Chapter 003 Chapter 3
Xue Chen had expected something when he woke up on the beach. After drinking the delicious beef soup, he was more certain of the identity of the girl who saved him.
She was the daughter of the owner of the nameless island, the sister that Gong Jiu secretly recognized outside, and rounded off to the nearest digit, her own sister.
Her name was mentioned in the text, but it was most likely a pseudonym. Because the beef soup she made was super delicious, this girl was called Beef Soup by Lu Xiaofeng, and she was called that afterwards.
This island was the nameless island that Gong Jiu used to station troops, food, and money.
Xue Chen suspected that the system was operating behind the scenes, and in order to retaliate against him for not completing the mission, the vest was deliberately placed here, but he had no evidence.
Beef Soup liked his compliment very much and said happily: "Then I will make it for you tomorrow!"
Xue Chen sighed lightly and said shyly: "I owe you two lives. Not only did I fail to help you, but I also asked you to take care of me. It's really..."
Beef Soup asked curiously: "You are a paralytic, what can you do to help me?"
Xue Chen: "Thank you for not giving up. I have a basic understanding of alchemy and mathematics."
Beef Soup: "Can you do arithmetic?"
Xue Chen: "I know a little."
Beef Soup: "Then let me test you. There is a number, three times three, there are two left, five times five, there are three left, seven times seven, there are two left, What is the number?"
Xue Chen answered immediately: "Twenty-three."
Beef Soup: "A wall is ten feet thick, and two mice are digging a hole together. The big mouse can dig one foot a day, and the small mouse can also dig one foot. The big mouse's digging speed will double every day, and the small mouse's speed will be reduced by half. How many days will it take to break through the wall? How much did each mouse dig?"
Xue Chen thought for a moment: "Three days and two hours at most. The big mouse will dig about seven feet, and the small mouse will dig about three feet."
In fact, the answer to this question has a more precise result, but Xue Chen is lazy and finds it troublesome to count orally, so he just omits it.
Beef Soup was delighted: "You calculated well, but I have to test you again."
After that, she jumped out of the room, and soon brought a piece of paper and handed it to Xue Chen: "Take a look at this."
Xue Chen took a quick look. The numbers written on the paper were large, without counting units, but very regular, as if copied from a certain account book.
[Tong'er, do you think this is the income and expenditure of money or the income and expenditure of food? ]
The system was confused: [Ah? ]
Xue Chen was gentle and sad: [Don't you understand? Do you want me to lend you a skill point to light up your IQ? ]
The system issued a shielding sound: [Beep——]
Xue Chen: [Did you say dirty words? 】
System: [Beep——too hypocritical, beep——]
Xue Chen: [How could this be? Hahahaha, it seems you can only be civilized, hahaha. 】
Because he didn't know how many people were on the island, Xue Chen couldn't infer what these numbers were. And he thought that Beef Soup shouldn't take out this year's account book, and it was most likely the income and expenditure of a certain period of time in previous years.
"There are a few things wrong." Xue Chen said.
"What's wrong?" Beef Soup was not surprised at all.
"Miss, please come closer." Xue Chen pointed to her, "This should be two hundred and ninety-five. The number here doesn't match, but it matches the number at the back. I don't know the whole picture, and I can't tell where the mistake is. You have to check it yourself. And here..."
After pointing out seven or eight mistakes in a row, Beef Soup looked at him with more and more kindness.
Xue Chen returned the paper to Beef Soup and said pretentiously, "I don't know your name yet."
"My name is Palace Master, the Palace in Palace."
Xue Chen said angrily: [Damn it, my brother played house with her without taking me, and even gave us the same surname! Obviously, I am his biological brother! 】
System: [……]
Beef Soup casually crumpled the paper into a ball, "You are good at calculations, but I have no say on whether to use you or not. Brother Jiu will come back in a few days and make his own arrangements. You should take good care of yourself these days!"
"Okay."
Beef Soup discovered such a talent personally and was very happy to be able to help Gong Jiu. He exuded joy: "I'm leaving now. I'll bring you beef soup at this time tomorrow!"
"Thank you."
The room became quiet.
Xue Chen touched Yixin's two legs through his clothes. The temperature was lower than other parts of the body. He had no feeling below the knees, and it was a bit difficult to move. The ankle joints were too flexible, as if they had no bones.
[Tong'er, why hasn't the synchronization rate of the personality increased? 】
In the setting, Xie Heng was born in a merchant family with an average family background. He was the illegitimate son of the family and was not valued since childhood. One time, when he went to the inn opened by his family to settle accounts, he happened to encounter a fight. An innocent person was affected and injured his spine. He survived with great difficulty, but his legs were disabled.
From then on, he became discouraged and no longer cared about the affairs of the family. He stayed in his room all day and did not go out. He drank and got drunk to escape reality.
The family members could not bear to see his decadent appearance, and their attitude towards him also changed. Xie Heng was determined to change his ways. He took the servants out to relax. He met a few friends who got along well with him. They agreed to go out to sea by boat together. Unexpectedly, they encountered a storm and the boat was overturned. Only Xie Heng survived.
These contents appeared in Xue Chen's mind in the form of text. Not to mention how Xie Heng interacted with other people, he didn't even know the names of his parents, so it was a bit difficult to act.
The system said: [Are you sure you are acting?]
Xue Chen: [Of course!]
The system didn't see any trace of acting at all, and said euphemistically: [Maybe you are too cheerful, try to feel sorry for yourself?]
Xue Chen: [I don't like to feel sorry for myself. The setting I gave Xie Heng is that he will have a great enlightenment after experiencing life and death, and from then on he will let go of his knots. He is disabled but strong-willed, optimistic and cheerful, and laughs at suffering. The logic is very smooth, and my performance is completely fine.]
System: [……]
Is this something you can set? You are an actor, not a screenwriter!
Xue Chen: [Quickly increase the synchronization rate for me. 】
System:【Even if you have a great enlightenment, your nature will not change. It is impossible to change from 'Xie Heng' to 'Xue Chen'. If the synchronization rate increases, your soul will become more solid, and it will report the change to you after detecting it. If the synchronization rate does not increase, even if I indicate that there is progress, you will not get the reward.】
So that's how it is.
But Xue Chen really thinks there is nothing wrong with his role.
He is the same as Xie Heng, in a state where he wants to die a little, but not completely, and lives a shabby life.
After crossing over, his soul is broken, and his life span may not be too long.
Splitting out consciousness to control the vest is a disguised reconstruction for him. Every time he completes a task, his soul can be repaired.
When all the system tasks are completed, Xue Chen can be a free wild horse and do whatever he wants.
Maybe death is too far away now, Xue Chen has no enthusiasm at all, but he didn't say he would stop doing it directly. He hung on the system for three days until his sleep was affected by his perverted brother, and then he reluctantly turned on the vest.
How similar is Xie Heng's state!
Xue Chen tried to figure out the vest's mentality, his face darkened, his eyes gloomy.
[Set synchronization rate +1, current vest synchronization rate 6%, 2 skill points available.] The system said, [That's it, keep it up.]
[It's pretty simple. No one would be in a good mood if they had such a headache, and it doesn't require any effort at all.]
System: [Then you have to thank me.]
Xue Chen: [How shameless.]
[Alchemy] skill is not needed for the time being, Xue Chen decided not to upgrade it, and decide how to use the remaining skill points based on the situation in the future.
He made all kinds of gloomy expressions, and the system didn't respond at all. It seemed that if he wanted to max out the synchronization rate, he had to explore further.
At noon the next day, Beef Soup came to feed him and told him a good news.
"Brother Jiu wrote to say he was coming back!"
Huh?
Why didn't I know?
He thought about it carefully. In the original owner's memory, Gong Jiu often went out, and each time he had a legitimate reason. Especially in the past few years when wars were frequent, the Prince of Taiping often led troops outside, and Gong Jiu would take the initiative to share and help the Prince of Taiping with some logistics.
The original owner did not have any serious illness, but his immunity was relatively poor, and he would catch a cold and fever from time to time. No matter how rich the Prince of Taiping's mansion was, it could not provide antibiotics to treat him. Every time he caught a cold, it took a long time to recover. Every time he had a high fever, the Prince of Taiping and his wife were afraid that he would die directly, so they did not dare to let him get tired, let alone run around during the war.
He only took care of the family, and he learned about the outside world from other people, and Gong Jiu told him the most.
The original owner was kept in the dark and had no idea that Gong Jiu was planning to rebel against his father and kill his father behind his back. He learned unparalleled martial arts from his master and even adopted a new sister.
One can imagine how many lies Gong Jiu told him.
System: [You should use skill points to unlock the internal strength of martial arts. ]
Xue Chen was confused: [Can my legs get better after unlocking the martial arts vest? ]
System: [No, but at least it will give you some power to protect yourself when facing Gong Jiu. Xue Chen :
[Is it the power of self-preservation that I lack? Not even Ximen Chuixue can dodge, so what can he do no matter how high his martial arts skills are? It’s better to be a weak and beautiful man. Look at my tiny wrists, I can’t hold the whip at a glance. This is the correct way to deal with mental attacks! Please, have some brains. Don't you really need me to lend you a few skill points to improve your intelligence? 】
System: [……]
The day after receiving the reminder from Beef Soup, Gong Jiu told the subject that a batch of food had to be delivered to the front line and he had to be away for a while, so he asked the subject to take care of himself.
Three days later, Xue Chen got 3 skill points.
There were guests on the nameless island, and Beef Soup went out happily to greet them.
At dusk, a handsome man in white clothes with neatly combed hair came to Xue Chen's residence.
Xue Chen was sitting on the bed, struggling to change his position. He looked towards the door after hearing the voice and saw Gong Jiu, who instructed him, "You came at the right time. I've been sitting for too long and my waist hurts. Come and rub it for me."
Gong Jiu was stunned for a moment, then acted humble, lowered his head slightly, and walked forward quickly, "Yes."
Xue Chen said to the system: [Game Start! ]