Chapter 40 (1/2)

Shi Qing quietly sorted through the memories of that world’s Shi Qing, especially those memories related to Su Rui. He chuckled as he smiled, “Indeed, taking it from Su Rui was a good thing to do.”

Since he had acquired the life-saving drive, Shi Qing learned the rules that regulated the use of that thing. It was indeed a very frightening ability to possess.

A person could set up a maximum of three save points, and reverting to any of those points was free as long as the host had enough mobility to press the button. That would erase everything that happened and restart from the chosen save point.

Even so, none of the people on earth would notice its effects. They would merely keep to the working routine, with no difference the second time around.

Even so, the person with the drive could still change and directly influence the behavior of people around them. In other words, after reloading, all who had contact with that person would be affected. As to what kind of impact occurred, that would depend on the person’s desires.

It was possible to save someone, so of course it was also possible to kill someone.

It gave a person too much power to make decisions about too many matters.

Not to say that possessing that ability would necessarily change someone’s personality, but it almost drove Su Rui mad by tormenting him through his small character flaws.

It was not just Shi Qing’s wacky behaviour. Even if it was normal, Su Rui, the perfectionist, would encounter countless unsatisfactory things in his life.

Without the life-saving drive, he could not alter things, he could only learn to tolerate them. The days of his life would continue on. To some extent, that could still have some therapeutic effect on his illness. In his memory, Shi Qing always tossed Su Rui about, but also hoped that he would get used to it and change a bit, rather than allowing his life to just pass him by.

With the life-saving drive, Su Rui completely abandoned any treatment and solely followed his own wishes. If he was even a little dissatisfied with something, he would start over again. His mysophobia, perfectionism, and obsessive-compulsive disorder were enough for him to waste away his life nitpicking at every little detail he disliked.

The final outcome may not be that the weirdo Su Rui would try to control the world, but rather that he would exhaust himself until he died…

A normal person may be able to resist and just hold onto that thing. Su Rui, that abnormal human, would certainly play with it until he died.

For that reason, retrieving that item was truly beneficial to Su Rui.

As for the car crash just a moment ago, Shi Qing and Qin Mo had made the necessary alterations to avoid the disaster.

That meant that after, if there were more accidents, there would not be any people who could take control.

When he thought of that, Shi Qing could not help feeling a bit lonesome.

Qin Mo knew what he was thinking, so he quietly consoled him, “Su Rui will merely have to face things head-on without an easy out.”

Shi Qing was slightly surprised for a moment, then immediately became convinced.

Yes, Su Rui was just a regular person now. He was born and would grow old, get sick and die someday. He could experience happiness and sorrow, anger and joy, lucky times and unlucky times. All of those were things he would meet in his life, and he should confront those himself.

The life-saving drive was not the type of thing that a person should have control over. Even if it granted the ability to reverse time to save a life, there would still be accidents, and in the end the user would still have to make a choice.

In the previously prevented accident, without their intervention, Su Rui would have lost his life. Even with the life-saving drive, he still could not have survived.

The more mastery a person had over it, the heavier the burden, the more troubles that they would face.

It was both an advantage and a burden. It could bring about fortune, but also cause the owner to face disaster.

Shi Qing took a deep breath, thoroughly relieved.

It was then they hear the sound of a bell. The random task had been completed and they would leave after thirty seconds.

What! Finished the mission!

Shi Qing could not help but feel happy, so when he heard that he was about to leave he suddenly remembered something. He hastily got dressed and rushed out of the door in ten seconds. He caught Su Rui, who was still in a daze, and said to him loudly, “Su Rui! Thank you!”

The young face was bewildered, but then proceeded on to being flushed. Thank you, thank your cat ah. I-I’m only guarding your secret okay!

Returning to the system space, Shi Qing also felt his enthusiasm surging. He was a little regretful about leaving, but he would always remember Su Rui. The Su Rui who was willing to give up his own life in order to save his friends!

That thought left him a bit disappointed, but then the sound of a huge amount of information practically crashing into his ears came.

Shi Qing sorted out his mood and pulled himself together. He immediately sent the information along to Qin Mo so the two of them could look at it jointly.

The random task was achieved perfectly. Sure enough, the goal was to retrieve the life-saving drive, but unfortunately it did not stay with Qin Mo and Shi Qing. Instead……it disappeared into thin air.

However, thanks to the random task, they gained a new feature. That feature, although it was a bit different from the life-saving drive, was basically a different method that could lead them to the same results.

In the future, every time they crossed over into a small world they would have the chance to choose a single save point that could be reloaded one time. As to where that save point was and when they returned to it, that was completely determined by the host of course. If the system and the host had a good relationship, they could discuss it together. After all, completing the task well was beneficial to both parties.

Since there was only one chance, the situation should be very terrible. In the event that anything irreparable occurred, they could return to their save point. That would undoubtedly increase the success rate of completing their missions.

Generally speaking, Shi Qing was still very satisfied.

So, next was the point reward. The points awarded for random tasks were also random, ranging from 3000-10000, randomly selected.

That type of heavy responsibility, Shi Qing handed over to Qin Mo.

Qin Mo asked, “You don’t want to try?”

Shi Qing looked at him, “I believe in you!”

A smile teased on the corners of Qin Mo’s lips and, in a pretty good mood, he responded, “Good.”

Then, under Shi Qing’s watchful gaze, he spun a wheel before them.

Shi Qing prayed silently in his heart, 10,000 points, 10,000 points, please be 10,000 points!

In the beast world mission, because they completed their tasks so early, in addition to the base point reward, they received a total reward of 10,000 points. Based on the settings, Shi Qing was awarded 5,000 points (since he was a system).

Another advantage of random tasks was that the system would not face any point reduction, regardless of the total reward.