returned home numbly. There was a flash of fear in his parents' eyes, but it was fleeting. They then blamed Jiang Yuanshi for everything.

"Jiang Yuanshi is the real sinner."

Yes, Xiao Jiangyuan returned to the room and posted the test paper in the room where he could see it as soon as he got up.

That paper became a mark on his life, constantly reminding him that he needed to atone for his sins.

But he is still alive now, why would he die?

Jiang Yuanshi still wanted to see his grandmother, just one glance, until he realized on his way home when he was 19 that he would never see her again in his lifetime.

Because his grandmother died on the day he left the countryside, she slipped and fell into a field.

"Bang----!"

The car hit the guardrail. Jiang Yuanshi looked at the two people in the front row numbly. Seeing them wake up and beg for mercy, he finally couldn't bear it and rescued them. However, in his hurry, he forgot to bring something very important.

He rushed back to the car and grabbed his backpack.

"boom--------!"

The fire broke out and Jiang Yuanshi was trapped in the car. He turned around to look at his parents who were running away and was completely disappointed.

The flames burned his skin and it hurt.

He doesn't want to die.

Unreconciled.

But the car door was too hot and burned off his flesh.

He was holding his schoolbag, surrounded by flames.

Will turn to ashes.

He still has a lot to do...

It was a carnival of flames. There was no rain that day, but the flames faded away joyfully inexplicably. When the rescuers arrived, the black and red mist that enveloped Jiang Yuanshi dissipated.

With extremely severe burns, there is absolutely no chance of survival.

This is a child without a future.

Jiang's father and mother watched from across the ICU, and the movement of the ventilator was very faint.

Or maybe just forget it, they said, since it's already spoiled anyway.

Jiang Yuanshi was finally no longer expected and was abandoned.

…

"Jiang Yuan, are you going to visit that person named Jiang Yuanshi recently? ...No, I'll go with you. I also want to thank him."

"Boss Fan, Boss Li, may I ask what kind of person is Jiang Yuanshi, the partner in your hotel who has never appeared before?"

"He is a very powerful person. Without him, there would be no us."

"Jiang Yuan, Yun Qing, when do you think Jiang Jiang will come back?"

"Just wait patiently. You will get there eventually. After all, didn't we make an appointment with you, Jiang Tang? He never breaks his promises."

"That's right, Jiang Jiang is the best. I hope he can come to see me soon."

"By the way, when will the game be updated to fix the bugs? I haven't seen the grocery store owner for a long time, and the author is still pretending to be dead."

"…It's too hellish, sisters, go read the announcement, the author is not pretending to be dead, he is really dying. I heard he is still in ICU, and now the maintenance is taken over by a friend. I heard that when he was sober, he specially entrusted all the games to others. He is really... I am crying to death."

"Tonic, please pray for the author to be safe. Such a good game and such a good person, please don't die! I'm praying..."

“I hope the author is doing well.”

…

It was a blessing and also a wish. Blue threads floated out from them and extended into the air, crossing regions and dimensions, and finally intersecting into a huge circle and falling on Jiang Yuanshi who was lying on the hospital bed.

Blue drifted out of the black and red mist and wrapped around human skin.

[I hope to live with you.]

The electrocardiogram made a piercing sound, and at the same time, the system voice sounded:

[Beep————]

【New host detected】

[Hello host Jiang Yuanshi, welcome to the Book-Crossing Patch Management Department, this is system Z01, please confirm whether to bind to the Book-Crossing Patch System...]

【Countdown 3, 2, 1. 】