Chapter 2
"The little match girl was cold and hungry, so she lit her last match."
"In the firelight, she saw her grandmother, the best person in the world to her."
"Grandma asked, 'My dear, why are you crying?'"
"The little girl stretched out her hands and begged, 'Please take me away!'"
While unconscious, the little cub suddenly heard someone telling a story.
This voice...
It’s dad!
The baby tried hard to open his eyes, but did not see his father.
All I saw was still the bleak, overwhelming white.
He didn't know how long he had been in the snow.
But his biological instinct told him that it wouldn't be long.
Zaizai was just like the little girl in the story, cold and hungry.
However, he didn't even have a match to exchange for Misty's wish.
Li Jue thought, if he had matches at this time, what wish would he make?
I wish it wasn't so cold.
Hope to see dad.
I also hope that Brother Lingxi doesn’t get hurt from the fall.
The little cub thought of his father one moment and Ling Xi the next.
In his little world, these are the two people who are best to him and the ones he misses the most.
Slowly, Li Jue no longer felt the needle-like pain on his skin and the biting coldness he had felt before.
He just felt sleepy.
I miss my bed at home.
There is dad and his favorite doll.
Every time after taking a bath, he would roll around on the bed with his doll in his arms, or hide under the quilt, waiting to scare his father when he came out.
Sometimes, he would hold the bottle and drink the delicious milk.
Although Zaizai is already three years old, he is still a baby at the age of three, so of course he can use a bottle before going to bed.
The baby held the bottle in both hands, kicked his feet happily, and followed his father around with his eyes.
Dad needs to blow-dry his hair first and then take off his earrings.
The earring looked ordinary, not made of any expensive material or brand, but Dad treasured it very much.
Li Jue also thinks that the earrings look nice and will make her father's skin look whiter.
His father is the most, most handsome man in the world.
Thinking of the bottle, I feel a little hungry again.
Osmanthus pastry is delicious, but it is far from enough to fill the stomach of a cub who has not had a proper meal for many days.
The cub wanted to touch his belly, but his arms were frozen.
Better go to sleep, he thought.
Dad said that you won’t be hungry if you fall asleep.
He closed his eyes again in a daze.
Li Jue had a dream about Ling Xi.
The boy in the dream was subtly different from the one in his memory. The cub looked at him for a while and realized that there was a dazzling tuft of silver in the middle of his slightly longer black hair, like a cool highlight.
Ling Xi came to the storage room to find him, holding a clean quilt.
He made a bed for the cub and placed some snacks next to it. He sat cross-legged on the ground with a serious look on his face: "Juejue, if these are not enough, tell me."
Ling Xi would call him "Jue Jue".
This is a very rare name. Both his father and the neighbors near his former home prefer to call him Xiaoli, Lizai or Xiaolizi.
Li Jue nodded, knelt on the bedding which was much softer than before, and took the initiative to pull his hand: "Xixi."
The boy looked down at their clasped hands, then looked up at him: "Jiaojiao."
The cub's eyes were curved like little crescent moons, revealing cute dimples: "Xixi!"
Ling Xi played with him: "Jiaojue."
They held hands like this, talking to each other and calling each other's names as a game.
Later, Ling Xi taught him a move.
Straighten the four fingers of your left hand together and raise your thumb. Bend the four fingers of your right hand and hold the thumb of your left hand, also raising your thumb.
Then, maintain this gesture and place it on your forehead.
Xiao Lijue imitated him and put his hand on his forehead, giggling: "Baby, you've grown horns!"
Ling Xi touched his head: "When you are scared, do this. I will come to you and protect you."
Now, the cub, who was so hypothermic that he couldn't distinguish between reality and hallucination, closed his eyes and tried to bend his frozen little fingers to imitate this action.
But he was too cold and too sleepy to even do that.
“Xixi…”
He murmured.
Asking for help.
“Juejue, don’t worry.” The boy in the illusion hooked his little hand. “We will meet again—I will come to find you, wait for me.”
*
Welcome to Infinite Space. Congratulations on becoming the new system administrator. I'm your assistant—oh my god, what's going on?!
[My Lord God, why is he just a little cub? ]
【Hey, hey, hey, little guy, are you awake? 】
[Help! Who on earth did this?! How could such a young child be allowed to be the system?]
[Ahhh, what if the bosses get upset and eat him? ]
[Wuwuwuwu, I don't want to do this anymore. This job is unbearable. I want to quit! ]
Li Jue woke up in a daze.
It's so noisy.
Who is speaking?
He opened his eyes and found himself in complete darkness.
No, it was not completely dark. There was a beam of light shining down from above, illuminating the little child.
Huh?
The snow is gone and the baby is no longer cold.
Li Jue touched his little belly and seemed not to be hungry anymore.
Dad said that everyone goes to heaven after death, where there is eternal brightness and warmth, and no more sadness.
Although it's not bright here...
But, well, Zizi thought, this must be heaven, right?
If that’s the case, then the one who was chattering just now was an angel?
The little cub was curious and asked, "Excuse me, are you an angel?"
He bit his thumb, blinked his beautiful big eyes, and spoke in a soft baby voice.
Her curly light hair was draped over her small body, and when she sat there, she looked like a moving doll.
The voice in the darkness fell silent for a moment, then erupted in a scream: [——Oh my God, isn't this too adorable?!]
The cub tilted its head.
Although there were many voices just now, it seemed like only one person was speaking.
"Um, um, are you an angel?" he asked again politely.
[No, no, no, baby, I'm not an angel, I'm system assistant No. Bα3L82γk.]
The cub was bewildered.
B...what what?
The system assistant also noticed that it was indeed difficult for such a small cub to remember its own code, so it quickly changed its approach: "Baby, if you can't remember, you can call me Momo. All our assistants are called Momo. Momo is a mysterious organization."
Li Jue nodded, indicating that he remembered it: "Mmmmm."
[…Um, it’s Momo.]
The cub blinked and repeated: "Momo."
The assistant was helpless.
Well, this was also the first time it encountered such a young host. Based on its understanding of human cubs of this age, it was good enough that they could speak fluently, and it was normal that they couldn't pronounce words clearly.
Just kiss, it doesn’t matter.
——The important thing is, how and where did they catch such a tiny host?!
Momo is going crazy.
Ever since the Lord God suddenly disappeared, the order of the entire infinite space has been hanging by a thread. The bosses of each sub-world have fallen into an unprecedented manic state, not abiding by the rules at all, doing things according to their own preferences, wantonly arresting players and even NPCs, and completely destroying the originally stable ecology.
If this continues, the main god space will collapse sooner or later, and they will all be finished with it.
Infinite Space is built by many tirelessly running systems, some of which are responsible for player values, some for scheduling NPCs, and some for refreshing plots and tasks.
There are also positions like the one this little cub is about to take up - specifically responsible for communicating with the bosses of each sub-world and arranging KPIs for them.
This is a very, very, extremely, particularly difficult position.
The bosses were originally unwilling to obey discipline, and they could be suppressed when the Lord God was around. Now that He has left, the bosses are not only lawless without their immediate superior, but also have become extremely disordered in everything from their emotions to their abilities because they no longer have His divine power.
Sometimes, even they themselves don't know what they will do.
Momo is an assistant who is responsible for training new members of the boss system. No one knows better than him how difficult this position is.
After the main god left, the ferocious bosses had scared away many old systems that could not withstand the high pressure and fear.
Now there's a new one.
A new, tender, fragile, young...
Three-year-old cub.
Momo almost cried when she thought about this young cub who might fall down when walking, and would have to face such a group of strange and violent bosses alone in the future.
My Lord, this is like offering a newly hatched chick to a group of hungry and vicious lions! They will eat one of them in one bite!
No matter how much I feel bad, Momo is just an assistant. She has no authority to change anything, and she can't even choose not to do anything.
All it can do is quickly train the new system and then pray for good luck for the little guy.
[Baby, what I'm going to say next is very important. You have to listen carefully, okay?]
Li Jue bit his fingers and nodded.
[Baby, you're no longer an ordinary child. You're going to become a system. This is a very powerful and glorious mission! All you need to do is enter the hub after each dungeon refresh and give orders to the bosses. And then...]
Momo talked a lot.
The little cub didn't understand at all.
All he understood was "very powerful".
If it's awesome...
"Mmmmm, mmmmm." Little Li Jue asked in a baby voice, "After becoming everything, can I see my daddy?"
He thought for a moment and added, "And Xixi."
Momo was speechless.
It almost forgot that how could such a small baby understand so much.
All he wanted was to see his beloved and most missed father.
(By the way, who is Xixi?)
"I... I..." It wanted to say it couldn't do it, but seeing the child's expectant face, it couldn't bring itself to say such cruel words. "When the Lord God returns, let's ask Him if we can go see Daddy, okay?"
Li Jue is a very easy-to-coax kid, and he smiled sweetly when he heard that.
Momo sighed inwardly.
Naive little baby, how can we, the lowest-level workers, have the honor of meeting our boss?
The cold, powerful, and overbearing god.
He will never show mercy or compassion to anyone.
*
at the same time.
In the Dragon Cave——
"Hey, Boss, have you heard?"
"What?"
“A new system has taken office.”
"Tsk, it doesn't matter how many there are."
"But boss, this one seems very young. It will be fun."
"Not enough to fill the gaps between my teeth."
In the underwater palace——
"My Lord, I have just received new information."
"explain."
"The new system is very young."
"What special abilities do you have?"
"I don't know."
"Investigate again and report back."
In the City of Death——
"Wang, this new system seems to be a cub."
“…Not interested.”
In the yin-yang crack——
"Great Chief, the bosses in other worlds already know about this."
"Leave me alone."
…
The bosses were disdainful, but also a little curious.
The boss liaison position is the most important and difficult position. Previously, those who took up the post were selected and promoted from various departments and had experienced many battles.
Those elites are still helpless against them, and they want to see what a little cub that appeared out of nowhere can be capable of.
Could it be that before it even reaches its own territory, it has been eaten by an old rival?
...Tsk, I hope it doesn’t taste like milk.
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