Before he even reached the hospital, Gou Liang received an explanation from the System about the malfunction of the lock-on function.
As he expected, it was still the fault of the fragment.
The main System was still unable to provide a solution. It only said that the Bureau would improve the lock-on function and update the system as soon as possible. It asked him to wait patiently.
Gou Liang didn't become as irritable as the System had guessed. Instead, he frowned and calmed down.
He realized a problem, a very important problem. ↓
Maybe the BOSS didn't deliberately hide the information about the fragment, but the higher-ups didn't know much about it. What was certain was that the special mission system for recovering fragments was only a half-finished product. There would be countless "malfunctions" waiting for him in the future.
Thinking about this, Gou Liang suddenly felt a headache coming on.
— — Boss, can you be more reliable! (_ _) ノ |
[System: Master, master, are you okay?] The silence made him feel even scarier.
[Gou Liang took a deep breath and squeezed out a smile. "I'm fine. I'm just thinking about what to do next."]
[System laughed dryly. "Then please continue, please continue."]
Gou Liang didn't lie to the System. He was also worried about this matter.
No one had successfully recovered fragments before. There was no experience for him to refer to as to how to proceed. Furthermore, no one had ever reported that the system's functions had failed in front of the target. Gou Liang could at least come to two definite conclusions.
First, Shi Yu was the fragment carrier of this world.
Secondly, those so-called "words of experience" were of no use at all. He was the one who really triggered the dungeon quest.
This identity was simply waving the flag of "you will usher in a tragic life!" The first person to eat crabs usually didn't have a good ending. He never thought that he would be the one to complete the first kill of this damned dungeon quest! But no matter how depressed he was, since he met the target, Gou Liang had to go all out for the 100,000 reward. He had to go through fire and water to get the chestnuts out of the fire. Uh, the more he thought about it, the more ominous it felt. Stop, stop.
Fortunately, the bureau wasn't stupid enough to let him explore blindly. The mission details had stated that the system's real-time calculation of two important parameters was the guiding data for the completion of the mission. This finally allowed Gou Liang to find a clue in a situation where he had no direction at all.
These two parameters were the target's favorability and the mission completion index.
Needless to say, the Mission Completion Index truly reflected how many fragments had been collected, and for every 10% progress, the executor would be rewarded with 6,000 Mission Points.
Favorability referred to how much the target's soul accepted the executor. This parameter was directly proportional to the progress of the mission.
This indicator is the Soul Intimacy Value obtained from the target Soul Body. The error is within ± 0.00001. The points were set from -100 to + 100. Negative numbers meant disgust, which meant that the soul body would reject the person; positive numbers meant that the soul body would like the person, which meant that the soul body would accept the person; zero meant that the soul body had no feelings for the person, which meant that the soul body would not be able to have any form of interaction with the person with zero favorability.
Generally speaking, 1-20 meant a slight favorability, 21-40 meant a deep favorability, 41-60 meant a normal like, 61-80 meant like, 81-90 meant love, and 90-100 meant deep love.
Favorability was an important indicator to assist in the completion of the mission. In order to retrieve the fragment without destroying the target's soul body, the executor had to have an interaction with the target's soul body or even be completely accepted.
In theory, the target's soul body would only be judged as trustworthy if the target's favorability exceeded 60. The target's soul body would be open to the executor, and the executor's soul power would be able to enter the target's soul body to retrieve the fragment.
However, as for how to extract the fragment from the target's soul body, this was an unknown question that even the main system could not provide an answer to.
The only thing Gou Liang could and must do now was already in front of him. He had to figure out why the bastard Smile.JPG's -5 favorability toward him had come about. He had to think of a way to recover it and prevent negative favorability from appearing in the future. He had to work hard to get the target's favorability to the maximum.
This was the first step in a long journey, and it was the most difficult to cross.
The road ahead was long, but fortunately, Gou Liang was still optimistic. In any case, he was already very lucky to be able to lock onto a target with such a high compatibility rate in such a short period of time.
Contentment was bliss. Only then could he plan slowly.
*
Before the arrival of the parents, the school urgently arranged for all the students to receive examination and external treatment. The four students who were in shock were sent to the emergency room.
The principal's worries were not unfounded.
Due to Lecheng High School's high fees and strict school ethos, it had always been the focus of the ordinary people who raised their children. Not long after the school received this group of special patients, the outside world received the news.
The principal, who was called by the Education Bureau to ask about the whole story and the students' health and safety, was in a terrible fix. The Academic Affairs Director hated these troublemakers to the core. The Vice-Principal was about to retire, and he was still looking forward to taking a step forward! How could he not be angry that such a big mistake had occurred at this critical juncture?
[The System trembled with fear: Master, are you sure you're okay?]
After all, Gou Liang had used a metal power item to provoke them, and then used the Unlucky Talisman on the four students, causing them to become the target of everyone's attacks and be heavily injured. This was already a serious OOC behavior. If someone found out and concluded that Gou Liang was not Qi Cheng, they would miss the opportunity to meet the 99.99% high compatibility target!
[Gou Liang smiled: They won't know that it was me who did it. So, don't worry. Even if they die now, I don't need to take responsibility for it.]
System: … You mean that you won't be fined soul coins and nothing else will matter, right? Right, right? I've seen through you, my dear master.
[How could Gou Liang not know what it was thinking? He raised his eyelids: Are you very free now? I haven't received my refund yet. If you're any later, don't blame me for being ruthless.]
[System: ∑ (っ ° Д °;) っ Master, please calm down. I'll rush you!]
While Gou Liang and the System were talking, parents finally arrived one after another. Ye Chao and his wife were among them.
In a large ward vacated by the principal and the hospital, the students with minor injuries who had already been examined and were waiting for the results were gathered here.
The police officers had already arrived, but faced with the emotionally unstable students, they couldn't do anything and could only sit aside. The principal waited outside the emergency room. The anxious dean smiled apologetically to the police officers while glaring at the disappointing students. If they weren't injured in front of the police officers, he would have slapped them to death.
It took the dean a lot of effort to persuade the police officers to go back and wait for a while. He would trouble them to deal with the aftermath after they had calmed down the students and their parents.
Things had escalated to this point, and the school was in a passive position. He wanted to buy more time. It would be best if the parents could negotiate a solution in private.
Turning around, the dean didn't give them a good look. Although he couldn't have physical contact to vent his anger, he didn't show any mercy. Especially Gou Liang, who was still in his hands, became the target of his attack.
When Ye Chao and his wife arrived, they heard the dean scolding, "… I've never seen a student as shameless as you! It's the shame of our lives to have been your teacher! You don't learn good things at such a young age. You actually want to mess around with a male classmate, and it's Zhan Yongzhe! Qi Cheng, Qi Cheng, is there something wrong with your brain? Look at yourself. What do you have to compare with Zhan Yongzhe? Your grades are rubbish. You're sloppy and impolite. You're completely useless. Hey, are you two Qi Cheng's parents? "
Mrs. Ye and Cheng Li's faces were very ugly.
The dean's words were so straightforward just now, especially the sentence "Qi Cheng messed around with a male classmate". It was like a bolt from the blue to her! She subconsciously looked at the man beside her. She couldn't see any anger on his face, but he was very uneasy. When he looked at Gou Liang again, his eyes were full of hostility.
God, what would Ye Chao think of her? How could she give birth to such a shameless thing!
She really wished that she and her husband weren't at home today. She didn't want to come here and embarrass herself.
Gou Liang saw her expression and secretly sneered.
Cheng Li's reaction wasn't unexpected. He could see from the surveillance camera in the car that she was worried about the original owner, but she was more afraid that the original owner would do something to make Ye Chao unhappy and drag herself down. However, Gou Liang didn't care about her reaction. He was more interested in Ye Chao. His reaction would directly affect Gou Liang's next decision.
Gou Liang clearly noticed that Ye Chao's eyes changed when he looked at the other students … He knew them, or at least knew that these people were related to Ye Hui.
This was even more interesting.
Gou Liang was interested to see how the situation would develop.
The Dean saw that they didn't refute, so he immediately stepped forward and stuffed the diary into Ye Chao's hands. Although his tone was restrained, it was still very bad, "You two came at the right time. Look, look at what your son wrote. Is this proper? Ah, this is simply outrageous. "
Ye Chao took it and glanced over it before interrupting him, "Where is Principal Chen? Please ask him to come over."
The Dean's voice froze. It seemed that this parent didn't want to talk to him and only wanted to talk to the principal. He was angry and wanted to say something, but he quickly noticed Ye Chao and his wife's clothes and aura. The Dean sobered up a bit.
He looked around and went to stand outside the emergency room in place of the principal. He had the other party come over to deal with the parent's problem.
Principal Chen was boiling with anger. He was complaining about the parent that the Dean said was not to be trifled with, but when he saw Ye Chao himself, it was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head. He immediately forgot about his anger.
The principal was shocked. He quickly stepped forward and reached out his hand, "Mr. Ye, Mrs. Ye, why are you here? Ye Hui wasn't involved in this fight. This, this must have been a mistake. Look at how things were handled. I'm really sorry … "
"Hello, Principal Chen. Long time no see."
Ye Chao shook his hand and smiled, "You don't have to be like this. I'm Qi Cheng's stepfather and also this child's guardian. Something happened to Xiao Cheng at school. As his parents, we should help you deal with it. "
"I just don't know what exactly happened. There are so many students gathered here … I heard from the teacher that Xiao Cheng was the only one at fault. But as far as I know, "Ye Chao shook his head and continued in confusion," he shouldn't have the ability to injure so many students by himself. "
The principal's expression changed.
The parents who were scolding or crying were obviously shocked by Ye Chao's imposing manner. Although they still looked at Gou Liang unkindly, they were much more restrained.
The principal took in this situation. He cleared his throat and said with a smile, "Director Zhang did something wrong in a moment of desperation. Please don't argue with him for my sake. He was too anxious about the students' health and safety. Hey, Mr. Ye, Mrs. Ye, let's sit down and talk. Please sit down. "
After the three of them sat down, the principal said, "This is what happened. Today, someone posted Qi Cheng's diary on the school's bulletin board. It's the one in your hand. You can take a look at the content first. Later, Qi Cheng got into an argument with these students and started fighting … "
Ye Chao didn't want the school to hold onto this diary. He interrupted him and said, "Principal Chen, I'm sorry. According to what you said, Qi Cheng was the victim from the beginning to the end. "
"First of all, someone violated his privacy and made the diary public. It was a very targeted and insulting thing. Even if Xiao Cheng's behavior was inappropriate, he shouldn't be responsible for it from a moral and legal point of view. "
"As for your so-called quarrel, it should be these students who verbally hurt Little Cheng, right? Even if Xiao Cheng had physical contact with them during the dispute, I can objectively say that Qi Cheng is not directly responsible for this fight, whether it's in terms of strength or numbers. This is so clear, I shouldn't have misunderstood, right Principal Chen? "
Before the principal could answer, a sharp soprano voice approached, "Which one is Qi Cheng? Who hurt my son?! Come out — — Mr. Ye, you're here too? "
Wu Yong's mother was surprised to see Ye Chao. Then she became even more arrogant, "Could it be that Xiao Hui was also hurt? Oh my god, is there still law? How can the school have such a bad student! Director Zhang, which one is Qi Cheng? Ask him to come out! I want to ask him, how did my son offend him? Why did he have to be so ruthless?! "
How could the principal still not understand?
Seeing Ye Chao's face suddenly become gloomy, the principal angrily looked at the director of the Academic Affairs Office who misled the parents and tried to put the blame on Gou Liang to calm the situation — — This idiot, Wu Yong's family can't be provoked, but is the Ye family easy to provoke?!
He held back his hatred and smiled apologetically, saying hurriedly, "Mrs. Wu, please calm down and listen to me. Director Zhang, the emergency room needs people. You go and help the other parents first. " Then he gave Director Zhang a look. The director, who realized that he had screwed up, left with sweat all over his forehead.
Wu Yong's mother didn't appreciate it and still scolded, "Calm down, how can I calm down?"
"My son has been beaten like this. I don't even know if he's dead or alive! Our Wu family only has one child. If something happens to him, I won't let you off! And that person called Qi Cheng, where are his parents? They raised a homosexual son and don't allow others to talk about it? What kind of parents are they? How could they raise such a pervert — — "
"Mrs. Wu! This matter has nothing to do with Qi Cheng. Let's talk about it calmly … "
The principal was anxiously thinking about how to smooth things over.
He had heard that Mrs. Ye was now the second wife. They were a famous model family. She even brought a son who was the same age as Ye Hui into the family. Even so, she had a close relationship with President Ye. He didn't believe it at first. After all, he had never seen this so-called stepson in public. He didn't expect things to be so coincidental!
Now it seemed that he couldn't push Gou Liang out like Director Zhang because of President Ye's current attitude.
But Ye Chao didn't give him a chance to redeem himself. He sneered and said, "Mrs. Wu, be careful with your words. I don't need you to criticize how I raised my child. I'd like to ask you something. All the signs give me reason to suspect that it was your son who took my child's diary and made it public! Not to mention that this kind of behavior involves the criminal nature of invasion of privacy, he also insulted Qi Cheng afterward … Ha, our Ye family doesn't have the upbringing of sticking out the other side of our face after being slapped! "
After that, he turned to the principal and said in a deep voice, "President Chen, I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation."
"According to what Mrs. Wu said, Director Zhang had already charged my stepson with the crime of seriously injuring Wu Yong before the police finalized the case? Is your school so indiscriminate, only relying on your feelings and personal thoughts to determine right and wrong? "
Mrs. Wu was shocked.
Recalling that Director Zhang had told her that the cause of the matter was a homosexual student who made trouble and argued with her son, she naturally thought that the culprit was that perverted student.
But now, it seemed that Director Zhang's explanation was just a one-sided story to curry favor with her. She couldn't stand it.
Mrs. Wu cursed Director Zhang in her heart, but she wouldn't let her stepson get justice just because Ye Chao offended him. Thus, she still held her head high and said aggressively, "If it wasn't him, then who was it? My son is half-dead, and he's still in the emergency room. Tell me, who hurt him?! "
President Chen couldn't say anything, so he could only apologize to both sides. "Mr. Ye, please don't be angry. We can slowly understand and discuss the specifics of the matter. Mrs. Wu, I know you're very upset and anxious right now. We all feel the same, but please calm down. No matter what, I promise that the school won't let the student who made the mistake escape responsibility, but we also won't wrongly accuse any innocent student. "
Mrs. Wu opened her mouth to say something, but Ye Chao had already said, "I admired Le City's school spirit and discipline, so I sent my most important child to Le City to study. But what happened today is really disappointing."
"Since the incident happened, how can the school casually blame a child who hasn't even reached adulthood before knowing what happened? Xiao Cheng has been by my side since he was less than five years old. In these ten years, I don't dare to say that he's outstanding, but I know that he's a kind and righteous child. He doesn't fight with others, and he won't take the initiative to cause trouble. The school must give us an explanation for what happened today. "
President Chen's face wrinkled. "Mr. Ye, you're right!"
"It's just that the school values facts, but they also have to put the safety of the students first. You see, the situation was too urgent. There were still four students in the emergency room … But we didn't get to the bottom of the matter in time. It was indeed our negligence. How about this, I'll call back and get someone to retrieve the CCTV footage. Before that, let's listen to Qi Cheng's account of the situation first, then we'll discuss how to deal with this matter. Is that alright? "
When Gou Liang heard this, he recognized Ye Chao's forceful style and attitude in dealing with this matter.
He was a smart person, and he was a smart person who could do great things.
As for the wallflower Mrs. Ye … Gou Liang clicked his tongue and didn't even have the interest to comment.
Only then did Ye Chao put away his aggressive attitude and turned to look at Qi Cheng. He gently said to him, "Xiao Cheng, don't be afraid. Uncle Ye is here, so no one can force a groundless accusation on you. Tell me, what happened? Who bullied you? "
Gou Liang finally raised his head.
His face was also scarred. His red and swollen eyes were filled with helplessness and panic. His tears couldn't fall. He looked at Ye Chao with eyes full of gratitude and trust, as well as a trace of surprise.
Meeting this kind of gaze, even Ye Chao who was secretly angry at his stepson couldn't help but be startled.
Gou Liang opened his mouth, as if he didn't know what to say.
Ye Chao revealed a comforting smile and said, "Xiao Cheng, don't be afraid. You heard what your principal said. Tell us everything clearly. It's not your fault. Your mother and I will protect you. We won't let anyone bully you. "
When he said this, he looked at Principal Chen and Mrs. Wu to let them know that he wasn't just saying this for fun.
His attitude was like this. Even if his stepson was wrong, he would only accept the result of the Ye family's reputation being damaged.
Gou Liang, on the other hand, seemed to have finally found his backbone. He, who had been standing stubbornly in the same spot, took a step towards Ye Chao and his wife in a panic. Then, he stopped timidly, and his tears suddenly collapsed.
He didn't want to cry out loud and choked out, "Uncle Ye, mom, I'm not a pervert, I'm not …"
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