Chapter 274 - 274 255 Cleaning Robot

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274: Chapter 255: Cleaning Robot 274: Chapter 255: Cleaning Robot “Yo, you’re busy, huh? Not bad, keep up the good work!” Having just returned to his own courtyard and entered the bank building, Lu Ping’an saw a familiar figure. A light silver “cleaning robot” was holding a mop, slowly mopping the floor in the hall. “…Lu Ping’an!” The synthesized voice, squeezed out between teeth, was filled with hatred in every word. “Release me, or I’ll kill…” As soon as they met, the light silver mechanical-humanoid dressed as a maid began to threaten, but before she could finish… “Ahem.” A light cough came from behind, and Fang Wen instantly stiffened. Her face full of terror and unease, her body trembling, the mop falling to the ground. Chris, who had lowered her eyes, had somehow come down the stairs. She was still dressed as a nun, but was even more dignified than when she was alone. Suddenly appearing in the hall, she looked at Fang Wen’s back and slowly said, “Too slow, my dog… After cleaning the first floor, clean the windows outside too. The books and videos in the library also need to be organized.” “Yes! My God, I’ll hurry right up.” Speaking, Fang Wen, who didn’t dare to even turn her head, immediately began to mop the floor earnestly. In a sense, Fang Wen’s arrival did help Chris to alleviate the labor in maintaining the courtyard… simply put, all the work was dumped on her. Lu Ping’an laughed and did not rush to add insult to injury, Fang Wen needed some time to readjust her position, just like the original Chris. “How’s she? She seems very obedient, right?” “How could it be? She’s just pretending, doing all sorts of small tricks. But what’s the point of those little tricks in the Land of Rules? I’ll keep an eye on her. It’s rare to have a slave… I mean, a labor force. I can’t let her escape.” Lu Ping’an ignored the words that slipped out from her, after all, this person had probably truly experienced medieval times. The two of them went straight upstairs to discuss the current important matters, leaving the sixth-tier Mechanic Spiritualist earnestly acting as a cleaning robot and window-cleaning robot in the hall. In fact, since they signed the agreement, Lu Ping’an and Chris never saw her as a threat again. The first contract required that the two parties not attack each other before removing Dragon Yuhe and others from the Mother Goddess cult. Whoever breached the contract would “lose the rights they should have as a life” … and this was the first trap. First of all, the duration of this contract is not limited to the end of this event but is valid until the Mother Goddess cult and Lu Ping’an reach an outcome… Fang Wen herself is also a part of “Mother Goddess cult and others” in the contract. The contract won’t terminate before she is removed. Therefore, whenever ambiguous words like “and others,” “all,” “all the subjects” appear in a contract, they must be clarified, or it is easy to fall into the trap. However, this not-so-difficult-to-notice text trap should have been seen by Fang Wen, and Lu Ping’an also hoped that she had seen it. “As long as the agreement only requires us not to attack each other as a safety measure, he also knows his position… hehe, let him feel more at ease and be more honest in working for me.” That was probably Fang Wen’s thought at the time. It’s okay as long as there is no attack, after all, how much binding force can a 2-tier contract have on a high-level professional? Even if the contractor pays a huge price and truly binds the “instant death,” the worst outcome might just be losing a fingernail. The asymmetry of information, as well as the contempt for Lu Ping’an, caused her to deliberately jump into this pit… and never climbed up again. “Losing the rights a life should have” is not the “death” she had imagined, but a punishment that Lu Ping’an and Chris had tailored for her after much discussion. Its true meaning is “losing the rights to be recognized as a client by Life Bank.” Instant death contract targets all of the punished person’s aspects, which will naturally be heavily resisted. As for the contracts guaranteed by the Life Bank, the punishment is only the erasure of their “qualification as a customer of the Life Bank,” so naturally there is no possibility of resistance or reduction. So, when the contract is triggered, in the Life Bank’s judgment, “Fang Wen is no longer human.” Then, what does this mean… In the judgment of the Life Bank, the metalized body of Fang Wen is an object, an object that can be moved around by the owner at will. Throwing it into the Hidden World Courtyard requires no prior inquiry about “accepting the invitation.” Instead, as an “object,” even in the bank, there is no option to open the door, and she can only wait for someone kind-hearted to take her out. This is the trap Lu Ping’an and Chris prepared for “the immortal her.” Since they cannot determine whether they can kill her to silence her, they leave her forever in Hidden World Courtyard. Even the “liquid metal armor” was made expressly for her cage. Lu Ping’an knew that keeping her with him would risk small things like eavesdropping, and the biggest potential threat would be her becoming a parasitic body in the Silver War. So, he decided to simply invite her into the pot. As long as he confirmed she was inside, throwing her into the courtyard would completely solve the problem. Lu Ping’an and Chris both knew that, at the critical moment of the war, her main consciousness would definitely be within the armguard. A clone? Leave it to the Silver War’s main consciousness to operate, hadn’t they done so before? As for making her break the contract? That’s even simpler. Her emotions were already unstable, and she looked down on people. Both Lu Ping’an and Chris had several ways to trap her. Ironically, not long ago, Lu Ping’an used the reason “God-level Abnormal Ability Life Bank recognizes you as life” to save her from collapsing, and now he uses “Life Bank does not recognize you as life” to trap her. All they can say is that fate is changeable, and she deserved her calamity. “Did anything change after the contract? Has the bank given any feedback?” Lu Ping’an came to verify some things. “It seems that apart from the new restriction of ‘cannot leave,’ there are no extra changes. It might be because the Life Bank lacks rules in this aspect.” After the first contract that trapped Fang Wen, Lu Ping’an signed the second contract with her. [The second contract takes effect after the completion of the first contract. The content is to take Fang Wen to meet her god Kerdalais, and the reward is one million and two Silver-tier Taboo items. The penalty for breach of contract is the death of Lu Ping’an.] This contract was completed instantly after the first contract was completed. Fang Wen met her god and owed Lu Ping’an a huge amount… this was undoubtedly a huge debt that could not be repaid. Lu Ping’an certainly couldn’t let her go and withdraw the money. No matter how much income she had, it wasn’t worth releasing this hidden danger. He only wanted to test the potential functions of the Life Bank. “Is it just an inability to leave, and no bankruptcy liquidation or anything like that?” Since the Life Bank is still the guarantor, Fang Wen has undoubtedly become a debtor with negative assets in the Life Bank’s judgment, while she has been deprived of her rights as a customer. Lu Ping’an wanted to see what kind of treatment a rogue debtor would receive, whether it would be a bankruptcy liquidation, a direct split sale, or an eternal free laborer to pay back the debt? However, as expected yet unexpected, the Life Bank had no special response, as if it was stuck there. “Well, it should be a lack of rules, no authority or processing procedures for this part. Bring in a Warlord or military commander-oriented Commander or Lord profession to make up the rules, a Beast Tamer should work too, but you can’t take the job. By the way, Contractors seem to have a specialized branch that does this. You can check it out.” Lu Ping’an nodded his head, not getting hung up on that. An inherently indebted object that was not allowed to leave the country seemed to make sense, and with this extra constraint, it was even safer. Originally, Lu Ping’an had to tell others about Fang Wen, so they would be careful not to take her out. Now, even that process was saved. Resistance? Violence and non-cooperation? In this Land of Rules, all behavior other than “trade” is prohibited. Since her right to trade has been revoked, she doesn’t even have the authority to operate the Rule Facilities… Her ability to mop the floor now is only a temporary work authorization, similar to that of a living tool, granted to her by the ‘Manager AI.’ With the big cat here, they didn’t fear she would make trouble. After a few twists and turns, she would naturally settle down. “…If other visitors come later, introduce her as the cleaning robot Fang.”

Chapter 274 - 274 255 Cleaning Robot

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