Worldwide Awakening: My Soul Kinds Are Lost-Chapter 386: Mockery? This is called Blocking the Knife_1
Green Plum Brews Wine’s perception is quite acute. I’ll have to find a way to eliminate him, Wang Linchi thought, also noticing Green Plum Brews Wine’s strange attitude towards him.
He wasn’t sure why this was happening, nor did he feel the need to find out. He didn’t have the time for it; all he had to do was remove him from the equation.
However, he could neither act directly nor use lethal force. The other party was a Player, and also second on the leaderboard. If he committed murder, it would certainly invite an investigation from the Game System. Although he was very confident in his concealment abilities, it was always better to avoid needless risks.
And the reason for not acting directly was that if he didn’t use lethal force, the other party could resurrect. Even if they didn’t leak the information, merely telling Hand of God would disrupt his plans.
Wang Linchi indeed had a way to silently assassinate his opponent, but it would inevitably leave traces. It would be better to let an Erroneous Sin do it.
Why can’t the top-ranked Players just be brainless Wild People? Wang Linchi mused.
During the Abyss Era, when facing the Game System, top Players might genuinely have been Wild People, but in the age of Erroneous Sin, the brainless ones usually couldn’t make a name for themselves.
No rush, let’s not be hasty, Wang Linchi thought, sitting in the operating room. Before him was an Erroneous Sin that had undergone surgery and was now an imbecile.
He just needed to wheel it out later.
Currently, one percent of the System’s resources are being diverted for my use; I wonder if the hospital has noticed, Wang Linchi grew stronger each day.
He was silently fleecing the System’s resources and the hospital’s essence.
The amount siphoned off was indeed quite large. However, with his concealment, the hospital was unlikely to notice in the short term, though it was uncertain in the long run.
However, Wang Linchi didn’t intend to wait that long. Yet, on only the second morning, he had dared to divert 1% of the resources.
With this new collector, he dared to increase the diversion rate to 5%.
The remaining time should be sufficient, Wang Linchi checked his progress. Through his plundering, his spiritual power had reached 10.72 million, and he should be able to reach 11 million today.
The remaining 110,000 would slowly allow him to reach his limit within nine days.
If he was still slow despite using plug-ins, charging money, utilizing the hang-up feature, and possessing a plethora of talents, then all the suffering Wang Linchi endured to snowball his advantage in the early game would have been for naught.
But my greed does seem a bit extreme, Wang Linchi took a closer look. Faint, almost unnoticeable cracks had appeared on the walls of his department. These cracks hadn’t been there when he first arrived. This indicated that his devouring of the hospital’s essence was also damaging the hospital itself.
That was why Wang Linchi was worried the hospital would notice.
Luckily, the Game System can take the blame for me. Even if the hospital and the Dean notice, as long as the losses aren’t too significant, they’ll tolerate it for the sake of their plans against the Game System.
He had accurately gauged the psychology of both sides. They would accept minor losses for the sake of their grand scheme. Once they succeeded, they expected the Game System to repay them in full, with interest.
The irony was, the Game System thought the same way. It poured resources into the hospital, hoping to gain control eventually, so it gritted its teeth and continued to invest.
Neither suspected Wang Linchi was siphoning from the middle.
But the hospital was undoubtedly the biggest loser. If the resources provided by the Game System were depleted, the System would merely go bankrupt, not cease to exist. The hospital, however, was having its flesh genuinely carved out by Wang Linchi, piece by piece, until nothing remained.
Although the hospital constantly used Bloodsucking on the Game System to recover, when comparing flesh-carving to Bloodsucking, Wang Linchi was undeniably more ruthless.
Time is almost up; it’s time to send the patient back, Wang Linchi glanced at the time. It was almost time to get off work, and he had no intention of staying for overtime.
Pushing the gurney, he left the operating room and headed towards the ward.
Since it was daytime and Wang Linchi was transporting a patient, he encountered no danger.
"Wait a minute!"
Just as Wang Linchi was about to go in, a voice stopped him. He turned to see it was the North General.
"What is it?" Wang Linchi asked politely, This fellow isn’t here to pick a fight, is he? Judging by his aggressive demeanor, he certainly isn’t inviting me to dinner.
"Clean up the filth in your operating room when you get back," the North General said immediately.
"That’s your job, why should I...?" Wang Linchi was somewhat speechless. It wasn’t as chaotic as yesterday; it just needed to be shoveled and washed down. Still, the quantity was substantial.
These words made the veins on the North General’s forehead bulge. "You’re the one who made a mess, and you expect me to clean it up for you? Don’t push it!"
"But that’s part of your duties. What has it got to do with me?" Wang Linchi retorted, not backing down. This guy is definitely looking for trouble.
"You... Fine. After you’re done with the patient, come and clean with me," the North General conceded, taking a step back.
"No way. Do it if you can, scram if you can’t. There are people who want the job," Wang Linchi countered. He wanted an easy patient role but chose to be a nurse, so he shouldn’t try to shirk his duties.
"Fine, fine! I’ll remember you, kid! Next time..." The North General began to threaten, but his words were cut short.
"Next time, what?" It was Hand of God who spoke.
The North General froze. He hadn’t expected such a coincidence.
Wang Linchi considered this not a coincidence, but good luck. If his luck had been bad, some minor trouble would have followed, but now it was gone.
"Hmph!" The North General snorted coldly, said nothing more, and after glaring resentfully at Wang Linchi, turned to leave.
But Hand of God grabbed his shoulder, his tone serious. "You haven’t finished. What about next time?"
From his perspective, Wang Linchi had done nothing wrong. True, the operating room was a filthy mess, but he had helped everyone temporarily subdue an Erroneous Sin, making everyone a bit safer.
"Let go of me! Don’t think you can do whatever you want just because you’re rank one! Didn’t this brat turn the operating room into that state to deliberately make things difficult for us?" The North General appeared unyielding, but his latter sentence showed he was already backing down.
"So you’re going to target him?" A dangerous glint appeared in Hand of God’s eyes. He was increasingly convinced that this North General was the imposter who had infiltrated their ranks.
Otherwise, why would he deliberately pick on Wang Linchi?
Since Wang Linchi had entered this instance, his personality and behavior, though erratic, had always benefited them. The North General, in contrast, was full of suspicious points.
Hand of God naturally chose to help Wang Linchi. Why would he help the North General, who was clearly problematic?
"So you’re trying to use your position to bully people, huh? Fine, fine, fine! You’re all a bunch of snakes and rats in the same den!" the North General fumed.
Hand of God was left somewhat speechless by this. "You were the one threatening Linyuan Fish first. It’s your primary job, yet you tried to make Linyuan Fish do it. How does that make me the one bullying with power? You started it, didn’t you?"
When had the North General ever listened to such arguments? He had always been the one taking advantage of others; when had it ever been his turn to be taken advantage of?
"This isn’t over! I’ll definitely expose you on the forums!" The North General harrumphed, forcibly broke free from Hand of God’s grip, and stormed away.
"For someone with that kind of personality, his abilities must be quite strong," Wang Linchi couldn’t help but remark.
To be able to grow to this extent despite such character flaws, his own abilities must be solid. Otherwise, he would have doomed himself long ago.
Huh... that actually seems to make some sense, Hand of God thought. He found it strange at first, but on further reflection, Wang Linchi was indeed correct.
"How was today’s haul?" Wang Linchi asked.
Hand of God helped push the gurney into the ward, answering, "Not much progress. It’s a war of attrition. However, I heard that a second batch of Players will be deployed soon, around a hundred of them."
"That many?" Wang Linchi was rather surprised. He had assumed they would be sent in batches of ten, not a hundred all at once.
"Yes. It’s mainly because a large number of Erroneous Sins have appeared again. There’s a rumor that this instance might be key for the Game System to resolve the Erroneous Sin issue," Hand of God shared candidly.
This was likely inside information Hand of God had obtained, something only high-clearance Players like him could know.
"I see," Wang Linchi nodded. Only the first part of that is true. After all, Erroneous Sins will continuously be born, even if I devoured a large batch of them earlier. As for the latter part, that’s just a rumor, not credible at all.
