Wan Jie Hospice Care Company

Xiang Yu has always had a secret.

From a young age, he could hear strange noises and see strange things.

The sounds were chaotic, sometimes whispers, sometimes indistinct murmurs, and sometimes a call coming from a very, very far place.

Most of the time he couldn't understand what they were saying.

What I saw was even stranger.

The images were illogical, like fragments of a dream; sometimes it was a blood-red sky, sometimes it was a crowd of people walking upside down, and sometimes it was a burning ocean.

These images will suddenly appear at the edge of your field of vision, flash for a few seconds, and then disappear.

Occasionally, he would see some logical scenes, such as a group of semi-transparent people walking around in front of him. Their faces were blurry, and their features seemed to have been erased halfway, leaving only a rough outline. Their bodies were stiff and jerky, and then they would disappear into the wall.

When he was a child, he thought it was so special that he told his female classmates in kindergarten about what he had seen and heard, which scared them all to tears.

From then on, kindergarten teachers were forbidden from telling ghost stories to Xiang Yu.

Xiang Yu also realized that his ability would not bring him any benefits, but would instead make him an outcast.

He then told his parents about it, and the next morning, he was awakened by deafening firecrackers.

Thick smoke billowed outside the window, and the smell of sulfur seeped in through the cracks, making him cough. He pulled back the curtains and saw, to his goodness' sake, at least twenty strings of bright red firecrackers hanging in front of his house, exploding one after another for a full two hours.

His uncle even risked being fined to burn several stacks of yellow paper at the crossroads.

And all of this was of no use; he could still hear those strange things and see those bizarre images.

In the end, he chose to coexist with his uniqueness.

However, one thing is certain: this thing is not a ghost.

If these things really are ghosts, then cemeteries must be the places where they gather the most, just like how you can find young women in bubble tea shops.

He wanted to verify whether he was indeed being haunted by some strange entity.

So, carrying his sleeping bag, he secretly slipped into a cemetery on the outskirts of the city to sleep on a dark and windy night.

He spread out his sleeping bag between the tombstones, lay down, gazed at the starry sky, and waited for some supernatural phenomenon to occur.

Then I got bitten by seventeen mosquitoes.

Shivering from the cold at four in the morning, he couldn't help but start thinking about this question.

So, what exactly are these things?

Xiang Yu didn't know.

All he knew was that as he grew older, these "special features" were no longer as fun as they were when he was a child, and instead became an increasing burden.

The noise would suddenly appear during his exams, making it impossible for him to concentrate.

The image would suddenly flash while he was chatting with his friends, forcing him to lose focus.

This was seriously affecting his daily life, so he had no choice but to start looking for solutions.

He started a training plan for himself in high school.

He gets up at five o'clock every morning, sits at his desk, closes his eyes, and focuses on breathing.

The sounds would arrive as promised, clamoring in his ears, but he ignored them, simply counting his breaths over and over again.

At first, he couldn't last more than five minutes before being interrupted by sound and images.

But he kept repeating it and practicing it.

Six months later, Xiang Yu found that he could maintain a state of concentration for up to an hour while surrounded by those sounds. The noise was still there, but it was as if it were separated by a layer of glass; he could see it pulsating, but it could no longer affect him.

This ability evolved during my senior year of high school.

In a state of extreme concentration, Xiangyu can completely block out all external distractions, not only those hallucinatory sounds, but also noises in the real world, changes in light, and even physical fatigue.

He can enter a state of flow, thinking at high speed in his own world.

After gaining this ability, Xiang Yu began to think about a question: Since I can block out these interferences, can I turn around and... make use of them?

Especially those voices that keep ringing in my ears.

Most of the time, the sounds were just chaotic murmurs, but occasionally, for a moment or two, Xiangyu felt that some of the sounds seemed to be... responding to him.

At that time, he was in college and facing exam week, and he relied on the flow state he had trained to cram for his studies.

He kept repeating the key points of the true/false questions to himself.

Is depth-first search a suitable approach for this problem?

Then, a sound seemed to echo from a very, very distant place, passing through countless layers of barriers, crossing the barriers of time and space, and drilling into his ears.

"Yes……"

Xiang Yu was stunned.

The voice was extremely faint, like someone shouting to someone across a sea of ​​people in a tourist area during a holiday.

It's that feeling where you know the other person is talking, but you can only barely make out one or two words.

He then looked up the answer key and found that the true/false question was indeed correct.

A true/false question doesn't prove anything, but from then on, he began to consciously "communicate" with that voice.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and entered a state of extreme concentration, blocking out all other sounds and focusing only on that faint echo.

This way, he could seemingly ask the voice questions at any time.

Moreover, according to his experiments, the accuracy rate of this answer is 100%; at least he has never encountered a situation where the voice was wrong.

But he soon discovered that this ability had many limitations.

First, the voice can only answer "yes" or "no".

Or to be more precise, he could only hear "yes" and "no". If an open-ended question was asked, the voice might give a complex answer, but those answers would be drowned out by countless noises and impossible to distinguish.

Second, this ability is extremely energy-consuming.

After asking each question, Xiang Yu would feel a deep-seated fatigue, and it would take several days or even longer before she could ask a second question.

This also makes this ability rather useless; he originally wanted to use it to become a brilliant scientist.

His life continued in this uneventful way...

Until a few days ago.

During his pre-employment physical examination, the doctor suddenly and mysteriously called him into the office, hung the CT scan on the lightbox, and pointed to a certain area with a pen: "Here, and here, there are some tissue structures we've never seen before. They are slowly growing, compressing the surrounding nerves..."

"Is it a tumor?"

"No, it doesn't look like a tumor." The doctor shook his head. "If it were somewhere else, it wouldn't be a problem, but the issue is, its location is a bit tricky..."

"..."

"I suggest you get further tests done as soon as possible," the doctor said, a hint of sympathy in his eyes. "Without intervention, at your current growth rate, you'll have at most..."

"Three months."

His mood remained completely calm, after all, he had been encountering low-probability events since birth, so it wasn't surprising that he encountered something like this.

However, he still had some regrets in his life, and then he saw a guy named "All-World Hospice Company".

After some thought, he decided to leave his regrets to this strange company...

He decided to try his luck.

……

Back to the present.

Clearly, he wasn't very lucky, otherwise he wouldn't have been dumped here for no reason.

He originally intended to provide end-of-life care for himself, but now he has to do it for others. What a tragedy!

He rubbed his temples, then clicked on the panel that appeared in front of him, and then clicked on [Personal Information].

Congratulations on becoming a member of the Multiverse Hospice Care Company.

Name: Xiang Yu

Character Level: E (Determined by a combination of attributes, talents, skills, items, etc.)

Character Attributes: Strength: E; Agility: E; Constitution: E; Spirit: D- (E represents the average human level, E+ represents the top 1% of humans)

【Talent: (1) Name: ■■■■; Trait Level: ■; Description: Too bizarre to analyze.】

[Skills: None]

[Item: None]

[Points: 0]

Looking at the empty panel, Xiang Yu couldn't help but think that this damn company was too stingy. Which other kind-hearted company would just throw him into the world without even giving him a newbie gift pack?

He couldn't help but curse at the system, "Damn it..."

[New player gift pack has been issued. Congratulations, host, you have received ten points.]

[Points: 10]

Xiang Yu, who was standing on the edge of the cliff, retracted his disrespect.

He then looked at his talent bar, which was not blank.

Speaking of that unique talent... could it be the ability to hear eerie voices and ask them questions?

However... it cannot be resolved?

Xiang Yu raised an eyebrow. He had thought this company could give him an answer, but it seemed he couldn't rely on them.

However, his gaze immediately focused on the [Spirit] attribute in the attribute bar.

If he wasn't mistaken, this should mean mental strength. In other words... if this value increased, he might be able to ask that voice a few more questions, or he might be able to rest for a little less time.

Moreover, the reason why my mental strength is so much above average should be the result of my training over the years.

Then, a task panel popped up in front of him.

This is the quest panel. Completing a series of main quests assigned by the system will reward you with items, points, and other rewards. The system will also guide you step by step until you achieve the ultimate goal of the quest—destroying the world.

Of course, in addition to the main quest, you can also choose to complete side quests. Side quests will not affect the final goal, but they will provide more information, helping you find more clues and items, thereby improving the final evaluation of the quest.

Main Quest 1: Find the Child of the World.

[Reward: Unlocks Main Quest 2, earns 5 points.]

[Keyword Analysis - Child of the World: refers to the protagonist born from this world, and also the world's means of self-salvation at the end of its life, just like a human gets a fever when he is sick.]

They typically possess certain abilities, some powerful, some unique, but all closely related to the characteristics of this world. Finding the chosen one of this world and recruiting them into your team is a crucial condition for providing end-of-life care to that world.

Side Quest 1: Find out why this world cannot reach the year 2000. (Completing this side quest will not affect the success or failure of the main quest.)

[Reward: Unlocks Side Quest 2 and Side Quest 3, and earns 5 points.]

[Note: Points can be used for one attribute point allocation or a skill lottery. Each E-rank attribute point allocation costs five points, increasing your rank from E to E+. Each skill lottery costs five points and will randomly select three E-rank skills from the pool (occasionally, a critical hit will yield a higher-rank skill) for you to choose from.]

"So, as long as I complete the main missions properly, I can achieve the company's goals? Maybe I can go back?"

"And that masked man seemed to have said that my lifespan wouldn't be that short... I hope I won't waste the time I have left."

He stared at the panel in the corner.

"But where is that chosen one of the world?"