Let the system try to save the world

Gu Yugui searched the entire pool where the performance had been held carefully, and as expected, he found something.

“What is this...?” Gu Yugui bent down and picked up a white object the size of a little finger joint. It seemed to be part of a sphere.

"This is a pearl." Qin Chaoyue looked at it under the light. "What a pity. Judging from the size of this fragment, the original one must have been quite large and could have been sold for a good price."

"There must be more." Gu Yugui walked around the pool several times and finally found most of the pearl fragments. He placed the fragments on the stage and formed the shape of a water drop.

"This shape is quite rare." Qin Chaoyue clicked her tongue twice. "I have heard of gold inlaid with jade. I wonder if there are any craftsmen willing to try and see if they can put it together."

"Is it rare?" Gu Yugui asked.

"You are talking nonsense, aren't you?" Qin Chaoyue said, "Pearls are formed in the body of a giant clam. Can you bear to have something like that in your stomach piercing your intestines all day long?"

"Oh." Gu Yugui found that he would probably never be able to argue with his father in his life. He whispered to Qin Chaoyue about the big screen.

He made up a story that Xitong happened to know both of them at the same time, and had secretly followed them here today to check, but had fallen into the pool and drowned because of the internal selection for the big screen lottery.

Gu Yugui didn't tell anyone about digging Xitong out of the ice, as he was afraid that this would be too shocking and would scare his father who was over fifty years old.

Gu Yugui said, "I am mainly waiting for someone, and I am not sure if he will come."

Qin Chaoyue slapped her thigh and said, "I was wondering why you talked so much to the kid next to you before the performance. I thought you didn't know each other."

"Then he was pulled into the water for you." Qin Chaoyue was very angry, "Are you waiting for the person who modified the lottery machine? Damn it, I'll find someone to kill him."

"Father, this is a society ruled by law," Gu Yugui had to remind him.

"I know, otherwise I would have doused him in cement and thrown him into the Bohai Bay." Qin Chaoyue waved her hand, "Just kidding, even if this matter has nothing to do with this guy directly, he can't escape. We have to figure this out for Xiaotong."

Gu Yugui nodded. He squatted on the ground, watching for people coming while wiping the floor under his hands.

Meng's father came to find Qin Chaoyue to go back together. He didn't say much, just told Gu Yugui to be careful, and left first.

Until Gu Yugui almost polished the floor, no one came. The staff urged him several times, and Gu Yugui was a little discouraged, thinking that the other party might not come, and he was about to leave.

It was almost closing time, and apart from him and a few staff members who were still there, the action of a man sneaking into the theater was particularly obvious.

"Wait a minute!" Gu Yugui supported his limp thighs and stood up. The man didn't expect that there would still be people here when the museum was about to close, so he turned around and ran away in fear.

"Why are you running!" Gu Yugui rushed forward, restrained the other person with his backhand, and pressed his hand on his back.

“It hurts, it hurts!” the man, who was wearing an oceanarium uniform, yelled, “I didn’t do anything.”

"Why are you running away when you didn't do anything?" Gu Yugui pressed his wrist hard. "Everyone is off work at this time. What are you doing here now?"

"I lost something." The man said confidently, "I only have time to look for it after get off work."

"What did you lose?"

"It's...it's a pearl, very expensive!"

"Is it round?" Gu Yugui touched his pocket, his tone seemed a little relaxed.

"Yes, yes, yes." The man breathed a sigh of relief, "I came here to find it, please let me go."

"You're lying!" Gu Yugui said, "That pearl is not round at all. Tell me, what are you doing here?"

"I really came here to look for something!" the man cried out in injustice.

"My patience is limited. Don't make me commit a crime." Gu Yugui threatened, "You have never seen the pearl. What's the matter? Are you short of money?"

"If you tell me what's going on." Gu Yugui snorted coldly. He released his control over the man and threw out a bank card. "The password is six zeros. You can do whatever you want."

“I can’t say, I can’t say.” The man’s expression did not calm down even though Gu Yugui let go of his hand. He looked at the sunset light shining into the theater in horror, “I don’t know anything!”

"I just want to ask one thing." Gu Yugui forced him to look at her, "Did someone ask you to decide the lottery machine number?"

“Someone… is there… someone?” The man was trembling with fear for some reason. “It’s me, it’s me—wait, you are…”

"Why are you still here?" The man seemed to recognize Gu Yugui. He burst out with amazing strength in extreme fear. He broke free from Gu Yugui's hand and pushed Gu Yugui to the ground.

“The devil’s hour has come! The devil’s hour has come!” the man screamed as he crawled out of the theater. “You shouldn’t be alive. You shouldn’t be here!”

"Crazy." Gu Yugui stood up in confusion. He brushed the dust off his knees and felt something hit his butt. He reached out and saw that it was the plum candy that Xitong had given him before the performance.

These two plum candies accompanied him in jumping through the ice hole and helped him clean the theater for an entire afternoon. If they hadn't been well packaged, he really wouldn't have wanted to eat them.

"Let's replenish some sugar." A deep feeling of fatigue belatedly surged into his heart. Gu Yugui reluctantly tore open the candy wrapper and put the plum candy in his mouth.

"What happened outside?" Gu Yugui muttered to himself. The unique taste of plum candy, sweet and sour with a hint of saltiness, spread on his tongue. The intake of sugar made him feel more at ease.

Gu Yugui walked out of the theater. There was no one outside, even the aquarium employee who had suddenly gone crazy was nowhere to be seen.

The blood-red light of the setting sun passed through the glass curtain wall, dyeing the entire corridor red. In the hazy blue sky in the distance, a large golden lamp was lit.

It was so quiet that Gu Yugui could only hear the sound of his heels tapping on the floor.

Knock, knock, knock, snap, snap.

Gu Yugui's footsteps were getting faster and faster. He could vaguely hear the footsteps echoing in the corridor becoming more and more frequent. This was definitely not something he could make alone.

The second footsteps did not come from wearing shoes. It sounded like the sound of his bare feet stepping on the floor when he was a child.

The sound of water, the person behind me is running, he, or it seems like he has just stood up from the water, his feet are covered with undried water stains, the sound is louder and crisper.

Shouldn't I be alive at this time? Gu Yugui didn't dare to look back, the words of the crazy staff member echoed in his heart for a long time.

He had heard horror stories told by his parents, which said that there were two lights on people's shoulders. Therefore, if someone called your name when you were walking on the road at night, you must not look back, otherwise the lights on your shoulders would be extinguished by evil spirits, and they would take away your body and turn you into a wandering ghost.

Gu Yugui's pace slowed down little by little. He stopped panting, sweat dripping down his chin.

The corridor was clearly only a few dozen meters long, but I couldn't reach the end at this time.

Gu Yugui closed his eyes and wiped the sweat from his chin. He couldn't get out of this corridor today even if he ran to death.

The blood-red shadow of the setting sun behind him suddenly enlarged, like a piece of flesh and blood melting into another piece of flesh and blood.

Bang. Gu Yugui's body fell to the ground.