Chapter 36 Calculating Suffering
April 13th, Dingsi month Ji Chou day.
It’s a good time to travel, clean, sign contracts, and trade.
Avoid digging wells. Level despair.
For Yang Mulin, editor of Morning News, today is a lucky day.
Because of Ji's behavior, he didn't need to care at all.
This is a behavior that normally cannot be triggered by people in today's society.
After all, where is the need to dig a well these days?
Today is a good day for signing contracts and transactions, which are words that Yang Mulin rarely uses.
And it happened to be the word he dreamed of.
Because as a debtor, he needs to repay a huge sum of money.
But faced with that huge temptation, Yang Mulin still chose a loan.
This also resulted in him being under constant pressure to repay his debts.
Today should be a good day, and you may be able to repay this huge debt through transactions and contracts.
All morning, Yang Mulin was thinking about how to use his abilities to obtain wealth.
That is, acquiring wealth by accident.
Yang Mulin, who has held the position for several months, has been promoted slowly because he does not dare to violate taboos.
Functionally, his ability is actually very weak.
Before mentioning functions, we must talk about Yang Mulin’s university major—applied mathematics.
In the eyes of Yang Mulin's parents, Yang Mulin is a child with great talent in mathematics.
Even Yang Mulin's teachers thought so, so when he applied for college, he chose applied mathematics as his major.
But in fact, only Yang Mulin himself knows that if you don't get full marks in mathematics, you can't say you have talent. 140 to 150 can be achieved with hard work.
But 150 points is not really a perfect score. Above this there is an even more vast and unreachable realm of genius.
He still remembered that there was a student named Jian who was several years younger than him, but still in the same grade as him.
He obviously spends his days napping, drawing, and even dyeing his hair and getting tattoos, making him look like an ignorant gangster.
But for such a person, casually learning mathematics will do better than studying hard.
And here, he also said that mathematics is too difficult and is his weakest among all subjects.
Of course, classmate Jian also said that there are many monsters in the field of mathematics.
Yang Mulin couldn't imagine how powerful those monsters were.
But he knew one thing -
no matter how hard he studied in college, he would only be able to scratch the surface.
This is the case in the purely academic field, which is not a world that ordinary people can enter.
The turning point in Yang Mulin's life stemmed from bullying.
"You're good at math, can you figure out that you're going to be beaten today?"
When he was a freshman, Yang Mulin was beaten once.
He had actually forgotten who the person who hit him was and why.
He only remembered this sentence: If you study mathematics well, can you calculate that you will be beaten today?
Yes, no matter how good you are at math? Can you calculate the suffering in life?
This sentence immediately penetrated Yang Mulin, and Yang Mulin finally chose to change his major.
He switched to journalism.
Until one day this year, when interviewing a reporter from the Morning News, Yang Mulin's mother took Yang Mulin to buy clothes together.
Mothers hope that their children can dress decently when working.
On that day, a white calendar appeared in Yang Mulin's briefcase.
On the same day, Yang Mulin almost encountered a car accident. As the car was approaching, his mother pushed Yang Mulin away.
Avoid interviews, the level is hopeless.
He was stunned when he saw his mother being run over by a huge tire.
The first thing that comes to mind is not sadness for the death of my mother, nor anger at the behavior of the drunk driver.
Instead, he recalled those few words he said when he was bullied a few years ago.
"If you are good at math, can you calculate that you will be beaten today?"
If you are good at math, can you calculate the hardships you will encounter in life?
This has become an obsession of Yang Mulin. He really wants to know what the things he has been studying so hard can bring to him.
Fate gave Yang Mulin the answer seven days later.
Seven days later, there was an old calendar person in Linxiang City-actuary Yang Mulin.
...
Earlier, Yang Mulin could not control his abilities very well.
He just sometimes had a premonition of the surprise he was about to experience.
Sometimes in the crowd, you will occasionally feel that someone is surrounded by black energy, as if he is about to experience an accident.
As he gradually explored and verified again and again...
Yang Mulin finally became convinced that he seemed to be able to see some people's luck, and even... very slightly affect some people's luck.
But this impact is all negative.
For example, let a person who is not very unlucky become unlucky, and make an unlucky person become even more unlucky.
The world seemed to have finally opened a window for him.
He seemed to be able to calculate accidents and sufferings. All thanks to that weird calendar.
Yang Mulin, who first became a reporter, found that many of the people he interviewed were haunted by black energy.
In the process, he gradually concluded a truth -
the protagonists in this kind of suffering news are mostly the ones favored by "accidents". Probably the hemp rope is cut at the thinnest part, and bad luck only seeks out the miserable.
His job is nothing more than interviewing disabled people, interviewing patients, and interviewing family members of the deceased.
The section he is responsible for is called "Caring for All Living Beings". It is located in the lower left corner of the fourth page of the Morning News. It focuses on humanistic care and tells the lives of some suffering people.
Occasionally, it will be broadcast in the form of news on the Linxiang City Life Channel at three o'clock in the afternoon, a time when the ratings are dismal, and it will last about one hundred seconds.
Clearly, this is not a popular column.
People love to see e-sports players getting caught for prostitution, they love to see Wang Feng posting on Weibo with a celebrity, they love to watch political columns that they know deeply about, and their favorite, sluts twerking about their butts.
But even so, the leader still needs manuscripts and will still urge him to find as many "people blessed by suffering" as possible.
But all living beings suffer, who doesn’t suffer?
But why do we have to catch people whose lives have been severely damaged and whose bodies may not even be intact?
Is the purpose of this program's existence humanistic care, or is it to show suffering so that more people can feel - I am living a pretty good life?
Yang Mulin doesn't like this kind of life, and once he becomes disgusted with life, Calendar seems to be able to feel this inner change.
While taking a nap one time, Yang Mulin heard gibbering.
"Since your job is to find materials of suffering, and since your ability is to bring suffering..." "
Since the key to the news industry is to obtain first-hand information - then why not take the initiative to create news?" "
Linxiang The city needs more suffering, doesn't it?"
These words bombarded Yang Mulin's soul, as if waking him up bit by bit!
Suddenly he realized that he would never be short of manuscripts.
He even thought about the next interview target - the leader.
As expected, something unexpected happened to the leader soon.
For the first time, Yang Mulin tried to transfer all the black mist to his leader.
This exhausted him, and he tried for a week before he finally transferred the misfortune of many people around him to his leader.
This time, he saw a number, the accident rate - seventy-five percent.
One day later, a flower pot fell from the sky and hit the leader on the head.
Yang Mulin Guangsu wrote a report about the burden that middle-aged men will bring to their families once they lose their ability to make money and become a vegetative state.
Reporter Yang Mulin, the interview subject, is the wife and daughter of the former leader.
This report was not published. However, this does not affect Yang Mulin's outlook on the future.
Mathematics, journalism, calendaring, everything tied together. Yang Mulin believes that he has finally found the meaning of life -
to let suffering and accidents come to everyone equally.
As for the fact that the calendar turned black, he didn't care at all.
Time passed day by day, and under the corrosion of the calendar, Yang Mulin's ambitions also expanded day by day.
He was unwilling to give in.
The meaning of my existence is so great, but my income is so low.
There are still so few people who pay attention to suffering and accidents.
He hopes that he can always break big news like Li Lu, a freelance journalist.
He is eager to create greater accidents, and he is also eager for accidents to bring him more wealth.
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The timeline returns to the present, April 13th and May 31st.
It’s a good time to travel, clean, sign contracts, and trade.
In the afternoon, Yang Mulin discovered that his colleague went crazy and bought an insurance policy.
But this behavior suddenly gave Yang Mulin an idea.
How to get huge amounts of money?
How to bring yourself huge wealth through accidents?
He used to make money by making news - that is, making other people's accidents become news material.
But it was only then that Yang Mulin thought of it, why couldn't he obtain a huge deposit by causing an accident?
In an incident not long ago, didn't the man named Qin Baomin get a huge compensation for the death of his wife?
Yang Mulin quickly had a plan in his mind.
My mother died a few months ago, but it doesn't matter, I still have a father.
My mother died in an accident, so it was reasonable for me to buy a high-value accident insurance policy for my father.
And just half a month ago, due to greed, he owed a huge debt. He had to find a way to make his father suffer various accidents and maximize the value as much as possible.
However, because Yang Mulin was not clear about the claims, he needed some consultation, such as how to maximize the claim amount.
This is actually irrational and will cause trouble.
But out of his blind trust in the calendar's trend, he even talked about it in too much detail -
after all, 90% of those who follow the old calendar have the view that "I'm trending, so I won't be unlucky."
I am the master of controlling accidents, can I still have accidents?
So Yang Mulin never thought that the old calendar people were attracted to each other.
A salesperson with a "journalist physique" unexpectedly received a consultation call from him.
As for constructing unexpected details -
for a Yili-type old calendar user who has only been a few months old, Yang Mulin cannot accurately construct unexpected details.
But in the past ten days, due to special opportunities, he already has such an ability.
He constructed unexpected details, including the paranoid lawn mower who kept disturbing his sleep, and the naughty kid who liked to curse while skateboarding.
Of course, everything has to wait until he buys a high enough insurance policy for his father.
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It is the afternoon of April 13th on the lunar calendar and May 31st on the solar calendar.
Duke Chengwan had already appeared outside the office building where Morning News was located.
In the group group organized by Linxiang City officials, porter Duke said:
"The information given by Mr. Qin Ze's personal assistant, Ms. Li Lu, should be accurate. The target is Yang Mulin." "Yang Mulin
should be in this building The eighth floor is the office floor of Morning News." "
According to the information currently obtained from Ms. Li Lu, Yang Mulin most likely obtained the calendar a few months ago. , His functional level should not be high."
A few months ago, Yang Mulin almost died in an accident, but he survived. His mother died in a car accident.
On the first day of the calendar, people often make taboos on something that is unavoidable without being aware of it.
Based on this, everyone speculated that maybe that day was the day Yang Mulin got the calendar.
Actor Qin Ze replied:
"Has the result of Huo Qiao's divination come out? Will our trip go smoothly?"
Fortune teller Huo Qiao:
"There will be twists and turns, so be careful. Failure is not absolute, and success is not absolute." "
This ambiguous answer made Qin Ze want to kick Old Huo Qiao into the realm of the old calendar.
These expedients live too comfortably for ability to lead to precise descriptions.
Mechanic Cheng Wan:
"No problem. That means that as long as we are careful, there will be no problems. It also proves that since there is a risk, Mr. Qin Ze's guess is correct!" "
This person is indeed an Old Calendar person. , otherwise there would be no risk in our actions."
Actor Qin Ze:
"Cheng Wan, you and Duke's abilities are used in combination, right?"
"You'd better be careful. It's daytime now. If Cheng Wan and you assemble a giant thing... Duke makes it move again, it will definitely cause trouble. Huge panic."
Machinist Cheng Wan:
"Mr. Qin Ze, don't worry, the thing I'm using this time is very small, and it doesn't require Mr. Duke's ability." "
What is it?" Qin Ze asked curiously .
"It's a cockroach. I made an electronic cockroach."
Although Cheng Wan was typing to communicate, Qin Ze actually felt his pride.
Why would anyone make a mechatronic version of a creature that is comparable to an alien species?
Mechanic Cheng Wan seemed very happy to talk about his proud work:
"I have lived in a village since I was a child. I miss the summer in southern villages. There are many mosquitoes and cockroaches, and it gets lively at night. So I only made electronic mosquitoes. , electronic cockroach. Missing the beauty of the past."
Lin An, Yu Ji, Huo Qiao, Luo Shu and Qin Ze were all speechless.
This ability is simply worse than that of a black calendarer. These two things have nothing to do with beauty.
Fortunately, the topic quickly shifted back to the incident itself.
"The cockroach has entered the editorial office. We have found the target."
"Mr. Duke and I will take action immediately and wait for our good news."
Qin Ze said:
"Be careful and careful again. Remember, don't disturb the target. You must You have to make sure that one hit is successful and the target loses consciousness."
"What we are fighting is something called 'accident'. And the people in the entire office building are hostages. So don't let the target notice you, this is the most important thing "
Please stay in contact with me throughout the process. At the same time, I am also observing the scene elsewhere. If a situation arises, I will launch a back-up plan." ... Duke
and Cheng Wan entered the building. The two of them were very curious. As a person who only had a calendar for less than two weeks, what else could Qin Ze prepare? At present, Qin Ze should not have the ability to arrest the black calendar people. The two sources have seen that as old calendar members of the official organization, although Cheng Wan is young and Duke looks rough, they are both cautious and experienced. But even though Cheng Wan and Duke were cautious enough and did not underestimate their opponents at all... they still missed some things. After finishing the manuscript at hand, Yang Mulin called Da'an Life Insurance Company again. When he found that the person who consulted before had gone off work, he planned to go to the insurance company in person for a face-to-face consultation. He wants to complete an appropriate act, transaction, or sign a contract. Before leaving the unit, Yang Mulin looked around... He discovered something. Everyone around him was surrounded by black energy. The aura that only he could see, symbolizing doom, spread over everyone like black flames. Will everyone have an accident? Yang Mulin suddenly became alert: "Obviously there was no such thing before, but suddenly everyone is going to have an accident. According to actuarial results, the accident rate is over 70%!" " I am the only one who can do this!" " In other words, every one of them will be doomed by me?" "But why should I do this?" When this question was asked, Yang Mulin had the answer. "The officials are here. In order to escape the scene and create chaos, I took everyone around me as hostages!" In just a moment, Yang Mulin confirmed his guess. He deduced his own changes through the changes in fate around him. . At the same time, he used the short-term enhanced function to increase the accident rate of everyone around him to 90%. He has imagined this scenario many times, so Yang Mulin never goes to places with few people, in the hope that he can cause accidents anytime and anywhere. And through the people around you, refer to the possibility of unexpected arrival. Within a few seconds, sparks suddenly erupted from the building's circuit board. The sparks burst out and ignited the wiring. The entire office building was shrouded in crisis. "There seems to be something wrong." Mechanic Cheng Wan sent out the message based on intuition. Although Qin Ze was not far away and did not observe any results, he still launched plan two as soon as he saw the news about Cheng Wan. (End of chapter)