Chapter 109 Plane Management Domain (I) A Long Dream

It was like having a long dream. When I woke up again, I felt as if I was in another world and couldn't tell what day it was.

The bright colors in the dream gradually faded and turned into a somewhat monotonous white before my eyes.

Nguyen Chao covered his eyes with his hands, blocking out the light that was too dazzling for him now.

After adjusting for a while, he slowly removed his hand.

Look around with some curiosity.

It was an empty, pure white room without any unnecessary decorations.

Everywhere you look is a vast expanse of empty white, making it difficult to discern the boundaries and estimate the size of the space.

But it was obvious that he was the only one here.

Quietly and strangely.

"System?"

The empty consciousness did not echo with that lively mechanical voice as usual.

It was as if his connection with the system had been cut off artificially, and he could no longer sense the small life form connected to the other side of his consciousness.

Ruan Chao pursed his lips a little nervously.

He tore off the transparent connection wires on his body, then fumbled to sit up from the machine that imprisoned him, and walked out tentatively.

Her whole body was soft and spongy, like cotton, and she couldn't use any strength at all. Her two legs were like a mermaid's tail that had just been transformed, and were very sensitive.

Just by doing such a simple movement, he was already panting with exhaustion.

And there is also a very strange feeling.

How can I describe it?

It's just a very strange feeling of stagnation.

Like a machine without lubricant, the chain makes an unconscious creaking sound when it turns, a feeling of stagnation where the body and consciousness are out of sync.

Nguyen Chao made a grasping motion.

There was a delay of about 0.1 seconds before he clenched his hand into a fist.

"Host HSWEFG7539126, let me remind you that your body has just been fully repaired. It will take three to five system hours to recover before you can move freely."

A mechanical female voice suddenly sounded in the space.

She felt very similar to the system, but her tone was obviously lacking in emotion and full of inorganic texture.

"You have successfully completed the exam task, rating: S-level, completion rate: 97%, assessment: excellent, recommender's evaluation: perfect. You have now joined the official tasker candidate series."

"We have complied with the contract and repaired your body, reversing the time in your world to before the car accident."

"At this moment, nothing has happened yet, the shadow of death has not yet shrouded you, and your life still has infinite possibilities."

Ruan Chao was stunned.

His expression showed a look of joy, but the next moment it turned into confusion, and his beautiful light-colored eyes were also filled with a dazed emotion.

He said, "My mission... is accomplished?"

The mechanical female voice gave an unquestionable affirmative answer.

"Yes."

"Congratulations, host number HSWEFG7539126, you are excellent and have completed the mission very well. Your performance ranks in the top 0.001% among previous hosts."

The boy curled his lips.

But soon he lowered his eyelashes again, and his slightly messy hair fell down, covering his trembling eyes.

He was silent for a long time, and no one knew what he was thinking.

After a long while, his voice was heard in the quiet room.

"Where's my system? Didn't it come back with me?"

The female mechanical voice replied: "Your supervisor system has not yet awakened and is still dormant. If you need its company, I can provide a wake-up service."

"Wake-up service is an additional service, and it costs ten stars per service..." The female mechanical voice suddenly paused and changed abruptly, "Change. If you want, I can provide it for free."

Ruan Chao didn't understand why she suddenly changed the subject, and he didn't ask too much, but just said: "Then please help me wake it up."

"OK."

"Your supervisor will visit you in five minutes. Please be ready for reception."

Ruan Chao: “…”

The female mechanical voice did not lie to him, and after he counted about three hundred in his mind, a gray mechanical ball with pointy cat ears flapped its wings and broke open the white door, shouting "Chao Chao" as it rushed in with great fanfare.

After meeting Nguyen Chao, the visual electronic screen on his face turned into o(＾▽＾)o.

"Chao Chao!"

"I'm here!"

It swooped into Ruan Chao's arms, first hugging him with its two short wings, but finally found that the wings were too short and could not be used as arms at all. In the end, it had to give up and choose to act coquettishly in his arms as the next best option.

The system rubbed from left to right, from right to left, and then from front to back, leaving obvious wrinkles on Nguyen Dynasty's clothes.

Ruan Chao was very itchy because of it, so he held its body to prevent it from moving.

Then he stroked its little head soothingly.

The system squinted comfortably.

"Chao Chao, you slept for a long time. I came to see you several times, but you didn't wake up. During this period, I also did a comprehensive physical examination. You slept for a full ten hours."

Ruan Chao touched his face and asked in surprise, "I slept for a long time?"

System: "It does take a long time... But this is normal. The main system said that your body was seriously damaged. Even if it is repaired, it will take time for your consciousness to adapt to it."

"You are different from us. Carbon-based organisms are generally very fragile. You can never be too careful."

Ruan Chao clenched his fist again. This time his reaction was much faster than before, but there was still a slight sense of stiffness.

"Is there a mirror? I want to see myself."

"Providing mirrors as an additional service..." The silent female robot voice interrupted again. She paused and continued, "Changes have been generated."

As soon as he finished speaking, a mirror appeared on the white wall not far away.

Nguyen walked over.

His steps were very slow, like a toddler, he walked unsteadily, and for a moment he even steadied his hands and feet.

It was only a distance of a dozen meters, but it took him two minutes to walk across.

A familiar face was reflected in the bright mirror.

Her hair is a little long and messy, her eyes are in a beautiful peach blossom shape, with the tails of her eyes slightly tilted upwards, her nose is straight, and her nose tip is tilted up, and the color of her mouth is a bit like a squeezed strawberry, red and soft.

...is no different from any other mission world.

But somehow it feels more real.

Ruan Chao stretched out his hand and touched forward cautiously. His fingertips touched the cold mirror. He paused, then retracted his hand.

"Host No. HSWEFG7539126, friendly reminder, if your remaining stay time is less than one system, the containment area will no longer provide containment services if the specified time limit is exceeded."

Ruan Chao: “…Do you want to renew your subscription?”

"No." The mechanical female voice replied, "It's about making a choice."

"You have two options to choose from. Please consider carefully."

"Choose one, return to the original world."

"We will move time back to before your car accident and eliminate all the unfortunate events in your life. Your life will start anew, with wealth, status, power... whatever you want, everything will be at your fingertips."

"In short, your treatment will be upgraded to the child of destiny of the small world, and the world will favor you infinitely."

Ruan Chao: "So, I will become the protagonist?"

The mechanical female voice added: "But you don't need to bear any responsibilities that belong to the protagonist."

"This is really..." Ruan Chao said, "It's a very tempting offer. I don't seem to have any reason to refuse it."

The mechanical female voice was silent for a moment, then spoke: "...But I still suggest that you listen to the second option before making a decision."

Ruan Chao nodded, motioning her to continue.

“………”

All was quiet.

Nguyen Chao counted from one to ten in his mind, and then from ten back to one.

This time interval is far beyond the time for mechanical intelligence to provide feedback.

But this strange mechanical sound seemed to have encountered some kind of malfunction. It was slow to respond and did not provide the so-called second option.

Ruan Chao looked at his supervisory system with some confusion. The visual expression composed of symbols on the system also showed confusion.

The two looked at each other, neither of them understood what was going on.

About ten seconds passed.

The robotic female voice finally spoke again, but what she said had nothing to do with the previous conversation.

It's like when a TV series is at its most exciting part, the sponsor suddenly inserts an ad in the middle.

"Now insert a global push message."

She said this in a cold, emotionless voice mixed with a hint of metal and inorganic quality.

Ruan Chao: “……?”

"Tasker AAA-000000S1 has successfully opened up the small worlds XD-35567, XJ-48954, XX67934, and YZ-20986... breaking the shortest time limit he set last time, and bringing them under the management of the Administration with 100% completion, additionally expanding the energy required for the migration... Tasker S1's actions have once again left a strong mark in his brilliant resume, so let us congratulate him."

The voice-over was uniform, and there was the sound of applause coming from nowhere.

In addition, another round of applause, half a beat slower, rang out beside Nguyen Chao.

He went there in search of prestige.

The gray mechanical ball was blinking its starry eyes and clapping its wings laboriously.

Ruan Chao: “…”

The news of global interruption continues.

"S1 missioners have been at the top of the leaderboard for many years in a row, with accumulated points in the hundreds of millions, and they have never failed in any mission they have taken on... It's incredible."

The mechanical female voice spoke with emotion in a flat voice without any ups and downs.

"Even if the memories are blocked and the players are completely immersed in role-playing, the S1 players still perform very well, far ahead of many other players. This once again proves the indisputable fact that talent is innate and will not change due to external changes. The difference between players is often greater than the difference between humans and machines."

…

Ruan Chao: “Are you not finished exaggerating yet?”

It took so long to insert this inexplicable message.

I don't know if it's a spontaneous act of worship by the machine, or if the sponsors gave it too much money.

He waited patiently for the "advertisement" to end.

Another three minutes passed before it came to an end.

"The S1 missioner seems to be born to be on the frontier of expansion. He has saved countless small worlds on the verge of collapse. No matter how fierce and complicated the danger is, he can use his strength to turn the predicament around and turn danger into safety."

"His perfect performance is indeed worthy of the codename that the main system once gave him..."

"star."

"Burning star."

The boy, who was originally doing nothing, suddenly paused and his eyelashes trembled slightly.

In this 0-frame opening speech without any warning, he lost control of his facial expression because of a simple word.

I even couldn't help but wonder if these words were meant for him.

It was the other person who had no other choice but to use the machine to hint him.

…

"Host No. HSWEFG7539126, I'm sorry to have taken up three minutes and forty-seven seconds of your time."

"…Although the above has been processed artistically by me, it is indeed a message that S1 has urgently pushed to the entire domain - 76,903,216 plane management domains, 654,321,9876 management areas, 7,321,579…5,323 management offices, and to all awake taskers and hosts at this time."

"Based on the existing database on the behavior of the S1 mission personnel, there is a 99.54% probability that he is looking for someone."

"However..." The mechanical female voice changed the subject, "With S1's high authority, he is fully capable of locking any tasker or host within 0.65 seconds if he wants."

"Furthermore, 15 minutes and 45 seconds ago, S1's personal account suddenly transferred 10 Star Coins to my account."

"Five minutes and fifteen seconds ago, the S1 private account transferred another twenty-five Star Coins to my account."

"Excluding system disorder, data failure, hacker intrusion, virus infection, S1 suddenly going haywire, etc., there is a 99.99998% probability that the two transfers were made by him, and I charged you the extra fee."

"Wake-up call – 10 Star Coins."

"Mirror – 20 Star Coins, Purchasing Service – 5 Star Coins."

…………

“From this we can draw conclusions.”

"The person that the mission number AAA-000000S1 is looking for is you."