Chapter 311 The Virtuous Empress Who Became Cannon Fodder (Part 10) Lin You...
Lin You looked at Ye Yunhua and explained again seriously, "If the mission is completed, I will leave."
Ye Yunhua gave a soft "hmm" and reached out to put the best part of the duck onto her plate. "I'm fine now. Youyou doesn't need to delay things for me any longer. You have your own path to walk. If fate allows, we will meet again."
Lin You nodded and said nothing more. The mission subjects she had worked with were all very intelligent, so it was normal for Ye Yunhua to be able to sense something.
After she went to sleep, Lin You pulled Xiao Tiandao up and asked in a cold voice:
"She is the future Heavenly Dao born from this world, right? What exactly did you do to drive her to this point!"
Little Heavenly Dao shuddered in fright and quickly explained, "I really didn't do anything. I've been paying attention to her ever since I realized she might be the future Heavenly Dao, and then... then..."
Xiao Tiandao's voice grew softer and softer until Lin You gave him a cold snort as a reminder, at which point he stammered out the whole story.
It turns out that Xiao Tiandao was originally from the modern era, just like Lin You. After being selected by the Quick Transmigration Administration, he diligently carried out his missions.
As a result, while doing a mission in this world, he accidentally triggered the evolution of the world's rules and was forced to stay and temporarily take on the role of the minor Heavenly Dao here, until the minor world gave birth to its own Heavenly Dao.
Things in the small world follow their own rules, so there's no need to worry too much. As the agent of the Heavenly Dao, he only needs to handle unexpected situations.
For example, promptly deporting illegal immigrants and making arrangements for those with good fortune when natural disasters or man-made calamities occur.
As a modern person who abided by the law in life and diligently completed his missions after death, he never made any mistakes when he was a minor Heavenly Dao under the constraints of the rules.
However, humans are social animals, and as an agent of the Heavenly Way, he cannot interfere too much with cause and effect. In other words, he can only be considered a casual acquaintance with anyone.
It's alright for a year or two, but when it comes to ten or a hundred years, the loneliness of being detached from the world can drive a person crazy.
However, the birth of the Heavenly Dao in a small world is not simply a matter of having the aura of the Heavenly Dao's rules. It requires undergoing many trials and tempering one's mind before it can become a newly born Heavenly Dao.
She is the seventh person I have waited for who has the rules of the Heavenly Dao. The previous ones were either obsessed with love, power, or indecisive.
Only she, with her upright and peaceful nature, neither arrogant nor discouraged, calm in the face of adversity and steady in her actions, had the best chance of passing the test. But then, at the age of seven, she saved the current emperor…
The rest of the story is somewhat cliché: seven-year-old Ye Yunhua, by chance, saves Qin Shaoan, who is now the emperor and was then the crown prince.
Qin Shaoan was in a semi-conscious state at the time. In his dazed state, he only saw the jade pendant on Ye Yunhua's waist, and a collection of poems with annotations written by Ye Yunhua herself, which was later found at the scene.
The likely outcome of this incident would have been that the engaged crown prince discovered he had been saved by his fiancée, and the two, initially forced into an engagement for the sake of the greater good, would develop feelings for each other, laying the foundation for a harmonious relationship between the emperor and empress in the future.
However, the acting Heavenly Dao, who had been waiting for too long, was worried that Ye Yunhua would become obsessed with romantic love. When Qin Shaoan's people were investigating the matter, they found out about Ye Yunhua's half-sister.
The jade pendants were all given to the sisters in the family, but one was shaped like an orchid and the other like a plum blossom. When the vision was blurry, the difference was not much. The book that the half-sister was reading happened to have a bookmark given to her by Ye Yunhua tucked inside.
However, Qin Shaoan knew his mission as the crown prince was not to repay a life-saving debt with eternal devotion. After learning that Ye Yunhua's half-sister was engaged, he only secretly took care of her.
After Xiao Tiandao explained the general situation, he whispered an explanation:
I just wanted to stop them a little when they were most likely to develop a passionate relationship. The inscription on this jade pendant was easy to find.
But Ye Yunhua never even considered telling Qin Shaoan that she had saved him when she was a child, and that Qin Shaoan, despite being married to her for over a decade, had never paid any attention to her notes.
Lin You could tell that Xiao Tiandao's voice was becoming increasingly hoarse:
I never expected things to turn out this way, but I really can't wait any longer. I've been here for over a hundred years, with no one to talk to and nothing to do. I can only watch everything from the sidelines.
Whether it's good or bad, I can't interfere; I'm almost forgetting I was originally a human being. But if one day I truly can't hold on any longer, and no Heavenly Dao has been born here, the world will probably become even more chaotic, perhaps even collapsing completely.
He was just a junior investigator, and even reporting the issue required a complicated process. After completing the process, he had to wait a long time and still hadn't received any solution.
"I'll report this to headquarters and see if we can find someone to take over. Don't rush things." Sensing the weariness and numbness in Xiao Tiandao's voice, Lin You's attitude softened.
Xiao Tiandao's intervention did indeed cause Ye Yunhua to miss the moment when she first fell in love with Qin Shaoan, but what truly drove her to the brink was everyone's attitude of treating her as a tool.
Most importantly, Xiao Tiandao's ultimate reason was that he was worried that he wouldn't be able to hold on and the world would collapse, which is why he was so eager to let Ye Yunhua pass the trial, rather than for his own selfish reasons.
When she first started doing the mission, she was also in a state of not being able to eat, sleep, or communicate with others for several years.
Looking back now, it's fortunate that Chu Nanfeng didn't mind her being so boisterous and always went along with her, talking and chatting with her, taking her shopping, and introducing her to his family.
What seemed like an ordinary relationship at the time, now seems to be Chu Nanfeng's way of helping himself adapt to a new life.
Perhaps even the questions he set were partly to familiarize himself with the rules of the task, and partly to keep himself busy so he wouldn't overthink things.
Lin You recalled her experience when she first transmigrated, squatting on the snack street every day, almost crying from cravings. She silently sent Xiao Tiandao all the snacks, takeout meals, and various treats that filled most of her storage space.
At first, she was so hungry that she would pack up a lot of food every time she went to a new world. But no matter how many places she went, she never ran out of food, and her stockpile never decreased.
Later, when she had enough points in the system, she could buy food from the store anytime. Now she didn't need to hoard any more goods. After giving them all to Xiao Tiandao, she could even free up some warehouse space.
Lin You rummaged through the warehouse again and found many more electronic products that Shen Zechen had given her to keep her from getting bored while doing missions. Each of them had a large memory and contained countless single-player games, songs, and movies.
Little Heavenly Dao was just overwhelmed by the mountain of delicious food when he turned around and received a huge pile of spiritual nourishment. He was so excited that he almost cried out.
[Sister, you're my own sister. Do you know how I've lived all these years? Even when I go to the mortal realm to buy a chicken leg, I have to calculate whether it will involve karma. I have to think about the consequences of saying a single word to someone!]
[Wow, there are so many games! The touchscreen of this phone, the graphics of this tablet, and they even have game controllers and projectors! The sound quality of the speakers is amazing!!]
These items were originally compiled by Shen Zechen in case Lin You was bored after traveling back to ancient times again, so he specially made them for her to pass the time. The contents are quite rich, and you could play with them for a hundred years without repeating anything.
However, after Lin You's five senses were restored by her master Ye Xinglan, she was busy being urged to study by her mission targets and didn't have much time for leisure and entertainment, so she didn't use it.
Lin You's ears hurt from Xiao Tiandao's excited screams, so she hung up the call and went to consult him about employee succession.
Reporting this kind of thing to the company would probably take some time to review, so Lin You went directly to ask Apiao, who was also an agent of Tiandao and had some experience in this area.
According to normal procedures, such a matter should not take a hundred years. As soon as A Piao heard Lin You's feedback, he went to investigate and found that the palace had indeed tampered with it.
The place where Xiao Tiandao usually stayed was a small, independent space. At first, he was very enthusiastic about decorating the space.
However, he was only a novice mission taker. According to the energy level classification that Lin You usually used, he was at most a congenital martial artist in the martial arts world, and he couldn't even use basic spiritual power and formations.
This also means that it is impossible to raise other living things in the isolated small space, whether plants or animals, they cannot survive.
At first, Xiao Tiandao was interested in decorating the place, but after a while, no matter how he decorated it, it was just a dead silence, so he got tired of it.
But things are different now. The games and TV shows projected on the screen have sound, the speakers can play music, the food is hot, the ice cream and cola are refreshingly cold, and there are even AI companions that can chat with you.
For a modern gamer, having these things made his life much more colorful. Most importantly, after opening up about things, he could chat with Lin You without any reservations.
Meanwhile, Lin You quickly received feedback and suggestions from the ghost and contacted Xiao Tiandao again:
"There was a bug in the company system, so we didn't receive your message. Headquarters said that if you can't handle it, they can find someone to take over."
Over these hundred years, you will receive 100 points per year, plus some compensation, and you can continue to complete tasks as before.
If you're willing to stay as an agent, your annual points will be higher. Once this world has undergone its transformation, you'll definitely receive a share of the merit, and your position in the company will also change.
Xiao Tiandao roughly calculated that he had accidentally gotten a business deal for the company, and now that the business was halfway done, if he didn't want to continue, the company would send someone to take over and pay him a decent salary.
If he wants to continue working and take full responsibility for this business, he will not only receive a raise, but also a large bonus, and promotion and salary increases will be a given.
Then what's there to hesitate about? Of course, we should keep going!
I felt hopeless before because I was doing this job for free. Who wouldn't feel hopeless working for free?
What's more, his salary is 100 points a year and there's room for it to increase. You have to understand that when he was doing beginner tasks, he would only get 200 or 300 points after ten years. Sometimes the tasks were too difficult, and if he bought some auxiliary items, he could only save a little over 100 points after each task.
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Author's Note: It seems like it's not finished yet [laughing and crying emoji], there should be one more chapter to complete it.
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