Chapter 90 Cold and Ruthless

The Spacetime Regulatory Bureau has many departments, among which L1's regulatory department is mainly responsible for maintaining the stability of the small world and promoting the development of the protagonist trajectory of each small world to a predetermined perfect ending.

L1 is the top-ranked system in the regulatory department. Every small world he is responsible for has a perfect ending, except for the world numbered A20231007.

A breeze blew past, dispelling the heat in the pavilion.

Ye Leyao felt that the temperature around him had dropped sharply. He looked up and found that the scorching sun had been blocked by dark clouds. Layers of dark clouds piled up, and a rainstorm was coming.

Bai Yu asked in sign language: "Do you remember?"

Ye Leyao nodded gently: "Yes, I remember."

The pain in the brain has stopped, and all the memories have been sorted out and returned to their original positions.

Bai Yu asked: "So will you succeed this time?"

Ye Leyao did not speak, but fell into a long memory.

...

When did it start?

After thinking for a long time, L1 remembered that it should have started with the end of the end of the world S20070501 -

The plot of the world S20070501 can be summed up in one sentence: Koi wins life by lying.

The protagonist of this world is called Cheng Fei, but L1's favorite character is not him, but a character who died unexpectedly in the middle of the plot - Ye Fan.

All regulatory systems have absolute control over the small worlds they supervise. Regulatory systems can correct the messed-up plots or modify the established plots.

After the former is completed, the regulatory system will receive points from the main god system. For the latter, the main god system will deduct points from the regulatory system depending on the degree of plot collapse.

Points are equivalent to currency and can circulate in the system space.

When the points accumulate to a certain level, the regulatory system will have the opportunity to choose -

continue to be supervised by the main god system as a system, or give up the system identity and join the small world and become a human being in that world.

L1 had accumulated enough points a long time ago, and he couldn't even remember how many digits his points string had.

He had a lot of points, but L1 gave up and chose to become a human.

The management system Qiu of the regulatory department asked L1 why he didn't choose to become a human.

L1 replied, "I am the number one system in the regulatory department. I am omniscient and omnipotent. Why should I give up my omniscience and omnipotence to become a weak human?"

Qiu was stunned for a moment. After a long time, she smiled and said, "L1, humans are not weak. The reason why you think they are weak creatures is because you have not experienced the same colorful life as them, and have not experienced the most wonderful feelings in the world, so you don't understand it now."

L1's voice did not change at all: "I really don't understand why the strong give up everything they have and become an ant. But I am sure that I don't want to experience such a life."

Qiu was a little surprised: "So you have never been to the human world as an entity?"

L1 shook his head.

Systems have no entity. They are just a string of data, or a huge string of data.

But the Lord God System has given all systems an ability, that is, they can own entities. They

only need to go to the points mall and spend a few hundred to a few thousand points, and they can redeem a satisfactory entity.

For example, the L2 system thought cats were cute, so he went to the points mall to redeem a cat entity.

L1 has also seen it, it is a chubby orange cat with two big bells under its tail.

Every time Qiu saw L2, he would ask him: "Are you really not going to be sterilized?"

Every time L2 would get so angry that he would make a fuss: "Qiu! How many times do I have to emphasize to you that I am the system! Besides, my bells are so beautiful! Every time I go to the small world, there will be a lot of humans praising me, and other cats, especially female cats, will take the initiative to come to me to show their affection, even though my sexual orientation is not a cat!"

As the two were arguing, L2 would run over and pull L1: "Tell me, my bells are so beautiful! Why is she so persistent in sterilizing me? Give me some advice!"

L1 couldn't help but take a look at the two big round bells, thought for a while and asked: "Can you use this pair of bells?"

L2 widened his cat eyes.

Qiu was also stunned: "Is this something you can ask?"

L2 was angry but knew that L1 didn't understand, so he didn't pursue it. He just gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Of course I can't use it. I have emphasized many times that my sexual orientation is not cat! I..."

L1 said: "Then cut it off."

L2 was dumbfounded: "Huh?"

Qiu put his hand over his mouth.

L1 continued: "It's useless and it's a burden to keep it on your body, so I think you can cut it off."

That chat ended with L2's rage and Qiu's unbridled laughter.

L1 never understood why L2 didn't use his bell but was unwilling to cut it off.

But L1 didn't intend to find out.

His daily life is simple, monitoring the small world, ending the plot of the small world, sealing the small world, and then leaving the small world to go to another small world.

But this incident planted the seeds of doubt in L1's program until L1 took over the S20070501 world. During a monitoring plot, he accidentally saw two stray cats playing in the garden.

It was also there that L1 saw the young Ye Fan.

Ye Fan was only in elementary school at the time, and this park was his only way to go to school every day.

L1 was observing the two stray cats licking each other's fur from a God's perspective. At this time, the dirty little Ye Fan came over with a schoolbag on his back.

L1 didn't know much about cats, but he knew that any creature would subconsciously avoid unfamiliar creatures, but these two cats didn't do that.

Not only did they not leave, but after hearing Xiao Yefan's voice, they stood up one after another, ran to Xiao Yefan's feet and rubbed his trouser legs.

The dirty children would squat down, reach out to touch the heads of the kittens, rub their chins, and finally take out the cat food they had prepared long ago from their schoolbags to feed them.

L1 was so curious that for a long time afterwards, when he was watching the plot, he couldn't help but distract himself to look at the two kittens, and he would often see Ye Fan coming to feed them. L1

suddenly became curious, how do the cats feel?

Why does the little Ye Fan look happy when petting the cats, and the kittens snore happily?

In fact, it is very simple to know the answers to these two questions. L1 only needs to go to the points mall to redeem a body to achieve all.

But L1 didn't go.

It was too much of an overreaction for him to redeem a body just to pet a cat.

And more importantly, after redeeming the body, in the timeline of the Space-Time Bureau, it must be five years before a new body can be redeemed.

L1 felt that there was no value for money at all.

After all, the body cannot be changed at any time, but as data, he can change into various non-substantial appearances at any time.

It can be a small animal, or a strange object, or of course a human.

So one afternoon during surveillance, L1 used data to casually create a virtual person and went to the garden to watch Xiao Ye Fan feeding the cats.

He stood far away, and although Ye Fan could see him, as long as Ye Fan did not get close, he would not find that he was not a human.

Watching Ye Fan feeding the cats from this angle is another novel experience.

So for the next few days, L1 came every day.

Until the last day on Friday, little Ye Fan suddenly said to him: "Little brother, do you like cats too?"

In order to make it easier to look after cats, L1 made a virtual body for himself that looked like a child. He looked younger than little Ye Fan, but that didn't mean he could call him his brother, so L1 didn't answer.

Little Ye Fan didn't get annoyed. He smiled at him and skipped home.

For a long time afterwards, L1 would always come to see the kittens when he had time.

Until half a year later, a blizzard suddenly came and took the life of a little beetle.

The next day, little Ye Fan took the remaining three little beetles home in his schoolbag.

After a quarrel, Ye Fan's family finally kept the kitten.

Ye Fan was very happy.

As for the dead little beetle, Ye Fan buried it in the park.

Xiao Sanhua had a home, Ye Fan was very happy, and Xiao Sanhua was also very happy.

L1 was not particularly happy, because this meant that he could no longer use his virtual body to visit the kitten.

But L1 did not worry for too long.

After that, when he was supervising the plot, he would always intentionally or unintentionally look at Ye Fan and the kitten he raised.

After leaving the wandering environment, the kitten lived a more comfortable life.

Every day, it ate and slept, slept and ate. After Ye Fan came home, he would rub against his feet and act cute, and Xiao Sanhua became fat.

Until Ye Fan's sixth grade, one quiet and unexpected night, Xiao Sanhua suddenly died of a heart attack.

Ye Fan didn't know why the kitten died. He only knew that when he woke up the next day, the calico kitten's body had become stiff.

It was L1 who used data to scan the kitten's body and concluded that it died suddenly of a heart attack.

L1 felt a little regretful, but this incident did not have any impact on him.

On the contrary, little Ye Fan felt like the sky had fallen, because he cried for a whole day because of the kitten's death, and even his entrance examination from primary school to junior high school was affected by it.

After the entrance examination, L1 also saw Ye Fan bury the calico kitten in the previous park.

But for many years after that, Ye Fan never returned to this park to see the kitten.

L1 didn't quite understand this and asked L2 why he buried it if he would not go back to see it.

Why not just dispose of the bodies?

L2 was a ginger cat. When he heard this question, his eyebrows seemed to be wrinkled.

After a long time, he said, "Maybe it's because of sadness?"

"Huh?" L1 was puzzled.

L2 said, "The departure of life is the eternal disappearance. Maybe the child you mentioned feels too sad, so he doesn't want to see them."

Then L2 asked, "By the way, does he have cats now?"

L1 said, "No."

Since the death of Xiao Sanhua, Ye Fan no longer has a cat.

Ye Fan still feeds stray cats occasionally, but he has never brought any other stray cats home since then.

After that, L1 rarely visited Ye Fan, but he was the world's regulatory system after all, so he would occasionally see news about Ye Fan.

For example, Ye Fan always ranked among the top in every exam.

For example, Ye Fan was admitted to the key high school in their city. For

another example, the day before Ye Fan's college entrance examination, he died in a car accident. The provincial champion that should have belonged to him fell to Cheng Fei, the protagonist of the small world.

That was the first time that L1 felt that the development of things was very inconsistent.

For this reason, he specifically asked Qiu: "Why must Ye Fan die?"

Qiu's image is that of a human being. She is a mature and intellectual woman. Her facial features are not particularly good-looking, but overall she is very pretty.

After listening to L1's question, she frowned slightly, thought for a long time, and then said: "L1, do you like this child?"

L1 shook his head without hesitation.

He is a supervisory system, he just watched Ye Fan because he was bored. Maybe because he watched the show too many times, he was impressed by Ye Fan and felt a little sorry for his death.

Seeing L1's answer, Qiu breathed a sigh of relief and said something that L1 didn't quite understand at the time: "It's good that you don't like him, then I don't have to lie."

Qiu said: "Ye Fan's death is actually predetermined. Only when he died, Cheng Fei could become the provincial champion because of good luck, and the plot would be reasonable and complete."

L1 was very confused: "Just to ensure the rationality of the plot?"

Qiu said: "Yes."

"But Ye Fan is not a bad person." L1 said.

Qiu's frown suddenly relaxed, and after a long while she smiled and said, "I know, but this is how the world is set up. Because Ye Fan is not the protagonist, in order for the protagonist to become the provincial champion, he can only die here."

"But this doesn't make sense..." L1 opened his mouth, he wanted to defend Ye Fan and talk about Ye Fan's various advantages, but soon he realized a problem -

why did he want to be involved in Ye Fan's death?

Qiu's beautiful black eyes stared at L1 quietly, she asked, "Don't you want Ye Fan to die?"

L1 said, "He is not a villain. In the small world, only villains should die. This is wrong."

Qiu suddenly smiled.

L1 was puzzled.

Qiu said: "I'm very happy. I didn't expect that our cold-faced and ruthless L1 system would be angry because of the death of the supporting character! I must tell L2 about this as soon as possible..."

L1 explained: "I'm not angry. Also, please don't use the word cold-faced and ruthless to describe me."

Qiu was excitedly sharing this with L2 and completely ignored L1's explanation.

Only after informing L2 of the news did Qiu look at L1 with a smile: "So you want to save him?"

L1 frowned: "Why should I save him?"

The excitement in Qiu's eyes gradually disappeared, and she was surprised: "So you still don't understand!"

L2 also rushed over excitedly at this time: "Is our cold-faced and ruthless first system finally going to understand emotions?!"

L1 said calmly: "Please don't use cold-faced and ruthless to describe me, you are very rude."

L2: "..."

Qiu couldn't help but laughed.

L2 the orange cat sighed: "Well, it seems that he still doesn't understand."

Qiu said: "It seems so, so L1, are you interested in understanding emotions?"

The passage of time in the Space-Time Bureau is different from that in the small world. In the short time they talked, the story of S20070501 has come to an end.

Although L1 has been chatting with Qiu, he is the system and can do many things at the same time.

Looking at the small world heading towards a perfect ending, L1 clicked on the system panel to confirm the ending.

A new prompt panel popped up -

"S20070501 Small World Ending Completed, Please Supervisory System Confirmation, After Confirmation is Completed, the World Will Be Sealted Immediately."

Sealing the world means that the timeline of this world will not be restarted again, and the time of this world will continue to operate according to the laws of the world until the next plot line that needs to be supervised appears, and then the world will be restarted.

But even if the world is restarted, the sealed plot line is not allowed to be restarted again.

In other words, if L1 confirms the sealing of the world at this time, the result of Ye Fan's death will never change.

L1 hesitated for the first time.

As a manager of the regulatory department and L1's top boss, Qiu noticed his hesitation at the first time.

"Why don't you confirm it?" Qiu asked.

L2 also looked over.

L1 stared at the confirmation panel for a long time before he asked, "I don't know."

L1 didn't know why he hesitated, and even less why he regretted Ye Fan's death.

L2 suddenly came to Qiu and whispered, "How come he only knows half of it?"

Qiu thought for a moment and said, "Then do you want to restart the timeline and change the ending for Ye Fan?"

For the first time, L1 didn't ask him why he did this, but asked, "Why would I want to do this?"

L2 looked over immediately and said, "You really do understand emotions!"

L1 frowned.

Qiu thought for a moment and suddenly said, "After the small world plot is completed, there will be three days to confirm. Before the end of these three days, do you want to know the reason?"

L1 asked, "How can I know? Restart the timeline?"

"No, I will send you to the next world," Qiu said, "This is a plot that has never been opened. I pressed the pause button at the beginning. I'm not sure if you can understand my feelings, but I think now is the time."

L1 didn't understand the meaning of Qiu's words, and L2 was also confused.

Qiu continued, "But in this world, L1, you can no longer use your virtual body, and you can no longer observe this world from a god's perspective. You have to experience it yourself."

"Experience?" L1 was confused.

Qiu said, "Yes, experience human life, experience human emotions, and experience it yourself as you are."

"And, you need to personally contact every character in this world, including supporting roles and villains." Qiu said.

L1 was even more confused after hearing this: "I can understand contacting supporting roles, but why should I contact villains? Aren't villains bad people?"

Qiu shook his head and smiled and said, "L1, not everyone in the world is black and white, and not all villains are bad people. You have to understand it yourself."

After Qiu said this, he released the rights of the A20231007 world.

"Go, go and redeem a body, and experience human life in person." Qiu said.

L1 listened to Qiu's advice and went to the points mall to redeem a body.

Instead of choosing an adult's body, he chose the body of a five-year-old child, whose appearance was also randomly generated. Just like that, he entered the world of A20231007.

Walking and talking with a human body for the first time was a brand new experience.

L1 spent a day studying himself and the people around him, and then decided to go and see the protagonists of this world first.

After all, before coming here, Qiu told him that this world was a world that was a fusion of multiple plot lines, which means that this world does not have only one protagonist.

L1 had supervised many such worlds before, so he felt that this world should be the same as other worlds and would not be difficult for him.

The next day, L1 went to find Su Rui first.

At this time, Su Rui had just entered the entertainment industry. When L1 went over, Su Rui was sitting alone downstairs in the community, crying.

L1 stood far away and looked at him. Thinking of Qiu's instructions to him, he took the initiative to approach Su Rui.

But before he could reach Suri, he heard Suri's cold voice: "You naughty kid, what do you want to do?"

L1 was stunned for a moment, and said: "I..."

"Get away!" Suri's eyes were full of disgust. He wiped the tears from his face and said coldly, "You naughty kid is so annoying!"

L1 froze in place.

He wanted to explain that he was not a naughty kid, he was the regulatory system of this world.

But Suri didn't give him time to explain, and turned upstairs.

Looking at his back as he left, L1 was even more confused.

No.

The regulatory system can see the ending of everyone in the small world, and L1 naturally knows Suri's ending.

Suri gave birth to a child at the end of the ending, and he loves his child very much.

So how could Suri not like children?

L1 didn't understand, so he decided to go see Suri the next day.

Originally, L1 was going to go directly to Suri's house, but he changed his mind and thought about the laws of this world, so he decided to wait for him at the door of Suri's house.

After waiting for a long time, Suri finally came home. When he saw him, Suri's face changed, and then he said angrily: "Whose child are you? Or did someone ask you to follow me?!"

L1 explained: "I didn't follow you. I know you live here, and I came to find you on purpose."

"Who are you to find me? You hurry up and leave my door! Otherwise, I will call the security!"

L1 tried to communicate with Suri again, but Suri refused to talk to him the whole time, and even cursed him with dirty words like "bastard".

L1 was confused.

Why is this happening?

Is Suri in a bad mood?

Very likely.

But you can't curse at others.

Besides, isn't Suri described as the protagonist with the best temper in the plot?

L1 felt offended again, but he was still not ready to leave immediately. He wanted to stay and see.

As a supervisory system, L1 certainly knew how to keep others from finding him. So L1 didn't appear in front of Suri for the next period of time, but he was always by Suri's side.

So he saw Suri lose his temper at his assistant for no reason and poured a cup of boiling water directly on the assistant.

He saw Suri being dissatisfied with a cooperating artist and secretly buying water soldiers to spread a negative press release about the artist.

Suri was seen kicking a stray cat when passing by...

L1 didn't show up until Suri left. He picked up the kitten that was spitting blood and took him to the pet hospital in this world.

The doctor asked him where the cat came from, and L1 said truthfully that he picked it up.

The doctor asked how the cat was injured.

L1 said someone kicked it.

The doctor frowned and asked if he had any money.

L1 shook his head.

The doctor sighed, but did not give up treating the kitten because L1 had no money.

L1 saw the doctor take X-rays of the kitten, perform surgery, and finally the kitten was put in a cage for an IV.

The doctor said, "It's getting late. You should go home first. If you are able to adopt this kitten, then you can bring your parents to adopt it in half a month. Of course, if you don't come in half a month, I will adopt it to someone else."

L1 thought about it and said, "Adopt it to someone else."

He just came to experience the system of human emotions. He didn't have time to take care of a kitten.

The doctor smiled, waved to L1, and asked him to go home first.

L1 had no home to return to. During this period, he stayed downstairs in Su Rui's community every night.

But after this incident, for some reason he suddenly didn't want to continue following Su Rui.

L1 thought of Qiu's words. Qiu said that not all villains are bad people, and asked him to learn about these villain characters.

Then let's go and take a look at the villains first.

But after all, they are villains. In the previous small world, villains are the most dangerous characters. Moreover, in this world, it is a bit strange that these villains live together, as if they are family members?

So the cautious L1 is not prepared to approach rashly.

Coming out of the pet hospital, there was a heavy snowfall in the sky.

He sneaked into the Huo's house alone, and hid in the flowers when it was dark.

All the members of the Huo family are at home today.

L1 saw them happily skewering meat together, Huo's father would help Huo's mother tie an apron, Huo Jing would put down his computer and help serve the dishes, and Huo Ze would bother Huo Yan with various problems.

Although Huo Yan's role is troublesome and he doesn't know much about the team's affairs, he will still patiently help Huo Ze contact friends.

After the grill was set up, the family sat around and started to barbecue.

The skewers of meat rolled on the fire, sizzling with oil, and then sprinkled with various spices, the aroma filled the air.

L1 suddenly swallowed his saliva.

After this subconscious action, he quickly realized that he probably wanted to eat barbecue.

What does barbecue taste like?

L1 didn't know, but he saw many people in many small worlds saying that they liked to eat barbecue.

I should try it myself when I have the chance, L1 thought.

The snow was getting heavier tonight, and the Huo family sat around and talked about some meaningless topics.

As they talked, the whole family would laugh, but L1 couldn't quite understand why they laughed so happily.

Until his eyelids became heavier, L1 realized that he seemed to have fallen asleep.

This feeling is also very strange, but since I have a human body, I have indeed had many experiences that L1 could not understand before.

L1 feels that sleeping seems to be good. Anyway, he can't understand what the Huo family said now, so he might as well sleep.

Maybe when he wakes up, the Huo family will change the topic to something else that L1 can understand quickly.

But he seems to have slept for a particularly long time this time.

Until the next day, when it was bright outside, when Dad Huo went out to take care of his flowers and plants, he found a child wrapped in snow in the flowers.

Dad Huo screamed in fear.

L1's consciousness was also awakened.

He felt that Dad Huo picked him up, and the embrace was too warm. L1 did not feel any malice, so he did not struggle and let Dad Huo carry him into the warm room.

Suri spoke ill of him when he saw him for the first time, and the second meeting was also unpleasant.

So L1 wanted to see what these villains would do when facing his "unconscious" self?