Lin Qiye:...
Braised Spider Child Hands? With those two thin poles of yours, how much meat could there be?
Lin Qiye shook his head helplessly. Faced with such an innocent little boy, he simply couldn't bring himself to shatter his soul.
Seeing Lin Qiye shake his head, the little boy's face turned even paler.
He gritted his teeth and said sorrowfully, "Then, then tell me! How many do you want before you let me go? I'll give you some, okay...?"
"I don't want your spider hands," Lin Qiye said calmly. "I want you."
"I...I'm still a child!"
"...What I mean is, I want you to work as a caregiver at my hospital."
"A caregiver?" the little boy blinked. "What does that do?"
Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, "Accompanying the old man to read books, making the old lady happy, sometimes cooking a meal, washing clothes, and running a marathon is all I need. It's actually quite easy."
The little boy's eyes were full of confusion. Although he didn't know what a marathon was, it didn't seem like... a bad thing.
Phew... as long as he doesn't sell his own organs!
"If I become a caregiver, will you really not kill me?"
"Certainly."
"No problem!!" The little boy nodded frantically, afraid that Lin Qiye would change his mind.
Lin Qiye reached out and grabbed at nothingness, and an employment contract instantly appeared in his hand. It was the same one he had signed with Li Yifei. The section for Spider Child was filled with the obligations to be fulfilled, but the obligations he needed to fulfill were completely blank...
The only difference is that its contract does not have additional clauses like the snake demon's prohibition against possessing Li Yifei's body.
Lin Qiye handed the contract to the little boy. "Sign it."
Without a word, the little boy took the contract, read it carefully, nodded, and then picked up a pen to sign it...
"Hmm... how do I spell my name?"
"You can't read?"
"Yes."
"You can't even read, yet you've been looking at it for so long?" Lin Qiye was somewhat speechless. "What's your name?"
"A-Zhu."
Lin Qiye nodded and carefully wrote the two characters on his palm. Watching the young man earnestly trace his name, a sense of guilt suddenly welled up in his heart...
"I don't think what I'm doing... counts as employing child labor, right?" Lin Qiye whispered to Lin Xichen. She smirked and glanced at him before shrugging.
"Maybe.... Just ask him his age...."
"How old are you?" Lin Qiye couldn't help but ask.
"Me? I think I'm over 130 years old, what's wrong?"
"It's alright, it's alright, you can continue signing..."
Azhu carefully signed her name, though it was crooked, it was still valid. After the contract disappeared automatically, the cell door slowly opened.
At the same time, a light blue caregiver uniform, the same style as Li Yifei's, was put on Azhu's body, with a name tag on the chest bearing the number 002.
He was the second caregiver at this mental hospital.
"What do I need to do now?" Azhu tilted her head and asked.
"Wait a minute, there's one more." Lin Qiye walked to the next cell, looking at the Rubik's Cube floating in the air, his eyes slightly narrowed. "You should have heard what I just said to him, right?"
Lin Qiye was quite kind to A Zhu, but he didn't need to be so gentle with the Rubik's Cube.
"I heard that...."
A faint voice came from inside the Rubik's Cube, sounding like an electronic synthesized voice without any emotional fluctuation, and the pronunciation was somewhat unclear, like an old radio.
Lin Qiye glanced at the panel behind it.
"Sinner: Chaotic Cube
Choice: As the mythical creature you personally killed, you have the right to decide the fate of its soul:
Option 1: Directly obliterate its soul, causing it to be completely annihilated from the world.
Option 2: Make its 'IQ Recognition Level' towards you reach 60. It can then be hired as a Hospital caregiver to look after patients, while also providing you with a certain degree of protection.
Current IQ rating: 85"
Upon seeing this panel, Lin Qiye's eyes showed a hint of surprise. This was the first time he had seen "intelligence level" used as a hiring standard. This further indicated that the requirements for hiring each caregiver were different, and were likely related to the mysterious person's personality.
For example, Li Yifei's criterion is "loyalty value" because, for him, loyalty is a prerequisite for not betraying; while for A Zhu, "fear" is the best way to control it.
As for the chaotic Rubik's Cube in front of us... it is not a living being in the traditional sense, and it does not possess emotions such as loyalty or fear. To better control it, we must make it submit from the perspective of intelligence.
Lin Qiye has gradually figured out the mechanism of this hospital.
"Show your worth," Lin Qiye said calmly. "My mental hospital doesn't house idlers."
A'Zhu and Li Yifei, these two mysterious humanoids, are certainly capable of serving as caregivers, but hiring a Rubik's Cube... he really couldn't think of any other use besides letting Merlin play with it.
The Rubik's Cube was silent for a moment, then spoke to Lin Qiye in a mechanical voice, and the latter's eyes gradually lit up.
"Oh.... That's sound good!"
"Hmm... if that's the case, then it's somewhat useful." Lin Qiye rubbed his chin, somewhat tempted.He then pulled out a contract and signed an employment agreement with Rubik's Cube. As the contract dissipated, the cell door slowly opened.
The Rubik's Cube floated out. Since it didn't have a body, it wasn't wearing a caregiver's uniform. Instead, a nameplate with "003" was embedded in one of its cubes.
Lin Qiye looked at the two new caregivers in front of him, nodded in satisfaction, and led them back to the mental hospital.
Wearing an apron and a chef's hat, Li Yifei was carrying dishes and hurriedly walked through the corridor. He saw the two people and a Rubik's Cube walking towards him and froze on the spot.
"Dean and vice-dean?" Li Yifei's questioning gaze passed over Lin Qiye and Lin Xi Chen, finally landed on Azhu, who was also wearing a caregiver's uniform behind him. He paused for a moment, then said, "This is...?"
"New caregivers," Lin Qiye introduced briefly, "This one's called A'Zhu, and that one's Rubik's Cube."
Li Yifei's eyes immediately reddened. He trembled as he placed the food he was holding on the table, then hugged Lin Qiye tightly and wept bitterly.
"Qiye, you still care about me the most! I'm exhausted!"
Li Yifei looked excitedly at Azhu and the Rubik's Cube. Azhu was alright, but he was stunned when he saw the Rubik's Cube floating in the air.
"What...what can this thing be used for?"
Lin Qiye turned to the side and gave Rubik's Cube a look.The Rubik's Cube gave a slight jolt and began to spin rapidly. In the next instant, the dirty clothes in the laundry basket were moved to its vicinity, tumbling around rapidly. At the same time, a sphere of water and a bar of soap appeared, perfectly submerging the dirty clothes in the water sphere, without spilling a drop beyond a two-meter radius, all mixed together in mid-air and swirling rapidly...
Li Yifei's eyes widened, and his whole body trembled with excitement!
"This...this is..."
A mechanical voice came from the Rubik's Cube: "Rubik's Cube brand fully automatic washing machines, spin dryers, dishwashers, and mahjong machines are at your service!"