191: Chapter 192 A God-like Praise for Clean Professions: Qinghe County First Coughs Up a Blackboard of Dust

"You all know how to write on dirty paper."

"I will make them inhale a clean career."

The breath exhaled by the divine lungs crossed Jiang City, crossed Hai City, crossed the Beiyuan Mining Area, and also crossed The Hospital in Nanling.

It was not like wind.

It did not blow down trees, nor did it kick up dust.

It only blew into people's Career System interfaces.

In all regions that had not established local work order no. 002 nodes, Career Emblems simultaneously lit up with a soft golden light.

In the Qinghe County Career Training Station, thirty-seven students who hadn't finished class yet were standing in the classroom.

They had just finished scribbling their names on the blackboard with chalk, and had even gotten a radical wrong on the two characters for "work order no. 002".

The next second, a golden light shone outside the window.

The pre-awakening emblems on the students' chests began to heat up.

A girl with a ponytail looked down at her hands.

She was still holding a piece of chalk between her fingers.

But the white dust on her fingertips was being washed away by the golden light, turning into a clean, transparent state.

Her gaze began to glaze over.

[Unified Career Naming Access]

[Clearing Local Interference]

[Pre-assigned Career: Standard Wind-type Scout]

She had clearly just been asking: "Teacher, can I sign with chalk?"

Now, she opened her mouth, but her voice had become steady.

"I accept the standard naming."

The female teacher on the podium turned pale.

Her name was Teacher Song Qing, just an ordinary teacher at the Qinghe County Training Station, with the career of C-rank Basic Instructor.

She had never seen the White Tower, nor did she know about the complex rules in Jiang City.

She only saw her students, one after another, becoming too quiet.

So quiet they didn't seem like students anymore.

"Don't accept it!"

She shouted.

The Divine Breath immediately pressed down.

[Teacher Interfering with Career Naming]

[Recommend Silence]

Teacher Song Qing's throat constricted, and she couldn't speak.

She subconsciously went to close the window.

But the Divine Breath hadn't come in through the window.

It lit up from within the Career System interface on every child's chest.

A boy started to glow.

[Pre-assigned Career: Standard Earth-type Laborer]

Another child had empty eyes.

[Pre-assigned Career: Standard Security Assistant]

Unified.

Clean.

No typos.

No chalk dust.

And none of that crooked, terrible sentence they had just written on the blackboard—

[We aren't handing it in yet.]

In the Main Control Room, the feed from Qinghe County was shaking violently.

Cheng Du stared at the Divine Breath circuit, his expression grim.

"It doesn't travel through the respiratory tract."

"It goes through the Career System interface."

Chen Ye was so anxious he kept slapping his shield.

"Then holding our breath is useless?"

"It has some use."

Cheng Du gritted his teeth and said.

"If the body doesn't inhale, the interface will also be a beat slower."

"But it can't stop it."

Lin Jin was lying under the console, his fingers tracing a newly appeared golden lung lobe line.

The line was very thin, but terrifyingly dense, like countless glowing capillaries, piercing into the foundation of Career Emblems globally.

"We can't cut the lung lines."

Cheng Du said in a low voice.

"The Career System relies on these lines to perform the initial adaptation for awakened ones."

"If we cut them, many unawakened people's interfaces will collapse."

Lin Jin stared at the circuit.

"Then we add filter elements."

"Filter the Divine Breath?"

"Yes."

Cheng Du cursed:

"This is Career Naming Gas, not smoke!"

"Smoke isn't stopped by cursing, either."

Lin Jin looked up and shouted into the intermittent communication from Qinghe County:

"Teacher Song Qing!"

"Can you hear me?"

On screen, Teacher Song Qing clutched her throat, unable to speak, and could only nod vigorously.

Lin Jin said quickly:

"The Divine Breath travels through the Career System interface."

"Don't just close the windows."

"Cover the students' pre-awakening emblems."

"Don't just cover the skin."

"Cover them with the things they just wrote on."

Teacher Song Qing grabbed the test papers on the desk and was about to press them on, but the golden light shone straight through the paper.

It was useless.

Too clean.

Lin Jin immediately corrected himself:

"Not blank paper!"

"Use the blackboard eraser!"

Teacher Song Qing suddenly looked at the old, blackened, dirty blackboard eraser on the edge of the podium.

It was covered in chalk dust, hand sweat, yesterday's uncleared wrong answers, and half a doodle of a person drawn by a student.

She rushed over, grabbed the blackboard eraser, and pressed it hard against the emblem on the chest of the girl closest to her.

The golden light faltered.

The emptiness in the girl's eyes paused for a beat.

"Continue!"

Lin Jin shouted.

"Smear the chalk dust next to the emblem!"

"Write their names from just now!"

Teacher Song Qing didn't know how to deconstruct rules.

Nor did she understand the God Head main terminal.

She only knew to follow instructions.

She used the blackboard eraser dipped in plenty of chalk dust to write a crooked name on the outside of the girl's school uniform over her chest.

[Xu Tian]

The girl's eyes flickered.

"Teacher..."

Teacher Song Qing's tears welled up instantly.

"Yes, your name is Xu Tian."

"You are not a standard wind-type scout."

"You wrote 'work order no. 002' wrong today."

Xu Tian's lips trembled.

"I... I was even punished by you to erase the blackboard."

"Right!"

Teacher Song Qing shoved the blackboard eraser into her hand.

"Now keep erasing!"

Xu Tian grabbed the blackboard eraser and slapped it onto the chest of the boy next to her.

"Wang Xiaohu!"

"You didn't hand in your homework!"

The golden light on the boy's chest suddenly dimmed.

"I handed in half of it!"

"That still means you didn't finish handing it in!"

The moment the two started arguing, the Divine Breath recoiled for the first time in the Qinghe County classroom.

Because unified career naming requires a clean interface.

And these students' interfaces had been dirtied by chalk dust, wrong answers, arguing, half a homework assignment, and that sentence from just now: "We aren't handing it in yet."

Lin Jin watched the screen and immediately grabbed work order no. 002.

"Write!"

Luo Wensheng picked up a pen:

[Divine Breath Filtration Plan: Local Reality Filter Element]

He Zhibai added:

[Filter Element Cost: Local materials, local Records, local manual maintenance]

Ye Guizhou stamped it:

[Local filter element received]

[Cannot be considered a Jiang City unified standard]

Lin Jin roared to the entire channel:

"Everyone in places that received the dirty work order, listen up!"

"You don't block the Divine Breath with walls!"

"Block it with things that just happened locally!"

"Schools use chalk dust, wrong-answer notebooks, and attendance rosters!"

"Hospitals use medical Records, bedside charts, and night-watch bells!"

"Mining areas use shift roll calls, mine cart dust, and underground signal lights!"

"Hai City uses saltwater, drainage ditch mud, and broken guardrail numbers!"

"Don't clean it up!"

"The more you can prove this place isn't blank, the better!"

Over in Hai City, Intern Liang Yu had just been pressed to a half-kneel at the entrance of the Awakening Tower by the Divine Breath.

Hearing Lin Jin's words, she grabbed a bucket of seawater and splashed the saltwater onto the golden umbilical cord at the entrance of the Awakening Tower.

The pancake uncle understood immediately and pressed the pancake bag used to write the work order earlier onto the umbilical cord interface.

Oil stains, scallions, chili sauce, and sea salt mixed into a mess.

The golden umbilical cord twitched violently.

[Interface Contaminated]

[Unable to unify naming]

Intern Liang Yu gasped and shouted:

"Hai City Filter Element No. 1 established!"

In the Beiyuan mines, the old miners were even more direct.

He grabbed a handful of mine dust and smeared it next to the emblem of every miner on shift.

"Don't worry about it being dirty!"

"If it gets clean, it'll be written away by it!"

Someone was coughing until tears streamed down their face, but they were still laughing.

"I've been going down into the mines for twenty years, and this is the first time I've felt that dust is useful!"

In The Hospital in Nanling, the obstetrics director stuck photocopies of sterilized medical Records next to The Hospital bed terminals, not touching any wounds or contaminating medical equipment, but only posting the current status of each bed onto the Career System interface identification screen.

[Bed 1: Postpartum Observation]

[Bed 2: Premature Infant Incubator]

[Bed 3: Accompanying Family Member]

When the Divine Breath fell onto these beds, it was forced to read them one by one.

It could no longer unify the entire hospital under the name "Mother's Delivery Room."

More and more places began making their own filter elements.

Some small towns used market ledgers.

Some villages used rhetorical questions just written on the outer walls of the ancestral hall.

Some border outposts used the mud prints from the soles of patrol boots.

Some schools used the scratches on desks and teachers' attendance rosters.

These things were messy, dirty, and non-standard.

But precisely because they were non-standard, the Divine Breath could not inhale them all at once into the "Unified Career Naming."

On the edges of work order no. 002, new signatures kept appearing.

Not neat city seals.

They were chalk dust prints, oil-stained bag corners, mine lamp numbers, saltwater stains, and bedside chart tape.

The divine lungs began to cough for the first time.

At the end of the sky, the golden lung lobes within the trunk of the Mother of All Things contracted violently.

That breath of "clean career" that was originally meant to blow across the world was blocked by the dirty filter elements everywhere and rolled back.

Above Jiang City, both eyes of the God Head sank simultaneously.

[Local Contamination Filter Elements Spreading]

[Unified Naming Blocked]

[Divine Breath Purity Decreasing]

Chen Ye looked at the messy filter elements all over the screen and finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"The God thinks we're dirty."

"Turns out everyone started competing to see who could be dirtier."

Cheng Du grinned, his smile uglier than crying.

"Who in maintenance doesn't have some dust on them?"

Lin Jin didn't laugh for long.

Because although the Divine Breath pressure on the Mainframe had dropped, it hadn't returned to zero.

Cheng Du looked at the lung lobe diagram, his expression sinking again.

"The filter elements can only block the first breath."

"It's going to inhale again."

"What do you mean?"

"Lungs inhale."

Cheng Du's voice tightened.

"Just now it was exhaling, blowing out the unified naming."

"The next step, it will inhale."

Lin Jin looked toward the sky.

The golden lung lobes of the Mother of All Things slowly opened.

This time, it wasn't blowing careers into people.

Instead, it was sucking all the dirty filter elements, work orders, testimonies, names, errors, dust, oil stains, and bloodstains that had just been established in all places into the divine lungs.

[Divine Breath Inhalation]

[Target: Clear local contamination filter elements]

[Recycle all non-standard reality traces]

In the Qinghe County classroom, the chalk writing on the blackboard began to be sucked out the window.

The chalk name on Xu Tian's chest was also fading.

She panicked and pressed down on her school uniform.

"Teacher, it's going to erase me!"

Teacher Song Qing hugged the blackboard, her fingers digging into the chalk dust.

"Don't let it suck it away!"

But the entire blackboard was bulging outward.

Lin Jin suddenly looked at Cheng Du.

"How do we block the inhalation?"

Cheng Du gritted his teeth.

"Use filter elements for exhalation."

"Use check valves for inhalation."

Lin Jin looked down toward the direction of the Jiang City heart pump chamber.

The temporary mechanical valve of the gods heart was still beating.

A check valve structure—they had just made one.

His eyes lit up bit by bit.

"Everywhere, make check valve plates!"

Chen Ye stared wide-eyed.

"Teach them now?"

"Teach them now."

Lin Jin grabbed his work badge, his voice transmitting to all cities.

"Listen up!"

"It's going to suck away the dirty things you just made."

"Don't pull hard."

"Add a one-way baffle plate behind the filter element."

"Cardboard, metal sheets, bedside charts, mine tickets, blackboard eraser casings—anything works."

"The point isn't the material."

"The point is to write one sentence."

He paused, then said word by word:

"This segment of reality has been confirmed locally and must not be recycled or cleaned by the main terminal."

Luo Wensheng immediately wrote this sentence into work order no. 002.

Ye Guizhou stamped it.

He Zhibai recorded it.

In Qinghe County, Teacher Song Qing took apart the blackboard eraser casing, wrote that sentence on the back with chalk, and jammed it firmly into the blackboard frame.

Xu Tian and Wang Xiaohu held it down together.

The blackboard stopped bulging outward.

In Hai City, Intern Liang Yu jammed the broken guardrail sign into the drainage ditch opening.

In Beiyuan, the old miner wedged the mine ticket into the turntable lock slot.

In Nanling, the obstetrics director flipped the bedside chart upside down onto The Hospital bed control interface.

Rough check valve plates lit up all over the world.

The inhalation force of the divine lungs was jammed.

It could inhale air.

It could inhale golden light.

But it couldn't inhale these traces of reality that had been confirmed locally, carrying names and typos.

The golden lung lobes contracted violently.

As if its breathing had been jammed by tiny, dirty check valve plates.

[Divine Breath Recycling Failed]

[Local filter elements retained]

[work order no. 002 spreading]

On the world-class recycling trunk line, the first crack truly spanning the divine body appeared.

The trunk of the Mother of All Things gave a slow tremor.

Countless cities saw the same tattered work order in the corner of their blacked-out screens.

[work order no. 002 parallel work order]

[Do not clean before signing]

[Signing while dirty also counts]

But the moment the crack appeared, the God Head core suddenly shut down the golden lungs.

The world was silent for a second.

Cheng Du's expression didn't relax; instead, he turned paler.

"It's not breathing anymore."

Lin Jin asked:

"What happens if the God doesn't breathe?"

Cheng Du looked at the Mainframe, his voice terrifyingly low.

"That means it's preparing to move its bones and heart."

Before he could finish, a loud noise came from the direction of the heart pump chamber.

The temporary mechanical valve Lin Jin had installed with his own hands was deformed by internal force for the first time.

The Mainframe screen turned blood red.

[Divine lungs blocked]

[Switching power supply]

[gods heart forced pressurization]

[Target: Break through check valve structure, restore divine body main circulation]

Cheng Du turned around and looked at Lin Jin sharply.

"It's bad."

"It's not playing with local nodes anymore."

"It's going to make its heart beat back into the God."