Searching for "Jiang Yuanshi" (10)
I once picked up a puppy. It was tan, had black gloves, had ears that sagged to the sides, and had eyes so dark they had no light.
[But I killed it.]
What did you do?
[Bringing him home, that was... my original sin.]
Xiao Jiangyuanshi stood at the door of his house and looked up at his mother inside. His mother had an indifferent expression and frowned when she saw what was in his bag.
It seems that it still failed.
Jiang Yuanshi was holding his schoolbag and had already started thinking about whether to find a cardboard box to put the puppy in the corridor of the community to shelter from the rain and wait for kind people. Just when he had made his plan, a gust of wind blew in from the window in the stairwell and the door behind him opened.
The neighbor opposite opened the door, and the moment it was completely open, Jiang Yuanshi was allowed to bring the dog in. Jiang's mother quickly and gently closed the door before the people opposite came out. If outsiders saw the child like this, who knows what they would say.
Why did it happen at this very moment? It was so strange.
Jiang Yuanshi was asked to go and wash it. After receiving the order, the child came out of standby mode, moved his feet off the floor mat at home, carefully returned to the house, took out the puppy and put it on the schoolbag, stuffed the dog and the bag under the bed, and told the puppy not to leave.
The puppy had fallen asleep long ago. Seeing this, the thin child got up from the ground and walked away quickly and quietly.
At the same time, there was another gust of wind outside the window, and a small red ball flew in, passed over the desk, fell on the small bed, and then rolled along the edge of the bed, rolling under the bed, and disappeared after hitting the puppy.
The puppy opened his eyes and lay on the schoolbag, looking weaker than before.
Z01 returned to the puppy's body.
For some reason, the situation did not develop in the direction the host had said before, and the neighbor had not made any movement. When Z01 was planning to test whether there would be a new trend, he felt the arms getting tighter and tighter and the trembling through the backpack.
Please don't throw it away, just one day will do... Z01 heard the host's thoughts.
If this is a wish, Z01 chooses to make it come true.
The original form of "Grudge" is invisible to the human eye. Although Z01, with its weak energy, cannot generate any clones, it can fight personally. So Z01 broke away from the puppy's body, turned into wind and crashed into the neighbor's door, making a knocking sound that only the neighbor could hear.
Jiang Yuanshi’s wish came true, but what should he do next?
Z01 does not have much energy to realize them one by one, and he himself has no awareness of being a resentment, cannot draw resentment power on his own, and has no resentment power supply.
The previous system notification tone died mid-play. The mission wasn't complete yet, and there was a 90% chance the host would die. How would this be changed then? Z01 silently calculated the results, the survival analysis spinning in circles, unable to come up with a solution.
……never mind.
Now that we are here, let’s take it one step at a time.
Z01 is proficient in Jiang Yuanshi's rules. He lies on his schoolbag with his eyes closed, waiting for Jiang Yuanshi's return.
Z01 could smell the aroma of food through the door and hear the clinking of dishes and chopsticks. It seemed that they had finished eating.
Not long after, the door opened.
He saw a pair of small feet in sandals, black pajamas, black slippers, and gray skin. When Z01 was thinking about the colors of the world through dog eyes, amber broke into his world.
Those eyes appeared under the bed, looking at him blankly.
The puppy made eye contact and winked at the other person. Xiao Jiangyuan dragged out his schoolbag, with the puppy holding his hands in it. He did not move, and looked up at the other person obediently.
The child cautiously reached out to touch the puppy's head. Seeing that the dog did not resist, he bravely continued to touch it.
Ears, eyebrows, mouth, nose, body, and paws.
Xiao Jiangyuan just stretched out his hand, and before he could say anything, the puppy took the initiative to put its paw on it.
"You are so smart." Xiao Jiangyuan gently held the dog's paw and shook it up and down. He looked very happy, and his cheeks seemed to have a little more flesh when he smiled.
However, the wound seemed to still be bleeding, probably because of talking and laughing, which pulled the skin. The child hissed and then remembered something. He said to the puppy, "Wait a minute, I'll put food for you first." He looked around slyly, carried the puppy to his bed, took out two small bags of dog food for trial use from his schoolbag, folded a small box with draft paper, poured the dog food into it, and placed it on one end of the schoolbag, then carried the puppy back to the schoolbag.
"Okay, let's eat. The ground is cold. Luckily the back of my schoolbag isn't soaked."
Z01, who has a dog body, is indeed a little hungry after smelling the dog food. He doesn't care about the material of the food and lowers his head to eat it. Maybe because he is a dog now, the dog food tastes quite good, but it is a little dry.
At this time, a small tray appeared on the side, filled with water.
Is this... a paint palette?
"I have nothing else to hold water for you. If you use a bowl, your parents will scold you. If my cup hadn't been snatched away, I would give it to you." The child squatted on the ground, watching the puppy eat, while he took out hydrogen peroxide and cotton swabs from his pocket and wiped the wound in front of the small mirror on the desk.
In the end, it seemed that the wound was too big and it was difficult to wipe it with a cotton swab. Z01 watched as the other party took the hydrogen peroxide bottle and pointed it at the wound, pressing it against the wound tightly. He tilted his head back and poured the liquid on the wound and then back into the bottle. Water marks were left on the child's face, which dripped onto the ground and were wiped away by a tissue. The child naturally screwed on the bottle cap, and white foam was still coming out of the wound on his face.
Z01: "..."
If he could speak, he really wanted to say: This is unhygienic.
However, a real dog cannot speak human language, and the puppy had already died, otherwise Z01 would not be able to enter.
There was also a problem with the body's vocal cords, and it took a long time for Z01 to make a sound. Even if he wanted to bark, he couldn't.
After Z01 finished his meal, Jiang Yuanshi's parents came into the house and looked at him once. They looked at him calmly, as if they were looking at a dead object, but they didn't say anything and left.
When Xiao Jiangyuan finished his homework, it was time to go to bed, and his parents did not come again during that time.
When Z01, who was sleeping on the backpack on the ground, woke up again, he looked at the table. It was past one in the morning...?
Something was wrong. He couldn't see the table from the ground, and the touch under him became soft. Z01 turned his head and met a pair of large amber eyes.
“…” What is this kid doing up in the middle of the night?
When Xiao Jiangyuan saw the puppy open its eyes, his eyes were dazed, and he was startled. He whispered in confusion, "Why did you wake up? I should be very quiet. Don't be afraid, my bed is very soft, much better than a schoolbag, right?"
Z01 blinked: "Yes, but it's unhygienic. It's a stray dog that hasn't been washed."
The child happily gave half of his pillow to the puppy, then lay on his side and petted its head. The puppy obviously didn't understand, but it still said, "Mom and Dad don't like animals. If the neighbor hadn't opened the door, you wouldn't be here today. We would have to separate tomorrow, but I can only put you in the hallway. I hope you can find someone to adopt you... It would be great if Mom and Dad agreed to let me raise you. If grandma was still alive, I could give you to her. But grandma is allergic to dog hair and can't keep you. Otherwise, we'll isolate you and take you to the village to give you away. Everyone in the village is actually very nice and there's freedom there."
The child spoke of his grandmother and rural life with a tone and expression filled with nostalgia and longing. His energy was unpredictable; one moment he was full of energy, the next he began to feel sleepy. His tone became vague, and his little hands, petting the dog, slowed down. But he continued to chatter away, fantasizing, "If grandma came to pick you up, it would be great if she could take me along... If I were a stupid kid, would my parents let me see grandma? But they wouldn't like a stupid person like me..."
"Why don't they like me? Everyone seems to dislike me. Actually, my grandma was very fierce at the beginning, so she probably didn't like me either. It's just that they've raised me for a long time and have developed feelings for me, just like raising a puppy." Little Jiang Yuanshi looked into the puppy's black eyes and said, "Dog, how long do you think I need to be raised before mom and dad will like me? But we're all puppies, and I didn't dislike you from the beginning... Why is it that no one likes me? What can I do to avoid being disliked? Why..."
The child's voice became weaker and weaker, and gradually quieted down. The puppy looked at the sleeping Jiang Yuan quietly, and finally came close, licked the wetness from the corners of the other's eyes, curled up in the child's arms, completely forgetting about hygiene issues.
The perceived temperature was always 36.8 degrees, and there was no fever. The next day, Z01 woke up and looked at Xiao Jiangyuan, and found that the direction was different from what he had originally said.
Is there a new change?
Xiao Jiangyuan got up and went to school. Before leaving, he was about to take the puppy away. At this time, his parents asked him to keep the puppy for the first time, saying that they would think about it. The child was frightened and unbelievably surprised to receive this answer. When he asked carefully for the second time and got permission, the child smiled.
"There are requirements. You have to pass the exam, otherwise, forget it."
"Okay, I'll try my best! Thank you, Mom and Dad."
Xiao Jiangyuan took the milk that his father handed to him, which he usually disliked the most. Without hesitation, he drank it all in one gulp in front of the adults, and watched the puppy go to school while looking back every few steps.
The door closed, and the bright smile faded. Z01 sat in front of the two adults. Father and Mother Jiang stared at him expressionlessly. After looking at each other, they said, "Has the neighbor across the street left?"
"I'm leaving. I heard that the family is going out to eat after get off work today. I guess they won't be back until around 7pm."
"Okay, then throw it out and bring it back in the evening."
"What if that unlucky star suddenly comes back?"
"Impossible. I have exams all day today."
"Don't think I don't know what you put in his drink. What if he can't hold on and comes back halfway? And you can't guarantee that the dog won't run away."
"Why don't we just do it now? He's bound to fail the test anyway, but that won't be surprising. I've been feeling a lot of pressure at school lately and I'm worried I've got nowhere to vent. Otherwise..."
Jiang's father and mother looked at each other and understood each other.
Z01 looked at the couple and probably understood that Jiang Yuanshi was not sick from being caught in the rain. Everything was just a way for the couple to vent their emotions, and the child and the dog were just tools.
Looking at the couple heading towards the broom and stick, the puppy stood up and ran away without blinking. It was not very fast, but because of its small size, it only ran to corners and crevices. For a while, the house was in chaos. The couple was exhausted and their image was completely humiliated, but they still had work to do today, so they had no choice but to give up. They tidied themselves up and slammed the door shut angrily.
Z01, huddled in the corner of the storage room, began to think about his next step.
First, bury this body.
Z01 was probably infected by Jiang Yuanshi, and the first thing he thought of was not to implicate innocent people.
He sighed, climbed up along the debris, stood up and opened the window. Jiang Yuanshi's house was on the fourth floor, not too high.
Z01 calculated his landing position and used his remaining energy to go downstairs.
Z01 walked for a long time and came to the innermost part of the woods in the fitness trail park. He dug a hole with his claws, then leaned over and fell down. When it was straight, a small red ball floated out. Countless thin red tentacles extended from the surface of the sphere, weaving the shape of a puppy bit by bit, and finally turned into the appearance of a puppy. Z01 looked at the puppy in the hole, bowed his head to express his gratitude, and finally covered the soil back with his claws. He picked up a branch and stuck it in the hole, which was like a small tombstone.
Z01 turned and left. Having exhausted all his strength, he did not notice that the pile of earth behind him was disappearing silently.
Z01 used his last bit of strength to transform into a puppy and was now just an ordinary dog, so going home became impossible. So he simply went to Jiang Yuanshi's elementary school.
He walked along the way, smelling Jiang Yuanshi's scent, but it rained again and the scent of Jiang Yuanshi became weaker. When Z01 saw Jiang Yuanshi, it was noon.
It was time for lunch, but strangely enough, Jiang Yuanshi wasn't eating in the cafeteria with the rest of the group. Instead, he was surrounded by a group of people in a small alley off-campus food court. Each of them was significantly taller than Jiang Yuanshi. It looked like they were the reason for his earlier injury. In the crowd, Jiang Yuanshi looked different than Z01 had ever seen him. The ten-year-old had looked so pitiful and helpless the night before, but now he looked completely indifferent. "Sorry, I don't have any money. You'd better go ahead and do it."
"You are so shameless!"
The other guys started fighting, and Z01 was about to rush over to help with his short legs, but it was of no use at all.
In the blink of an eye, several aggressive children who were demanding money fell to the ground. Xiao Jiangyuanshi stood in the middle, his face numb and not a single injury. He patted his clothes and said to himself, "Boring."
"You...you hit someone! I'm going to sue the teacher!" said the child lying on the ground. Xiao Jiangyuan looked disgusted and said, "Go ahead. When the time comes, you must show the teacher your injuries. But compared to your minor injuries, the ones on my face are more obvious, right? I'm not sure who the teacher will believe then, after all..."
Xiao Jiangyuan tried to avoid those people and walked out of the alley.
"After all, teachers prefer the students with good grades that you hate, right?"
Before leaving, Jiang Yuanshi, who was standing at the entrance of the alley, turned around and smiled at the group of people with a sarcastic look.
As they left amidst the angry curses of the children, they heard someone asking how Jiang Yuanshi had become so powerful. Jiang Yuanshi didn't answer, but muttered to himself on the way to school, "Because even if they got beaten, they didn't care."
Z01, following behind him, fell silent. The child before him was completely different from his previous memory, but more like the grown-up Jiang Yuanshi. Could it be that he had recovered his memory? Was he looking for him?
Just as Z01 was thinking this, someone squatted in front of him. Z01 met their eyes, and both of them were startled.
Xiao Jiangyuan's eyes widened, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "So it's not you, so the little dog looks so similar?"
Z01: What is similar?
Xiao Jiangyuan took a closer look and asked, "Do dogs have black and red eyes? I don't think so. Mutant?"
Z01 never expected that he wouldn't be able to change his eye color after transforming, and Jiang Yuanshi even discovered it. Seeing that the puppy was very well behaved, Jiang Yuanshi stretched out his finger, gently rubbed the dog's head with his fingertips, and said, "Don't follow me. My family doesn't allow dogs. Although my parents said it's okay today, I guess they'll tell me when I get home that the puppy ran away. It's probably been thrown away. But there are a lot of surveillance cameras in the neighborhood, so they can't throw it in the trash can. I keep running into acquaintances along the way, and since I'm short on time to report it, maybe he'll be given to a talkative, familiar grandparent or uncle or aunt. Maybe that's better than me just leaving him in the hallway."
"So don't follow me. I don't have the courage or energy anymore. Goodbye."
After saying that, Xiao Jiangyuan turned around and left. His words were resolute, but he kept looking back. When he was about to look back for the third time, he decided to try to adopt the child if the other party was still alive, but his attempt failed.
When I turned around for the third time, there was no dog behind me. It seemed that it had left.
He felt a little relieved, a little worried and regretful, but the puppy was gone.
Xiao Jiang shook his head and went back to school to take exams. Today was a day full of tests. In the afternoon, he found himself feeling a little dizzy. He forced himself to speed up and finish answering the questions. Finally, he failed in the last class. Fortunately, he handed in the paper early.
When Jiang Yuanshi woke up again, he was already back home. He remembered that before he fainted, he got rid of the teacher and stuffed the test paper with the results into his schoolbag. There should be no problem.
Xiao Jiangyuan looked around, but the puppy was no longer in the room. He felt disappointed, but he just smiled bitterly. Then he got up, opened the door, and cautiously looked at his father who was looking at his phone at the dining table. He said cautiously, "Dad... my puppy is gone."
My father said that the puppy ran away when the door was opened, just as Jiang Yuanshi expected.
But suddenly his mother came out from the kitchen and said that the puppy did not run away. Jiang Yuanshi was a little confused and he suspected that his brain was burned.
But the mother said gently and affirmatively: "No, I didn't run away. Just sit here and I'll be here soon."
The room was filled with the aroma of food. Xiao Jiangyuan was fidgeting on the stool. After being scolded, his body calmed down, but he was anxious inside. He had a bad feeling. His brain, like a paste, was churning slowly. The sound of his mother's kitchen utensils clinking and his father's breathing seemed to be very close to him.
What followed was the sound of the door opening, followed by the smell of heat and air.
"It's time to take medicine."
What medicine?
Xiao Jiangyuan's eyes were dull and empty. His parents placed the tray in front of him and said with a smile, "Here."
The puppy on the plate was curled up with its eyes open.
"You got sick and didn't do well on the exam because of him. Dog meat is a tonic, so eat it."
Xiao Jiangyuan opened his mouth but couldn't utter a word. The image of the puppy was fixed in his eyes.
"You have to be a good child and eat it, and your illness will be cured."
But...that wasn't the puppy he picked up.
This is a puppy with black and red eyes.
Xiao Jiang regretted his decision at that time. He could no longer hear his parents' words. If the puppy he picked up ran away, would this puppy be the scapegoat caught by his parents?
If he had taken it away and looked for adoption at the beginning, would things not be like this now?
Why did it turn out like this?
Why would they hurt innocent lives if they didn't love him?
"Because you are sick."
…
It's all his fault.
But it turns out his parents weren't good people either.
I wish I had never existed in the first place.
If only he didn't have a mom and a dad.
That way he wouldn't crave their affection and nothing would happen.
But...why him? Why?
Why?
Xiao Jiang shed tears as he wished, looking into those dark red eyes, and whispered softly, "It would be better if everyone died."
He hates it so much.
The room was filled with steam, and the white mist was gradually dyed red, which was emitted from Xiao Jiang Yuanshi's body.
blame.
Resentment enveloped the entire room. For a moment, all objects stopped moving. The parents' eyes were empty, and their skin began to peel off. Xiao Jiangyuan looked at the puppy in front of him and muttered to himself, "If only I could save your life. I will pay you with my life."
[Beep——]
The red mist paused, and the black-red eyes glowed, starting to twist and rotate, forming a vortex. The red mist was sucked in bit by bit, continuously, absorbing this human, and finally returning to calm.
When Xiao Jiangyuan came to his senses, he found himself in the woods of the fitness trail park he had been in for a long time. He carried the puppy to the deepest part, closed the puppy's eyes, hugged the puppy with his coat, dug a hole in the earth with a spoon in his hand, buried the puppy in it, and finally picked up a fork-shaped branch and inserted it in front of the tombstone as a tombstone.
Xiao Jiangyuan felt like a piece of his memory was missing, but it didn't matter. He said, "I'll pay you back after I die. If you need anything, I'll do whatever you ask me to do."
Little Jiang Yuanshi returned home numbly. A trace of fear flashed in his parents' eyes, but it was fleeting. They then scolded Jiang Yuanshi, saying that it was all his fault.
"Jiang Yuanshi is the real sinner."
Yes, Xiao Jiangyuan returned to the room and posted the test paper in the room where he could see it as soon as he got up.
That paper became a mark on his life, constantly reminding him that he needed to atone for his sins.
But he is still alive now, why would he die?
Jiang Yuanshi still wanted to see his grandmother, just one glance, until he was 19 years old, on his way home, he realized that he would never see her again in this life.
Because his grandmother died on the day he left the countryside after she slipped and fell into a field.
"Bang----!"
The car hit the guardrail. Jiang Yuanshi looked at the two people in the front row numbly. Seeing them wake up and beg for mercy, he finally couldn't bear it and rescued them. However, in a hurry, he forgot to bring something very important.
He rushed back to the car and grabbed his backpack.
"boom--------!"
The fire broke out and Jiang Yuanshi was trapped in the car. He turned to look at his parents who were running away and was completely disappointed.
The flames burned his skin and it hurt.
He doesn't want to die.
Unreconciled.
But the car door was too hot and burned off his flesh.
He was holding his schoolbag and was surrounded by flames.
Will turn to ashes.
He still has a lot to do...
It was a carnival of flames. There was no rain that day, but the flames faded away inexplicably. When the rescuers arrived, the black and red mist that enveloped Jiang Yuanshi dissipated.
With extremely severe burns, there is no possibility of survival.
This is a child without a future.
Jiang's father and mother watched from across the intensive care unit, and the movement of the ventilator was very faint.
Why not just forget it? They said, it's already spoiled anyway.
Jiang Yuanshi was finally no longer expected and was abandoned.
…
"Jiang Yuan, are you going to visit that man named Jiang Yuanshi soon? ...No, I'll go with you. I want to thank him too."
"Mr. Fan, Mr. Li, may I ask what kind of person is Jiang Yuanshi, your partner in the hotel who has never been seen?"
"He's a very powerful person. Without him, there would be no us."
"Jiang Yuan, Yun Qing, when do you think Jiang Jiang will come back?"
"Just wait patiently. You'll get there eventually. After all, didn't we make an appointment with you, Jiang Tang? He never breaks his promises."
"That's right, Jiang Jiang is the best. I hope he can come to see me soon."
"By the way, when will the game be updated to fix the bugs? I haven't seen the grocery store owner in a while, and the author is still pretending to be dead."
"...It's too hellish, sisters. Go read the announcement! The author isn't pretending to be dead, he's really dying. I heard he's still in the ICU. A friend is now taking over the maintenance. I heard he specifically entrusted the entire game to someone when he was lucid. He's really... I'm crying my eyes out."
"Tonic, please pray for the author's safety. Such a great game, such a great person, please don't die! I'm praying..."
“I hope the author is doing well.”
…
It was a blessing and also a wish. Blue threads floated out from them, extending into the air, crossing regions and dimensions, and finally intersecting into a huge circle, falling on Jiang Yuanshi who was lying on the hospital bed.
Blue drifted out from the black and red mist and wrapped around human skin.
I hope to live with you.
The electrocardiogram emitted a shrill sound, and at the same time, the system voice sounded:
[Beep————]
【New host detected】
[Hello host Jiang Yuanshi, welcome to the Book-Crossing Bureau Patch Management Department. This is system Z01. Please confirm whether to bind to the Book-Crossing Patch System...]
【Countdown 3, 2, 1.】
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