The Explosive and Badly Ended Stand-in Story (14)
The vortex spun counterclockwise and the city began to rewind.
The red eyes slowly closed unwillingly at Jiang Yuanshi's wave.
The soul is harvested and time is reversed, along with the system warning.
Jiang Yuanshi lost the front ten fingertips of both hands. The system looked at him and murmured to the air, "Let's make a deal. Let me participate in this game, or maybe it's okay to have multiple NPC actors in the TV series?"
"Reason? Just based on the broadcast ratings. If you're not serious about reflecting on your actions, why not just continue filming?"
The system circled around Jiang Yuanshi: "Host, who are you talking to?"
Jiang Yuanshi blinked, and a familiar voice rang out in the system space: "Hello Z Sales Champion, we meet again. Your host is really interesting and has helped me a lot. I approve!"
Lord God ysl404.
"What are you doing here?"
The Lord God: "It's rare for a world character to awaken. It only happens once in a million years. I was so curious that I came to take a look. By the way, I chatted with your host and recommended some function cards."
"You shouldn't provide the host with a Soul Sacrifice Card. This is against the rules," the system said sternly. However, the Lord God pleaded innocent. "But it was your host who asked. Rule 20 of the Book Transmigration Bureau rules states: You must answer any question within your authority. He asked, so I can't say no. I also informed him of the dangers."
According to the authority of the Lord God, everything can be answered.
This is taking advantage of a loophole and cheating.
But the system cannot refute the rules, and the right to use them lies with the host.
"Host..." The system turned to Jiang Yuanshi, who then turned to the Lord God. "Let's get back to the point. Lord God, did you agree just now?"
The Lord God: "I agree, but whether it will succeed depends on your luck. After all, the world consciousness is not that easy to deal with."
Jiang Yuanshi: "It's better than not trying at all. The worst outcome is death anyway."
The Lord God: "You are really the first one who is so reckless. But if you succeed, you can enjoy your retirement in the future world. After all, the difficulty of the current world has reached 2S by your own efforts."
Jiang Yuanshi: "...Is this a good thing?"
The Lord God said casually, "Why not? Our highest level is 3S. Once we complete the mission, we can pay off the loan in one go, and even have a lot left over."
Such an optimistic Lord God, he seems to be here to enjoy the fun.
"Alright, Z01, help me out. Maybe our performance will reach new heights." The incorporeal Lord God left a final message, "Keep going, Host Jiang. I'm rooting for you. Bye~"
The main god disappeared, and the world began to rewind at an accelerated speed.
Seeing the host staring at his ten fingers in a daze, the system said, "Host, this world is not real. We shouldn't...pay such a huge price. A living being cannot be reborn without a complete soul."
Jiang Yuanshi came back to his senses and said something that the system couldn't analyze, "It doesn't matter. My world is no longer worth reborn in. Since this world is fake, then just treat it as a game. I will bear the consequences myself. Don't worry, I have already talked to the Lord God. If I fail, it will not affect your performance."
After a long while, the system finally came up with an answer: "That's not what I meant. System performance can be obtained again, but your soul, the host, cannot be taken back."
"It's okay, I don't care. If it weren't for the binding patch system, I would have died long ago."
The system wanted to speak, but its body was pulled by a huge force. It didn't know when Jiang Yuan and Gu Zhi disappeared from the rooftop.
Jiang Yuanshi, who was also being pulled, disappeared after leaving behind only one sentence: "We'll discuss the details of the conversation with the Lord God when we get back."
Let’s go back an hour.
It took 48 minutes for Gu Zhi to arrive at the hospital.
Jiang Yuanshi opened his eyes and was met with Shen Shi's deathly gaze. It was such a familiar scene.
The system didn't even finish its words: "Host, Lord God, process."
"When my consciousness was withdrawing from Jiang Yuan's body, a voice claiming to be your Lord God spoke inside my head, expressing a long string of emotions in one breath." Jiang Yuanshi sat up from the bed very quickly, asked the system to hand him the computer, and explained the details to the system while turning on the computer. Jiang Yuanshi's tone was steady, but his speed was much faster than usual.
The main god who came up to introduce himself was very enthusiastic, with a tone of being eager to watch the fun. He revealed to Jiang Yuanshi that the world of the novel was formed due to the powerful wishes of the original fans, but it will always decline and disappear with the age. The world in the novel operates according to the amount of wishes.
If the characters in the novel do not awaken their self-awareness after the end of the original text, the story will be reset and restarted, and played over and over again to the audience in the other world. However, the probability of consciousness awakening in the novel world is very low, and the conditions for awakening are unclear because there are few conclusions.
But what is certain is that once the protagonist awakens, the possibility of the NPCs around him awakening will greatly increase. After the host completes the mission, the novel world will completely become a reality of a certain dimension and will no longer be reset. The Book Bureau will release this world to other departments.
The result sounds wonderful, but it is difficult to achieve. The awakening of the character means that the world consciousness will also awaken. The world consciousness implements the original novel and will block all external forces. The book patch system will also be rejected. Jiang Yuanshi thinks this is probably the real purpose of the unreliable main god.
Willpower is a force that can make people's wishes come true. It is impossible for Chuanshuju to give up such a world with huge profits, so they need the help of an outsider, an outsider who has truly possessed a soul in the world of novels. They tell the other party that as long as they are willing to give a little bit of their soul, they may be able to save a future and have a chance to become the real world.
How is this not a form of moral kidnapping to some extent? Using a small part of oneself to save the entire world, placing it on the highest moral ground, and then telling you that the choice is yours, that if you don't save it, you'll feel bad, and if you do, you'll lose your chance at rebirth.
Jiang Yuanshi never considered himself a savior. He chose to sacrifice his soul simply because he didn't like the ending of the story, a tragic life that was manipulated.
Jiang Yuanshi had no special abilities. Even though he was praised as a genius before his death, he was only 19 years old. He only knew how to be clever and take advantage of loopholes. His cleverness was purely scoundrel and fake. If he were made the protagonist of a TV series, people would just say that he was a waste who was labeled as a genius but was actually an empty shell.
The loser shamelessly talked nonsense to the Lord God, and others could not be considered to be morally blackmailing him, but he chose to use the bugs of this world to blackmail others. In the end, he sacrificed his soul to go back in time, and the Lord God helped him cover up his ooc behavior in the future. In other words, as long as Jiang Yuanshi is not dead in this world, it is absolute for him to deviate from the original and break the plot, and there will be no obstacles.
He is the type of person who goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and people find it annoying to bargain and end up throwing away a handful of green onions. Unfortunately, Jiang Yuanshi doesn't bargain when buying vegetables. He chooses to go to the supermarket to buy at clearly marked prices.
The system didn't respond after listening to Jiang Yuanshi's description. When he tried to type but stopped, it asked, "Do you need any help?"
Jiang Yuanshi bent his fingertips, was stunned when he heard the words, and said "Huh?", seeming confused.
System: "You've made a deal with the Lord God. Since the Lord God has agreed to help, it proves that you have regained the power to break the plot. The system will fully cooperate. So, is there anything you need me to do now?"
Jiang Yuanshi said "Ah" and acted as if he had suddenly realized something. His tone was relaxed but his expression was apologetic. "I'm sorry for dragging you into this pirate ship."
"What is a pirate ship?"
"It just means you're unlucky to have run into me. Choosing the wrong person makes things complicated."
"Why?" the system was puzzled. "I'm not unlucky. Not meeting the screening criteria was a department label and a system misjudgment. It has nothing to do with you, and the mission hasn't failed. The chance of a character awakening is very small. You're one of the few successful hosts in nearly a million years. You're amazing."
The system always gives objective and straightforward analysis results. The system found that the host's eyes were wide open and blinking, like a small animal facing the camera in a nature documentary.
"Is there anything I can help you with?" the system asked for the third time.
Jiang Yuanshi rubbed his eyes, stopped typing, handed the computer to the system, and said, "Excuse me, I need to create public opinion about the Gu family immediately to force Gu Zhi, who is on the road, to return home so that I can find a chance to fight back."
The system looked at the page on the computer and said, "You are trying to hack into the Gu Group's system. This is illegal."
Jiang Yuanshi: "There's no other way. To create public opinion, even if it's just empty talk, there has to be something concrete."
"Understood. Please wait." The system cleared the computer page and set it aside. Shen Shi's body looked blank for a moment before coming back to his senses. "We have entered the Gu Building's main system. Intelligence has been collected. We have successfully created public opinion for you. The current marketing news has been released. The current popularity is ranked 10th, 11th, and 19th."
The progress was so fast that Jiang Yuanshi was a little confused. He blinked, took out his mobile phone and searched, but it was not financial news, but the web hot search list.
According to insiders, the Gu Keats Foundation is suspected of engaging in money laundering.
A breakdown of the experiences of the aid workers at Gu's recently established foundation.
[New discoveries in the "accidental" explosion in the xx school's chemistry laboratory]
As Jiang Yuanshi refreshed the list, these three entries rose to the top three within a few minutes.
"..." Jiang Yuanshi didn't know what to say for a moment, and just said, "Thank you, but won't it affect you?"
The system calmly replied, "You're welcome. This is what the system is supposed to do. As for the impact, it's easy for any system to access and change data."
"You just said it was illegal to break in."
“But systems are made up of data, not people.”
To put it bluntly, it is like data visiting a relative and taking some things with you.
Jiang Yuanshi unconsciously counted his fingers, digesting the sudden surge of trending searches. He hadn't given the system any specific instructions, but it had completed everything he'd wanted, perfectly. For a moment, he was at a loss for what to do. Then the system spoke, "We've done it for you. How can we guarantee that Gu Zhi won't come to the hospital?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "It's not a guarantee, I'm just taking a gamble."
"What's the bet?"
Jiang Yuanshi lowered his eyes to look at his palm. Unlike his own palm, Jiang Yuan's lifeline was actually very long.
"Bet on the other person's heart, interests are more important than feelings."
System: "But Gu Zhi is very paranoid about Jiang Yuan."
"Paranoia doesn't mean love, or maybe Gu Zhi doesn't love anyone." Jiang Yuanshi smiled, looked at the system, and said, "Right, Mr. Shen."
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