William Clark also didn’t know how to explain it to her. After all, he hadn’t even had the chance to tell Little Clark about everything that had happened to him. He planned to tell this little girl at a suitable opportunity, so she’d know he was no longer an ordinary person, and wouldn’t treat him so casually in the future!

He also wondered if this system would provide other cultivation techniques. If there was one suitable for Little Clark, that wouldn’t be bad either.

Just as William Clark was thinking about how to answer Little Clark, there was a sudden thud in the yard outside their door, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground.

William Clark turned around abruptly. There had been too many strange things happening tonight for him not to be on guard.

He quietly moved toward the door and looked through the peephole. To his surprise, there was someone lying in the snow outside!

Chapter 9: Faking Injury for Compensation

The temperature outside must be minus four or five degrees. If this person lay in the snow all night, they’d be done for—might even die!

“You stay inside, I’ll go out and see what’s going on.” William Clark whispered to Little Clark.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Little Clark grabbed the hem of his clothes from behind. She didn’t say a word, just stared at him intently.

“Let go, let go!” William Clark whispered harshly.

“Negative emotion points from Little Clark, +50…”

Pfft, what are you doing? It’s really dangerous outside right now, okay?

William Clark thought for a moment. “Follow behind me and don’t make a sound. You must listen to me.”

Little Clark nodded quickly, her little head bobbing up and down, looking quite cute…

The two of them quietly opened the door and slipped outside. The first thing William Clark did was size up the person on the ground. To his surprise, it was the performer who had been taken away by the people in black coats backstage at the acrobatics show that afternoon!

Now this was interesting. Two people in black coats had just run past, and now this person was lying at his door. William Clark noticed that the person’s face was deathly pale, looking extremely weak.

What should he do?

Wasn’t this person taken away? How did he get out? William Clark definitely didn’t believe that the group in black coats, who claimed to be from the fire department, would kindly let this guy go.

At this moment, he was almost certain that the fire in the distance was definitely related to this guy, since his ability should be fire-related. On the third day of the new year, a fire suddenly broke out that could light up the whole city, and this performer had just escaped from some unknown place.

He even suspected that this person had started the fire in the city center just to escape, and the two people in black coats were probably hunting him down.

This guy was really ruthless, setting such a huge fire just to save himself. Who knew if anyone had been hurt in the blaze?

Of course, William Clark knew all this was just his own speculation.

But the problem was, what he worried about most now was getting involved with these people.

Some say that with great power comes great responsibility, but William Clark thought that idea was a bit ridiculous. He just wanted to mind his own business. People have to be a little selfish to survive; if you’re so selfless that you lose yourself, no one’s going to pay you a pension.

As time goes by, heroes appear one after another, and then each is replaced after they disappear. It seems like a kind of glory.

But in this world, no one can ever truly take another’s place. So-called replacement just means the previous person has been forgotten.

Right now, if the people in black coats came back, William Clark would be in deep trouble.

“What should we do? Should we save him?” Little Clark looked up and asked William Clark.

“I don’t know how to do mouth-to-mouth, and it doesn’t seem appropriate here anyway.” William Clark looked at the person on the ground, troubled. “Let’s call 120. You go make him a bowl of ginger soup, maybe that’ll help. But I heard calling 120 costs money. We’re not paying for it—just say we don’t know him at all, and let him pay when he wakes up…”

For someone like William Clark, 120 yuan could do a lot of things. He definitely wasn’t going to spend it on a stranger. Calling 120 and making a bowl of ginger soup was already more than enough.

“Negative emotion points from Edward Carter, +70…”

When William Clark saw this notification in his mind, he was clearly stunned. The only person who could be giving him negative emotion points right now was the one lying on the ground. But could someone who’d fainted even generate negative emotions?

So you’re faking it, huh…

William Clark’s face darkened immediately. Someone was faking injury for compensation right in his yard?! How could he tolerate that? This was taking advantage of his sympathy!

Not that he had much sympathy to begin with…

“Give me a hand, let’s move him.” William Clark said quietly to Little Clark.

Little Clark asked, “Should we carry him inside?”

William Clark thought for a moment. “Carry him outside the yard. Leave him alone.”

Little Clark: ???

“Negative emotion points from Edward Carter, +470…”

William Clark was overjoyed—he’d never earned so many negative emotion points at once!

At this moment, Edward Carter on the ground had no choice but to slowly wake up. “Water… water…”

Well, William Clark was amused. He was really putting on quite an act.