Chapter Thirty-Six: Counting Suffering

April 13, Ding Siyue's ugly day.

Travel, cleaning, signing contracts, trading.

Do not dig wells. Rank despair.

For Yang Mulin, the editor of Dawn Daily, today is a lucky day.

Because of the taboo behavior, he didn't need to care at all.

This is a behavior that is normal and cannot be triggered by people in today's society.

After all, where do we need to dig wells these days?

And today is suitable for signing contracts and transactions, which is also a word that Yang Mulin rarely brushes up.

And it happened to be the word he dreamed of.

Because as a debtor, he needs to repay a huge amount of money.

But in the face of that huge temptation, Yang Mulin still chose to take out a loan.

This also caused him to be under a huge pressure to pay his debts.

Today should be a good day, and perhaps through transactions and contracts, I will be able to repay this huge debt.

All morning, Yang Mulin was thinking about how to use his ability to obtain wealth.

In other words, to gain wealth by accident.

As Yang Mulin, who has been in charge for several months, because he does not dare to make taboos, his promotion speed is relatively slow.

Functionally, his abilities are actually very weak.

Before mentioning the functions, we must talk about Yang Mulin's university major - applied mathematics.

One hundred and forty-one points in mathematics in the college entrance examination, in the eyes of Yang Mulin's parents, Yang Mulin is a very talented child in mathematics.

Even Yang Mulin's teachers think so, so when they applied for university, they chose applied mathematics as a major.

But in fact, only Yang Mulin himself knows that mathematics, if you don't get a perfect score, then you can't talk about talent, 140 to 150 can be achieved with hard work.

But 150 points is not really a perfect score. Above this, there is a much more expansive realm of genius with no top in sight.

He still remembers that there was a student surnamed Jane, who was several years younger than him, but still in the same grade as him.

Obviously, every day he dozes off, paints, and even dyes his hair and gets tattoos, living out of a hooligan who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it.

But such a person is better at studying mathematics casually than studying hard to take the exam.

And that's it, he also said that mathematics was too difficult, and that he was the weakest of all his subjects.

Of course, that classmate Jane 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 thingβ€”

No matter how hard he studied in college, he couldn't even touch the skin in the end.

The purely academic field is like that, and that's not a world that ordinary people can enter.

The turning point in Yang Mulin's life stemmed from a bullying.

"You're good at math, can you figure out you're going to be beaten today?"

When he was a freshman, Yang Mulin was beaten once.

He had actually forgotten who he was and why.

He only remembered this sentence: If you learn math well, can you calculate that you will be beaten today?

yes, how good is math? Can you count the suffering in your life?

This sentence pierced Yang Mulin at once, and Yang Mulin finally chose to change his major.

He switched to journalism.

Until one day this year, when interviewing a reporter from Dawn News, Yang Mulin's mother took Yang Mulin to buy clothes together.

Mothers hope that their children can dress decently at work.

On that day, there was an extra white calendar in Yang Mulin's briefcase.

On the same day, Yang Mulin almost suffered a car accident, and in the process of the big car coming, his mother pushed Yang Mulin away.

Avoid interviews, rank despair.

Watching his mother run over by a huge tire, he was stunned.

The first thing that comes to mind is not grief over the death of my mother, not anger at the behavior of a drunk driver.

Rather, he recalls those words when he was bullied a few years ago.

"You're good at math, can you figure out that you're going to be beaten today?"

If you learn math well, can you calculate the tribulations of life?

This has become an obsession of Yang Mulin, and he wants to know what he has been working hard to learn can bring to himself?

Seven days later, fate gave Yang Mulin the answer.

Seven days later, there was an old calendarist in Linxiang City-actuary Yang Mulin.

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Earlier, Yang Mulin could not control his ability very well.

He only sometimes had a premonition that he was going to experience an accident.

Sometimes in the crowd, you will occasionally feel that someone is entangled in black gas, as if you are going to experience an accident.

With gradual exploration, with the verification of time and time again......

Yang Mulin was finally convinced that he seemed to be able to see the luck of some people, and even ...... Affects some people's luck very slightly.

But this kind of impact is a negative impact.

For example, let a person who is not very unlucky take bad luck, and make an unlucky person even more unlucky.

The world seems to have finally opened a window for him.

It was as if he was able to calculate the accident and the suffering. It's all thanks to that quirky calendar.

Yang Mulin, who became a reporter at first, found that many of the people he interviewed were haunted by black gas.

In this process, he gradually summed up a truth -

Most of the protagonists in this kind of suffering news are the objects favored by "accidents". It is probably that the hemp rope is broken in detail, and the bad luck is only looking for the miserable.

His job is nothing more than - interviewing the disabled, interviewing the sick, interviewing the families of the deceased.

The section he is in charge of, "Caring for All Beings", is located in the lower left corner of the fourth page of the Dawn Daily, focusing on humanistic care and telling about the lives of some suffering people.

It is also occasionally broadcast in the form of news at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, which is a time with dismal ratings, accounting for about 100 seconds.

Obviously, this is not a popular column.

People love to watch e-sports players being arrested for prostitution, they love to watch Wang Feng and a celebrity post on Weibo in the same frame, and they love to watch the key political columns that they have in their bones, and their favorites, the sluts twist their butts.

But even so, the leader still needs a manuscript, and will still urge him to find as many "people as possible" who are "favored by suffering".

But all living beings are suffering, who is not suffering?

But why do you have to catch people whose lives have been hit hard and maybe not even have their bodies intact?

The meaning of the existence of this show is humanistic care, or to show suffering, so that more people feel - it turns out that I am doing well?

Yang Mulin doesn't love this kind of life, and once he is disgusted with life, the calendar seems to be able to feel this inner change.

During a nap, Yang Mulin heard whispering.

"Since your job is to find the material of suffering, since your ability is to bring ...... suffering"

"If journalism is all about getting first-hand information – why not take the initiative to make news?"

"Linxiang City needs more suffering, doesn't it?"

This sentence bombarded Yang Mulin's sea of hearts, as if he woke him up all at once!

Suddenly, he realized that he would never run out of manuscripts.

He even thought about the next interviewee - the leader.

Not surprisingly, the leader soon had an accident.

For the first time, Yang Mulin tried to transfer all the black mist to his leader.

This exhausted him, and it took him a week of trying before finally transferring the bad luck of many people around him to the leader.

This time, he saw a number, the surprise advent rate - seventy-five percent.

A day later, a flower pot that fell from high in the sky smashed on the leader's head.

Yang Mulin wrote a report on how a middle-aged man would be burdened with his family once he lost his earning ability and became a vegetative person.

Reporter Yang Mulin, the interviewee, is the wife and daughter of the former leader.

The report was not sent out. However, it does not affect Yang Mulin to look forward to the future.

Math, journalism, calendars, it all came together. Yang Mulin thinks that he has finally found the meaning of life -

Let suffering and accidents befall everyone equally.

As for the fact that the calendar had turned black, he didn't care at all.

Time passed day by day, and under the corrosion of the calendar, Yang Mulin's ambition also swelled day by day.

He was not reconciled.

The meaning of his existence is so great, but his income is so low.

There are still so few people who pay attention to suffering and accidents.

He hopes that he, like the supernumerary freelancer Li Lu, can always break the big news.

He longs to be able to create greater accidents, and he also longs for accidents to bring more wealth to himself.

……

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The timeline goes back to the present, April 13, May 31.

Travel, cleaning, signing contracts, trading.

In the afternoon, Yang Mulin found that his colleague had gone to buy an insurance policy outrageously.

But this behavior made Yang Mulin suddenly have an idea.

How do I get a huge amount of money?

How to bring great wealth to yourself through accidents?

He used to make money by making news, that is, causing accidents to others, turning them into news material.

But Yang Mulin actually thought at this time, why can't he get a huge amount of insurance money by creating an accident?

In an incident not long ago, wasn't the person named Qin Baomin get a huge amount of compensation because of the death of his wife?

Yang Mulin quickly had a plan in his heart.

My mother died a few months ago, but it doesn't matter, I still have my father.

My mother died in an accident, and it made sense for me to buy a high accident insurance for my father.

And just half a month ago, due to greed, he owed a huge debt, and he had to find a way to make his father suffer a variety of accidents and maximize his value as much as possible.

However, due to the lack of clarity about the claim matters, Yang Mulin needs to do some consultation, such as how to go to maximize the claim amount.

This is actually irrational and will cause trouble.

But out of blind trust in the appropriateness of the calendar, he even talked about it in too much detail-

After all, the idea that "I'm in the middle of nowhere, I shouldn't be unlucky" is shared by 90 percent of the old calendarers.

I'm the master of manipulating accidents, can I still have accidents?

So Yang Mulin never thought of it - the old calendarists were attracted to each other.

A salesman with a "journalist physique" actually received his consultation call.

As for the build surprise details -

For a person who has only been a few months old, Yang Mulin cannot and cannot accurately construct unexpected details.

But in the last ten days, out of a special opportunity, he already has such an ability.

He constructs unexpected details, including the paranoid weed wedge who always makes him sleep, and the bear kid who likes to swear while skateboarding.

Of course, everything had to wait until he bought a sufficiently high enough insurance policy for his father.

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……

On the afternoon of April 13 of the lunar calendar and May 31 of the solar calendar.

Duke Cheng Wan had already appeared outside the office building where the Dawn News was located.

In a group organized by the Linxiang City government, Porter Duke said:

"Mr. Qin Ze's personal assistant, Ms. Li Lu, should give accurate information, and the target is Yang Mulin."

"Yang Mulin should be on the eighth floor of this building, which is the office floor of Dawn News."

"According to the information I have received from Ms. Li Lu so far, Yang Mulin most likely only got the calendar a few months ago, and as an old calendarist who tends to avoid taboos, his functional level should not be high."

A few months ago, Yang Mulin almost died in an accident, but eventually survived, and his mother died in a car accident.

On the first day of the calendar, people often make a mistake about something that is difficult to avoid without even noticing it.

According to this, everyone calculated that maybe that day would be the day when Yang Mulin got the calendar.

Actor Qin Ze replied:

"Has Huo Qiao's divination result come out? Will our trip go well? ”

Fortune teller Huo Qiao:

"There are twists and turns, be careful. There will be no absolute failure, nor will there be absolute success. ”

This ambiguous answer made Qin Ze couldn't help but want to kick Lao Huoqiao into the realm of the old calendar.

These conformisms are too comfortable for the ability to bring precise descriptions.

Mechanic Cheng Wan:

"No problem, that means we just need to be careful, and there will be no problems. At the same time, it also proves that since there is a risk, then Mr. Qin Ze's guess is right! ”

"This man is indeed an old calendarist, otherwise there would not have been any risk in our actions."

Actor Qin Ze:

"Cheng Wan, you and Duke are using their abilities together, right?"

"You'd better be careful, it's daytime, if Cheng Late you assemble a giant thing...... If Duke let it move again, it would surely cause a great panic. ”

Mechanic Cheng Wan:

"Mr. Qin Ze, don't worry, the things I used this time are very small, and I don't need to use Mr. Duke's abilities."

"What is it?" Qin Ze asked curiously.

"It's cockroaches, I made electronic cockroaches."

Although Cheng Wan was communicating by typing, Qin Ze actually felt his pride.

This kind of creature comparable to alien xenos, why would anyone still make a mechatronic version?

Mechanic Cheng Wan seems to be very happy to tell about his proud works:

"When I was a child, I lived in the village all the time, and I miss the summer in the southern village, where there are many mosquitoes and cockroaches, and it can be lively at night. So I only made electronic mosquitoes, electronic cockroaches. Nostalgia for the good old days. ”

Lin An, Yu Ji, Huo Qiao, Luo Shu, and Qin Ze were all speechless.

This ability is even more black than the Black Calendar, and these two things have a fart relationship with Beauty.

Fortunately, the conversation quickly shifted back to the incident itself.

"Cockroaches have made their way into the newsroom. We've found our purpose. Purpose"

"Mr. Duke and I will start moving right away and wait for our good news."

秦泽 says:

"Be careful, be careful, be careful, remember, don't disturb the target, make sure you hit the target and make them unconscious."

"We're fighting against something called 'accidents'. And the people in the entire office building are hostages. So don't let the target perceive you, that's the most important thing. ”

"Please keep in touch with me throughout the process. At the same time, I am also observing the scene in other places, and if something happens, I will go out and plan for it. ”

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Duke and Cheng Wan enter the building.

The two of them were very curious, Qin Ze, as a person who had only had a calendar for a few days and less than two weeks, what else could he prepare?

At present, Qin Ze should not have the ability to arrest the Black Calendarer.

The two have already seen that as the old calendarist of the official organization, although Cheng Wan is young and Duke looks very rough, both of them are cautious and experienced.

However, even Cheng Wan and Duke were cautious enough to not take their opponents lightly at all......

But I still missed something.

When he finished the manuscript at hand, Yang Mulin called Daan Life Insurance Company again, and found that the person who had consulted before had already left work, so he was ready to go to the insurance company in person to do a face-to-face consultation.

He has to complete the appropriate behavior, transaction, or contract.

Before leaving the unit, Yang Mulin looked around......

He discovered one thing, everyone around him was entangled in black gas.

The breath that symbolized doom, which only he could see, spread over everyone like a black flame.

Everyone's going to have an accident?

This Yang Mulin was suddenly alert:

"Obviously, there is no one before, but suddenly everyone is going to have an accident, and the actuarial results and the accident advent rate are all above 70%!"

"I'm the only one who can do that!"

"In other words, each of them will be doomed by me?"

"But why would I do that?"

When this question was asked, Yang Mulin had the answer.

"The officials came, and in order to escape the scene, I created chaos and took everyone around me hostage!"

In just a moment, Yang Mulin confirmed his guess, and he deduced his own changes through the changes in the fate around him.

At the same time, the use of functions that have been strengthened for a short period of time has increased the accident rate of everyone around him to 90%.

He has imagined this kind of scene many times, so Yang Mulin never goes to places with few people, in order to hope that he can create accidents anytime and anywhere.

And through the people around you, refer to the possibility of unexpected arrival.

In a matter of seconds, sparks erupted from the building's circuit boards. The burst of sparks ignited the line.

The entire office building is shrouded in crisis.

"Something doesn't seem right." Mechanic Cheng Wan sent a message with his intuition.

Although Qin Ze was not far away and did not observe any results, as soon as he saw Cheng Wan's news, he still started Plan 2.