The badly-reformed stand-in novel (Part 2)
[The fourth mission begins]
As soon as the reset happened, the protagonist, whose self-esteem was damaged in the previous life, had already strangled Jiang Yuanshi's neck, but the difference from before was that this time he could still move because of the time limit of the function card.
In this life, he wants to take back everything that belongs to him.
Jiang Yuanshi, who had watched too many short videos, had these words echoing in his mind. When Gu Zhi was concentrating on strangling his neck and was about to lie on top of him, Jiang Yuanshi bent his knees.
Gu Zhi cried out in pain again, and it sounded even more painful than last time, with a feeling of losing a son.
Gu Zhi, lying on the ground with his hands covering his mouth, looked at the person sitting beside the bed, feeling both pained and annoyed: "Are you crazy? Do you know where you kicked? This..."
Jiang Yuanshi supported himself on the edge of the bed with both hands, sat on the edge of the bed and swung his legs, his eyes clear: "I know, your lower body and the rest of your life."
The other party was clearly irritated by the young man's nonchalant attitude and uttered something so amusing that it would be written in a novel and would be so childish: "This concerns the future of my Gu family!"
The young man wondered, "Aren't you gay? And you want to have a child? How immoral!"
“You…you…”
The other party was about to continue arguing but was interrupted by the pain in his lower body. The young man added fuel to the fire and dripped medicated oil on his lower body.
"You're so fragile. Jiang Yuan hasn't cried out even in this state, but you did." The young man thought for a moment and made a sincere suggestion to the protagonist, "I have to say you are quite good at crying out. If you really can't do it, I think you should go and be a zero. It just so happens that you don't need that position."
!
Gu Zhi's eyes widened with anger.
[Detected that the protagonist has been severely damaged physically and mentally, the fourth mission has failed, and the world line is being retraced...]
Jiang Yuanshi listened to the prompt sound and sighed that in this novel world, the protagonist who truly loves him can even start over.
Sure enough, he only lost his life, but Gu Zhi lost his dignity and happiness!
The young man lay back on the bed, covered himself with the quilt, and waited obediently for the reset.
[The fifth mission begins]
Jiang Yuanshi opened his eyes.
The system, which had been frozen for a long time, finally spoke a reminder: "Host, please do not violate the rules again. Willpower points cannot be permanently redeemed for cards."
Jiang Yuanshi blinked, his expression obedient: "Okay, I understand."
As soon as Jiang Yuanshi received the compensation for his willpower, he selected the function card he had been eyeing for a long time from the system display warehouse:
【As good as new (limited to each month)
Quality: Excellent
Duration: 3 minutes
Number of items: 3 (1 currently remaining)
Type: Disposable
Required Willpower: 3
Introduction: Short-term effect, restores the body in any form to a healthy state, cannot be used across timelines, timing includes rewinding time.
How should I put it? It’s pretty good. You get what you pay for, and a little bit of wish power is worth a minute.
Jiang Yuanshi casually asked, "Excuse me, did you set the card values?"
System: "Hello host, no, function cards are all set by superiors. The system is only responsible for introducing their functions. What's the problem?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Nothing, the introduction was good, concise and clear."
The system didn't understand what the other party meant and just mechanically replied: "This is the system's job."
Before Jiang Yuanshi could continue, the system followed up, "Host, please cooperate with this work. Please do not violate the character setting and harm the main characters or others. This world is similar to the host world. According to the law, the host is committing a crime."
The system's tone was still mechanical, but it was serious.
It's a yellow card warning.
Jiang Yuanshi didn't refute, but nodded in agreement: "Yeah, okay, I'm sorry, I won't do it next time."
"Host, please cooperate...?"
Jiang Yuanshi used a combination of skills, accompanied by a harmless expression, and quickly cut off the system's sound.
The system makes a "Hmm?" sound.
Jiang Yuanshi also made a "Hmm?" sound.
Obviously, the two people have different doubts.
Faced with the host's sincere response, the system always felt that something was wrong, so it took out the host emotion detector that had not been used for a long time.
It shows the host's original ideology and the other party's emotional distribution disk.
The distribution disk is in the form of a hexagonal radar diagram, and different organisms present different and bizarre images according to their previous hosts.
As for the host named "Jiang Yuanshi", all his emotions are in the middle, forming a perfect hexagon.
Few creatures can achieve this, especially humans, who are such emotionally complex creatures.
The system has the right to choose the host, so the most important label of Z01's choice is obedience to the rules and relatively stable emotions.
After learning about Jiang Yuanshi's life, the host stood out from the crowd of candidates.
Jiang Yuanshi is a senior computer science graduate from a top university (already admitted to graduate school). He is a good student in the eyes of his classmates and teachers. He has been a top student since childhood and has always been ranked first, receiving constant praise.
He does not resist or rebel, is obedient and well-behaved, follows the rules, and lives between the library, classroom, and dormitory. Everything goes according to his parents' plan, and not only does it go perfectly, it is even completed ahead of schedule.
When he died, he was just 19 years old and was a genius.
He is also the perfect candidate in the system's mind.
Intelligent but obedient creatures that complete tasks the fastest and are found in very small numbers.
The other party's response to the extreme behavior just now was due to emotion. According to analysis, it can be understood that the number of times the health points of both parties were reset to zero is equal.
However, the system felt it was necessary to give another reminder: "Thank you for your cooperation, host. Please do not make the same mistake again, otherwise new penalties will be triggered."
"Excuse me, Mr. System, what is the punishment?"
"Unknown, this is a random selection. The current penalty summary is: Mild electric shock 56%, strong electric shock 30.11%, lightning strike 9%..."
Is this Lei Gong and Dian Mu?
"Hair loss 3%, baldness 2%..."
Jiang Yuanshi suddenly felt a chill on his head. He could survive the blow, but his hair would be damaged.
After the system ruthlessly summarized the situation, it found that the host seemed to be becoming more honest.
Hoping the host won't go wrong again, the system decided to analyze it later when it's free.
"Host, please complete the task first. The current main task is to keep the protagonist alive. Killing the protagonist will only affect the development of the plot. Moreover, the characters in the novel are not living people. The host is wasting time."
Jiang Yuanshi blinked and nodded: "Thanks for the reminder, I understand, and I'm sorry to trouble you." He didn't refute the fact that he didn't kill anyone at all.
"Then the mission continues. The protagonist's character has been forcibly repaired. The protagonist has now entered the hospital building."
"Okay, thank you." Jiang Yuanshi soothed his sore eyes. "By the way, I want to ask, it's impossible that Gu Zhi's yandere personality wasn't revealed in the previous tests, right?"
"I'm sorry, host. This novel world itself has a bug. After experimentation, we've concluded that the survival of the character "Jiang Yuan" determines the operation of the world. This is the main issue. As for the other characters, they have become secondary issues after consideration."
A thought suddenly popped up in Jiang Yuanshi’s mind under the main task.
[Side Quest (Optional): 1. Correct Gu Zhi's character design promptly 2. Treat the family members 3. Repair the hole in the back wall of the hospital...
Friendly reminder: You can choose to do the side quests or not, completing them all will unlock the hidden ending.
Regardless of whether it is hidden or not, his survival is a problem now, but what the hell is that thing that is used to repair the hole in the back wall of the hospital?
System: "Search failed. Please search according to the plot development."
Jiang Yuanshi: ...Okay, let’s leave it to fate.
Footsteps approached and the door opened.
A familiar figure appeared, but unlike before, the other person just glanced at Jiang Yuan a few times with a strange, almost disgusted expression.
Gu Zhi frowned and walked to Jiang Yuan's bedside with his hands in his pockets.
Facing the stand-in on the hospital bed, the other party changed his usual clingy state and started to accuse, "Jiang Yuan, you hit too hard. You know that the people you beat up are either from wealthy or noble families. Now they are in the hospital because of you. If it weren't for me, you would have died long ago."
"Negotiating with those people, even if I lose money, where would I put my face? I introduced you to them because I hope you can get along well."
Jiang Yuan couldn't speak, he just frowned, as if the person in front of him was a stranger.
Gu Zhi sighed, "I know I lied to you, and it was my fault, but even if you knew you were a substitute, shouldn't you be grudged against me?"
Gu Zhi looked up and down at Jiang Yuan's appearance. He looked so miserable that he couldn't be taken out at all.
"Forget it. Rest well here for the time being. Don't go anywhere, or they'll cause trouble. Don't worry, Grandma and sister will help you with your treatment. I won't lie to you about this, but you'd better be obedient. I'll send someone to pick you up in a while. Then we can go to the banquet together. Our contract will expire and be written off."
Gu Zhi spoke casually, and without seeing Jiang Yuan's reaction, he turned and left. Before leaving, he did not forget to send a few bodyguards to monitor him.
Jiang Yuanshi: …………
Something seems wrong again?
Now it seems that he is not "younger", "loner" or "clingy" at all, and has transformed into a domineering CEO.
The system thought this was normal. "Humans can disguise themselves, but now that the plan has been exposed, disguise is unnecessary."
"But there are too many changes. Isn't this an overcorrection?"
The system extracted a passage of original text for Jiang Yuanshi. It turned out that during this period of time, Gu Zhi, as the illegitimate son of the Gu family, wanted to use Jiang Yuan to make a deal with that group of friends, but he never expected that Jiang Yuan would be so cruel.
Logically, Jiang Yuan should have been dealt with, but he was too much like Bai Yueguang and she had some feelings for him. As it happened, the old man of the Gu family was ill, and the child who was supposed to pass on the throne to the main wife died in an accident. Suddenly, the whole family had only the illegitimate son Gu Zhi who could take on the responsibility.
Once in power, Gu Zhi simply kept Jiang Yuan and planned to take him to play with him on the day of his succession banquet.
However, according to the original text, when he heard the news that Bai Yueguang, whom he had not seen for many years, had returned to China, he immediately forgot about Jiang Yuan, and then there was that crazy ending.
But Jiang Yuanshi still asked the question left over from history, "He's so rich, why can't he go abroad to find his White Moonlight? Even if he's an illegitimate child, he should have the money to go abroad, right?"
System: "Rich, but Bai Yueguang is not available."
Jiang Yuan:?
The system extracts the original information.
Bai Yueguang Name: Shen Shi 26
A genius, currently studying in Germany, a doctoral student in medicine (supervisor resigned, thesis invalidated, graduation delayed), and his current medical school internship is about to end.
Jiang Yuanshi: …………
That's okay.
The next goal is to recuperate and wait for the banquet.
"In addition, I once again recommend that the host follow the plot and do not make major changes to the plot, otherwise there is a chance that the world operation will fail."
Jiang Yuanshi agreed obediently, "By the way, Mr. System, I'd like to ask, can you access the internet here?"
system:?
Jiang Yuanshi explained, "I can't move now, and I can't use my phone. I remember Jiang Yuan was still a student, so he had to ask for leave from school."
"…………" He is indeed a good student. The system replied, "I'm sorry, host, I forgot to remind you that this character had previously suspended his studies to work to pay for medical expenses and has not yet returned to school."
"What about his job?"
"Gu Zhi resigned on the grounds of companionship."
“…………”
Probably because Jiang Yuanshi was unable to move around easily, Gu Zhi only threatened him with his family. After warning him, he did not take the things away. He just cleared out some things and disconnected the Internet.
The internet fee is also paid by the other party, right?
Jiang Yuanshi's regular hexagonal emotional graph turned into a unicorn at this moment, and it felt like it could kill someone in the next second.
The system was puzzled as to why the other party's emotions fluctuated so much. In response, Jiang Yuanshi said, "I gave up my career for love. I'm a love-brained person."
?
The system does not understand but records it.
Every host brought by the system will have a manual record.
[Host Observation Manual - Jiang Yuanshi]
Name: Jiang Yuanshi
Species: Human
Appearance: Slender, white, human-like
Personality: Obedient, quick to reflect, rules-abiding (questionable)
Hobbies: Unknown
New entries*
Dislikes: Love-brained (career-oriented)
Perhaps Jiang Yuanshi's career ambition did not allow him to be unemployed. At the other party's request, the system connected the host's mobile phone to the Internet, but he had to wait until his body recovered before he could use it.
Then the system took the time to return to the department to report on his work. During this period, the host had not performed any illegal operations until he was about to return to the transmission room, when prompts popped up one after another.
[Congratulations to the host for successfully using "Intact"]
【Congratulations to the host for the successful redemption】
[Partial repair has been used x1]
[Local repair has been used x2]
…………
At this moment, the system suddenly understood a wise saying of mankind: If a child is quiet, he must be up to something.
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