Save the Family Doctor (Twenty-four)
The empty voice disappeared.
Jiang Yuanshi’s first reaction after hearing this was: He really is a burial object.
We are all buried here as tools, it's so miserable and annoying, who have we offended?
It turns out it was all a scam.
From the outset, the mission was impossible.
The story itself was discontinued, and it was done intentionally.
A dead end.
If those people had not mentioned the half-human, half-god, Jiang Yuanshi might not have reacted so quickly to realize that the source of the voice was the main god.
But why would the Lord God want to kill a system? And why was he so wary of it, even planning for years?
In fact, Jiang Yuanshi knew that something was wrong with Z01. After all, as a system, it had too many permissions. Just like a joke he had made before, a max-level boss with amnesia accidentally entered the novice village.
But judging by Z01's overall reaction, he's incredibly dedicated to his job, not the type to rebel. If he's threatening, it's probably because his sales performance is so good he's about to take over the position of the main god, right? To exaggerate, Z01 is the big boss, the kind who can threaten the entire Transmigration Bookstore.
Well...why not just fight directly?
Jiang Yuanshi’s life is also a life. If you don’t want him from the beginning, don’t force him to work.
It's true that people have to whip their corpses after they die. At least there is still a normal soul left in the corpse after whipping. But he is going to be reduced to ashes soon.
Jiang Yuanshi sighed in the darkness. It turned out that few of the main gods did practical work. An ordinary human like him could tell with his brain that it would be a wishful thinking for an existence that the main gods could not destroy for so many years to die in a novice world.
Let it be destroyed, the burial objects Jiang Yuanshi sighed in the darkness, the leaders who drag their employees down with them are all rubbish!
He is the main god, such a prestigious title, if you have the ability, then take the title yourself.
If he had a body, Jiang Yuanshi would really like to put his hands together and pray that Z01 would quickly blow up those useless main gods, and leave the half-human, half-god one behind. Although he was calculating, at least he had helped him.
Let it be destroyed, Jiang Yuanshi sighed again from the bottom of his heart.
Friends who have prayed know that most of the time prayers are useless, and the less you think about it, the more likely it is to happen.
Jiang Yuanshi, who was just having fun, now felt waves of pain. Although he had no body, he felt like something was gnawing at his brain, bite by bite.
His consciousness began to blur, and bright lights flashed before his eyes, like a kaleidoscope.
The scene before death appeared before my eyes.
It looks like he's really going to die.
"This child was so badly injured, but he managed to hold on for so long. He really has a strong will to survive."
"It's really hard. I heard his parents are both university professors. They teach during the day and come to take care of the child at night. They look so haggard."
"Who can sympathize with the love of parents? What parent doesn't love their child? That boy's entire body was burned. I'm guessing the surgery and treatment costs combined will be well into the millions."
"It's unfortunate. The family was traveling by car and the child got into an accident."
"What? This was all on the news. The kid got out first and could have run, but he went to the front and rescued his parents from the front seat. You think he should be fine now that everyone is rescued? But he insisted on going back to the car to get his computer, and the car exploded, killing him too. I heard he was some computer genius. Geniuses have different brain circuits, and they value computers over their lives."
"My poor parents, they spent so much money and effort, went to the ICU four times in three days, and went back and forth for a week. They were going crazy. Now you see, they've asked their own elderly family member to come and help, and the old lady is crying miserably."
…
"Alas, the young man with burns in the ICU is gone. I heard he took off the ventilator himself. He was in such a state, where did he get the strength to do that?"
"Look, his parents are still wiping tears at the door of the morgue."
"But if you ask me, death is a relief for the children and the family, but saving him is just a bottomless pit and he will suffer."
"…………yes."
"Death is also a relief."
“Beep—”
The electronic sound dragged out a long note, and the red line stretched out, with no end in sight, straight into the darkness.
There was a voice, and it said——
"I found you."
"Jiang Yuanshi, it's time to wake up."
Someone was calling him.
Jiang Yuanshi opened his eyes, but it was still dark. His body was in pain, as if being burned by flames.
"Jiang Yuanshi——"
Jiang Yuanshi looked for the direction of the sound. After his vision disappeared, his hearing became extremely sensitive, but unfortunately, he could not move.
He looked in the direction of the sound, and it was still dark.
He watched quietly until a spot of red appeared in the darkness, a red without any bright light, calmly piercing into the darkness and reaching towards him.
Jiang Yuanshi tried to identify the red straight line...had the electrocardiogram materialized?
He was probably dreaming.
The next second, the red lines began to twist and tangle before his eyes.
His vision was occupied by the woven red web.
He felt himself being enveloped.
Jiang Yuanshi felt dizzy and wondered: Will I have to turn into a spider in the black fog?
Just as Jiang Yuanshi was thinking about whether he should break out of the cocoon and become a spider, he felt a strong recoil and was stuck in the red web, unable to move.
It turns out he is the prey.
The red cocoon moved at an accelerated speed, and Jiang Yuanshi found himself as if being pulled out of the darkness and gradually glimpsing the light of day.
The light was so blinding that he couldn't help but close his eyes. A familiar voice rang in his ears.
"Host, it's time to get up. Your mission is not yet complete."
Jiang Yuanshi opened his eyes and saw a sea of red.
The black mist turned red and floated before his eyes. He searched for the system in the mist: "Z01?"
"Hello host, I'm here."
The sound came from all directions, and it was impossible to tell where it came from. Jiang Yuanshi looked around and asked, "Where are you?"
Z01: "I'm right here with you."
Jiang Yuanshi looked at his body. He had a body again, but there was nothing on his body or around him except red mist.
Right next to him.
Jiang Yuanshi spread out his palm, mist covering his palm lines. He held the mist, and the red mist became a long line. He tentatively asked, "Z01?"
"I'm here," Z01 replied again. "Also, please, host, don't pull on my data nerves."
Jiang Yuanshi let go silently, it turned out to be true.
"Wait, nerve? Then where am I, and what have you become?"
"As you can see, it's fog." Z01 slowly moved with Jiang Yuanshi. Black fog seeped in, then disintegrated. "According to detection, the fog on the island is alive and can eat people. You were already eaten when I found you, but fortunately, you weren't fully digested yet, so we can save you."
The strange description made me feel a little nauseous. "When you say that, it really feels like I've gone from one thing's stomach to another's stomach."
Z01 said bluntly, "You can understand it that way."
Jiang Yuanshi: No, I don’t want to.
"Oh, right, I saw a lot of people in the fog, and they tried to save me." Jiang Yuanshi described, "They looked like the faceless NPCs on the street. Could they save me?"
Z01: "I'm sorry, host. They've been consumed by the mist and become part of it. They can no longer be separated. To be more precise, the black mist has grown stronger because of them."
"They shouldn't be NPCs." Jiang Yuanshi hesitated but took a breath and said, "Are they... people like me?"
Black fog continued to creep in. Z01 replied, "Yes, your guess is correct. The database, combined with analysis of the souls within the black fog, has concluded that these are hosts whose missions failed and whose location signals have been lost."
"Every host, regardless of success or failure, can be detected by the Transmigration Bureau as long as they bind to the system. However, these hosts were not found, so the system listed them as missing. 166 years have passed since the first person disappeared, and all of them have been found today. It is suspected that the signal was blocked by the black fog. This has been reported to the superiors, and the system will handle it later. Please rest assured."
"How do we deal with it? Kill him?"
"Depending on the interrogation, there's a chance they'll become a host again, or be transformed into a system."
Jiang Yuanshi was stunned: "Can the host really be transformed into a system?"
Z01: "Yes, but that's a special case. The most common case is the bookstore's measures to make up for its mistakes."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Do their memories still exist?"
Z01: "Yes, they will complete their mission as a system and will also be given a chance to be reborn."
Jiang Yuanshi: "What if it's cleared?"
Z01: "If the host is tainted or uncontrolled, but has to be converted to a system, it will be restored to factory settings."
Uncontrolled.
"Do you have any other questions?"
Jiang Yuanshi replied, "Yes, Z01. The Lord of the Book Transmigration Bureau wants to kill you. This mission was set up from the very beginning to eliminate you."
Jiang Yuanshi didn't hold back and frankly relayed everything he had heard to Z01. "Believe it or not, and whether you want to report it or not is up to you. I've said it all."
After hearing this, Z01 simply replied that he was analyzing the situation and then fell silent.
Jiang Yuanshi did not urge anyone, but sat quietly watching the black fog that came in being swallowed by the red fog.
"Assuming your inference is correct—" After a long pause, Z01 broke his silence and asked, "I want to know why you told me this. This won't benefit you and will most likely put you in opposition to the Book Transmigration Bureau. Please give me a reason, and don't end with 'I just said it because I wanted to say it.'"
Jiang Yuanshi hadn't expected the other party to directly ask him this question, skipping the truth of the matter. Furthermore, his answer had been predicted, so he had no choice but to answer seriously: "You ask this? If you must give a reason, first of all, you just saved me, so it's considered a reward. Also, compared to those main gods, I'm more familiar with you. We're all workers, so of course I'm on your side."
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but the red mist seems to move more actively.
The system remained silent, but Jiang Yuanshi was curious: "So, you believe what I say so easily? Aren't you afraid that I'm playing tricks on you? Don't you think it's ridiculous that the Lord God wants to kill you?"
"You have no reason to lie to me. It's precisely because the story is so absurd and difficult for ordinary beings to come up with that it actually adds to its credibility. Furthermore, the Lord God might actually want to kill me, because my achievements, according to the calculations just now, have already exceeded the Lord God System's contribution."
Jiang Yuanshi: "...then how long have you been doing it?"
Z01: "According to human time, I've been working for 10 billion years."
For a long time, Z01 was able to help when Pangu created the world.
"You haven't had a break in between?"
"Yes."
"Have you been paid overtime?"
"What is that?"
“…”It seems that there is no more.
Jiang Yuanshi continued to ask: "Excuse me, how does your system calculate wages?"
Z01 replied: "After leading a host, the settlement will be based on 5% of the host's accumulated wish power."
"Isn't there a system where you get rewards based on how many hosts you bring in consecutively?"
"Are you talking about performance commission? The Lord God said I never used it, so he used it to repair the world to help me do my job better."
Z01 has been working for hundreds of millions of years, without any holidays, all year round, with no subsidies, no commissions, and no overtime pay - a true *three-no product.
"."
Jiang Yuanshi couldn't breathe, feeling that being alive was worse than being dead. Yet, Z01 asked, "Host, what happened to you? Why did your heart stop beating?"
"...Z01, let me ask you, what did the Lord God say the repair world had to do? A bunch of bugs?"
The floating red mist stopped.
“…………”
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