Soul Patch

Chapter 236

The celestial palace was just a stone's throw away, taking advantage of the night to make its way through. In a small Alto parked at the intersection, two grown men stared intently at a laptop computer.

Time ticked by, and the car was eerily quiet except for the sound of typing on a keyboard.

Wenjie's eyes kept glancing at the bottom right corner of the computer screen. He wiped his sweat and asked, "Have you located it?"

"Ok!"

Wenjie pointed to a black dot on the computer screen and asked, "Is this the address?"

"Ok!"

Wenjie felt a bit of a toothache. He raised his hand and rubbed his chin, looking helpless.

Is this Xiao Liu so obsessed with computers that his language skills have deteriorated?

Communicating with him is exhausting!

He asked in confusion, "Then what are we waiting for now? Why don't we go after them?"

Xiao Liu just kept typing away on the keyboard in front of the computer, without any intention of answering him.

After a long while, Xiao Liu's well-defined fingers left the keyboard. He let out a long sigh, shook his hands, rubbed his shoulder blades, and said:

"Oh, I was just deleting my access history."

Wenjie leaned back in the passenger seat, his eyes fixed on the time display on the computer.

Every minute you're late increases the risk of losing them.

"Can we go after them now?"

"That's fine, Mr. Wen!"

"Then why aren't you driving?"

""..."

Xiao Liu froze for a moment, opened his mouth, but met Wen Jie's anxious, murderous eyes. He hurriedly shut his mouth and started the car.

Inside, Xiao Liu was a little indignant: he had used all his skills and risked his life to hack into the Transportation Bureau's internal system, and not only was he not praised, but he was also... and so fierce!
The baby is upset; the baby is upset.

As the car sped up, Wenjie's anxiety eased somewhat.

He patted Xiao Liu on the shoulder and said, "Not bad, Xiao Liu is a talented person, he should be entrusted with important responsibilities!"

In short, all of Xiao Liu's petty grievances were forgotten. So, his job problem was solved, and he was also on the verge of a promotion and a raise.

Xiao Liu's spirits lifted immediately.

With a "whoosh," the little Alto floored the accelerator, shooting off like an arrow.

Soon, Xiao Alto found the Audi in the building's underground parking garage.

Wenjie told Xiao Liu to wait in the underground parking garage and not to go up. He didn't want more people to get involved in the system's events.

Xiao Liu wanted to make a good impression on Xiao Wen, but before he could even speak, Wen Jie waved his hand and ordered, "No matter what happens, don't get out of the car."

Considering the cunning nature of that mysterious organization, Wenjie thought for a moment and said, "I'll exchange passwords with you when I return."

Xiao Liu stared at Wenjie in astonishment, thinking to himself: Is this some kind of secret code? Are we filming a movie?

Just as he was about to ask a question, Wenjie observed the Audi and other luxury cars nearby, a knowing smile appearing on his face, and headed straight for the elevator.

"Hello... Mr. Wen."

When Xiao Liu looked up, he found that Wenjie had already walked far away.

He slumped onto the steering wheel, feeling both amused and exasperated. At the very least, he should have been told what the code was!

Looking at the array of luxury cars, Wenjie took the elevator to the first floor of the building and studied the floor plan for a while.

Wenjie quickly discovered a wedding planning company called Darling on the 15th floor and decided to try his luck there.

There are no floors 13 and 14 in the elevator; I feel those two floors are unlucky.

So after the 12th floor comes the 15th floor.

Whether it was Wenjie's good luck or something else, the elevator stopped between the 12th and 13th floors.

Wenjie looked at the stopped elevator, pressed the down button but it didn't work, and the up button didn't work either. He wondered to himself: Could it be that the elevator is malfunctioning?

He pressed the elevator's alarm button, but no staff member contacted him via the elevator intercom.

At that moment, he remembered a piece of elevator survival knowledge he had seen: when an elevator malfunctions, there is a possibility of falling from a great height... Thinking of this, he pressed the elevator open button almost without hesitation.

To his surprise, the elevator doors slowly opened.

Outside the elevator doors was a dark, hidden door, standing quietly, mysterious and full of secrets.

He glanced at the wedding planning company sign on the 15th floor, then at the hidden door, and something suddenly flashed into his mind: perhaps the mysterious organization he was looking for was hidden in this mysterious space on the 12th and a halfth floor.

He stepped out of the elevator and reached out to feel around in the hidden door.

Judging from the feel, it seems to be made of some kind of custom alloy, because the door is a size larger than a normal security door, making it an irregularly shaped door. Moreover, this door has no electronic lock, no fingerprint lock, and no keyhole.

There must be some mechanism that can open this door.

But after fiddling around for a while, the door panel had a metallic feel that made Wenjie feel that every part of it was solid, and it didn't seem like there was any hidden mechanism.

So I simply sat down by the door.

The 12-story building was likely a space specifically designed during construction. Due to structural safety considerations, this area wouldn't be very large, and it wouldn't be possible to have multiple exits.

At this moment, his thoughts were simple: if this really was the headquarters of the mysterious organization and he couldn't get in, he could wait at the door for them to come out!

Just then, a system message appeared before my eyes.

[Tasks are published by the networked system]

[Target Individual: Patch Carrier No. 101 Wenjie]

【补丁载体编号101将于2019年8月8日15:50被谋杀】

Wenjie stared blankly at the system message in front of him, his thoughts momentarily frozen.

This was the first time he had ever received such a message.

Upon seeing the online task announcement, he was puzzled: why wasn't the specific task described after the announcement?

The second message that followed made him realize that he had become the target.

In other words, he himself is the patch carrier that needs to participate in this mission to correct his life trajectory.

I'm a little confused!

How did I become the target?

Next, another line of striking words made him shudder... It took him a long time to finish reading that not-so-long sentence.

He was murdered!

Murdered!

kill!

He felt his heart was struggling to process such terrifying information; it felt like it was about to burst out of his chest. He pressed his chest and took several deep breaths, but to no avail.

His whole body is not well!

I wonder how others would feel if they suddenly learned that they would be murdered at some point in the future?
For a long time, he was as if struck by lightning, stunned and unable to think.

The system is being released as a network-connected task... isn't that a bit too far-fetched?

That means that after Wenjie entered the system scenario, he knew about the murder, but he still had to wait for this moment to come and face it.

In the previous murder case involving Li Shiman, Li Shiman was not a single target, nor a patch carrier; at most, she was just an NPC.

Completely unaware of what was about to happen that afternoon, he spent most of the day as usual.

You can have coffee with Wenjie, and you can also discuss work with Zhang Meng...

what……

Wait first...

His mind was in turmoil, but a strong will to survive made Wenjie suddenly remember that he had been granted a mission exemption once, which he had won in a lottery for completing a mission.

It's always been in his inventory.

If you are unsure about a task assigned by a networked system, you can choose not to accept it and skip the task.

He hurriedly used his mind to open his personal homepage and saw two items in the item bar, one of which was lit up and the other was dark gray.

The dark gray item is obviously unusable at the moment.

Upon closer inspection of the dark gray prop, Wenjie's heart sank completely.

It's that mission exemption 1. Why can't I use it?

The last time an online mission was launched, the item was displayed in dark gray when Wenjie wanted to use it.

This time...

Hey!
This time, I wasn't assigned any tasks. My task was to become the target, the person murdered by the killer, and the object that the patch carriers tried their best to save.

Wenjie rubbed his cheeks hard, and when he looked up again, his eyes revealed a resolute and determined expression.

As the system's time and space settings were established, Wenjie entered the system's scenario.

It was completely dark around him; Wenjie was in a bedroom.

As he was getting off the elevator and fumbling for the mechanism to the hidden door, his eyes had already adjusted to the dim environment. So, when he arrived in the unfamiliar room, he could use the light coming through the window to survey the room.

This is a room of about 15 square meters. There is a person lying on the bed, and judging from the figure, it should be a man...

Uh... this gentleman.

Wenjie knows him.

Not only do we know each other, we're very familiar with each other!
Having interacted with him repeatedly before, he could recognize Jia Nan with just a casual glance, based on the man's cold profile.

Jia Nan!

Jia Nan is really a persistent ghost!

If this person is Jia Nan, then this should be a ward in a mental hospital.

There was a small card stuck to Jia Nan's bedside. Wenjie walked over quietly, took out his phone, and looked at the words on the card:

Jia Nan
25 years old

Admitted to the hospital on the evening of July 6, 2019.
Attending Physician: Qiao Xiaoyun
After reading it, Wenjie slowly walked towards the door.

Clearly, the card contained no useful information. There was no description of Jia Nan's condition, nor any record of her medication or recovery progress.

But thinking about it, it makes sense; bedside cards don't record those things anyway.

Otherwise, it could be a form of stimulation for mental patients, and their condition might worsen.

However, Wenjie was only interested in that information at the moment, so he expected to see it at a glance.

It seems I'll need to sneak into the doctor's office to review the medical records.

However, I am not a patch carrier, so I don't need to do those things. In this mission, I only need to protect myself.

Wenjie looked at a chair placed next to the bed. The chair legs were made of stainless steel and gleamed coldly in the moonlight.

He stared at the stainless steel chair leg for a moment, thinking: If I could kill Jia Nan while she was asleep... wouldn't I be safe?

This idea only flashed through his mind briefly before Wenjie shook his head and dismissed it.

He already had his brother's blood on his hands, and he had been looking for an opportunity to make amends for his mistake. How could he act rashly again and commit a grave error?

He tiptoed toward the door.

He had only one thought in his mind: to leave this place and get as far away from Jia Nan as possible.

He was the target of this mission, and the system set the location where he entered the system scene to Jia Nan's ward.

It's obvious that Jia Nan is the one who wants to kill him this time.

He already knew that Jia Nan wanted to kill him, so he wasn't surprised.

He left the room and closed the door.

As I turned around, I almost bumped into someone.

"..." He suppressed the urge to curse under his breath.

But the other person didn't have his composure; they screamed in a shrill voice, "Ah ...

The voice was high-pitched and thin, with a long, drawn-out tone, which made Wenjie's hair stand on end.

He hurriedly covered the other person's mouth.

He whispered in her ear, "Don't make a sound!"

But it was too late; the screams disturbed the mental patient's peaceful sleep.

There was a noise coming from the corridor, the sound of slippers, and then several lights came on in several rooms.

Several room doors opened, and patients came out in twos and threes.

Someone turned on the corridor lights, and the surroundings suddenly became bright and airy.

Wenjie instantly recognized the woman whose mouth he had covered as Andy.

Bai Yu's new girlfriend!
Previously, Jia Nan's accomplices had also attacked Wen Jie.

Of course, Wenjie also attacked her!
and many more……

This Andy... could he be one of Jia Nan's gang?
It's really hard to say!

Before sending Jia Nan to the mental hospital, the two had a brief conversation. Wenjie asked Jia Nan if she knew Andy.

The system corrected my life trajectory; some things were changed.

That's why Wenjie asked this question.

At the time, Jia Nan's answer was: Who is Andy?

This means the two people don't know each other at all, and have never even heard of each other's names.

but……

At that moment, Jia Nan attacked Wen Jie immediately after saying those words.

Therefore, Jia Nan's words are not credible!
Wenjie hurriedly abandoned Andy and ran towards the corner of the corridor amidst a group of mentally ill people.

The environment was completely unfamiliar to him, and he was a little flustered and didn't know where to go. Generally speaking, there are staircases on both sides of a floor.

He ran as fast as he could, and some crazy people even chased after him!

More people gathered around Andy.

One of the female psychopaths touched Andy's hair, while another psychopath stared at Andy's fierceness and drooled.

Well, the lives of mentally ill people are too monotonous. They can't tolerate any stimulation, so they're not allowed to fall in love here.

Emotional stress can cause emotional instability and easily worsen the condition.

Moreover, the medications they use to treat neurological disorders generally contain sedative and tranquilizing ingredients, which can cause drowsiness, making one spend most of the day sleeping and eating.

For male psychopaths, the sudden appearance of such a beautiful woman arouses their primal desires.

Andy was suddenly transported here by the system and bumped into a man. The man then abandoned her and ran away.

She was surrounded by a group of mentally ill people. Looking at their sick, neurotic faces, she covered her chest with her hands and backed away repeatedly.

She wasn't far from the doorway and the wall on the same side as it was. After taking a few steps back, she bumped into something, and then suddenly there was nothing behind her. She fell straight into Jia Nan's room.

The doctor prescribed medication for Jia Nan to have a calming effect, but with all the noise in the corridor tonight, he had been woken up long ago, but he was too lazy to pay attention to those lunatics.

Neurological disease is a general term, and its clinical manifestations vary greatly due to different causes.

Various symptoms may be present, including delusions, hallucinations, illusions, mood disorders, unpredictable crying and laughing, talking to oneself, and bizarre behavior.

Patients like Jia Nan, who suffered trauma in childhood, developed psychological distortions, and became paranoid killers, usually behaved very normally.

However, the appearance of someone with specific physical characteristics can trigger him, and he will seize the opportunity to commit a crime.

Therefore, he never considered himself a lunatic. On the contrary, he saw those patients who were unpredictable, talking to themselves, and behaving strangely as the lunatics. He ignored them and kept his distance.

The noise outside was making him a little irritated. He glanced at the door and was immediately puzzled: why was his door open?
He got out of bed and went to the door.

Even if those lunatics outside tear the building down, it has nothing to do with him.

I was planning to close the door and go back to sleep.

But just as his hand gripped the doorknob, he saw a pair of straight and shapely legs through the crack in the door.

Those legs are absolutely gorgeous!

Long, white, thin, and straight!

When she stands with her legs together, they fit perfectly, and with just her legs, this woman has the right to be arrogant and spoiled in a crowd.

Suddenly, the door was kicked open.

The woman with beautiful legs leaned back and lay in Jia Nan's arms.

(End of this chapter)