Save the Family Doctor (Twenty-one)
Everything is fleeting.
No time to feel pain, no time to grieve.
When Fan Dian regained consciousness, he opened his eyes and saw the familiar plot, the familiar Li Pu and the different Jiang Shi.
Jiang Yuanshi asked when Li Pu awakened, and Fan Dian just shook his head. He was not sure of the exact time, but if he had to say it, it was when Li Pu was kidnapped and taken back to the Li family.
That time, Jiang Shi abandoned Li Pu and escaped by himself, but somehow he appeared in front of Fan Dian again. Fan Dian grabbed him and asked about Li Pu's whereabouts, but Jiang Shi didn't care at all, muttering frantically: "How could this happen? I can't get out, I can't get out, I can't get out, I can't get out, save me, save me, I don't want to do the mission anymore, this mission is impossible to complete, I have done it more than ten times, there is no way this will end."
At first, Fan Dian thought that Jiang Shi was just like him, with his own consciousness, but just crazy, until Jiang Shi knelt down and begged the system, his eyes changed from begging to despair, and finally he looked at Fan Dian with anger. He took out a syringe from somewhere, raised his hand and stabbed Fan Dian, the tip of the needle pierced Fan Dian's arm. Fan Dian relied on brute force to throw the opponent out. Due to the huge size difference and strength disparity, Jiang Shi was simply at a disadvantage.
After dodging several times, Jiang Shi's anger intensified. He quickly took out the scalpel from his pocket and began to indiscriminately hurt people. The housekeeper and servants in the house automatically stood in front of Fan Dian, and then... blood splattered everywhere.
Move! Resist! Run!
However, those people would just stand there, forming a human wall.
The handle of the knife stabbed into the butler's waist and abdomen, and pierced into the butler's throat, dyeing his gray hair red, which went from delicate to messy.
Everyone gathered around, except Fan Dian.
His body was trapped and he couldn't move. He could only watch these people fall to the ground one after another.
Jiang Shi shouted, "I'm going to die anyway, so you NPCs should die too. Everything will start over again. Why shouldn't you feel pain? Why should I be the one who feels pain? Why should I have to endure this?"
Fan Dian watched those people called NPCs die. He should have been heartbroken, but he found that he had no feelings at all. Even though he didn't know who these people were, he couldn't have the emotions that a living person should have.
There was no sympathy, no fear, as if everything had nothing to do with him.
Suddenly, emptiness took over him, his heart was clenched and he couldn't breathe, like a sponge that had long dried up but still tried to squeeze out new water.
When Jiang Shi killed everyone and rushed towards Fan Dian, Fan Dian didn't know if he could move at that time, but he gave up resisting and just stood there.
As he watched the blade pierce into his chest, he seemed to just be thinking, it's a good thing Li Pu isn't here.
"Go to hell! All of you useless NPCs go to hell!"
"Bang----!"
Blood splattered and hit Fan Dian's face, and a heavy object fell in front of him.
A familiar yet unfamiliar figure appeared in front of him.
The white smoke from the muzzle faded away, and Li Pu was standing not far away. His white sweater was covered with bright red, and scars covered his exposed skin. His eyes were cold and cruel. He walked forward slowly, and in front of Fan Dian, he fired several more shots at the fallen "Jiang Shi". Red sprayed all over his body continuously, and Fan Dian, who was standing next to him, was also stained.
Li Pu looked at Fan Dian with a bloody face and said coldly: "Why don't you dodge?"
"idiot."
“Bang!”
Fan Dian was slapped and his head turned sideways. It was the first time in his memory that Li Pu hit him so hard. But looking at Li Pu's appearance, Fan Dian felt for some reason that the other party had become conscious. That was a brand new Li Pu.
The blows were heavier, the moves were more brutal, and the looks in his eyes were colder.
At that moment, Fan Dian felt like he was about to suffocate and then was released, and his empty heart beat even more violently in order to breathe.
Later on, they just stared at each other in silence, with a corpse between them.
Finally it dissipated on the spot.
They experienced dozens of cooperation and deaths, and confirmed that something was wrong with Jiang Shi. Sometimes he was Jiang Shi and sometimes someone else. They used their own deaths to find out the origins of the outsider, the system, and the host. They knew that this was a novel without an ending, and then ran towards the end of nothingness.
After Fan Dian told all this, the seemingly long experience actually only took a dozen minutes and was not worth mentioning.
Jiang Yuanshi listened to the other party's story of showing off their love, which seemed to contain some hidden meaning, and replied: "More than ten minutes is also very long, because I used a card to get a 50% discount."
Fan Dian:?
Jiang Yuanshi: "I don't know if I can tell you the details, but I can exchange some things for completing tasks. For example, now, time is 0.5 times faster."
Logically, this function card is better used for escaping, but because of the forced plot, Jiang Yuanshi couldn't open the door at all, otherwise he would have no time to listen to Fan Dian's love-brain explosion and detailed description of a series of appearance and behaviors used by Li Pu.
Fan Dian: "Doesn't it cost you a lot of points to use this thing? We previously worked with an outsider who was relatively easy to talk to, but he was reluctant to use it and died at a critical moment."
Jiang Yuanshi: "It could also be that I don't have enough points, but I don't care. After all, I won't need it if I die now. The old one won't go away and the new one won't come. Anyway, I'm just working part-time. I choose to spend money paycheck to paycheck, or daily payments are fine."
Fan Dian had a lot of question marks in his mind. Jiang Yuanshi, the outsider, was talking too much, so he couldn't understand what he was saying. The system snake explained, "To put it simply, the host doesn't care, but you have to remember that your points are limited."
Jiang Yuanshi nodded honestly and looked very well-behaved. Fan Dian even felt a little sympathy for this outsider. He died at such a young age and before he even entered the society, and had to go through so much. If Z01 hadn't known the host's nature, he would have almost been deceived.
Just now I was teaching him the skills of lying in my mind, how to deceive people with the most authentic appearance and personality?
Jiang Yuanshi is really good at it.
Simply put, reveal your identity and background, sincerity and intentions, and condemn your boss together with the other party. While showing weakness, you are secretly showing the other party that you still have some ability.
Not very useful but usable, not threatening, a living tool who is more NPC than NPC.
But of course, one thing is very realistic and requires a specific environment, such as the current situation where we have to cooperate, and the most important thing is to gain the other party's trust in a short period of time, that is - face.
The face should be harmless, but not too harmless as to appear clumsy.
Clarity can be shown in the eyes and the heart, but you cannot show a clear mind to others.
As Z01 listened and looked at Jiang Yuan, he had to say that his host had an extremely clear understanding of his own appearance in this regard and played his role perfectly.
The delicate and soft facial features can appear harmless or sharp and extreme depending on the angle of the eyes and the changes in the gaze.
Now Z01 is a little confused. Can all human beings do this, or can Jiang Yuanshi do this only?
It remains to be verified, but time is running out.
Jiang Yuanshi went forward and pulled the door handle, but there was still no sign of it being loosened. He asked, "Excuse me, how do you know that time is running out?"
Fan Dian frowned: "Sense it, it's just a premonition that it's time for you to come, and you have to run away."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Then I don't have it. It seems to be unique to the character in the novel."
Fan Dian held the IV bottle high, maintaining the posture of the Statue of Liberty throughout the whole process. He sighed and said, "What does it matter if you know? You can't escape. Even if you escape, you will come back again."
Jiang Yuanshi: "What does this mean?"
"Once, our enemies really showed up, a group of men in black. We defeated them together with the outsiders and drove away on a yacht to the beach. We returned home with the help of the outsiders' supervisor, which was the system's prompt. We were afraid of accidents, so we stayed at home for a long time and didn't go out. We waited for a week. When we had finished eating, the outsider said that his mission was completed. Everyone was very happy. We planned to go out and buy something to celebrate. The outsider was the first to open the door and go out." Fan Dian's tone was calm, "He kept saying that this was his last mission and he would be resurrected soon. Then he opened the door and died."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Dead?"
Fan Dian nodded: "Yes, he died, because when we started over again, there was another new outsider. We have cooperated six times, so we know that when a new person appears, it means that the previous outsider has completely failed and died."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Then how did he die?"
Fan Dian: "He died in the fog. There was black fog outside the door. It was the same for me and Li Pu."
Fan Dian raised his head and looked out the window: "It's coming."
Jiang Yuanshi looked outside and saw that the azure sky in the distance outside the window had darkened. A black mass moved slowly, gnawing at the sky, biting off piece of blue after piece.
Fan Dian was unusually calm, and it seemed that he had been through this many times and was already numb. "It seems that this time it is the black fog. In the past, there were three situations at this time: black fog, enemies, or nothing until Jiang Shi died and the situation started again."
Fan Dian sighed and looked at the IV bottle. The water was almost gone. Fan Dian did not call Doctor Jiang. He just held the IV bottle high with one hand and quickly pulled out the needle from Li Pu's hand with the other hand. He held it down with medical tape and said without raising his head, "Go ahead. You might be able to make it this way."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Even if I succeed, what about you?"
Fan Dian: "Li Pu's fractures are so severe, I can't hold him or take him away."
Fan Dian was clearly ready to live and die together. Jiang Yuanshi was not in a hurry. He just looked out the window, one hand nervously moving in the air, up and down, left and right, as if conducting a piece of music. The black fog outside the window nibbled in the direction of his fingers' movement. He casually said, "You two have such a good relationship. I'm a little disappointed with you guys."
Fan Dian didn't know whether the other party wanted to kowtow or what, but he said: "He and I are not a couple."
Jiang Yuanshi was stunned and turned to look at them. Fan Dian let Li Pu lean on his arms, holding the needle hole of the other party with one hand and carefully wiping the sweat off the other party with the other hand. Jiang Yuanshi showed a look of "Are you sure?" Fan Dian lowered his eyes and shook his head: "Maybe we are indeed an arranged couple in the novel, but we are not when we woke up. Li Pu doesn't like to be bound."
"Oh, so that's your unrequited love?"
"You could say that. He always said we were in a cooperative relationship, and he looked at me without any emotion, but I knew he looked at me in the novel with disgust. But when I turned into an idiot, he accepted it well."
"Every time we were awake and experienced that kind of forced plot, I despised myself in my heart and was happy at the same time. Only at that time would Li Pu stick to me. Our contact was completely forced. He didn't like me at all."
are you sure?
Jiang Yuanshi recalled Li Pu's gloomy and obviously possessive eyes, and looked at Fan Dian, who was currently in the midst of unrequited love and depression.
Jiang Yuanshi had the expression of an old man on the subway looking at his phone.
He tried to persuade and comfort the other party, but Fan Dian insisted that Li Pu didn't like him.
Forget it, maybe Li Pu just likes this kind of fool and his methods.
Jiang Yuanshi took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
Respect blessing lock.
It’s better to do the mission. He really doesn’t understand love.
When Jiang Yuanshi calmed down, Z01, who had been silent for a long time, asked Fan Dian, "I'm sorry I don't understand. As an NPC who awakens in the novel, how do you judge that you didn't fall in love with the other person because of the plot setting? How did you fall in love with the other person?"
Fan Dian was also puzzled and said, "I just like him, what reason do I need? And so what if it was set from the beginning? Doesn't what you said prove that I was destined to fall in love with him?"
Fan Dian, the top love brain, sighed calmly: "This is fate."
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