Work Prophet
Chapter 411 - 29: Didn’t you come already?

Chapter 411: Chapter 29: Didn’t you come already?

Li Yu pondered for a moment and nodded, "Alright, you will serve as the first Newbie Guide. After you step down, I will find someone else to take over your duties."

"No problem." Niu Xiangui replied joyfully, immediately slapping his chest in agreement and then asked, "That... when can we expect other transmigrators to arrive?"

"Soon, they should be here in a few days, I guess," Li Yu said.

Nearly twenty days had passed since Li Yu and Lu Weijia first met. During these twenty days, Lu Weijia hadn’t contacted Li Yu at all, neither calling nor sending any messages.

Zhang Yanlin had begun to suspect that Lu Weijia had given up on reincarnating, but to his surprise, the latter had found them again just yesterday.

However, the location for their meeting this time had changed from the noodle shop to the ICU, and the nurse on duty was still an acquaintance of Li Yu’s.

The little nurse had a good memory and recognized Li Yu at a glance, causing her to pause in surprise, "Aren’t you friends with Niu Xiangui? Hasn’t he already..."

"Yes, we’re here to visit another friend this time, Lu Weijia."

"......"

The little nurse was at a loss for words for a moment and, after a long pause, could only warn Li Yu, "Don’t drag your shoes again, okay?"

"It won’t happen again."

Although Li Yu’s assurance was sincere, the little nurse was clearly skeptical and didn’t let Li Yu out of her sight, keeping a close watch on him from a short distance away.

Fortunately, Lu Weijia didn’t dawdle. Upon seeing Li Yu and Zhang Yanlin, he raised his hand and pointed to the contract on the bedside table.

Li Yu picked it up and glanced at it, noting that Lu Weijia had already signed his name in the spot for Party B.

After verifying there were no errors, he nodded, "After you die, I will take your soul and assist with your reincarnation."

Zhang Yanlin asked curiously, "How did you change your mind?"

"I haven’t changed my mind," said Lu Weijia from the hospital bed, his body greatly swollen, almost double the size from when they had last met, looking weak and listless, "I signed the contract back in that noodle shop."

"Then why didn’t you contact us?"

"I remember you said as long as I sign the contract and give it to you before I pass away, it would be enough. So, I waited until I was close to dying before I contacted you, to save you an extra trip."

Li Yu knew that Lu Weijia wasn’t telling the whole truth. He probably still had doubts and wanted to delay things further. If Li Yu became anxious, it would indicate a higher probability that the entire affair was a scam.

However, Lu Weijia did not expect that Li Yu could be even more patient than himself, maintaining an air of indifference throughout this period.

It was Lu Weijia who couldn’t hold out in the end since his time was running short.

Li Yu did not expose Lu Weijia’s slight subterfuge, realizing that as a video content creator, Lu Weijia was already much more accepting of the concept of reincarnation than most ordinary people.

The two then discussed specific details about the transfer of the soul. About fifteen minutes later, Li Yu and Zhang Yanlin left the hospital.

......

Niu Xiangui was very excited about the arrival of a newcomer, rubbing his hands together and saying, "Then I will prepare in the next few days."

However, perhaps realizing that reincarnating here meant that the person on the other side had died, he felt that being too excited might be inappropriate, so he tempered his enthusiasm slightly.

Afterward, Niu Xiangui watched Li Yu with a pair of wide, copper bell-like eyes, full of expectancy.

Li Yu did not let him down. "Being a Newbie Guide is labor, and labor should not be exploited for free. I will distribute experience points to you per newcomer, 10 Divine Country points per person, but whether you can get all these 10 points depends on your performance," he said.

"After the newcomers arrive, you will be the one to receive them, teach them some basic life experience, and show them around. After ten days, I will arrange for someone to perform a follow-up visit and grade the satisfaction, which for now is tentatively set at three levels: unsatisfactory, average, and satisfactory."

"If the feedback is satisfactory, you can get the full 10 Divine Country points; if it’s average, you get 5 points, but if it’s unsatisfactory, then you get nothing. And if you have any other excessive behavior that leads to a complaint, you will need to undergo an investigation by the Judgement Court," Li Yu continued.

"If the complaint is found to be valid, you will be subject to the corresponding punishment. As for malicious complaints, once verified, the Judgement Court will also punish the complainer to safeguard your basic rights. So, what do you think? Can you accept these terms?"

"Yes, no problem."

Niu Xiangui did not hesitate for long before agreeing. He had been in Green Field for quite some time, had completed novice tasks before, and had a certain understanding of the upgrade system established by Li Yu.

He knew Divine Country points were both experience points and currency. 1 Divine Country point could be exchanged for three jin of fish and meat, so 10 points meant thirty jin of fish and meat. Moreover, the task was not dangerous; with more newcomers under his guidance, he might even make over a hundred Divine Country points in half a month.

The reward was really quite generous; the only regret for Niu Xiangui was that he was about to graduate and wouldn’t be able to benefit from it for much longer.

And on the sixth day after Niu Xiangui became the Newbie Guide, he finally received his first business.

The Double Rest Sect once again held a Heroic Spirit Summoning Ceremony.

However, this time, Niu Xiangui shifted from the main character to an onlooker, able to review the events that had happened to him from a different perspective.

He certainly would not miss this opportunity and got up early in the morning to witness the execution.

Niu Xiangui saw with his own eyes the condemned prisoner chosen by the Double Rest Sect hanging in mid-air, head lolling, body still swaying, attracting a flock of black crows circling overhead.

The scene was quite shocking to him, who had been born in a peaceful era.

Niu Xiangui subconsciously touched his own neck, where the previous injury had been instantly healed by some unknown Mysterious Power at the moment of his reincarnation.

But Niu Xiangui had heard Clara mention more than once the grand spectacle of his being hanged there.

In the words of the little maid, it was truly a moment that gladdened everyone’s heart, with everyone applauding and praising it.

Even after his death, some had spat on his corpse.

Beyond being speechless, Niu Xiangui found that the guilt of occupying someone else’s body had lessened somewhat.

As the first Servant summoned by the Double Rest Sect, Li Yu had still granted him some privileges, allowing him to pick his own body. Lu Weijia, however, was not so fortunate.

Li Yu had only fixed the gender, then randomly drew one person from the eligible condemned prisoners.

It was a human boy, merely fifteen years old, with a somewhat frail figure, yet he already had the lives of three people on his hands, a family of three, no less.

The Lady, in accordance with the laws of the Bratis Continent, did not hesitate to sentence him to death.

At the moment, he was already hanged on the gallows, turned into a corpse with no breath left.

While the onlooking crowd also erupted in cheers, it was certainly not as enthusiastic and heartfelt as when Niu Xiangui’s former self was executed.