I'm living off a woman in Arknights.

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To avoid being attacked, the system took a deep breath and shouted in one breath without pausing:

[The main body needs to have twelve contractors within one year and twenty-four contractors within two years—this isn't me trying to make things difficult for the main body; the emotional restrictions simply require this many contracts as a connection to be fully lifted!]

After saying this in one breath, the system displayed a congratulatory message on the panel: [As long as you agree to this price, you are now emotionally free!]

No wonder she didn't seem to have recovered her emotions at all; it turns out she still needs to agree to pay a price.

I didn't expect the price to be a limited number of contracts within a certain time. Hmm... this way of paying a price seems familiar.

The overwhelming sense of déjà vu made Yun Yi realize quickly: "Isn't this just a loan? Pay slowly first, and there's no interest—sounds pretty good."

Yun Yi turned to look at Swire, who was deep in thought, and asked, "How about it, is that alright?"

External brain, stop keeping silent, come up with a solution!

"Twelve, twenty-four..." Could these numbers be part of some kind of ritual formation?

Swire shook her head, dismissing the pointless speculation. She touched her skirt and squatted down to meet Yun Yi's gaze. "Yun Yi, it depends on you. Do you really want to let your emotions out?"

It's important to understand that emotions are a double-edged sword, especially for Yunyi, who is anxious about leaving his hometown.

“Of course!” Yun Yi said without hesitation. “If the so-called emotional restriction were to completely block out my emotions, I would weigh it. But it’s just like putting up a shield. I can’t sense it, but my body will still be affected by my emotions. Isn’t that redundant and too troublesome?”

Swire nodded, her tiger tail swaying behind her as she pondered. "Then we just need to figure out how to find twenty-four people willing to form a contract with you. Miss Lappland and I already have two, and you said Old Chen and Hoshiguma could also... I'll persuade them, that'll make four. So, who else can you form a contract with for Lungmen?"

Swire also remembered that there were conditions for the contract partner; not just anyone could be one.

"Uh, I don't know?" Yun Yi scratched his head. "Texas and Ansor are fine, and I remember there's Exusiai, Sora, Coco, and Croissant, right? But they haven't joined Penguin Logistics yet, and they might not even have joined Lungmen yet."

Swire sighed, his stammering manner making her facepalm. "You're still complaining about the system? Aren't you just like the system?"

In terms of unreliability, these two are definitely among the top in the people she knows—Yun Yi is still better than the system, at least he won't talk nonsense, and he will apologize immediately when he realizes that he has said something wrong.

PS:

I will finish writing the remaining chapters as soon as possible T^T

Volume 2: Fireworks at Dragon Gate: Chapter 100 System (Puffing out a non-existent chest): I'm super reliable!

“Yeah, ask the system, don’t ask me.” Yun Yi shrugged and pushed the matter away. “Whether or not I can sign a contract is not up to me to decide, it’s the system’s decision. I’m just guessing.”

While she said this, she knew very well in her heart that the answer was most likely the same as what she had figured out: any operator from Arknights that she could pull and use would be fine.

[Huh? You're asking me? Well, let me see...]

The system coughed dramatically, pondered for a moment, and then said, "[Currently, there are ten people in Dragon Gate who meet the requirements, including the two who have already formed contracts.]"

[However, I suggest that you don't try to sign the contract just because you meet the requirements. After all, these twenty-four positions are for the Spirit to help you maintain the protective membrane holes, and the stronger the contractor's mental strength, the better.]

[—Ideally, someone with exceptional resilience.]

Among these people from Longmen, some can be said to be strong, but their spirits are certainly not resilient.

[Of course, your will is the most important thing. No matter how resilient the contractors are, the contract will protect them!] The system said confidently.

Swire ruthlessly concluded, "Did you hear that, Yunyi? Once we find suitable candidates, we must ensure they are mentally resilient enough."

[The contract is reliable!] The system, enraged and hypocritical, retorted: [Contractor, don't interfere with the subject's judgment!]

“Interference with judgment? I don’t deny it.” Swire glanced at the subsystem panel and asked rationally, “But is the contract reliable? I don’t believe it unless you explain the principle.”

How could He possibly explain that?

The contract touches upon the very essence of the subject; if He Himself were to speak of it, He would be eroded by the subject's soul without regard for anything else, instantly vanishing into nothingness.

The system was speechless, and could only weakly retort, "[The contract really can protect everyone...]"

"Well, just in case, the stronger the better, right? — This is also your own suggestion, System, isn't it?"

Yun Yi once again acted as a peacemaker. After all, one was her golden finger and the other was her future wife; they couldn't really have a conflict.

Although Yunyi's skill in serving water was not very good, the system acknowledged it, and he dejectedly agreed.

Yunyi patted the somewhat dejected panel and comforted it, "Give me and Swire a list of Terra I can sign contracts with, and mark the people you think are suitable for these twenty-four positions—that way we'll be following your advice, right? Don't be sad, you're actually quite reliable."

That makes sense!

The system instantly sprang to life: [Leave it to me!]

This time, He will surely achieve perfection! Let's see how this contractor tries to frame Him now!

Leaving behind a promise, the system disappeared, and its subsystems and system panel vanished simultaneously.

"She really is like a little child." Swire watched the panel turn into blue shavings and sighed softly, "She didn't even read my mind."

Yunyi's judgment of Him was quite accurate.

“Since you know that, then don’t tease Him,” Yun Yi relaxed, stretched out his legs and swung them gently to loosen his numb legs. “In the end, I didn’t even hear the full results of the system upgrade, all I knew was that the emotional restriction could be lifted.”

After complaining, Yun Yi suddenly realized, "Wait, mind reading? The system can read minds on its own?"

Isn't it only when you specifically point to Him that He can hear you?

“It was just my guess. Aren’t all the subsystem panels based on this?” Swire tapped her cheek. “Now it seems that this guess was a bit arbitrary.”

"Well, now that you mention it, it really is mind reading, but not to that extent,"

Recalling what Swire had told her about the subsystem activation conditions and the emotion module, Yun Yi shook her head. "That should only be the activation conditions. At other times, the system won't read your mind. Even if it does, it's not the system, but another program that doesn't communicate with the system."

Yun Yi explained to Shi Huaiya: "The system and the contract seem to be one, but they are not. The contract has higher authority than the system, and the system must also abide by the contract—do you remember the contract we signed back then regarding privacy intrusion?"

"You mean the second detail of the privacy protection clause?" Swire instantly retrieved the answer from her memory, "'Except for necessary procedures, neither party shall snoop on the other's privacy'...Isn't the system a necessary procedure?"

"Of course, it doesn't count as a 'digital pet,' at least not as a will to communicate with us," Yun Yi chuckled. "It's a noble 'electronic pet,' it doesn't have that kind of authority."

"Understood." Swire was relieved. As long as this will couldn't read minds, that was fine. As for the system's programs that could read minds? Reading minds from inanimate objects didn't matter to her; what she didn't trust was this will.

But Yunyi seemed to trust him quite a bit.

Swire thought about it and decided not to speak ill of the system at this time—it would be useless.

She simply brought up the topic of the upgrade content again, saying, "The system's incomplete statement does affect the judgment, but the known results of the system upgrade, besides the removal of the restrictions, include another one."

“Let me hear the system’s voice.” Swire pointed to her tiger ears that were sticking up in agreement. “Before, I could only hear you relaying my words.”

"You two were chatting so naturally I completely forgot about it," Yun Yi said, then chuckled. "If you can communicate directly, then I won't have to go through all the trouble of being a middleman anymore!"

"This is really great!" Yun Yi gave a thumbs up. "I'll be relying on you from now on!"

You've analyzed it all for me, haven't you?

"Dream on. You'd better think about it yourself first."

Swire slapped Yunyi on the forehead, then suddenly asked, "We just need to distribute papers to the victims. With temporary workers helping with the collection, the process will be much faster. Once we've collected the information, we need to tell the victims that we'll be sending them away. Have you thought about how to tell them?"

Yun Yi felt dizzy listening to this, and almost hallucinated the mind-numbing questions he had encountered during structured interviews in his previous life.

what to do? Let's serve it cold.

All she wanted to say was—please just say it!

But that's clearly not what the examiners and Swire wanted to hear.

After much thought, Yun Yi came up with an answer: "Put them back in their cages, send them directly to their destination, and then have the Penguin Logistics delivery staff tell them that someone kindly bought them and is paying for their return home, so they don't need to worry about anything."

She remembered that Penguin Logistics had a very good reputation in Terra, and that having them step in should alleviate the victims' anxiety to some extent... should it?

"..." Isn't this skipping the explanation step altogether?

Swire didn't expect that this guy, in order to avoid troublesome explanations, would directly give irrelevant answers—no, it should be said that he simply and rudely refused to face the victims face-to-face and went straight to the matter of sending people away.

Unfortunately, this method is the same as her previous one; aside from being a bit crude, it is actually effective.

“It’s possible, but… never mind.” Swire was relieved. Everyone has their own style, and it was better not to force it. “Let’s do it your way.”

ps:

Chapter 100! Hooray! ∠※∠※

I did a gacha pull and got a six-star character, but it wasn't Hoshiguma I wanted; it was Shining instead... Shining is nice too, but I wanted Oni-nee! T^T

Switched to Honkai Impact 3rd, got three gold characters in 30 pulls, not bad, but—I was using a farming banner! T^T I'll never use a farming banner again (I think I said that before).

I finally managed to avoid relying on the guaranteed minimum, but now I feel like I'm completely numb from losing. What a miserable existence! π_π

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Volume 2: Fireworks at Longmen: Chapter 101 Swire (Peter jumps in alarm): Danger! It's fake! :D

"Really do as I say?" Yun Yi's eyes were hesitant. This method was something she had thought of for a long time but couldn't come up with. She just blurted it out on a whim based on her past work experience. Could it really work?

“Okay, we’ll do it your way.” Swire affirmed as she stood up and turned around, her supple tiger tail brushing against Yun Yi’s forehead, leaving a light, soft, and slightly warm fuzzy touch.

Yun Yi raised his finger to try and confirm the fleeting glimmer of body temperature, but only touched his own cold skin.

She wasn't disappointed and touched her skin a few more times—her skin was so good now, smooth and tender, without any stickiness, and felt amazing!

Moreover, the external brain has determined my method of talking nonsense—could it be that I'm a genius?!

Yun Yi rubbed his forehead, the corners of his mouth involuntarily turning up as he chuckled twice before suddenly realizing, "Huh? I seem to be in a much better mood?"

“I guess the system assumed you agreed to the price and opened up your emotions before you left.” Swire glanced back at her. “You haven’t changed much… Hmm, it seems that, just like you said, your emotions are naturally quite calm.”

After a quick observation, Swire urged, "Alright, stop sitting and get up to get to work."

"Alright~" Yun Yi stood up with a good mood, and with a clench of his fist, the golden sand that covered the mountains and fields instantly disappeared into a vast expanse of white, indistinguishable open space.

She snapped her fingers, and a flying chair appeared beneath Swire's buttocks as she curiously looked around, lifting her up.

Immediately afterwards, Yun Yi rubbed his hands together, stretched out his arms, and then swept them to the sides. A huge projection, flashing with fluorescent light, stood silently in front of the two of them.

Yun Yi stroked his chin and adjusted the projection with his mind. After a moment of distortion, the projection returned to normal, displaying a familiar prison scene.

“OK.” Yun Yi took a step back, sat down in Swire’s chair next to her, looked at the completed projector, and raised his eyebrows with satisfaction. “Let’s see what the situation is like in the prison now.”

"Hmm—" Swire withdrew her gaze from her surroundings, nodded, and then inexplicably felt a chill run down her spine. "Hmm? This ominous feeling... Could it be that Governor Wei has discovered your true situation and intends to ignore the Emperor and do everything in his power to capture you?"

"Really? Wei Yanwu is that amazing? Even when surveillance cameras can't record me, he can still pinpoint my true situation?" Yun Yi waved his hand, skeptical, to activate the Star Track Imprint.

A comprehensive, three-dimensional map of azure blue rotates and forms, showing the specific details of several streets centered on the Emperor Bar where the Nirvana is located.

The red dots that form a continuous line and represent the enemy are mostly concentrated in other blocks on the edge. There are few near the bars, but they are very large.

This means that these enemies are far stronger than the others.

Yun Yi fell silent. Could it be true? Is it for real?

She turned to look at Swire, "Is Wei Yanwu a fortune teller?"

Yunyi remembered that Arknights had this magical profession that could ignore time and space and lock onto information about a certain person, a certain time period, and a certain place.

After looking at the map, Swire breathed a sigh of relief and dismissed her own thoughts. "No, Governor Wei himself is unlikely to be a fortune teller, such a rare profession, and I was wrong about it."

“These are shadow guards. The fact that they didn’t go into the bar means the situation isn’t out of control,” Swire said, regaining her composure.

She trusts her intuition, but she won't blindly follow it, nor will she consider it to be necessarily correct. "Sorry, it was my misjudgment. Let's ignore them and continue to observe the victims' situation."

As for the sudden jolt, it might be because she had just finished drinking cold wine and entered the desert, and was scalded by the high temperature of the desert before coming into contact with the low temperature environment of the space itself.

=韭棋;翏玖伊鏾虾榴诗怀雅 thought to herself, since it was a misunderstanding caused by the environment, then try to eliminate these factors as much as possible. "Yunyi, next time you don't need to be so meticulous in setting up the venue. For example, in the desert, just restore the terrain. You can add high temperature when needed."

As soon as she finished speaking, Swire shuddered again. She touched her slightly swollen tiger ears and muttered in confusion, "Strange..."

Is there a second delay due to physical discomfort?

"High temperature?" Swire's outburst was only slight this time, so Yun Yi didn't notice. Her attention was entirely focused on Swire's suggestions for the site layout. "Hmm, maybe when setting up the sand table, you subconsciously thought that the desert should be hot, which caused it to take shape with high temperature."

After briefly reviewing the situation, Yun Yi reassured him, "Understood, I'll be more careful next time."

Yunyi herself doesn't really feel the outside temperature, and she wouldn't have noticed it if Swire hadn't pointed it out.

—Yun Yi benefits from the body of the game character, and the air around his skin is always at a constant temperature, unaffected by the external environment.

In comparison, Lappland, who was also present, was the real genius.

"Lappland, she actually fought me for an hour in this sweltering heat and didn't even break a sweat???"

Terra Superman is breathtaking.

“Miss Lappland seems to be a warrior—I mean, she has likely been on the battlefield, so it’s normal for her to be able to adapt to high temperatures.” Swire didn’t think much of it.

The people of Terra are often incredibly powerful in their own way. You might encounter a bunch of strong and eccentric individuals even if you just wander into some random corner, not to mention the soldiers who participate in the battlefield.