The Last 299 Days of Humanity

Chapter 19 The Battle to Protect Your Nose

Yu Qing sat on the toilet, extremely anxious. If he didn't delay the surgery, his nose would be in danger.

Only half an hour later, Bao Si asked, "Honey, you're not deliberately stalling for time, are you?"

"I...I...I'm constipated, please wait a little longer."

"I can tell you're not too keen. Come out and look at this nose, isn't it beautiful? I dare say you'll love it once you touch it."

In an attempt to stall for time, Yu Qing suddenly said, "I love your nose, unless you take it off and give it to me!"

Bao Si smiled and said, "If I could, of course I would."

But my nose is just for show; it doesn't serve any functional purpose. Because I don't need to breathe oxygen.

"Then add the feature..."

"The model is different, I can't add it. Stop dawdling..."

At this moment, Yu Qing suddenly shuddered: he thought of how his nose had been slashed and was now a bloody mess, with a gaping hole in his face that had been patched with a metal object...

Another half hour passed, and Bao Si said, "What, is it still not done? If it's not done soon, we're not going to wait any longer!"

"Almost there, just a few more minutes."

After about ten minutes, Yu Qingqian ran out of tricks and had to resort to a self-inflicted injury. When he stood up from the toilet, he pretended to faint and fell to the ground.

"Immediately carry him to bed, take his blood pressure, and check his blood sugar," Bao Si ordered.

While they were busy and flustered, he quietly pushed the syringe that the nurse had just drawn up the medicine onto the ground and smashed it.

Upon hearing the sound of the syringe shattering on the ground, Bao Si and the nurses all looked over and were stunned.

"Are we still going to do the surgery?" a nurse asked.

Bao Si said unhappily, "What else can we do? There's no medicine left, won't he scream in pain?"

Besides, are we going to charge less for one project?

Upon hearing this, Yu Qing immediately pretended to wake up, crying out, "Oh dear, oh dear!"

What's wrong with you now?

"My stomach hurts so much."

Bao Si said helplessly:

"Since that's the case, the medicine has been broken, and you're not feeling well, then stay here for the night and be observed. We'll get the medicine tomorrow and continue the surgery."

"Okay, tomorrow, tomorrow."

Yu Qing originally planned to wait until they all left before figuring out how to escape. But to his surprise, the five humanoid beauties gathered around the bed and simply stood there, seemingly asleep!

He struggled all night but couldn't escape from the operating room.

He had barely gotten out of bed when a hand lifted him back up onto the bed.

They have a dormant state, in which they keep one eye open and one eye closed.

This is practically the same as house arrest.

Fortunately, Yao Dan arrived early the next morning.

When Yao Dan entered the hospital to verify her identity, Shengtian Terminal forcibly downloaded some intelligence data from her memories:
This includes Dr. Lu's passing and observations from the rainforest flora and fauna research open area.

Of course, the most important news was that everyone in the original ecological first amusement park, except for Yu Qing, had died.

Although the terminal cannot connect to the Shengtian host, it has strong local computing power.

It quickly calculated that Yu Qing was the sole beneficiary of the Yu Yunshan Foundation, with a nominal total wealth of 6000 trillion RB as of 2C14.

Most importantly, the Yu Yunshan Foundation is the largest shareholder of Wengshan Shengtian Hospital, holding 66.8% of the shares.

In other words, Yu Qing is actually the real owner of this hospital.

Therefore, it was utterly absurd to sell the hospital's calculation results to Yu Qing.

Because you can't just buy something you already own, can you?

Protecting the interests of the major shareholder is the first priority in the established procedures, so it is wrong to promote fee-based projects to Yu Qing and should be stopped immediately.

The terminal has also started a blame-shifting process. The truth is not important; what matters is which link in the chain is blamed to minimize costs and impact.

If the terminal is found to be faulty, replacing or modifying it would be too costly and not worthwhile.

To avoid the negative impact from spilling over or to minimize the losses, it is most appropriate for Bao Si to take the blame.

Therefore, the terminal concluded that Bao Si should be destroyed.

As for the report submitted to the board of directors, the cause can be attributed to a rare type of "complete dysfunction" in humanoid women, and it is an isolated case.

When Yao Dan arrived at the operating room door, the terminal had already issued the command, and the operating room door was slowly opening.

The two humanoid servants who were preparing to "arrest and bring Bao Si to justice" also followed behind Yao Dan.

They were pulling a specially made box; once the humanoid girls were put inside, their internal systems would be instantly burned out.

At this moment, Yu Qing was unaware of what had happened. Seeing the door open and Yao Dan still standing there, he immediately jumped off the bed and pounced on her.

But his foot tripped over the foot of a humanoid maiden guarding the bedside, causing him to lose his balance. He stumbled and bumped into Bao Si, who was also unaware of the reason, and they both fell to the ground.

As fate would have it, his lips landed firmly on Bao Si's lips.

Yao Dan cried out, "Husband, don't... sign..."

However, her reminder came too late.

This new situation was immediately relayed to the terminal.

Since Bao Si was now private property, the original order to destroy her was nullified, and the two humanoid figures dragging suitcases nervously retreated.

Yu Qing knew nothing at that moment; he only wanted to save his nose and didn't care about signing anything. He got up, grabbed Yao Dan, and ran wildly out of the hospital.

Seeing this, Daji and the others thought something terrible had happened, so they followed and ran out.

If Yu Qing's identity hadn't already been confirmed, he wouldn't have been able to escape. Naturally, no one would stop him now.

As soon as they left the hospital, Yao Dan carried Yu Qing on her back.

The flight suit was with Daji and the others, so she had to run on foot, but she didn't know why her husband wanted to run away.

Signing up to buy another humanoid girl isn't a big deal.

"What happened? Where are we going?"

“I’ll explain in detail later. Let’s get away from here for about three or four miles before stopping. I didn’t even have dinner yesterday, so I’ll find something to eat and drink then. This hospital is a den of wolves.”

Daji and the others also ran around Yaodan from the left and right.

Yan'er asked, "You didn't even have time to pack your clothes, what are you going to do?"

Yao Dan said, "It's really useless. What else can we do? We can always find another place in Wengshan!"

Yu Qing then realized that he was wearing a hospital gown and was sweating profusely from the heat.

Dr. Lu's outfit was air-conditioned, making it much cooler to wear outdoors.

After estimating that they had run quite a distance, Yu Qing finally told Yao Dan to stop. The streets of Wengshan were wide and clean, and the humanoid sanitation workers even collected a small piece of paper into the garbage disposal station.

Most incredibly, all the shops were still open. If he hadn't known beforehand that there was no one there, he would have really mistaken those humanoid beauties for real people.

He felt a strange sadness in his heart:

Humans keep creating products, and in the end, they entrust everything to the things they have created.

Daji and her companions quickly found the grain station and carried Yu Qing there.

The workstation will automatically start whenever it detects a living human being approaching.

Wengshan achieved an unlimited supply of free water, electricity, and food more than a hundred years ago, and the whole society has entered an era of ultimate entertainment.

At that time, only 5% of people were engaged in necessary research work, while the rest were born to enjoy life and could live like royalty by receiving 10 RB from the government every month.

Those who have jobs are even more valuable, with some having over three thousand humanoid beauties serving them.

Yu Qing is unaware that he is among the top 100 richest people on Earth. A man like him who only takes four humanoid girls with him when he goes out was considered poor here back then; nine or more would be considered middle class.

"Baby, where are we going now?" Yan'er asked as Yu Qing swallowed the last bite of the synthetic food.

Daji patted Yu Qing on the back and said, "Could you let my darling eat the food first before you talk?"

"Where to? To the Second Paradise, of course. But we can't go too fast. Let's get to know the places we pass by along the way. We might need them later."

"That's true. We know almost nothing about what the outside world is like now."

For example, this street isn't even in my map data. We've been abandoned.

Daji raised her hand to open the holographic image and pointed at the 3D image of Wengshan, complaining.

Yao Dan raised her hand to unfold her holographic image, said "Oh," and then said:
"My data is more recent, exactly the same as here, but unfortunately I can't connect to the satellite to update to the latest version..."

Yu Qing asked, "Since Yao Dan's data is more up-to-date, could you update Da Ji's and the others' data as well? You rascal, can you?"

"My lord, it's not that I don't want to help, but my data format is completely different from theirs."

You know what? I just retrieved new data from the hospital's website, but I can't open the file format it sent, even though it received the data I uploaded.

"These unscrupulous merchants are just trying to speed up the upgrading of their products so they can sell more."

Furong finally spoke, saying:

"It's like we forced our baby to eliminate us."

Yu Qing realized he had been ignoring Furong, so he joked:

“Baby, come closer to me, let me see what kind of modern butt you’ve put on.”

Furong opened her eyes wide and said:
"Is this how you watch it? In a public place, this does not comply with the appropriateness of conduct regulations."

Yu Qing laughed loudly, "Alright, alright, I won't tease you anymore."

I think we should find a big hotel to stay in first, and get the most expensive and best room.

Their system only cares about whether the numbers are correct, not whether the money has actually been deposited into the account.

Yao Dan said, "Why bother looking for a big hotel? I forgot to tell you, your family already owns a hotel in Wengshan!"

Yu Qing was taken aback and said, "My dad has never mentioned this to me before?"

"Even your father's father might not know that it was originally opened by Grandpa Yu Yunshan!"

"That's great! I was worried I'd run into another shop that wanted to cut my nose!"

Surely the old man wouldn't be so despicable as to kill his own descendants.

Yao Dan carried Yu Qing to the front of "Yu Yunshan Pan Gui Da Jiu" (Yu Yunshan's Longing for Return Wine).

However, when Daji went to verify her identity, she was turned away.

Since humanoid female companions were not yet common in the old man's time, he set a rule that he would only accept guests who were his own descendants.

You heard right, this hotel doesn't accept outsiders, only his direct descendants.

Back then, his favorite grandson disagreed with him and insisted on entering the First Paradise. So the old man built this hotel in the city closest to the First Paradise and entrusted a third party to manage it.

For over a century, the hotel has never seen a descendant return. The descendants of the person who entrusted it with the business have also taken over for several generations, gradually viewing it as a joke, only receiving a substantial maintenance and management fee every now and then.

Most of the maintenance fees were embezzled, with only a very small portion used for the hotel's vanity projects, such as beautiful and imposing doors and exterior walls.

The best-managed system is the identity authentication system, because that is a prerequisite for receiving management fees.

Fifty years ago, the manager also applied for a special renovation fund in accordance with the contract to purchase ten greeters for the hotel.

At that moment, the ten welcoming humanoid women determined Yu Qing's biological characteristics, greeted him with smiles, and invited him to the identity verification camera to confirm his identity.

He was ushered into the hotel, while Yao Dan and his group were allowed entry as his personal cargo.

Upon entering the hotel, Yu Qing was stunned. It was completely empty; everything inside was just a set!
It's still fairly clean, so I imagine the ten humanoid beauties will come in and clean it regularly.

Yan'er exclaimed, "What the hell is this? Where does the baby sleep? Take us to the room to see!"

The welcoming staff ignored him completely, only taking him over when Yu Qing asked to see the room.

Actually, it's better not to look at it: at first glance, it seems to have everything, but it turns out to be just a 3D picture.

Yu Qing was furious, but he suppressed his anger and did not lash out. He still smiled at the welcoming ladies and said:

"You all go to your rooms and rest for a while. I'll come back to wake you up later."

The welcoming ladies replied in unison, "Yes, sir."

After they all entered the room, Yu Qing gestured for Yao Dan to lock the door, then left the hotel. Everyone else followed.

Daji said with dissatisfaction, "Yaodan, aren't you more informed than us? Please find a reliable place for your darling."

"If you're so capable, go find it yourself!"

Yu Qing, with Yao Dan hooked on his left and Daji on his right, said:

"Let's not argue, okay? It's just finding another hotel, it's no big deal."

At this moment, Furong suddenly chimed in, "Isn't the city deserted? There are so many empty houses that anyone can live in."

Yu Qing laughed and said, "Furong, I suspect you didn't get a butt, it looks like you got a head instead."

You're right, we'll stay wherever the accommodations are nice, who cares if it's a hotel or not, right?

"If you want money, just give it; if you don't, it'll save you some money!"

"What if there's a lock?"

"Use whatever you find to smash things."

Yao Dan raised his hand and pointed to the holographic map in front of him, saying:

"There's a very famous villa about 500 meters ahead. Where should we stay?"

"Go there."

They walked along at a leisurely pace, chatting and laughing all the way.

(End of this chapter)