spooky calendar

Chapter 36 Calculating Suffering
April [-]th, Ding Siyue Ji Chou Day.

Travel, clean, sign contracts, trade.

Avoid digging wells.Grade hopeless.

Today is a lucky day for Yang Mulin, the editor of Morning Sun.

He didn't need to care about his behavior because of taboo.

This is a behavior that normally cannot be triggered by people in today's society.

After all, where is the need to dig a well these days?
Today is suitable for signing contracts and transactions, which are also words that Yang Mulin rarely uses.

And it happened to be his dream vocabulary.

Because as a debtor, he needs to repay a huge sum of money.

But faced with that huge temptation, Yang Mulin still chose to take out a loan.

This also caused him to bear the huge pressure of being unable to repay his debts all the time.

Today should be a good day, perhaps through transactions and signing contracts, so that I can repay this huge debt.

All morning, Yang Mulin was thinking about how to use his ability to gain wealth.

That is, to acquire wealth by accident.

As Yang Mulin, who has been in charge for several months, his promotion speed is relatively slow because he dare not break the taboo.

In terms of function, his ability is actually very weak.

Before mentioning functions, it is necessary to talk about Yang Mulin's university major - Applied Mathematics.

In the eyes of Yang Mulin's parents, Yang Mulin is a very talented child in mathematics.

Even Yang Mulin's teachers thought so, so when he applied for university, he chose Applied Mathematics as his major.

But in fact, only Yang Mulin knows that if you don't get full marks in mathematics, you can't talk about talent. 140 to 150 can be achieved with hard work.

But 150 points is not really a perfect score.On top of this, there is a wider, invisible realm of genius.

He still remembered that there was a student named Jane who was several years younger than him, but still in the same grade as him.

Mingming dozed off every day, drew pictures, even dyed his hair and got tattoos, looking like an ignorant hooligan.

But it is such a person, it is better to study mathematics casually than to study hard by oneself.

And just this, he also said that mathematics is too difficult, and it is the weakest of all his subjects.

Of course, the classmate Jian also said that there are many monsters in the field of mathematics.

Yang Mulin couldn't imagine how powerful those monsters were.

But he knows one thing -

No matter how hard he studies in university, he can't even touch the fur in the end.

That's the way it is in the purely academic field, it's not a world that ordinary people can enter.

The turning point in Yang Mulin's life stemmed from a bullying.

"You are good at mathematics, can you figure out that you will be beaten today?"

When he was a freshman, Yang Mulin suffered a beating.

In fact, he had already forgotten who the person who hit him was and what the reason was.

He only remembered this sentence: If you are good at mathematics, can you figure out if you will be beaten today?
Yes, how good is math?Can you count the hardships in life?
This sentence immediately penetrated Yang Mulin, and Yang Mulin finally chose to change his major.

He switched to journalism.

Until one day this year, when interviewing a reporter from Morning Sun, Yang Mulin's mother took Yang Mulin to buy clothes.

Mothers hope that their children can dress decently when they are working.

On that day, there was an extra white calendar in Yang Mulin's briefcase.

On the same day, Yang Mulin was almost in a car accident, and when the big car was approaching, his mother pushed Yang Mulin away.

Avoid interviews, grade despair.

Seeing his mother being run over by a huge tire, he was stunned.

The first thing that comes to my mind is not to be sad for my mother's death, not to be angry at the drunk driver's behavior.

Instead, I recalled those few words when I was bullied a few years ago.

"You are good at math, can you figure out that you are going to be beaten today?"

If you are good at mathematics, can you calculate the hardships you will encounter in life?
This has become an obsession of Yang Mulin. He really wants to know what he can bring to him with what he has been studying hard.
After seven days, fate gave Yang Mulin the answer.

Seven days later, there was an extra calendar person in Linxiang City——Yang Mulin, an actuary.

……

Earlier, Yang Mulin couldn't control his abilities very well.

He just sometimes has a premonition of the accident he is about to experience.

Sometimes in the crowd, you will occasionally feel that someone is entangled in black air, as if they are about to experience an accident.

As I gradually explored and verified again and again...

Yang Mulin was finally convinced that he seemed to be able to see some people's luck, and even... very slightly affect some people's luck.

But these effects are all negative.

For example, let a person who is not very unlucky get unlucky, and make an unlucky person even more unlucky.

The world seemed to finally open a window for him.

He seemed to be able to calculate accidents and sufferings.All thanks to that quirky calendar.

Yang Mulin, who became a reporter at first, found that many of the people he interviewed were haunted by black energy.

During this process, he gradually came to a conclusion——

The protagonists in this kind of suffering news are mostly the objects of "accident".Probably because the hemp rope is broken at the fine points, and bad luck only finds the poor.

His work is nothing more than - interviewing the disabled, interviewing the sick, interviewing the family members of the deceased.

The section he is in charge of is called "Caring for All Living Beings", which is located in the lower left corner of the fourth page of Chenxi Daily. It focuses on humanistic care and tells the lives of some suffering people.

Occasionally, it will be broadcast in the form of news on the Linxiang City Life Channel at three o'clock in the afternoon when the ratings are dismal, and it takes about [-] seconds.

Obviously, this is not a popular column.

People prefer to watch e-sports players get arrested for whoring, they like to watch Wang Feng posting Weibo with a celebrity in the same frame, they like to watch the key politics column that is in their bones, and their favorite, sexy girls twist their buttocks.

But even so, the leader still needs manuscripts, and will still urge him to find as many "people favored by suffering" as possible.

But all living beings are suffering, who is not suffering?

But why is it necessary to catch people whose lives have been shattered, and whose bodies may not even be whole?
The meaning of this show, is it humanistic care, or is it a show of suffering, so that more people think-I am living a good life?
Yang Mulin doesn't like this kind of life, and once he becomes disgusted with life, the calendar seems to be able to feel this kind of inner change.

During a nap, Yang Mulin heard raving.

"Since your job is to find materials for suffering, and since your ability is to bring suffering..."

"Since the key to the news industry is to obtain first-hand information—why not actively create news?"

"Linxiang City needs more suffering, doesn't it?"

These words bombarded Yang Mulin's mind, as if waking him up!
Suddenly he realized that he would never be short of manuscripts.

He even thought about the subject of his next interview - the leader.

Not surprisingly, the leader soon had an accident.

For the first time, Yang Mulin tried to transfer all the black mist to his leader.

This made him exhausted, and after trying for a week, he finally transferred the bad luck of many people around him to the leader.

This time, he saw a number, the accident rate——70.00% five.

A day later, a flowerpot fell from a height and hit the leader's head.

Yang Mulin Guangsu wrote an article about what kind of burden a middle-aged man will bring to his family once he loses his ability to earn money and becomes a vegetative state.

The reporter Yang Mulin, the interviewee, is the wife and daughter of the former leader.

This report was not sent out.However, it does not affect Yang Mulin's outlook on the future.

Math, journalism, calendars, all tied together.Yang Mulin thought he had finally found the meaning of life——

Let suffering and accidents come to everyone equally.

As for the fact that the calendar turned black, he didn't care at all.

Time passed day by day, and under the erosion of the calendar, Yang Mulin's ambitions also expanded day by day.

He was not reconciled.

The meaning of my existence is so great, but my income is so low.

There are still so few people who pay attention to suffering and accidents.

He hopes that he, like that freelance reporter Li Lu, can always break the big news.

He is eager to create greater accidents, and also desires that accidents can bring him more wealth.

……

……

The timeline goes back to the present, April 31th and May [-]st.

Travel, clean, sign contracts, trade.

In the afternoon, Yang Mulin found out that his colleague went out of his way to buy an insurance policy.

But this behavior gave Yang Mulin a sudden idea.

How to get huge sums of money?
How to bring huge wealth to yourself through accidents?
He used to make money by making news—that is, by surprising others and turning it into news material.

But Yang Mulin didn't think of it until now, why can't he get a huge amount of insurance money by creating an accident?
In an incident not long ago, the man named Qin Baomin, didn't he get a huge amount of compensation for his wife's death?
Yang Mulin soon had a plan in his heart.

My mother died a few months ago, but it doesn't matter, I still have my father.

My mother died in an accident, so it was reasonable to buy a high amount of accident insurance for my father.

And just half a month ago, due to greed and owed a huge debt, he had to find a way to make his father suffer from various accidents and maximize the value as much as possible.

However, because he was not clear about the claims, Yang Mulin needed some consultation, such as how to get the maximum amount of claims.

This is actually irrational and will lead to trouble.

But out of blind trust in the calendar, he even talked about it in too much detail——

After all, 90.00% of old-timers will have the view that "I am getting better, I should not be unlucky".

I am the master of controlling accidents, can I still have accidents?

That's why Yang Mulin never thought that - the old calendar people are attracted to each other.

A salesman with "reporter physique" actually received his consultation call.

As for the unexpected details of the build—

For an old-timer who is only a few months old, it is impossible for Yang Mulin to accurately construct unexpected details.

But in the last ten days, due to a special opportunity, he has already possessed such an ability.

He built up unexpected details, including the paranoid lawnmower who kept disturbing his sleep, and the brat who liked to swear while skateboarding.

Of course, everything has to wait until he buys a high enough insurance for his father.

……

……

April 31th in the lunar calendar, May [-]st in the Gregorian calendar.

Duke Cheng Wan has already appeared outside the office building where the Morning Sun newspaper is located.

In the group group organized by the official Linxiang City, the porter Duke said:
"Ms. Li Lu, Mr. Qin Ze's personal assistant, the information given should be accurate, and the target is Yang Mulin."

"Yang Mulin should be on the eighth floor of this building, which is the office floor of Morning Sun."

"According to the current information from Ms. Li Lu, Yang Mulin most likely only got the calendar a few months ago. As an old calendarer who seeks to avoid taboos, his functional level should not be high."

A few months ago, Yang Mulin nearly died in an accident, but survived, and his mother died in a car accident.

On the first day of the calendar, people often break taboos on something unavoidable without being aware of it.

Based on this, everyone calculated that maybe that day was the day when Yang Mulin got the calendar.

Actor Qin Ze replied:
"Has the result of Huo Qiao's divination come out? Will our trip go smoothly?"

Fortune teller Huo Qiao:

"There are twists and turns, so be careful. There will be no absolute failure, nor will there be absolute success."

This ambiguous answer made Qin Ze couldn't help but want to kick old Huo Qiao into the realm of the old calendar.

These expedientisms are too comfortable for competence to bring about precise descriptions.

Mechanic Cheng Wan:
"No problem, it means that as long as we are careful, there will be no problems. At the same time, it also proves that since there are risks, Mr. Qin Ze's guess is correct!"

"This person is indeed an Old Calendarer, otherwise our actions would not be at any risk."

Actor Qin Ze:

"Cheng Wan, you and Duke's abilities are used in combination, right?"

"You'd better be careful, it's daytime now, if Cheng Wan assembles a huge thing...Duke makes it move again, it will definitely cause a huge panic."

Mechanic Cheng Wan:
"Mr. Qin Ze, don't worry, the things I used this time are very small, and I don't need to use Mr. Duke's ability."

"What is it?" Qin Ze asked curiously.

"It's a cockroach, I made an electronic cockroach."

Although Cheng Wan communicated by typing, Qin Ze actually felt his pride.

Why would someone make a mechatronic version of this creature, which is comparable to an alien species?

Mechanic Cheng Wan seems to be very happy to talk about his proud works:
"I lived in the village when I was a child. I miss the summer in the southern village. There are many mosquitoes and cockroaches. It is very lively at night. So I only made electronic mosquitoes and electronic cockroaches. I miss the good old days."

Lin An, Yu Ji, Huo Qiao, Luo Shu, and Qin Ze were all speechless.

This ability is even worse than the black calendar, and these two things have nothing to do with beauty.

Fortunately, the topic quickly shifted back to the incident itself.

"The cockroaches have entered the editorial office. We have found our target."

"Mr. Duke and I will start to act immediately, waiting for our good news."

Qin Ze said:

"Be careful, be careful, and be careful. Remember, don't disturb the target. Make sure to hit the target successfully and make the target lose consciousness."

"What we are fighting against is something called 'accident'. And the people in the entire office building are hostages. So it is the most important thing not to let the target notice you."

"Please keep in touch with me throughout the process. At the same time, I am also observing the scene in other places. If something happens, I will launch a follow-up plan."

……

……

Duke and Cheng Wan entered the building.

The two were very curious. As a person who only had a calendar for a few days and less than two weeks, what kind of back-up could Qin Ze prepare?
At present, Qin Ze should not have the ability to arrest the black calendar.

The two of them have seen the news that, as the old calendar members of the official organization, although Cheng Wan is young and Duke looks rough, they are both cautious and experienced.

But even though Cheng Wan and Duke were cautious enough, they didn't underestimate their opponents at all...

Still missed some things.

When he finished working on the manuscript at hand, Yang Mulin called Da'an Life Insurance Company again, and found that the person he consulted before had already left work, so he planned to go to the insurance company in person for a face-to-face consultation.

He wants to complete a desirable act, deal, or sign a contract.

Before leaving the unit, Yang Mulin looked around...

He discovered something, and everyone around him was surrounded by black air.

The aura that symbolized bad luck, which only he could see, spread over everyone like a black flame.

Everyone is going to have an accident?
Yang Mulin was immediately alert:

"Obviously there haven't been any before, but suddenly everyone is about to have an accident. According to the actuarial results, the accident rate is above 70.00%!"

"The only one who can do this is me!"

"In other words, each of them will have bad luck from me?"

"But why would I do it?"

When this question was asked, Yang Mulin had the answer.

"Officials are here. In order to escape the scene, I created chaos and took everyone around me hostage!"

In just an instant, Yang Mulin affirmed his guess. Through the changes in the fate around him, he deduced the changes in himself.

At the same time, using the functions that have been strengthened for a short time, the accident rate of everyone around has been increased to 90.00%.

He had imagined this kind of scene many times, so Yang Mulin never went to places with few people, because he hoped that he could create accidents anytime and anywhere.

And through the people around, refer to the possibility of unexpected arrival.

In a few seconds, sparks suddenly burst out from the building's circuit boards.The burst of sparks ignited the wires.

The entire office building was shrouded in crisis.

"It seems something is wrong." Mechanic Cheng Wan sent a message based on intuition.

Although Qin Ze was not far away and did not observe any results, he still activated Plan [-] when he saw Cheng Wan's news.

(End of this chapter)