Time manager

"Jingle Bell……"

At noon, the sound of wind chimes rang.

"Welcome." The old man's voice was lazy, and he didn't cheer up until he saw the girl who came in, "Is there anything I need?"

"I want to buy a pen, a unique pen, do you have it?" The girl looked curiously at the gadgets in the thrift store.

"Oh! The things in the old man's shop are all unique!" Boss Yang straightened his back and said, "There is absolutely nothing wrong with which one you like!"

The girl wandered around the store.

"What do you want to buy it for?" Boss Yang said.

"Practice calligraphy." The girl said unconvinced, "They said my handwriting was ugly! The teacher always deducted my test marks because of this, and didn't give me full marks! I got all the answers right! Because I didn't get full marks, my mother didn't come back on weekends. Come with me!"

Old Yang didn't believe it, he waved his hands and said, "Come here, write something for the old man to see."

The girl reluctantly walked over, took the pen, and wrote a "word" slowly.

Strangely, the tip of the pen seems to have no ink, but there is a translucent word written on the yellowed paper.

Boss Yang: "Well...it's pretty ugly."

Girl: "..." This old man is too good at business!

She wanted to throw the pen away, but the transparent "word" on the paper suddenly twisted!

Then, the words were separated from the paper, stood up, stretched and bent horizontally, as if looking down at himself.Looking at it, the horizontal line suddenly seemed to be two hands, covering the head of the veil, looking ashamed to see others.

"Look, your handwriting makes you cry ugly." Lao Yang said.

The girl looked at this scene in shock, shrugging her shoulders as if she was really crying, and then disappeared.

Her gaze couldn't help but return to the pen. It was a fountain pen with a golden nib and a diamond stud on the nib.beautiful!

"Is this pen for sale?" The little girl remembered that the boss took it out of her pen holder.Things that others use for themselves may not necessarily be sold to her.

She couldn't put it down and played with it. This time, she was more serious. She wrote strokes very slowly. She wrote the word "bi" again, but it was crooked again!

"Pen" also stood up, flicked his tail, looked down at himself, then... cried again, and disappeared.

Girl: QAQ

"This price." Boss Yang gave her two fingers.

Girl: "Twenty?"

Two fingers shook.

"Then... two hundred?"

Shake again.

In a hurry, the girl took out all the money in her pocket, and hurriedly said: "I, I only have so much pocket money left."

The old man's fingers shook first, and then he picked up two one-hundred sheets, and then pointed to her wrist.

It was a bracelet braided with red string, the material was ordinary, but it was very delicately braided, and it was strung with an emerald green peanut. It was a birthday present from her grandma, and she couldn't bear it!

"One day you can write beautifully and cry, and the old man will return it to you. How about it?" Boss Yang said with a smile. "This pen, when there is no ink, only you can see the written words. When there is ink, the written words like to run around, so don't use it for homework. Of course, the ink is too thick , Your current words cannot make them run. When you write well enough, they will be full of power and will bring you infinite power."

The girl was fascinated by what she heard, her eyes sparkled, she hesitated for a while, and finally took off the bracelet, and said cautiously: "Then you must take good care of the bracelet! You can't sell it to others!"

Boss Yang wrote a document and pressed his handprint to reassure her. He found a box, a small wooden box, and put the bracelet in it.

The girl watched him fasten the lock and put it back in the small drawer. She felt relieved, and promised him again: "I will take good care of the pen too!"

The girl ran out quickly, and a figure came out from behind the shelf of the thrift store.

"Are you sure she is the person we are looking for?" Shi Jing said.

"Anyone who can read the characters is eligible to be selected. As for whether she can get the recognition of the pen, it depends on her ability." Boss Yang said, and then complained: "You are also a qualified person, why don't you just take the pen? I took it, and asked the old man to find someone. This is bad luck, what should I do if the old man is buried and can't find anyone?"

"I think the pen may have had its own ideas long ago, and I knew there would be such a day. However, I seem to have gained a little bit of its power." Shi Jing thought.

He had always been curious about why notes, as a tool of time, can visualize words, but now that he thinks about it, it may have something to do with the pen.

"That's not the idea of ​​the pen." Boss Yang sighed, "It should be the idea of ​​the former manager. You haven't been tested, and you haven't communicated with the pen. It's impossible to use its power. So you can evoke the concreteness of words, There is only one possibility, Ji Xian lent you her strength. Didn’t you say that she gave a gift document for a pen? That document should have other secrets, so remember to keep it safe.”

Shi Jing froze for a moment.

He thought of the little girl.He only paid attention to his age just now, and felt that he was too young to be a manager.But thinking about it now, that girl looks a bit like Ji Xian...

"Speaking of which, the curse on your body hasn't been resolved yet?" the old man said slowly.

"Chuhe said he didn't do it." Shi Jing said. "But it doesn't matter, it doesn't affect me much."

"Mr. Shi, have you ever thought about a question. Tools will choose owners that match their own characteristics, and they will also be attracted to them, but you are always unlucky, and that black cat always likes to follow you..."

"You mean..." Shi Jing hesitated.

"Maybe you were its manager once." Boss Yang said.

"So... I cast a curse on myself?" Shi Jing was completely dumbfounded.

[Master, if this is the case, it seems to be able to explain why the master has improved his personality, and I still can't detect the interference of other managers. ] notes.

Shi Jing: "..." Then he can really do it, cheating himself.

Shi Jing remembered the girl's face again, and asked, "Boss Yang, after the manager dies, will he still be a manager in the next life?"

"That may not be possible." Boss Yang said helplessly, "and the matter of reincarnation is even more miraculous than the existence of tools. But, are you really sure that you gave me the notes many years ago? The old man really doesn't remember himself What is the previous life?"

Shi Jing is very sure.However, now Time Sea no longer resonates with the predecessor.He also has no way of knowing what the original him did after hiding the notes...

While they were discussing, the bell rang at the door of the store, and another person came.

Chuhe appeared expressionlessly, with Fat Orange crouching on his shoulders.As for the black cat...

He trotted over and spun around Shi Jing's feet, looking very excited.

Shi Jing was surprised: "Why are you here?"

"Come and get Xi Luo's diary." Chu He unceremoniously found a seat and sat down, crossed his legs, and said lazily: "When I'm not around, who raised the cat?"

Shi Jing, Boss Yang, and Chen Nian looked at each other and raised their hands.

"Look at what you fed! It's so fat!" Chuhe angrily pulled off the orange cat and showed it to them.

"Very healthy." Chen Nian commented.

"Very energetic." Shi Jing said.

"Wealth attracts wealth!" Boss Yang boasted.

"Old man, this is a lucky cat. Not a lucky cat!" Chu He couldn't help but pat the table and said.

Shi Jing asked him about the black cat.

"To be honest. The reason why I was shaken by Ji Qun's words at that time was not only because he always attacked me about my wife, but also because I felt a small part of the power that I couldn't control, which made me feel a little bit about my own ability. Doubt." Chu He yawned.

"Xiao Hei said, this is the remaining will of a certain predecessor. If you were really the manager of bad luck, then no one can undo this curse except yourself. You are really cruel enough to curse yourself If you are not self-disciplined, you will be unlucky. This curse will follow you forever, even if you die and are reborn. What do you think you are planning?"

picture what...

Shi Jing was taken aback.

Note likes people who are punctual and self-disciplined, so if he meets this trait in the next life and the next life, no matter how he reincarnates, he will definitely be attracted by Note.

Chu He frowned and said, "So, you want to control time forever?"

That sounds a little selfish...

Shi Jing couldn't help but remain silent.

Although this is the idea of ​​​​the "predecessor", he does not think that after reincarnation, he must still be the same himself.But... at this moment, he was really moved.

【The master is not selfish! 】The note hurriedly said, 【It's me, I want to follow the master. 】

Boss Yang said slowly: "This is not something we can think about. Whether it is the birth of tools or the selection of managers, everything operates according to the laws of the world. Now that your curse can take effect, you can control time again , that is recognized by the world. Therefore, the old man feels that there is nothing wrong with it."

"Thank you." Shi Jing said softly.

Lao Yang said the truth, but he knew that it was actually comforting him.

Lao Yang smiled and said, "Oh, since Mr. Shi is so polite, why don't we discuss something? Then Mr. Shi will be fully responsible for the special office of the system in the library."

Shi Jing: "..."

No, he just wants to live a retirement life in advance...

"What special office?!" Chu He narrowed his eyes, and immediately raised his hand: "I, I, I! I recommend myself!"

Boss Yang gave him a cold look: "No, you are not calm enough."

Chu He persisted: "That, that, I will change my name to Chu Shi! Is it stable enough!"

"No! Is this a name problem?!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, old man, you don't understand, there is something metaphysical about names."

When it came to the name, Shi Jing remembered something: "What is the name of your cat?"

Then he got hit by the old man too. "Is it okay to say something like this casually?!"

But Chuhe came over secretly, and said with an evil smile: "You let me go to that special office, and I'll tell you that it's okay, anyway, I'll make a big deal and change it right away."

Then he sent an emoticon pack of a villain shaking his legs on WeChat: But I can only tell you the name of Doom.

Shi Jing understood.

Chuhe: The title is too long and I don't bother to type it. There are two keywords, the sun.

After he finished speaking, he immediately withdrew.

"..." Shi Jing looked at the black cat under his feet, but couldn't see where it was connected to the sun.No wonder no one guessed it.

If the names of the two cats also correspond, is the orange cat called "Moon"?

The color is quite similar.

It's just... Shi Jing wondered: "Didn't Xi Luo say that the name is related to the color?"

Chu He crossed Erlang's legs and said, "That's right, it's that xx black."

Sun black?It's not as good as the colorful black... Shi Jing laughed a lot, and suddenly a thought flashed through her.

sunspot.

The author has something to say:

The sky was a bit dark, and the muddy path was crushed by car marks, bringing with it the damp summer heat.

This is a deserted cemetery on the outskirts of the city. Even in broad daylight, no one would pass by.

But there was a dilapidated house standing behind many grave mounds. In front of the house was a yard with a black wooden fence, black soil, and a black house. The crops planted seemed a little malnourished, listless, and lifeless.

Instead, the black crow on the leafless persimmon tree was a little angry.It jumped up and down among the branches, as if it was entertaining itself, until the young man broke in on a bicycle, and then he was startled and flew into the house.

A man came out of the small wooden house. He looked no more than middle-aged, but his back was hunched, and he coughed violently whenever he saw anyone.

The sound sounded like the wind blowing through a broken house, and it felt like it could collapse at any time.

"Time, what are you doing here?" The man asked the visitor after coughing.

"Bad luck, you should go to the hospital." Time frowned.

"Ahem...I'm not sick." Misfortune muttered, "The hospital is useless to me, and it's not like you don't know it."

He pulled out two chairs, sat down by himself, grabbed a handful of corn from his pocket, and the crow flew to his shoulder, pecking and eating the corn leisurely.

Time's eyes stared at the black bird, and said, "How do you know if you don't try?"

Doom did not answer him, but asked, "Are you in trouble?"

Time: "Yeah."

Doom laughed strangely: "You are still so sincere."

Then he said slowly: "Tell me, what do you want me to do for you? Even if I'm terminally ill, it's not difficult to punish me. Oh, by the way, it should be said that the more ill I am, the stronger I become...cough cough cough. "

Shi Shi frowned and said: "You should move back home and change to a better environment. If you are sick or something, you will get better slowly."

"What do you want me to tell you, don't tell me to get out." Doom cursed and sighed, "I am an unfortunate person, and I will bring disaster to them when I go back. If it wasn't like this, how could I be attracted by Doom? ?”

Time said helplessly: "You really believe in this evil so much, why don't you give it to others to raise."

Doom suddenly raised his head, his eyes widened: "To whom?? To you? You have a good idea!"

Shi Shi finally didn't want to discuss this with him, so he changed the subject and said, "I want you to cast a spell on me."

doom:"……"

"Curse me from now until the endless future, if there is no punctuality, it will be bad luck."

Misfortune: "Are you kidding me? Who would curse themselves? Is it too long to die? If you want to inherit my crow, just say so!"

Time: "I'm serious."

"..."

Doom stared at him for a long time before he stood up, straightened his back, and his figure became tall and straight.

He said in a haughty tone with the eyes of Ni Zhongsheng: "I always think you are an interesting person. Oh, yes, I promise you."

"It's just that the manager must be neutral, including the same kind. So I can't violate the principle of neutrality to hurt you, but I can temporarily lend you a little power, and you can do whatever you want."

As he spoke, he reached out and handed the crow: "Call its name, Hei Zi. If it responds to you, you can get part of my power from me."

……

"Kuroko……"

Shi Jing murmured.

The black cat jumped onto his lap at some point, its hind legs stood up, its two front paws were resting on his chest, its golden pupils were like torches, and it was looking at him hypnotically.

"This is the name of the previous manager of misfortune." The black cat said, "After fulfilling your wish, when I went back, he had passed away."

Then it put down its body, sat in Shi Jing's arms, and looked at the orange cat playing with Chen Nian.

"I didn't want to look for the master again. It doesn't matter if there is no such thing as bad luck-most people in the world think so. Until later, I met good luck."

Only then did Shi Jing realize that he could understand the black cat's words!

"Yes, my characteristics are different from time. Any master who has controlled me will get my response whenever he calls my name again." The black cat raised its head and said proudly.

Shi Jing pondered: "But Chuhe said, your name is very complicated?"

A black cat named Taiyang is a bit unexpected, but Heizi is really ordinary.In addition, even if it adds up, it is only four words.Where is it complicated?

The black cat's eyes dimmed. "My real name is superimposed by previous managers, and each name corresponds to a manager. Because bad luck is an unpleasant thing, I am the one who has changed the most managers among all tools. The name grows, It's naturally complicated."

Shi Jing understood.

It's not that Chuhe is too lazy to type, and it's not that he doesn't want to tell his little daughter, maybe he just didn't remember a bunch of names from his ex!

"So what's your decision?" Black Cat asked.

Shi Jing: "What?"

"Since you can communicate with me now, you can lift that curse."

Shi Jing thought for a while, then stared at the orange cat who was squinting his eyes to enjoy it, and suddenly asked, "Do you like humans?"

Black cat: "??"

Shi Jing smiled and said, "Many people like cats."

Before the black cat could understand, it was snatched by Chuhe.

The evil doom manager lifted his neck and said fiercely: "What are you talking about for so long, tell me! Have you rebelled! If you dare to turn around, I will take you to be the god of Luoluo." Horse surgery!"

Black cat: "!!"

It's wrong.

Humans are the scariest!

Shi Jing smiled and looked at the black cat that had been ravaged by its owner, then looked at his watch, and walked out of the thrift store.

It's time for him to go back to work.

[Why didn't the master undo the curse?No matter what the master becomes, Shi will try to find the master! 】

"No, this is fine." Shi Jing opened the note.

The atmosphere in the library today is very good. He sits quietly and watches the readers come and go. When someone comes, he greets them softly, and when no one disturbs him, he talks to notes on paper.

Until the special time in the afternoon——

"Ms. Shi, I have your email." The colleague said.

Shi Jing took it, and found that the sender wrote "Ai Qiu" impressively, which was a bit strange.

After Ai Qiu completed the task, the book has been returned.As for herself, after choosing to stay in this world, she also gradually forgot about the system.

Shi Jing opened it and found that it was a book.

To be precise, it is a stand-in for the notes...

He remembered that it was customized with Boss Yang to cover his notes.It was later taken away by Zhong Ming.Zhongming was in a car accident, and the customized book disappeared.But it ended up in Ai Qiu's hands?

In other words, it was in Dai Li's hands...

He flipped back and found a stack of documents.

System novels

System Holder Suspect List

Survey on Manager Tools

……

These are all handwritten, which should be Dai Li's handwriting.Shi Jing turned around and found that Dai Li had contacted many system holders.

A lot of the information about managers and systems should come from those people.They are Dai Li's lover, subordinates, colleagues, and strangers.In the end, all of these people died unexpectedly without exception.

Ai Qiu was not murdered, perhaps because he deviated from the mission line inexplicably and stayed away from him.

Later, Dai Li's eyes did shift to him.In other words, this guy has achieved his goal and collected enough information about tools.

Because in his collection list, the whereabouts and collection progress of various tools are impressively recorded: the text manager’s pen × (abandoned), the time manager’s notes, the librarian’s bookmark, the plant manager’s sacred tree (crossed out) ), the cat of the manager of misfortune (in progress...), the teacup of the manager of water sources (to be done), the wind chime of the manager of wind (to be done)... He actually knew that Ji Xian's pen was a tool, and tried to buy it Pass.

Shi Jing was amazed.

Li Dai is an ordinary person, so he found so many without making a sound!

This guy is really talented. If he didn't die, he would have wanted to find the special office.

The note reminded: [Master, he is the one who wants to seize the manager's tools. 】

Shi Jing smiled and said, "Then it should be reformed through labor."

But now that the person involved is dead, it is meaningless to say this.

After Shi Jing had a general understanding, he handed over the information to Lian Ping and the others for processing.

Lian Ping was not as calm as him, and he was terrified when he saw it: "Hey, Mr. Shi, this guy has been involved in several murder cases. Wouldn't it be better to hand over this thing to the police station?"

Shi Jing took two sips of water and said, "Deputy Lian, are you sure this information can be disclosed to ordinary people?"

When Lian Ping heard about his title, he became even more troubled: "By the way, why am I the deputy director? I'm just a small staff member. No matter how round I am, it should be Teacher Wang Xu."

Wang Xu pushed up his glasses and looked over: "Of course it's because, Teacher Shi, you are warm, generous, eloquent, and energetic."

Lian Ping fluttered for a while, and hummed: "Don't think I didn't hear it, you want to talk about me!"

Wang Xu: "Look, there is still self-knowledge, what a rare quality."

Lian Ping: "..."

Wang Xu asked again: "Mr. Shi, has the director of the department been selected yet? The personnel department has urged you."

Lian Ping wondered: "I still have to ask, isn't it Teacher Shi?"

Shi Jing had no intention, but he still asked for his opinion: "Do you need a director who is unlucky if he doesn't discipline himself?"

"..."

Shi Jing looked at the ghostly eyes of several people, smiled and said: "It seems that there is no need. So I recommend the manager of bad luck and good luck, Chuhe. His ability can control the system, and I can guarantee his character. Everyone has no objections." If so, I will take him to the HR department for an interview tomorrow."

Lian Ping: "..."

Wang Xu hesitated, "What about you, Teacher Shi?"

After thinking about it, Shi Jing really couldn't let him go, so he said, "Let me be a consultant. If there is anything you don't understand, you can come to me."

Wang Xu nodded and said: "Yes. Now we have a lot of problems. On the system side, Mr. Shi, see if you can communicate with them and choose a representative to discuss, so that we can manage the docking. Also, the system that has been put in It needs to be audited, and our personnel also need to make a training plan..."

Shi Jing took notes one by one.

Lian Ping felt dizzy when he heard it, and he couldn't help but rejoice that he only needed to implement it, and didn't have to write these messy plans and plans.

After work, he couldn't wait to ask: "What will Teacher Shi have for dinner tonight?"

Shi Jing said: "There is a treat, you can go with me, by the way, I will take you to know Chuhe."

The two left the library and went straight to the thrift store.As soon as I reached the intersection, I saw an old man riding a bicycle, and suddenly a speeding electric bicycle passed by.The old man trembled and fell down in a panic.

Lian Ping said almost reflexively: "Mr. Shi, don't move! I'll help you up."

Shi Jing reminded with a smile: "You don't have system tasks anymore, we all support the same."

Lian Ping was stunned.

Almost at the same time, a cold and familiar voice suddenly sounded in his mind——

"The passing old man fell down on his bicycle and needs help urgently. The mission points are 100 points. Will the host accept the mission?"

Lian Ping: "..."

After a while of silence, the system spoke again: "Considering the risk of touching porcelain in this world, the task points have been increased, and you can get 1000 points for completing the task. Would the host want to pick it up?"

Lian Ping: "..."

The voice of the system was completely cold: "Host, your wings are stiff, right? You don't want to do the task without my supervision, right?"

Lian Ping finally came back to his senses, and while helping, he weakly returned to it and said, "I...how could it be, I was just taken aback by your sudden return."

System: "Hehe, you want to wait and see if the points will go up!"

Lian Ping: "It can still go up, you didn't say it earlier!"

He helped the old man up, and he was relieved to find that there was nothing serious.Watching the old man leave, he said to Shi Jing: "My family is all back."

"System No. [-]?" Shi Jing said unexpectedly. He was considering the candidate for the system representative, but he didn't expect that someone would come to his door.

Lian Ping rolled his eyes: "I've been here all the time. It took me a lot of energy to deal with that alien race, so I can only temporarily sleep. I need to go back to the headquarters to discuss what you said, and find out if there are any spies inside. Of course, You can come up with a plan first.”

Shi Jing felt relieved when the number one was around.

The thrift store was very lively tonight, and Shi Jing found that not only Chu He was there, but Lu Sheng, who had been on leave for many days, also came, bringing vegetation with him.

Cao Mu seemed to be in good spirits and cheerful. As soon as he saw Shi Jing, he held his hand and said excitedly, "Thank you! I knew that time would not lie to me! My little tree has really sprouted!"

Shi Jing really received many unexpected surprises today. "Congratulations! That's something to celebrate."

"Yes, yes." Cao Mu smiled from ear to ear, and pulled him to look at the phone album: "Look, this is my little tree. You are right, it is really too small."

Shi Jing looked at it, and in the photo, there was a patch of green around the gray tree stump.Looking at the close-ups again, those are long and short shoots, full of vitality, and seem to be growing well.

A little further away, you can see that the grass and trees have built a fence for it.

"I asked someone to watch it for me, and I will go back tomorrow. I hope the weather will be fine these two days..." Cao Mu muttered.

Shi Jing smiled and said, "It will definitely."

This world will definitely be fine.

【Author's words】

I'm not sure if the extra episode I want to write is what everyone wants to read, so I put some of it in, hoping it didn't spoil the reading experience.

Regarding the character of Li Dai, everyone didn't feel how bad he was, probably because the author didn't write well enough.Feel sorry.The author Jun also found that he is really not good at writing villains (face-to-face), so Mr. Li tried to do bad things many times but failed.In fact, since I wrote the article, I have basically never written any characters to death. I probably made a mistake this time.My fault.I reflect.

Finally, I would like to thank the little angels for their support and for accompanying us all the way.