Singlehandedly - Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Memory Eraser
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“My name is Fang Nanxun.”
“The Fang for fangkuai (square), the Nan for nanfang (south), and the Xun for xunran (indeed so).”
The cold image of this middle-aged man collapsed in an instant as if the ice and snow melted, and spring blossomed. He said gently, “Your name is Tang Hong, right? A third-year student here… I shall apologize to you first sorry first, investigating your data is a necessary part of joining us, I hope you don’t mind.”
Tang Hong’s face was still blank from the shock.
‘Please pause for a while.’
‘Could it be that I’m thinking too much?’
‘Damn it, it’s the Internet’s fault for being so developed, causing the modern people to have persecutory delusions…’ Tang Hong really wanted to ask the middle-aged man if he could take the last sentence back. He just wanted to study hard and be an ordinary citizen.
“I know what you want to ask.”
Standing one meter away, Fang Nanxun’s voice was very low as he said, “That’s a danger god, which is much stronger than a regular god. The trapping experiment just now went wrong, causing the god’s scent to leak out, which is the sacred voice you heard.”
Hearing this.
Tang Hong’s scalp exploded: “A trap? Entrap such a thing in Yunhai City?”
Fang Nanxun smiled and wanted to say something, but stopped. He dragged Tang Hong into the car parked not far away. Sitting in the driving seat, he took out a Chinese cigarette and handed it to Tang Hong.
“I don’t smoke.”
Tang Hong shook his head and refused.
Fang Nanxun took out a lighter and glanced at Tang Hong who was sitting in the front passenger seat. He rubbed the lighter for a bit, then tossed it and the cigarette aside. “After the operation was over, I looked at the surveillance. You were clearly bewitched, yet you were able to recover from it in a short time. This trait is one of the standards of the extraordinary in our country.”
“You are…” Tang Hong opened his mouth and asked.
“I’m not from the government or military.” Fang Nanxun waved his hand, and said with concise words, “Different dimensions suddenly appeared a few years ago and many heads of gods manifested. From the beginning of using artillery bombing, biological and chemical weapons, to the present of using transcendent beings in place of thermal weapons, we have become the main front to resist the gods.”
“I can’t tell you the specific situation now. You are only eligible to know after you join us.”
“I’m recording a video now, you have to face the camera face-to-face, please blink, turn your head, and say that you, Tang Hong, voluntarily joined us…”
“Stop, stop.” Tang Hong hurriedly said, “You are not from the government or military?”
Fang Nanxun smiled slightly and instead of answering, asked, “Assuming that you graduated normally and you now have two offers. One is a private company with a good salary but often requires you to work overtime, while the other is a job in a stable and strict state-owned enterprise with a decent salary. Which will you choose?”
“It depends on the salary and the difference in salary.”
“At least five times.”
“How much I get now?”
Fang Nanxun was a little surprised, he didn’t expect Tang Hong to be so calm, and could still ask a question in return at this moment. This indicated that Tang Hong’s thinking was very clear and wasn’t scared by him. Or maybe it was because of the money.
This person like money very much? Fang Nanxun rubbed his cigarette mouthpiece and slightly heaved a sigh of relief.
He said, “Before you join our special training camp established in the Imperial Capital, I can provide a brokerage internship with a monthly income of over 10,000 Hua dollars. Of course, this internship is just in name. Your time is precious and you can’t waste it on normal work. We won’t agree too… As a student of the University of Finance and Economics, you should know what this paid internship for the core position of a brokerage firm represents.”
“Yes, I know. I heard that even fresh undergraduates from the top two universities in Hua Country also couldn’t get in.” Tang Hong was tempted, but then he suddenly became alert.
Internships with a monthly income of over 10,000 and didn’t have to work?
Was this a lot?
What the heck, this was money for buying his life!
“Not enough.”
Tang Hong said blankly. If Fang Nanxun’s face was stern, he wouldn’t understand this person’s mind, so he would agree if he didn’t want to. But looking at Fang Nanxun’s face that was full of joy, Tang Hong wanted to try.
Fang Nanxun smiled slightly and said, “20,000.”
Tang Hong’s Adam’s apple seemed to move, and his voice was lower than just now. “Actually I…”
“30,000!”
Fang Nanxun was still smiling.
“Add a bit more.” Tang Hong added, “My life isn’t this cheap.”
Fang Nanxun was dazed. Blinking, he couldn’t help laughing. “Did you think that this is money to buy your life? What are you imagining! You need to enter the special training camp and reach the graduation standard before you can officially join us. Only then can you participate in the operations, which has the danger of death.”
“What if I don’t meet the graduation criteria?” Tang Hong asked.
“Impossible.”
Fang Nanxun’s tone was full of confidence.
“Of course.”
“If you really can’t reach the standard…” Fang Nanxun said softly, “We will use the memory eraser to let you return to a normal life. The memory erasers are uniformly allocated by the military and are imitated machines based on the structure of the god’s scent. It’s almost harmless to the human body.”
Tang Hong was taken aback.
Why did the normal-looking modern society of the new century look a bit of the sci-fi style now? “I also want to ask why the unit of measurement for gods is in ‘heads’?”
“Because I like it.”
“Some people say a god, but I like to say a head of god, is there a problem?” Fang Nanxun seemed to become a little impatient. Tang Hong was observing him, and he was also observing Tang Hong too.
“I want to… think about it again.”
“How long.”
“Tomorrow, by tomorrow morning, is it okay?” At this moment, Tang Hong just wanted to go back to the dormitory and have a good night’s sleep.
“Okay, I’ll wait for you.” Fang Nanxun looked sideways out of the car window.
“All aspects of treatment in the government and military sides are actually similar to ours.”
“It’s just that young people nowadays want to join them just after watching a few videos, are they for real? Killing the gods is a very heavy burden, the death rate is very high, and they aren’t allowed to go home without authorization. There is nowhere to for them to spend money too when stuck inside the military or government even when they earned it. Can you suffer this kind of hardship? No matter where side you join, is there any difference?”
“If I can choose again…”
“But you are different from me. Can a college student like you who hasn’t graduated adapt? You think about it yourself.”
The atmosphere in the car was very solemn, and Fang Nanxun seemed to be reminiscing about the past as if he heard say a lot of heartfelt persuasions.
Bang.
Tang Hong got out of the car directly, feeling very complicated.
‘Listening to him, why do I feel that…’
‘The question is how to join, instead of wanting to join or not.’
‘Or should I report to the police first and say that there is a gunman murderer in the University of Finance and Economics, two dead bodies of outstanding fresh graduates this year from this school are hidden in his car?’ Tang Hong was at a loss of what to do as he went back to the dormitory.
No one was in the dormitory. Tang Hong shook his head, it seemed that Han Shibin and the others would only come back tomorrow.
At this moment.
A faint sound of a car engine stalling was heard outside the window.
Tang Hong turned off the lights and looked through the gap in the curtains to see Fang Nanxun’s car parked downstairs. “He’s going to wait here until tomorrow morning? This man is really frenzied!”
“From the looks of this…”
“I have a high hope of becoming a transcendent, so big that Fang Nanxun’s eyes were full of eager to get me into his organization…”
Tang Hong returned to the desk with a troubled expression.
He had difficulty falling asleep.
He actually didn’t want to go to participate in the war. With the help of the support system, in a few months, maybe he could become a standard transcendent too. If there was no upper limit on the strength value, it was possible for him to smash a mountain apart with a single punch in a few years.
“Besides.”
“No matter how I think about it, the government and the military are more worthy of my trust.” Tang Hong believed heavily in this great country that has nurtured countless great people.
A home only existed only when the country existed, he too existed because of the country, so Tang Hong didn’t really believe in this Fang Nanxun.
But this fellow wasn’t leaving!
There wasn’t anything Tang Hong could do about it!
…
Dazed and drowsy, Tang Hong fell asleep.
When he opened his eyes again, it was already the next morning, and a stream of information emerged: [Experiencing life alone, individual value increased by one.]
Tang Hong’s body shook. What happened yesterday was dreamlike and unreal. He hurriedly got out of bed and ran to the window to open the old curtains. Tang Hong lived on the fourth floor of the dormitory building, from the window, he looked down from a distance.
At this moment.
The car door opened.
The familiar face looked at him from the distance and gestured with a smile.
“Good heavens!”
“This person must be a devil!”
Tang Hong was stunned for a while before returning to the room.
The time the car door opened was so coincidental and Fang Nanxun looked at him from such a distance. Could it be possible that this person could detect that he had woke up in the dormitory while sitting in the car?
