I am a loser, a socially phobic, and a shut-in? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes!

'Money! I'm really short of money now!'

His eyes gradually turned into the shape of money, and the look in Xie Qiangdong's eyes when he looked at the black dog Sylvie suddenly became unusual.

"The IQ of an ordinary puppy is about the same as that of a three-year-old child. Sylvie, who has just awakened her wisdom, is much smarter, but still inexperienced and easy to coax. Only by building a good relationship with Sylvie can we cooperate and make money. But the way Sylvie looks at me doesn't seem very friendly."

Chapter 14 My Selection System, the Absolutely Correct Xie Qiangdong

'He found me with a clear purpose, tore off my left pajama sleeve, and stared at my arm to confirm something... Could it be that before Sylvie died, she bit the person who killed her... and Sylvie didn't see the man's face clearly, so she thought it was possible that I killed Sylvie?'

It seemed that I was indeed the more suspicious one. After all, I had just had a quarrel with Xu Lin's family, and I buried Sylvie with my own hands. Most people would think that I killed Sylvie to warn Xu Lin's family. Fortunately, this misunderstanding was finally resolved.

"But the misunderstanding that I went to Xu Lin's home to collect debts and had a big fight with Xu Lin's mother has not been resolved."

"Sylvie was there at the time, so she must have been very concerned about it. If there is a gap, we can't work together. Only sincerity can eliminate misunderstandings and gaps."

"Is it because of the quarrel with Xu Lin's family? There are actually some misunderstandings here."

"..."

What happened? Just when I was about to speak, Xie Qiangdong took the initiative to bring it up?

"What do you mean by misunderstanding?"

"From what I understand, Xie Qiangdong wasn't as easy to talk to as he is now"

“Indeed, I wasn’t like this before.”

When mentioning this, Xie Qiangdong's expression suddenly froze as he played with the relic hanging around his neck - the White Tiger Magatama Pendant, which was like a selection system that prompted him to choose the correct option.

Thinking about the money he could make from working with Sylvie, and as if to win Sylvie's favor, Xie Qiangdong's expression became more sincere, and he decided to talk about some things in the past.

"I used to be a mercenary and participated in many local wars. After I came back, I did some bad things, but fighting and killing are not suitable for me."

"I have always wanted to turn over a new leaf but I could never make up my mind until one day, I met an old monk dressed like a beggar on the antique street in Chongming Town."

"The old monk stopped me and said that I would be killed if I continued to do evil. If I continued to do evil, there would be a bloody disaster this year."

"..."

The black dog Sylvie's expression suddenly became a little subtle. Could that bloody disaster be referring to her arrival?

Now that I'm here, if I think Xie Qiangdong is someone who can be killed, I will kill him without hesitation.

"Seeing that he was not interested in me, the old monk kept chasing me and saying things like I had a destiny with Buddhism and that I could become a Buddha if I put down my butcher knife. What a typical charlatan."

"I didn't take the old monk's words to heart at all, and within two days I actually started bleeding..."

"It was a stormy night. On the Huaihe River Dam in Chongming Town, I met a woman with disheveled hair and no umbrella. She was lying on the guardrail drinking. I couldn't help but approach her and chatted with her. The drunkard seemed to be in a bad mood. She got drunk and held my head and hit it against the concrete floor for hundreds of times. The concrete floor was full of potholes. Even though I was an expert in iron head skills, my head was broken and bleeding. After that, she used me as a sandbag to beat me for a long time."

Wearing the thickest armor and taking the most severe beating, recalling what happened that day, even now Xie Qiangdong still feels scared.

Fortunately, he had trained his kung fu to the point where he could maneuver through the hail of bullets on the battlefield, otherwise he would have been beaten to death on the spot by the red-eyed woman.

Even though I, who has actual combat experience and strength far beyond that of an ordinary person, was pinned to the ground and beaten without any chance of fighting back, what level had that woman reached?

Think about it carefully. It was raining in the middle of the night. Who would go to the dam to drink in such weather? On the way home, I encountered such an urban legend. How come I didn't know that Chongming Town was so terrible before?

"The contact lenses worn by the red-eyed woman are exactly the same as those worn by Zhao Xingguang who lives nearby. But the person I met that day was definitely not Zhao Xingguang. Zhao Xingguang doesn't have the habit of drinking, and it's impossible for him to have such a transcendent temperament."

"After I met that red-eyed woman, I thought that the old monk who told my fortune that day was so accurate, he must be a hermit master. If I could become his disciple, maybe I could make further progress. So I immediately returned to the Antique Street in Chongming Town, but I learned some unexpected news..."

Speaking of this, Xie Qiangdong's expression seemed a little subtle.

"The old monk is dead"

"He is not some hermit master, but a fake monk. He usually sleeps under the bridge like a beggar. He always speaks a few clichés to pretend to be a master when he sees people. I met that red-eyed woman just because I was unlucky. The old monk's words are just a blind cat meeting a dead mouse, it's just a coincidence."

"On the night I was beaten up by the red-eyed woman, an old monk who was sleeping in a bridge tunnel was robbed by robbers. He tried his best to protect the little money he had but was beaten so badly that he lost his ability to move. Not feeling satisfied after the beating, the man even burned the old beggar's quilt and all his luggage. It was very cold that night, and the old monk was too weak to withstand the beating, so he curled up in a corner and froze to death. No one collected his body, and no one even called the police for fear of getting into trouble."

"I felt sorry for him, so I called the police and took care of all the related matters. Then I sent him to the funeral home and planned to cremate him and bury him in the fields."

"Maybe it's a reward for good deeds. While sorting out the relics, I accidentally found a black and white Yin-Yang tiger pendant that looked like a Tai Chi diagram on the old monk."

Holding the white tiger magatama pendant around his neck tightly, Xie Qiangdong narrowed his eyes.

"This Yin Yang Tiger Pendant is probably a relic related to kindness."

"The Yin-Yang Tiger Pendant had not revived when it was on the old monk, but it started to revived when it came to me... and it just so happened that my compassion met certain conditions..."

"So, the moment I picked up the relic, the Yin-Yang Tiger Pendant, I lost my self-consciousness. When I woke up, the Yin part of the Yin-Yang Tiger Pendant, the black tiger pendant, disappeared, and with it the other evil side of my heart."

"..."

'Relic revived?'

Black Dog Sylvie blinked her eyes. As a novelist, she was very familiar with the weird resurrection and spiritual resurrection novels that have been very popular in recent years. What the hell is relic resurrection?

Like a strange resurgence? In short, it means that some powerful supernatural power is beginning to revive?

It looks very powerful. The bone fragment obtained by the previous generation black dog Sylvie seems to be some kind of relic, so it can obtain the power of [Plague].

"Xie Qiangdong said that he became a good person because of his relics. Does such a convenient thing really exist?"

Chapter 15 Debt Collector

Xie Qiangdong noticed the change in Sylvie's expression and continued talking to himself.

"After stripping away my evil side, I felt more relaxed than ever before. As a result, I couldn't bear to do it, so I was forced to quit and become unemployed~"

"After a long period of depression, at the invitation of my good brother Zhao Zixuan, I joined the Zhongming Town Cehua online loan company he founded and became a debt collector."

"Every time I collect debts, I will bring beer bottles or something like that to the deadbeat's home or workplace, and smash myself on the head with the beer bottles. My head skills are very good, so I won't get hurt. But I will always crush the dye bag at the moment the bottle is smashed to create a bloody effect on the head. Combined with my fleshy face and superb acting skills, the visual impact is particularly great, and the psychological defenses of those deadbeats are often shattered."

"The arrogant are afraid of the stupid, and the stupid are afraid of the desperate. When they see that things are about to get out of hand and someone is killed, these deadbeats will often pay back the money honestly under the watchful eyes of their relatives, friends and colleagues... As my performance soared, I gradually became an indispensable gold medal debt collector for Cehua Online Lending Company."

"When I make more money, I have some spiritual needs. I like cats very much, and I feel bad when I see skinny stray cats, so I will adopt all those stray cats."

"I work hard, help those poor stray cats after work, and share my daily life with these cats on Bilibili. My fans keep increasing. I like this kind of life very much. Unfortunately... ever since the batch of borrowers from Xu Lin's family appeared, the company has had problems..."

"..."

"It's not a protection fee, but a real loan relationship?" Black Dog Sylvie was surprised.

"Xu Lin's mother said at first that no one in her family had borrowed online loans. I didn't believe her, so I had a big fight with her. It was just a fight."

"I have my own collection standards. I will first determine who the debt collection target is. Once I am sure that the debtor really does not want to pay back the debt, I will use tough measures."

"Unlike me, who has a very bad reputation, Xu Lin's mother has a very good reputation. She may have encountered some difficulties because she suddenly owed online loans and did not repay them on time. That's why I decided to observe for a while..."

"Then after a while I discovered that most of the new debt collection targets were people with very good reputations like Xu Lin's mother, and everyone said that they did not engage in online lending, and there were even cases of dead people borrowing loans... This is very outrageous."

"Cehua Online Lending Company is not large in scale and is not linked to credit reporting. They think they have strong collection capabilities and no one dares not to repay the money, so they only need to provide enough materials to borrow money... I think the current situation may be because someone stole everyone's identity information in order to take advantage of Cehua Online Lending Company."

"I reported this problem to the boss of Cehua Online Lending Company, my brother Zhao Zixuan, but his reaction was very strange. Not only did he not care, he even asked me to increase the collection efforts..."

"It is only natural to pay back debts. I am happy to go after the debtors. Those people clearly did not borrow money but still asked me to collect debts from them in the name of borrowing money. This behavior is no longer debt collection but protection money. I really cannot do such a thing against my will."

"I don't agree with him, so I quit my job after a quarrel with him."

Black Dog Sylvie listened to the story described by Xie Qiangdong with great relish. Looking at Xie Qiangdong with a righteous face and feeling his sincerity, she believed Xie Qiangdong's words about 70% in her heart. She knew that there was indeed a misunderstanding, but she did not completely believe Xie Qiangdong in some places.

'Unlike me, who is a social phobic and likes to engage in a lot of psychological activities, Xie Qiangdong is surprisingly a chatterbox. But as expected, there is still a strong sense of disharmony. Why does Xie Qiangdong try to please me so much?'

'I tried every possible way to find faults and teach Xie Qiangdong a lesson, but Xie Qiangdong perfectly avoided all the bad end route choices... He kept choosing the right options, acting as skilled as a player who had played for a few weeks... It felt like the protagonist of a novel with a selection system, Xie Qiangdong was the protagonist, and I was the plot NPC who would be killed if the protagonist made the wrong choice?'

The black dog Sylvie looked thoughtfully at the white tiger pendant that Xie Qiangdong had been holding tightly since the beginning of their conversation, making Xie Qiangdong's sincere smile seem a little forced.

It was all because of the [Relic. Yin Yang Tiger Pendant] that stripped away Xie Qiangdong's evil side. If it wasn't for this relic that made Xie Qiangdong turn over a new leaf, there is a high probability that I would really teach Xie Qiangdong a lesson today.

However, if Xie Qiangdong had not retired, he would not have joined Cehua Online Lending Company, nor would he have had any contact with Xu Lin's family because of Cehua Online Lending Company, and he would not have come to her house...

"Fate is truly amazing. If you make a slight deviation in your choice, the final outcome will change."

"Because of this relic, Xie Qiangdong became a good man who knows how to be patient and restrained, so he did not get lost in his daily life because of the powerful force."

"After knowing that Xie Qiangdong's strength is unfathomable, I look back at his actions and feel more sympathy and admiration for him."

'I held back when I quarreled with my cousin, and I also held back when I disagreed with the boss of Cehua Online Lending Company. I didn't get lost in the unfathomable strength, and I didn't always think of using violence to solve problems. This state of mind is really amazing.'

'Nowadays, Xie Qiangdong is adopting stray cats and even chose to give up his high-paying job and resign from Cehua Online Lending Company for the sake of others. If Xie Qiangdong had not resigned from Cehua Online Lending Company and chose to forcefully collect debts, with Xie Qiangdong's strength, few people could stop him.'

It would be taken for granted that a good person does good things, but it would be a great contrast and a rare sight if a person whom you have considered a bad person suddenly turns over a new leaf and starts doing good things.

"Many of Xie Qiangdong's actions have gone beyond the scope of being a good person. I feel that no matter what excessive things I do to Xie Qiangdong, Xie Qiangdong will eventually choose to forgive me."

"No matter what Xie Qiangdong thinks now, under the influence of that relic, Xie Qiangdong is now a real saint. I don't hate the real saint."

"When a saintly bitch encounters something, she thinks about what others should do, but a saintly bitch thinks about what she should do. Saintly bitches are the easiest to use. When encountering some things, you can use Xie Qiangdong as a pawn, after all, Xie Qiangdong is so strong."

She was angry because she thought Xie Qiangdong bullied Xu Lin's family and she had a bad impression of Xie Qiangdong.

Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved and she thinks about being able to use Xie Qiangdong as a tool, Sylvie has not only forgotten her previous unpleasantness, she has even developed some affection and recognition for Xie Qiangdong.

'Strange, I always want to use others and treat them as pawns. Was I like this before?'

"Matter determines spirit. The cat-eared girl's body has an impact on me, and Sylvie's body has also had an impact on me. I feel that my social phobia has become weaker when I use Sylvie's identity... After all, I am a dog now!"

Under Xie Qiangdong's nervous gaze, the black dog Sylvie nodded in agreement.

"So it was really a misunderstanding, Cehua Online Lending Company. I've got it in mind, but is it really okay to just quit Cehua Online Lending Company like this?"

Chapter 16 Clues

"It's done! Now we can get down to business!"

Xie Qiangdong's eyes gleamed. His goal was to cooperate with Black Dog Sylvie to make money. Now that the misunderstandings and estrangements had been resolved, it was time to strike while the iron was hot and talk about making money.

"In fact, the main reason I had the confidence to resign was because my part-time job recently made more money than debt collection. When I adopt stray cats, I like to shoot some adoption videos and follow-up videos. So far, the Tianshuang Stray Cat Rescue Station account on Bilibili has about 700,000 followers, and the income from advertising and videos is pretty good."

"Cats are different from humans. Humans can take care of themselves, but stray cats have to do their best just to survive. They have no place to live and may be harmed at any time by humans who suddenly become malicious. What I hate most is seeing stray cats suffer."

"The fundamental reason for stray cats is abandonment and reproduction. I, Xie Qiangdong, have a dream, which is to build a stray cat base, catch all the stray cats in Chongming Town and sterilize them in this base and raise them until they die of old age, so that no new stray cats will appear."

"It costs money to realize this dream. Apart from other things, it is a big expense to sterilize all the stray cats in Zhongming Town... To be honest, I am very short of money now, but I have a keen sense of the trend of video traffic. If Sylvie cooperates with me, with your talent and my platform, you will definitely make a lot of money."

Xie Qiangdong looked at Black Dog Sylvie sincerely and seriously. If he wanted to cooperate with Black Dog Sylvie, he had to pass Xu Lin's test.

"It was my fault for not clarifying the situation and quarreling with Xu Lin's mother that day. I will definitely go to her house to apologize."

"If I can handle Xu Lin's situation, would Xi Wei be willing to cooperate with me to make videos and earn money? I will give you half of the money, and the rest will be invested in the sterilization of stray cats..."

"..."

"Of course you can if you're just rescuing stray cats." "Great!"

After saying this hesitantly, looking at Xie Qiangdong who was visibly happy, Sylvie's heart was not as calm as she appeared.

Tianshuang Stray Cat Rescue Station often releases some videos of rescuing stray cats. Although it uses dubbing by a marketing account, the copywriting is very good. In addition, they do practical things and know how to catch the audience's attention and move them. The number of fans is increasing at an extremely fast rate, and it has increased to 700,000 in just a few months. It is no longer of the same size as small authors and small ups like myself, and has the potential to be promoted to the top 100.

I am also a half fan of Tianshuang. When I order takeout, I often watch this up’s videos while eating.

I knew that Tian Shuang was in Chongming Town, but I never thought that this person was Xie Qiangdong! The image contrast was too great, and I didn't think in this direction at first!

'Look carefully, the layout of this room is indeed a bit similar to the one in the video, and Xie Qiangdong has indeed adopted a lot of stray cats...'

'I was just looking for revenge, but the misunderstanding was resolved. I unexpectedly found out that the target of revenge was the UP host I had been following. I was even invited to shoot a video together, and I could get half of the money! '

'Indeed, smart people are common, but dogs that are smart enough to talk are rare. With my talent and Xie Qiangdong's platform, how much money can I make... Maybe I can consider developing into an acting career and become the first movie dog?'

The money-loving attribute was triggered instantly, and Sylvie's eyes turned into the shape of money for a moment. Money is a good thing, and how many people don't like money?

And I love cats very much. I can make money and help every cat realize their dream. It’s so cool!

While my mood improved, I did not forget the main purpose of coming here.

"There's a cat abuser active in Chongming Town recently. It was that cat abuser who killed me... Do you have any clues about this cat abuser?"

Xie Qiangdong always goes to the scene of cat abuse to collect the dead cats. Maybe he knows some clues about the cat abuser.

When talking about the cat abuser, Xie Qiangdong's face instantly turned gloomy.

"That cat abuser is always active in the early morning, and I have been trying to find him."

"There are almost no people in Chongming Town in the early morning. Few people go out in the early morning. It should be easy to find this cat abuser."

"But he seemed to know that I was looking for him. He always knew where I was and hid away. It was impossible for me to find him by myself."