Chapter 54 Chapter 54 The Fourth Wish
System 05 has always paid little attention to Bai Xiaochun. As long as she is in the base, she can be guaranteed to be safe, and someone is always watching her, so he has not thought much about her.
One day, System 05 took some official business home to do, and by the next morning, Bai Xiaochun hadn't returned. He inquired and received word that Bai Xiaochun had stayed overnight at a friend's house. Those friends were young people, mostly from the Fifth Floor, and they were throwing a grand party, to which Bai Xiaochun had been invited.
In the afternoon, Bai Xiaochun finally came back. Her hair was wet and hung on her shoulders, and her skirt was sticky. She walked in slowly. Seeing her brother at home, her eyes widened. System 05 smelled the strong smell of alcohol on her.
Alcohol is prohibited in the base, and Bai Xiaochun's friends seem to be quite powerful.
"I want to talk to you." System 05 said.
Bai Xiaochun showed an annoyed look: "I don't want to talk to you."
"You don't seem happy working at the Ministry of Transportation," System 05 said. "Let's discuss it. Perhaps there's a job that might be more suitable for you."
After the banquet, System 05 learned from his subordinates about Bai Xiaochun's situation at the Ministry of Transportation. Initially, the director assigned her tasks, but Bai Xiaochun failed at everything. Eventually, the director gave up, and she simply went there every day, wasting her time, or simply skipped it altogether to hang out with her friends. Some people knew her identity and often flocked to her, but she remained a marginal figure within the Ministry.
Bai Xiaochun said irritably, "I don't lack food, why do I have to go out to work? You clearly didn't allow me to go out before, and now you force me to work. Do you have nothing better to do than to torment me?"
System 05 said calmly, "So let's talk. Go clean up first. Is this how you want to talk to me?"
Bai Xiaochun glared at him and then went to take a shower.
System 05 flipped through Bai Daqiu's memories. Bai Xiaochun hesitated for a long time before sitting down in front of him. System 05 asked bluntly, "How are you going to survive in the future?"
Bai Daqiu had never discussed such topics with her. Although the two depended on each other, they rarely communicated. On the one hand, Bai Daqiu was busy making a living, and most of his energy was focused on how to keep himself and his sister alive. On the other hand, Bai Xiaochun always rejected him, and the two had nothing to say.
System 05 searched through Bai Daqiu's memories. Since he was very young, Bai Daqiu would try his best to give better food to Bai Xiaochun. Later on, Bai Xiaochun would take up all the food and tell him, "You are not allowed to eat my food."
Why did you only bring back so little?
Why do you control me?
Can't you sell it if you don't have money?
It is because of you that I live such an unhappy life. All my suffering is caused by you.
Bai Daqiu didn't know what was wrong, nor did he know how to educate her, but she was his sister, so he endured it and tried to meet his sister's requirements, hoping that she would be happy.
He worked hard for more than ten years, moved from the seventeenth floor to the twelfth floor, and then decided to take risks outside the base. Maybe this time he could change his sister's life.
From the perspective of System 05, he couldn't find the reason why Bai Xiaochun hated Bai Daqiu so much. He had seen some people like this in various worlds, so he was not surprised.
Yet, in Bai Daqiu's memories, negative emotions related to Bai Xiaochun were surprisingly few. Fighting with a pack of stray dogs, digging out rotten food from a trash can, being insulted by his boss at work, betrayed by his colleagues, having supplies withheld, having his medication stolen, having his organs removed by a shady doctor while receiving treatment... With everything he'd experienced outside, he could completely ignore Bai Xiaochun's few words.
What else can I do? If I let Xiaochun go out, she will really die.
Bai Xiaochun was stunned for a moment. How she was going to survive in the future was a complete mystery to her.
"Why, are you finally giving up on me?"
System 05 shook his head and said softly, "I will die one day. When that happens, how will you survive?"
This wasn't an exaggeration; after he left this body, Bai Daqiu would likely die soon. Bai Daqiu's wish was for Bai Xiaochun to survive, and the ideal state of survival was a natural death. The first problem was the virus, and the second was how she would survive after Bai Daqiu's death.
Of course, the task can be completed less than ideally, but System 05 still hopes that the task can be completed with S-level completion.
"If you die, won't there be any inheritance or anything?" Bai Xiaochun stared at her fingers. They were slender and tender, a rarity in this world. Many people had shown their affection to her last night, which made Bai Xiaochun very excited. "Without you, I'm sure I can live a better life."
"How are you going to support yourself?"
"There will always be a way. I will definitely live better than you."
"Depending on your friends?"
Bai Xiaochun's expression changed slightly: "You're spying on me?!"
System 05 thought she had known it for a long time. It seemed that she really could not survive without Bai Daqiu.
Bai Xiaochun was furious. "Are you sick? It's not enough for you to control me, you even have to keep an eye on me. What right do you have to criticize my friends? They at least play with me. What can you do? They understand me, they praise me, they encourage me. And you? You only command, monitor, and oppress me!"
System 05 ignored her anger and pondered for a moment: "It seems that this job is indeed not suitable for you. You should first learn some basic knowledge and skills. School has just started, so why not go to school?"
Bai Xiaochun frowned: "I'm not going to school!"
System 05 didn't say anything. His mission was to keep Bai Xiaochun alive, which did not include giving Bai Xiaochun psychological massage.
"You tell me to work one moment and go to school the next. Why should I listen to you?"
System 05 calmly asked, "So what do you want to do?"
Bai Xiaochun was panting. She was a little tired after venting for so long: "I don't want to do anything!"
"Go to school." System 05 stood up. Bai Xiaochun was about to protest, but suddenly his eyes met System 05's. After a few seconds, Bai Xiaochun nodded, his eyes dull, and he said, "Okay."
She was still very angry and resentful of her brother's dictatorship and oppression, but the thought of going to school came into her mind.
[Reward Skill Card: Mind Control (Rank A)]
[Can precisely control the target's mind. The control effect and duration depend on the difference in mental strength between the two parties.]
[Points required to use: 100 points]
System 05 gave the order for Bai Xiaochun to go to school. Because the effect of the skill card was not fixed, he also glanced at the time.
Duration: 337 hours
It lasted about two weeks, which was pretty good, and it wasn't expensive to use it once every two weeks.
Chen Mu asked about this matter two months after Bai Xiaochun went to school.
"She's been quite well behaved recently. Have you convinced her?" Chen Mu asked.
System 05: "Skill Card."
Chen Mu suddenly realized that he already knew the host's wish, so he came to the same conclusion as System 05. Now System 05 can still control Bai Xiaochun, but after he left, System 05 could not protect Bai Xiaochun for life.
Chen Mu asked: "That's fine, I think she's pretty annoying...but what will happen after you leave?"
"Thinking about it." System 05 didn't put too much thought into this question. He asked, "What are the current trends at other bases?"
Chen Mu's thoughts quickly turned to business: "This is bad. They don't trust us."
During this period of time, Chen Mu and Yun Caizhi have been actively communicating with other bases. They revealed their plan to travel to the moon by spacecraft and also indicated that there were spacecraft in the abandoned city, but most bases did not trust them, let alone cooperate.
"The leaders of the various bases can't even agree that the end of the world is imminent." Chen Mu touched his chin. "Most people think that a hundred years have passed, and humans are still alive and well. How can they die in just one or two years?"
Even though the virus concentration is getting higher and higher and the drug effect is getting worse and worse, they still think that doomsday is an alarmist talk. Even the top leaders who have access to more information think so, not to mention ordinary people.
"Humans always have a lucky mentality." Chen Mu smiled subtly: "Until the disaster actually befalls them, they will think that nothing will happen."
System 05 said calmly, "There's sometimes a fine line between worrying about the future and preparing for it."
Chen Mu raised his lip. "Indeed, quite a few people think that we are courting our own destruction by risking all our resources to find the spacecraft."
Regardless of what other bases thought, their work was still progressing at an accelerated pace. The factory's research progress was particularly rapid, as they relearned many of the old technologies from a hundred years ago, which in turn propelled the base's own development.
About a year after System 05 came to this world, they received a message from Jin Zhuan.
He found information about what appeared to be an energy station from a hundred years ago.
When Jin Zhuan's message came, System 05 and Chen Mu were in the R&D center.
In front of them was the robot dog. Last time, after the carrier chip exploded, Chen Mu did not give up on it - System 05 therefore thought Chen Mu was really stubborn. Chen Mu and the factory masters worked together to find a way to repair the robot dog, and used technology and materials excavated from old technology. This robot dog is now the most technologically advanced and expensive thing in the base.
"Try again." Chen Mu said.
System 05 had long understood his persistence. He was indeed a stubborn person, so he always succeeded more easily than others. System 05 put the chip in, and at this moment, Jin Zhuan sent a message.
He sent me a map with three red dots and a very concise sentence:
These three places were former energy stations, and one of them contains energy left over from a hundred years ago.
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