I am weak and friendly

Chapter 193 Tang, whose Negative Entropy is Overflowing (4K)

Deciding to trust Fan Zhihong was not easy, but Li Tieqiang and his team ultimately decided to take the risk.

The thought of a passage connecting the two worlds filled them with a strong sense of unease.

In the end, Gao Ming led his tactical squad to escort Fan Zhihong in first, while Tang Yiping and the others waited outside.

Gao Ming finally came out and called them in when they were getting a little impatient.

When Tang Yiping was carried in a wheelchair by several people to the center of the alley, he saw Fan Zhihong kneeling on the ground in a daze.

The result was obvious: the passage disappeared.

To be honest, this result was a relief for Li Tieqiang and the other two.

Tang Yiping wasn't surprised, because he had already had a strong feeling when he passed by here today.

Now, the alley is filled with a "rotten" smell, which is the smell he likes, and the smell that the alley should have.

Instead of that unpleasant, "fresh" smell, like the taste of flesh and blood just peeled off someone else.

In the past, he could smell this aroma just by standing at the entrance of the alley.

In some ways, this place should be Tang Yiping's paradise.

The old streets and alleys that have been demolished, and countless forgotten things.

Now, things have finally returned to normal.

As the group looked at Fan Zhihong, who was kneeling on the ground, his heart filled with despair, they felt a mix of emotions, even though they knew they shouldn't sympathize with the enemy.

In this world, some feelings are universal.

Because although we belong to different worlds, we are all human beings.

Fan Zhihong is a fearsome enemy, but within his own logic, everything he does is right.

If these people put themselves in the other person's shoes, they might do the same thing.

In fact, Fan Zhihong was not calm and collected, nor was he a cold-blooded killing machine.

If he hadn't wavered or doubted, he wouldn't have been broken down by Tang Yiping's stabbing technique.

"What will happen to his family if he can't go back?" Li Tieqiang asked Tang Yiping.

"They'll probably lose all their talent," Tang Yiping said.

Everyone fell silent.

What would happen if all your talents were taken away?

"I don't know," Tang Yiping shook his head, "but it definitely won't be... a happy thing."

More than that.

Just thinking about it sends chills down your spine.

“I still think our world is better.” Zhao Xinyi shuddered. “Whatever mistakes I make, at worst I’ll be expelled, or at worst, locked up in jail… At least I won’t be implicated or have my family threatened…”

"What are you saying? You made a mistake, and I have to take responsibility too!" Li Tieqiang said.

Zhao Xinyi: "..."

Well, our world is scary too.

Wait, if that's the case...

“Master, you don’t want to bear the responsibility for my actions, do you?” Zhao Xinyi said.

Li Tieqiang: "???"

What are you trying to do?
Gao Ming shrank back slightly, thinking to himself, "Our world is indeed terrifying."

"What a pity, I really want to see what that world is like," Zhao Xinyi said. "When I was a kid, a lot of girls liked me, but I still don't have a girlfriend. Now that I think about it, it must be because they stole my luck with women. Maybe in that world, I'd have several beautiful women around me... Damn, they must have sucked all my luck with women away!"

You're overthinking it. Besides, don't blame everything on others!
Tang Yiping and Li Tieqiang both shook their heads.

Then they looked at Fan Zhihong.

Currently, Fan Zhihong is still in the late stage of pancreatic cancer, and his whole body feels like it's on fire.

He was already extremely weak and could die at any moment.

But now, even the trembling in his body has stopped.

The way he knelt there made it seem as if he were already dead.

"Take him back." Gao Ming waved his hand, and two capable young men pulled him up from the ground and took him away.

Fan Zhihong offered no resistance; his eyes were still open, but they had lost all their luster.

Tang Yiping sighed and withdrew the [Late Stage Pancreatic Cancer] and [Trauma Stress Response to Betrayal] effects injected by the stabbing technique.

Acquired brain injury is a shackle, late-stage pancreatic cancer is a punishment, and the traumatic stress response to betrayal is insurance.

Tang Yiping gave Fan Zhihong these three things back then, but now he feels that they are no longer important.

"Let's go back too..." Li Tieqiang sighed.

"Are we going back now?" Zhao Xinyi was still a little unwilling.

"What else do you want? Go see if you're having a string of romantic encounters over there?" Li Tieqiang waved his hand. "Let's go! Let's put this aside for now!"

The closure of the passage relieved them of a great weight; this was probably the best outcome.

But it also left them feeling disheartened, with a sense of emptiness as if a huge mystery had not been solved.

But at least... I can get a good night's sleep tonight.

"Finally, it's time to get off work..." Gao Ming tugged at his collar and muttered to himself.

Just then, Tang Yiping sniffed, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed to a corner to the side, saying, "Wait, help me over there!"

"Did you find something again?" Gao Ming's fingers froze, and the [Working Mask] almost slipped off its grip.

No! I want to go home! Dude!
Fan Zhihong, whose eyes were already extinguished, suddenly raised his head, startling the two young men supporting him.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Tang Yiping urged. Li Tieqiang and Zhao Xinyi helped Tang Yiping to a corner, where they saw Tang Yiping rummaging through the roadside trash and picking out a wallet.

Money +500.

"Tsk tsk, I've struck it rich." Tang Yiping felt that his trip had been worthwhile.

The bad mood from missing out was also swept away.

Li Tieqiang, Zhao Xinyi, Gao Ming, and Fan Zhihong: "???"

No, what is going on?
Fan Zhihong's eyes went out again, and he almost became withdrawn.

A person who was already despondent suddenly receives a glimmer of hope, only to have that hope swiftly extinguished – that's how they feel right now.

"No way, you can find 500 yuan here..." Zhao Xinyi was really envious.

This is probably the only good thing that happened today.

Zhao Xinyi's eyes were shining at first, but then something occurred to her, and she was filled with inexplicable horror.

Then he heard Li Tieqiang say in a sinister tone, "Xin Yi, you don't want anyone to know that Tang found 500 yuan, do you... Ah, what a pity, I already know. Xin Yi, when you get back tonight, hand over 500 yuan to the team..."

"No, Master!" Zhao Xinyi shook his head desperately. This terrifying world! "I didn't see anything!"

Li Tieqiang smiled but remained silent.

Zhao Xinyi: ...

I'm going to make a mistake! I don't care about myself, I want my master dead!
Just then, Tang Yiping sniffed again.

"Over there, over there!" Tang Yiping pointed to one side.

"Don't do it again!" Zhao Xinyi shook his head desperately; his salary for this month had already dropped by 500!
Money doesn't disappear into thin air, it just moves around, right?
But this time, it wasn't money. Tang Yiping picked up something that looked like a POS machine from the corner.

"What is this?"

The carrion eater told him that this thing was very valuable.

But he didn't know him.

Li Tieqiang and Zhao Xinyi also took a look, and found that they didn't recognize it either.

This thing has a strange retro feel, and its design style is subtly peculiar.

Fan Zhihong didn't want to look up anymore.

He just glanced in this direction, and then he went mad.

"This...this is an entropy meter! It's an entropy meter!" Fan Zhihong struggled desperately, trying to break free from the two young men's grip. His face was filled with ecstasy, as if he had found hope again from despair.

Gao Ming waved to the two young men, who let go of his hand. Fan Zhihong stumbled over to them, reaching out to take the "entropy meter" from Tang Yiping's hand, but then, filled with fear, withdrew his hand as if electrocuted.

"Here you go." Tang Yiping simply handed him the entropy meter.

"It really is an entropy meter! How could we find this here! This thing is supposed to be very rare..." Fan Zhihong exclaimed excitedly, "With it, I can find other passages!"

As he spoke, he looked at Tang Yiping with the same gaze he would give a god.

Gratitude, admiration, hope...

That look left Tang Yiping somewhat bewildered.

"Are there other passages?" Gao Ming's voice suddenly rose. For a moment just now, he thought the matter was over.

That's how it was portrayed in the movie: the righteous people who discovered the crisis risked their lives and finally closed one of the passages, and the movie came to an end.

But damn it, those unscrupulous film companies only want to make sequels, but all I want to do is go home!
"There must be, there definitely is..." Fan Zhihong said, unsure whether he was trying to convince himself or praying.

“Indeed, it’s unlikely there’s only one…” Li Tieqiang sighed.

Tang Yiping also agreed with this point.

Those people... can't just shut themselves off like that, they're just like a cunning rabbit with multiple burrows.

"How do you use this thing? How are you going to find other passages?" Gao Ming asked.

“This thing can measure entropy. The background entropy of our world is -1.1, while your world is only -0.89…” Fan Zhihong showed the results to Tang Yiping while operating the device. “If we can find a place with an even lower background entropy, it means that it must be near the channel.”

As he said this, Fan Zhihong pressed the measurement button with practiced ease.

Then he froze. The entropy meter wasn't showing -0.89, but rather...
-
1.32.

"What's going on? Is this thing broken?" Fan Zhihong adjusted a knob and pointed it at himself: "This thing also has a single-target mode. My entropy is -1.4, I measured it before I came..."
-
1.41.

"It's not that far off," he said.

"Let me try it." Zhao Xinyi took the entropy meter from Fan Zhihong and pointed it at Li Tieqiang.

Li Tieqiang instinctively flinched; the screen displayed: -
0.91.

"Master, you're so weak! You're a complete noob!"

Li Tieqiang's face turned ashen; he was somewhat displeased.

Zhao Xinyi grinned and pointed to himself, then his smile vanished.
-
0.90
"You're a complete weakling," Gao Ming mocked him.

Zhao Xinyi disagreed and pointed the finger at Gao Ming.

Gao Ming wanted to dodge, but he still put his hands on his hips and struck an extraordinary pose.
-
0.93
Zhao Xinyi was devastated, while Gao Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao Xinyi was annoyed. He pointed at Tang Yiping and said, "I can't be the weakest among us, can I? Tang must be even weaker than me!"

"Beep beep beep beep..." The entropy meter started beeping as if it were about to explode, displaying error code "E3".

The entropy meter is malfunctioning.

"Is this broken thing?" Zhao Xinyi patted the entropy meter, startling Fan Zhihong, who hurriedly snatched it away. "No, this thing is very fragile and sensitive! You'll break it!"

Error code E3 means that the target being measured exceeds the measurement limit.

Fan Zhihong looked at Tang Yiping and quietly switched the entropy meter back to background entropy mode.

Current background entropy:
-
1.38.

He quietly took a step closer to Tang Yiping.
-
4.56.

We've taken another step closer.

"Beep beep beep beep beep"

Fan Zhihong hurriedly turned off the entropy meter and lowered his head. His heart was in turmoil, and for a moment, he did not dare to look at Tang Yiping.

Tang Yiping suddenly twitched his nose again.

“Over there!” Tang Yiping said.

That night, Tang Yiping earned +3000 coins.

Zhao Xinyi -3000.

And he earned the nickname of being a complete weakling.

……

"Tang, are you sure I can drop you off here?" Gao Ming drove Tang Yiping all the way to the intersection where Tang Yiping had met Lola before.

Then he looked around and asked in confusion, "What are you doing here?"

"I've come to see a friend."

"Friend, where are you?"

"They'll be here soon."

"Do you need me to wait a moment and then take you back?" Gao Ming asked.

"You should hurry up and leave work," Tang Yiping thought to himself. Your "work mask" is about to break down!
Gao Ming helped Tang Yiping into the wheelchair, then jumped into the car and disappeared in a flash.

Tang Yiping always felt that his car was driving like a wild dog that had broken free.

Tang Yiping shook his head, took a few steps forward, and saw Lux, who had taken root, standing there quietly, stretching out her limbs freely.

"Sorry I'm late." Tang Yiping looked at Stoka, who was lying next to Lux with her tongue sticking out. "Where is your friend?"

“Lord Li Ke Boren, I’m very sorry, there’s been a problem with my friend’s prosthetic body…” Stoka said.

"Something went wrong?" Tang Yiping was taken aback.

"Yes, he originally rented a prosthetic body, but the rental company told him that the prosthetic body couldn't be delivered to the world he specified, so he couldn't enter this world with the prosthetic body..."

For some reason, Tang Yiping thought of the closed passage.

Uh... could it be that prosthetic bodies also come from that world?

This seems to make sense.

"So what do we do now?" Tang Yiping asked.

"It's alright. He can use my prosthetic body to jump to this world. I've chosen a temporary prosthetic body for him, which is perfect for him to learn the skill [Supply]. He's already waiting for us in the office."

"Are they already waiting for us in the office?" Tang Yiping turned and left. "Quick, let's go back and check."

Fifteen minutes later, Tang Yiping saw the new user's prosthetic body.

"It really is... very suitable for [supporting]..." Tang Yiping couldn't help but complain.

　Finally, I got past Kaven...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)