TCFGBH Chapter 79

The new suppressor was launched, with advertising everywhere.

Xia Yan lay on the hotel sofa, watching Wen Changming and his team being interviewed. A face he hadn’t seen in a while looked somewhat unfamiliar on camera.

System: [Host, are we leaving now?]

The most important main task had been completed. Even though he was missing a main storyline task, which meant fewer points, it wasn’t a big deal… cough! The main point was that Shen Wenqing clearly wouldn’t take the initiative to break up!

The life of a cannon fodder had already ended in the plot.

[What day is it today?]

System: [Wednesday.]

Xia Yan: [I’ll take care of my things before leaving.]

He had no family in this world, and all his assets were gifts he had received. For those rich kids, returning a gift would be an insult.

Xia Yan picked and chose, directly donating most of it to children left behind in the mountainous regions.

He mailed the remaining portion to the band members and Xu Rang; surely they wouldn’t mind knowing the original source of these gifts.

Once he took care of these matters, time quietly passed to Friday.

In one day, Shen Wenqing would be coming over.

Xia Yan thought momentarily and, using his last hundred thousand, bought a farewell gift. He picked up a postcard and wrote that he was going abroad and wouldn’t return, so there was no need to look for him.

System: [Tomorrow Shen Wenqing will arrive. The host can stay an extra day.]

[???] Xia Yan was startled by this news. [I don’t want to work overtime!]

System: [……]

[Besides, what are we going to say when we meet? Am I supposed to tell him I’m breaking up with him again? Just thinking about it makes me feel awkward.]

Xia Yan shivered and urged, [Let’s go, let’s go! We need to leave quickly.]

System: [……] Although this was good and he didn’t have to worry about the host delaying tasks for a romance, in a way… it was a bit pitiful for the protagonist shou.

999 had a pile of complaints in his heart but still remembered the mission: [Okay, please leave the hotel and find a place without cameras.]

[Okay.]

Xia Yan quickly tidied up, pretending he was really going on a trip. He didn’t check out of the hotel room; instead, he extended his stay for another day, so that when Shen Wenqing came tomorrow, he would naturally see the letter he left behind.

This was a seaside tourist area, and the weather was already quite warm by June.

Xia Yan walked to the beach, heading towards a less crowded area. The more he walked, the further he went until he was surrounded by emptiness, with only the moist, salty breeze of the sea lingering in the air.

[The world is detaching, ten, nine… three, two, one.]

The countdown ended.

Xia Yan’s vision darkened, and everything around him quickly faded away, accompanied by a nauseating feeling like motion sickness. After about ten seconds, he felt much better.

The round system ball shimmered in a deep blue space, and the distant ‘stars’ twinkled.

System: [The emotional state of the small world has been automatically detached and is being stored. Storage complete. The host can choose to retrieve it after completing all tasks.]

Having experienced this once before, Xia Yan still found it fascinating the second time around.

He felt as if he had soaked in a hot spring, dispelling all fatigue and refreshing his spirit. His lethargy about work was gone, and he felt ready to fight another five hundred years.

He couldn’t help but exclaim, [Main God…]

The system perked up.

[…truly an excellent boss,] the young man slowly finished his sentence, [who knows how to give benefits, allowing the host to be a conscientious 007.]

999: [……] It sounded reasonable, but why did it feel a bit off?

Like jelly, the blue ball shook its body vigorously, shaking off all its messy thoughts. It couldn’t wait to say, [Host, you can check your points now.]

All tasks were completed this time, and there was no need to wait!

[Good.]

Xia Yan became excited and quickly mentioned the settlement panel. A semi-transparent blue panel floated in front of him.

[Main Task—

Task One: Completed. Points earned: 300;

Task Two: Completed. Points earned: 300;

…

Task Six: Failed. Points earned: 0;

Task Seven: Completed. Points earned: 300.]

[Character portrayal completion: 20%. Points earned: 200.]

[Side Task— Unique task: Completed. (Points earned: 5000)]

[Congratulations, Host Xia Yan, you have earned a total of 7000 points.]

There was an extra line at the bottom compared to the last settlement.

[You have accumulated a total of 20300 points.]

[Wow! Seven thousand points! Side tasks are really valuable] The system bounced over excitedly, ready to praise him, but then saw its host pursing his lips, with a cold expression, looking quite dissatisfied.

The system asked in confusion, [What’s wrong?]

Xia Yan said gloomily, [In the last world, I had over ten thousand points.]

After all his hard work, his ‘salary’ had decreased? Was this even a fair deal? Xia Yan was very unhappy, poking the light screen with his finger, complaining, “The points for the main task are too low; this isn’t reasonable!”

The small ball of the system was filled with guilt: […Uh…]

[Hmm?]

[Actually… if all side tasks are completed, there will be an extra reward of 6000 points.]

Xia Yan: [??!!]

999 quietly said, [Mainly because some hosts like to take shortcuts, completing a few important tasks and then dropping out. Have you heard of the butterfly effect?]

The butterfly effect refers to a phenomenon in a dynamic system in which small changes in initial conditions can lead to large-scale and long-term chain reactions.

The system continued: [According to American scientist Edward, a butterfly flapping its wings in a tropical rainforest in the Amazon River Basin can, after a few weeks, cause a tornado in Texas.]

[Every task assigned to the hosts is based on the novel’s plot, aimed at maintaining the original trajectory and fate as much as possible, to prevent the emergence of the butterfly effect.]

[For example, host, although you are only missing one task, the plot has already collapsed beyond recognition.]

[Therefore, to encourage the host to complete all tasks, the points awarded for individual tasks are kept low…]

The world’s side tasks serve as a last-resort rescue mission after the main task deviates, at least to allow the small world to survive before discussing other matters!

In the two worlds, a total of 12,000 points were lost.

Xia Yan felt a sharp pain in his heart, unable to breathe.

[Why didn’t you tell me during the last settlement?] Had he known, he would have done everything possible to get Shen Wenqing to break up with him.

He thought he was giving up the ‘perfect attendance award’; who would have thought it was the ‘year-end bonus’!

The system replied nervously, [I… I forgot.]

[……] Xia Yan looked at it with a gloomy expression. [I followed the tasks every step of the way, but the protagonist shou’s personality became very strange, and it ended up… dominating me..]

The last three words he said particularly softly: [This plot collapsed; it can’t be blamed on me.]

So hurry up and get a normal small world so he can earn points!

The system thought of its initial guarantee and painfully closed its tiny eyes. Soon, it perked up again. [I carefully selected the next world, and I guarantee that the protagonist will be fine.]

[……]

To be honest, this guarantee didn’t inspire much confidence.

Xia Yan was half convinced: […Then I’ll trust you one last time.]

[Good!] The system sighed in relief and quickly changed the subject, [Host, do you want to see how the last world originally collapsed?]

[Hmm.]

In the blink of an eye, 999 produced a book and a document.

In the original novel, the cannon fodder gong had a brief relationship with the protagonist shou, but because he always lingered around various rich people, it caused the protagonist shou repeated disappointments, ultimately leading to their breakup.

Of course, at this point, the protagonist shou was still disguising himself as a Beta at school.

The system commented, […The plot began to deviate right from the start.]

Xia Yan: [……]

The two continued to read on.

Until one time, the protagonist shou unexpectedly went into heat in an alley, and the protagonist gong happened to pass by, resulting in an extremely high compatibility rate, which led to a spontaneous encounter.

Although they didn’t go all the way, after intimate contact, the atmosphere between them changed significantly, turning them from enemies into lovers.

Moreover, the Omega identity that had been troubling the protagonist shou was completely resolved after the new suppressor was developed.

This was the original plot.

The reason why Xia Yan was to play the cannon fodder gong was that the original owner had found Shen Wenqing too fierce during their first meeting, which didn’t match his ideal image of a partner, so he ignored him and walked away.

After Shen Wenqing got into a fight, without the buffer of the cannon fodder gong approaching him, in a moment of impulse, he cut off his own glands—aside from illness, hospitals do not allow gland removal.

With the Omega’s glands gone, his lifespan was significantly shortened, and without a heat cycle, his feelings with the protagonist gong couldn’t develop.

The two became increasingly at odds, especially after Shen Wenqing’s act of cutting off his glands was exposed, with everyone criticizing him as cold-blooded and terrifying; no one stood by his side.

Yet, the protagonist gong, being the thick-headed person he was, continued to provoke him, leading Shen Wenqing to completely darken and take drastic measures… killing the protagonist gong.

Xia Yan abruptly closed the document: [Let me think.] This was nothing like the Shen Wenqing he knew!

The system: [……]

After two or three minutes, he continued to turn the pages.

Coincidentally, the car in which the protagonist gong died in an accident also had Wen Changming and his partner aboard; the two most important people in the laboratory died, leaving the new suppressor shelved.

The culprit, Shen Wenqing, naturally wouldn’t have a good ending.

He ultimately died under the revenge of the Wu and Shen families.

The system explained, [The above determination states that the collapse of the plot was because ‘cannon fodder gong’ did not approach Shen Wenqing. Hence, your task was created.]

Xia Yan pondered for three seconds and voiced his existential question: [Before I travel to another world, can you just give me the error report directly? I can follow the plot based on that.]

The system tactfully replied, [You started out correctly in the previous world’s plot. The error occurred later.]

[Can’t you give it to me?]

999 responded, [Our system is quite rigid; we can only see the error report after completing the world.]

Xia Yan: [……] A rigid program, bad reviews.

[As for the original novel…] 999 extended a small tentacle, waved it, and suddenly appeared a book that Xia Yan had never seen before.

999 handed the book to Xia Yan: [This is a chaotic small world; take a look.]

Xia Yan stared at the cover, falling into silence.

— Golden Sparrow.

What the heck? Flipping to the next page, great, after reading one page, he couldn’t find a single coherent sentence.

The system explained, [The small world is generated based on the original novel, and when the world is in chaos, the original novel will also become chaotic.]

[If you must refer to this, I…]

Xia Yan shut the book: [Forget it, that’s enough. Let’s go to the next world.]

[Wait!]

[?]

999 heroically sacrificed itself, biting into a string of garbled text, and after gulping it down, the blue ball began to go crazy, alternately giggling and crying explosively.

Xia Yan: [……] Not necessary, thanks.

The End of Arc 2.