Soul Patch

Chapter 245 Betrayal
My eyes are sore and painful. Dean Meng's eyesight is really not good. My eyes started to hurt after looking at things for only a short while.

Wenjie stopped staring at the dark background of the system interface. He pressed his palm against his eye socket and rotated it clockwise, trying to massage his eyes and relax his eye skin.

The system interface quickly redirected, and a line of text appeared on the screen:
[Manual clearing is selected by default]

Please enter the system's safe mode access key.

Wenjie stared blankly at the system interface. What key?
Safe Mode access key?

Has the system gone mad?!

However, the little box for entering the key on the system interface kept flashing, which made Wenjie feel a sense of urgency.

It's like when the delivery guy finishes delivering your package, and you're excitedly looking to open it and see what's inside, only to have him suddenly say "cash on delivery"... and then you start looking for money everywhere.

It's that sense of urgency.

But can a sense of urgency alone solve the problem?

Wenjie was at a loss when faced with the system key's little princess...

Wait a minute... there are eight little princesses, so the password must be eight characters long.

If I were to set my own password, my first choice would be my birthday.

If you set the security mode access key for this system yourself...

Wenjie drifted off into a daze, his mind drifting to his birthday, April 1, 1994.

How could I have been born on April Fool's Day? Every time I tell someone my birthday, they think I'm joking.

In fact, Wenjie felt that his life was like a huge joke.

As he was thinking about those random things, suddenly the little squares in front of him were filled with asterisks.

After all eight asterisks were filled in, the planet interacted with Little Gege and emitted a golden light.

The golden light grew brighter and brighter, and the asterisk on the interface transformed into a giant key inlaid with gold, flying towards a black hole in the very center of the system interface.

As the key was inserted into the black hole, a clicking sound similar to turning a key was heard, followed by colorful light shining through the black hole, instantly filling the screen with light.

Wenjie looked at the key's shape and the black hole... He suppressed the urge to laugh. This idea was too lame. He had drawn this picture once in an art class when he was in elementary school.

All the other students drew tables and chairs, benches, some drew grass and streams, and some drew bananas and apples... but he drew a black circle, and the inside of the circle was drawn completely black with a fine-tipped pen.

My elementary school art teacher had buck teeth. One day, he put his hands on his hips, bared his teeth, and yelled at me, "What is this thing you drew? A black hole?"

That was the first time he heard the word "black hole," and he instantly felt that the word was very sophisticated and perfectly matched the artistic conception of his paintings.

He stood up and said in a childish but firm voice, "Yes, black holes, black holes that hold countless secrets and possibilities."

Upon hearing this, the buck-toothed teacher was so angry that he tore the painting to shreds.

Make him draw another one, any theme is fine, just don't draw a black hole again.

Then he drew a golden key... and when he handed it to the teacher, unsurprisingly, the teacher tore it to shreds.

He snapped out of his reverie and found that the system interface had transitioned from a colorful display to a 3D virtual scene.

After careful examination, he realized that the virtual scene was actually the Wuzhou Mental Hospital.

Three crosses were moving around in the virtual scene, and a pistol was drawn next to one of them. There were also countless small white dots on the screen, and Wenjie couldn't immediately understand what the crosses, the pistol, and the white dots represented. Uh… there was a human-shaped silhouette model in the second ward on the west side of the fifth floor, marked with the label "key."

Wenjie glanced at the humanoid silhouette, then jumped up from the bed. The "key" model also jumped up... Oh my god, that's me!

Wenjie became interested. Wasn't this just like the video game consoles he played when he was a kid?
This is something I'm good at.
When he was a kid, he could play video games all day with just one coin, and no one in his class could beat him.

But how could a system that can correct the course of one's life, a system with such profound and unpredictable functions, have such a low-level security mode setting?
Moreover, he was very familiar with this modeling; the current scene seemed to be an enhanced version of a tank game.

The three people who posed a threat to the system were represented by crosses in the 3D virtual scene. In addition to small white dots, there were also several pistol icons on the interface.

A handgun is a usable tool?
He counted them carefully: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5—a total of five pistols, one of which had an X on its top.

There were two dark-colored handguns, positioned some distance from the building.

These are... these are two bodies, one tall and one short, placed in the park, mounted on patched carriers?

Wenjie hurriedly went to check the location of the doctor's office on the second floor. Sure enough, there was a pistol there, with a red progress bar (52/100) next to it. Was that a health bar?
Is this the idiot's health points? Or his attack power?
He understood; all the patch carriers were represented by pistols.

Then the other two pistols are the ones we can use.

He knew Andy was the patch carrier. Andy was now… He searched diligently through the 3D modeled scene and found Andy in a hospital room on the third floor.

Wenjie stared at the small white dot and pistol symbol in the ward. "This is... Jia Nan and Andy?"

Haha, that’s interesting.

I have no idea what a man and a woman alone in a room are doing.

They're probably having a long talk about their life goals.

[Start manually removing intrusive cheats?]

【Yes】

There are currently three patch carriers available for selection.

The system interface highlights the currently active patch carriers with red circles, and each circle has a selection button below it.

【please choose】

[A maximum of three patch carriers can be selected this time]

That's right, just as he understood it: choosing a patch carrier to remove intrusive cheats.

Wenjie hesitated as he looked at the three circled patch carriers.

Tie Hanhan is lying in the treatment room next to the doctor's office, completely broken, so we definitely can't choose him.

Andy's basic abilities are zero; he's just an ordinary person who probably can't even beat a powerful NPC. Sending Andy there would be suicide!
Then... Wenjie's finger came to the top of the three crosses, hovering for a moment above the head of the person with the double mark.

With a heavy heart, I pressed it down.

The images of the three people flashed before his eyes: a gaunt old man, a cold and alluring woman, and a man of medium build whom he had never met before.

Because they had only caught a fleeting glimpse of the man from the window at the far end of the second floor, they hadn't gotten a clear look at his features.

So, which of these three will betray us?

(End of this chapter)