After Bystander A Bound to JJ Literature City – CH20

Chapter 20 – Fu Suxi, You Lingering Male Ghost!

No matter how Yu Zhi looked at it, he felt the title description was sarcastically pointing at him.

B*stard!!!

Cursing aside, he still appreciated the free title. Although the description was disturbing, its functionality seemed quite good. It was no longer 99% effective, but effective against all insects and insect-like pollutants.

After seeing the words “hundreds of millions of fetuses were killed in succession,” Yu Zhi paused, his gaze drawn to the front left of the rooftop.

The stainless steel water tank that Guo Qiang had smashed was two meters high. Now, with the tank as the center point, several mounds of cockroach egg cases were scattered around, all of which had fallen out of the tank.

When Guo Qiang was in a rage earlier, all the cockroach egg cases were trembling, but now they were still. The originally plump outer shells had shriveled up, like dried dates, their surfaces uneven, as if all the cockroach egg cases had lost their lives along with Guo Qiang’s death.

Hundreds of millions…

Yu Zhi blew out a smoke ring and raised his eyes to the sky. “System, I’m so awesome, I killed so many pollutants. You’re just giving me one lousy title?”

The system quickly responded. This time the response wasn’t text on the panel, but a voice. “Hello, given that all the over 100 million pollutants you killed were minors, there are no additional rewards. Please keep up the good work! Take active action!”

Yu Zhi didn’t continue to haggle. After these two days, he had roughly figured out the personality of this system and knew that further threats or inducements would be useless in the current situation.

He flicked off the cigarette ash, thinking that if Guo Qiang, this minor pollutant source, was already so strong, how powerful would an adult pollutant source be?

He needed to hurry to the capital to find A’Zheng. Otherwise, with his and Lu Liming’s abilities, they would definitely die on the way.

Just as he was thinking, the system prompt sounded again: “Ding dong—”

A familiar child’s voice rang out: “A friendly reminder from the system. The first Earth resident to complete the pollutant scenario has appeared in H City! All Earth residents, please take active action, complete tasks, and defend Earth!” The message repeated twice more.

This was a system notification for everyone. Yu Zhi stared intently at the panel. This notification was the same as when Fu Suxi completed the main task one. However, no image of him killing Guo Qiang popped up on the panel.

He walked towards Lu Liming, who was sprawled on the ground not far away, casually glancing at the live stream comments. The number of online viewers had unknowingly risen to a thousand, with comments scrolling rapidly:

[User “Rebirth in a Different Universe” praises your weak body.]
[User “Rich Young Master” admires your resourcefulness and tips you 0.1 universal coins]
[User “Gaze of the Black Eye” compliments your cunning and tips you 50 universal coins.]
[User “World’s Cutest Girl” praises your feigned ignorance and tips you 50 universal coins.]
[User “Not an Insect Cigar” mourns the death of the pollutant source and sadly exits the live stream.]
[User “Strongest King” marvels at your audacity, tips you 10 universal coins, and angrily exits the live stream.]

Yu Zhi was somewhat surprised by the influx of tips. The universal coin balance in the lower right corner of the panel kept increasing. He scrolled back through the comments. The tipping seemed to have started when he jumped off the building.

It would be a shame not to capitalize on the opportunity. Yu Zhi smiled, his eyes crinkling with sincerity. “Thank you, esteemed viewers, for your tips.”

Seeing a few tipping users asking questions, Yu Zhi patiently answered them. “The next step is to leave H City. My ability? Hmm, a special spatial ability. You hope I’ll continue to deal with pollutants? Well, you can keep hoping. Is it really Guo Qiang’s father? Yes, that’s right, I’m the father of all humanity.”

He walked over to Lu Liming, crouched down, and extinguished his cigarette. “Can you get up?”

Lu Liming’s face was pale, his lips bloodless. “Can I rest a bit longer?” he rasped. Without waiting for Yu Zhi to answer, he rambled on, “Although we’ve dealt with the pollutant source, I still feel like my heart is in my throat. Today’s events were just too intense. Being chased by a madman, chased by cockroaches, then nearly torn apart by Guo Qiang, then you suddenly jumping off the building, then coming back and suddenly eliminating Guo Qiang…”

Seeing that he wasn’t going to stop anytime soon, Yu Zhi interrupted, “Just now the system notified everyone that the first Earth resident to complete the pollutant instance appeared in H City. Did they release any video of me?”

Lu Liming’s voice halted, and he shook his head. “No, why?”

“Nothing,” Yu Zhi said. It was good that the system hadn’t exposed his face. He didn’t want to become a target.

“You heal your leg first,” he said, then added, “The pollutant source has been dealt with, but Fu Suxi might still be nearby.”

Hearing the latter half of the sentence, Lu Liming’s expression changed, and he immediately sat up to use his ability to heal his leg.

“I’ll go pick up the bag,” Yu Zhi said. Earlier, to make room in his [My Items], he had thrown his backpack on the ground.

He retrieved the backpack and put it back into his inventory. Passing by Guo Qiang’s remains, he paused.

The flames had died out, leaving only a charred black skeleton on the ground, its shape indiscernible. The chest of the skeleton still glowed with dark red embers, pulsing faintly.

Yu Zhi lowered his eyes, lost in thought.

He had left for the hospital at two o’clock yesterday afternoon, and Guo Pengyi was still in the management room when he left. Guo Qiang and Guo Pengyi had a good father-son relationship. After Guo Pengyi found Guo Qiang, something happened, and there were also cockroaches at the hospital…

If nothing unexpected happened, it was likely that when Guo Pengyi found Guo Qiang yesterday afternoon, Guo Qiang’s body had already undergone the cockroach transformation. Guo Qiang accidentally injured Guo Pengyi, and Guo Pengyi was sent to the hospital, leading to the appearance of cockroaches there as well.

Yu Zhi’s brows furrowed tightly. So pollutants existed in the world even before the system task appeared? Was the appearance of the system truly to defend Earth? Why exactly did Guo Qiang turn into a pollutant source? Did Fu Suxi know the reason, and was that why he chased him from the hospital to Gongshu District?

The mysteries were piling up. Yu Zhi felt uneasy. He couldn’t think about this anymore. He was just an ordinary bystander. The more secrets he knew, the faster he’d die.

A gentle breeze blew by, making the embers on the skeleton glow brighter, especially in the heart area, which shone with a bright red-yellow light.

Yu Zhi blinked, picked up the bent stainless steel rod from the ground, and poked the skeleton.

The next second, a line of text popped up before his eyes: [Do you want to collect garbage?]

Garbage?

Yu Zhi nodded instinctively.

The charred black skeleton on the ground instantly vanished, and a new category appeared in his collection list:

[My Garbage: 1/5 (This category can hold a maximum of 5 collections in the current version.)] [Name: Guo Qiang]
[Function: What function do you expect from garbage?]
[Description: I am a cockroach, I am not a cockroach, I am a cockroach, I am not a cockroach… I am not a cockroach, I am Guo Qiang. I am the unkillable Xiao Qiang!]

Yu Zhi’s gaze fell on the line “This category can hold a maximum of 5 collections in the current version.” He immediately tried to collect the stainless steel rod in his hand.

Nothing happened.

Yu Zhi thought for a moment, then mentally commanded, “This is my garbage, collect it.”

Still nothing.

He looked at the category name again. The key must be the word “garbage.” Is garbage a pollutant?

He walked forward, poked the shriveled cockroach egg cases on the ground with the stainless steel rod, and mentally commanded the system to collect them.

The panel displayed another prompt: [Not garbage enough, cannot collect.]

Yu Zhi: “…”

It seemed only pollutant sources could be collected. Although he didn’t know what they were for, it wouldn’t hurt to pick them up.

After confirming that he couldn’t use the [My Garbage] category as storage space, Yu Zhi tossed the stainless steel rod aside.

He turned around, wanting to ask Lu Liming how his treatment was going, when he looked up and saw a person standing on the roof of the opposite building.

The man was tall, with sharp features and long, narrow black eyes. He was looking down at the apartment building’s rooftop.

Meeting Yu Zhi’s gaze, the man smirked and waved, as if in greeting.

Yu Zhi’s expression froze.

Damn it! Fu Suxi, you persistent ghost!