The Little Duck 75

Chapter 75

Perhaps many people don’t know that there are really gods in this world.

The famous gods in the legends are actually still around.

As the times are progressing, the gods are also progressing.

It might be hard to believe, but the underworld messengers in charge of “collecting people” are already wearing casual clothes and using smartphones.

For thousands of years, human development has been very rapid, and gods and demons have been deeply affected by these changes.

“Even if we have magic, we can’t be complacent. The speed of human technological progress is very fast, and we also need to learn, to adapt, and to keep up—otherwise, in the future, we won’t understand what humans are saying, and how can we be the guardians of this world?”

This was the original words from above.

So, being a god in this day and age is not easy.

In the past, being a god only required remembering to cultivate in your spare time. Now, being a god requires constant learning to adapt to the ever-changing human lifestyle.

To be honest, for a god, a few decades should be a flick of a finger, but the speed of human progress in the last ten years has been too fast, as if with a little more effort, even the gods would have a sense of crisis.

So, a task was assigned from above. All registered gods had to take turns to go down to the mortal world for a period of five to ten years of further study—after they finished, they would have a small test, and they would also have to see what achievements they had made in the mortal world. If they failed, they would have to continue to stay below.

And Lin Zhong was one of the gods who had come down to the mortal world for further study in recent years.

This name might be a little unfamiliar to many people. A different name would be more familiar.

—Cauliflower.

That’s right, she is Cauliflower.

To be precise, Cauliflower is just an identity she used to gain achievements during her further study in the mortal world.

Actually, she didn’t have to gain these achievements. After all, it wasn’t a very difficult thing to reach the passing score to return to the celestial realm, and the higher-ups didn’t require the gods who were studying to do anything big, as long as they could understand the current state of human life.

So, in short, if you wanted to be perfunctory, you could just find a place to work for a few years and you would be able to meet the standard.

But compared to finding a place to work like an ordinary person and just muddling through for a few years, Lin Zhong would prefer to find some other troublesome things to play with.

And this time, the troublesome thing came from a bet.

A casual bet she had made with a colleague who had also come down to the mortal world.

Her colleague said that in this slightly impetuous era, everyone is busy with their lives, and the saying of “one life, one love” is no longer popular.

In the past, when they came down to the mortal world to gain achievements, the easiest part was matchmaking.

Now, it’s different. Being a corporate slave is a little hard, but it’s much simpler than being a matchmaker.

In the past, a senior had come down to the mortal world to do matchmaking, and he had failed every time. In the end, he had been in the mortal world for a full thirteen years before he went back.

Her colleague said to Lin Zhong, “Don’t do those fancy things. Come and work with me. I have a spot here, left by a sister who just went back a while ago. I’ll recommend you, and we can slack off together every day, and we can also save some money by renting a place together.”

To this, Lin Zhong chose to refuse with a shake of her head.

She said she didn’t want to work.

Even Yue Lao had said that it was so hard to maintain a relationship now, all because humans were too tired from working every day and didn’t have the energy to fall in love—she didn’t want to follow the local customs and become a corporate slave.

After hearing this, her colleague shook his head and said, “You’ll fail. I’ll go back first then, and don’t blame me for not waiting for you.”

Lin Zhong didn’t believe it. The last time she had come down to the mortal world, she had even helped a peony salted fish who had almost lost all worldly desires and had a faint sense of death on her face every day to find the love of her life, and from then on, her eyes had become bright!

Matchmaking is so much fun, much more interesting than learning to work like a human.

And as long as you can successfully tie three red threads, you can get Yue Lao’s signature, which counts as a passing achievement, and you can return to the celestial realm in advance.

She decided that this time, she would also quickly complete three tasks, and return to the celestial realm with a beautiful record, so that she could lie down and slack off every day for the next twenty or thirty years!

So she made a bet with her colleague. The one who went back later would have to clean the celestial mansion of the one who went back first for ten years.

—She felt that she would definitely be the first one to go back!

Hearing this, her colleague was full of confidence. “I can go back after being a corporate slave for seven or eight years. You do your best!”

Lin Zhong: “Maybe I’ll be back in two or three years!”

Her colleague: “Then I wish you good luck.”

After making up her mind, Lin Zhong quickly found Yue Lao and had him send over some of the broken red threads from recent years.

According to her previous experience, it was more difficult to tie a new red thread for someone than to repair a broken one.

The reason for this was quite amusing.

Tying a red thread does not mean that it is successful just because two people are together. The thing about feelings, there is really some metaphysics in it.

Sometimes two people are already together, and they have even walked through their whole lives together, but a red thread may not necessarily be born between them.

So, to directly repair an existing but broken red thread, the success rate is actually much higher than tying a new one.

Doesn’t that sound absurd?

But as long as you’ve done red thread work for Yue Lao, you’ll know that a broken red thread does not mean that two people don’t love each other.

This probably involves a blind spot in many people’s knowledge, right?

Most mortals probably think that the red thread is tied by Yue Lao according to his mood, right?

Actually, that’s not the case. The red thread grows on its own!

This red thread, it originally didn’t need anyone to tie it, and no one could tie it with their spiritual power at will.

It is the secret feelings that grow between people, a kind of bond formed by a force similar to telekinesis.

And Yue Lao, he is usually only responsible for recording the appearance and disappearance of these feelings—at most, he would, at the appropriate time, help to stabilize a red thread that seems to shouldn’t have been broken but was broken because of some things.

This kind of broken red thread is usually the kind where two people have separated, but they both can’t let go of each other, so the telekinesis is still there, and the red thread remains for a long time in a state of being broken but still connected, and has never been tied to anyone else.

This kind of broken red thread, if it is inferred through divine power that after the changes of the years, the personalities and living environments of the two people have changed to a certain extent, and there is a high probability that they can better tolerate each other when they meet again, and their lives will be better after they get back together, then it is possible to get a helping hand from Yue Lao.

But the inference of divine power is just an inference, and a helping hand is just a helping hand. Whether they can really spend their lives together still depends on the choices of the young couple themselves.

Of course, there is only one Yue Lao, and there are thousands of unlucky lovers in the world. Even if he had three heads and six arms, he wouldn’t be able to manage them all, so most people don’t even have the luck to get this little bit of help.

But there are too few happy relationships in the world, and Yue Lao’s divine power will also be greatly disturbed.

At times like this, if the gods who have come down to the mortal world are willing, they can take on some of Yue Lao’s tasks and help him out while they are studying in the mortal world.

Oh, right, since I’ve said so much, I might as well say a little more that many people don’t know.

Lin Zhong had been to Yue Lao’s red thread house in her early years.

Human feelings are really complicated. It’s not just a simple matter of “I like you, and you like me.”

Sometimes the red thread is not just tied to two people. It can be very complicated, composed of many people intertwined, so complicated that even a spider demon would have to give it eight likes.

Humans seem to like to call the central figure in this situation a “sea king.”

To this, the god who is truly in charge of the ocean said, “Thank you for asking, I feel a little offended.”

I’ve gotten off topic!

In short, the current situation is that Lin Zhong, in a pile of broken red threads, had casually pulled out a red thread that had been broken for some years, but had also been connected for a long, long time.

On the day she had drawn this thread, she had closed her eyes and felt the past of the two people.

When all the past flashed through her heart, a wave of sourness appeared in her heart, and she could not calm down for a long time.

—To summarize, this is a very tricky job.

From the personalities of these two people, and the state of their breakup, if there is no external help, the probability of them getting back together in this lifetime is very small.

It can even be said that even with external help, the probability is not very high.

If she wanted to return to the celestial realm early, perhaps she should put this thread back, pretend that nothing had happened, and draw another one.

It turned out that Lin Zhong had indeed done so.

She had put the thread back, drawn another one, and had spent a year to successfully complete the first task.

Finally, she had happily run to her colleague, who was still working hard as a corporate slave, to show off.

“Really, just one? So fast!” her colleague was stunned, a hint of surprise in his tired eyes.

“Mmm-hmm!” Lin Zhong said with a laugh, and drew another new broken red thread.

This time, it was a mutual secret crush, but because one of them had had a little change in their family when they were young and had been taken abroad by their mom, a relationship that had not even had a chance to start had ended.

Now, the one who had gone abroad had already returned to the country and was successful in their career, while the other girl had accidentally joined her company and was currently in an awkward relationship of a company boss and an employee.

Mmm, this plot is very classic. She had dealt with a similar situation the last time she had come down to the mortal world.

It’s relatively simple, and it shouldn’t take much time to succeed.

With this thought, Lin Zhong once again devoted herself to this new task.

She felt that she was simply a genius at matchmaking. In less than a year, she had easily taken down this task!

Only one more left!

With this thought, Lin Zhong drew a red thread for the last time.

As luck would have it, after nearly two years, she had once again drawn the broken red thread that had made her feel so sad for a long time.

—Yan Lu, Jian Xin.

Lin Zhong: “How is it you two again?”

Why do they all say that fate is always so mysterious?

When she saw the two somewhat unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar names again, Lin Zhong suddenly felt a little soft-hearted.

She thought, maybe some people are just destined to be together?

Otherwise, of the thousands of broken red threads, how could she have drawn the same one twice?

If it was really a matter of fate, then if she took on this task, wouldn’t it be just a matter of going with the flow?

—It shouldn’t be too difficult, right?

With this thought, Lin Zhong informed Yue Lao with her spiritual power that she had already taken on this broken red thread.

When an immortal comes down to the mortal world, most of their magic will be sealed in advance, and the things they can do are often very limited.

Considering that the overall situation of these two people was a little complicated, and the friendship bonds around them were almost maxed out, and there was no room for more people to intervene, she decided to take some roundabout ways.

—To use her remaining spiritual power, find an emotional gap, and create some simple and crude hard connections between these two.

In this way, no matter how stubborn these two are, as long as they still have each other in their hearts, they will have to be strongly bound.

To carry out this plan, Lin Zhong had secretly observed the two of them for a long time.

Finally, she had transformed into a newborn little duck and had successfully entered one of the girls’ homes.

She had already pre-set that as long as she encountered a suitable opportunity, she would directly swap bodies with Jian Xin, to create some opportunities for these two stubborn people with many misunderstandings in their hearts to be alone and discover each other’s feelings.

But now her magic was limited, and she needed some external force to be able to achieve this soul-swapping technique.

And this external force was the thread of telekinesis that had not been broken between the two of them for many years.

Between this Yan Lu and Jian Xin, there was definitely some telekinesis, otherwise this red thread would not have been broken for so many years.

But to say that there was a lot, it was really not that much.

This person named Yan Lu, the telekinesis in her heart was always quite deep, but the one on the other side was relatively shallow.

Don’t ask, if you have to ask, it’s because she’s so busy with work that she wants to die, and she has no time to think about emotional matters.

It was because the mutual telekinesis between these two was not strong enough that she had tried many times in this little duck’s body but had not been able to connect to the soul on the other end of the red thread.

—This is very awkward.

Because most of her spiritual power had been used to transform into this duck, and if she gave up now, the sunk cost would be a little large, and her remaining spiritual power might not be enough to successfully complete this task.

So she could only continue to wait for an opportunity.

Lin Zhong really hadn’t expected that this wait would be for more than two years!

She didn’t know if the two people on either end of the red thread hated each other, but she hated them, she really hated them!

The broken red thread of these two was clearly so deeply entangled, why couldn’t the telekinesis between them even connect!!!

—I’m going to throw up, I’m really going to throw up!

She really shouldn’t have taken on this task back then!

Now, not only was she stuck here, but she also had to be rubbed on the ground by that stupid dog named Xin Xin at home every day!

She was so angry that she was a duck and not a goose!

If she were a goose, she would definitely chase this stupid dog and peck it every day!

And so, the days passed inexplicably for two years.

The once-confident god had been worn down by the plain life at Yan Lu’s house into the appearance of a pet duck.

The biggest thing every day was to eat, drink, poop, sleep, and to fight with the dog at home.

Sometimes she even felt that she wouldn’t be able to complete the task, right?

She could clearly feel a not-so-weak emotional telekinesis in Yan Lu’s heart, and she could feel that Yan Lu was even living in this city because of the Jian Xin on the other end of the red thread—but why couldn’t the “signal” of these two ever connect?

Lin Zhong waited, and Lin Zhong was anxious.

She even told herself in her heart that if these two still hadn’t connected after three years, she would be ready to quit.

After all, she was not a particularly powerful god, and there was really no need to make things so difficult for herself for a single task.

Fortunately, her luck was not bad.

Suddenly, on a quiet night, she felt a very strong telekinesis coming from the other end of the red thread!

Great! This is it!!!

Lin Zhong, without a second thought, closed her eyes and, following the telekinesis, swapped her and Jian Xin’s souls.

The moment the spell was successfully cast.

She felt a very long-lost, and not much lighter than the intense pain of transcending a tribulation in her distant memory.

Lin Zhong: “…”

Good news, she felt the telekinesis and successfully swapped bodies with someone.

Bad news, this body at this moment, seemed to be, apparently, probably, a little bit dead…

What’s going on! Is this thinking of an ex to the point of suicide?!

How! Can it!! be so painful!!!

—I’m numb, this time I’m really numb.

At this point, I’ll be a good person to the end.

I’ll just save her a little _(。°)」∠)