The bad ending of the stand-in novel (Thirteen)
The words were accompanied by loud thunder, the sky darkened, lightning struck, and thunder continued.
Jiang Yuanshi's soul was shaken.
There was a strong wind in the sky, which formed a vortex and pulled him away from his consciousness, accompanied by a sigh and an apology.
Thank you...I'm sorry.
Jiang Yuanshi opened his eyes again.
He floated in the air and watched the tall man stretch out his hand to pinch the neck of the young man in the wheelchair, veins bulging on his hand. The young man raised his head, his eyes as calm as a pool of stagnant water.
The wheelchair was pressed firmly against the edge of the rooftop. He heard the young man say, "Unfortunately, there is no gap on the rooftop this time."
It’s Jiang Yuan.
Gu Zhi paused when he heard that. He moved closer, tracing the other person's outline with his eyes. Staring into those eyes, he chuckled and said, "We meet again, brother. You finally came to see me, but... why did you come so late!"
As he spoke, he added a little more strength to his hands.
Jiang Yuan raised his neck and didn't answer.
Gu Zhi didn't care about not getting an answer. He just rubbed Jiang Yuan's face with his nose, "Why are you willing to show up to see me now? I have done so many things to see you, why are you only willing to see me again when we are about to die... I have done so much for you."
Jiang Yuan's eyes were dull as he murmured, "You did this for me... You hired someone to blow up my sister, infected her in the ICU, and tricked my grandmother into losing her mind and eventually dying. Was this all for me?"
Jiang Yuan narrated a plot that was even more explosive than the original novel. The accused showed no remorse at all. "Of course. Otherwise, how could we meet, brother? Otherwise, how could you be with me? I said that no one can possess you except me. This is the punishment for you leaving me and going with someone else. We were dependent on each other in the orphanage, but you left with someone else. And, later, I killed all the outsiders who occupied your body. No one can replace you."
Gu Zhi expressed his twisted love to Jiang Yuan incoherently.
What is going on?
Jiang Yuanshi floated in the air and watched silently.
It was hard to say whether it was his consciousness or soul. The translucent body floated in the air and one could only hear those strange words but could not get close.
However, he summed up some truths between the lines: the characters in the novel world can generate self-awareness and will be erased after the consciousness awakens.
As for the reason, Jiang Yuanshi pressed the solar plexus, his mind filled with the alarm sound of [The character's consciousness is suspected to have awakened, and is being investigated. The possibility of a reset is increasing].
What is the purpose of awakening and erasing? If nature can generate self-awareness, what is the use of the host?
Ripening?
Jiang Yuanshi felt that the system had not told him the whole truth. He silently looked at the glowing spherical slime floating in the air beside him and said quietly, "Tell me something, Mr. System. I'm going to fail anyway, so let me die knowingly?"
Jiang Yuanshi's eyes were dead, as cold as if he had killed fish in RT-Mart for ten years. System Z01 felt a little scared when being stared at, and the slime light ball was steaming.
In fact, it was also the first time that Z01 knew that the character would develop self-awareness, and he even suspected that he knew about the existence of book travelers.
Jiang Yuanshi said silently: "It doesn't matter, option 1. Why does the character awakening need to be erased and the world reset? 2. What is the use of the host besides completing the task? 3. Novels have their own readers, so what is the meaning of generating and running the novel world? Choose one of the three."
Jiang Yuanshi was very considerate and gave three options, but the system could not answer the first two options because he himself did not know. According to the current situation, only the Lord God could touch the truth, and the system had no authority.
The system was still honest and answered the only question it knew the answer to, "Option 3, the plot images of the generated novel world will be provided to creatures in other dimensional worlds for viewing, so as to gain willpower points."
Jiang Yuanshi looked at the situation below, not knowing what they were talking about. Jiang Yuan slapped Gu Zhi in the face. Gu Zhi touched the place where he was hit and started laughing.
Why reward him? Jiang Yuanshi was exhausted.
"So what you mean is that the characters' interactions will be projected in real time to the creatures in other worlds, just like filming a TV show, right?" Jiang Yuanshi looked around, "Are there any hidden cameras around me?"
The slime light ball nodded and shook his head. "It has the same meaning as the human TV series. The interaction between the characters in the plot will be recorded according to the original work, but it is not real-time. The interaction between the characters takes time, so in order to avoid readers waiting, the edited version is usually released in three systems."
How is this different from filming a TV series?
"As a repairer, the host's words and deeds are not counted except for those in the original book. There are no invisible cameras in the world. The Book Bureau has records of the entire world. To describe it in human terms, this world is full of eyes."
Jiang Yuanshi: “…”
Very good description, don’t describe it next time.
The system is no different from a horror movie. This world is just a huge Truman.
Every role is included, except the host and the system staff.
But is it edited according to the original novel? Jiang Yuanshi asked: "Your world can't function anymore, why are you still editing according to the original novel?"
Are you remaking the original work so seriously?
The system answered seriously: "In human terms, the Book-Traveling Bureau is mainly responsible for remaking novels into TV series in order to gain the will of readers in the other world; the Book-Traveling Patch Department is responsible for adaptation to ensure that the already formed novel world with problems continues to operate."
"But according to the rules you mentioned, except for not allowing Jiang Yuan to die, everything else basically has to follow the original novel. What's the point of this?"
System: "Adaptation is not random editing."
Is this how it is used? Jiang Yuanshi couldn't help but complain, "The film and television industry needs you, if you really can't make it, change your career."
System: “Why?”
Jiang Yuanshi: "But as far as this world is concerned, asking Jiang Yuan to live is against the original work, which is no different from going against the will of heaven. You initially suggested that he stay with Gu Zhi. Listen to what Gu Zhi said. Is it possible to stay with a murderer?"
System: "The department will cut it."
Jiang Yuanshi sighed, stretched out his hand and pinched one side of the ball of light, "No, you edited the original work for the readers to read, but the willpower was not enough to run the world. You have repaired it dozens of times and it still doesn't work, which means that the readers don't want to read the original work at all!"
"If you don't make major changes, you're going to go bankrupt, Mr. System!" Jiang Yuanshi tried to wake up the system, but he didn't expect that when he pulled it, the ball of light stretched very well and became a long, soft strip.
It looks like rice cake. It feels good.
"Hello, Suzhu, please let go." Jiang Yuanshi was a little too nervous, and when the system reminded him, he quickly let go, "Ah, sorry."
The system floated in the air and bounced back into a ball, and replied: "It's okay, your suggestion has been sent to your superiors, please wait for a reply."
? Jiang Yuanshi: "You really agree?"
He was just complaining casually, but it would be useless even if he agreed now. After all, it would be reopened soon and he was still in debt of several hundred wish points.
"Considering the failure rate of this world, what you said makes sense." The system replied.
Jiang Yuanshi: "Hasn't anyone complained about this before?"
System: "Based on the analysis of some host cases, there are none. The reasons are: 1. This world has more bugs than 90% of the previous worlds; 2. There are no NPC awakening cases; 3. It is extremely dangerous to deviate from the original work, and the host rarely breaks the plot; 4. The system screens the host, and the preferred entries are 'obedient', 'calm', 'well-behaved', 'submissive', and 'rules'."
Okay, I understand. The last sentence is the key point. The underlying meaning is that the hosts chosen are too obedient, and Jiang Yuanshi is a character fraud.
Jiang Yuanshi kept smiling, "I'm sorry for not being obedient, but why don't you choose people with other personalities when you go to the bookstore? It's impossible that all the dead are obedient."
The system gave a calm answer: "The Transmigration Bureau selects hosts from multiple species, multiple worlds, and multiple universes."
Okay, that's fine.
Jiang Yuanshi pointed at the two people who were about to commit suicide for love, nodded his head, and changed the subject, "When will it be reset?"
"Just 5 minutes have passed. Still analyzing. Please wait."
If you don't reset it, people will be strangled to death.
I don’t know why Gu Zhi is so persistent in committing suicide with Jiang Yuan. He would have taken the time to get them together.
The character's awakening personality has nothing to do with what is written in the novel.
Jiang Yuanshi listened to Jiang Yuan questioning Gu Zhi why he wanted to hurt his family. Gu Zhi replied: "You can only have me by your side, you can only look at me, they are too much of a hindrance, you never cared about me again after they came. You picked me up and brought me back to the orphanage, but you abandoned me again."
It can be said to be a story of the farmer and the snake. The other person saved your life out of kindness. One of the best destinations for orphans is to be adopted. Jiang Yuanshi also remembered that in the original book, Gu Zhi was taken away from the orphanage by the Gu family very early, so who is to blame?
Jiang Yuan: "I was adopted after you were taken away."
Jiang Yuanshi: ...
Gu Zhi's eyes were red, and he pinched the man's neck and said, "If it weren't for you, if you hadn't picked me up and brought me to the orphanage, I wouldn't have been misunderstood by those people in the Gu family! I wouldn't have been bullied by those bastards in the orphanage!"
Jiang Yuanshi took a deep breath and asked, "What do you want to ask?"
Neurological, hopeless, pure picking faults. By the way, don't you, Ba Zong, always like to pinch people's necks, pinching for a long time and waiting for the power to attack? And Jiang Yuan, please beat him up, beating him to death is also a way to die.
But Jiang Yuan seemed to be frozen in place, and could only use his fists and slaps at most.
Jiang Yuanshi was so tired. While knocking on the protective barrier, he asked the system: "Why does the NPC Awakening look like Jiang Yuan is being controlled?"
The system moved closer to the barrier, its long eyes flashing with light, just like the data flow when Jiang Yuan was running the code, "It was detected that Jiang Yuan's character is imprisoned."
"Is there any Gu Zhi?"
"No."
All right, another plot killer. The system was about to put up a barrier, a hand stretched out to block the view, and the system was gently pushed back.
The system was about to say that the host was blocking its view and could not analyze the situation, but the other party withdrew his hand and said calmly: "Stay away, or you will be burned into a fire slime."
The system did not understand Jiang Yuanshi’s words. It just detected that the data of the host’s hands was incomplete when scanning the host, and there was a large area of electric damage and reorganization.
The long-lined eyes blinked. Jiang Yuanshi's appearance at this moment was like an abstract human figure drawn by a child. He had no facial features but five senses. His voice was like a piece of metal thrown lightly into the water, cold yet gentle. "System, what is the probability of reopening next time?"
System: "Resetting the world backtracking means starting the mission over again, 100% probability."
"But the chances of survival are uncertain. Even after awakening, there are restrictions. What if even the power of will is restricted once you restart? After all, there are so many bugs in this world."
"Cards exchanged for willpower cannot become invalid—" The system stopped halfway through the rebuttal because the host's words were extremely reasonable.
Jiang Yuanshi looked up at the sky and said softly, "Ten minutes are up."
As soon as the voice fell, a warning sounded:
[It is detected that the character Jiang Yuan has awakened. The world is about to reset. The countdown is 10 seconds. ]
Gu Zhi is fine? Jiang Yuanshi laughed angrily.
The sky darkened completely, buildings began to break apart, the debris was sucked into the vortex, and the entire city flowed backwards into the sky.
Jiang Yuan and Gu Zhi gradually became transparent. Gu Zhi looked up and said with a smile: "It's a pity that we will have to meet again next time, brother."
Everything seemed like the end of the world.
But the next second, a sound was heard.
drop--
Everything paused and turned gray.
[Congratulations to the host for successfully exchanging the card. Time rewind has been used. Duration: 60 minutes. Effect: rewind time, ignore everything. Redemption requirement: 6% of the host's soul (cannot be recovered)]
A blood-red eye opened in the vortex, staring in a certain direction.
Jiang Yuanshi used his hand to return to the floating system and said with a smile:
"Mr. System, I didn't use my willpower this time, so I won't report it."
"By the way—" He raised his eyes and looked into hers, saying nonchalantly, "I'm sorry, I hate having to restart the game at a critical moment."
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