Chapter Sixteen: Rehabilitation and Nursing Home 7. Appropriate deletions and embellishments are necessary...
"What do you mean?" Bai Wei asked seriously.
"The notes clearly state that players will only learn of the existence of the Evolution Game after receiving an 'A' grade (or higher) at least once," Yun Xin said calmly. "So, if you didn't get an 'A' but were unexpectedly informed, do you have to make up for it by getting the grade?"
"After having this guess, I selected a few relatively reliable elderly people and hinted to them that I would encounter an accident later and ask them to save people if necessary."
"After the fire broke out, most people could only manage to escape and had no energy left to save others. Even if they could, they could only save one or two. Fortunately, there was a veteran among them who was much stronger than the average elderly person. He worked from the start of the fire until it was extinguished, saving exactly ten people."
"He told me that if you find out about something in advance through unofficial means, you will get the 'Bad Luck' debuff. If you get an 'A' grade (or higher) once or more, the 'Bad Luck' debuff will be automatically removed."
"I've already told you the solution; the rest is up to you."
"So many elderly people, are you just going to watch them die?" Bai Wei refused to let Yun Xin leave. "Without your warning, they wouldn't have lasted long before they died."
Yun Xin sighed softly, and then...
Did I tell them about the Evolution Game?
Did I send them to participate in the experiment?
"I finally managed to pick a few relatively reliable ones, but only the veterans can get an A. How am I supposed to save the others?"
"You put the elderly in a life-or-death situation first, and now you just open your mouth and ask others to save them."
Yun Xin scoffed, "Is your mental state still normal? Do you think others are gods who can be saved at will?"
Bai Wei was speechless.
"I won't hold it against you, so just choose to forget that I was tricked into coming here by you." Yun Xin laughed.
Bai Wei opened her mouth as if to say something, but was interrupted again.
“Your lofty ideals, your great goals, your difficult situation… go tell your superiors, I don’t want to hear it.” Yun Xin turned her face away. “I used to think the elderly could still be saved, but now I know they are all sacrifices, there’s no way to save them, and there’s no point in keeping them alive.”
“This is an unavoidable sacrifice,” Bai Wei said, her expression dejected but her eyes resolute. “Everything I have done is for the continuation of the human race.”
"In short, I don't want to be a participant in this experiment. Just pretend I was never here." Yun Xin was too lazy to argue. Having said what she needed to say, she left without hesitation.
Bai Wei did not stop her.
Firstly, she knew she couldn't stop them.
Secondly... the recording has been verified, and everything Yunxin said is true. She has no right to restrict the personal freedom of a law-abiding citizen who insists on leaving without having broken the law.
"You're leaving?" Wu Peng was shocked to hear that Yun Xin was planning to leave.
"Do you want to come with me?" Yunxin asked.
"Huh? That's not a good idea... The curse on the old people hasn't been lifted yet," Wu Peng hesitated.
I almost forgot, this guy only knows part of the truth.
Yun Xin briefly described what happened, emphasizing that "the curse on the elderly was caused by the director," "she used the elderly for experiments for the sake of all mankind, and the elderly participated voluntarily," and "the curse is unlikely to be lifted, and preventing accidents will only allow the elderly to live a few more days, and the process of preventing them is likely to cause them a lot of suffering."
Wu Peng was shocked. His first reaction was, "Would anyone really volunteer to participate? Is the dean lying to us?"
“It’s true,” Yunxin told him. “I can tell if someone is lying to my face.”
"This...this..." Wu Peng was speechless.
The whole situation was far more complicated than he had imagined, and he didn't know what to do.
Ultimately, he was just an ordinary citizen who had never seen anything like this before.
"If you don't come with me now, you might not be able to leave on your own later," Yunxin warned.
Wu Peng struggled for a long time before finally deciding, "I won't leave. I still want to save them! I don't know if it will work, but at least I'll try. Saving one more person is one more thing."
He then recited a string of numbers and asked Yunxin, "This is my phone number. Please call me in two weeks. If I'm safe, I'll answer the phone. If something goes wrong and I don't answer, please call the police and say that my disappearance is related to the dean."
"Is it worth risking your own life to save those elderly people?" Yun Xin asked softly. "It's really difficult to help them get rid of the curse; it's almost like creating a miracle."
However, a miracle is called a miracle precisely because its probability of occurrence is extremely low and can generally be ignored.
The most difficult part is not predicting or avoiding disasters, but getting the elderly to help other elderly people while they are helping themselves.
If they can't save more than ten people in one go and get an A rating, then all their efforts will be in vain.
Wu Peng smiled and said, "I was raised by my grandparents, and I can't bear to watch an elderly person who is about the same age as my grandparents die like this."
"Wouldn't your grandparents be heartbroken if something happened to you?" Yunxin asked.
“They passed away several years ago,” Wu Peng said. “I’m single and have no ties, so I can do whatever I want.”
Looking at Wu Peng, Yun Xin suddenly felt that he was also a hero.
After leaving the nursing home, Yunxin took a taxi back to her rented apartment.
When she returned to the neighborhood, she was stunned by what she saw – she had only been gone for four days, and when she came back, the building was gone! The place where she had rented the apartment had become a ruin made of gravel and bricks.
"What happened?" Yunxin asked around.
A nearby shop owner told her, "The tenant was trying to save money by cooking with gas. I don't know if it was due to improper operation or something, but the gas exploded and blew up the whole building."
Yunxin suddenly remembered what her grandmother had said: the lineage of witches is naturally drawn to disasters and unconsciously moves closer to them.
Could this be considered being drawn in by the gas explosion, being able to stop it, but being too busy with other tasks, and then being caught up in a more serious disaster, thus missing the opportunity to save the situation?
From this perspective, it seems she's simply drawn to disasters. After all, the gas still exploded even though she wasn't there.
The thought had just crossed Yunxin's mind when she wondered if she was too dangerous to be a partner to live with in the future, since she wouldn't bring disaster to others.
I went on a business trip, and when I came back, my house had been bombed. To make matters worse, my partner was left at home and ended up getting bombed too.
"It's too complicated." Yun Xin gave up thinking.
Since she couldn't find a suitable place to rent in the short term, she decided to go back to her family's villa and stay there for a while.
Living in a big villa and eating snacks, Yunxin started looking for a job again.
Before applying for a job, she revised her resume and then polished it a little.
In my previous job, the boss turned into a sugar figurine, and the workplace was flooded.
In my previous job, the boss went to jail, and the building where I worked destroyed itself.
My previous job, the boss is still here, and the building is still in good condition, but in the foreseeable future, the customer base (hospitalized elderly people) will disappear.
If such remarkable achievements were written truthfully, Yunxin is confident that she won't be able to find a job for the next year or two.
Therefore, appropriate deletions and enhancements are necessary.
For example, in my previous job, I wrote that my workplace was flooded due to a syrup accident, so I decided to change jobs.
For example, in my previous job, I hadn't even worked there for a month when both the boss and the construction company disappeared. I'll just pretend that never happened and ignore it.
For example, in my last job, I only worked for four days, and a small portion of my customer base disappeared, with the remaining majority almost gone as well. I don't write about these situations; I just add "I have experience in caregiving" to my college part-time job experience.
Of course, if someone reads this and wants to hire her for a similar chat-sharing job, Yunxin, who isn't picky about jobs, will firmly refuse.
I just wrote something casually to enrich my resume; that's all.
After revisions, the latest resume was completed, and Yunxin continued to send it out to numerous applicants.
After half a month, Yunxin dialed the phone on time.
The call was answered shortly afterward.
"It's me." Wu Peng's hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Are you Wu Peng himself?" Yun Xin asked.
"Yes," Wu Peng replied.
Relieved that her sixth sense told her the other person wasn't lying, Yunxin said, "It's okay, I'll hang up now."
"Wait!" Wu Peng called out to her, hesitated for a moment, and then said with a wry smile, "Sister, it turns out that you really have to get an A in life. You can't get a B, you can't get a C, and there's no room for negotiation."
Yun Xin paused, "You knew?"
"Yes." Wu Peng's voice was filled with weariness. "The experiment is over. Only one veteran survived, the one you saved."
Yun Xin thought to herself, "This is to be expected." The other elderly people were already struggling to save themselves; expecting them to save ten more people besides themselves... Without considering the possibility of a miracle and respecting the objective facts, the conclusion is simply impossible.
"Can you tell me these things?" Yunxin asked doubtfully.
"It doesn't matter," Wu Peng said nonchalantly. "I'm not even afraid of being left alone in a nursing home, so why would I be afraid of telling you this and violating the rules?"
Yunxin thought about it and agreed. "Then you can tell me."
"After you left, the director suddenly said that we should try our best to let the elderly save themselves and each other." Wu Peng thought back carefully, his mood becoming even heavier. "At first, I didn't understand why, and I even objected. But I didn't have the final say, and everything was done according to the director's instructions."
“The elderly were dying or getting injured, and many people were scared. At this point, some people suggested leaving the nursing home and going home. The director refused, saying that if they left, it would affect and harm others. The elderly did not believe him and united to resist, but were suppressed by the staff.”
"Sister, didn't you say that the elderly people went voluntarily? It doesn't seem like that to me."
“Two possibilities.” Yun Xin thought for a moment and explained, “The director believed the elderly people were there voluntarily, but she was deceived.”
"There is another possibility: the elderly were initially willing, but when death actually came, they became afraid, regretted it, and were no longer willing."
"Sigh." Wu Peng sighed heavily. "Anyway, after a week of trouble, apart from that old soldier, there's no one left."
"I was extremely anxious, so I unleashed my full power, and the prophecy finally came true once again. After saving many people, I finally understood what had really happened."
"Sister, you made the right decision to leave. It was too painful to watch the elderly pass away one by one."
(End of this chapter)
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