Chapter 21 Crazy

[Stop it, upstairs. Can your phantom limbs get hard for someone like Fu Zexun? Although he is indeed attractive if you only look at his appearance, what can Jiang Nan say? He was about to graduate from high school and enter college, but everything came to a sudden halt... To be honest, I really want to kill Fu Zexun with a knife and cut him into pieces.]

[Can't you just stop impersonating the above? It's definitely not okay to put yourself in the shoes of reality when reading comics, but if you put yourself in the shoes of a funny person, you'll feel great. Especially in the scene in the protagonist's prophecy, when "Jiang Nan" stood behind Fu Zexun and provoked Pei Lin and Shang Tingqi. ]

[I admit that I am a pervert. When I think about the two of them being in agony, I feel extremely happy.]

[To be honest, I feel the same way, it's just a comic. But seriously, this author named "Jing" really has a talent for being a "thief."]

[Who cares about you guys, go to hell!

Can you at least take a look at He Jingtong? In the scene in the prophecy, the two seniors, out of concern for their junior, joined forces to protect Jiang Nan when his first debut exploded!

She was originally the group's favorite, but because of her rescue, she was indirectly hated by Pei Lin and Shang Tingqi...

Damn, my heart aches when I think of this outcome! Do you understand? Damn. 】

[Whether the people above like Fu Zexun or the protagonist He Jingtong, does no one like me, Jiang Nan?

I don't care about the person above who said not to apply reality to the situation. I only know that a student who just graduated from high school wanted to take out 100,000 yuan to find someone to save his life. I have to say how desperate he must have been at that time...

Especially when he quickly realized that there was no way he could be saved, God knows when he said sorry, I couldn't control my tears and they just flowed down.

Who is it?! Who put glass shards in my eyeballs? Oh, it turned out to be you, Jing the Thief! 】

[What I care about more is, is this the first chapter of the manga? So many heavyweight intelligence figures are released in the first chapter. Can the manga author really grasp the direction of the future?

I won't discuss the plot, I'll just focus on the setting, I especially hope that the old thief doesn't collapse in the later stages. 】

[Wuwuwu, my gentle, brave, upright and kind elder sister Shang Tingqi, and Pei Lin who would say to the younger generations: "Don't be afraid, I won't let anything happen to you", are they only going to appear in prophecies?

Are these two people who behave like this only able to exist in prophecy?! 】

[Reply to the above post, you can remove your question mark.

Honestly speaking, it is impossible for teammates who have stood shoulder to shoulder with each other, entrusted their lives to each other, and supported each other for years to show no emotion at all about Jiang Nan's death.

I even feel that they will never forgive He Jingtong, just like they will never forgive themselves for not being by Jiang Nan's side when he died. 】

Everyone is discussing various characters, but as one of the previous comments said, not many people seem to be paying attention to the protagonist.

Apart from the happiness of being loved by everyone in the prophecy, which He Jingtong should have had—even though the existence of "Alien Jiang Nan" itself cannot make the image of the elders protecting the younger generations equal to happiness, I still feel that He Jingtong has lost a lot. 】

He saved 106 people.

Young couples walking around in the mall, pushing strollers. Elderly couples in their seventies and eighties strolling around supporting each other, and because the air conditioner is too low, they take the initiative to put coats on each other. Naughty kids on the upper floors, pressing their faces against the glass guardrails and looking down...

All of this was drawn in the comics, but among these people, who knew that it was He Jingtong who saved them?

No one knows how much He Jingtong has paid. Pei Lin and Shang Tingqi's current mentality is obviously that they hate He Jingtong, but they know they cannot hate him, but at the same time they also hate themselves.

An Lai, who was barely a teammate, could be indirectly understood, but after knowing that Jiang Nan was killed by He Jingtong, his expression, although shocked and sad, was obviously a bit superficial, made it impossible for the audience to believe him.

Secondly, it is hard to say whether the old thief will tell An Lai that He Jingtong saved 106 people.

Judging from He Jingtong's personality, that is, the mentality of self-destruction after seeing An Lai in handcuffs, our "Alien" protagonist He Jingtong obviously intends to bear all the things in the prophecy alone and try to change it himself.

In the early years, the protagonists of hot-blooded comics usually had the might to resist the heavens, but the common setting in the past two years is the cruel scene of being infinitely crushed by the heavens... I really think that He Jingtong would not say this. 】

[So it is obvious that no one will ever know that while he killed his predecessor, he also saved 106 people.

Among the 106 people, there are waiters who sell him products, babies who symbolize the future, elderly people in their twilight years, naughty children, white-collar elites from all walks of life, and a otaku who stands in front of the millet store with a face full of social phobia, but there is no him...

The only thing he didn't do was save himself.

Jiang Nan died there, an ending that was destined to be irreversible, or it could even be said to be a relatively good ending.

At least he no longer has to be the alien Jiang Nan, active in that world with "lust", controlled by Fu Zexun to cause explosions again and again, hurting both his predecessors and descendants, and constantly hurting teammates who once had a sympathetic relationship, forcing Pei Lin and Shang Tingqi to stand on the edge of choice countless times, and finally being trapped in the mist...】

[After reading the ideas of the big guy above, I have to say that they are similar.

However, compared to the shopping mall incident, I actually paid more attention to the previous Xiyang Primary School incident. Inferring from the existing intelligence, He Jingtong already knew what kind of devil Fu Zexun was at that time, right?

In that situation, he was still able to maintain his sanity and confront Fu Zexun...

I admit that the setting of prediction is really cool. After all, I really want to know the future, especially the winning numbers of tomorrow's lottery. Ahem, don't pay attention to my selfish thoughts. The actual plot of the comic is just one sentence: the old thief comes out and gets beaten! 】

Doesn't the above statement mean that He Jingtong already knew about the things related to Jiang Nan in the mall at that time?

If that's the case, why didn't he go and rescue Jiang Nan earlier!

If he had brought people to the school to find Qi Xueyi and Cui Tong earlier, before the transformation began, wouldn't the result be that he, a student who was about to enter college, died?! 】

【Chef Jiang Nan, calm down. How can a prophecy be a comprehensive one? A comprehensive one is not a prophecy, it is a peek into the future.

A prophecy is usually a detailed description of a certain scene, related to the prophecy, and usually a specific explanation of the scene in the prophecy.

For example, He Jingtong accurately found the shopping mall. There is definitely no way there is only one shopping mall in the same city, especially in a metropolis like that. 】

[Just because He Jingtong took action, and the action time was not as early as you thought, you think he is a god or something. But don't do that.

Have you forgotten that he has only been in contact with the spirit world for less than a month? Even if he has the ability to predict, this period of less than a month is a fact, right? 】

Converted to the world of "Alien", the time it took He Jingtong to bind himself to the system was still less than a month.

In addition, regarding why he didn't go to the mall earlier, the system also carefully asked: [Why not? ]

He Jingtong really wanted to question whether the system actually had such a thing as a brain, but he still gave an explanation while running laps on the playground.

"The comics give a total of 18 locations of Fu Zexun's laboratories, 15 of which are in this city, and the other one is in the same province but not in this city."

"Do you think I, who only have the finished comics but don't know the details, can know which laboratory Jiang Nan came from? And you can review what Jiang Nan said before. He also clearly stated that he was injected with the karma of the seven deadly sins before going to the mall."

"In addition, you have overlooked one thing." At this time, He Jingtong had already run five laps on the 800-meter playground. His body was as heavy as a stone, and his breathing in his chest was like a bellows. Every step he took was like a torture to his body.

But He Jingtong never stopped to rest, just like the voice in his heart that informed the system never stopped.

"What is happening to me now is not the explanation given in the original work 'Alien', so don't confuse it."

In the comics, in the so-called prophecy, all He Jingtong could see was the scene where Pei Lin and Shang Tingqi protected Jiang Nan at the same time after he exploded.

The comics he sees and the "prophecies" that comic readers see are the same thing.

And if the system believes that He Jingtong did not work hard because he had too many laboratories and therefore had some complicated ideas, that does not exist either.

It's not that there is no effort, but that there is no way to make an effort.

The number of laboratories was only mentioned briefly in "Alien" to show that Fu Zexun was a cunning rabbit with many burrows, and there was nothing else.

Let An go and investigate?

But the problem is that before this, all He Jingtong knew was that "Jiang Nan was subjected to a spirit transformation experiment by Fu Zexun and was placed in a shopping mall with a large flow of people during the summer vacation." The information in this sentence was too obvious, but also so one-sided that He Jingtong had no way of finding anything against Fu Zexun.

It was like going to the hospital in advance to save his uncle. Before this, the only thing He Jingtong could do was to go to the mall earlier.

Although he had already anticipated what might happen before he went to the mall early.

Despite that possibility, there are four different extensions.

But even the system didn't know whether He Jingtong, who had considerable professional ability in psychology, had any inner fluctuations when facing the questioning of Pei Lin and Shang Tingqi.

Controlling one's emotional ups and downs has long become a standard for long-term learners.

In addition, whether it was when he rescued his uncle or after he rescued He Wanchen, He Jingtong also did not know that his grandfather was involved in the so-called hospital ghost incident.

If he had not later redeemed the multi-view function from the system store, the comic, which did not contain this information at all, would still not have been able to provide him with this intelligence.

This involves something that "Alien" doesn't even depict.

How can we expect the prophet to go all out to change the future when he himself does not even know it?

After understanding this perspective, the system began to feel mixed emotions.

At least the system still remembers the first time He Jingtong's heartbeat began to fluctuate.

That is what it said, that after the points reach 100 million, one can travel to another dimension.

But if it was really for the sake of accumulating points, there was no need for He Jingtong to kill the alien Jiang Nan who was almost transformed in the mall.

Killing Jiang Nan is like a hammer trade. Afterwards, the alien Jiang Nan is controlled by Fu Zexun to do all kinds of evil things, and is also bumped into by his former teammates and other classmates who acted just to execute the alien...

If the scene is shown a few more times from different angles, the points brought by the alien Jiang Nan will far exceed the current hammer transaction.

The system couldn't see what kind of person He Jingtong was.

He is a person whose heart beats for points, but he did not choose to continue to use Jiang Nan for points.

In addition, Pei Lin and Shang Tingqi really hated him.

Beauty, strength and tragedy can indeed easily attract the attention of comic readers, but the website where the new "Other Spirits" is released has a special channel for recommending new works. Therefore, there is no need for He Jingtong to forcibly turn his passion and justice in the comics into beauty, strength and tragedy just because the original "Other Spirits" has zero popularity.

The system started thinking again, what if He Jingtong thought that this world was fake after learning about the comics, so he wanted to edit a character for himself that could deceive people in another world?

This explanation is also not convincing.

A madman who sees the world as false will only do extreme things.

But He Jingtong didn't have that. His heartbeat didn't fluctuate at all.

What does he like? What does he hate? The system knows nothing.

But at the moment, the system only knows that He Jingtong can be the passionate and righteous teenager in "Alien", or he can be the rational person now who makes favorable but not completely favorable choices.

It's so contradictory.

If I have to explain it in some words, it would be that the He Jingtong in the original comic is at the extreme of hot-blooded justice, while the current He Jingtong is at the extreme of rationality and calmness.

Of course, neither of these two representations is the complete him.

The whole him, his soul, is always located in the middle between passionate justice and rational calmness.

Just like the name of a balance, it is always stable.

After the system came to this conclusion, it finally stopped heating its CPU, and thus had time to pay attention to He Jingtong who was running circles outside...

But this attention revealed that He Jingtong's heart rate and body temperature had risen to an abnormal level.

When performing a quick scan of his body, the system even found blood in He Jingtong's throat.

And just when the scan was finished, the boy's whole body flew forward like a kite with a broken string, and fell heavily to the ground.

The color red once again stained He Jingtong's face.

That face, which appears fair and delicate both in terms of genes and comic settings, is always associated with blood again and again.

The white is blinding, the red is heart-piercing. This is not friendly to a system that comes from the fourth dimension and is only for the purpose of completing a thesis.

It didn't want to edit any more comics. It was just in the fourth chapter and it was testing the instructor's bottom line...

That is, to meddle with the comics world.

While he was screaming for help deep in his heart, the system gave An Lai an inspiration.

The system chose to only allow the unlucky teammate to see the read messages but not receive any reply messages. Suddenly, an idea came to his mind to take a look at the school surveillance.

It was not until he confirmed through the system's multi-view function that An Lai had mobilized the surveillance around the school playground that he breathed a sigh of relief.

In the end, the system truly determined that everything He Jingtong did had two explanations.

Don't look at his heart.

He Jingtong's heart will not only deceive himself, but also deceive the system from the fourth dimension.

In He Jingtong's opinion, he was just doing it for the sake of accumulating points.

But judging from the final result of his actions, that is, he did not treat the alien Jiang Nan as a sustainable exploitable object, but instead personally sacrificed his only death for him. It can be seen that He Jingtong had chosen the most suitable ending for Jiang Nan from the very beginning.

One never has to worry about the possibility of hurting familiar people after death.

When Jiang Nan dies, he will never watch his body explode in despair and hurt his teammates who once trusted him with their lives, as in the original work.

You no longer have to worry about becoming a ghost or a monster controlled by others and committing countless evil deeds.

The only thing he needed to worry about was that He Jingtong might feel uncomfortable.

But in fact, Jiang Nan doesn't feel too much guilt.

The system understands this.

Jiang Nan and He Jingtong were not familiar with each other before.

Although students in the psychic department have a high sense of morality, Jiang Nan at that time only felt guilty because of his sense of morality. Perhaps deep down in his heart he also felt a sense of relief from self-sacrifice.

It seems that Jiang Nan's death in that shopping mall was really the best ending for him.

As for He Jingtong and myself?

The result was that Pei Lin and Shang Tingqi both hated him.

But it doesn't matter.

For He Jingtong, he would definitely think it doesn't matter.

Because he acts for the sake of accumulating points.

A perfect system that will never have any loopholes, a kind of psychological deception that cannot be accurately explained in words even by a fourth-dimensional system.

You have to know that when He Jingtong's heart rate reaches an abnormal level due to exercise, the system will not interpret any emotional changes from the accelerated heart rate caused by exercise.

In other words, He Jingtong's calm heartbeat itself does not mean anything.

The system even wondered, if it had figured this out before He Jingtong fell into a coma, it would have asked him, "Why didn't you treat Jiang Nan as a sustainable resource?"

Perhaps the answer you get is just a rational one.

——"The explosion is too powerful. An explosive weapon that can be used multiple times without even investing money and resources can easily disrupt my layout. I won't let Fu Zexun have something that can overturn the chessboard."

This is just one of the answers that He Jingtong might say, as analyzed by the system.

Another one is: "The points gained from the sale of a hammer can be exchanged in the system mall for the things I need most at the moment, and the points that can be gained from the things I need at the moment will far outweigh the continued use of Jiang Nan."

And the last one is the most likely and least likely possibility.

——“I don’t think that far ahead.”

Hahaha, who would believe it? Even the silicon-based biological system would not believe it.

A sane madman.

Is it really reasonable to choose such a guy as the subject of the thesis? !

The system's CPU is burning out again.

Of course, the reason for the CPU temperature rising again may also include An Lai, who was wearing a Tang suit and followed the hazy moonlight. He not only walked out of the office that symbolized imprisonment, but even took the initiative to come to the playground.

Crazy, crazy, everyone is crazy!

But in the end, the system could only see the scene of He Jingtong being held in An Lai's arms and walking towards the school infirmary.

If there must be someone who can empathize with the system, it would be Cui Tong, who rushed into the school hospital when He Jingtong was lying on the hospital bed receiving an IV drip.

The Dean of Studies had no idea whether to say, "Why did you come out?" or "What happened to He Jingtong?"

He couldn't say anything.

In the end, he just said in a dry voice: "What did the doctor say?"

An Lai glanced at him without any expression and said, "Do you think there will be a school doctor on duty at this time during the summer vacation?"

The veins on Cui Tong's forehead jumped, and his voice accelerated involuntarily: "Don't tell me that you helped to insert the needle for the IV drip in his body!"

An Lai glanced at Cui Tong again. The Dean of Studies didn't understand what was going on, but he said in a more relaxed tone, "Is He Jingtong okay? And you..."

"We may not be well." An Lai originally thought that he should not be so rational, but at that moment, he was able to organize the words to tell Cui Tong accurately, "The school doctor gave me remote guidance via video and asked me to examine him roughly. The conclusion is that he has a slight fever now, with a temperature of 38.5 degrees. He has bleeding in his throat. He also has uncontrollable spasms due to excessive body movement."

"Besides that, he hasn't eaten for more than ten hours. Of course, he hasn't drunk any water in these ten hours. So he is now moderately dehydrated. At the same time, the abrasions on his face and elbows are serious. As for the mental level..."

"I think he needs a professional psychiatrist."

"Also regarding my situation..." An Lai was able to speak rationally while looking at the figure on the hospital bed, but when he talked about himself, he couldn't help but lower his head.

"I also made my own judgment when I left the office, for example, someone might come to closely monitor me to ensure that I would not leave the office easily, or impose corresponding force-level restrictions and punishments on me."

"Whatever." An Lai raised his head and looked at Cui Tong again. "It doesn't matter. At least between watching him die on the playground and breaking the rules and leaving the office, I chose not to let him die."

Why run?

He Jingtong's unlocked phone later received another message from Qi Xueyi.

An Lai looked at it without any offense, but as a spiritualist related to the program, his hands were faster than his brain and he opened the chat interface.

In the conversation that did not receive a reply and was also read, judging from the time when Qi Xueyi sent the message, He Jingtong took action only after receiving the message.

Besides, the school's surveillance is not impossible to adjust. After An Lai contacted the school doctor and gave He Jingtong an injection and an IV remotely, he had already seen everything that happened before on his mobile phone.

That was two hours of non-stop running…

An Lai himself wanted to curse: "Why didn't you die on the playground?"

But He Jingtong is in a coma now, and even if he wakes up, An Lai doesn't think he can really say such words.

Running is about getting stronger but also about punishing yourself.

It is a fact that Jiang Nan was killed by He Jingtong.

An Lai's growth over the past decade or so has made him no longer too sad about death, but he overlooked one thing.

——He Jingtong is still a minor.

Perhaps he has never even experienced the death of a relative in his past.

The current education system generally does not teach children how to face death...

"Tsk." An Lai roughly pulled her hair.

"Whatever you say might drive him crazy. He's already crazy."!