After leaving Sui Si's house, Yu Tang carried the plastic bag and went straight to the trash can.
"Host." The system hesitated for a long time and reminded quietly, "You didn't sort your garbage..."
Yu Tang: “…”
The system holds up a small flag: "Garbage sorting is everyone's responsibility."
Yu Tang stopped in front of the trash can. In order to avoid being discovered by Sui Si, he had turned on the automatic mode that he had programmed a few years ago when cleaning the house.
A few years ago, garbage was chaotic, free, and coexisted. People took things as they came, and there was no love-hate relationship between dry and wet, kitchen waste and harmful things.
Yu Tang stood in front of the trash can for a while holding the plastic bag: "Does this bag of trash belong to me?"
“…” System: “Host.”
Yu Tang: "In principle, all items that belong to me can be exchanged for experience points at a 1:1 ratio."
The system screen went black: "... Host."
Yu Tang was very sincere: "Experience points are not important, the main thing is that I don't want to carry them."
The host's request did not violate any regulations. The system could not find any point to refute it, so it made up its mind and the small red light flashed twice.
Yu Tang cooperated calmly, turned sideways, and used the trash can to block the view of passers-by who might notice him.
In Yu Tang's mind, a mechanical sound made a sound, and the hot seafood, preserved egg and lean meat porridge was quickly decomposed into a data stream.
Soon after, discarded medical equipment and plastic bags also turned into a string of 0s and 1s.
On the passbook in the background, the experience point balance flashed, but there was no change.
"An additional 0.00749 experience points." The system had never done anything like this before, so it was a little unsure, "The panel can't display it..."
"It doesn't matter." Yu Tang was in a good mood. "When you save enough, you can show it."
system:"?"
Yu Tang looked at the time and didn't rush to the studio.
He first went to the system mall to buy a bottle of mineral water and a box of chewing gum, then found a shopping mall on the side of the road, went into the bathroom and tried his best to vomit for a while, but nothing came out, so he went back to the sink and rinsed his mouth for five minutes.
"Host, host." The system came back to its senses and was shocked. "Is there poison in the porridge!?"
"… There is no such plot." Yu Tanggang took a breath and rubbed his waist, "I don't eat seafood."
A tool character like this will not generate too many special settings that are irrelevant to the plot. It will directly integrate the host's habits and make new modifications to the basic data.
Sui Si never knew that Yu Tang couldn't eat seafood.
The system was picking out snacks in the mall and quickly wrote it down: "What else is the host not going to eat?"
Yu Tang: "Preserved eggs, lean meat."
Yu Tang thought for a moment and said, "Porridge."
system:"… "
"Look at the bright side," Yu Tang said, "as long as the results of the character re-evaluation come out, we will have more freedom."
The system flashed a small red light and rubbed his shoulder.
Yu Tang walked out of the mall: "What stage has the evaluation process reached?"
"In five minutes, the logical operation will completely take over the character setting." The system said, "It will be deduced strictly according to all the details of the plot. It will last for 24 hours. The host can only cooperate and cannot interfere."
Yu Tang nodded.
He was familiar with this pattern. Although his consciousness was still in this body, all his actions were strictly controlled by logical deduction, and he would only respond in the way that best suited the plot.
All he had to do now was to get a taxi to the studio within five minutes and push the plot through.
"Host, host." The system was still a little worried, "Will Sui Si affect our plan?"
Yu Tang shook his head: "It doesn't matter anymore."
System: “Why?”
Yu Tang stood at the intersection, stretched out his hand to stop a taxi, and watched the car slowly park by the roadside.
He raised his hand and pressed lightly on his chest.
Although the results of the character re-evaluation have not yet come out, he can actually feel the subtle changes in the basic data to a certain extent.
It was an extremely similar feeling to when he was in the Almighty Secretary Butler Department, and under reasonable plot logic, he broke away from the protagonist, started his own business from scratch, and acquired the protagonist's company.
Sui Si doesn’t know it now, but he will know it sooner or later.
Yu Tang is no longer his tool.
It was a long time after Yu Tang left that Sui Si came back to his senses from his extreme anger and surprise.
No matter how much he tried to persuade himself, the obvious abnormalities on Yu Tang's body just now could no longer be ignored.
In this small room, Yu Tang turned around slowly, his movements stiff and slow, like a lifeless puppet.
Get up, fold the quilt, tidy up the room, and go out.
A clumsy puppet that is so broken that it has to be discarded is being pulled by invisible strings. It repeats what it did in the past in a once familiar scene.
Repeat until the last bit of energy is completely used up and you come to a complete stop somewhere.
…
Sui Si suddenly woke up.
He suddenly had an extremely uneasy feeling in his heart. He could no longer sit still, so he grabbed his coat and strode out the door.
Yu Tang had been following him around all these years and had almost no personal life. He had no place to live in the imperial capital and very few places he often went to.
If you want to find someone, there are only a few places.
Sui Si stepped on the accelerator hard, trying not to think about the terrible possibilities. He headed straight for the river where he found Yu Tang that day, and called Nie Chi, asking him to get to the studio as soon as possible.
"Yu Tang is not doing well." Sui Si stared at the river bank, holding the phone in one hand, "I don't know where he went. Let's go to the river to look for him. You go to the studio... his office."
"I can't get through to his cell phone, and no one answered the phone at the office." Sui Si's voice was very hoarse. "If he goes back to the studio, don't let him touch the electric shock device."
When the doctor came to examine Yu Tang, he suggested that Yu Tang be admitted to the hospital for treatment, but he insisted on keeping Yu Tang at home.
Before the day was even over, he had lost the person.
Sui Si's face felt burning with pain. He knew that no matter how he looked at it, he was in the wrong. He also knew that as long as Nie Chi asked, he would have no excuse to explain.
But this time, Nie Chi did not ask those questions that would force him into a corner. He simply responded briefly and wrote down Sui Si's instructions: "What electric shock device?"
Sui Si frowned: "There is an electric shock device on the desk in the office. He is most afraid of that. Don't let him touch it, he-"
Nie Chi asked: "Since it is the most feared thing, why did Yu Te Assistant put it on the table?"
Sui Si was stumped by his question, and his throat suddenly stiffened slightly.
This question... Sui Si had never thought about it.
When Yu Tang first came to the studio, he knew nothing and had to learn almost everything on the spot. He had no academic qualifications and no work experience. It took him three days to learn what others could learn in one day.
Yu Tang remained silent and worked very hard in private. When the others went back to rest, he was still squatting in the bathroom, pointing at the list of partners one word at a time, and reciting it clumsily like cramming. When he was too sleepy to open his eyes, he poured a basin of cold water over his head.
With electronic office work, this information can be checked at any time. Everyone thinks that this blockheaded assistant is stupid and weird.
A few months later, at a particularly important dinner party, there were mistakes in planning and preparation, the reception staff was not in place, and the remaining people could not even recognize the faces of the guests, let alone remember their names. The organizer was so angry that he had to urgently ask for help from the studios of various companies.
Yu Tang relied on rote memorization to gain Sui Si a big-screen resource that made people extremely jealous.
…
Sui Si had become accustomed to Yu Tang's silent and almost self-abusing hard work, so he didn't think there was anything strange about the electric shock device.
But when Nie Chi asked this, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.
In the first few months after Yu Tang joined the company, he had to work hard to catch up with others. After a few more months, he already looked like an assistant.
A year later, when Yu Tang went out to discuss cooperation, he was able to act independently and no longer needed to follow anyone sent by the company.
Since it is no longer needed, why did Yu Tang put this thing on the table
He was worried about Yu Tang, so he went to the company to look for him that day. Why was Yu Tang not in the office
Did Yu Tang know that he would go? Did he put an electric shock device on the table to let him have a taste of the same feeling, or to arouse his guilt and make him feel that he owed him something...
Sui Si gripped the steering wheel tightly, his eyes vaguely cold.
Of course he didn't want to think of Yu Tang that way.
But for some reason, after knowing that Yu Tang's work ability was noticed by W&P and he knew nothing about it, he couldn't help but feel some doubts when facing Yu Tang again.
He has always trusted Yu Tang and never had any doubts about him. Over the years, Yu Tang could adjust the staffing and work arrangements of the studio at will and could contact all the work partners he had contact with.
But what did Yu Tang do
Why would W&P take a fancy to an unknown actor assistant? What has Yu Tang been thinking about all these years? He felt guilty towards Yu Tang, but was Yu Tang not as stupid as he thought
“…Mr. Sui.”
Nie Chi's voice came from the other end of the phone.
Nie Chi had also started the car. His formulaic tone mixed with the roar of the engine, heavy at the beginning and light at the end. The last bit of sound was swallowed up by the noise, like an unknown sigh.
Sui Si came to his senses: "What?"
"That's not a stun gun."
Nie Chi said, "That's the alarm clock that Special Assistant Yu wears when he's resting in the office to ensure he doesn't miss any of his schedules."
Sui Si was suddenly stunned.
He didn't quite understand this sentence, and paused for a while before asking again: "...What?"
"Assistant Yu often stays up all night for several nights. Once he rests, it is difficult for him to wake up."
Nie Chi said: "There will be electric shock reminders on the studio's schedule, graded according to importance..."
Sui Si interrupted him: "How do you know?"
The residual power of the electric current running through his nerves that day was still there, and Sui Si shuddered just thinking about it. That kind of overwhelming suffocating fear was something he would never want to experience a second time after experiencing it once.
How could someone... use this as an alarm clock for schedule reminders
"How do you know?"
Sui Si said in a hoarse voice: "As I recall, you and Special Assistant Yu were not very familiar with each other..."
"We are indeed not familiar with each other." Nie Chi said, "I know this because everyone in the studio knows it."
Nie Chi: "Anyone who has an emergency and cannot contact Assistant Yu can use remote control to set the alarm directly."
Sui Si opened his mouth but said nothing.
He tried his best to refute Nie Chi's statement, but after thinking about it in vain, he found that he had no idea where to start.
In the circle, many people envy his studio.
Many people complained and joked, asking him what secret he had and how he could make his subordinates change their bad habit of forgetting things when they were busy.
Others sighed and said that although the studio is free, its structure is relatively loose and arrangements between people are not timely. Once there are too many things to do, it is inevitable that one or two things will collide and cannot be sorted out because there is no summary and communication.
… There is no trick.
Yu Tang is not smart enough, so he can only use stupid methods and work hard behind the scenes.
Sui Si leaned back in the driver's seat.
His eyes were still mechanically searching the riverbank, trying to find any figure that resembled Yu Tang, but his mind was abnormally empty and no thoughts came to his mind.
If before, he only knew a little bit about the past, and knew that Yu Tang had indeed suffered some injustices following him all these years, then Nie Chi told him about the electric shock device, and finally pushed a fact that could not be avoided by deceiving himself almost directly in front of him.
Five million may not be enough... It bought all the thoughts and efforts Yu Tang had put into him over the years.
This realization made Sui Si feel uncontrollably irritated.
He admitted that he had not been good enough to Yu Tang over the years, but from beginning to end, he never thought that he owed Yu Tang anything.
Even at this critical moment of confrontation with the Sui family, he still tried his best to deduct 5 million from the studio's working capital as a final and proper explanation to Yu Tang.
Sui Si never thought that the money might not be enough.
He had always thought that his marriage with Yu Tang was just a fake marriage, and that after the contract expired, they were both free and owed nothing. He had never expected that the past three years had been uneventful, but in the last few months, there had been so many twists and turns.
Almost in response to his thought, a fierce noise could be heard faintly in the background from Nie Chi's side on the other end of the phone.
Sui Si's heart skipped a beat and he stepped on the brakes: "What's going on?!"
"We found Assistant Yu..." Nie Chi's voice was mixed in with the chaos, "Assistant Yu is in a very bad condition. Someone from the studio found him and called an ambulance."
Sui Si felt as if a hand was grabbing his throat.
He was a little out of breath, so he took a deep breath and exhaled, trying his best to calm down and turn the car around: "What's wrong? What happened? I'll be over there, you control the situation first-"
The phone vibrated twice, and Nie Chi hung up the call and switched to video calling.
Sui Si saw the picture on the phone.
Yu Tang was sitting in a wheelchair.
Rather than saying "sitting", it would be more accurate to say that Yu Tang was placed on a wheelchair. His posture was very stiff, and his bent arms were still a little far from the wheelchair armrests, but he seemed to be unaware of the tiredness and remained in this posture without moving.
Yu Tang opened his eyes, but there was no mist in them. His pupils were vaguely unfocused, and his vision was unfocused. No matter how people around him touched him or talked to him, he did not respond.
Like an abandoned, shabby puppet.
"Give him the phone..."
Sui Si's hands were shaking. He stopped the car and propped his phone on the steering wheel: "He only listened to me and asked me to talk to him. I woke him up."
At home, Yu Tang still had some reaction to what he said.
To Yu Tang, he is different from anyone else. Yu Tang will respond to him, even if it is fear and avoidance, it is better than being so wooden.
Nie Chi handed over the phone as instructed.
Sui Si stared at the screen and said in a hoarse voice: "Yu Tang?"
Yu Tangxu sat stiffly in the wheelchair, holding the armrest, his eyes still staring into the void.
"It's me... Yu Tang, can you hear me?"
Sui Si said: "Cooperate with the doctor and listen to him. I'll be there soon."
"Have you forgotten? We were just talking at home... You got sick and ran out all of a sudden." Sui Si said, "It's my fault. I should have caught up with you. I shouldn't have let you go so far."
Facing Yu Tang like this, Sui Si suddenly learned how to talk to Yu Tang nicely without any instruction.
It's not like pretending to coax him like in front of the camera, nor is it as tender and intimate as in the script. Sui Si's acting skills have always been good. He can fool the paparazzi in the circle and the most obsessive CP fans, but he can't fool Yu Tang.
Yu Tang always knew what was fake, and always knew that Sui Si was never willing to speak even a word to him properly.
Three years ago, they had just had a fake marriage, Yu Tang was still young, and had not yet become the calm and indifferent Yu's special assistant. Yu Tang helped him get a big project, and was coaxed into drinking by the studio people. Those people were half drunk and joked to make Sui Si promise Yu Tang one thing.
Yu Tang was also forced to drink a lot of wine. He was introverted by nature and did not make any noise even when drunk. His eyes were quiet and dark, with a little moisture forced out by the wine, and he looked at Sui Si carefully.
Yu Tang was very drunk, yet seemed very sober.
He stood in the midst of the noisy cheering, his face red from behind his ears to his collar, and said vaguely and softly that he wanted to drink porridge with Teacher Sui and wanted to hear Teacher Sui say a word to him.
…
Sui Si closed his eyes tightly.
He could not quite remember what he said at the time. He only remembered that he was filled with guilt towards Ke Ming and felt that Yu Tang's unreasonable request was absurd and shameful.
Over the years, he has never had a good meal with Yu Tang, nor has he ever had a good conversation with him.
Until now, he felt guilty towards Yu Tang, but he had to use Yu Tang because of the cooperation with W&P. He couldn't help being irritated because of his guilty conscience, and because everything was subtly out of control, he was forced to show anxiety that he was not even aware of.
Looking at Yu Tang's confused and wooden look now, Sui Si suddenly remembered the day when Yu Tang was standing under his harsh scolding, trembling slightly and with a pale face.
Maybe... it was from that day that Yu Tang began to be afraid of him.
Sui Si raised his hand and touched Yu Tang's pale eyebrows through the screen.
"Yu Tang, I won't be cruel to you, don't worry."
Sui Si moved closer to the phone and said slowly, "Did you forget? At home, we also had porridge... You were very good, and I fed you."
Yu Tang moved at his words.
In the wheelchair, Yu Tang suddenly moved slightly and frowned.
"Did you hear me?"
Sui Si's heartbeat suddenly quickened. For some reason, he was actually surprised beyond his expectation. "I'll be right there. Don't worry. I—"
The next moment, Yu Tang suddenly broke out of the wheelchair.
The doctor said that the stress disorder caused by this kind of severe mental trauma may suddenly switch from stupor to impulsive behavior at any time.
But he had been quiet before, and his movement at this time was too sudden. The people around him still didn't have time to react. They were frightened and hurriedly tried to help him.
Yu Tang was supported by several pairs of hands, his body tilted stiffly, hanging in the arms of Nie Chi who was closest to him.
Nie Chi held the phone in his other hand. The picture was a little blurry, but because he was so close, it was exceptionally clear.
…
Yu Tang's eyes were still unfocused, his expression was pale and wooden, and he clearly had no emotions.
But this body does.
Faced with Sui Si's sudden affection and tenderness, Yu Tang seemed unable to resist the physiological reaction aroused in his body. His shoulders and back became stiff, he vomited heavily, and the corners of his eyes turned an eye-catching red.