Mr. Melancholy Wants To Live A Peaceful Life

CHAPTER 37

You Zhengping didn't come home, so Yu Hua filled up on leftover mantou from that morning. Food wasn't a pleasure for him; it only provided the energy he needed to maintain his existence. Without Xiao You in front of him eating happily, all the gourmet foods in the world were meaningless to Yu Hua.

Since he had become an auxiliary policeman, it was a common occurrence for You Zhengping to work overtime. He had fewer scheduled shifts than a proper police employee, but he still had mandatory night shifts, and sometimes he swapped shifts at the last minute.

Yu Hua flipped through his calendar and noticed that You Zhengping's night shift was a little earlier than usual, but it was still within the normal range. Since You Zhengping had started out as an auxiliary policeman, Yu Hua had been recording the pattern of his husband's shifts. He had done this before knowing that You Zhengping was a Protector, and he continued after finding out.

Before, the record had been so he could prepare night shift snacks ahead of time; he had also determined the number of people working the same shift to make snacks for his colleagues, too, so that it wouldn't make a bad impression for only Xiao You to have snacks; if people stole his food again, Yu Hua was worried that Xiao You wouldn't have enough.

Now the record was still for making snacks, but he had added another assignment: observing the movements of the levelers. Using the energy from Yuan Luori's System, Yu Hua had once again suppressed 99% of his power, only leaving 1% power and three abilities. The three abilities consisted of "time replay" (within twenty-four hours), creating images (five to ten minutes), and the ability to change vitamins into poison that attacked the immune system.

Leaving the poison ability was because Yu Hua knew that it could stimulate the energy in his body. It was for emergency use only. But Yuan Luori had passed too few levels, less than a hundredth of Yu Hua's number. The poison made with his power could stimulate 3% of Yu Hua's power at most. After that, there would be no effect.

The remaining 1% of power wasn't enough to let Yu Hua sense the whole world's protective screen. He couldn't immediately notice the arrival of a leveler. By recording the pattern of You Zhengping's shifts, he could determine something about the levelers' movements from them. You Zhengping suddenly swapping shifts today made Yu Hua develop a sense of wariness. First he searched the news online. Because the Protection Organization had blocked off the media, the news that a bomb had gone off in the Xuyang District's Central Park hadn't gotten out.

Yu Hua turned on his computer and logged into the Xuyang District's district life forum and quickly skimmed the most recent posts and comments. Going through the babble of countless people's replies, he quickly gathered what had happened today. At the same time, on his phone, he sent tomorrow's work plan to the Zhen Li Studio group of four so the other three could prepare in advance. He received instant replies.

Zhen Li replied first with "copy," Yuan Luori replied "scram," and Lian Yufan was slow to respond.

There were many posts on the district life forum. Using software he had made himself, Yu Hua could open a hundred of today's posts at once and shrink the hundred web pages on the computer screen. The business laptop's 14-inch screen was thickly covered in writing. The web pages' scrollbars quickly slid down. The average person would have gotten dizzy looking at a single web page, but Yu Hua could take in all one hundred posts at a glance.

Today there had been 3,587 new posts added about life in the Xuyang District. Eliminating the advertisements, there were still 2,014 remaining. Excluding ads, there were 54,229 replies. There was ridiculing, venting, anecdotes, and other sorts of replies. Though Yu Hua could read a hundred posts simultaneously, it was still a very large volume of work.