Chapter 184 Coal Briquettes
Shen Yu noticed the little trick of trying to survive. He put down his hand and sighed, "You want to save it? It beat you half to death before."
"...it has actually shown mercy to my men." The garbled code on the data board was jumping, and the undulating lines were entangled together, revealing its uncertain mood.
It raised its head and looked at Shen Yu: "When you confronted Xuan Lin, it also stopped."
Shen Yu raised his eyelids: "So?"
When Shen Yu stabbed Xuan Lin with the phoenix nail, the coal ball tore the black thread, and Shen Yu's phoenix nail pierced Xuan Lin's cheek. With all these things, was the coal ball helping Shen Yu, or was it helping itself?
Is it helping Shen Yu to get revenge, or is it helping itself to get revenge?
Shen Yu lowered his eyes. Seeing that Gouqie Toutousheng was standing still in the air without saying a word, he rubbed its head helplessly: "Gouqie Toutousheng, you... are still too soft-hearted. What will you do if you meet someone else who bullies you in the future? Keep hiding like this?"
Hugging its data card, it snorted in silence and said unhappily: "I will not be bullied!"
Shen Yu laughed. He looked behind him and spoke after a long while: "You can go back. But if you want to survive, you must make sure you can control the coal ball. Otherwise... just let it die."
It tilted its head back and looked at Shen Yu. It was silent for a few seconds and then nodded.
Shen Yu said nothing more. He turned back and brought Gouqiu Tousheng back to the vicinity of the bedroom.
Xuan Lin went crazy and went to Kunning Palace again. The maids and eunuchs who served him did not dare to go far and followed Xuan Lin everywhere. Shen Yu watched in the dark for a long time until the shift change time in the early morning, and then he went in with the maids to clean up.
The coal briquettes were still buried inside the floor tiles, the ground was full of cracks, the light from them had completely dimmed, leaving only a tiny bit of energy to breathe.
Shen Yu approached the coal ball silently under cover. The coal ball had already died, so he simply used one hand to pick it out of the brick.
After finishing, Shen Yu took the wooden bucket full of dirty water next to him, walked out the door, and went straight to the bathroom.
There were fewer palace servants on the road during this period, so Shen Yu put down the bucket as soon as he entered and hid in another secluded corner.
"If you want to survive, come here."
Gouqiu Tousheng hummed when he heard this, and pulled out a physical chain made of energy from his own body, which passed through the broken body of the coal ball and tied a knot.
The coal ball didn't move. Goujue Tousheng tested its condition. After making sure that the coal ball would not escape, Goujue Tousheng transferred some Yang energy to it.
Meiqiu had previously given Gouqiu Tousheng one million Yang points. Although a lot of it had been burned before, the remaining ones were barely enough for Meiqiu to restart the system.
After about a minute or two, the light on the coal ball gradually became brighter. The broken cracks on its body slowly repaired, but the speed was very slow. The scavenger only repaired the most seriously damaged parts, and left the rest alone.
"If... I can... just... survive..."
The sound of the coal briquette was mechanical. It lay on the ground with its stiff body, and the alarm on its body rang and then went out.
After trying to get the energy back, it went up and hit Coal Ball on the head, saying unhappily, "Thank you for remembering me!"
The coal ball was almost hit and crashed again. It tilted its body and the data took a long time to return to normal.
Coal Ball was a little hesitant. It turned its head to look to the side, and stopped suddenly when it saw Shen Yu's face.
"It's you...it's you...the protagonist...Su Yu..." Coal Ball muttered to itself. It didn't know what it remembered, and the rest of the emotions slowly filled the mechanical sound.
Shen Yu stood aside without moving. He looked at Meiqiu and said, "Meiqiu, we have met before. In the previous life, it was here."
Coal Ball did not answer. The data on its body was ticking slowly, and it didn't know what to say.
Shen Yu had already guessed one or two of the facts. He raised the corners of his lips and sneered, "You don't have to hide it. At this point, you're still not willing to tell the truth?"
The coal ball made a hissing sound that was almost rotten and rusty. It lowered its body and said, "I don't know why it happened... I don't know... I just left because of something... I didn't mean it..."
The coal briquettes are a system that controls the passage of time. Its main mission is to pass through human souls, achieve salvation and life continuation, and then... benefit the masses.
There is a flaw in Shen Yu's world, and that is Xuan Lin's early death. The untimely death of a wise ruler led to political turmoil, eunuchs in power, and frequent wars.
The main mission of the coal briquette is to make up for this defect, so that the world can avoid disasters and develop smoothly.
Therefore, Meiqiu extradited the soul of another world who had died in an accident and taught him to learn so that he could continue Xuanlin's life and continue to develop.
Guqiu Tuosheng said with a puff: "Look at the person you extradited. He is a psychopath who wants to kill us all!"
Coal Ball's body was trembling. It had come into contact with too many hosts and it was difficult for it to recall the original personality traits of this time traveler.
"...My host has also been selected. He is not a violent person." Coal Ball said.
"Get out of here! He was about to beat you to death! He's a domestic violence man!"
Shen Yu: “…”
He glanced at Gouqie Toutuosheng and asked, "You said you left before? What did you mean?"
Coal Ball searched its own database and retrieved its surveillance records from many years ago. It replied, "Not long after I extradited him, a malfunction occurred in the main system. At that time, all systems performing missions outside received crisis instructions, requiring us to return and gather, and I left this world."
Shen Yu was not surprised by Coal Ball's behavior. It had left Shen Yu before and must have done a lot of such wicked things.
"So? You never came back after that?" Shen Yu asked.
"...There were so many things that I forgot. After completing the mission on the main system, I took on the next mission and went to another world. Until now...I have come back again."
Coal Ball's body was still shaking uncontrollably: "When I left, I told him about the original development of the world and gave him a golden book for him to study. But I never thought, I never thought he would become like this!"
Shen Yu looked at the coal ball in silence.
How should he talk to Meiqiu? The golden book that Meiqiu gave Xuanlin recorded the original characters, trajectories, developments, and even the ending of this world.
He told everything to this time traveler, and this time traveler used all the clues in the golden book to drag Shen Yu into the quagmire and eventually tortured him to death.
Of all the people, why did Xuan Lin know that Shen Yu could be made into a medicine man? Why did he refuse to let Shen Yu go even if he died, and tried every means to keep Shen Yu by his side?
Maybe he had lustful thoughts, but that was only a small reason. The most fundamental reason was that he knew Shen Yu was the protagonist.
The protagonist is protected by heaven, and even if he suffers all kinds of setbacks, he can still break through the danger and live on.
Xuan Lin knew that Shen Yu would not be killed so easily, so he fed Shen Yu poison, made him drink his blood, and drove him crazy and even to the point of despair, constantly pushing him beyond his limits.
Heaven will protect Shen Yu.
Xuan Lin held Shen Yu, and to a certain extent, he also held the Way of Heaven, allowing it to protect him as well.
But the protagonist's luck is not endless. The day Shen Yu went completely crazy, his luck also completely disappeared.
He finally died.