Chapter 88
It was rare for the conversation to touch on Fu Suxi’s ability, and now it even had to be broadcast live. The viewers in the livestream couldn’t sit still anymore. They began showering Yu Zhi with tips, and some even made requests:
[User “Kindhearted Pizza” hopes you will continue the livestream and has tipped you 20 universal coins.]
[User “National Top-Tier Humanoid Weapon” requests that you continue the livestream and has tipped you 20 universal coins.]
[User “Pure Love Warrior” suggests that you pretend to end the livestream while actually continuing it, and has tipped you 20 universal coins.]
[User “Strongest King” believes user “Pure Love Warrior’s” suggestion is absolutely brilliant and urges you to follow it.]
[User “The Scarecrow’s Grass” says they will reluctantly cooperate with you.]
Yu Zhi glanced at the barrage of rapidly scrolling comments and casually said to Ji Yangqiu, “The audience in my livestream is offering a thousand universal coins if I keep streaming.”
Time was tight. Ji Yangqiu didn’t even think about it and quickly replied, “I’ll give you two thousand! Hurry and turn it off.”
[The other party has transferred 2000 universal coins to you. Accept?]
[Yes.]
Earning two thousand for nothing, Yu Zhi curled his lips into a smile and cheerfully said to the system, “I need to take a dump too. Let’s end it.”
Seeing him still sitting in the chair without even moving his butt, the system couldn’t help saying, “There’s a chair under you, not a toilet.”
Yu Zhi kept a straight face. “When shit’s about to come out, anywhere is a toilet.”
System: “……”
Ji Yangqiu on the other end of the phone: “……”
[The following content may involve personal privacy. Do you wish to continue the livestream?]
“No.”
[Closing the livestream for you…]
As soon as the stream ended, Ji Yangqiu got straight to the point. “Do you really know what his ability is?”
Yu Zhi repeated what he had just said: “When he uses abilities, he doesn’t bother hiding it. Out of all those abilities, none of them are actually his, right?”
Ji Yangqiu neither confirmed nor denied it, but his uneven breathing betrayed his emotions.
He took a deep breath and asked quickly, “Has he already used it on you?”
Yu Zhi lowered his eyelashes, trying to draw more information out of him. “Yeah. I was injured in the polluted zone, and he said he’d help treat me…”
“Fuck, and you believed that nonsense?” Ji Yangqiu cursed. “Damn it, Fu Suxi has been getting more and more arrogant lately. If he snatches that ability of yours—the one that can’t be killed…”
Yu Zhi narrowed his eyes. As expected, the headquarters was extremely wary of Fu Suxi. They needed his power, yet they were also afraid they couldn’t control him.
Ji Yangqiu cursed a few more times before changing the topic. “Did you come to me for compensation? I’m used to cleaning up that kid’s mess anyway. You’ll definitely get compensated.”
“But headquarters requires a report for these things, so we’ll need to ask clearly about your specific ability too—its limitations, side effects, and so on.”
Hearing that he was trying to pry information about his ability, Yu Zhi calmly said two words: “That’s not it.”
Ji Yangqiu sounded surprised. “You don’t want compensation?”
Yu Zhi replied, “Of course I want it. But would you actually give it?”
Ji Yangqiu immediately said, “Of course we would, as long as you—”
Yu Zhi slowly finished the sentence: “He didn’t manage to take my ability. Do I still get compensation?”
Ji Yangqiu’s voice stopped abruptly.
He immediately caught the key phrase in that sentence—“didn’t manage to take.”
His breathing grew rapid. Was it because the ability temporarily couldn’t be taken after it was used? Or was there something wrong with Yu Zhi himself, making his ability impossible to steal?
Seeing him fall silent, Yu Zhi thought for a moment and began making things up. “He couldn’t take it now, and he won’t be able to take it in the future either.”
“Holy shit!” Ji Yangqiu completely lost his composure. “There really is something wrong with your blood.”
Yu Zhi couldn’t help raising his eyebrows. Before, it had only been a guess. Now he was one hundred percent certain—the medium Fu Suxi needed to steal abilities was an ability user’s blood.
The moment Ji Yangqiu finished speaking, he realized he had said something he shouldn’t have and immediately changed the subject. “If you didn’t contact me for compensation, then what for?”
“What do you want?” he asked.
Yu Zhi looked at the countdown on his phone screen and threw out his bargaining chip directly.
“I can make the crazed Fu Suxi regain his sanity.”
“I can temporarily help you keep an eye on Fu Suxi and stop him from going mad. But I need to know a few things.”
Ji Yangqiu asked, “What things?”
Yu Zhi said, “What exactly has the system been doing for the Special Operation Bureau? To what extent does Fu Suxi’s use of abilities make him go insane?”
“And also—why are the users in Fu Suxi’s livestream so generous with their tips?”
Hearing the last question, Ji Yangqiu paused for a second, confusion in his voice. “The users in his livestream tip generously? Maybe the people watching him are rich?”
Yu Zhi blinked. “You didn’t know?”
Ji Yangqiu said, “I didn’t know, damn it. How would you know?”
Yu Zhi responded with an “oh” and calmly said, “I saw the money.”
“Then tell me the other—”
Ji Yangqiu let out a breath and quickly said, “I can tell you directly about the system, but regarding Fu Suxi’s situation…”
Seeing that time was running out, he stopped holding back. “It’s not that I don’t want to say it. The truth is, we still haven’t fully figured it out.”
“The mental energy he spends varies depending on the ability he uses. Some simple abilities are easier for him than breathing, so we can’t make a precise judgment.”
“What I can tell you is that excessive use of his abilities makes him bloodthirsty. You can judge based on that—”
Yu Zhi asked, “At what point exactly?”
Ji Yangqiu answered honestly, “We don’t know. Humanity’s research into innate abilities is still very incomplete.”
“And you know how strong Fu Suxi is. If he refuses to cooperate, there’s nothing we can do about it…”
Yu Zhi knew that Ji Yangqiu was an old fox. Even Fu Suxi got schemed against by him, so he never expected him to reveal everything about Fu Suxi.
What Yu Zhi really wanted to know from Ji Yangqiu was what exactly the system and the Special Special Operation Bureau were cooperating on.
Blinking, Yu Zhi said to him, “You don’t know this, you don’t know that. But you should at least know exactly what the system is doing for the Special Operation Bureau, right?”
Ji Yangqiu exhaled. There wasn’t much time left in the call, so instead of going into every detail, he explained it in categories.
“It’s roughly divided into two parts: building safe zones, and dealing with pollution sources and pollutants. Building safe zones includes things like the high walls you saw in S City. The system provided some of the construction materials and blueprints. It also handles various routine tasks for the Special Operation Bureau—things like statistics on clearing pollutants and pollution sources, distributing universal-coin salaries, maintaining personnel files, and so on.”
“As for pollution sources and pollutants, that’s mainly the Research Department working with the system. The system helps them process records, calculations—basically experimental work.”
“For the Special Operation Bureau, the system is like a local AI assistant that doesn’t need an internet connection. It helps deal with a lot of trivial matters. What the system does for headquarters, it also does for branch bureaus. I won’t go into every detail now. If you want to know more, you can ask Shang Yu. I’ll have her look it up for you.”
Yu Zhi listened to all that, but Ji Yangqiu never mentioned why the system was doing it. So he pressed further.
“Why is the system helping you?”
“I don’t know,” Ji Yangqiu paused, his tone becoming more serious. “Just treat it as if it’s helping us defend the Earth.”
“We currently don’t have any other choice either.”
Yu Zhi frowned slightly and looked thoughtfully at the phone screen.
Even the director of the headquarters’ combat department didn’t know why the system was doing these things…
Either the system truly was helping the Special Operation Bureau unconditionally to defend the Earth, or the position of Director of the Headquarters Combat Department simply wasn’t high enough to know the real reason behind it.
While he was thinking, Ji Yangqiu’s voice on the other end of the phone grew more serious.
“Yu Zhi, compared to the system, the bigger problem right now is Meteorite Biotech.”
“You and Fu Suxi entered the polluted zone—you know what kind of experiments they’re doing.”
“Fu Suxi is the sharpest blade of the Special Operation Bureau, and you’re the only person so far who can control him.”
“On behalf of the Special Special Operation Bureau, and on behalf of all the people of this country who are still alive, I hope you’ll stand on our side.”
As the final word fell, the call time also ended.
Ji Yangqiu crossed his legs, completely losing the serious demeanor he had during the call. In a casual tone, he asked the subordinate standing by the door, “Still haven’t found any information on Yu Zhi?”
The subordinate replied, “No.”
Ji Yangqiu looked puzzled. “It’s been this long already. We can even dig up the ancestors of the dog Fu Suxi raised to death when he was a kid.”
The subordinate hesitated. “Is it possible… that he isn’t from this country?”
Ji Yangqiu shook his head. “If Fu Suxi never mentioned it, then it’s impossible.”
“—Someone is helping him.”
“That’s strange. Who exactly is helping him? Yu Zhi isn’t from the Bureau, and he’s not from Meteorite Biotech either. Could it be that there’s some mysterious hidden organization in the country?”
The subordinate asked doubtfully, “How do you know he isn’t from Meteorite Biotech? Right now we can’t find any information about Yu Zhi at all.”
Ji Yangqiu stood up from the toilet, symbolically flushed it, and washed his hands before explaining, “Because Meteorite Biotech would never expose such a treasure to us.”
“Oh right, how were the last few lines I said just now? Did they sound patriotic and selfless enough? Do you think Yu Zhi would be moved?”
Subordinate: “……”
…
Yu Zhi hadn’t listened to Ji Yangqiu’s last few sentences at all.
He took out a packet of biscuits from [My Items], ate while reviewing his conversation with Ji Yangqiu.
The headquarters didn’t know about the connection between Fu Suxi, the livestream viewers, and the system. Fu Suxi had never told them either.
Fu Suxi had been secretly doing things, investigating things, and constantly acting suspicious…
Chewing his biscuit, Yu Zhi slowly narrowed his eyes.
—Fu Suxi probably knew a secret that no one else in the world knew.
Fu Suxi was a mad dog with a brain, not just the paper-thin character Ah Zheng summarized in a few casual sentences.
Ah Zheng always said Fu Suxi was sick one moment and terrifyingly powerful the next. That was very likely because of this secret.
Even Ah Zheng, who had read the novel thoroughly, had never mentioned this secret. Yu Zhi wisely stopped his train of thought and didn’t continue speculating.
[Livestream starting…]
[Livestream H310000: Live]
[Online viewers: 7001]
[User “Electronic Wooden Fish” is curious about what you were secretly discussing and has tipped you 10 universal coins.]
[User “World’s Cutest Girl” questions why you closed the livestream and hopes you will be honest with everyone and truthfully reveal your temporary lover’s ability.]
[User “momo” is curious about what information you obtained and has tipped you 20 universal coins.]
[User “National Top-Tier Humanoid Weapon” is curious about your plan.]
Looking at the scattered tips, Yu Zhi casually answered a few questions.
“Nothing secret, we were chatting openly.”
“You can’t see it? Have you ever reflected on why? Maybe it’s because you’re not working hard enough.”
“What am I going to do? Throw away some trash.”
Yu Zhi finished the biscuits in a few bites, threw away the wrapper, and walked out of the communication room.
Lu Liming and the communication-type ability user were chatting animatedly not far away.
Lu Liming said, “…Think about it carefully. Brother Yu didn’t come earlier or later to make a call. Why did he come exactly a few minutes before the system announced the dungeon task progress?”
The communication ability user said, “I heard that Mr. Yu predicted the new branch quest earlier. But it shouldn’t be that difficult… Could he really have predicted even this?”
“If he predicted it, then Brother Yu’s ability is extraordinary,” Lu Liming paused and said with a mysterious expression, “But if it wasn’t a prediction…”
“Do you know what it means to be chosen by heaven?”
The communication ability user took a deep breath.
Yu Zhi: “……”
The communication ability user was shocked for a moment and then couldn’t help asking again, “I’ve also heard about the matter between him and Minister Yu.”
Lu Liming shook his head and sighed. “Emotional matters are never that easy to sort out. Besides, they’re brothers. Even an upright official can’t judge family affairs, and even immortals can’t resolve love.”
“If I raised a dog and it bit me, even if I wanted to throw it away, I might not even have the heart to hit it.”
The communication ability user said in a daze, “That does make sense… When family affection and love get mixed together, it really becomes more complicated…”
Yu Zhi: “……”
He couldn’t help calling out, “Xiao Ming.”
Lu Liming turned his head and hurried over excitedly. “Brother Yu, you finished your call? Should we go to the cafeteria for a midnight snack?”
“Br—Brother Yu.” The communication ability user blankly followed Lu Liming in greeting him.
Yu Zhi silently nodded to him and said to Lu Liming, “Let’s go.”
After entering the elevator, he glanced at the global dungeon progress. It was the same as before he made the call.
Global pollution source purification progress: still 0.
Yu Zhi hesitated before speaking. “Xiao Ming, do you want to go to B City first?”
Lu Liming was stunned. “When are we going to B City?”
Yu Zhi said, “Not us. You.”
Lu Liming widened his eyes. “Brother Yu, are you sending me to B City to do something?”
Yu Zhi: “…No. Aren’t your parents in B City? Don’t you want to reunite with them?”
Lu Liming scratched his head. “Our old family house is in B City, but my parents… I’m not sure where they actually are. They never really took care of me since I was little. They travel all over the world, and I hardly ever see them.”
Only then did Yu Zhi remember that the agreement he made with Lu Liming back then was that he would save Lu Liming—not that he would send him to B City.
Going to B City had always been Yu Zhi’s own idea because he wanted to find Ah Zheng there, not something Lu Liming had suggested.
Lu Liming couldn’t help asking, “Brother Yu, why did you suddenly bring up going to B City?”
Yu Zhi explained, “The headquarters of the Special Special Operation Bureau is in B City. And since it’s the capital, it should be safer than here.”
Lu Liming still didn’t understand. “So what? Is something going to happen in S City?”
Yu Zhi said casually, “I just asked about something. The system has been helping the Special Operation Bureau with a lot of things.”
Lu Liming looked confused. “Huh? Isn’t it good that the system helps?”
Yu Zhi said lightly, “Since the system can help an organization like the Special Operation Bureau, couldn’t it also help Meteorite Biotech?”
Lu Liming froze.
“Ding—”
The elevator arrived at the first floor, and the doors slowly opened.
Yu Zhi looked up and met a pair of long, pitch-black eyes.
Fu Suxi was standing outside, with Zuo Feiyang and Shang Yu behind him. Both of their expressions looked strange—it was obvious they had heard what he just said to Lu Liming.
Fu Suxi stared into Yu Zhi’s eyes and asked meaningfully, “Did you predict this too?”
Yu Zhi blinked and threw the question back at him with a smile.
“You should ask yourself that, little brother.”
“When I was making the prediction, wasn’t I asleep?”
As soon as the words fell, everyone else’s gaze instantly focused on Fu Suxi.
Seeing this, Yu Zhi deliberately added another sentence.
“I feel like I mentioned that before.”
Fu Suxi: “……”
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