Who gave you permission to travel through time with Earth?

Chapter 32 I'm a Good Person

"Sizzle—"

Zhou Tongtong's body disappeared within the instance; after all, staying with Beast Corporation was meaningless for her, as they had already fully experienced the dangers of the detached world.

As for the areas further up, it was clearly beyond the reach of aspiring players like them. They wouldn't even have a chance to take advantage of the chaos; staying there would only increase the chances of things going wrong.

This was pretty much the same for Fang Jin. Originally, he had planned that if the difficulty was manageable, he would at least chop his way up with a kitchen knife, and at the very least, see Mr. Beast...

Upon seeing that ordinary office worker with four arms and four legs, whose aura already surpassed that of the third level baker, he immediately stuffed the kitchen knife into a further compartment of his bag and extinguished all other thoughts.

So, in the end, all Fang Jin could do was... only one thing.

"..."

"But I have to say, Brother Lu Chen, you're really unlucky. On your first newbie dungeon, you got matched with a free-floating state and two stowaways. That's the kind of bad luck that could wipe out your entire fortune in a casino."

"I never intended to take your life away. We've been through thick and thin together, and I've experienced a lot of human kindness. It's more important than the average person in society. Killing you would be against my conscience."

"But similarly, I have no intention of saving you. For the sake of our limited friendship, I'd have to confront another illegal immigrant, and I might even risk my life... Don't even think about it, I really can't do it."

"..."

"So I chose another approach, one that might have the best of both worlds."

Fang Jin muttered to herself as she dragged Lu Chen's body with her hands like a porter, leaving long drag marks on the ground from the blood on the back of his head, the initial pool of blood already beginning to dry.

...It has to be said that this scene is quite horrifying. Just the fact that someone is talking to a dead person goes against common sense, and probably no dead person has ever been treated so roughly in the past.

Finally, he pressed Lu Chen against the central elevator tower, and bright red blood slowly spread on the pale metal wall, while Fang Jin silently waited for something.

"Click—"

The door opened, and the pure white metal wall, in accordance with regulations, cracked open, but it was only less than half a meter high. To enter, one would probably have to crawl in, crouching down.

Lu Chen's mind went blank, and his body, which had been sitting sideways, lay straight down inside, half of his body inside while the other half remained outside the tower... preventing the elevator from going up.

A smile appeared on Fang Jin's face. He had made the right bet. After all, their identities were those of prospective employees on a workplace tour. If the first three levels of hardship were seen as a test for new employees...

So, have they already obtained the qualifications to officially join Beast Corporation? Clearly, Metal Tower's reaction confirms Fang Jin's conjecture; it can even identify employees who have lost vital signs.

In theory, as long as Fang Jin chooses to stay in this detached instance, he can immediately join the so-called best securities company in the kingdom... Of course, this means that he will lose his player identity.

"It's impossible for me to become a player. It's more beneficial for me to revive my planet. Staying here is not very meaningful... But I don't want to give up on a free-roaming world that I've just started to make a name for myself."

Fang Jin muttered to himself as he looked at a section of corpse, and at the same time took out a pistol from his pocket... a second pistol that didn't belong to him; the one that belonged to him should still be hanging around his neck.

He actually saved the gun that belonged to Lu Chen. Zhou Tongtong focused on cutting lines and observing; Jin Fugui's actions, driven to madness, were easy to read. What Fang Jin needed to do was...

He simply stood out of Zhou Tongtong's blind spot, and the moment Jin Fugui knocked the pistol away, he caught the handle and threw something of similar weight off the tray, just enough to make a sound.

Like hot pot, copper stove... he ordered plenty of food that met the standard.

But in the final moments just now, Fang Jin never considered helping. Since Zhou Tongtong valued Lu Chen's identity, scheming to take away the latter's pistol was merely an extra layer of insurance.

She could have easily killed Lu Chen before he could react, and she didn't even care much about the whereabouts of the pistol, which is why Fang Jin was able to take advantage of the situation.

Ultimately... whether you call it refusing to help or being powerless, Fang Jin did all of the above simply to verify something in the present moment.

"If a player is already dead while the main character is progressing through a dungeon quest, and someone else takes their place and successfully completes the main quest... what will happen to this deceased player?"

In normal circumstances, this would be a direct death, but at this moment, Lu Chen's evolutionary sequence has been stripped away by Zhou Tongtong. In a sense, from the system's perspective, "he" is still alive.

Even if someone is beaten half to death, or even if they only have a little bit of vitality left, they will be immediately recalled to the virtual space upon completing the mission for comprehensive repair and treatment, and they will be 100% saved.

Fang Jin had a deep understanding of this point.

Lu Chen's player sequence is still alive and cannot be absorbed by Zhou Tongtong before the settlement, while Lu Chen's original body is beyond dead. If they help him complete the main quest at this moment...

Lu Chen would undoubtedly become a flaw, a bug, in the main star system. Fang Jin wanted to see how the system would treat this innocent living dead.

"Ideally... you would be resurrected. After all, although your brain is dead, your body's vitality has not been completely destroyed, so theoretically you can be brought back to life."

"But without a doubt, your past and player sequence are gone forever. Zhou Tongtong has taken everything from you according to the rules, and that world will no longer leave any trace of your existence."

"..."

"So how about living in this world? Lu Chen will be reborn in this world as an employee of Beast Corporation!"

Fang Jin suddenly lowered her head, staring intently at Lu Chen's increasingly pale face! As if trying to bring him back to life, her voice uncontrollably took on a hint of absurd madness!

Even if all his conjectures were true, Lu Chen would only be resurrected in this alien world after losing everything... So Fang Jin chose another path for him.

This is the so-called perfect solution: by avoiding Zhou Tongtong's sharp edge, Lu Chen also achieved a de facto rebirth, while Fang Jin... was able to make full use of Zhou Tongtong's status and position!

Furthermore, they have planted their own moles and anchors within the Beast Corporation, a detached entity, and may even have the opportunity to return to this special and prosperous world in the future by leveraging this relationship.

"So I guess I really am not a good person after all..."

Fang Jin sighed, chewing on a mint, and simultaneously loaded all four bullets—one for himself and one for Lu Chen—into the magazine. As he shoved Lu Chen into the elevator shaft, he pulled the trigger repeatedly and rapidly.

"What exactly made me have this illusion?"

["Mr. Beast's Brokerage Firm" - Main and side quests completed, final test passed]

[Starting the Return]