stjorthotic Chapter 221 The Ultimate Mission and the Electricity Bill
Chapter 221 The Ultimate Mission and the Electricity Bill
In the center of the "Spirit Gathering Array" in the backyard, the surface of the huge blue crystal that serves as the array's core is covered in dust.
Since the power was cut off last night, this place has lost all its luster.
Wang Minyu walked over and precisely embedded the small crystal in his hand, which had absorbed the assassin's negative emotions, into a groove on the top of the large crystal.
No sound was made at the moment the energy came into contact.
But the air in the entire backyard suddenly became strangely distorted.
The leaves of those medicinal herbs that were growing quietly began to move swiftly without wind, making a rustling sound.
Wang Minyu closed his eyes and focused his mental energy on the space between his eyebrows.
He is forcibly establishing a connection.
It wasn't about connecting to the internet, but about connecting to that tool lurking deep within his consciousness.
A massive flow of information surges back into the brain from the nerve endings.
On the retina, the previously extinguished code began to rearrange itself.
The green "God-level Leek Gardener System" interface did not appear; instead, a deep, starry-sky-like holographic projection was shown.
[High-purity emotional energy injection detected.]
Physical isolation has been lifted. The underlying logical firewall has been rebuilt.
[System self-check complete. Encountered a privilege overwrite attack from an unknown high-dimensional entity, 'Administrator'. Defense protocol activated.]
[Host permissions changed: Upgraded from 'Junior Gardener' to 'Dimensional Observation Node Administrator'.]
A mechanical prompting tone rang in my mind, its timbre less playful and more coldly metallic than before.
Wang Minyu opened his eyes, looked at the floating starry sky panel in front of him, and reached out to tap the void.
"You've changed your name to something quite long. So, what exactly are you?"
The starry sky on the panel rotates, converging into a line of text: [This terminal is a legacy component of the 'Pan-Cosmic Emotional Threshold Observation and Repair System.' Originally designed to monitor the increase in emotional entropy of intelligent beings, preventing the universe from heading towards heat death due to excessive rationality or excessive chaos.]
Speak like a human.
I'm a road repairman here to patch up the world's vulnerabilities. Organization S is a demolition team trying to blow up the entire road and rebuild it.
Wang Minyu nodded; the analogy was very down-to-earth.
"They think emotions are a bug, you think emotions are a fix. A clash of ideologies. And then what?" Wang Minyu pulled up a wicker chair and sat down. "What does this have to do with me, a pharmacy owner?"
[The host has become deeply involved in the energy cycle of this dimension. Organization S has marked the host as a 'high-risk logical error'. The probability of escaping calculation is 0%.]
[The final main quest has been released: Project Mend the Sky.]
[Mission Objective: Collect the primal crystals of six extreme emotions scattered throughout this dimension (Tears of Purity, Utter Rage, Fearless Courage, Sigh of Despair, Fanatical Adoration, and Selfless Love). Infuse them into the array's core to reconstruct the emotional rules of this dimension, completely sealing off the S Organization's intrusion channels.]
Wang Minyu looked at the row of words that were full of epic and fatalistic feeling, and tapped his fingers on the armrest of the rattan chair.
"I don't do jobs without a budget," Wang Minyu said calmly, as if he were buying cabbage at a market. "Collecting these things is time-consuming and labor-intensive. I also have to support the staff of the shop and pay the utilities. What kind of reward would I give?"
The system was silent for three seconds. It seemed to be performing some kind of complex calculation.
[Quest Rewards (Pre-Quest): Unlocks the 'High-Dimensional Ecosystem Cultivation Chamber' blueprints. Unlocks the skill 'Emotional Materialization (Beginner)'.]
[Ecological Cultivation Chamber: Can disregard the laws of physics and cultivate medicinal plants in any known dimension.]
[Emotional Materialization: This feature allows the collection of intangible emotions to be transformed into physical agents or materials.]
Wang Minyu's eyes lit up.
Emotions are made concrete.
This means that he can extract a patient's anger, roll it into pills, and sell them to bodyguards who need fighting skills; or extract their sadness and sell it to actors who need to perform crying scenes.
This isn't about patching up cosmic holes; it's clearly a cost-free industry chain.
"Deal." Wang Minyu stood up and clapped his hands.
Just then, the wooden door to the backyard was pushed open.
Mr. Liu walked in with a calculator in hand and a long face.
"Xiao Wang, what on earth are you up to in your backyard?" Boss Liu slammed a bill on the stone table. "The power company just sent overdue payment notices. Our electricity bill this month is ten times the commercial electricity rate! If we don't pay, the power will be cut off tomorrow!"
Wang Minyu picked up the bill and glanced at it. Sixty-eight thousand yuan.
Last night's "physical internet shutdown" to combat the S organization's invasion, along with the previous "mental noise reduction," consumed a huge amount of electrical energy.
Although wars in higher dimensions may not produce visible smoke, the bills are very real.
"Boss, broaden your perspective." Wang Minyu folded the bill and stuffed it into his pocket. "We're not just paying for electricity; we're paying taxes to maintain universal peace."
Boss Liu rolled his eyes: "Stop talking nonsense. Can universal peace feed us? You'd better figure out a way to fill this hole, or we'll be able to afford candlelight for medical treatment next month."
"Don't worry." Wang Minyu looked in the direction of the store in front, "Soon a batch of high-quality leeks will line up to help us pay our electricity bills."
Although the mental pollution that S organization inflicted on the entire city was forcibly stopped, the aftereffects it left behind will not dissipate so quickly.
Brains that have been repeatedly washed by "logic" and "chaos" are now in a state of extreme fragility and thirst.
They need treatment.
In Changxiang City, there is only one pharmacy that can treat this disease.
Wang Minyu walked out of the backyard and snapped his fingers at Pierre, who was wiping the medicine cabinet at the front desk.
"Pierre, go buy fifty sets of the roughest linen clothes. Guan Shan, go to the suburbs and get two truckloads of yellow mud. Su Qing, post a 'GG' message online."
"How do you spell 'GG', Master?" Su Qing peeked out from behind the computer.
"Write: Say goodbye to cyberpsychosis, return to human nature. The Benevolent Primitive Life Experience Camp, first session limited to ten people, registration fee starts at 100,000."