Chapter 1: Sudden Incident—Binding System, Internship Assignment One

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At the crossroads, vehicles sped by.
“Doctor, how much will it cost to fully cure my brother?”
“Miss Yan, your brother’s condition is complicated. All the expenses combined could exceed one million.”
Yan Ningxi stared heavily at the red light across the street, her mind replaying the doctor’s words.
Right now, she didn’t have a single ten thousand yuan, let alone a million.
Before she was thirteen, her family owned a company and a villa; they were relatively well-off.
After she turned thirteen, her father went bankrupt, and the family moved from the villa to rent a place in a rundown part of the city.
Even if they sold everything, the family still had three million in debt, which remained unpaid to this day.
She had just graduated from university this year, but had only been working for three months, exhausted every day, earning a mere five thousand yuan a month.
Even since starting university, she had been working part-time.
But whenever she had money, she used it all to ease her parents’ burden at home; now she had only two thousand yuan left.
Three months ago, just as she began her job, her younger brother, still in high school, was diagnosed with leukemia during a physical exam.
Everyone in the family underwent bone marrow matching, but no suitable donor was found.
The doctor advised her mother to try conceiving again; the newborn’s umbilical cord blood could cure the leukemia.
Her mother heeded the advice and was now one month pregnant.
Her parents had only told her these two pieces of news this morning.
Her father now had to care for a patient and a pregnant woman. To make money more flexibly and be able to look after her mother and brother, he quit his relatively easy job and took up delivery work despite his age.
Although her parents said not to worry about medical expenses, they would handle it,
she knew they were only comforting her.
As their daughter, how could she truly not care?
But since the bankruptcy, even their relatives avoided them, afraid of being asked for money.
Now, she was at a loss, not knowing how to raise the money quickly.
At that moment, her eyes caught an advertisement on a streetlamp, and her heart skipped a beat.
No, she must never do anything illegal.
Suddenly, a mechanical voice echoed in her mind.

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[Congratulations, host, you have passed the random justice trial and obtained System 002: Rescue.]
[System automatically bound.]
[System automatically activated.]
[Internship Task One initiated. Complete it to receive a random reward.]
Yan Ningxi trembled slightly.
Seeing the light turn green, she hurried across the crosswalk and sat down on a bench on the pedestrian street.
Though she hadn’t been fond of novels before, she had heard classmates talk about systems enough to know what they were.
Just as she was about to ask what the task and reward were, she noticed a man standing slightly ahead to her right with a cloudlike shadow hovering above his head.
Yan Ningxi’s pupils constricted; she rubbed her eyes and glanced at others around her—only that man had the dark cloud, and atop it was a knife.
What was going on?
[Host, this is one of the internship tasks. After binding the system, you can see things others cannot. A cloud over someone’s head means they are about to commit a crime. A knife means they plan to commit a crime with a blade. Successfully rescuing the victim completes the task.]
“Crime!”
Yan Ningxi’s expression tightened just as she was about to ask more, when a scream rang out ahead.
Looking toward the sound, she saw the man she had noticed suddenly quicken his pace and move to her left front, grabbing a young girl held by a woman.
The girl was around four years old, too young to understand what was happening, her face full of confusion.
The man with the cloud above his head stepped back, brandishing a knife across the girl’s neck, his face twisted in rage: “You wretched woman, I’ll make you suffer the pain of losing a loved one!”
Bo Shuangyun recognized the man instantly and realized this was revenge. She pleaded, “Fang Sheng, please let my child go. She’s innocent.”
Fang Sheng gripped the knife and shouted hoarsely, “Innocent? Am I not innocent? You fired me and stopped others from hiring me. You made my wife leave. Before leaving, she told me the child wasn’t mine—that she cheated on me!”
Passersby gradually took notice, some gathering to watch, others calling the police.
Yan Ningxi’s face was complex; without knowing the full story, it sounded somewhat tragic.
At this moment, she was the closest person to the man.
Because this street mainly sold products aimed at women, and it was still early morning, there were few onlookers.
Most of the watchers were women.
Seeing Fang Sheng’s threatening demeanor, most people nearby fled into nearby shops, watching through the windows.
Bo Shuangyun was anxious: “You were fired because you stole from us. If you hadn’t stolen, why would I fire you?”

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“And I only fired you—I never reported you to the police.”
“I didn’t stop anyone else from hiring you. You can’t find work because you ruined your own reputation.”
No.
Saying this now would only provoke the attacker more.
Yan Ningxi nervously watched Fang Sheng, who grew even angrier.
The knife edged closer to the girl’s neck as he gasped, shouting, “So you’re saying you’re innocent and it’s all my fault?”
Bo Shuangyun hurriedly said, “No, you’re not at fault. It’s my fault. Don’t get angry. What do you want to let my child go?”
“I’ll never let go!” Fang Sheng sneered coldly as sirens wailed in the distance. “My wife left me, raised someone else’s child for years, and my life is a joke. If I have to suffer, I’ll take your child down with me!”
With those words, Fang Sheng raised the knife, ready to slash the girl’s neck.
Everyone held their breath.
If that knife fell, the girl would surely die.
Bo Shuangyun was terrified, wanting to rush forward to save her daughter.
But her legs felt weak and her body trembled; she couldn’t move fast enough in time.
As the blade drew closer, Fang Sheng’s grin grew wider.
Soon, his revenge would be complete.
Let’s see if you still dare to fire people casually!
Rich people are not untouchable!
Even wealthy people can die by my blade!
Bo Shuangyun was desperate.
Without hesitation, Yan Ningxi took a step forward, grasped Fang Sheng’s right hand holding the knife with both hands, and forcefully pushed him aside toward an empty spot.
Fang Sheng never expected anyone to intervene.
Caught off guard, he was successfully pushed away, and his left hand, which had been holding the girl, loosened its grip uncontrollably.