System 057 paused for a moment, then attempted to explain: "No, the host can leave if they wish. However, the channel back to the original world is currently under repair, so the host will have to wait a while."
"No need, I don't want to wait anymore." Gu Qingqiu's eyes revealed a hint of exhaustion and a desperate resolve: "The unknown is frightening, waiting is despairing, I don't want to be so passive anymore."
She crouched down and stroked the kitten lying beside her legs: "In that case, I might as well take the initiative myself."
After looking around, Gu Qingqiu smiled and then bumped her head on the display screen of the standby space station.
The expected pain did not come. Gu Qingqiu thoughtfully slammed into the screen again, but still felt no pain, and the screen appeared to be undamaged.
"Am I invincible here?" Gu Qingqiu asked with amusement, but she didn't expect System 057 to give her an answer, so she started looking for other ways, such as pinching her own neck hard with her hands.
This time, Gu Qingqiu actually felt a bit suffocated, which she hadn't expected, so she tightened her grip even more.
[Enough! The repair is done! I'll teleport you back right now! Don't do this again!]
Hearing the slightly anxious and regretful tone in System 057's voice, Gu Qingqiu slowly reduced the force in her hand, but did not let go. Instead, she asked questioningly, "Really?"
[...Really, but are you really going to leave? Don't you have any attachment to this place at all? Were all those "I love you"s you said just to complete a mission?]
"What does this have to do with your system?" Gu Qingqiu said indifferently, "No matter what I think, I have done what I should do, and you should keep your promise."
If you went back to your original world, you'd have to go to work, be an ordinary person, and wouldn't have as much gold and wealth. You wouldn't be able to experience such a colorful life anymore; you'd experience birth, aging, sickness, and death, and you might never meet someone you truly love. Even so, would you still want to go back?
"Yes," Gu Qingqiu answered firmly.
【……All right.】
For some reason, Gu Qingqiu sensed a hint of sadness and sorrow in the 057 system.
System 057 remained silent, as did Gu Qingqiu.
A few minutes later, Gu Qingqiu's vision went black, and she felt that all her sensory organs had stopped working. She felt dizzy for a while, as if she had lost gravity.
A few minutes later, Gu Qingqiu opened her eyes and found herself back in her original world.
She was in her office, which was on the 24th floor, so she could clearly see the sky outside. It was pitch black; it was already evening. The only light in the huge office was from her computer screen.
Gu Qingqiu glanced at the half-finished spreadsheet she had created, along with the time in the lower right corner of her computer screen: 11:02 PM, with a slightly bewildered expression.
Although she seemed to have spent hundreds of years in various worlds, strangely enough, after seeing the half-finished data on the computer screen, Gu Qingqiu quickly remembered that it was the work she had only half-finished. Because the deadline for submission was approaching, she had stayed in the office alone to work overtime until this late hour.
Previously, it seemed that the female supporting character system told her that she died suddenly because she worked too much overtime, which is why she was chosen as the host.
Gu Qingqiu sighed. She hadn't expected to have to continue working even after returning to her original world, but it wasn't so bad.
Feeling a slight headache and neck pain, she got up to go to the restroom and wash her face. However, she stumbled and almost fell while getting up. After regaining her balance, she realized that she was wearing a massager on her head and had conductive pads attached to several parts of her body that were connected to the massager.
Gu Qingqiu remembered that this was a massage device she wore when she was too tired from work. It was a massage device recommended to her by a colleague, who said that using it for twenty or thirty minutes when she was tired from work could effectively relieve fatigue.
This seems to be a new product developed by a listed technology company in China. It is quite expensive, costing nearly six figures, but its effects are truly outstanding. According to a colleague, after using it for a while, he felt all his fatigue disappear and even felt that he could continue to work hard for several more hours.
Gu Qingqiu wasn't interested in this kind of product at first. Although the purpose of this massage device might not have been to make working overtime more comfortable, she wasn't so greedy as to spend so much money on it! Except for those rich people like her colleagues who drive Lamborghinis and still come to the company to collect several thousand yuan a month to experience life, normal working people wouldn't buy it!
However, at the company's annual meeting not long ago, this massage device was surprisingly presented as the grand prize, and Gu Qingqiu even managed to draw it!
Under the watchful eyes of all her colleagues and the chairman, Gu Qingqiu was overjoyed. At the urging of her curious colleagues, Gu Qingqiu had no choice but to open the packaging box of the massage device in front of everyone. Some of her close colleagues even said they wanted to try it out.
Since the service was already open, Gu Qingqiu had no choice but to agree. Everyone who had used the massage device praised it, and after using it herself once, Gu Qingqiu felt it was indeed worth the price. She also grew to love it and even abandoned her original plan to resell it. After all, it was free, so why not take advantage of it! She wasn't short of money right now, so she decided not to sell it for the time being!
On weekdays that followed, Gu Qingqiu would use it for half an hour during her lunch break, and she would also use it occasionally when she was tired from working overtime at night.
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