Save the Family Doctor (Part 25)
"Wait, that's not right. You work all year round, and you don't use your salary. You save it anyway. No wonder the Lord God confiscated your salary." Jiang Yuanshi suddenly realized and fell into thinking again, "But that's not right. You are so useful, why would they kill you? Have they made enough money?"
Z01: “…”
Jiang Yuanshi couldn't figure it out. He couldn't guess what his boss was thinking, so he chose to interview the employees. The question that he had buried deep in his heart for many years but couldn't ask finally found the right person. Jiang Yuanshi opened his eyes wide and approached Hong Wu curiously and asked: "Z01, you work all year round and don't care about the salary. Do you like going to work very much? What's the reason?"
When Jiang Yuanshi was a college student, he participated in various competitions in junior high and high school, and many olive branches were extended to him.
Having never worked before and being inexperienced in the world, he took on all the jobs that interested him. Well, if he was lucky, he would have both wealth and good health both physically and mentally; if he was unlucky... I can only say that the finished product was very good, but the process was very tiring.
It would be fine if Jiang Yuanshi worked alone, but the problem is that some projects require teamwork, and in the collaboration among technical geeks, a person who knows nothing is often assigned to be the supervisor or the boss. He pays respect to them in words, but when it comes to reporting, he keeps revising the plan until he gets tired of it and finally chooses the initial version.
During his college years, Jiang Yuanshi already had more than N years of work experience, making him a perfect candidate for the company - a college graduate with work experience.
Then Jiang Yuanshi turned around and started an independent game studio. Unfortunately, when he was about to start the life he longed for, his parents showed up and disrupted his plan. The studio was directly demolished and his computer was smashed. His parents tearfully told him about the sadness of raising him and blamed him for being ignorant. Then they took away all his savings on the pretext of safekeeping and bought another house and car. From time to time, they would gossip about their child's belated rebellion in front of all the relatives and outsiders.
With nothing, he could only join the company and become a good role model in the eyes of outsiders.
Jiang Yuanshi hated going to work, and his salary never came to him.
Why go to work when you have no money? To live in the free dormitory provided by the company?
In the case of Z01, even though Jiang Yuanshi knew that the other party was not a human and could not be judged by human standards, he really did not understand why the system, as a living being, would not be tired? Didn't it have free time?
"Why do you love going to work so much? Why do you even pay to go to work?" Jiang Yuanshi kept asking questions, using polite language. Question... good question, it would be impolite to ask it again.
The red mist in front of him paused for a moment, and then condensed into a hand covering Jiang Yuanshi's mouth, and another hand pressing on his head, completely fixing him: "Ugh!"
Jiang Yuanshi raised his eyes with a puzzled look, and made a rare expression while humming and winking. Z01 wrote it down and said, "Your question is very good. No one has asked me this question for many years."
Jiang Yuanshi suddenly felt as if a butler appeared in front of him, and he started speaking in the style of domineering president literature: Young Master hasn't smiled in many years, and you are the first person to make Young Master smile.
Yatou, you are the first person to disobey me.
Z01's words instantly reminded him of a bunch of domineering CEO literature. He felt a little hungry just thinking about it, but duck heads were not very easy to chew.
"I can't give you an answer to your question because I don't know the reason. I just feel that this is all I can do and I have to do this."
Z01 also doesn't understand why he has to do tasks all the time. He can use his performance to spend money like other systems and buy what he wants and likes, but Z01 doesn't care about anything.
It is blank and hollow.
It is isolated from all living things, unable to integrate and has no intention of joining.
What else can you do besides completing tasks?
He didn't know, it was as if the only command was implanted in his brain, which was to complete tasks to accumulate willpower points. Apart from that, he shouldn't do anything else.
He led countless hosts, through one century after another, but when he looked up the data, all that was left on his hard drive was the amount of his accumulated willpower, the duration of his work, and the number of types of hosts he had led, but no names, where he came from, or where he had been.
This is the proof of all his memories.
Z01 was still typing in his notebook, and he hadn't typed a single word for a long time when he suddenly felt pain.
He searches for the source, and discovers that his host is trying to gnaw on his hand.
The mist could not condense into any entity, it was ethereal. He watched his host curiously observe where he could put his mouth, then narrowed his eyes and took a careful bite, one bite after another. He missed every time, but he still did not give up, and had no sense of crisis in completing the mission.
Although the host was biting the mist, Z01, as the mist itself, had not shut down its sensory function since it was turned on last time. After the moist and itchy touch, Ta had a new experience, pain. It turned out that the pain was so gentle, almost the same as itching.
Unfortunately, what Z01 didn’t know was that if Jiang Yuanshi knew his evaluation, he would probably get a death stare again.
Jiang Yuanshi took a mouthful of air, which might have contained some PM2.5.
He curled his lips and asked the system: "So why don't you find something else to do? Aren't you bored?"
"Based on the mission experience when I was bound to you, it's not boring, but complicated." Z01 learned human language and used a four-character idiom to describe it, "ups and downs."
Jiang Yuanshi showed a smile:).
He didn't want to either, "Who told you guys to have so many bugs?"
Z01: "The rare bugs in the bookstore have appeared because of you."
Jiang Yuanshi: "You make it sound like I'm the source of the bug. Why don't you say it's you? You're a threat to the Lord God's system."
"New hypotheses are being added, data is being analyzed... Conclusion: unknown." Z01 said, "You have a point."
Jiang Yuanshi: …………
He is speechless every day now, thanks to Z01.
Jiang Yuan was still speechless when a black mist suddenly appeared in his face, which brought back his memory. He raised his right hand which was wrapped in the black mist and said, "By the way, what should we do with this thing?"
Z01: "The black fog is a living being with a body. Just destroy it."
Jiang Yuanshi: "True body? Isn't the mist his true body?"
Z01: "After testing, it turns out that this is a body, and the soul is Fan Tang."
What a bizarre answer. Jiang Yuanshi was quite curious: "You mean Fan Tang is this monster who devours other hosts and manipulates them to move their bodies. If his own soul goes to rob others, wouldn't it be Fan Dian? Can the body be robbed at will?"
Z01: "By strength, means or authority."
Jiang Yuanshi asked something else: "Has the appeal resulted in any result?"
"No."
Heartbreaking.
Jiang Yuanshi sighed: "There are more than a hundred and not even one. Your department should be closed down. I wonder if the main god who wants to kill you has intercepted you."
Z01: "According to your previous statement, it is 90% possible. Do you want to continue to appeal?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Well...appeal, but who are you applying to?"
Z01: "Usually it is uploaded to the management system and then forwarded by it."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Can we contact the Lord God directly?"
Z01: "The system does not have any contact information. To contact the Lord God by force, you need to go through the formalities. The process takes 10 minutes."
The process was full of twists and turns. When all the successful people died, Jiang Yuanshi shook his hand and the black mist was still gnawing at his hand. The place where the black mist had gnawed turned blue and translucent, and then the black was swallowed by the red. The red mist swirled around the wound to weave new skin. Jiang Yuanshi's eyes lit up, "I have a way."
Z01: "What do you have in mind?"
Jiang Yuanshi poked at the red mist, his eyes bright, Z01 had a bad intention, he said: "It's your turn, go ahead Z01!"
Z01: "…………?"
——
"Ugh..." The man was lifted up from the sand by his hair and pressed down, over and over again, tirelessly.
Fan Tang laughed wantonly and arrogantly. Fan Dian's eyes were tightly closed, and his face was covered with dust. Fan Tang looked at him for a while and tutted his tongue in dissatisfaction, and ordered, "Hey, open your eyes. Don't close them when I press you down, otherwise..." Fan Tang pointed the gun at Li Pu who was sleeping soundly beside him with his other hand, "You know, if you close your eyes once, I will shoot him in the leg. Don't worry, I won't kill him, but he will be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, which is not bad. At least he won't run away and won't have the chance to disobey me."
Fan Dian's brows were tightly knitted together, with sand mixed between his eyelashes. He forced his eyes open, and they were bloodshot. The pain from the foreign object in his eyes made him shed physiological tears.
Fan Tang then smiled with satisfaction, "It's really touching. You licked him like this, but does he really love you? Hahaha!" Holding his hair tightly, Fan Dian's head was lifted high. The next second, Jiang Shi, who had not spoken for a long time, said, "Mr. Fan Tang, something is coming this way."
Fan Tang said nonchalantly without even looking up: "What's the big deal? It's just the black fog coming."
Jiang Shi said calmly: "No, it's red. Your black mist has been swallowed."
"What nonsense are you talking about? You still want to save them now? It's too late." Fan Tang thought that Jiang Shi was just lying, so he gave him a chance to see what he wanted to do.
He disdains to look up.
A red mass met his sight.
There was something black in the red mist struggling madly. That was his body!
The black mist hit Fan Tang's face, spread out, and slowly gathered into a pair of black, empty eyes, looking into his eyes. They were deep, as if a black hole was about to suck him in. Fan Tang's hair stood on end, and an inexplicable fear suddenly arose in his heart. He shouldn't look at this thing.
That was the abyss. In the black abyss, countless limbs stretched out towards him, saying, "Come—"
Fan Tang's spirit was greatly shocked for a moment, and he felt as if his soul was being separated from him. He was about to be pulled out, "No, no——"
He mobilized his whole body, desperately trying to avoid the sight, turned around and ran, but when he saw that he couldn't avoid it, he pulled Jiang Shi aside and pushed him in front of the monster, "He is the same as me, we are in the same group, I will give him to you, you let me go!"
Jiang Shi stumbled and fell forward. He opened his eyes and did not dodge. A chill passed through his body, and the next moment a scream pierced his eardrums, "No——!!!"
The voice came from behind, and Jiang Shi turned around in confusion.
Behind him, red mist enveloped Fan Dian's body, and black substance was drawn out from the top of his head and thrown out of his body.
It was a tiny ball of black mist, floating in the air, trying desperately to return to the body. When it found itself being torn apart by the red mist, it gave up its target and rushed towards Jiang Shi, but couldn't get in. It then rushed towards Li Pu, but also failed. So it could only rush towards Fan Dian.
Fan Dian's body was burning with black fire. The flames flickered, and soon, a faceless figure was ejected. The man lying on the ground slowly got up, and because gravel got into his eyes, he wailed: "Fuck! What a shitty body!"
Fan Tang stood up, squinting his eyes and looking at the red mist in embarrassment with tears in his eyes, "Do you know who I am?! I am the supervisor appointed by the world consciousness! To stop me is to go against this world!"
The red mist condensed into a pair of hands, and then the two hands were spread out, and words appeared on the palms, which read:
Oh, what's the matter?
Fan Tang:!
Fan Tang was filled with resentment. He was about to succeed, but suddenly a Cheng Yaojin showed up. The opponent's strength was unpredictable. He changed the subject and started to negotiate with him: "Who are you? What do you want to do? We can have a good talk, or how about cooperation? When things are done, I can take you to find the world consciousness."
Don’t eat the hard red fog, and don’t eat the soft one either.
Hong Wu stretched out a finger and shook it, then pointed at Fan Tang.
Before Fan Tang could react, the red mist rushed up, grabbed the human figure in the air and forcefully stuffed it into Fan Dian's body, then crashed into Fan Tang's body at lightning speed.
Black and red collided and bit each other inside, and the body began to twitch and its limbs moved around.
Amid the chaotic fight, a small black and red snake emerged from the sand, raised its head and looked around, then swam away awkwardly. Jiang Shi, who was caught off guard, felt his trouser leg being tugged. He hesitantly retracted his foot and slowly lowered his head.
The little snake raised its head and looked at Jiang Shi. Under the refraction of the lens, Jiang Shi's eyes were completely dark.
Something is wrong, Jiang Yuanshi thought.
"Are you the system?" Fan Dian, who had changed back to his body, came over holding Li Pu's body. When he saw the snake pulling Jiang Shi's trouser legs, he frowned and asked, "Hey, Jiang Shi, someone is calling you? Wait, are you the outsider now?"
Just as Fan Dian was about to get closer, Jiang Shi, who had been motionless, stepped back nervously, warning, "Don't get close to me!"
Fan Dian: "What are you doing? Don't worry, seeing you pull Li Pu away from Fan Tang, I know you are definitely not a real traitor. Don't worry, brother, I won't beat you up."
Jiang Shi didn't say anything, but raised his hand to cover his eyes.
Jiang Yuanshi’s pants fell off and he said: dizzy!
Bit my tongue!
Is this snake not poisonous? It bit itself, I hope it didn't die.
Jiang Yuanshi took a look, then looked up and said to Fan Dian, "It seems like he has lost his sight."
"Ah? What's wrong? What did Fan Tang do to you?" Fan Dian asked subconsciously, but he felt that the voice was wrong, a little familiar, but... He lowered his head, and the snake spoke, making the voice of Jiang Yuanshi.
Even though Fan Dian had experienced many restarts, he still couldn't help but panic when he saw this scene. He almost stepped on it, but fortunately he restrained himself, "You... an outsider?"
The snake nodded: "Hello."
Fan Dian was a little confused: "What system do you have?"
Jiang Yuanshi pointed with the tip of his tail: "He's fighting with Fan Tang."
Fan Dian looked over and was stunned. What was going on?
Two masses of fog collided with each other, one black and one red. It looked like the battle was fierce, but in fact it was a one-sided fight between the black fog and the red fog. When the black fog collided with the red fog, it was slapped away and the black fog rushed back into the body. The red fog occasionally rushed in and pushed the black fog out, and sometimes it just floated in the same place, stretched out a hand, directly pulled the black fog out, and threw it around.
It was such a thrilling battle, Jiang Yuanshi sighed.
Fan Dian: Yes, is that so?
No matter how you look at it, it seems like a one-sided crushing, like a dog show.
Hearing footsteps, Fan Dian came back to his senses. Seeing Jiang Shi walking towards the war zone, he quickly shouted, "Jiang Shi, what are you doing? Are you going to kill yourself?"
Jiang Shi turned a deaf ear to him. Fan Dian put Li Pu down and took care of Jiang Yuanshi, then stepped forward and grabbed him, "What are you crazy about?"
Jiang Shi stopped, turned his neck mechanically, and looked at Fan Dian.
Fan Dian: "You..."
There were red spots of light in the dull and empty eyes. The moment they looked at each other, Fan Dian felt an indescribable gaze staring at him, which was untouchable.
Fan Dian couldn't help but loosen his grip, and when he thought he was going to step back, he locked Jiang Shi's throat with one arm and dragged him to the spot.
"Outsider, there's something in this guy's eyes!"
“How dare you! You ignorant idiot, you actually dare to call the world consciousness a thing!” Black Mist was able to refute while struggling. He was panting and his body was half the size of before. He actually laughed out loud: “A bunch of idiots, what if you kill me? The world consciousness has been watching all this through Jiang Shi’s eyes. He will remember everything you do! And even if you succeed, as long as the world consciousness is there, Jiang Shi will never survive. The only outcome for you is failure!”
The little snake interrupted, "What did you say? What do you mean by world consciousness remembering everything?"
Fan Tang laughed sarcastically and said, "Of course it means exactly what it says. Everything you have done will be judged. It doesn't matter if the black fog shrinks and disappears. As long as there are new souls to use, I will become stronger again. Then I will treat you well in the fog."
The little snake ignored him and just said, "It means that the world consciousness has a record."
Fan Tang: "Yeah, so you guys just wait to die!"
Everyone looked solemn.
“Well then—” The little snake Jiang Yuanshi also frowned and scratched his face with his tail. His eyes suddenly widened and his tone was a little...excited?
"That's great!"
…………?
Fan Tang paused, wondering if this thing was crazy. Wasn’t the snake dead?
"Where are you from--" Fan Tang started to speak, but Xiaoshe interrupted him and said very quickly, "Z01! Report him! Report him! He abused his power for personal gain, plotted to usurp the throne, disobeyed his superiors, and smuggled in private goods!"
What the hell is going on here? What 01?
While the black fog was confused, the red fog said in a low male voice, "Got it." Then it suddenly flashed past him and rushed into Jiang Shi's eyes.
The red color entered, and then there was a silence. Fan Tang's ridicule broke the silence, "Idiot, someone would actually go and die."
Jiang Yuanshi chuckled, glanced at the black fog with disdain, and replied: "You are the idiot."
The black fog was furious. It was bad enough that he couldn't defeat the red fog, but he couldn't even defeat a shoelace snake!
When he rushed towards Jiang Yuan, the little snake's eyes were wide with a look of disdain, and he said, "You are so small, so black and so small."
The black fog was furious, and rushed forward even more fiercely, determined to devour the opponent, and then—
With a "pop", he was blown away.
The little snake's tail swung.
[Function card protective cover used - use canceled]
Hei Wu started the vendetta mode again, and Jiang Yuanshi started playing pinball.
The reminder tone of the ear function card is repeated.
[Use——Cancel]
Confirm use, cancel.
Confirm, cancel.
Jiang Yuanshi kept jumping back and forth between confirmation and cancel on the function card interface.
This is a very smooth way to use the card bug. I started to do it on the spur of the moment because I was curious whether it would work. Who knew that the stacking time pause card could be used like this?
It's just a bit troublesome. The time stop card can be interrupted and restarted within the valid time. As long as your hands are fast, it is not impossible to overcome the bug.
Even if Jiang Yuanshi lost all ten fingertips, he could still use the tip of his tail to beat up a black fog that was slightly bigger than himself.
While he was beating the other person, he mentally asked when Z01 would be available, but there was no contact again.
It's better to change the blood in the bookstore, it's annoying.
The little snake pulled hard and the black mist was bounced farther. When Jiang Yuanshi was about to counterattack again, its tail missed.
Where are the people?
In the field of vision, the black fog turned and rushed into the woods. Before disappearing, it left a sentence: "Wait, the world consciousness is about to appear, and you will all die!"
Jiang Shi's body moved, he took two steps on the spot, and began to tremble as if he had been electrocuted. He raised his head, and countless black mists rushed out of his eyes and rushed into the sky, covering the island almost in an instant.
Jiang Yuanshi raised his head and heard Fan Dian's exclamation: "Li Pu, are you awake?!"
Li Pu opened his eyes, looking like he hadn't recovered yet. He raised his hand to wipe away the sand from Fan Dian's brows. While Fan Dian was stunned, he looked up at the dark sky and said, "I was just captured by the world consciousness. I saw everything that happened. That thing released me without doing anything, so now let me go and stay away from me."
Fan Dian held Li Pu tightly and refused to let go: "If this is the case, no matter who gets into trouble, everyone will die. So let me stay with you before I die."
Li Pu seemed to know the other party's answer and didn't say anything else. He just sighed, leaned his head on Fan Dian's shoulder as if giving up, and looked at the sky together.
Well...under normal circumstances, they get along pretty well.
Jiang Yuanshi could be said to be extremely relaxed. After all, it was the big players fighting each other and he could only lie down.
Compared to the world consciousness, he felt that Z01, who was feared by the Lord God, was more powerful. There was no reason, it was pure blindness.
After all, it’s rare to find someone who loves work so much. I believe Z01 will work hard to continue working.
The little snake raised its head and looked up at the sky, its tail wagging, waiting for Z01 to appear.
The dark sky was descending, getting closer and closer, and countless hands stretched out from the sky and grabbed them.
The sounds of wailing, cursing, crying and resentment echoed in the sky.
Jiang Yuanshi felt a familiar dizziness, so was it all because of world consciousness before?
What exactly are these?
Without time to think, when the hand reached out to touch their bodies, Jiang Yuan felt his body lighten. The next second he saw something red overflowing from his body, spreading and entwining around those black arms.
Devouring the opponent at an extremely exaggerated speed.
A scream rang out, filled with anger.
The darkness broke free, and a big hole appeared in the sky, revealing a ray of light.
The cave entrance collapsed like a tide pouring down.
The next second, red mist rolled up the sea water, and a huge black and red tornado formed on the sea surface.
Everyone was blown against the tree. Jiang Yuanshi clung to the branch, lying on the ground with his head raised.
More and more tornadoes formed whirlpools, the island was swallowed up, and everything was swept into the sky. However, due to the two opposing forces, everyone was suspended in the air. Fan Dian held Li Pu in one hand and Jiang Shi in the other. Jiang Yuanshi was standing aside, wrapped in a ball of red mist.
The waves turned into rain and soaked everyone.
Like an accelerating energy bar, Jiang Yuanshi watched the red color rushing upward from the bottom to the top. The black color faded away for the most part in an instant, and finally the red mist dyed the sky. The bloody red mist mixed with the black color covered the sky.
A sigh came from the sky.
Finally, the red fog dissipated and the sky appeared again.
Everyone slowly landed on the ground, while Jiang Yuanshi floated in the air, looked around, and then said to the mist barrier that enveloped him: "Z01?"
A familiar voice said, "I'm here."
The sound is very soft.
Jiang Yuanshi: "Are you weak? I'm sorry."
Z01 spoke slowly: "...No need to apologize, I'm just a little full."
"?" Jiang Yuanshi narrowed his eyes, "You ate the world consciousness?"
Z01: "I couldn't help it."
I couldn't help it.
The little snake exclaimed, "You are so awesome, you look like a big boss."
Z01: "Thank you, but that doesn't seem like a good word, like villain."
Jiang Yuanshi: "In the eyes of the villains, you are the boss."
Z01: "That makes sense."
As the two of them were joking around, a prompt sound rang in Jiang Yuanshi's ears.
[Host mission completion, hidden mission completion settlement reward totaling 75 points
Deducting the used willpower value——
Current total wish value: 250]
After going around in circles, adding and subtracting, the final number is 250.
It was hard for Jiang Yuanshi not to wonder: "Is he scolding me?"
Z01: “…”
On the beach, Fan Dian half-hugged Li Pu and looked at the little snake in the air. Fan Dian and Li Pu discussed how to thank them later. Then Fan Dian remembered something and asked Li Pu: "By the way, have you seen the world consciousness? What does he look like?"
Li Pu was speechless after hearing this: "It should be an eye, but he can turn into anyone, so I thought you were dead at first."
Fan Dian reacted quickly: "He turned into my appearance?"
Li Pu: "Well, he called himself Wu and used your face like a psychopath, and then I subconsciously slapped him."
Fan Dian: "? Why did you hit him? Didn't you only hit me?"
"…………Li Pu was speechless for a long time before he uttered a few words, "Why would I like a fool?"
Fan Dian's eyes lit up and he leaned closer, "What did you say? You like me? Is this true?"
"It's fake, shut up!"
Jiang Shi woke up and sat on the ground, wiping his glasses. He squinted his eyes and looked at Jiang Yuanshi, then at Fan Dian and the others. He could see again.
After regaining his sight, his hearing was still sharp. He heard the sound of the fabric rubbing, and turned around. There was a figure standing not far away for a while, then turned and left. The burns on the lower half of his face were particularly obvious. Fan Tang should be dead, so who was that person? Jiang Shi greeted Li Pu and the others, and everyone got up and followed.
Jiang Yuanshi looked down at those people and said to Z01, "It seems like we can't go."
Z01: "Yes."
Jiang Yuanshi: "But fortunately, the mission is over, thanks to you, big boss."
Z01: "I'm just a system."
The little snake opened its big eyes, tilted its head and stuck out its tongue. It was hard to imagine that it was the same snake.
"When are we leaving?"
"Host, please be ready. It will be within 5 minutes."
"Ah, there's still time."
"What?"
Jiang Yuanshi didn't keep the secret and just said, "Just to report, I bought some delayed items in the Wish Power Store. It only takes a little bit of Wish Power. Remember to check your system mailbox when the time comes."
Z01 was puzzled: "Why did you buy something for me?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Take it as a gift for identification."
Z01 then remembered that this was the last mission of their cooperation. No emotion could be seen on the little snake's face. It just opened its round eyes and shook its tail before stopping. Jiang Yuanshi had never forgotten this incident.
[The host is leaving the world]
Jiang Yuanshi floated to Fan Dian at the last moment and waved goodbye to them.
Then he said to the red mist: "Then work harder and remember to ask Chuanshuju for overtime pay. If possible, give me some."
The little snake waved its tail and said goodbye for the last time: "Goodbye Z01, I hope you can meet a suitable host next time."
The little snake completely disappeared, and a prompt sounded:
[Host has detached, host Jiang Yuanshi is unbound from system Z01]
[Matching a new system for you]
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