Chapter 102: “The creditor of emotions.”

In the sea of consciousness, Chu Zu confirmed with the system:

“Guanfu will be promoted after he completes this job, right?”

The little yellow chicken: “That’s right. Why do you suddenly ask?”

“What authority will he have after the promotion?”

“A salary increase, and then he’ll be able to actively search our novel library. We will collect novels with problems in advance and contact the authors to see if they need corresponding services.”

The little yellow chicken said, “Originally, it was a one-sided acceptance of missions. If the authority is high enough, the specialist can take the initiative to screen.”

“What are the conditions for promotion?”

“Either you actively apply after both the quality and quantity of your performance have met the standards, or there are too few specialists, and it’s to retain them.”

“Mhm.”

Chu Zu said, “Where is he now?”

The system silently complained about the unreliability of the specialist on the other side and checked: “At his current speed, it will take at least five more minutes to get here.”

It said, “Why is Meng Yu'an always late?”

“There’s still a difference.”

Chu Zu said impartially, “Before, he was intentionally late. Now he wants to manage everything and help everyone, and there are too many things to prioritize.”

System: “If the host can’t prioritize, his little chicken should assist with the management!”

Chu Zu: “It’s not Guanfu who can’t prioritize, it’s Meng Yu'an who can’t. He doesn’t know what’s happening here, nor does he know the consequences of being five minutes late.”

What consequences?

The system was about to ask, when the host, who had been constantly switching roles to ensure that the entire plot development was under his control, called upon the role of Zu Qian.

He was still very bewildered.

Many years ago, he couldn’t answer Zu Qisheng’s question, and of course, he couldn’t answer it now.

But why should he understand?

Before, he had listened to his brother because his brother knew how to do things.

They were short on food and drink and had to save their energy.

And at that time, Zu Qian was too young and was completely controlled by his elder.

Now he is an adult.

To use the words that Yu Yan often nagged, an adult had to start taking responsibility for himself.

In the normal world, most people started to go to college when they were 18 years old.

Going to college meant leaving home, leaving the family that had planned every day for them, and starting to arrange their own lives.

Zu Qian poured the remaining half-glass of whiskey on the table down his throat.

He reached out to grab Zu Qisheng’s hand and said: “Go and get back what you sold.”

Zu Qisheng: “You’re talking about something impossible.”

Zu Qian shook his head: “You said that if I robbed a bank today, you would help me run, you would run with me why can’t you run with me now?”

He found that there were also advantages to being bewildered.

All his thoughts were filled with one thing.

He tightly gripped his brother’s arm.

“You said you didn’t like me as much as you thought. Then why didn’t you throw me away in the first place? You’ve thrown away a lot of things. Our house has been cleaned out by you. Brother.”

He shouted, “Brother, before we came here, apart from me, you had nothing you liked.”

The room was silent.

The slow-witted younger brother had made a rare refutation.

This should have been praised, or cheered.

You know, he had never had any intelligence.

It was not an exaggeration to say that his mental age was only eight years old.

Zu Qisheng reminded him: “I have something to do tomorrow. Can you make a decision quickly?”

Zu Qian stared at him, his pupils filled with blood, looking crazy and focused.

He had hated retreating and giving up in games.

He had abandoned all roundabout strategies.

His brother’s speech was always simple.

He would only speak at length to clarify a point.

The words he said were like nails hammered into a wooden board.

The person who wielded the hammer understood, and the wooden board that was being hammered also understood.

That was all.

“You’ve already said that I don’t belong to logic. I’m so fucking tired of your logic. You’re always telling me to be obedient, you’re always telling me to be obedient.”

Zu Qian let go of his brother, got up, and walked around the table.

He quite liked this table.

He had been lying on it for several years.

Sometimes he would twist his neck, and then it would be natural for him not to have to do his homework.

His brother would do it for him.

He had to get away from the table.

If blood splashed on it, the projection wouldn't look right.

Zu Qian went to the living room and looked for a weapon in the open kitchen.

He was quite sad.

It had started when he had heard Yu Yan talk about the trivial matters of his family.

Yu Yan’s hometown was in a very remote small town.

You could pick up something to eat just by taking a walk in the mountains.

When he was a little older, he would go to the river to catch fish.

He would often run into rich people from the city.

The fishing gear of the rich people was enough to buy a small house in the town, but they were not good at catching fish.

They liked to chat with Yu Yan.

When they heard Yu Yan’s surprised reaction to the price of the fishing rod, they would smile and also share some snacks and dried fruit with him.

Zu Qian also wanted to go to a remote small town.

He felt that his brother was also considering it, which was why he was willing to listen to such a long period of nonsense.

But his brother had never considered these things at all.

Even if he really wanted to retire somehow, there was no place for his younger brother in his brother’s retirement life he saw himself as a hindrance.

If he had known earlier, he would have just gone bankrupt and not let his brother sell things.

Maybe on the night before bankruptcy, they could have had a good dream.

But it was very difficult for a person to turn back, and it was also very difficult to regret.

At that time, his brother was already an adult, and he was still a little brat.

The most correct thing the little brat had done was not to sell his "courage."

Zu Qian was lost in thought for a long time.

He chose a suitable one from a variety of knives that had been bought and left unused.

He also saw the empty whiskey bottle next to the wine cabinet.

Whiskey was terrible to drink.

Zu Qian actually liked things like Coke, a happy water for otaku.

But now there was no time to immerse himself in the past.

Zu Qian took the knife and went outside Yu Yan's room.

He knocked on the door.

The door opened, and Yu Yan showed a somewhat surprised expression.

Zu Qian didn't knock on the door.

He had always been impolite.

“I have a question for you.”

Zu Qian hid the knife behind his back, “How long does it take for a loan arbitration to take effect?”

Yu Yan: “...I don't know either. I’m the one who borrows money from others. It’s scary to think about these things.”

Zu Qian’s fingertips rested on the back of the knife.

“What’s wrong with you?”

Yu Yan frowned, “Did you borrow money from someone?”

“I borrowed a lot.”

Yu Yan showed a look of disapproval, “If you’re short on funds, go to the boss. It’s very dangerous to borrow money outside, are you two still fighting?”

“I don’t have much savings either. I don’t know if it’s enough. Why don’t you take this little bit of mine and pay it off first?”

“Or you can still talk to the boss. He won’t leave you alone.”

See, everyone thought so.

“I have an idea. You listen.”

Zu Qian said, “My creditor isn’t short on money. He just doesn’t like me and wants to get rid of me. I’m getting angry too. I want to retaliate before he applies for arbitration.”

“For example, I’ll mess up everything he has arranged, and I’ll kill everyone he thinks is useful. We’ll see if his application for arbitration is faster, or if I’m faster.”

He said, “I’m quite confident. As long as my nerves aren’t severed immediately, I can still jump around a couple of times even if I’m dead.”

Yu Yan: “...”

Yu Yan: “Tit-for-tat revenge is not advisable.”

“It’s not really revenge.”

Zu Qian said, “This way, his application for arbitration would be considered self-defense, or doing a good deed?”

Yu Yan was confused: “No, little Zu, you want revenge, but you don’t want the creditor who doesn’t like you to have the psychological pressure of arbitration?”

“I don’t think he’ll have any pressure.”

“No pressure, but he will vomit, right? I kind of understand now. The human body is very magical, and so are emotions. Non-existent emotions can also lead to serious physiological reactions.”

“You wait a minute.”

Yu Yan said furtively, “Did you play with someone’s feelings outside?”

The male university student came to a ridiculous conclusion, and the more he thought about it, the more it made sense.

This was also a common thing on the Financial Street.

Before the boss started to mediate, the players always thought that there was a fundamental threat between them.

The uneasiness brought by the threat and the good feelings for each other were entangled together, and it was very easy to produce a not-so-healthy relationship.

The impact of tearing their faces apart was even uglier.

It had already reached the point of arbitration, and he was still thinking about whether the other party would have a physiological reaction of vomiting.

Little Zu’s personality was usually not considerate.

He had never had anyone in his eyes except his older brother.

So he had still played with someone’s feelings!

Zu Qian: “To be precise, my feelings were played with.”

Yu Yan’s eyes widened: “Who! Who is it!”

Who was it that had made a move while the brothers were fighting!

Little Zu was only eighteen!

“Sigh, I’ve been talking to you for half a day and still can’t get to the point.”

Zu Qian was getting impatient.

He showed his knife, “Forget it. I’d better hurry.”

His brother didn't like him, but he quite liked his brother.

Zu Qian still didn't know what else his brother could like, but he knew that his brother had protected him for many years.

After all, his brother had told him not to run around, saying that although his brain was not good, his face was like his.

Every time, it was Zu Qisheng who taught him what to do.

He was always talking and never listened to what he had to say.

Heh, on what grounds?

***

“I don’t understand what your Earth teacher wants to do!”

The cowlick little chicken said.

Zu Qisheng and Zu Qian were the main characters.

While Guanfu was running wildly, the cowlick little yellow chicken had been paying close attention to the other side’s movements.

They were not slow.

Guanfu had had some trouble shaking off the security at the door, and now he was already in the elevator.

Zu Qisheng’s floor was high.

The elevator showed that they were rising rapidly, but time was passing minute by minute.

The plot development on the other side was also too fast!

From the two brothers tearing their faces apart, to now Zu Qian being on the verge of killing Yu Yan.

The thought processes of both characters were a bit sick.

One wanted to simply cut off the risk and kill his brother to prove his point.

The other felt that even if his older brother had no feelings, he would still have an uncomfortable physiological reaction after being affected.

Zu Qian had seen his brother have a stress reaction before.

He had been vomiting for many years, and it had only gotten a little better later.

The first thing Zu Qian had done for his brother was to create "self-defense."

He still wanted to use "self-defense" as the end.

Although he was sick, it made sense.

Although it made sense, it was just very sick!

Guanfu had the cowlick little yellow chicken prepare "Master Wang."

He also browsed through the mall, looking for a speech prop.

He was really not good at talking.

"Ace to Ace": Hitting a child during the New Year, you're idle anyway.

Do you need to prove that the other person is a SB?

You really hate them!

The prop description was neurotic.

The name was from a movie, and the protagonist was a negotiator.

This should be a negotiation skill prop.

Guanfu really wanted to grit his teeth and buy it, but it was too expensive.

He didn't have enough credit points.

“Earth teacher is probably calculating the character design.”

Guanfu looked at the gradually increasing floor number and simulated the possible situations in his mind.

He said quickly in the sea of consciousness.

“Zu Qisheng is too strange. He sold his feelings for his younger brother, but he instead realized that he really loved his younger brother. He has been trying to be a normal person.”

The cowlick little yellow chicken: “Are you thinking too highly of him? What he has done, where is it normal?”

“Sigh, how do I explain this…”

Guanfu had always been bad at using language to describe his feelings, which was why he was considered a talent-based player.

He considered himself to be quite sharp.

“If Zu Qisheng purely wanted to use his younger brother, he would have only let his younger brother sell his fear, thus losing most of his reason and becoming his tool to test the game. But he would not have let his younger brother sell his self-blame.”

“In the words of the Financial Street, Zu Qisheng could have completely become the creditor of Zu Qian’s emotions.”

It was really difficult to express the things in his head in words.

Guanfu tried his best to use an expression that the cowlick little yellow chicken could also understand.

“Zu Qian has never encountered a major blow since he was a child, because no matter what happens, his older brother is always in front of him.”

“The pervert in the factory was blocked by his older brother. Zu Qian couldn’t stay in the psychological counseling center, and it was his older brother who went to pick him up and tried his best to put together a complete family for him.”

“When their parents ran away, it was also his older brother who was planning how to live.”

“His older brother also went to the exchange to make transactions in order to raise funds.”

He said, and then looked up at the floor display in the elevator.

It was almost there.

“The previous specialist didn’t do anything human. He wished that all the misfortunes in the world would fall on the two brothers.”

“Under this premise, Zu Qisheng still provided his younger brother with a relatively gentle environment. Compared to Zu Qisheng, Zu Qian was at most unlucky.”

Zu Qian would be at ease when he was young, and he might have ignored it in the normal world.

But he was an adult now, and he was on Financial Street, a place that completely quantified input and harvest.

His older brother had invested too much, and the return he had given was nothing.

Even if he hadn't been there to test the game, his older brother could still have found a thousand and one ways to achieve his goal.

Zu Qian would realize that his older brother had been giving him a step to show his value, to balance their relationship.

Guanfu said quickly: “This is simply unsolvable. Zu Qian can’t pay it back. If Zu Qisheng were really a cold-blooded investment consultant who didn’t care about his younger brother at all, why wouldn’t he make good use of that heavy and suffocating self-blame?”

The cowlick little yellow chicken was stunned for a moment: “Self-blame, is it very useful?”

“Very useful.”

Guanfu sighed, “Very, very, very useful, especially for manipulating a person. It’s so ‘useful’ that it can completely drive the other person crazy.”

That’s why he thought Zu Qisheng was so strange.

This older brother was rational enough, proficient in transactions, and damn smart.

It was precisely because of this that after he had sold his feelings for his younger brother, he had realized for the first time that those feelings existed.

Zu Qisheng had originally been very indifferent to feelings.

He would not try to understand them and believed that all the decisions he made were based on rational judgment.

Then the loss of feelings would not have a great impact on him.

A heat-resistant person would not care if the current temperature was 39 degrees or 40 degrees.

To him, it was all the same.

But this feeling was quantified, and after it was quantified, its sense of presence became prominent.

The thermometer was right there, telling you that it was now 40 degrees, hotter than before.

It was absurd.

After he had lost his love for his younger brother, he had realized that he actually loved his younger brother.

Then he had let his younger brother go and sell his self-blame.

The biggest difference between Zu Qian and his older brother was that he really wouldn’t consider what he had lost.

What was lost was lost, and what was gone was gone.

The following things became difficult to explain, and Zu Qisheng had wanted to simply cut ties.

The way he used to hurt his younger brother was also the way he had always protected him.

You are never troubled by self-blame.

Now that he has laid it bare, you should actually feel guilty, very guilty.

Because of your guilt, you should listen to me and die.

“Earth teacher’s character design is too strong, and he’s also very willful. He's now throwing a problem at me. How am I going to reconcile it? Can I reconcile it…”

“He has basically completed my work. Then should I continue in his way he still doesn’t trust me.”

The elevator made a “ding” sound, and the doors opened.

Guanfu quickly ran out.

The lights in the corridor reflected in his eyes, with a kind of desperate taste.

The cowlick little yellow chicken: “He’s not our superior. Why would he test you? And if you really follow the current development, then isn’t the whole story set in stone?”

Zu Qisheng and Zu Qian would have a complete falling out.

They would revise the economic law according to the plot, but no one would have a good ending.

“He can still change it. Do you remember that phone call?”

Guanfu said to the cowlick little yellow chicken in the sea of consciousness:

“He called me before, but I didn’t answer. Then he came to the Financial Street and no longer trusted anyone.”

“But he gave my number to Yu Yan.”

The cowlick little yellow chicken: “I’m warning you. I know that the Earth teacher next door likes to speak in riddles, and he never explains anything to his little chicken. He also skips steps, making the little chicken look like an idiot.”

“If you learn this too, I’m done with you.”

“He gave my number to Yu Yan. If Yu Yan really calls me, what will Zu Qian think when he finds out?”

Guanfu had already run to Zu Qisheng’s door.

When he touched the handle, his phone rang.

The door was pushed open from the inside the next moment.

Yu Yan’s hands were covered in blood.

One hand was holding the phone, and the other was on the doorknob.

Behind Yu Yan, Zu Qian was carrying his unconscious older brother to the sofa.

After he had placed him, he picked up the bloody knife from the carpet and weighed it habitually.

Zu Qian’s eyes were very cold.

If you looked at him for a few seconds, you would have the illusion that you were about to be dragged into a nightmare.

What is a nightmare?

It is the fork in the road that was not realized at the time.

It is the person who was not hated at the time.

“It was my inaction that led to the current situation. Now Zu Qisheng actually still believes that I can help Yu Yan—Zu Qian will transfer all the contradictions to me.”

Guanfu held Yu Yan and pulled him behind him.

Yu Yan was still in a state of shock and wanted to quickly explain the situation:

“Little Zu is a bit off. He suddenly wanted to make a move. I reacted, and the boss heard the sound and wanted to come over, but he was knocked out by him. I don’t know… he… I…”

“Run.”

Guanfu said in a low voice.

The Earth teacher is really terrifying.

Yu Yan said that he had reacted, so he had only been injured in the arm.

How was that possible?

If the Earth teacher really wanted Zu Qian to make a move, Yu Yan wouldn't even be able to make a sound.

He would die silently.

Not to mention taking the opportunity to call Meng Yu'an.

The key point was that number.

Zu Qisheng had given Yu Yan Meng Yu'an’s number.

It could be because he believed that Meng Yu'an could solve it, and the missed call back then was just an accident.

It could also be that Zu Qisheng had single-handedly orchestrated the current situation, with the goal of having Zu Qian get rid of the trouble of Meng Yu'an.

If it was the latter, then Guanfu’s previous analysis of "Zu Qisheng" was all invalid.

Zu Qisheng was a madman who had lost all humanity.

Now he was using a very common "war diversion policy."

The conflict between the brothers had a breakthrough to unite against an external enemy.

If Zu Qisheng wanted to live on the Financial Street, then Meng Yu'an and the Ninth Division of Special Cases he represented were his obstacles.

But Zu Qisheng couldn't do it himself, because he wasn't sure if the Ninth Division of Special Cases could handle the Financial Street.

If the Financial Street disappeared, he would still have to go back to the real world.

Zu Qisheng didn’t want his identity in the real world to be a "criminal."

Then Zu Qian was the best knife to use.

Now he was a thorn in the side of both brothers.

This was Plan B.

The key was Zu Qisheng’s control over the situation.

The readers would like it.

No one dislikes the power struggle intertwined with conflict.

At the same time, as long as the conflict between the brothers continued, the Earth teacher would always find a chance to adjust and resolve the relationship between the two brothers.

If Guanfu’s response did not meet the Earth teacher’s expectations, he could adjust Zu Qisheng at any time.

The two brothers would still have a chance to shake hands and make up.

Just because Meng Yu'an was the protagonist, he would not, and could not, die.

As long as he didn’t die, then Zu Qisheng would have the necessity to continue to accept Zu Qian.

Plan A was the question that the Earth teacher was now posing:

This was not a conspiracy created by Zu Qisheng.

Everything was just an accident under an accident, just like that phone call back then.

Even if Zu Qisheng no longer had feelings for his younger brother, he still recognized the identity of his relatives. He had just made a wrong choice.

Meng Yu'an had a chance to correct the mistake.

So, if you hope that Zu Qisheng still has humanity and is not a being who has objectified and alienated himself to the extreme.

What will you do?

You said you wanted to work together.

Your previous specialist has already made my character like this.

What are you going to do?

Guanfu believed that the Earth teacher wanted to go with Plan A.

Under the many restrictions, he had still managed to make the character design very delicate.

Zu Qisheng was not old.

Young people would all make mistakes.

It just depended on whether there was proper guidance.

Zu Qian was even younger.

He had not read much, and had not come into contact with many people.

It was Yu Yan who had slowly shown him the life that a normal young person who had gone astray should have.

Meng Yu'an’s character design was just right to be a guide.

In other words, this was actually adding plot to Meng Yu'an, to make him from an egg that was detached from the plot to an important character in the development of the prequel.

No matter what Guanfu did, the completeness of the entire Third Economic Law would be raised to a new level.

“So spiteful! He’s so spiteful!”

The cowlick little yellow chicken also understood the other host’s plan and was both anxious and angry, “It’s not us who made the two brothers like this! The blame should be placed on the right person!!!”

But Guanfu didn’t think this was revenge.

He still thought that this was more like a test but a test of what?

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