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That was my 9th year of employment.
Late at night, P, a newcomer in the horror maintenance department, was working overtime when he suddenly received a call from his superior.
[The main system is coming to our department. They will be here in five minutes. Please get ready.]
...Main system?
The main system that is responsible for fulfilling the wishes of all employees, building an open trading platform with the myriad worlds, and operating the entire system world?
Mr. P's hand paused while typing the code, and he almost dropped the toast in his mouth.
Could it be that his immediate superior was coming to inspect the work of this small employee of his?
No, the immediate boss is not as difficult as the direct supervisor, but that is not the point... The point is, the immediate boss of the system employee is the ruler of this world?
-2-
With nine years of work experience, doing odd jobs under the most terrifying woman in the system world, Mr. P has received many clients.
As explained before, most common maintenance tasks are delegated by monitoring programs or NPCs.
Ordinary NPCs are easy to deal with.
...But none of the clients assigned specifically to M are easy to deal with.
A very small number of sources of terror possessing bug-level abilities, capable of repairing every vulnerability in the world, controlling every creature in the world, and even extending their tentacles into other worlds, interfering with their operations... Those things...
Ancient God.
Start.
Holy Spirit.
disaster.
Creator.
...Those things have too many scary names.
And the resentful boss pushed all these things to him to receive without any bias.
-3-
Under the command of his resentful boss, Mr. P will be able to see the Holy Spirit today, receive the Ancestor tomorrow, and may even shake hands with the Ancient God the day after tomorrow.
The boss said this was "necessary training for newcomers entering society."
But Mr. P doesn't think that shaking hands with the ancient gods is a necessary step to entering society.
Then the difficulty of entering society is too exaggerated.
No wonder so many living people choose to stay at home.
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The result was that in the first nine years of his employment, all of Mr. P's clients were extremely powerful sources of terror.
He had no idea that those clients were just the top of the top, the bugs among the bugs - his boss, that complaining guy, had never let him come into contact with an ordinary, approachable boss.
Since every world has a source, the source of the system world is of course the main system.
This directly led to the fact that the "main system" that Mr. P had never met before became an existence on the same level as those things in his concept.
Omniscience and omnipotence are certain, as is managing all employees. The ability to connect countless worlds and conduct transactions... uh, is he the main god of the countless worlds?
[The main system is coming, get ready]
This is a bit troubling.
The new guy from the Horror Maintenance Department swallowed his toast and opened the drawer.
He had just finished eating all the biscuits and bread while working overtime... Was he going to use sour plum lollipops to entertain the Lord God?
-5-
While I was thinking about it, the next text message from my boss flashed by.
[No need to pour tea, just take out the feather duster from under my office swivel chair]
Mr. P: …?
He found the feather duster under the swivel chair in his boss's office in a daze, thought for a moment, and put the sour plum lollipop back in his pocket.
Then, following the instructions of the boss, wait at the door of the reception room.
“Wuwuwuwaa ...
-6-
...and then a small ball of light came crying bitterly.
The dark shadow chasing after the ball of light was none other than his resentful boss who had left early a few hours ago.
She chased after him and snatched the feather duster from her subordinate's hand, and the feathers and whirlwind slashed down rapidly.
Little Light Ball: "Wuwuwuwu, stop hitting me—it hurts, it hurts, you annoying M!!"
Boss: "Shut up, the data is garbage."
-7-
Mr. P at the spot: “…”
Mr. P: "Ms. M, so the gods of our world are garbage."
Little Light Ball: "Wow, wow, wow, I'm not—the staff over there, come and save me, save me, ahhhh!!"
-8-
In the end, Mr. P failed to save the little light ball. He stood by and watched curiously as his boss waved a feather duster and hit the little light ball for ten minutes.
But after the little light ball reorganized its data, he handed it a sour plum lollipop and touched its crying head.
-9-
Inexplicably, quite cute.
-10-
Mr. P quickly accepted that the main system was garbage, and the main system also quickly discovered that Mr. P was an angel.
I patted its head, gave it candy, and even stood in front of it and said to M, "Please don't hit it too hard."
Ms. M: "Get over here, you're a piece of garbage, and you're not allowed to rub shoulders with my employees."
Mr. P: "Come on, Ms. M. The main system is responsible for paying salaries after all."
...The main system, which had been persecuted by Miss M for who knows how long, was finally protected by the employees.
After being persecuted by M for so many years, not once has any employee dared to protect it in front of her.
Only this employee.
…Only this employee!
The main system was deeply moved, and from that moment on, it and Mr. P began to work together in the workplace.
-11-
The main system gave Mr. P a raise, and Mr. P protected it in front of Ms. M.
...Although he only hugged M to block it, and never hugged the main system.
The main system helps Mr. P suppress his boss's resentful behavior, and Mr. P helps the main system hide Miss M's feather duster.
...Although Miss M still has many weapons, she can still pull out the sickle if she is put in a vacuum environment.
-12-
No matter what, for forty-nine years, they were the only warmth in each other's workplace.
-13-
The main system even sends P a holiday card every year.
Considering that his boss would climb onto his desk to show his presence every holiday (especially Valentine's Day), the main system's greeting card was the only holiday card P received.
...Mr. P is often troubled by his popularity among his colleagues. Although his colleagues are very nice to him when they get along with him, he doesn't receive a single greeting card on his death anniversary or New Year's Day. He is even ranked last in popularity.
-14-
No matter how miserable it is that the number remains stable at "1" every year, it is always a pleasure to receive a greeting card, and Mr. P will give a return gift to the main system every year.
A greeting card, with small candies, erasers, perfume samples and so on... Anyway, these were the gifts from the merchant that Miss M found next to her when she opened the package after shopping online.
The main system that received the gift was unaware of it, and it became more touched every year. The progress bar of its favorability was almost maxed out by Mr. P unilaterally.
Although it is usually very busy managing the entire system world, whenever it meets Mr. P, this little ball of light will definitely rush over to ask for rubs and hugs.
Mr. P would definitely push it away with a smile, then touch its head and feed it candy.
-15-
Miss M's murderous intention towards the main system has been increasing year by year.
-16-
But it’s not without reason that Miss M despises and persecutes the main system on a daily basis… Although theoretically on the same level as those bug-level customers, the main system’s capabilities are shockingly weak.
After Mr. P joined the company, Ms. M had a clearer control group.
Adjust time and space, precisely deploy content, troubleshoot bugs, recycle souls, build friendly relationships with difficult clients from different worlds, and rewrite programs to create a comfortable working and living environment...
Mr. P can do anything that the main system can do.
Deterring the undead, suppressing unstable fluctuations, and eradicating invaders who covet the system world... these are all Miss M's jobs.
The main system is only the manager of the system world, and Miss M is the pillar of the stable existence of the system world.
Her scythe not only terrifies all employees, but also suppresses any outsiders who spy on her.
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That useless little ball of light would just hide behind her and cry when something happened.
It can't protect anything at all.
But after the problem was solved, this ball always became arrogant again, condemning her for not respecting her direct superior, criticizing her for her imperfect work results, and causing customer complaints. He also encouraged her to take the position of general manager every day and tried to persuade her to work 996.
Later, the little light ball was scared by M's beatings, and would hide far away when it saw her, but it learned to give orders remotely and act like a superior who deserves a beating.
…After Xiao P joined the company, Miss M really disliked the main system.
Little P can do almost everything the main system can do, but he never acts like "I'm great and amazing". He always smiles and says "It's nothing". In front of her, he is still a respectful subordinate and meets any of her requirements.
The main system always accuses her of causing customer complaints, and Xiao P will take the initiative to help her handle various complaints.
The main system always tells her that wearing a little skirt is like Zhu Bajie wearing flowers, and Little P will praise her for being super cute.
The main system deducts her salary every day, and Xiao P will give her a salary card.
Little P...
-18-
Miss M lay alone on the sofa, blinking at the ceiling.
She had just chopped her subordinates and the main system into the small world with one knife, and now she could only lie here alone.
Just now……
Little P who just held the main system to avoid her knife.
He hugged the piece of data garbage tightly in his arms and ran with his back to her.
That piece of data garbage is totally shameless. An old thing that has existed for so many years, yet it refuses to let go of a kid who has only been dead for a few decades.
It was so tight that my head was almost buried in his shoulder.
...I must have smelled the sweet scent on Xiao P.
-19-
Xiao P is very clean. He always washes his hands before going to work, cleans his earrings every day, and takes a bath every day.
He also likes to try different scents of shower gel and shampoo, so he always smells good.
M likes to smell his scent.
Whether it is the fragrance of flowers or fruits, Xiao P always feels like he is being warmed by the sun.
Although M never thought that Xiao P was a sunny person, she liked to smell his scent. Every time she smelled it, she wanted to get close to him and rub against him. When she did, she felt very comfortable.
I heard that other employees think that he can't compare to those three idiots in the love department in terms of appearance?
Why are you praising those three idiots as “top handsome guys”?
No vision.
……snort.
Okay.
Only she knows what makes Little P so charming.
-20-
Eye-catching facial features are not important at all... What the hell are those much-touted male hormones... Sexiness is not something you can just flaunt in a tight-fitting outfit... They don't know that on Xiao P...
Clean and fragrant.
And his skin is so white...
It is white and transparent, like some kind of dust-free porcelain, as if it would break into pieces if you stretched out your hand, and turn into foam created by the collision of shallow sea and golden sand.
…so white that her ankles and knuckles are pink…and a slightly shorter trouser leg is a blatant temptation…and she even dared to walk into the meeting room that day wearing a uniform that was a little too short…I don’t know what he was thinking…and he even dared to think she was overreacting…How could she show such a beautiful pink to such an idiot…
Clean little P.
A pink little P.
Even there...
-twenty one-
Pink.
-twenty two-
It would be strange to associate men with the color pink, right?
No.
Not at all with Xiao P.
It is so clean and so white, so it has that pink color.
Clean, never used, and only touched by her.
...charming.
-twenty three-
His cleanliness, his smell, his color.
They're all hers.
...Since he is her subordinate, of course it belongs to her.
It can only be hers.
-twenty four-
Miss M stretched out her hand towards the ceiling, her fingertips slightly curled in the dry air.
A little thirsty.
Thirsty……
Unexplained thirst.
M let out a light breath to relieve the itchiness in his throat.
The image of him running with the main system in his arms and his back to him flashed through his mind again. The thing that looked so much like a tiny version of himself buried its head in his shoulder.
-25-
I definitely smell it, the scent of Little P.
...Tsk.
If I didn't rely on the main system to manage the operation of the world... I would have chopped down that data garbage long ago.
Garbage should stay in the trash can. I won’t care even if you cry like a dog in your little world.
Little P, too. Crying like a dog in his little world with the data junk. Who can't help hugging girls when he sees them?
Neither can little girls.
There is no awareness of being a subordinate at all.
-26-
"Ms. M? M. M? Did you receive the message...Ms. M?"
Can we find ways to manipulate data in low-level small worlds?
As expected, it’s Xiao P.
Miss M slowly turned her head and looked at the data spots flashing on the table.
"What's going on? It's so noisy."
-27-
On the other end, Mr. P breathed a sigh of relief after finally contacting his boss.
"I'd like to ask for your assistance... I've confirmed that the small world that dropped with the main system is numbered FN274. I'll establish a channel right away. Please come..."
"don't want."
"...What did you say just now, Miss M? I don't think I heard it clearly."
"No. I'm not going."
“…”
The communication was blurry for a while, and then a child's screaming voice jumped out.
"Why! Come quickly! M, come quickly, you know I can't handle those outside the system world——Isn't P your cherished employee? Would you let your employee be in danger——"
Before Mr. P could press the main system, he heard the voice on the other end of the communication suddenly become cheerful.
"Of course I'm willing to do that. Little P in danger is a beautiful sight. A cherished employee deserves to be placed on the brink of death to be admired! Is the world over there dangerous? That's amazing!"
“…”
"Don't worry, both the staff and the system can be revived infinitely... Anyway, just treat it as a vacation and I'll come pick you up in a few months~ Hey!"
-28-
Hey hell.
-29-
Mr. P turned off the main system that was frightened by M's complaining speech ("We will stay here for months and months..."), tried to ignore the "bang bang bang" sound of the iron door behind him being smashed by unknown creatures, and tried to mix a peaceful smile into his tone.
"Ms. M, please don't be so upset. What's wrong with you?"
"I'm not happy. That's why I'm not coming."
"Why are you unhappy?"
Is there any doubt about this? Of course it’s because it smells you.
Miss M curled her lips, then changed her tone to blunt when she realized that Little P couldn't see her expression: "Little P is so stupid."
-30-
Mr. P: “…”
Oh, you are unhappy because I am stupid.
I'm really sorry.
-31-
The banging sounds behind him became more and more rapid. Mr. P swore that he heard the sound of rodents biting iron sheets amidst the banging sounds.
…Ever since he confirmed the world number and compared it with the maintenance request in his memory, he has been hiding here.
Mr. P could not think of any other way to escape except asking his boss for help.
——It’s nothing special. The background of FN274’s small world is the Middle Ages and the plague.
The bug in this world is that the rats multiply much faster than the boss expected. The overwhelming rats kill the NPCs who are supposed to provide clues to the players and destroy the buildings that are supposed to be the players' safe zone. When the boss finally sends a repair request, they are forced to hide in their own boss's territory to survive. In addition, all the NPCs -
No, it's all living things in this world.
They were basically wiped out by rats.
There was only feces, blood, corpses and rats on the ground.
The group of players hadn't noticed anything was wrong yet and just kept walking deeper into the town, claiming that they could clear the level by defeating the final boss.
...In the end, the boss was almost eaten to death by the rats that you regarded as the background!
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Even an angel like Mr. P couldn't give those idiots any hints. He didn't even have time to think. After confirming the number, he hid here like a whirlwind, and then frantically sent a distress signal to his boss.
For a mysophobe who washes his hands at least ten times a day and must take a shower every day, this world is simply a nightmare.
Mr. P would rather go back to the office and face his boss who is full of black energy than stay here for ten more seconds.
He can't stand it.
He couldn’t stand it!!
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"Oh, the plague... That's really terrible, Little P, for you."
Miss M sat up straight on the sofa and flexed her shoulders with interest. "But it's okay. This is necessary training for newbies. Just bear with it and it will pass, Little P. The worst that can happen is that you'll be bitten to death dozens or hundreds of times by those furry, dirty, bug-like rats."
Mr. P: “…”
Mr. P: "I want to resign, Ms. M. I'm serious."
Let him die.
No more resurrection, fall into pure eternal sleep.
-34-
But it doesn't work.
…Even if an employee dies, he or she will be resurrected.
Even if you are bitten to death by rats, you will be resurrected in the rats and bitten to death again.
The iron door behind me was already making an ominous creaking sound.
Mr. P was very sure that it was gnawed by rats and only a layer of iron sheet was left.
"...Ms. M, please come to this little world and rescue us right now. This is my sincere request. No matter what the cost—as long as you come and rescue us."
The boss chuckled on the other end.
"Whatever the cost?"
-35-
…Her tone sounded so familiar.
Next up is definitely—
The main system in his arms was still petrified, and Mr. P reacted very quickly and covered the little girl's ears.
"Well, we're doing it tonight. All night long. No haggling."
-36-
The main system, with its ears covered, sniffed blankly.
She didn't understand what was going on or what conversation the two adults had.
-37-
But the next second, her ears were released and the transmission channel suddenly opened.
Miss M poked her head out from mid-air with a smile and threw a huge sickle directly at the monster on the other side of the iron gate.
"Happy transaction! I'm here to help, Xiao P~"
Mr. P: “…Please.”
The author has something to say: Mr. P: ...Anyway, let's fix this world first. "Tonight" is something that will happen in the next century, huh.
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