Fourth Perspective - Chapter 15

“Bang—!”

Xiao Jinyu’s hand that was on the wall moved abruptly, making a noise. The phone screen that was originally facing outwards was turned around and slammed against the wall.

Zhao Hen was slightly shocked, “Xiao Jinyu?” What had happened?

Xiao Jinyu smoothly moved his phone back into his pocket and shook his head: “Nothing, I thought I saw a bug on the wall. I saw wrong.”

Zhao Hen scratched his head.

“Let’s come in and talk, Mr. Zhao.”

“Alright.”

Zhao Hen didn’t think that, after only one night, he would enter this house again.

Accepting the homeowner’s tea, as it was the first time Zhao Hen did the work of inviting new users to the team, he didn’t know where to start. He twisted his brain and decided to first complete the task that needed to be done. The tan man smiled: “Then, why don’t I tell you about the ‘Grow Some Brains’ APP first.”

Xiao Jinyu’s expression didn’t change as he glanced at him and nodded, “I’ll trouble you then.”

Although Zhao Hen was honest, didn’t have a lot of cunning plots, and was the typical brave general type of guy, he was clear on the information of the APP. Since whenever they faced a dangerous situation, it was the only tool that they could use to contact the outside.

He didn’t immediately introduce the usage of the APP, but instead explained to Xiao Jinyu what user levels and polluters were, the basic information.

Xiao Jinyu smiled and listened to Zhao Hen repeat the information he already knew without revealing anything. Occasionally, he would ponder and ask some of his own questions and Zhao Hen would answer them clearly.

Xiao Jinyu: “So polluters at the moment of being contaminated, would immediately go find prey?”

“Yes, being contaminated would equal being dead, turning into a monster that would only find nutrients for the out of control logic skill.”

This was exactly what 004 has said too.

Xiao Jinyu calmly picked up the tea cup and took a sip.

After explaining the background information of the APP, Zhao Hen started to introduce the APP: “The Grow Some Brains APP is the only tool that we know of that can contact the polluted areas. It originates from a polluter, codenamed 004. What polluters are, I just explained to you, ‘004’ is the rank of this polluter in the entire nation’s collection.”

Suddenly, the phone in Xiao Jinyu’s pocket buzzed.

Zhao Hen: “It seems like there’s a notification?”

Xiao Jinyu calmed smiled, “It’s nothing, it’s not important, Mr. Zhao please continue.”

Zhao Hen nodded and continued: “This rank system is sorted by the nation according to the polluter’s danger level, its strength, and the usefulness of its skill. Before yesterday, we thought that 004’s danger level wasn’t that high, its strength was medium, but it’s usefulness was extremely high, so its number was 004. I heard from the captain that this number might go up a bit… eh, sorry, I said too much. Us users knowing this information is useless, we just need to know how to use the APP provided by 004.”

As he talked, Zhao Hen took out his phone: “Open your APP.”

Xiao Jinyu paused before taking out his phone. Looking at the crying expression that was constantly moving across the screen, he lowered his eyes, reached out, and covered the screen.

Hope you won’t talk.

You probably also don’t want people to find out that you have private communications with humans. So…

You must not speak.

Xiao Jinyu took a deep breath in and moved his hand away. Zhao Hen just so happened to look over: “Yes, open the APP.”

The comments from Polluter 004 disappeared long ago and there was nothing unusual on the screen.

Xiao Jinyu opened the APP.

Zhao Hen: “The APP has a total of three parts: the user profile, task window, and leaderboard. Let’s look at the user profile first.”

Xiao Jinyu looked at him strangely: “Mr. Zhao, are you not going to open your profile too?”

Zhao Hen: “…”

“Ha…ha… Just opening yours is fine. Everyone’s format is the same.”

Xiao Jinyu seemed to have come to an answer.

Zhao Hen explained: “The reason why the APP is called the ‘Grow Some Brains’ APP, I actually don’t know too much about, this is the name 004 gave. It has all the power in the APP, there is no committee in the nation that can change any of the APP’s information, they only have slightly more permissions than the ordinary user. The user profile is where you manually input information.

“The ‘Grow Some Brains’ APP will, at the moment when you awaken, detect your logic skill and forcibly name it, becoming your User ID. Your name is…”

Zhao Hen’s voice stopped abruptly.

Xiao Jinyu: “Is there a problem?”

“No, nothing’s wrong. Fourth Perspective, Fourth Perspective… This ID is pretty good, pretty good…”

Not knowing why, Xiao Jinyu suddenly felt that Zhao Hen’s voice was filled with bitterness and when he said ‘Fourth Perspective’, there was a slightly sour smell in the air.

Zhao Hen rubbed his face: “User IDs cannot be changed, you also cannot change your level or number. Logic levels I already explained to you, you are currently a level one user. And your user number is formed from two parts, one letter and number. Your letter is D, meaning that you are part of the D rank users. Number 20018, as you are 20018th in the D rank users.

“‘Grow Some Brains’ APP splits the users into four ranks: A, B, C, and D, based on their levels, combat strength, and their mission completion degree.

“As of right now, there are 108 users in A rank, with five level 3 users and everyone else is level four or above. The White Garden you know of was A97, he was one of the five level three users in the A rank. He was really strong.

“There are 1418 users in B rank, except for the two powerful level two users, the rest are all level three users.”

“C rank has 6831 users, all level two.

“D rank is all level one users.”

After introducing the ranks, Zhao Hen added: “If you want to look at the leaderboards, you can open the leaderboard on this side of the APP. You can clearly see the rankings of all the users in the nation. The ranks of B, C, and D users are public, A rank users are a bit hidden, a part of the stronger level five users and all of the level six users are hidden, you cannot see their ranking.”

Xiao Jinyu stilled for a second and opened the leaderboard.

The second after he pressed down, a variety of User IDs appeared before him.

[China’s User Leaderboard – A Rank

A01 – Anonymous

A02 – Anonymous

…]

Xiao Jinyu scrolled down to A54 before he was able to see an ID.

[A54 – Piggy Shampoo – Level Five]

“……”

Xiao Jinyu’s eyes strangely stared at the two words of ‘Piggy Shampoo’ for a long time.

Retracting his gaze, Xiao Jinyu continued to open the B, C, and D leaderboards. Sure enough, these three leaderboards were public and there were no anonymous users, and there were a variety of IDs filling the screen.

Xiao Jinyu only glanced through them, but was silent for a moment.

…Fourth Perspective really was pretty good.

But the four leaderboards only show the User ID and level, he wasn’t able to check their information.

While Xiao Jinyu was still thinking, Zhao Hen continued to explain: “User ID, Logic Level and User Number are all automatically given by the APP, but your real name and gender can be entered manually.”

Zhao Hen waited for a while but Xiao Jinyu did not make a move to enter in the information.

Zhao Hen was a little puzzled: “What’s wrong?”

Xiao Jinyu raised his head: “For the manually entered information, does it have to be correct? For example, if I enter my gender as female, would the APP display an error?”

Zhao Hen: “Ah?”

Zhao Hen’s worldview took a large hit and he was extremely puzzled and at a loss.

Why would anyone purposefully enter false information?

Silently, Xiao Jinyu explained: “Yesterday at the train station, Miss Qi firmly reminded me something, she said, never tell anyone about your logic skill. But Mr Zhao, the moment you entered, you talked about my logic skill. And the content of the logic skill is given by the APP. Miss Qi is not from the government and I believe she isn’t a dangerous person. So I think… the government can see the full user information, right?”

The leaderboard won’t display the full user information.

But it’s very obvious, the government has a method to see the specific information of users.

Zhao Hen stilled for a long time, as he understood what Xiao Jinyu was saying.

Zhao Hen’s logic skill was very powerful and had a high attack power. The moment he reached level two, he was personally recruited by Captain Wang into the Zhongdu Extermination Squad, becoming a staff member of the nation. But he had never realized that the government being able to check specific user information on the APP, was strange. He has subconsciously grown accustomed to it.

Zhao Hen revealed a confused expression and thought for a while before forcing out some words: “Now that you say so, it seems that it’s not impossible… but the information on every user is highly confidential, even the Captain of the Zhongdu Extermination Squad can only see a portion of it. Seeing the information requires multiple applications and some of the more public information doesn’t have to be filled in by you, we can just observe you for a while and come to a conclusion.”

“About what Qi Simin said about keeping your logic skill a secret, that is about the cause and effects of your logic skill, especially the cause. Try to not let anyone know about the beginning of your logic skill, or else they will have the opportunity to avoid this cause and cause your logic skill to be ineffective.”

Xiao Jinyu lightly nodded.

Seeing that Xiao Jinyu didn’t speak anymore, Zhao Hen didn’t continue to explain, instead he started to explain the APP’s last function.

“The ‘Grow Some Brains’ APP’s most important function in my opinion, is the task window.”

While he talked, he opened his own APP. Taking advantage of the fact the user profile hadn’t popped up yet, he quickly tapped on the ‘Task’ column.

“The task window, as the name suggests, is where the user can accept tasks. Every user can post their own tasks on here and every prefecture’s extermination squad can post tasks as well. When posting a task, you have to write in the task reward, and after the user receives and completes the task, through the APP’s confirmation, they can receive the corresponding reward and a certain degree of task completion. But there is something you have to be aware of.”

Zhao Hen said helplessly: “It’s tasks are split into ranks and have certain viewing requirements. In addition to the government sent tasks, such as cleaning up the logic factors from White Garden, these tasks can be opened to the public for familiar clean up crews to receive. For others, every user can only see tasks from their own levels and also match their ranks.”

Zhao Hen swiftly opened a task: “Like this one, if you aren’t B rank and in the top 200, you can’t open the task. Because the task issuer set up specific requirements, they thought that lower ranking users are unable to complete the task. At the same time, the highest task rank every user can send is their level. For you, since you are D rank, you can only send out D rank tasks, and request help from other D ranks.”

Xiao Jinyu lowered his head to look at his APP. He opened the task column.

Eh?

Zhao Hen moved closer: “There is only one task you can see right now. Click on it.”

Xiao Jinyu opened the task, then…

[D Rank Task

Recently I’ve had some serious insomnia, I’m unable to sleep everyday. Are there any brothers out there that have a logic skill that can painlessly send me to sleep? Haidu City.

Task Reward: 1000 dollars.

Completion Limit: None]

Xiao Jinyu: “……”

This task’s reward was really simple and casual.

Seeing the task reward of 1000 dollars on the screen, Xiao Jinyu’s heart moved. But it was a pity that his logic skill wasn’t helpful.

Letting out a breath, he closed the task window.

After introducing the user information, task window, and leaderboard, Zhao Hen looked at Ziao Jinyu hesitantly. They had returned to the topic at the beginning. But he really didn’t have the experience to recruit members!

While Zhao Hen was still thinking about how to introduce new members, a clear and stable voice sounded.

“Zhongdu City’s Extermination Squad must be the government’s user team, right?”

Zhao Hen’s soul suddenly returned and hurriedly replied: “Yes! We all have an official government post so we all have a salary.”

Salary?

His heart couldn’t help but be moved for a second.

But quickly, Xiao Jinyu rubbed his lip and seriously asked: “The tasks from the extermination squad, are they very dangerous?”

Zhao Hen slightly paused and then nodded his head: “Yes, very dangerous. The nation loses 2000 people yearly and half of that comes from the extermination team’s users. Because we often go into contamination areas, carrying out pollutant extermination and clean up tasks.”

Xiao Jinyu: “Mr Zhao, I’m just a level one user.”

Level one user? Zhao Hen: “The Captain and I will protect you, you just need to look around for logic factors.”

Being a ‘police dog’, this type of thing, might not be a good job. Plus Xiao Jinyu was also low on the leaderboard and unable to receive a lot of tasks. To get rewards from using his logic skill, the most convenient way was to join the Zhongdu City’s Extermination Squad.

But right now he has something more important on hand.

He needs to find out what his mom’s situation really is and find a way to save her.

Seeing Xiao Jinyu’s flickering eyes, Zhao Hen racked his brains, then he suddenly thought of something: “Right! Our extermination team has a really good welfare system.”

Xiao Jinyu stilled and raised his head.

Zhao Hen immediately started promoting: “As long as you are a member of the team, we all enjoy full medical insurance, this also applies to family members! You are so young, Xiao Jinyu, your parents are still alive right?”

The young man’s eyes opened wide.

Zhao Hen ‘hehe”d and smiled: “Then that’s great. Every month, team member’s family members can get a free full body check up. When the team member is out on a mission, there will be a protection squad member to check on their family members for them, helping them take care of their parents! Xiao Jinyu, are your parents in Zhongdu right now, I remember that in two days is this month’s checkup day, I can help you put an appointment in. Tonight the protection squad member can come and help write down your parents’ information.”

Xiao Jinyu: “……”

Ten minutes later.

Zhao Hen walked out the door dumbfoundedly and scratched his head, a bit embarrassed.

The new user actually turned down the offer to enter the extermination squad.

He didn’t directly refuse and only said he needed to think about it.

But the new user’s reason was pretty understandable, Zhao Hen thought for a while and could only sigh: “He only just awakened his logic skill and is only a level one user, he hadn’t even understood what his logic skill is and Captain already wants him to go to the contamination areas, it really is too dangerous.”

But he wasn’t in that difficult of a spot, at the start, Captain had already thought that Xiao Jinyu might reject the invitation. If Xiao Jinyu was a level two user, then Captain Wang would personally invite him no matter what. But he was only a level one user, what’s most important right now is that he can understand his logic skill and promote to level two without his logic skill breaking down.

This is also why Captain Wang didn’t personally come to his door and instead sent Zhao Hen to invite him.

He (Zhao Hen) could only go back to the Captain and report.

In the silent corridor, a tall and strong man with both hands in his pockets walked to the elevator. Suddenly he stopped and pricked up his ears, listening carefully.

After a few seconds.

“Eh, did I hear wrong. There were just some footsteps, it was so slow and right on the floor above, with some weird ‘sha sha’ sound…”

He listened for a little while longer and didn’t hear anything.

Zhao Hen bewilderedly rubbed his face and walked into the elevator.

At the same time.

In the quiet living room, Xiao Jinyu sat at the table, head lowered to look at the tabletop. After a while, he turned on his phone.

A string of words floated across the screen.

‘Dad!’

‘I recognize that person!’

Slightly stilling, Xiao Jinyu asked: “You recognize?”

‘Hmph, he is a part of the group that locked me up. Dad, next time you meet, beat him up!’

Xiao Jinyu: “……”

Probably won’t be able to beat.

Not speaking any more, Xiao Jinyu looked at his phone.

What his logic skill was, the APP said it was ‘seeing logic factors’, yet left a ‘manual input’ frame, meaning he had to figure out what his logic skill was himself.

But the APP was far from what he had expected!

The user information was meaningless to him.

The leaderboard was also useless.

Only the task window…

Coaxing someone to sleep, this also counted as a task? If he could, he would earn those 1000 dollars, but he really couldn’t coax someone to sleep.

In his present situation, he wasn’t able to explore his logic skill and level it up, much less solving the problem with his mom.

In the end the best solution was to accept the Zhongdu Extermination Squad’s invitation. But for the government’s people, wanting to see a regular student’s information was too easy. His mom’s existence won’t be able to be hidden, once or twice he can say his mom was out on a vacation, went to her hometown, but after a while, it would cause suspicion.

So…

‘Dad!’

Xiao Jinyu’s consciousness returned.

He looked at his phone screen, then…

Xiao Jinyu: “?!”

‘Dad, what about this mission?’

‘This one seems pretty good, it’s just so far away, you need to go to some Xiao Qiu community. Dad, have you been there? 0v0’

Only seeing the task window on the screen constantly changing, from rank A to D, everything was available.

Xiao Jinyu immediately grabbed the phone.

‘This mission is good!’

The message floated across and the APP screen changed, stopping on a rank B task.

[B Rank Task

My logic skill seems to run into something strange, specific information will be given over the phone. No need to help in person, just answer my question and help me understand my logic skill. The reward has been put into the Fengheng bank’s safe in Haidu City in advance, the APP has acknowledged the reward is enough.

Phone Number: 33215849563

Task Reward: ***

Prerequisites: Level three or higher user, lowest ranking B100.]

Xiao Jinyu just finished reading the task before it suddenly updated.

[B Rank Task

My logic skill seems to run into something strange, specific information will be given over the phone. No need to help in person, just answer my question and help me understand my logic skill. The reward has been put into the Fengheng bank’s safe in Haidu City in advance, the APP has acknowledged the reward is enough.

Addition: The situation is very special, I already consulted one level five user and five level four users, all six don’t have an answer! I will now reveal one of the rewards: one million cash. The APP acknowledges the undisclosed reward is more than what the task should give!

Phone Number: 33215849563

Task Reward: One Million Cash, ***

Prerequisites: Level three or higher user, lowest ranking B100.]

In the spacious room, the wind blew in from the window as the room was silent for a moment.

…

“Dad loves you.”

‘?’

After a few seconds, the barrage danced around in excitement,

‘I love Dad, muah O՝3՛O’