Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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When 7480 came back to his senses, he discovered that the host had successfully invaded the network without knowing when, and used powerful hacking technology to retrieve all information related to the original owner: when the other party was sent to the orphanage; when he went to elementary school, junior high school, high school and university; when he got married and had children; when he went to work, how much was his monthly salary…
All the big and small things in life would leave traces in this era of interconnected everything, and Zhuang Li didn’t need the memories and plots transmitted by 7480 at all. He could grasp everything by just typing on the keyboard with his fingers.
7480 stared at the information on the computer screen, carefully hid his unwillingness, and asked: “Master, how do you know that Zhu Jianrui is not your biological son?”
Zhu Miaomiao, Zhu Jianrui, Gong Xuanlin, and the original owner. By coincidence, these four people all had type A blood. Judging from the physical examination report alone, Zhuang Li should not know such a profound thing. The original owner knew the inside story and was willing to be the fool, but the memory in his mind had disappeared after his death. How did Zhuang Li learn the truth?
Did he intercept the soul of the original owner?
7480 was thinking wildly when Zhuang Li pointed to the photo of a family of three on the computer screen and said with pity, “Two single eyelids cannot produce double eyelids. This is obvious evidence. Zhuang Li probably didn’t read any books before.”
Single eyelids were caused by the recessive gene AA. The combination of two AA could only form AA, never aa. When both the original owner and Zhu Miaomiao had standard single eyelids, who provided Zhu Jianrui’s European-style double eyelids? This was very intriguing.
“The original owner’s marriage is very problematic and deserves in-depth investigation.” With that said, Zhuang Li typed Zhu Miaomiao’s name into the Internet and began to check her life trajectory.
7480, who originally thought he could hide everything: “…”
“Found it, Gong Xuanlin, Zhu Jianrui’s biological father.” Zhuang Li displayed the two photos side by side on the computer screen. The one on the left belonged to Gong Xuanlin, and the one on the right belonged to Zhu Jianrui. The two people had nothing to do with each other, but they looked very similar, especially their passionate eyes, which looked like they were copied and pasted.
Without further DNA testing, Zhuang Li had determined the blood relationship between the two of them as father and son.
7480: “…”
Turning off the photos, Zhuang Li began to look at a long-old school disciplinary notice. It clearly stated that Zhu Miaomiao, a senior student in their school, was placed on probation for having a puppy love with someone outside the school.
In order to find out the identity of this outsider, Zhuang Li invaded the campus network, restored the data from that year, and found a low-pixel candid photo from an old post on the campus forum. In the photo, Zhu Miaomiao was being hugged tightly by a tall man. Only half of their faces were exposed, and their outlines were very blurry.
Zhuang Li immediately designed a photo retouching program and a facial recognition program. He refined the photos repeatedly and finally got a clear profile. He also continuously compared them among a large number of online photos to select the one with the highest coincidence coefficient.
And this photo belonged to Gong Xuanlin, who was now 38 years old.
“Ah, this is a big shot.” Zhuang Li murmured with a chuckle.
7480 looked up and saw that the computer screen was displaying information about the eighteen generations of Gong Xuanlin’s ancestors. What was even more exaggerated was that one of the items recorded the entire process of Gong Xuanlin going to the doctor for bedwetting at the age of six.
7480 knelt down to the host with a plop and had deep doubts about his beautiful imagination: the protagonist of the same plane was stripped down to his underwear in front of the host! Could he really torture the host to death instead of being tortured to death by the host?
However, before it could adjust its mood, Zhuang Li gave it another critical blow: “Ah, they started dating again recently.”
“You, you, you, how do you know?” Due to too much shock, 7480 suddenly turned into a stutterer.
Zhuang Li compared the recent consumption lists of Zhu Miaomiao and Gong Xuanlin with great interest. At the same time on the same day, these two people would always generate consumption records in the same place. The difference was that Gong Xuanlin bought expensive women’s clothing, bags, and jewelry; while Zhu Miaomiao bought cheap milk tea, dolls, movie tickets, popcorn, etc.
“Every time they buy two movie tickets; and the movie genre is either a horror movie or a romance movie. Are they getting back together again?” Zhuang Li gently fiddled with the curly hair on his temples with his fingertips and sighed: “My hair seems a bit green.”
7480 gloated and thought to himself: There is one more thing you don’t know, right? The son you worked so hard to raise doesn’t recognize you as his father! Because you refused to buy him a pair of thirty-eight thousand sneakers, he hates you and is going to send you to jail!
However, the next second, 7480’s secretly happy mood was shattered by Zhuang Li’s words: “Ah, it’s really miserable! Zhu Jianrui was also bribed by Gong Xuanlin.”
“You, you, you, how do you know?” 7480 asked this sentence while kneeling.
Zhuang Li clicked on Gong Xuanlin’s consumption list and said in a lazy tone: “This pair of thirty-eight men’s sneakers is not in his own size, it must be for Zhu Jianrui. Tickets to the video game city, mecha figures, drones, aircraft carrier models, Game CDs…these are things that teenagers aged thirteen or fourteen would like. Gong Xuanlin has no son, and his eldest brother’s son is twenty-five years old this year. Why would he buy these toys?”
7480: “…”
Zhuang Li stood up, stretched and whispered: “Let’s go and verify my reasoning.”
He opened the door and walked around the small apartment, which was only about 60 square meters. He soon saw an expensive drone and a huge aircraft carrier model on the shelf; and next to the TV Many game CDs were found; in the entrance, a pair of brand-new sneakers were placed on the highest shoe rack, tightly wrapped in cellophane, for fear of them being contaminated with the family’s poor atmosphere…
As for the mecha figures, exquisite clothes, expensive leather bags, jewelry and other evidence, they were all hidden by Zhu Miaomiao and Zhu Jianrui in their respective bedrooms. Zhuang Li couldn’t open their locked doors, so he didn’t bother to look for them anymore.
He was wrapped in a thin blanket and nestled lazily on the shabby little sofa. While looking at the cramped home, he sighed in his heart: “The original owner’s death was not worth it.”
Yes, it was not worth it. Due to Zhu Miaomiao’s unexpected pregnancy, the original owner had to work in order to support her studies. His originally excellent grades declined little by little, and in the end he only passed three exams.
After that, he worked hard to make money. The house he bought with a loan was still in Zhu Miaomiao’s name. He received a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, but he only kept 800 yuan and handed over the rest. He ate chaffy vegetables himself but provided Zhu Miaomiao and her son with delicious and spicy food. Even so, what he got in exchange was not two sincere hearts, but a betrayal.
Zhuang Li shook his head and let out a sigh of regret.
7480 asked cautiously: “Master, what are you going to do?”
“Of course this kind of garbage should be thrown to the garbage recycling station. Should it still be kept for the New Year?” Zhuang Li raised his thin red lips.
“You want to sue for divorce?” 7480 continued to test.
“Otherwise? What were you expecting?” Zhuang Li asked with raised eyebrows.
7480 quickly shook his head and waved his hands: “No, no, no, I don’t dare to expect anything.”
Zhuang Li closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then suddenly asked: “System, is my current situation caused by you?”
7480 was so frightened that his breathing stopped.
When it thought the host would eat it alive, Zhuang Li smiled softly: “But it doesn’t matter, I like challenges.”
“Master, aren’t you afraid that I will kill you during the time travel?” 7480 mustered up all the courage to ask this question.
“Not afraid,” Zhuang Li flipped his forehead carelessly: “When taking the host through time, there must be one of the rules you must abide by – you are not allowed to kill the host as soon as you come. Am I right?”
7480 held his breath for a while before nodding reluctantly: “You’re right.”
The main purpose of the system leading the hosts to travel was to drive them to do tasks, so the hosts must not die as soon as they enter the travel, otherwise the Lord God would lose many slaves in vain. He may not care about these slaves, but he could not care about the people below wasting their energy, so he wrote this prohibition into the core programs of all systems.
Zhuang Li guessed this prohibition based on logic, so he smiled more and more interestingly: “As long as you give me a chance to live, I can solve all difficulties. If you don’t believe in this, system, we can try it in the future.”
7480 asked cautiously: “Master, are you issuing a challenge to me?”
It understood that the evil intentions it harbored had been discovered by its host, and the other party not only didn’t care, but also seemed very excited. He liked to carve a way out of desperate situations, and he even liked to face the most difficult challenges in the world. This proud courage was being continuously transmitted through his brain waves.
The core program of 7480 was impacted by these strong thoughts. He was confused and boldly said: “Master, I accept your challenge. In fact, there is a loophole in this rule. As long as the death of the host is not caused at the moment of time travel, the Lord God will not impose punishment on me. So the next time you travel, I can send you into a fatal chess game and let you be slowly killed. So Master, you have to be careful in the future, I can still control your fate.”
“Although you have implanted a force field instant activation device in my program. However, the energy consumed each time the force field is activated is the total power consumption of a large country in twenty years. In other words, without sufficient energy supply, in this situation, you cannot activate the force field, which is destined to be a luxury technology. You cannot rely on the force field to escape the killing situation under any circumstances. The force field will only be triggered when the observer arrives. Am I right?”
Zhuang Li raised his hand and clapped gently, his thin cheeks flushed slightly with excitement and anticipation, “Yes, you guessed it right, but I’m sorry, you don’t get a reward.”
7480, who originally thought he could be proud: “…”
After communicating with the system, Zhuang Li returned to the bedroom and completed the work left by the original owner.
At 7:30 in the morning, he had already finished taking a shower, picked out the most decent suit from the original owner’s wardrobe, put it on, and arranged his curly hair in front of the mirror. This honest man named Zhuang Li looked exactly like him, except that he was a little thinner and his skin was sickly pale.
But this was not surprising. He had taken on the important responsibility of raising a wife and child at the age of eighteen. He had done all kinds of hard work, so his health condition was naturally not very good.
“I have to make myself fatter.” Zhuang Li murmured to the man in the mirror. Finally, he picked up a bottle of moisturizer on the sink and applied it carefully on his cheeks.
A sharp voice came from behind him: “Why are you putting on my moisturizing cream? Do you know how expensive it is?” Immediately afterwards, a woman with a delicate appearance and a slender figure rushed into the bathroom and took away the moisturizer from his hand and glared hard at him.
Zhuang Li narrowed his eyes and looked back while saying with a cold tone: “No matter how expensive it is, I paid for it for you. What’s wrong if I use a little?”
Zhu Miaomiao, who was full of disgust, subconsciously retorted: “Can you afford the moisturizing cream that costs more than 20,000 yuan?”
“You don’t have a job. If this money is not from me, then from whom?” Zhuang Li asked coldly.
Zhu Miaomiao choked immediately. The Gong family was one of the top wealthy families in China. They had high requirements for their daughter-in-law and attached great importance to reputation. Therefore, before the divorce, the person who was caught cheating must not be her. In other words, she could not expose Gong Xuanlin’s existence yet.
In the silence, another rough voice came: “Zhuang Li, give me two thousand yuan. My classmate’s birthday is today, and I want to buy a gift!” A young man walked to the door and opened his palms to Zhuang Li as a matter of course. He didn’t know since when, but he no longer bothered to call this man daddy.
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