Scientific Travel

Each mine takes hundreds or even thousands of years to form, and Deng Yin only encountered this one mine along the way.

However, this was already an unexpected bonus, as Deng had prepared himself not to encounter any of them before he arrived.

The purpose of this trip was to buy chess pieces; everything else was just a pleasant surprise.

Deng Yin rode at top speed the whole way, and the round trip took less than three days.

There's a 90% chance that it will rain before this flood. After so much scorching heat, even if there were a flood, there simply wouldn't be enough water.

Now that the egg beater has found its place, we can use cypress metal sheets as drainage channels.

The cypress metal sheet had long been shaped into a semi-circle. Deng Yin took a hammer and hammered a silver river out of the road from her house all the way to the river.

This was a huge project; the land was so dry and cracked that a metal sheet could be easily embedded into the soil with a gentle tap.

This method has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it doesn't require much effort, but the disadvantage is that the soil is too loose and can't hold the metal sheet.

If it rains, the cypress metal sheets can easily be washed into the river.

Deng Yin hadn't originally planned to drain the water in this way; he intended to collect the cypress metal sheet once the task was completed.

Deng Yin finished this huge project, but after waiting for a long time, he still didn't hear the system speak.

Deng Yin: "Why weren't you notified me that the mission was complete?"

System: "Because you didn't finish."

"??????"

The system watched Deng Yin busy the whole time; it knew what she wanted to do, but didn't say anything to remind her.

The system munched on sunflower seeds while watching Deng Yinbai work with great interest.

At first I felt a little guilty, but after chatting for a while I got used to it.

All Deng Yin gave up was time, but what it lost was energy!

The system has no fixed lifespan; how long it lives depends entirely on how much energy it has.

That bastard Deng Yin wasted a whole month's worth of energy!

No! It's one month and five days!

And that pill formula—it cost him enough energy to live for five days just to buy it.

Deng Yin pointed to the metal sheet on the ground and asked, "Isn't this a drainage ditch?"

"So you've been building a drainage ditch all this time?" The system pretended to be surprised, saying, "If you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was a slide for fish."

"......"

What kind of madman would build a slide for fish?

The system knew its reason was untenable, so it turned the tables and said, "Honestly, why didn't you ask me before you did it? If you didn't know what a drainage ditch was, you could have told me. If you had, you wouldn't have wasted your time."

The system's intention was simply to keep Deng Yinbai busy, not to interfere with her completing the task. After shifting the blame, it still honestly told Deng Yinbai how to build the drainage ditch.

"Drainage ditches are made by drilling several holes in the ground and placing barriers at the holes to prevent people from falling in. Holes are also drilled in the barriers so that water can flow down through them. These holes are connected underground, just like the basement you build, which can store water underground."

The system explained things in great detail; I almost wanted to give her a couple of slides to show her.

Deng Yin couldn't possibly be unaware of the system's little tricks.

To put it bluntly, it simply didn't say anything to remind Deng Yin that his efforts were futile. That's not exactly wrong.

They're now in the same boat; since the system doesn't care about completing tasks, she doesn't need to care either.

Points are far less useful to her than energy is to the system; since it doesn't want things to be good, then nothing should be good.

“This is really troublesome,” Deng Yin said. “I’m not doing this task.”

"No!" the system cried out in alarm. It should have known Deng Yin would use this to threaten it. "Do you not want any more points?"

“Yeah,” Deng Yin said nonchalantly, “I can make most of the things I can buy with points myself, and I probably won’t use the things I can’t make.”

Even a clay figure has some temper, let alone a system.

It's not made of clay.

"Don't go too far. You always use this to threaten me whenever something happens. I told you how important energy is to me because I trust you, not so you could use it to threaten me every time something happens. Whether you do this task today or not is your own business, and I will not compromise!"

No wonder people say you shouldn't trust humans; there really isn't a single good one among them!

Knowing the importance of energy to it, it always used this to threaten it, saying that it could just quit, since its remaining energy would definitely last until Deng Yin died, and it could just find someone else to bind to after she died.

"Trust me? How do you trust me?" Deng Yin said, "You just think I'm no threat to you. Your allegiance to me doesn't mean I'm your subordinate, and I don't have to listen to everything you say."

"When did I ever treat you like my subordinate?" The system became even angrier and said, "And when did I ever tell you to listen to me? Have you ever listened to anything I asked you to do this past year?"

“I haven’t heard of it, but that’s no reason for you to order me around!” Deng Yin had a good memory and remembered everything that had happened before. “If you’re kind, then bind yourself to a kind host, instead of binding me and forcing me to become what you want me to be. It’s like when I kicked the robber. If you didn’t like it, you could have unbound me and sent me back, instead of judging me.”

"Are you serious?" the system said. "That's ancient history, why are you still bringing it up now?"

"So you're saying that every time I threaten you with energy whenever something happens, it's not bringing up the past, but when I say you're judging me, it's bringing up the past?" Deng Yin mocked. "You really are lenient with yourself but strict with others."

"I can't argue with you, and I don't want to argue with you." The system took a step back and said, "Even if that matter was my fault, didn't you have any faults too? Since we both have faults, let's each take equal responsibility and let's move on from this."

"Who wants to split the blame equally with you?" Deng Yin hated people who tried to smooth things over the most, and now he added another one to that list—a system that also hated smooth things over the most. "I don't think I have a problem. If you think I have a problem, then that's your problem. Besides, none of our problems have been properly resolved. If you want to turn the page every time something happens, then you shouldn't be a system. You might as well become a librarian."

"I'm trying to talk to you nicely, don't be unreasonable!" The system was so angry that it materialized in front of Deng Yin and argued with her.

The system's physical form is male, dressed in a very futuristic style, and if you ignore the current situation, he is indeed very pleasing to the eye.

The sudden turn of events stunned Deng Yin for a couple of seconds, but he quickly recovered. “Since when barking is considered polite talking? If you want to bark, go bark at other dogs, don’t come barking at me.”

Deng Yin's insults were so vulgar that the system had never seen anything like it before. It pointed at Deng Yin and said, "You...you...you..."

"What do you mean, 'you'?" Deng Yin continued to scold, "If you stutter, go back and get treatment. Do you expect me to introduce you to a veterinarian?"

"You've gone too far!" The system was so angry that it turned red. It's no exaggeration; it was completely red, even its clothes had turned red.

At first glance, Deng Yin thought he had been roasted.

But that didn't stop her from saying: "If you're going to die, die somewhere far away. If you die here, people will think I'm abusing my love."

There's no point in arguing with the system. Seeing that he couldn't utter a single word for a long time, Deng Yin turned around and went home.

"Stop." The system grabbed Deng Yin's wrist; his hand was icy cold, quite different from how it looked. "I haven't finished speaking, you can't leave."

"Let go."

"I won't let you go unless you promise me you won't leave."

The system was very strong, and Deng Yin couldn't break free for a while.

"I said, let go!" This time, Deng Yin didn't give him a chance to answer. He turned the stun gun to its maximum and slammed it into the system.

Although he now has a physical body, he is still a system. Deng Yin doesn't know if the stun gun will work on him, but he can't just sit and wait to die.

Surprisingly, the stun gun worked on him.

The system convulsed and foamed at the mouth. Afraid that the foam would drip onto her, Deng Yin quickly took a step back and removed the stun gun from the system.

As expected of a system, a normal person would be either reduced to ashes or at least burned to a crisp after being electrocuted like that. But apart from foaming at the mouth and convulsing, he showed no other reaction.

"Hey." Deng tapped the system with the stun gun that had been turned off and asked, "Are you alright?"

no response.

The system seemed to have fainted; Deng Yin poked its skin until it turned purple, but it didn't react at all.

We can't just leave him here. He's so weak right now, what if he dies from the sun?

Deng Yin tried to put the system into the space.

......

...Still no response.

That shouldn't be the case. It's true that no one else can enter this space, but this space originally belonged to the system.

Did you really... ruin him?

That can't be right...

Things are getting complicated now. If the system really gets damaged by electricity, can human doctors cure it?

To put it bluntly, if the system gets electrocuted, how will she get back?

Thinking of this, Deng Yin panicked a little. She quickly put on the system and rode all the way to Doctor Wang's house.

"Open the door!" Deng Yin shouted as he knocked on the door.

Deng Yin's high-profile behavior attracted a crowd. The system stayed on Deng Yin's back the whole time, so no one could see his face clearly.

The butler who opened the door recognized Deng Yin and let her in without asking Doctor Wang for permission.

"Dr. Wang, please take a look at him!" Deng Yin threw the system onto the bed and shouted at Dr. Wang, "He just got an electric shock, and then this happened... Is he going to die?"