Save the Family Doctor (Twenty-One)
Everything is fleeting.
There is no time to feel pain or 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 on his own, but somehow reappeared in front of Fan Dian. 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, help me, help me, I don't want to do this mission anymore, this mission is impossible, I've done it over a dozen times, there's 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 pleading 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 turned 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 all of you NPCs should die too. Everything will start over again. Why shouldn't you feel pain? Why am I the only one who feels pain? Why do I have to suffer 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 been dried up but still trying 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 be just thinking, it's a good thing Li Pu is not 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 stood 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 slowly forward and fired several more shots at the fallen "Jiang Shi" in front of Fan Dian. Red sprayed all over his body, and Fan Dian, who was standing next to him, was also stained.
Li Pu looked at Fan Dian with a bloody face and said indifferently: "Why don't you get out of the way?"
"idiot."
“Bang!”
Fan Dian turned his head sideways after being slapped. That 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 regained consciousness. That was a brand new Li Pu.
The blows were harder, the moves were more brutal, and the look in his eyes was colder.
At that moment, Fan Dian felt like he was about to suffocate but 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, separated by a corpse.
Finally it dissipated on the spot.
They experienced dozens of collaborations 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 finished telling all this, the seemingly long experience actually only took a dozen minutes, 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, "Ten minutes is also very long, because I used a credit 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, right now, time is speeding up by 0.5 times."
Logically, this function card would be better used for escaping, but due to the forced plot, Jiang Yuanshi couldn't open the door at all, otherwise he wouldn't have time to listen to Fan Dian's love-brain explosion and detailed description of Li Pu's appearance and behavior.
Fan Dian: "Doesn't it cost you a lot of points to use this thing? We previously worked with a relatively easygoing outsider, but he was completely reluctant to use it and ended up dying 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 goes and the new one comes. I'm working anyway, so I choose to spend money moonlighting, or daily use is fine."
Question marks popped up in Fan Dian's mind. Jiang Yuanshi, the outsider, was talking too trendy, and it was a bit hard to understand. The system snake explained, "Simply put, the host doesn't care, but you have to remember that your points are limited."
Jiang Yuanshi nodded honestly, looking very well-behaved. Fan Dian felt a little sympathetic towards this outsider. He was so young and ignorant, but he died before entering society and had to go through so much. If Z01 had not 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 certain abilities.
Not very useful but usable, not threatening, a living tool that is even more NPC than NPC.
But of course, one thing is very realistic, which 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 expressed in the eyes and the heart, but a clear mind cannot be shown 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 it still showed no sign of loosening. He asked, "Excuse me, how did you know that time was running out?"
Fan Dian frowned: "It's a feeling, it's just a premonition that it's time for you to come and run away."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Then I don't have it. It seems to be a unique feature of the novel character."
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 I know? I can't escape it. Even if I escape, I will come back again."
Jiang Yuanshi: "What does this mean?"
"There was one time when our enemies really showed up, a group of men in black. We worked together with the outsider to defeat them, then drove off to the beach on a yacht. We relied on the system's prompts, the outsider's supervisor, to return home. We were afraid of accidents, so we stayed home for a long time without going out. We waited for a week, and when we ran out of food at home, the outsider said his mission was complete. Everyone was very happy, and we planned to go out and buy something to celebrate. The outsider was the first to open the door and leave." Fan Dian's tone was calm. "He kept muttering 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 restarted, there was a new outsider. We've worked together six times before, so we know that when a new outsider appears, it means the previous outsider has completely failed and died."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Then how did he die?"
Fan Dian: "He died in the fog. The whole place outside the door was filled with black fog. The same happened to 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 was moving slowly, gnawing at the sky, biting off piece of blue.
Fan Dian was uncharacteristically calm, seemingly numb from having experienced this so many times. "It seems this time it's the black fog. In the past, there were three possible scenarios: black fog, enemies, or nothing at all until Jiang Shi died and the situation reopened."
Fan Dian sighed and glanced at the IV drip. The drip was almost finished. Fan Dian didn't call for Doctor Jiang. He just held the IV drip high in one hand and quickly pulled out the needle from Li Pu's hand with the other. He held it down with medical tape and said without looking up, "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 clearly looked like he was determined to live and die together. Jiang Yuanshi remained calm, simply staring out the window. One hand nervously moved in the air, up and down, left and right, as if conducting a piece of music. The black fog outside the window nibbled at the direction of his finger's movement. He casually said, "You two have such a good relationship. I'm a little jealous of you."
Fan Dian didn't know whether the other party wanted to kowtow or what, but he said: "He and I are not a pair."
Jiang Yuanshi was startled and turned to look at them. Fan Dian let Li Pu lean against him, one hand pressing the other's needle hole, and the other carefully wiping the sweat off his face. Jiang Yuanshi looked at him with a look of "Are you sure?" Fan Dian lowered his eyes and shook his head: "Maybe in the novel we are indeed an arranged couple, but when we woke up, we were not. Li Pu doesn't like being bound by constraints."
"Oh, so that's your unrequited love?"
"You could say that. He always said we were partners, and he looked at me with no emotion, but I knew he looked at me in the novel with disgust. But when I turned into an idiot myself, he took it well."
"Every time we were awake and went through that forced situation, I felt disgusted with myself and happy at the same time. It was only then that Li Pu would get close 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 distress of unrequited love.
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 did not 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 quieted down, Z01, who had been silent for a long time, asked Fan Dian, "I'm sorry I don't understand. As an NPC who awakened in the novel, how did you determine that you didn't fall in love with the other person due to 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 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, a top love thinker, sighed calmly: "This is fate."
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