Soul Patch

Chapter 40 Midnight Revelry

"Qin Fen..."

Wenjie called her name softly, his throat a little tight, and he coughed to cover up his embarrassment.

Upon hearing his words, Qin Fen looked up and gazed at him quietly.

Wenjie looked at Qin Fen. He couldn't understand what kind of turmoil a woman who had fallen from the peak of her life had gone through to fall into such a calm and serene state, free from desires and wants.

"Qin Fen, if you... are unhappy about anything, just say it!" Wen Jie whispered into the intercom.

Wenjie wasn't good at comforting people, especially when visiting Qin Fen in prison. The glass partition between them seemed to separate them into two different worlds.

Wenjie, on his end, couldn't understand how Qin Fen, on the other end, would perceive his comfort.

He longed for Qin Fen to sway and lean towards him, to take a cigarette from his pocket and light it. They would occasionally exchange glances through the smoke.

Looking back now, those petty thoughts of mutual disdain and scheming seem precious.

"Qin Fen, I have a question for you. Can you answer it? If you had to choose, would you choose to commit suicide by drowning, or spend the rest of your life in prison?"

After asking the question, Wenjie looked directly at Qin Fen.

Through the glass, Wenjie watched as Qin Fen's hand holding the phone trembled slightly, followed by a faint smile:

"What difference does it make? Living or dying, isn't it all the same? Dying early or dying late, isn't it all the same?"

Time seemed to stand still; Wenjie only felt his hand holding the walkie-talkie was sweating.

Given how well this task was handled, the system is quite generous, giving him 60 points.

Those forty points deducted were absolutely justified!

"Qin Fen, can you tell me the truth now? So much time has passed, you... shouldn't have any more reservations!"

Qin Fen laughed, her face turned upwards, a laugh filled with sarcasm and bitterness.

Wenjie felt a pang of sadness upon hearing this, especially when he saw Qin Fen smile for a while and then indifferently suppress her smile.

It was as if he was silently questioning Wenjie: Why do you think I ended up in this situation?

Wenjie was speechless for a moment, then silently lowered his head. He pondered for a moment and said:

“I know I’m not in a position to ask those questions, but if there’s anything else… I mean, anything I can do for you when I go out, just say so.”

"..." Qin Fen thought about it seriously, sighed and said, "My children refuse to visit me. If you have the chance to see them, please tell them to stay away from scumbags!"

At this point, Qin Fen became somewhat agitated. Even through the partition, one could feel her rapid breathing, her face flushed red with anger, and her body trembling slightly.

"There will always be some hypocritical scum who will try every means to drag you down!"

After saying that, Qin Fen walked towards the inner door without turning her head.

Wenjie stared at Qin Fen's departing figure for a long time.

For the first time, I felt a sense of awe towards the Soul Patch System.

That is reverence for the individual life of the target!

The phrase "correcting one's life trajectory" suddenly seems heavy, carrying the weight of life itself.

That day, Tian Wenjie forgot how he got home, and he also forgot whether he had eaten dinner or not.

He tried to activate the system, wanting to complete the previous A-level mission again.

[Only the test questions can be retaken]

Once bound to the system, the life trajectory of the target individual is irreversibly altered by tasks assigned by the system.

Wenjie stared dejectedly at the cold string of text displayed by the system.

Then the system interface flashed, and new text appeared before me:

[System Task: A. Beginner Difficulty; B. Intermediate Difficulty; C. Advanced Difficulty]

[C Advanced Difficulty]

Wenjie gritted his teeth. Since it was going to be so much trouble anyway, he might as well get it over with in one go.

If all else fails, just quit and start over!

Just then, Wenjie's phone beeped. While waiting for the system to redirect, he picked up his phone and glanced at it.

It's Yang Shanshan's information.

"It was a false alarm. Huang Weiwei just went hiking on Mount Tai with Jia Nan at night."

Damn, that's really dramatic!

Mount Tai is so far from M City, why does this person act so unpredictably?

How could a girl run off so far with a boy she just met?

Aren't you afraid of encountering bad people? Have you considered your personal safety?

"This Huang Weiwei... she's really something!" Wenjie originally wanted to say "she's really a weirdo," but he felt it would be impolite to rashly comment on Yang Shanshan's best friend, so he changed his words.

“She’s such a weirdo! I’m really speechless!” Yang Shanshan said, then sent a “cursing” emoji.

Wenjie stared at the word "weirdo" and chuckled to himself.

[Please select patch type: A. Discouraging, B. Reshaping, C. Violent, D. Collapsing]

【Type A: Dissuasion】

For some reason, Wenjie thought of Qin Fen, and he subconsciously abandoned the violent patch.

At that moment, Wenjie's vision went black, and he felt a sense of weightlessness, followed by a rapid descent.

He hurriedly squatted down and touched the floor beneath his feet; it was cold, hard tile.

I felt around along the wall and finally found something that looked like a switch.

He pressed the switch with a "click," and after a crisp sound, the light came on.

It was a blood-red lamp.

Hanging overhead.

Wenjie looked around in the blood-red light and found himself in an unfamiliar room.

There were no doors, no windows, no furniture, only a lamp, a ladder, and a chair.

Wenjie doesn't understand whose life trajectory needs to be corrected?

In other words, where is the target individual/group?

Just then, he heard an old voice say, "Feifei is home from school, why aren't you cooking for her yet?"

"Ugh! Not a single step forward!"

Then came the sound of rapid, clattering keyboards.

Then there was a loud bang, like the sound of something hitting something.

"Why isn't he replying to my messages yet! If he doesn't reply soon, I'm asking him for a refund!"

The old man's voice changed tone with anger, becoming rough and sharp.

(End of this chapter)