In the name of merit
When that crazy idea popped into Yu Jinli's mind, she felt like she must be going insane. Using a mobile app to fight against an ancient demon that has lived for thousands of years? It sounded even more absurd than a CEO falling in love with me story.
But she had no other choice. Looking at the black, shadowy figure before her, surrounded by three top-tier experts yet still thriving, even absorbing the surrounding demonic energy to grow stronger, she knew they couldn't win by brute force alone. Just as light can never be completely defeated by darkness, but conversely…
"Feng Jinxuan!" she suddenly shouted from behind him, "Give me your phone!"
Although the man was puzzled, he still tossed her the cell phone that he had been carrying with him like a talisman without hesitation.
What are you going to do?
"Call for backup!" Yu Jinli's answer was concise and to the point, full of modern internet savvy.
She took the latest flagship phone from the Feng Group, which was many times more powerful than her own. She took a deep breath, turned on the screen, and opened the familiar app interface filled with cartoon koi fish and golden ingots—Koi Fish Arrives APP version 2.0, her proudest and most expensive creation in her life.
She ignored the fancy features and logged into the backend using Feng Jinxuan's super administrator account, which had the highest privileges. She found the server-wide announcement feature that had been casually developed to improve user engagement.
Looking at the feature she had never imagined would be used in this way, and at the constantly fluctuating numbers representing millions of active users in the background, she felt her heart pounding.
With trembling hands, she typed a line in the announcement editing box—an advertising slogan she had uttered countless times in her life, but never with such devotion and hope as at this moment:
[Dear users, your lucky charm expert, the real Koi, has encountered a small problem.]
I need to borrow some of your strength.
Not much is needed, just a little bit.
[A little bit of your purest kindness.]
Please.
After editing and clicking send, she closed her eyes and poured all her good fortune into that small phone! She tried to use herself as a base station and the app as a medium to send a request across space and dimensions to millions of users thousands of miles away who she had never met!
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Yuncheng, 11 PM. Countless young people still staying up late scrolling through their phones simultaneously received a special push notification from the "Koi is Here" app: "[Your friend, the Koi himself, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for good deeds. Do you want to participate?]" [Yes/No]
"What the heck? A scam text message?" A college student, struggling with final exams in his dorm room, stared blankly at his phone, about to click "no." Just then, he suddenly remembered that a few days ago, on a whim, he had made a wish on this app to pass advanced mathematics. The next day, the notoriously strict professor, known for his 90% failure rate, canceled the exam due to food poisoning. He recalled the phrase he'd seen on the app's wish page: "One act of faith, and you're guaranteed success." After a moment's hesitation, he inexplicably clicked "yes."
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Outside the emergency room of a hospital in Yuncheng, a young mother anxiously waited, cradling her feverish daughter. She initially ignored the strange notification on her phone, but then she remembered that she had taken a stray cat injured in a car accident to the vet that afternoon, checking in for a "Good Deed a Day" activity on the app. She had won a lucky charm that night, meaning she wouldn't have to wait in line for the emergency room. And now, her feverish daughter was indeed the first one called. Looking at her daughter's flushed face and the constantly flashing notification on her phone, she finally tapped the button gently: "Thank you."
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In a top-floor office in Yuncheng's CBD, a weary business tycoon, fresh from a multinational conference, received the same notification. He recalled the sweet-smiling assistant who had given him a blessed talisman at the signing ceremony with the Feng Group a few days prior, and how wearing the amulet had indeed refreshed him, even all his long-standing migraines had improved considerably. He smiled and, without hesitation, clicked "Yes": "Little girl, you're quite something."
...
In an instant, countless people throughout Yuncheng and even the entire China who had been helped to some extent by Yu Jinli's good fortune, and countless people who had participated in the "Do a Good Deed Every Day" activity and accumulated merit, received the same request and made the same choice.
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Kunlun Mountain, Tianyan Pavilion. Yu Jinli watched as the number of participants on her phone screen skyrocketed at an alarming rate! One hundred thousand! Five hundred thousand! One million! Three million!
Gazing upon this magnificent and moving scene before her, brimming with human hope and capable of touching even the most divine being, her eyes welled with tears. Faint yet incredibly pure, benevolent golden light of merit continuously surged forth from the void! Like warm golden streams, they converged from all directions of Cloud City, traversing mountains and rivers, ultimately coalescing above Kunlun Mountain into a vast and dazzling sea of merit, enough to completely illuminate the night sky!
It was a pure power, full of protection and without a trace of impurity, enough to purify all the filth in the world. The moment this golden sea appeared, it completely purified the blood-red magic array covering the entire Tianyan Pavilion! Those Shadow Devouring Sect demons that were still putting up a stubborn resistance, upon contact with the golden light, were like encountering their nemesis, letting out a series of shrill screams, and instantly turning into ashes!
"No...impossible!" The tall, black demonic figure formed from the demonic thoughts of the first sect leader looked at the golden sea of merit above him, which filled him with utter disgust and fear, and let out his first inhuman roar, filled with disbelief, "What kind of power is this!?"
Yu Jinli didn't answer him. She simply stood up slowly from Feng Jinxuan's embrace and walked step by step towards the golden sea of merit that she had summoned herself. Bathed in that warm and vast golden light, she felt herself merge with the goodwill of millions of people, and an unprecedented, powerful force, strong enough to purify all evil, filled her entire being!
She looked at the black, trembling figure in the golden light, a confident, flamboyant smile befitting a lucky charm, and pointed at him, declaring clearly and deliberately, with a judgmental tone that brooked no argument:
"A devout woman once,"
"I guarantee you'll be...utterly destroyed!"
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