Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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You Xu died.
Died on a sunny and bright spring day.
That day, she had decided to take advantage of her free time to go up the mountain to enjoy the flowers but was killed by a huge rock that suddenly fell.
Before she had time to regret, her soul floated through a dark and narrow tunnel and came to a cloudy cliff full of white flowers.
She had never seen this place before, and had no impression of it at all, but she found it familiar for some reason, as if she might have grown up here.
Then she kept floating up and came to a deserted place.
In the blank scene…it couldn’t be said to be empty, because there was a matchstick man there?!
So after death, people would not become stars, nor would they go to heaven or hell, and they would not see gods, but only a… matchstick man.
It had a black hat and a wooden body, and the workmanship was very rough. If you looked closely, you could still see the sawdust on it.
“Hello, transmigration apprentice You Xu,” the matchstick man spoke in a businesslike manner, “I am system 748[1] bound to you.”
You Xu used her personal experience to prove one thing, that death was not necessarily the end, but it may be a turning point.
She took over the conversation without hesitation: “Let’s not talk nonsense, be civilized.”
System: “…….”
The two looked at each other for a moment, then You Xu waved her hand: “Go on.”
“In the time and space you can’t see, there are countless parallel worlds. Some worlds are disordered because of some strong obsession, making the people who were originally set as decent male protagonists become big villains who kill people without blinking. What you have to do is to warm them up, gain their trust and then cut off the roots.”
You Xu sat cross-legged on the ground with a calm face: “You mean to get rid of them, then can’t your system just kill them directly?”
The system said: “According to their original settings, they have the halo of the protagonist. In their world, they are gods. Even if they become villains, the halo of the protagonist is still there.”
You Xu supported her chin and explained: “So there are countless computers in the world, and there are always a few that are infected with viruses and need to be disinfected?”
“You…if you understand it this way, it’s okay.” The expression on the black face of the matchstick man was a little reluctant. But You Xu said “oh” without much care.
Seeing that she was not panicking at all, the system could not help but say, “Aren’t you afraid? Those people are all perverted murderers who have been alienated and have no moral values or emotions.”
“God has bestowed a great mission on this person,” You Xu said leisurely, “If it doesn’t make me suffer, it’s fine. If I can maintain my health, it’s even better. Don’t have too high expectations for other things.”
She didn’t seem to have any pursuit or sense of responsibility at all.
“…” The system endured it and stabilized its expression, “Do you have anything else to ask?”
You Xu glanced at it and slowly said, “Your system looks so low-level. Can’t you make a five-cent special effect or build a model?”
“…….” The system obviously didn’t want to pay attention to her question. So it stood upside down and drew a circle around You Xu with its forehead, making a rustling sound and emitting some sparks.
The match hat left a black circle on the blank ground, and a column of fire suddenly rushed out and wrapped You Xu.
Although she didn’t feel the pain of being burned by fire, You Xu felt like a potato thrown into a gas stove. Then she heard the system say, “Okay, let’s go to the first world.”
“Wait…” Before she could say anything else, her body was twisted and drawn into a twisted vortex. Suddenly, many things squeezed into her brain, and she felt dizzy and painful, and had a strong feeling of motion sickness that made her vomit.
Soon, a world line was formed in You Xu’s mind.
The world she was about to go to was a more modern and diversified world. This world had experienced the apocalypse before. At that time, zombies appeared, and at that time the zombie king who appeared was the only zombie with human consciousness. He thus controlled the zombies to bring disaster to humans. In the end, humans won with the light of science. After eliminating the zombies, everything was in ruins and humans went about rebuilding their homes.
But only fifty years later, some people started having crooked thoughts. After seeing the zombie king controlling the zombie army, some people were extremely moved and fanatically fantasized about being able to control puppets that would never rebel, so they wanted to develop an equivalent substitute for the zombie king – the puppet king.
They thus set up an underground laboratory, concealed the truth, and attracted a group of scientific fanatics to use the remains of the zombie king to conduct experiments. After tens of thousands of failures, the puppet king Duan Min was born.
They always thought that the thing they made should obey their orders. And as long as they controlled the puppet king, they would have an army of puppets. However, they did not expect that the thing made by the cold instruments had no human emotions but had its own consciousness since the beginning.
Duan Min turned the people who made him into puppets and then manipulated them to commit suicide. He hated crowds so much that he hid directly and bought a building where he lived. People who came to rent houses in the building then became his experimental subjects.
She was also called You Xu in this world. She was a veritable cannon fodder. She lived in Duan Min’s building and was dissected alive by him.
Corresponding to the cannon fodder was the heroine. You Xu’s cousin You Qi, as the heroine, gave Duan Min the only warmth of his life. People in the dark always tended to be attracted to the light. Duan Min naturally fell madly in love with You Qi, but he hid his love because he felt he was not worthy.
You Qi however liked Xu Shaosi, the son of a high-ranking official. Xu Shaosi had an ambiguous relationship with her, which was discovered by his fiancée Lin Lanlan. Lin Lanlan turned jealousy into hatred and designed to destroy the You family. You Qi thus lost her child and finally committed suicide in despair.
Duan Min’s beloved died because of hatred, which led to his unprecedented hatred for humans. He thus created a puppet army to fight against humans, and the lives of the people were devastated until corpses were everywhere. Human civilization regressed hundreds of years, while he died of exhaustion.
After reading the world line, You Xu fell silent. Just a paragraph of text was enough to make her back hairy and her scalp explode.
She even imagined herself lying on the cold test bench, watching her flesh being cut by a scalpel, full of despair and pain.
She understood a little bit about the protagonist’s halo, but becoming a villain and still having the protagonist’s halo, what kind of bug is this, is it possible to let other people live?
You Xu squatted in front of the light gate and hugged herself: “Wait a minute, how can such a good world be made like a doomsday story? Don’t you think this task is abnormal? Why is it a task of this magnitude right at the beginning? I think we should proceed step by step and start from the simple level…”
“Host, stop talking,” the system interrupted her and laughed with gritted teeth, “This is the novice task.”
“Is this the task of the novice village? There must be something wrong. No, wait a minute…”
The system did not give her the opportunity to talk nonsense and directly hit her lower back with its match hat.
A powerful thrust came from behind, and You Xu was knocked forward and rolled out of the light gate. Her body immediately felt real.
She was standing in front of a dark iron door, her finger pressing on the doorbell, and the doorbell rang in her ears.
You Xu was stunned for a moment and received a little bit of the previous plot. The original owner had just moved into this building today. She came back from dinner and was very enthusiastic and proactively came to find the landlord. She wanted to say hello and be polite and familiar with him. So she came to the black iron door and pressed the doorbell.
Normal actions, normal behavior, and normal things. The only abnormal thing was that the original owner didn’t know that her landlord was a villain boss, and a big boss who could dismember people if he didn’t agree with them.
The more cannon fodder stuff you do, the easier it is to die early. She had been wondering that if the original owner was quietly staying in the house, how could she be guillotined in a few seconds?
No wonder she didn’t receive many memories of her original owner, because her original owner was dealt with at the speed of light.
You Xu immediately pulled back her hand, turned around quickly, and wanted to evacuate the battlefield as soon as possible. She silently repeated in her heart eighteen thousand times that Duan Min was not at home, Duan Min did not open the door, and Duan Min must not have heard it. As a result, just when she had turned halfway, she heard a “click” and the door opened.
The slight sound was drawn out by the wind in the corridor, like a death-urging song in hell. You Xu’s scalp went numb, her neck turned stiff, and her eyes looked over in despair.
The person who came out was wearing a black long-sleeved sweatshirt and casual pants, wearing the sweatshirt hood, his expression was extremely indifferent.
His skin seemed to have never seen the sun, it was extremely cold and white, with deep facial features, smooth and beautiful lines, brown eyes, and bright red lips.
He had a boyish feeling, but his temperament was extremely cold.
You Xu stared at him blankly for two seconds. The system looked at her with a look of astonishment. It then said in her mind: “Host, what’s wrong with your heart rate? It’s a little fast.”
“Can your system also measure people’s heartbeats?”
“Of course, our system is fully equipped.”
“Fear and terror will increase adrenaline,” You Xu replied, “You are a matchstick man, you don’t understand.”
System: “…”
Duan Min’s eyes were introverted and hooked, with thin double eyelids and a tea-brown eyes color that was both clear and beautiful.
But those eyes squinted at her, cold and sinister, as if looking at some kind of experimental product. You Xu’s back was chilled by being looked at like this, and she swallowed her saliva and asked the system weakly: “Guess, what is he thinking about now?”
“If you let me guess,” the system said slowly, “He hates the breath of living people and is thinking about which part to dissect from you.”
“…”
Sorry, she doesn’t want to play in this world anymore!
Help!!!
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[1] The Chinese internet slang 748 is used like “Go to hell” or “Get lost”, as the number combination 748 (qī sì bā) sounds like “去死吧” (qù sǐ ba) – meaning literally “go and die”.
