The bad ending of the stand-in novel (Seventeen)
"To be precise, the NPC's appearance, temperament, and body shape are 79% similar to the Shen Shi in Jiang Yuan and Gu Zhi's memories."
"This NPC is not described in detail in the plot. It appears once when transferring a contract during Jiang Yuan's imprisonment and once when handling the cemetery procedures for Jiang Yuan who has died."
To put it bluntly, it's just an NPC that is mentioned briefly.
Jiang Yuanshi pressed the sun's eye with one hand and switched the monitor with the other.
In the Gu Group elevator, Secretary Zhou was wearing a hat, and a colleague beside him whispered, "Secretary Zhou, do you want to go to the hospital?"
Secretary Zhou: "No, it's more important to find someone."
Seeing the other party's cold attitude, the colleagues did not dare to persuade him. They just whispered to each other, "Do you think the boss has been acting strange lately?"
"It's like... a split personality."
"Forget it, I think he's a psychopath, laughing and yelling. Capitalists don't treat their subordinates as human beings. They say they must see them within three days when they are thousands of kilometers away, otherwise they will bear the consequences. Damn, they are doing the work of animals for such a low salary!"
“That’s why they are cattle and horses.”
The more indignant they became, the louder their voices became, but they were interrupted in the next second by Secretary Zhou's whisper.
"That's enough. Do you want others to know? There are surveillance cameras everywhere. You can choose not to do it, but think about your family and children."
Secretary Zhou didn't say much. When the other people heard the words "family and children", they immediately shut up and looked unhappy.
"Ding, we've reached the first floor, please go."
The few of them left the elevator in silence without saying another word.
At this point in the surveillance footage, no one appears again.
The system replayed the video while watching Jiang Yuan, focusing on Secretary Zhou. It asked, "Host, what do you think of him?"
“Somewhat.”
Jiang Yuanshi switched back and forth, and finally paused at the scene where Gu Zhi grabbed Secretary Zhou's hair and smiled.
The picture was extremely eye-catching and disturbing. However, Jiang Yuanshi treated it as a background image as if nothing had happened. He said to the system, "I would like to ask if you can retrieve the surveillance of the entire city, or all the surveillance of places where Gu Zhi appeared?"
System: “I need a reason to answer your question.”
That's fine. Jiang Yuanshi replied to the system: "I'd like to trouble you to check through the surveillance to see if any of the NPCs that Gu Zhi has come into contact with or around have ever been in a situation like Secretary Zhou."
The system understood: "You want to know that the NPCs around Gu Zhi are similar to Jiang Yuan and Shen Shi."
"Yes." Jiang Yuanshi nodded, "Is that ok?"
“What do you want to do after you reach your conclusion?”
"To be honest, I haven't made up my mind yet. I'm going to decide based on the situation."
The system did not believe the other party's words. Ten out of ten sentences Jiang Yuanshi said were true, but the host was extremely cunning. He concealed his true actions and left ambiguous words.
System: "I can help you, but at the same time, you need to promise me that you will not do anything out of line, such as harming characters, committing crimes, and other illegal acts."
Jiang Yuanshi blinked: "Okay, got it."
System: "Host hopes you will keep your word. I will not be sure about your relationship with you, but if you do anything illegal, I will tell the system the truth in the future. The system also has the right to refuse to take responsibility for you. It is very likely that you will miss the system mission and your consciousness and soul will be homeless."
For a host without a system, it is equivalent to being banished to the cold palace and abandoned. This kind of host will not fail the mission and will not reverse death, but will always wander alone, drifting around with the remaining consciousness, unable to live or die.
Jiang Yuanshi lowered his eyes. The system interface had not yet switched. He still saw the original body of the host. The host had very long eyelashes, and his skin was white and transparent. If you looked closely, you could see obvious bloodshot on his eyelids, and faint blue veins and bloodshot on the skin on his face. When he was quiet, he looked well-behaved, and there was something that the system could not describe.
Jiang Yuanshi is like a handful of water in the palm of your hand, which will disperse as soon as you let go of your hand.
Jiang Yuanshi raised his eyes, his amber eyes reflecting the violent scenes on the screen, and said obediently: "I understand, I will abide by the rules."
The system, which did not understand the ways of the world, received a reply and began to upload the data of Jiang Yuan and others, and began to look for similar NPCs. It was not distracted in analyzing the data, and the system was working seriously. Jiang Yuanshi, who was idle at the side, glanced at Chen Shi, who had become an empty shell. He was typing on the computer with one hand, not knowing what he was doing. Looking at the interface, it seemed like he was sending an email.
Jiang Yuanshi pointed with his index finger.
Sent successfully.
He closed the computer, got up from the bed, washed, changed clothes, tidied the room, took out his phone and computer, rang the bell to notify the medical staff, unlocked Shen Shi's phone with Shen Shi's fingerprint, tapped a few times, pushed out the wheelchair, hopped on one foot to put Shen Shi on the wheelchair, and pushed Shen Shi out with crutches.
"Report, Jiang Yuan and Shen Shi have left the ward, and some medical staff have gone in, probably to clean up the room."
"The ward doesn't matter. Let's catch those two first. As for the two Jiang enemies, Mr. Gu said we should find them if we can, but forget it if we can't find them."
"receive."
The action has begun.
Jiang Yuanshi walked out of the psychological counseling room with the list, and the intern helped push Shen Shi's wheelchair from behind. The intern sent them to the elevator, and Jiang Yuanshi expressed his gratitude to him.
The elevator reached that floor and the door opened.
Several burly men in black suits came up, and the leader said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Jiang, Mr. Shen, Mr. Gu wants to invite you to reminisce about the past."
That being said, it didn't look like that. There weren't many people on the psychological counseling floor at this time. For some reason, Shen Shi was sitting in a wheelchair with a blank look in his eyes. Jiang Yuan was actually isolated and helpless at this time.
Jiang Yuan seemed to know that resistance was futile. He nodded without saying anything and walked into the elevator.
As if surrounded by several giant King Kongs, Gu Zhi no longer cared about his appearance. After walking out of the elevator, Jiang Yuan and Gu Zhi were escorted by the people in the night, which attracted the attention of the crowd. Many people took pictures with their mobile phones, thinking that some star had arrived.
Jiang Yuan, who was supposed to be in a wheelchair, walked slowly with the help of a cane. He was directly lifted up by someone with his feet hanging in the air.
Jiang Yuanshi felt like a suckling pig being roasted.
As he was thinking about it, he still felt a little hungry. After all, when he went back in time, the breakfast he had eaten was also gone.
With an empty stomach, he simply gave up all his strength and was carried weakly, like dried seaweed swaying in the wind.
After they went out of the gate, they were stuffed into the car and the car started.
Zila——
Just as they were about to leave the hospital, a black and red sports car suddenly appeared, did a beautiful drift across the middle of the road, and stopped the vehicle.
I don’t know which rich second generation is going crazy again, the driver honked the horn impatiently.
“Beep, beep, beep—”
The car on the opposite side also beeped.
The sound was short but loud. The next moment, several off-road vehicles appeared behind the sports car and completely surrounded Gu Zhi's subordinates' cars.
The people in the car were a little panicked and didn't know what was going on.
"What are they trying to do?"
Probably he's here to kill someone.
Jiang Yuanshi, who was surrounded by men in the car, thought.
"Contact Secretary Zhou quickly!"
"No! Secretary Zhou's phone call is not working!"
"Then contact Mr. Gu! Life is at stake!"
The gate of the vehicle opposite opened, and countless similar men in black swarmed in and approached the vehicle. The black and red sports car opened, black motorcycle boots touched the ground, and a tall woman with long hair, wearing a black windbreaker, suit pants, and pink sunglasses got out of the car, pointed her finger at the car, and said in a flat tone: "Bring the person out."
At the command, the crowbar came out. The sound of metal colliding and rubbing against metal was so harsh that it made the root of the tongue astringent, and there was a faint taste of rust.
The car door was smashed open, the driver was pulled out and thrown to the ground. The bodyguard in black pressed the lock of the car door, then pried the door open and threw it aside.
Jiang Yuanshi got off the car.
The long-haired woman used the tip of her shoe to touch the head of one of the people on the ground and said, "Who sent you here? You dare to go wild in the Shen family's territory and touch my brother. Do you really think I'm dead?"
The visitor was Shen Shi’s sister and the head of the Shen family, Shen Yining.
"By the way, think clearly before you speak. You are just working for your boss. How much money can you get for working so hard? Is it enough to support your family?" Shen Yining casually reported the salary and benefits he gave to his bodyguards. The few people who had been silent suddenly gave up and told the truth.
"It's Gu Zhi. Mr. Gu sent us to invite these two to reminisce about the past."
"Haha, kidnapping sounds so refreshing, how shameless." Shen Yining complained disdainfully, and turned his gaze from the bottom to Jiang Yuan, looking him up and down, and commented: "He looks really good, no wonder Shen Shi has been sticking to you and not going home recently. Hey handsome guy, forget about Gu Zhi. Although my guy is a little wooden, he looks okay."
No, can this be just put together casually?
Jiang Yuanshi was speechless. The original novel did not describe Shen Yining in much detail. She was swift and decisive, ruthless, and a well-deserved leader. However, before she appeared on the stage, the Shen family was swallowed up by Gu Zhi. The decline of the Shen family was only met with one sentence: It turns out that women are not good at being in charge of the family.
"By the way, why is that kid Shen Shi still in the car? Is he scared silly?"
Shen Yining poked his head in and went in to take a picture of Shen Shi, but the other party did not respond. Shen Yining grabbed Shen Shi's collar and said, "You kid just sent a text message, and your sister came all the way to save you, but you ignored her. What's your attitude?!"
Shen Shi followed Shen Yining's movements like a puppet, with a pair of empty and silent eyes. She stared at Shen Yining, and her movements paused as she observed back and forth. When she turned back, her head hit the roof of the car that Jiang Yuan was holding with his hand. She asked Jiang Yuan: "What's going on? How could my brother become like this?"
Jiang Yuan looked a little guilty, "When Mr. Shen submitted his paper last night, his computer suddenly crashed as if it had been infected. Not long after, it automatically restored to factory settings when it was turned off and on again. Everything was gone. Mr. Shen's new data had not been saved yet. He went to sleep last night saying that it was nothing, but the next morning, I found him like this. He ignored everyone who called him, as if he had lost himself. I just took him to the psychiatric department and the psychological counseling room."
Jiang Yuan took out the folded report from his pocket, unfolded it and handed it to Shen Yining.
The above diagnosis is that Shen Shi had a mental breakdown due to the accumulation of long-term stress and the sudden blow, which was suspected to be a sign of dissociative disorder.
Shen Yining put away the report and took a deep breath, "Poisoned, right? Thesis... I know, I'll take you back to the Shen family first, just don't come out, leave the rest to me."
“And Mr. Jiang Yuan, you are one of the few people that Shen Shi is close to among outsiders, so I hope you know who you should stand on the side of, and it’s best not to make any small moves, otherwise, whether it’s my brother’s friend or someone he likes, I will deal with it.”
Jiang Yuan said good-temperedly: "I am very grateful to Mr. Shen. Without him, my family would not have received good treatment."
Knowing that the other party's handle was in the Shen family, Shen Yining didn't say much. She tied up Gu Zhi's people and was about to send the two away when the cell phone that fell on the ground rang.
Very close to Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan picked up the phone and signaled to Shen Yining. With permission, he answered the call, and Gu Zhi's voice came from it, "Why are you calling? Where are Jiang Yuan and the others? Why haven't they arrived yet?"
The volume of the phone was turned up to the maximum. Jiang Yuan calmly replied under the gaze: "Hello, Mr. Gu, we are now with Mr. Shen."
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