Quick Wear: I'm Wandering in My Little World

It's dark outside the window, the street lights ablaze. Zhang Xintong has lived in Kyoto for nine years. She was admitted to Tsinghua University's Department of Finance at 9, graduated at 19, and worked at Fengqi Investment for five years. Zhang Xintong, now 23, earns an annual salary of 5 million yuan. She's bought a car and a house in Beijing: a Land Rover Range Rover and a simple, 28-square-meter, two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment within the Second Ring Road. While her circumstances may be modest, she feels she's the happiest person if her mother can always be with her.

Zhang Xintong's mother, Jiang Xiumei, lay on the bed, her face thin and peacefully asleep. When Zhang Xintong was a senior in college, Jiang Xiumei was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Zhang Xintong had worked hard to earn money over the past few years, and the money for her treatment hadn't been lacking, but it didn't stop Jiang Xiumei's condition from worsening.

In the morning, the mother and daughter were still in the best hospital in Beijing. The doctor informed Zhang Xintong that Jiang Xiumei had at most three days to live and asked Zhang Xintong to prepare for her funeral.

Jiang Xiumei was already aware of her own condition. Seeing the doctor see Zhang Xintong alone, she knew her end was near. She told her daughter she didn't want to leave the hospital and wanted to return home. After completing the discharge procedures, the mother and daughter returned home, and Jiang Xiumei fell into a deep sleep again.

Zhang Xintong burst into tears. She couldn't accept the outcome. Her mother was only 50 years old. Why couldn't she live? Zhang Xintong's father favored sons over daughters. Zhang Xintong was born a girl, and during the one-child era, the country didn't allow second births. When she was young, her father would always beat her mother to vent his anger for not giving him a son. Mother and daughter often went hungry in an era when they had enough food and clothing.

When Zhang Xintong graduated from elementary school at the age of 13, her father got together with a widow. The widow had a son who was a classmate of Zhang Xintong and was willing to be Zhang Xintong's father's son.

His father kicked them out, leaving them with no house, no money, and nothing at all. Jiang Xiumei, a rural woman with no skills, found a job washing dishes in a restaurant to support Zhang Xintong's schooling.

Jiang Xiumei took good care of Zhang Xintong, but she often had no food to eat and never told her daughter. Gradually, she developed stomach problems. After getting through the most difficult period and her life was getting better and better, Jiang Xiumei was about to leave this world.

The only relative in this world was about to leave Zhang Xintong. Tears kept flowing like beads from a broken string and she couldn't control them at all.

When Zhang Xintong was about to faint from crying, a voice suddenly sounded in her mind.

"Do you want to save your mother? As long as you bind yourself to me and do the mission, I can extend your mother's life if you succeed in the mission."

Zhang Xintong said without asking any more questions

"As long as you can save my mother, bind me now and I will go on the mission."

"Okay, Tasker 2 has been bound to the Savior 9 system."

"Tasker No. 2, I'm Savior No. 9 System. You can call me Little 9. Let me introduce our mission to you. Within the stars of the universe, there are three thousand great worlds and countless small worlds. In these worlds, there are many people who accumulated virtue and good deeds in their past lives. They should have had a smooth life in this life, but for various reasons, they either died early or lived an extremely difficult life. They are all kind-hearted people with golden light of merit. The Lord God gives them a chance to make a wish, and you will go to these worlds to fulfill their wishes. If you complete them, you will receive the golden light of merit they give you. The golden light of merit can prolong life, and the tasker can use the golden light of merit for themselves and their loved ones."

"Then as long as I succeed in the mission and obtain the golden light of merit for my mother, she can extend her life, right?"

"Yes, depending on the difficulty of the mission, the amount of golden light of merit you can obtain will vary, and the length of your life that can be extended will also vary. However, if you complete more missions, your life span can be extended to a maximum of 120 years."

"But my mother can only live for three days at most. If I go on a mission and succeed, will she still be around when I return?"

"One year in the mission world is equivalent to one second in your world. If you live in an ordinary world for 1 years, only 1 seconds will have passed in your world, less than two minutes. If it were a world of immortal cultivation, with a lifespan of 100 years, your world would have spent about 100 hours. I won't arrange a world of immortal cultivation for you in your first world. We will go to an ordinary world first. Your mother will be fine, don't worry."

"What is the penalty if the mission fails?"

"Our savior system doesn't have any penalties. Successful missions will earn you a golden light of merit, but if you fail any mission, the Lord God will deem you unfit to undertake missions in the myriad worlds. The bond between us will be broken, and I'll find another tasker. The golden light of merit earned from previous successful missions will still be valid, but you won't be able to continue with the missions in the future."

"Okay, I understand. I'm Tasker No. 2. Are there few people doing the task?"

"There are a total of ten saviors in our Savior System. I'm number nine, and I came out relatively late. Previously, there was only one contractor. He was incredibly powerful, and every mission was successful. He and his family's lifespans have been increased to 10 years, and they no longer need me. I'll also tell you that he chose you to be Tasker Number Two because he succeeded in every mission. The Lord God gave him this right."

"Okay, would you mind telling me who he is?"

"That's not allowed. You don't have the right to know right now. But he gave you a gift, a Spiritual Spring Space. We have many different systems and many taskers, but only a few of them have spaces. Their spaces are only a few square meters, and the largest is no more than 100 square meters. Their functions are just simple storage. The space he gave you is very large, with a Spiritual Spring inside, which can be bound to your soul. It will be very convenient for you to complete tasks in various worlds. Do you want to bind it now?"

"Okay, binding. Thank you, Xiao 9 and Tasker No. 1."

"The Lingquan space has been bound. You can take a look first."

The space contained a two-story building, with a living room, dining room, kitchen, and bathroom downstairs, and three bedrooms upstairs. The building was fully furnished, and there was a well in the yard, presumably the Lingquan Spring. There was a large expanse of land in front of the door, with mountains and a river in the distance. Next to the building was a large warehouse, approximately 1 square meters—huge.

"This Lingquan space is great, thank you!"

"You're welcome. This is what No. 1 left for you. I hope you do your job well. Everything will be normal for a host with a soul bound to the rules of the space. Other living creatures will fall unconscious and wake up 10 seconds after leaving the space. The spiritual spring has the effect of strengthening the body. Time stands still in the warehouse area. Whatever you put in is the same as what you take out. The flow rate in the land area is 10 times that of the outside, so plants mature quickly. That's basically it."

"Okay, Xiao 9, shall we start the mission? I'm anxious to extend my mother's life."

"You can start the quest now. Find a place to sit down. I will take your soul and enter the body of the wish-maker in the quest world. Your body will remain in your own world."

Zhang Xintong sat on the chair, looked at her mother and closed her eyes.