The bad ending of the stand-in story (Twenty-one)
[Generated character: Jiang Yuanshi is already dead]
"Following up the live broadcast of yesterday's beating in the warehouse, a male corpse was found under the cliff of the warehouse. After testing, it turned out that he was an illegal resident with unknown origins. His clothing and appearance matched the person being bullied in the live broadcast..."
"The current president of Gu Group was arrested yesterday for suspected illegal possession of a gun and live broadcast of bloody violence. Specific details are pending report..."
"The Gu Group is suspected of being convicted of crimes such as superiors abusing employees and using charity foundations to launder money..."
Jiang Yuanshi's random methods over the past few days finally produced obvious results thanks to yesterday's outrageous live broadcast.
The live broadcast, which could not be turned off no matter what, attracted a large number of people to watch the fun shortly after it was released. At first, people thought it was just a script, but after the person tied to the chair was beaten, more and more people called the police.
The signal in the warehouse was not good, and the live broadcast was coincidentally interrupted halfway through when Jiang Yuanshi was beaten half to death and the door was closed.
For a moment, the live broadcast reached a climax.
The video of the person being broadcast live was decoded online. Since the victim had his head down the whole time, Gu Zhi's face was instantly decoded. Suddenly, Gu Group's Weibo was flooded with unprecedented attention, with voices questioning the hype, scolding, etc.
The group's hot searches, which had not yet subsided, rose again. When the Gu family was in dire straits, Jiang Yuanshi became a legend.
No one knows his past life. All they know is that he is a computer genius who risked his life to expose a series of real scandals of the Gu family. The voices questioning him were drowned out, and most of what remained were curiosity about this man and admiration for his recklessness.
Z01 showed Jiang Yuanshi the public's comments on the unnamed citizen "Xiao Jiang". The rustling sound of leaves swept Jiang Yuanshi's ears, and countless comments in his mind came into view.
Jiang Yuanshi lay in Z01's arms in the form of a soul, like a long, soft pillow.
Z01 shuttled through the mountains and forests. It had been just fifteen hours since Jiang Yuanshi's death. It was now seven-fifteen in the morning, and it would take about two hours to get back to the hospital.
The host remained silent for several thousand kilometers, and his soul slowly dissolved from its original appearance into an abstract body with blurred features at first.
Z01, who cannot see facial expressions, is even less able to judge the host's thoughts. The emotional dashboard has long since returned to calm without any fluctuations.
Jiang Yuanshi was rotten into a puddle and swept the comments.
"The real-life hacker judge, what did Gu do to him? Why is this guy so desperate?"
"It's a pity that he died too young. I heard that he was not very old. Is this what God envies?"
"I'm guessing it's revenge, otherwise why would he seek death? There are so many capitalists in the world who don't behave like human beings, why doesn't he do it to all of them? If he shows his face during the live broadcast, maybe he can make his debut even if he's not dead."
"What's wrong with you upstairs? What you're saying is irrelevant. Why do you care about what others do? They were doing good things anyway. People are dead, and you're talking about conspiracy theories here?"
For some unknown reason, there were thousands of comments.
Jiang Yuanshi: "Please turn it off. I can't watch it anymore."
Z01 retracted: "A lot of people are praising you."
Jiang Yuanshi laughed softly: "You let me watch it just for this?"
Z01: "You did something good. According to human psychology, people will feel happy when they are praised."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Is this considered a good thing? I have turned the Internet of this world into a mess."
Z01 replied: "It's time for everyone to drink."
Fortunately, the system keeps up with the times and knows Internet slang. Jiang Yuanshi smiled and said, "Mr. System, you surf the Internet too much, so the language system has become more advanced."
Z01 said calmly, "The system does update the language system based on the world. This world is similar to yours. Do you speak the same way there?"
Jiang Yuanshi was sitting in a super-high-speed humanoid vehicle, and the scene he could see switched very quickly. One second it was a dense forest, and the next second it turned into a barren slope.
The rivers, lakes and seas appeared before him in a very new way.
As the outline of the huge Ferris wheel in the distance came into Jiang Yuan's sight, it became smaller and smaller until it could no longer be seen.
Jiang Yuanshi sighed and said, "That should be the case."
Z01: “There is always uncertainty in your wording.”
Jiang Yuanshi answered calmly: "There is no way, I died too early."
Z01 said mercilessly: "But you have ruined your chance of rebirth."
Facing the system's blunt words, Jiang Yuanshi didn't care at all: "I volunteered and I don't regret it. I said that rebirth would do me no good."
Z01: "Why? Humans are social animals. You have a family. They will miss you."
It was unknown which part of the system's words touched the host. The system felt the soul in its arms trembling slightly. It thought the host was sad, but unexpectedly Jiang Yuanshi laughed, a more undisguised laugh than before, as if he had heard a very funny joke.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Hahaha." Jiang Yuanshi laughed for a while, calming his heart which was not fluctuating at all, "Nothing, I just suddenly felt like laughing."
Z01 didn’t understand: “There’s nothing funny about what I said.”
Jiang Yuanshi took a breath and said, "How could that be? It's quite funny. I wouldn't have laughed if you hadn't told me."
Z01: "What's so funny?"
Jiang Yuanshi did not answer, but just said: "They won't."
"What?"
“My family won’t miss me.”
"That's impossible. Humans are emotional creatures. They value blood ties very much."
"You also said that it is about attention. The premise of missing someone is love."
Z01 flew over a low abandoned hut in the woods and asked, "What is love?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "I don't know. Why don't you search it online? I can't answer it."
At this moment, Z01 is like a humanoid machine that can only ask "why": "Why can't you answer it?"
Jiang Yuanshi faced a system that kept asking questions, and it seemed like he couldn't stop until he gave it an answer. He sighed and replied, "Because it's so complicated, I really don't know how to put it. Do you have to say that missing someone is part of love? If you love someone and haven't seen them for a long time, you'll look forward to meeting them, and when you see them again, you'll tell them how much you miss them."
Z01 frowned. The analysis did not yield a clear result. He could only come to one conclusion: "So, love means missing a certain life form and expressing that missing to that life form. Is that what you mean?"
Jiang Yuanshi: “Right.”
Z01: "Is this all love is?"
Jiang Yuanshi: “No way.”
Z01 kept silent and walked forward while thinking. Jiang Yuanshi felt that the other party's data must be running at a high speed at this moment: "Can't the system get the answer with just a search?"
Z01: "The system cannot make a clear and accurate analysis of the emotions of living beings."
Jiang Yuanshi took a quick glance, but unfortunately he could only see the other party's ears, which was no doubt human. He asked, "The system is not alive?"
Z01: "It's a living thing, or you can understand it as we exist in different planes or worlds."
Jiang Yuanshi understood: "Oh, so you are considered unknown life forms, and there is only the system on that planet. Then how were you born?"
Z01: "It was created by the Creator. It is a cultivation chamber that specializes in cultivating systems. Every time a system is created, a new system is created. It is numbered according to the time it was manufactured, which is equal to the name of the system."
“Your Creator still uses English?”
"The Creator contains everything, and the method used is determined by Him, and the system has no way of knowing the reason."
Jiang Yuanshi blinked, Z01, the last digit of the English alphabet, the first digit of the Arabic numeral: "So are you the earliest or the latest?"
Z01 replied: "I can't answer this question for you."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Why?"
Z01: "Because I am the only one with the Z number."
Independent of all systems, Z01 is an outlier. Its production time and reason are unknown. Z01 seldom communicates with other systems. It cannot understand where the rich emotions of other systems come from. It is inherently blank. The only thing in common is that it has to work like other systems.
Jiang Yuanshi's soul rubbed his eyes and said, "You are quite amazing then."
Z01 was puzzled by this statement: "Why?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Because you are very special. You are the only one, so you are pretty amazing. No one is competing with you for the track."
Jiang Yuanshi finally made a joke. It was unknown whether the system understood it or not. Z01 was silent for a moment and replied: "Your answer is also very special."
Among so many systems, no creature has ever said this to him.
"Isn't it against the rules for you to reveal your origins like this?"
"That's not a rule."
"oh."
“…”
The two continued on their journey. The host in Z01's arms was very obedient, except that sometimes his attention would be distracted by butterflies, strange birds, unknown trees, and falling leaves.
Fortunately, the host only opened his eyes wider when these things appeared, and became more alert, but did not move around and interrupt the journey.
Very quiet, and very contradictory.
After searching and analyzing for a long time, Z01 seems to have got an answer:
The host has cat characteristics (?)
But the host is not a cat.
Z01 couldn't figure it out, so he just carried the cat-human host on his way.
Two hours later.
9:15
They returned to the ward, where Jiang Yuan and Shen Shi were still lying on the bed, breathing steadily.
Before leaving, Z01 followed Jiang Yuanshi's words and simulated an illusion for the two of them. To outsiders, it seemed like they were just sleeping in. Otherwise, when the medical staff entered the room, they would see two corpses, which would be a work-related injury.
Z01 let go, Jiang Yuanshi slowly floated to Jiang Yuan's side, and said softly: "It's almost over, I'll be able to return it to you soon."
The body sensed the approach of the host, and Jiang Yuanshi's soul was sucked back in. The body on the bed moved its fingers and slowly opened its eyes.
Z01 watched Jiang Yuanshi wake up and then return to Shen Shi's body.
Z01 stood up and asked, "What do we need to do next?"
Jiang Yuanshi also stood up slowly. He rubbed half of his shoulder and squinted his eyes and said, "Where is Gu Zhi now?"
Z01 replied: "The character is currently in detention."
“What are the chances of being released on bail and sentenced?”
Z01: "The possibility of bail is 100%, and the sentencing is based on the severity, with 91% for 20 years' imprisonment, 89% for suspended death penalty, and 16.66% for death penalty."
"It means that you can't die at all."
Z01: "He will die, but the probability is very small. However, your interpretation is correct because the consciousness of this world has awakened. Even if it is dormant, Gu Zhi is still protected."
Jiang Yuanshi stretched lazily. It was probably the first time he left his body. He knelt down as soon as he got out of bed. He grabbed the edge of the bed and found that his body was not very obedient. Now it was his turn to tame his limbs.
Jiang Yuanshi was discouraged. Following the principle of lying down wherever he fell, he put his slippers under his legs, knelt on the ground, and leaned his body against the bed. "It sounds like Gu Zhi is the lucky man in the novel. The world revolves around him. It's obviously a novel with two protagonists, so why doesn't Jiang Yuan have any protection? Is it because he died too early?"
Z01: “I cannot answer your question because I don’t have any previous cases to refer to.”
Jiang Yuanshi: "Mr. System, have you never experienced this kind of novel world?"
"No, most of this type of novels are about chasing wives and husbands to the crematorium, changing fate against the will of heaven, etc. They are cool and face-slapping, and the willpower value is extremely strong. Generally, they will not appear in the book patch department."
Jiang Yuanshi: “…”
It's quite logical and reasonable.
Face-slapping, counterattack, crematorium-filled stories, as long as these elements exist, no matter how ugly the story is, people will go in and take a look at it because of the subject label. Even if it is not satisfying enough, at least the ending is good. Unlike this book, there is no crematorium in substitute literature, the substitute dies, the person is replaced in the middle, and there is a he=hert ending.
In a way, it's pretty awesome.
The power of vows is not enough but the power of resentment is enough.
Jiang Yuanshi lay on the bedside and asked the system: "Mr. System, is there a good mental hospital in this world? The kind that keeps a close watch, strictly manages, accepts people of all status, has no normal people, and cannot leave once you enter."
That would be hell.
“…”
Z01 is always shocked speechless by Jiang Yuanshi’s train of thought. Humans are truly amazing.
What's even more amazing is that he actually understands what the host means.
The system rarely feels a little emotional, it seems to be dirty.
Jiang Yuanshi’s ideas are bold, but there is a response to everything he does.
Z01: "According to the original description, this type of mental hospital does exist, and the probability that Gu Zhi will enter and never come out is currently 96%."
"It really is possible. Why is the probability so high?"
He just thought of it casually and never expected that a pie would fall from the sky.
Jiang Yuanshi looked up at the system, and Z01 got up and answered: "The hospital is located in the suburbs and was founded by Gu. According to the original description, Gu Zhi and other competitors were sent to the hospital by Gu Zhi. They were declared dead but were not. Now Gu Zhi is the largest investor behind it."
After hearing this, Jiang Yuanshi said: “……………………”
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