What malicious intent could NPCs possibly have? C19.1

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Chp19. part1

“Okay. Let’s find a place to give birth.”

Pei Han nodded, glancing up at the floors above. “I don’t know where it is. It shouldn’t be on the ground floor, maybe it’s upstairs?”

Everyone involuntarily looked up at the building.

“Thump.”

Ning Ge heard a dull thud as something heavy fell to the ground.

Jing Yao, for some reason, collapsed to the ground.

Next to the large area of ​​touchscreens, in the corner, was a small metal door, just like the one in the health check room.

The timing was perfect, no one was passing by, and no one was even looking this way.

Pei Han, expressionless and indifferent, grabbed Jing Yao by the collar, dragged him to the small door, opened it, and shoved him inside.

A flash of white light inside.

The whole process was silent and took only a few seconds.

Jing Yao, like the chubby boy he’d personally pushed onto the scales, was now with Mother Body.

A series of unexpected events stunned everyone.

Pei Han calmly closed the small metal door and turned to ask everyone, “Shall we go?”

He looked slightly younger than usual, but his eyes held the same chilling coldness Ning Ge had felt when she first met him, eyes that seemed to have crawled out of a pile of countless corpses.

The short-haired guy was utterly terrified, literally wetting himself. He stammered, “Brother… Brother…,” unable to finish a sentence.

Pei Han ignored him and said gently to Ning Ge, “Let’s hurry and go upstairs.”

Everyone walked towards the elevator. Pei Han followed beside Ning Ge, hesitated for a moment, and then said, “Did I scare you?”

Ning Ge shook her head.

Pei Han explained softly, “It has to be this way. I know Jing Yao very well…”

“I understand,” Ning Ge said. Jing Yao was clearly a ruthless and vindictive person. He had obviously incurred Ning Ge’s and the others’ wrath. Castrating him wouldn’t actually harm him, but letting him go would have endless consequences.

Especially for the two girls, if they ran into him alone in a dungeon later, they’d be finished.

This person absolutely cannot be allowed to live.

Ning Ge had thought that even if he were to be dealt with, she would find an opportunity during a quest, but Pei Han was decisive and didn’t wait a second longer.

Curly Hair was also trembling, his face ashen. “Will we get caught doing this? Will the NPCs know we slipped someone in?”

No.

Ning Ge thought. All memories of Jing Yao in the dungeon would be completely erased by the system, leaving no trace.

The hospital where the delivery was taking place was on the third floor.

Busy with people coming and going, it looked no different from an ordinary hospital.

Pregnant women with large bellies were having prenatal checkups, and others were about to give birth. Expectant parents were beaming with joy, and the cries of newborn babies echoed from the delivery room.

Babies were like products on an assembly line, born batch after batch, growing rapidly, aging, and then falling and dying, just like batch after batch.

Ning Ge said softly, “Like mayflies, living only a day.”

Pei Han said, “Actually, mayflies can live for over a year from egg to adult, but they only live for a few hours to a few days after becoming adults.”

He seemed to realise he had just frightened Ning Ge, and his tone remained unusually gentle.

Owen chimed in, “You mean they’re even less than mayflies? That makes me even sadder.”

The group inquired their way to the newborn registration area and finally found it.

It was a small room with only one nurse inside.

A happy couple was registering their newborn baby, and several other couples were waiting, crowding the room.

The babies were visibly transforming from rosy and wrinkled to fair and adorable, from limp and cuddly to able to kick their limbs freely.

A large crowd had gathered around the counter, bombarding the nurses with questions. The nurses were so busy they were dizzy and didn’t even notice Ning Ge and her group entered.

Everyone successfully witnessed the entire newborn registration process.

The nurse simply pressed the registration button on the touchscreen at the counter, had both parents scan a QR code on the back of their hands, and then placed the baby’s hand into a special, small opening. A new QR code was then printed on the baby’s little hand.

It was that simple, much simpler than Ning Ge had expected.

This made things easier, they could directly register a fake baby in the system. The key was getting the nurse in charge of the registration and these new parents in line.

Pei Han looked up at the ceiling, and Ning Ge followed suit.

There was nothing like a security camera.

“Wait for me,” Pei Han said.

He’d been walking for less than two minutes when a commotion erupted in the corridor, people shouting in panic.

“Fire! Help! Fire!”

“This isn’t a drill, it’s a real fire! Lots of smoke!”

“Quick! Everyone evacuate to the lobby!!”

The nurse in charge of data entry didn’t hesitate. She dropped her things, shouted, “Fire! Everyone ran!” and rushed out from behind the counter.

New parents grabbed their babies and ran, the room instantly empty.

Ning Ge immediately leaned over to tap the “Entry” button on the display screen, then held her hand to the scanner, gesturing for Owen to scan.

The two QR codes were scanned, and a window popped up.

[Parents scanned successfully! Baby’s QR code has been generated. Please place the back of your baby’s hand into the printer slot.]

There was no baby there.

Ning Ge grabbed a piece of white paper from the side and put it in the printer slot.

Nothing happened.

Blank paper wouldn’t work, so they tried something else. The printer slot, designed for babies, was small and deep, Ning Ge couldn’t fit her hand in, only three fingers.

Fingers wouldn’t work either, it wouldn’t print.

Everyone frantically shoved everything of suitable size they could find into the machine.

However, the machine seemed to recognise the cheat, stubbornly refusing to print the baby’s QR code.

After about a minute, a notification box suddenly popped up with great enthusiasm.

[Printing successful! Wishing your baby a healthy growth!]

Ning Ge: “…”

With no other options, Ning Ge quietly tapped the Lambda icon on her wristband.

This machine was so crucial, it couldn’t be cheated by modifying attributes, but she could try changing other things.

Unfortunately, the “Activate” button in the Lambda function was still greyed out, probably broken last time.

The door opened, and Pei Han slipped in.

“How did it go?” he asked.

“It can be entered, the problem is the baby’s QR code won’t print,” Ning Ge said. “Nothing I put in works.”

Pei Han didn’t even hesitate. “As long as it can be entered, that’s fine. We don’t know how long they can hold out outside. We need to hurry.”

The chaotic footsteps in the corridor outside gradually subsided, the nurse could return at any moment.

Time was of the essence.

Pei Han put his hand into the scanner and turned to wait for Ning Ge.

Ning Ge also held out her hand. “I just finished entering with Owen, if I enter with you again right away, I don’t know if that will work.”

A baby is born here only every two hours. Changing fathers and going through the process again so quickly, she wonders if the system will allow it.

“It should work,” Owen said. “Haven’t you seen those news reports about babies born at the same time with different fathers? The system should approve that, right?”

Okay.

Just as Owen said, the system actually approved it.

Voices came from the corridor outside, sounding like someone was coming to put out a fire.

“It’s nothing, there’s no fire, just lots of smoke.”

“That’s strange. How did they create so much smoke?”

Jiang Jin, Curly hair and Short hair had all their data entered, and now everyone had a baby in the system.

The data entry was complete, the fake babies were in the system, but they still hadn’t received their baby’s number and QR code.

As soon as the data entry was finished, Ning Ge immediately searched the touchscreen and finally found the place to look up the baby’s number using the parent’s number.

A password box popped up.

An administrator password was required to query.

The smoke issue outside seemed to have been resolved, scattered footsteps and voices could be heard in the corridor, and people from the hospital were starting to return.

Ning Ge quickly entered several default passwords, such as “000000” and “111111,” but none worked.

“It’s too late, let’s go,” Pei Han said.

Indeed, it was too late, the noise outside was growing louder.

Ning Ge returned to the main screen, and the group quickly slipped out the door. Just as they stepped outside, they saw the nurse in charge of data entry rushing back down the corridor.

They brushed past her, relieved to have escaped unharmed.

Owen asked, “What do we do now? We have a baby in the system, but we don’t know the baby’s serial number, so we can’t buy a microchip.”

Pei Han said, “Don’t worry, we should be able to calculate our baby’s serial number.”

Everyone: ???

Pei Han said, “My parents’ identification numbers are JH4213 and JI5096, and mine is KW9309. 4213 plus 5096 equals 9309. Adding the digits of my parents’ numbers together gives me my identification number.”

Knowing Ning Ge was from a single-parent family with only her mother, he didn’t ask Ning Ge, instead, he asked Owen, “What about yours?”

Owen quickly calculated, his eyes lighting up. “That’s right! Adding the last four digits of my parents’ identification numbers together gives me my identification number.”

Curly-hair said awkwardly, “I can’t remember their numbers.”

Short-haired Guy was still trembling, his face pale, unable to utter a word.

“It should be correct,” Pei Han said. “So if it’s my and Ning Ge’s baby, our numbers together… should be 9530.”

Curly Hair asked, “What about the two letters at the beginning?”

Owen was engrossed in calculating.

“Let me think. Pei Han, your parents are JH and JI, mine are both JJ. Adults of similar ages have similar initials, so it must be numbered chronologically, like production batches.”

“From my parents’ JJ to our KW, there’s… uh… 39 digits. The age difference between my parents and me is about two days, which is about 20 years in the real world. Let me calculate… so one batch is probably about an hour, and an hour is equivalent to five months in normal time…”

Basically, one batch is about six months in normal time.

Ning Ge interrupted his rambling, “No need to calculate anymore. I saw the numbers generated when those two babies were entered. This batch of children should be LM.”

“Not necessarily, LM, right?” Owen insisted. “Maybe when we enter them, it will jump to the next batch and become LN?”

Ning Ge: “Easy, I’ll take another look, and we’ll know.” She returned to the data entry room.

Everything was normal. The nurses didn’t notice anything amiss and continued entering data for the new parents.

Ning Ge glanced at the batch number printed on the baby’s hand, it was still LM.

So LM was correct.

The baby’s batch number could indeed be deduced.

Ning Ge came out and announced the batch number to everyone.

Owen thought for a moment, “What if two children in the same batch have the same batch number?”

“Isn’t that normal? Like having the same name in real life,” Ning Ge said. “Since the parents are different, their QR codes will definitely be different.”

Owen continued to ponder, “Then wouldn’t all children born to the same parents have the same batch number?”

“Yes,” Pei Han looked at Ning Ge, “As long as they are our children, the batch number will be 9530, but the children’s batch letter will be different.”

Ning Ge: “…”

Ning Ge: Who said “our two children”? Can they even have different “batch” births?

“What about twins?” Owen continued, getting stuck on the question.

“Maybe there aren’t twins here, or maybe there’s a different mark in the QR code,” Pei Han guessed.

Owen was overjoyed, “Then let’s calculate the baby’s number and order the chip.”

Ning Ge hesitated for a moment.

She thought for a moment before saying, “Okay, let’s try it first.”