Time manager

Although the book-stealing incident ended in this way, there is still a lot of follow-up work.The stolen books were temporarily stored in the library, and those that were soaked in water needed to be repaired, and then waited for the original owner to pick them up.Shi Jing found time to visit the prison again, and found that the invisible book thief had indeed turned back into an ordinary person—his light sphere had disappeared.

Shi Jing always thought this was weird, so he had dinner together that night, and he called Lian Ping over.

This guy was very happy when he heard that he was able to make money, but Shi Jing said, "Let the system come out."

Lian Ping angrily took a few mouthfuls of food, and then reluctantly closed his eyes.

Shi Jing observed, the light sphere on his timeline did not change, until Lian Ping opened his eyes again, and said calmly, "What's the matter?"

System One is online.

Shi Jing poked the ball of light, but then slipped away, as if there was a repulsive force, making the ball of light avoid his hand, and slipped to the other side before touching it.

Shi Jing asked him, "Is there any discomfort?"

No. [-] picked up the chopsticks, picked up a pig's trotter, and said, "No."

Then focus on getting rid of the trotters.

Shi Jing told him about the book thief that day.

"Light sphere?" No. [-] frowned and said, "It turns out that we are like this in your eyes... I don't know, but our system has security protection, let me check."

He said check, but his hands and mouth didn't stop at all.

"It should be that the capture program was detected, so my protection program took an autonomous avoidance." The system said, looking at his hand, "You managers are such a strange existence that you can actually capture us."

Shi Jing asked again about the light ball of the book thief that day.

"Hidden for a while?" No. [-] finally put down his pig's trotters, frowned and said, "If it's like what you said, I think there is a possibility. Do you know about marionettes?"

Shi Jing understood in seconds. "You mean, someone else is manipulating him?"

"That's what it means." Number one took a sip of the soup, hiccupped contentedly, and continued: "But this is just an example, I'm not sure that person must be a puppet. I mean, it's a kind of puppet. System. What that person holds may be a subsystem. And the person who controls him has a mother system. As far as I know, there is also a Zerg brood system similar to this, but it should be an interstellar world. It will be released. There is also the distraction system, which is usually used for repairing. The matryoshka system is used in the world of infinite streaming. Ah, too many... But after the civil strife in the headquarters, I don’t know if it is possible to make mistakes.”

"Go on, what else?" Shi Jing wrote down and asked again.

"You know these are useless." No. [-] lazily said, "And our system works independently, and we have no right to obtain information from other systems through official channels. I'm only telling you this because I just happened to know or heard about it. Such a system. Only the management, system, and host know the real task name of each system."

"So, if the right hand really controlled the person who stole the book, then it should have the child-mother system?" Shi Jing wondered, "Can the child-mother system be switched?"

"If the host of the mother system dies, the host's consciousness can be transferred to a certain subsystem, but it will not become the mother system, and other subsystems will no longer be under his control. After all, the system is not like a creature that can grow up and live forever Reproduction. The parent-child relationship of the system is just a program setting..." The system picked up the cup on the table and took a sip, then squirted it out with a "poof". "What liquid is this!"

Shi Jing laughed and said, "Beer."

No. [-] put Lian Ping's face on his face, his facial features were all distorted, it seemed that he didn't like the taste of wine very much.

Shi Jing poured water for him.

No. [-] drank several glasses, until the taste of wine in his mouth was diluted, and he ate another piece of beef, before saying: "As for the invisible book thief you mentioned, I think it is probably an item for exchange, I know There is a kind of alien liquid that spreads particles to nearby creatures, and the senses of people who inhale them will be affected. You can’t see him. It is estimated that the particles entered the eyes, refracted the light, and bypassed the liquid. It’s okay if you don’t understand. You don’t need to know the principle. Since you can capture our image, all camouflage systems will be invisible to you. The power of the mysterious level cannot be deceived by technology.”

Shi Jing thought it would be great if this was true.

He looked at the ball of light on No. [-], it was much brighter than before, it seems that Lian Ping has done a lot of tasks recently.He thought for a while, and then asked: "Then is it possible for you to hide your image through a special method? That's..."

He tried his best to describe it: "For example, minimize your own sense of existence."

"You mean suspended animation...that is, dormancy?" No. [-] said. "A general host will not make such a choice. Because after the system sleeps, the progress of the task is completely invisible, and various auxiliary capabilities of the system cannot be used, and it takes time to wake up again. During the sleep period, the host is just like an ordinary person. In this way It’s hard work to do.”

That is to say, if the dormant system on his right hand came to approach him on purpose, he wouldn't know it at all.

However, such a right hand has become less threatening...

Shi Jing listed the people who were close to him one by one and excluded them one by one. It turned out that the most suspicious person was... Li Dai.

This is a real headache.

He had never seen Dai Li with a ball of light from the beginning to the end, and he didn't look like he had a mission.

He decided to make another appointment tomorrow, and take a closer look at what happened. If he couldn't see it, it would be good to ask for some flaws.

After eating, he continued to summarize and analyze information about the system.

The note suddenly said: [Does the master think Lian Ping's system is credible?Why doesn't the master ask other managers to understand, but ask a system? 】

"You said that managers are neutral. I think it is still very important to maintain this neutral state. And... this matter is caused by time." Shi Jing sighed, "Time was the first to start with the system. Contact, and all the changes in the system later, also started from then. Start with time, then let time be the end."

He connected several managers to the system online, wrote notes, drew a relationship diagram, and looked up at the night scene outside the window, where stars were rarely visible.

Looking at the dining table again, Lian Ping was complaining about the system while trying to eat more.

"Does Shi have an impression of No. [-]? The time manager really talked to him?"

[Yes...] The note tried to recall, [Although I can't remember the specific situation at that time due to the setting, I can be sure that the time manager did agree on the second meeting.But after the first meeting, I and the manager... separated.He didn't take me with me, and I couldn't perceive him. I waited for a long time, but I didn't wait for him to come back. After a long time, I finally confirmed that he is no longer alive...]

The tone of the note was a little sad and slightly aggrieved.

"Are you blaming him?" Shi Jing listened fascinatedly, substituting for a while, and said, "If one day I do like him..."

The note immediately became tense: [No, no!Lord, master, hours are very capable!Don't send me back...]

Shi Jing smiled and said, "If I really did that, it must be to... protect you."

The note didn't respond for a long time.

Shi Jing thought it was bad, the joke was over.The note was sent away by the owner once, forgotten by Zhong Ming again, and hidden by him to Boss Yang, I am afraid there is a shadow.

Look, I'm sulking now, and I stopped time again.

……

Light……

Through the gaps of many sundries, one can see the back of a man... and the low voice of talking to someone.

Note consciously waited quietly.The smell around is a bit unpleasant, stale and unsettling, full of dust.Ah, it doesn't like dust!

Note silently endured the bad environment, and finally waited for his master to come.

Baby, you have to wait for me here for a while.said the man.Can't see face.

【how long? 】

I'm afraid it will be a long time.

【…】

I'll be back to pick you up.

[Okay, okay.Then you must come back! 】

Then you must be patient.

【I have it! 】

Then...bye.

……

So the note counts silently every day, its hour hand, minute hand, and second hand go and go.

Until one day, they stopped.

It was only after taking notes that he realized that he had also fallen heavily, but that person did not come back.

……

Exiting from the time sea screen, the notebook whimpered sadly.Then, it was dark all around, and Shi Jing had already fallen asleep.

It observed its position, and it was still next to Shi Jing's pillow, and the mobile phone was on the bedside table. The cat must have occupied the sofa in the living room again.

It ran back to the sea of ​​time and found that its master had indeed entered a deep sleep.

At this time, the sea water surged, which frightened the notebook.It's all to blame for it, whooping, for affecting the fluctuation of the sea of ​​time, in case the stone mirror is woken up...

It calmed down the sea water carefully, and found a few small transparent characters on the surging sea water——

If I really do that, it must be to... protect you.

The note was dumbfounded.