World Reset

Chapter 2: What's the End of the World?

It was a late afternoon in the middle of summer, the old ceiling fan banged and banged, putting up a good fight, but the wind it blew out blended into the kind of heat that could be seen before it could bring coolness, and the blinding sunlight nailed to the age-stained walls, and the seemingly perpetually half-wet clothes gave the impression that the air in the room was turning to water vapor.

In his uniform, Hayano arched open the door to the reception room like an exhausted retired police dog, and although there was barely any drop in temperature between indoors and outdoors, dodging the baking rays of the afternoon sun made Hayano feel like he'd survived another hard and lucky day. Mino, wearing a nurse's uniform with the shortest possible cuffs and train, was breathlessly fiddling with the water fountain, and she didn't even turn her head back when Lin Ye came in; she knew it was him, she could tell by the sound of her footsteps.

"What's wrong with the water fountain?" The last thing Lin Ye wanted to hear was that the water dispenser's cooling function was broken or something like that, but to his despair, Mino replied, "It's broken, it can only heat, it can't be cool."

With a feeling of collapse, Lin Ye pulled open the refrigerator with his last hope, only to find it empty as well.

"Didn't we just put a case of beer in there yesterday?" Rinno said resignedly, there was nothing in there anyway, he was ready to stuff himself in the fridge for good.

Mino turned around, leaving Lin Ye a sideways glance, then nudged toward Li Jie's consulting room, and through the large glass in the consulting room with no curtains drawn, Lin Ye saw that Li Jie's desk was filled with frozen beer, and most of those beer cans were empty by this time.

An old man with a few handsome looks was sitting on Li Jie's office chair, saying something to Li Jie in an endless stream, while constantly holding a cold beer in his hand and pouring it into his mouth, while Li Jie was sitting on the same sofa where the patients who usually came to the clinic were sitting on, with a shuffling look, drinking with the old man from time to time and nodding his head to express his agreement from time to time.

"Dang, how did this one turn into a patient?" Lin Ye asked breathlessly, "Where did that old man come from? Why do I feel like he's looking at me with a bit of emptiness in his eyes?"

Mino didn't say anything at first, she really didn't notice any hairy look in that old man's eyes when he twisted his head to look at Lin Ye, he was talking right up there. But compared to Li Jie, Lin Ye always knew how to be a little more compassionate to Mino. No, not some, but a lot. For example, he would see Mino fixing the water dispenser and take over Mino's starter and clamp while he was talking, so Mino had to be a little bit more patient, "It's been 3 hours, I went in and reminded him a couple of times, but he's like possessed this time, letting me put off all my appointments for the day and hitched a ride on a cold beer. I swear, if he'd hand me over to go out and get a beer, I'd skip work today."

As he was talking, a man's majestic, thick, and magnetic baritone voice came from inside: "Girl, go buy a piece of Moutai, Uncle Xu likes to drink Moutai beer, and remember to buy cold ones."

Mino gave Lin Ye a very angry look, as if the person who tormented her was Lin Ye. Lin Ye helplessly smiled bitterly and said I'll go buy it, but Mino ignored him and thumped out. Lin Ye is not in a hurry, because he knows that Mino is a good nurse who is dedicated and loves her job. She never skips work.

Sure enough, not long afterward, Mino came back with two bags of canned beer oozing with water droplets, and Lin Ye honestly and ungraciously snapped off a bag.

Cool ah, Lin Ye happily burped, this kind of three-volt day drinking cold beer is cool ah. Lin Ye handed a can to Mino, but Mino glared at him. Lin Ye sadly smiled - how to say that we are also real handsome. ah, Miss Nurse, why are you treating me?

Because Mino just casually brought the door, did not close it tightly, Lin Ye heard the old man inside said: "Eternal darkness is coming, humanity has no other way out. And you, you, like me, are the chosen people. God Lord. I came here to give you an admonition that you will survive, but most of the people will die, and you will rebuild your home with God's blessings, and at that time, you will rule this city with the title of Earl."

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"Earl?" After another long time, after Lin Ye all woke up in a daze on the bench in the parlor, that old man finally left, and Lin Ye looked at Li Jie without a sneer and said, "Is that why you let that old man sit on your chair and drink beer?"

"You don't understand." Li Jie was naked at this time, sitting with his back against the wall, holding a chilled watermelon in his arms that Mino had only just bought back, spitting out the watermelon boy very casually as he said, "It's a matter of specialization, everyone has a different personality, and the key to the treatment is to channelize the order of his personality, which requires absolute patience."

Lin Ye didn't believe in Li Jie's bullshit, he swore that it was absolutely bullshit, because he knew that Li Jie had never obtained a counselor's certificate, he didn't even officially get a university degree in psychology, although Li Jie denied that it was because of professionalism and said that he couldn't get a degree because he was accidentally disciplined by the school, but Lin Ye new very well that Li Jie was simply fooling that old man. Perhaps that old man had only come to ask Li Jie to help him return to normal, but Li Jie had made him even more abnormal.

However, Lin Ye was more interested in knowing another thing at this time. He looked sympathetically at Li Jie who was sitting on the ground eating a watermelon and said, "What did he tell you? The end of the world?"

Li Jie, still gulping down the ice watermelon and spitting the watermelon boy all over the place, said vaguely, "Well, he said that a catastrophe is right in front of our eyes, and that God will bring punishment to the world through the Holy Ruler, and that except for those who have received God's blessings, everyone else will turn into walking corpses and the entire world will be obliterated, which is the end of the world. "

"May I remind you," Rinno continued gloating, "that you vomited a watermelon all over the floor while Mino had only mopped the floor, and for you, that's the end of the world."

Li Jie lifted his head and looked at Lin Ye suspiciously, and just as he suddenly snapped out of it, a basin of mop-washing sewage was thrown at him head-on.

"Girl, how many times have I told you," in Lin Ye's gloating smile, Li Jie was bathed in the mop-washing sewage, and still said calmly, "Lady, be courteous, okay? Well, in fact, you guys don't look at me with that kind of hateful expression, that's a clinic that varies from person to person and place to place, it doesn't matter if you guys don't get it, no matter what, people are left with enough money for the clinic."

"Are you sure this is filled with money and not stones? Or did that old man hand you the spell to turn stones into gold?" Mino had a cleanliness fetish like most healers, and hated it when people dirtied the floor she'd only just cleaned; a splash of water was considered light. Disgruntled, she threw a black cloth bag left behind by that old man in front of Li Jie and said, "The era of using physical currency is over, how about you take cash? If you don't have cash, you can swipe your card. Isn't there a card machine here?"

Li Jie carelessly put his hand toward that black cloth bag and said with a smile, "You are studying nursing, talk to me about what physical currency. Ah, this is a metaphysical concept you understand?"

Lin Ye said contemptuously, "It's political economy, okay?"

When he saw what Li Jie took out of the black cloth bag, he couldn't help but freeze. Li Jie also froze, and Mino didn't have the good sense to come over to take a look and froze as well.