The Scum Gong Refuses the Crematorium [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 20.2

Since the media couldn’t reach Mingyue Lu, they rushed to interview the “keen-eyed” Huaisu Jiang.

They heard that Mingyue Lu almost failed to get an investment years ago. It was Huaisu Jiang who looked at the big picture and was willing to give him a chance, allowing this technology to be born.

Huaisu Jiang didn’t expect to become famous at her age. She was called the most talented female investor in the industry.

During an interview, she got excited and declared that she would continue to work hard in the investment field. She promised to help train more people like Mingyue Lu to bring glory to the country!

She had accidentally dug a hole for herself.

Meanwhile, Mingyue Lu went home happily with the shares that belonged to him.

He still remembered the promise he made to Yan Sheng back then to give him the best.

He felt bad that Yan Sheng had followed him for so long and lived in that small house. Now, it was time for him to keep his promise.

However, when he got home and pushed open the door.

He saw Yan Sheng wearing a high-quality ancient costume, with his long hair down, sitting in the living room waiting for him.

As the door opened, Yan Sheng looked toward him.

Mingyue Lu’s heart skipped a beat instantly.

He walked in and looked at the man sitting on the sofa, who looked like an immortal stepped out of a painting. Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he asked, “Why are you dressed like this?”

Yan Sheng tilted his head: “Your reward.”

Mingyue Lu remembered then. He had made the special effects template for Yan Sheng and the team earlier, but after finishing it, he had completely forgotten about the reward.

It was just a casual remark; who would have remembered?

But Yan Sheng remembered.

Such a serious and sincere Yan Sheng.

How could Mingyue Lu not be moved?

“Do I look good?” Yan Sheng looked up at Mingyue Lu’s stunned face and asked, knowing the answer already.

“Yes,” Mingyue Lu nodded. In his eyes, no one in the world was more beautiful than Yan Sheng.

Yan Sheng smiled: “I look good, so why aren’t you doing anything?”

Mingyue Lu wanted to lean down and kiss him instantly, but he held back his urge. He tucked a lock of hair behind Yan Sheng’s ear, revealing the earring on his left ear.

Seeing this earring.

Mingyue Lu was finally certain that this was Yan Sheng, his Yan Sheng.

That night, both were a bit wild. They moved from the living room to the bedroom, and then back from the bedroom to the living room.

Finally, Yan Sheng pulled back a corner of the bedroom curtain to let the moonlight pour in. Standing in the center of the moonlight, he said to Mingyue Lu on the bed, “Look, a feast under the moonlight.”

That was the most heart-stirring and unforgettable scene of Mingyue Lu’s life.

Yan Sheng under the moonlight, his Yan Sheng.

The bright moon in the sky is as clear as my heart.

At the end of the year, Mingyue Lu went with Yan Sheng to the cinema for the premiere of The Great Desolation.

Before the premiere, no one was interested in this movie. First, because the theme of “The Great Desolation” was rarely filmed. Second, because the movie’s slogan was “Special effects unique to the Chinese people.”

Everyone heard this and laughed it off.

Before this movie, many films claimed to have “Chinese special effects.” People would go to the cinema full of excitement, only to find out it was just a scam.

But people in the world are bored and contradictory. Whether it was to criticize it or out of curiosity, many people still bought tickets even if they thought it would be a bad movie.

They hadn’t expected much.

But as the movie started, the high-quality visuals, the exciting music, and the special effects which were completely different from anything before instantly caught their attention.

Additionally, the plot, costumes, makeup, and sets of this movie were all very special.

There were no cliches at all.

Pangu creating the world, Hongjun preaching, the war between Witches and Demons, Nuwa mending the sky, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors…

Every scene made people’s hearts pound and their eyes fill with tears.

Those who originally wanted to complain online ended up praising it non-stop as soon as it finished. Then they immediately bought another ticket to watch it a second time.

It was too shocking.

They were so stunned the first time that they missed many details and had to see it again.

Soon, a saying spread on the internet: “The Great Desolation is a special effects blockbuster that truly belongs to us Chinese.”

More and more people went to the cinema to watch the movie.

Especially because this movie wasn’t about romance or just fighting; it was purely about the creation of the world. It was suitable for all ages, so even more people watched it.

Not long after the movie was released, some foreign cinemas came asking if they could try showing it abroad.

Just as Chinese people are curious about Western myths, the Western world is also curious about Chinese myths.

Unfortunately, there hadn’t been many good Chinese mythological stories.

This time, The Great Desolation could satisfy everyone’s curiosity.

Yan Sheng and Hang Guo had no objections. After discussing the price, they let the movie be released abroad at the same time.

Originally, they didn’t have high hopes for foreign theaters. Many good Chinese movies had been shown abroad before, but the response was usually average.

This time, they used purely Chinese stories, effects, and plots. Foreigners might not “get it.”

Even if they did, it would take time to adjust.

But for some reason, The Great Desolation hit the right spot for foreign audiences. After it was released abroad, the response was incredibly strong. It sold even better than those “Star Wars” style blockbusters.

Later, other countries also came to ask for cooperation.

Some countries liked it, some didn’t.

But there was no denying that The Great Desolation was a massive hit. Many people might not know about Chinese special effects, but at least they knew two words:

“Hong Huang!” (The Great Desolation)

China’s Great Desolation!

This was enough for Yan Sheng and his team. Wasn’t this the goal of making the movie?

As for the money.

After subtracting his original investment, Yan Sheng donated every penny he earned to the country.

Although Yan Sheng was not originally from this world, he loved this land just as much as the original owner did. He also hoped the people living on this land would have better lives.

The donated money came from the tickets bought by many citizens, and this money would eventually benefit them in return.

Yan Sheng and Mingyue Lu both used their own power to draw a perfect life for this country, for their dreams, and for themselves.

As for Liguang Song from the beginning of the story.

No one cared about him anymore.

Yan Sheng originally thought he had given up the mission and returned to the mission space.

But he hadn’t.

Until Liguang Song was old and gray, he still hadn’t left this world.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to leave, but he couldn’t.

Back then, he was suspected of forging documents and committed the serious crime of attempted murder. When the police caught him in the car, he refused to surrender. He committed a series of terrible crimes.

In the end, he was sentenced to life in prison.

All the property under his name was sold or used to pay back the advertisers and businesses that lost money because of him.

His family saw that they couldn’t get any benefits from him and might even get into trouble, so they ran away long ago.

When the media tried to interview them, they all avoided it. If they couldn’t avoid it, they said they had lost contact long ago.

And his fans felt unlucky for having supported such a criminal, so they all turned against him.

The complaints against him on the internet were countless.

But none of this made him feel afraid, because he was not a person of this world and could not feel empathy for it.

What truly made him afraid was that after he was caught, his system could not take him back to the system space.

Liguang Song asked, “Why not?”

Couldn’t he return before if he gave up the mission? Why not now?

System 766: “Because the noise you made was too big. The consciousness of this world has discovered us.”

Even a powerful system from a high dimension cannot do whatever it wants in a small world. Otherwise, why would they look for “task-takers”? They could just invade the world directly.

It is because every small world has a world consciousness. It is simple and chaotic. As long as nothing happens that goes against the common logic of that world, it will not wake up.

But once it is awakened.

It will start its consciousness defense to protect its world.

That day, Liguang Song made too much noise. That wouldn’t have been a problem, but the key was that he failed to kill Yan Sheng and Mingyue Lu. Now that the world defense is active, even the system cannot leave.

It could only stay in prison with Liguang Song.

Hearing the system say this, Liguang Song’s face turned pale: “You mean, not only do I have to stay in prison in this world for the rest of my life, but I will also be punished by your system after I return to the system space?”

System 766: “Yes.”

“Hahahahaha.” Liguang Song laughed at the thought. It seemed that no matter where he went, workers had no rights.

He felt like a joke.

As if it couldn’t bear to see Liguang Song acting so crazy, the system suggested: “If you can’t accept this, you can kill yourself. If you die, you won’t have to suffer through all of this.”

For a system, several decades was just a blink of an eye. If Liguang Song died, it would only have to wait a few more decades for the world consciousness to fall back into a deep sleep, and then it could return to the system space.

“No, I won’t kill myself,” Liguang Song said with eyes that were both crazy and calm. “I only agreed to be a task-taker for your system so that I could stay alive. Why would I kill myself?”

Liguang Song had not forgotten that he was already dead in his original world. He only survived because he agreed to the system’s demands.

Now that the mission had failed, he could still gain several decades of time. Why would he want to die?

System 766 spoke again: “But if you live, you can only stay in this prison. You can’t go anywhere.”

Liguang Song reached out to catch the sunlight coming through a small prison window. He looked delighted. “That is still being alive.”

He didn’t care why the system wanted him to kill himself.

He had already done the tasks it asked for. He was satisfied to have several extra decades of life for free.

He decided they would just spend this life together as partners.

Liguang Song spent the rest of his life in prison with the system. Only at the moment of his death did the system leave his body, taking his soul back to the space station to be punished for the failed mission.

At the same time, after Yan Sheng finished a long and happy life with Mingyue Lu, a voice rang in his head.

“Is the host ready to be erased?”

Yan Sheng, who had just held the sleeping Mingyue Lu, replied: “Is that so?”

“Haven’t you learned your lesson after being locked up for decades?”

When Yan Sheng was in the car chase with Liguang Song, the mental attack that hit his head came from this system. At that time, Yan Sheng used the system’s remaining points to trade for a permanent lockdown.

Of course, “permanent” wasn’t actually forever; it was calculated based on the lifespan of Yan Sheng’s body.

Now that his time had come, the system’s lockdown was over.

The system ignored Yan Sheng’s words and waited silently for him to die and return to the system space.

“Ten.”

“Nine.”

“Eight.”

“Three.”

“Two.”

“One.”

As soon as the time was up, 667 quickly took Yan Sheng’s soul back to the system space.

It didn’t notice that just as they left, a bit of starlight from Mingyue Lu followed Yan Sheng’s soul.

At the same time, inside Yan Sheng’s own system space:

“Number 1 is here to serve the host. Welcome home.”

“Number 1 has detected fragments of the main system. Collecting automatically.”

“The host has completed the mission in this world and stopped other systems from invading. The time-space tunnel has been cut, and the world coordinates have been erased.”

“Goodbye, world. May we each find our own way home and never meet again.”

A blue light flew gently through the universe.

The world consciousness seemed to feel something and trembled, but the blue light disappeared. At the same time, the lines and markers outside the world were all cleared.

It became an independent world in the universe once again.

No one could ever find it again.

Meanwhile, 667 was taking Yan Sheng back to its system space.

“The host failed to complete the system tasks on time. Now erasing the host.”

“Erasure countdown.”

“Ten.”

“Nine.”

“Eight.”

“Three.”

“Two.”

“One.”

“Ding.”

“Erasure failed!”

“Ding.”

“Erasure failed!”

“Ding.”

“Erasure failed!”

“Clearing mission memories, leaving system space.”

“Clearing successful, leaving failed!”

“Bang—”

The next moment, the 667 system that was trying to escape turned into a cloud of fragments. It exploded in the air like dust and was completely destroyed.

Yan Sheng opened his eyes.

He paused for a moment.

“Hello, host.”

“I am System 1088.”

“System Number 1 was called back by the Main God for special reasons. From now on, I will be responsible for your world missions.”

…Main God?

Yan Sheng smiled: “Is that so?”

“Yes.”

Yan Sheng: “Tell me about your mission types.”

“Alright.”

“Every world has a child of destiny. They are pure and passionate, but they meet the wrong people and have a hard time in love. You will play the role of the ‘scumbag’ who hurt the child of destiny. You must win back their feelings and get a happy ending together. That counts as a completed mission.”

Yan Sheng listened and said: “Since they are children of destiny, many people must be chasing them. They don’t have to end up with a ‘scumbag’ like me, do they?”

System 1088: “Because the host is the child of destiny’s official partner. Even if the road is rough, the two of you are a match made in heaven.”

“I see.”

Yan Sheng: “Then what is the reward for completing the mission?”

1088 pulled out a pile of system treasures.

Yan Sheng glanced at them: “None of these are enough to interest me.”

“How about this.”

“Let’s sign an agreement.”

This world is now finished. Next world: The Unexpected Arrival, a story about a marriage that comes first and love that follows, with a younger partner.

Bonus Short Scene:

[The next morning, Mingyue Lu woke up and didn’t see Yan Sheng. He got out of bed and went out to look for him.

He saw Yan Sheng sitting on the sofa, staring at a trash can.

The trash can was talking: “Stupid romantic, stupid romantic.”

Mingyue Lu felt very embarrassed. Back then, when he threw away a contract, he had accidentally started the recording function of this smart trash can. He had been so busy that he never had time to fix the program, and now Yan Sheng had found it.

Yan Sheng saw Mingyue Lu standing awkwardly by the bedroom door and asked, “Is it insulting me?”

“No!” Mingyue Lu didn’t dare admit it. He quickly grabbed his computer and changed the program. The “Stupid romantic” phrase changed into: “I love you, I love you, I love you.”

…Yan Sheng’s review: “Not as good as ‘Stupid romantic’.”

Mingyue Lu didn’t know what to do, so he said, “Should I just throw it away?”

Yan Sheng refused: “No need. Keep it as a trash can.”

Later, this trash can became the one next to their bed. Every time Yan Sheng threw something away after their private time, it would say: “I love you!”

It was so embarrassing that Mingyue Lu wanted to hide under the covers forever.