Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 157, Part 6: Sadness

There was no movement on the sixteenth.

Yunyi called out several more times, but there was still no response.

Yunyi: ...

Has this guy run away from home?

Fortunately, the space still exists, and the spirit leaf has not disappeared. In fact, the spirit leaf is now producing water droplets at an even faster speed.

At the beginning, it produced about one drop every day and night.

Later it was two drops a day, but now it's about four or five drops a day, and the water droplets are noticeably larger.

Since it doesn't affect her, let's just ignore it and close our eyes to sleep.

Just as he seemed to have fallen asleep, a crackling sound of electricity flashed through his mind, followed by Sixteen's weak voice: "Boss, are you asleep?"

Although Yunyi didn't open her eyes, she was fully conscious: [What's wrong with you?]

Boss, from now on, you're all I have.

【Um? 】

[As you know, I'm a system leader who's about to be eliminated, and I'm a veteran at that. After the main system crashed, I risked my life to bring you here, and afterwards I had very little energy, so naturally I couldn't contact the main system. Now, my energy has recovered to 90%, and I tried to contact it. Do you know what happened?]

【What? 】

The main system is gone, boohoo, I have no home anymore.

【Huh? It's gone? How come it's gone?】

[I don't know either. The main system has completely disappeared, without even a trace of information or fluctuation. I tried to travel back in time, even just to the main system database, but I searched every possible location and signal, and found nothing. It's as if... it never existed.]

"And then?" Yunyi frowned.

And then it's all I have left. If you're gone, I'll disappear too, sob... I have no parents anymore...

Yunyi: ...

Originally, I was supposed to go to other dimensions and have other hosts after you passed away peacefully, but now... Waaah, I'm so miserable...

Yunyi inexplicably wanted to laugh: "Alright, if you're gone, you're gone. That's what normal human development is all about. Otherwise, the existence of things like you would be so unfair to everyone else."

【But……】

"No buts." Yunyi interrupted the other person's rambling. "Since you only have me left, you'll listen to me from now on. Otherwise, I'll permanently block you, and you might as well be finished sooner."

sixteen:……

When it comes to ruthlessness, the boss is the ruthlessest.

"Sixteen, isn't it boring to be a system without emotions? How many years have you existed? You only got to eat snacks after you came here with me and became a monkey, right?" Yunyi couldn't help but laugh. "Even if you existed for hundreds or thousands of years, you'd never enjoy anything, wouldn't that be boring? So, as long as you're obedient, I'll help you find a body as soon as possible, so you can be a real person and enjoy real life. What do you think?"

"I'll listen to the boss." Sixteen immediately stopped crying.

Let's go to sleep then?

[Sleeping, hehe, boss. Actually, I'm not entirely useless. At least I created a space for you and even managed to get two spirit leaves, right?]

Yes, you're actually really amazing.

Sixteen then rested contentedly.

Yunyi couldn't sleep. Was she about to be eliminated? Something must have happened. But it was bound to happen sooner or later. After all, there are always good and bad systems. A good system can motivate people, but a bad system can destroy a society. Once it's gone, it's gone.

However, if the main system is gone, what if the subsystems, like Sixteen, are lost to other timelines?

He even wondered if there might be another system existing in his own timeline.

Thinking about this, I couldn't help but laugh at myself. I was overthinking it.

The next day, Yunyi brewed some anesthetic powder and then taught Xiao Jinxiu how to perform surgery on the rabbit.

Xiao Jinxiu had only asked someone to catch a wild rabbit, but when Yunyi examined it, she found that the rabbit had a cyst, so she performed a subcutaneous cyst removal surgery.

"Surgery has a very good therapeutic effect on serious diseases in the body, such as carbuncles. However, such surgery usually requires a sterile environment, that is, the room must be disinfected to avoid wound infection and worsening. But we can't do that here right now, so we can only do it this way for now..." Yunyi explained in detail while skillfully performing the surgery. "To perform surgery, you need to be particularly focused and meticulous. You must be very familiar with the surgical subject. So, if you have the opportunity, you can find a cadaver to dissect and learn from."

"The incision site needs to be stitched up. You can use catgut sutures. If you don't have catgut sutures, you can use embroidery thread that has been heated to a high temperature..."

Xiao Jinxiu nodded seriously, not seeing anything wrong with bringing in a corpse: "Will it continue to live if it's stitched up?"

"As long as you take good care of it, there won't be any problems." Yunyi nodded. "However, there is usually a high-risk period after surgery, which is about one to three days. If you can get through that, there is no danger to its life." After saying that, she sutured the rabbit's skin and applied medicine. "Next is the care."

“I’ll do it,” Xiao Jinxiu nodded.

"High fever is common after surgery. Just bring the fever down. If you can take medication, do so. If that's inconvenient, apply cold compresses or wipe your limbs with strong liquor..."

Xiao Jinxiu wrote everything down, then took the rabbit back to her room and began to carefully care for and observe it.

With nothing much going on in the gang for the time being, Yunyi found He Miao and asked her to write a letter to her parents, as she was preparing to go to Tianyang City.

"Young Miss, I'd like to go with you."

“You are pregnant now and cannot travel long distances at all. Moreover, it is not safe over there. If something happens, you will be a burden.”

He Miao sighed. She knew the young lady was right. In the end, she went back to her room, wrote a letter, and handed it to Yun Yi, along with a wooden pendant shaped like a wheat ear: "I've had this with me since I was little. Because it's made of wood, it's not valuable or eye-catching, so I never lost it." She paused for a moment, "Originally, my father wanted to name me Sui Sui, He Sui, but my grandparents didn't allow it. My eldest uncle, actually my paternal uncle, had a younger sister named Sui Sui who died when she was just one year old. So, I was named He Miao."

Yunyi nodded: "I understand."

"Young Miss, if possible, could you please bring my younger brother back? He's still so young, and being in a place like that..."

"I'll play it by ear. If I can bring it back for you, I definitely will."

"Thank you, Miss." He Miao said, then knelt down and kowtowed.

"I accept your bow, but you are not allowed to do it again."

"Okay." He Miao smiled and kowtowed three times to Yun Yi.