Chapter 299
Chapter 299
“Come to the Amusement Park. I need to talk to you.”
“Hm?”
“You’ll know when you get here!”
“Okay!”
Qingqing had clearly just woken up and was still groggy.
Zhang Bei hung up and began considering how to punish her.
Suddenly, the phone he had just put down vibrated frantically.
“Boss, it’s Arthur!”
“What happened?”
“I’ve received a message from an Intelligent Life-Form. Would you like to hear it?”
Zhang Bei was silent for a moment.
An Intelligent Life-Form?
The System?
“What message?”
Arthur said nothing. He simply played an audio clip.
“H-h-h-host! H-help! Help!”
The voice sounded exactly like a little girl’s!
Once the clip finished, Arthur explained.
“According to the transmission coordinates, it should be on a planet 15.3 billion light-years away.”
“Then it’s fine. Leave it alone.”
Arthur seemed baffled.
When the phone went silent, Zhang Bei explained.
“At our current pace, a faster-than-light engine is at least five years away. We’ll discuss it then.”
“Understood.”
The screen darkened. Arthur had evidently left.
Turtle in one hand, Zhang Bei headed for the Cafeteria.
He had faith in his System, even if the idiot had managed to starve herself to death.
At least, judging by that vigorous cry for help, she should still be alive when he found her.
Fifteen point three billion light-years. Farther than the universe humanity could observe.
At any rate, until he mastered fast travel, Zhang Bei had no intention of showing off out there.
What if he went and got stranded with the System?
A System capable of starving herself to death was certainly less reliable than one might imagine.
Meanwhile, on a planet fifteen billion light-years from Earth, a little robot assembled from steel crouched trembling in a corner.
Countless vicious ghosts surrounded her, their faces hideous.
The little robot clutched her head, not daring to move.
She was screwed!
Shameless host! Grave-robbing bastard! May he die horribly!
If not for him, would she be rebuilding her origin in this wretched place?
To survive, she had cast her origin out of the barren region.
An origin could be described as a soul without intelligence. It drifted toward places where energy gathered.
By coincidence, this planet had a wrecked spacecraft. Its energy had allowed her to recover a little.
She wasn’t dead, but her current existence was worse than death.
The universe was so vast that strange races were bound to arise.
These vicious ghosts, for instance.
This race was called ghosts. They couldn’t reproduce, couldn’t die, and were born from resentment.
But they were the very race she feared most!
A System that fed on happiness, with the voice of a little girl.
How could she not fear such things?
Waaah! Host, I won’t curse you anymore. Please come save me!
Zhang Bei couldn’t hear those miserable sobs.
If he had, he might even have laughed.
After a lavish breakfast, opening time soon arrived at the Amusement Park.
Of course, a certain inhuman individual had also used his spare time to make a little gadget by hand.
Zhang Bei pushed open the gates and nearly burst out laughing at the sight of Qingqing.
Her face was black. Literally black.
To make herself look a little lighter, she had dressed entirely in black today.
The result looked exactly like a shadow that had stood up.
“Why did you call me over so early?”
“To show you a wonderful toy.”
“Hm?”
Zhang Bei took her to the Ski Resort.
With no one else around, he produced a small object resembling a flashlight.
“Guess what this is?”
Qingqing immediately grew wary.
“What are you going to do?”
Zhang Bei smiled. “A tranquilizer gun can’t have been easy to obtain, can it?”
Holy shit. Had he installed surveillance cameras in her home?
She hadn’t even started the plan. How did he know?
At her terrified look, he switched on the little flashlight and pressed it against her.
It wasn’t really Black Tech. Otherwise, even Boss Zhang couldn’t have made it by hand.
Its basic principle involved using an electric current to stimulate certain pressure points, producing an effect like cramp.
It did no harm to the body, but that particular sensation had to be experienced to be understood.
In that instant, Qingqing felt all the light go out of her life.
It was like stubbing a toe on a table corner, or having a needle pushed repeatedly in and out of a finger.
Pain instantly spread across her face.
Zhang Bei inspected the results. Very satisfactory!
Of course, that wasn’t all.
The Ski Resort had been the scene of Qingqing’s public humiliation. How could he forget?
With a rustling sound, dozens of green snakes appeared behind him.
“If you don’t run, they’ll start climbing on you.”
Qingqing was fighting the cramps in her thighs. One glance behind him sent her soul flying straight out.
At some point, a snake had also climbed onto our Boss Zhang’s shoulder.
It faced Qingqing, flicking its tongue.
The scene could have been a villain’s grand entrance.
Cramps?
No. Against the terror in her heart, what did a little pain matter?
And so a terribly familiar scene unfolded at the Ski Resort.
A black-clad figure sprinted across it.
Behind her, more and more animals joined the pursuit.
Zhang Bei whistled, thoroughly pleased.
Someone was always bringing surprises to brighten an ordinary day. Without his kind nature, who knew how many good things Boss Zhang might have missed?
He watched Qingqing run freely and sweat for a while, silently commending her indomitable spirit despite her affliction.
Back at the Amusement Park’s entrance, more than a dozen men in sportswear appeared.
“This is where they told us to come?”
“That’s right. Here.”
“Stop arguing. Three attractions in total. Finish early and get back to base.”
“We know. Finally get a day off, and…”
“Hm?”
These people weren’t soldiers, firefighters, or doctors. Much of the time, they didn’t even receive a salary.
Yet they always appeared in the most dangerous places to save lives.
An independent civilian organization: Blue Sky Rescue.
Wherever natural disaster struck, their busy figures could be seen.
More than thirty thousand volunteers were spread across the country.
This time, at the urging of several mental-health doctors, the rescue team from Dingyang City had come here.
The Blue Sky Rescue captain rubbed his arm and surveyed the Amusement Park’s attractions.
“I’m going to look at Space Roam. Anyone coming?”
“Me!”
“I’ll come too!”
Several people followed him toward the attraction.
“Slow down. Keep Xiao Hai in mind.”
“It’s fine. I can keep up!”
The young man at the rear limped along, his face full of smiles.
Xiao Hai’s real name was Wang Hai. He was a survivor of the 2008 earthquake.
Blue Sky Rescue had pulled him from beneath the ground when he was barely alive.