I am weak and friendly

Chapter 2 If given a choice, who would choose the weak and friendly?

Tang Yiping is a first-year computer science student whose dream is to write a personal open-source project that can benefit the world during his university years. He wants to skip the stage of working like a slave in a small company and struggling to survive in a big company, and instead live a life where big companies are vying to hire him, universities are waiting for him with vacant positions, he can earn a high salary and live a life of financial freedom without seeking wealth.

It's not that he lacks ambition and just wants to lie down all day; it's just that his body is really not suited to being too active.

To achieve this grand goal, he is currently doing a summer internship, hoping to learn something from practice and truly launch his high-end "lying flat" plan.

In today's IT industry, getting an internship from the first year of university is already a basic requirement. The competition is even fiercer than Tang Yiping imagined. Without any connections, Tang Yiping found an internship offer from a small or medium-sized factory and started his grueling career early with a low daily wage of 160 yuan.

This is what they mean by "to escape the sea of ​​suffering, one must plunge into the sea of ​​blood."

He originally applied for a development position, but the company's current key project ran into problems, so he was reassigned to testing. He didn't even know how to make PowerPoint presentations, but he learned how to write test cases. He spent every day frantically looking for bugs, and he even dreamed about finding bugs at night.

Last night, he had a dream in which the system told him that he had been selected and asked him to choose three basic attributes.

Tang Yiping laughed in his dream: "You think you can outsmart me with your broken system? What three attributes? I want them all! Watch me blow you up with my innate Holy Body test!"

Then they started relentlessly testing the system.

Just like that classic test joke.

In the dream, other candidates chose [Immortality], [Invincibility], and [Divine Body], and the system didn't crash; they chose [Spatial Mastery], [Time Travel], and [Cosmic Overlord], and the system didn't crash; they chose [Basic Operations - Don't Choose Four], [Basic Operations - Don't Choose Five], and [Basic Operations - Don't Choose Six], and the system didn't crash; some people didn't choose anything and just quit, and the system didn't crash (but the person did); others chose all sorts of strange and opposing attributes, and the system didn't crash either.

In the end, all the candidates had been chosen, leaving only himself. As a result, there weren't enough candidates left, and only the two attributes of "weak" and "friendly" remained, which no one wanted.

To collect all three attributes, Tang Yiping picked up six more stones from the ground and then clicked submit.

Then the system crashed.

He still remembers it vividly: the entire system was throwing errors and warnings everywhere, as if the entire universe had overflowed with code.

Beneath the sky full of code, he laughed triumphantly: "Hahahaha, I finally found the bug! Hahahaha, I truly am a born testing genius!"

Then he woke up, the arrogant laughter still echoing in his mind.

Three terms were floating in front of me.

[Weak], [Friendly], [...]

Early in the morning, Tang Yiping's tears almost clogged the toilet drain.

Forget the past.

In the alley, Tang Yiping's gaze focused as detailed descriptions of the three attributes appeared.

[Weak]: You are weak, please try to avoid competing with any other creatures.

[Friendly]: You are friendly. Maintaining friendliness can increase your chances of survival.

【……】:……

Then there are only two skills and the passive aura:

[Show Weakness]: Actively show your weakness to avoid conflict. Success will activate [Weakness Concealment].

[Show Goodwill]: Take the initiative to show your friendliness to avoid conflict. Success will activate the [Friendly Aura].

[The weak hide]: Because you are too weak, you are often treated as if you are invisible.

【Friendly Radiance】: Your kindness, though useless, is a kind of radiance that can illuminate others.

Although today is only Tang Yiping's first day with the system.

However, as a tester, Tang Yiping had already conducted basic tests on his system.

In summary: useful, but not much.

The skills available for learning are all "survival-oriented," making one a coward and weakling, which Tang Yiping finds somewhat unappealing.

"Protecting oneself wisely" is the third skill he has decided to give up.

Last time, I suffered from not having a choice and could only choose the leftover options like "weak" and "friendly".

Tang Yiping decided to carefully select and combine at least these three initial skills.

What's that saying in the game? There are no bad skills, only bad players, no, only bad combos.

"Oh no! We're going to miss the subway..." After giving Liu Chengyuan a quick treatment for his wound, Tang Yiping suddenly slapped his thigh.

Indeed, being a hero comes at a price.

The last subway train to the dormitory is almost arriving at the station.

"I'm going to miss it too..." Liu Chengyuan said with a wry smile. Who would walk through such a narrow alley if they weren't rushing to catch the subway?

The alley was dark and littered with construction debris. The two exchanged a glance, looked at the dark and deep space ahead, and tacitly turned around and walked back the way they came.

Not courting disaster is an essential quality for surviving three episodes.

Although the robbers were driven away, we should leave this place first, no matter what.

Liu Chengyuan, who was limping, took out his phone.

"Tang, how about we exchange contact information? I'll thank you properly later."

"No need, it's not a big deal." Tang Yiping refused, sounding rather insincere.

"How can it not be a big deal? I almost lost my life. Let's add each other, I'll scan yours and you scan mine?" Liu Chengyuan pulled up WeChat. His WeChat name was "Autumn Harvest of Ten Thousand Beans," and his profile picture seemed to be a field.

"No, my dad said not to add strangers on WeChat when I'm out and about."

"Uh..." Liu Chengyuan was about to complain, but seeing Tang Yiping's age, he swallowed his words back.

Your dad is right.

Liu Chengyuan then looked at Tang Yiping's wheelchair, hesitated for a moment, and finally asked, "What's wrong with you...?"

"SMA".

"Ah!" is an exclamation.

"You know?" Tang Yiping looked up at Liu Chengyuan.

"Hmm..." Liu Chengyuan actually knew that SMA is spinal muscular atrophy, also known as the infant version of ALS. The gene carrier rate is 1/40, and the incidence rate is 1 in 10,000, making it one of the most common rare genetic diseases.

This disease is widely known because the National Healthcare Security Administration made a significant price cut, reducing the cost of its treatment drug, Nusinersen sodium, from 70 yuan per injection to just over 3 yuan per injection, which caused a huge stir online for a long time.

Liu Chengyuan had a classmate who was an expert in this field, and relatives had also asked him to inquire about it, so he knew more about it. Based on Tang Yiping's age and symptoms, Liu Chengyuan mentally assessed that it was highly likely to be SMA2, with a 30% chance of not living past 25.

"Sigh..." Liu Chengyuan sighed silently in his heart. What a good child, how could he have gotten such a disease?

"How about this, where do you live? I'll take a taxi to take you home." Liu Chengyuan planned to thank his parents in front of them, and also to familiarize himself with the area so he could visit them again later to express his gratitude and learn more about his condition.

"Uncle, how can you get a taxi like this? Shouldn't you go to the hospital first?" Tang Yiping glanced at Liu Chengyuan's pants, which were half-soaked with blood.

"Uh……"

“I live in the dormitory. It’s too late now, and I can’t get a taxi with my electric wheelchair. I’ll go back to the company and work overtime.”

"what???"

"Goodbye, Uncle." The dark alley had come to an end. Tang Yiping urged the wheelchair to speed up, and Liu Chengyuan cried out twice, but the wheelchair had already disappeared at the intersection. By the time Liu Chengyuan ran out of the alley, panting, the wheelchair was gone.

Before me is the still brightly lit Tian Shu Technology Software Park in Linhai City, where many programmers have just finished get off work, and ride-hailing cars are lined up in front of the office buildings.

The luxurious office building in front of him and the demolition area behind him, which had just been reduced to ruins, created a stark contrast, as if they were two completely different worlds.

After looking around frantically for a couple of seconds without seeing Tang Yiping, Liu Chengyuan sighed, took out his phone, and made a call.

Although it was late, the person on the other end was very welcoming: "Hello, Professor Liu, what can I do for you?"

"I was robbed at knifepoint in the software park..."

"Huh?! What?!!" The other person's voice cracked.

“A classmate saved me, but he didn’t leave his contact information…” Liu Chengyuan sat down on a bench on the street. For some reason, Tang Yiping’s departure made his wounds burn again, and he couldn’t even stand up.

It didn't hurt this much just now...

"Don't worry, we will definitely find him. The key question is, what's your situation right now? Where are you? Hello? Hello?!"

Liu Chengyuan felt that everything was starting to blur.

I wonder if that little student got home safely, especially since it's so late and he's in a wheelchair...

Should I worry about myself first...?

Sigh, I should have resisted just now.

This was Liu Chengyuan's last thought before he lost consciousness.

(End of this chapter)