The Turing Pawnshop

This story was originally titled The Turing Pawnshop. My next book will be Raising Kids in the Apocalypse. Add it to your collection if you're interested. They say the God of War of the Celestial Realm abandoned the path to immortality and took up ghost cultivation for the sake of that white dragon, giving up his position as heir to the Celestial Lord. They say that white dragon is so breathtakingly beautiful that not even the many goddesses of the Celestial Realm can compare. They say the aloof and proud Immortal Lord Jiao Heng willingly let that white dragon imprison him. They say that white dragon is ruthless, and no one under heaven dares cross him. Past life: Bai Xi was once a thousand-year-old snake demon. He ascended to the Celestial Realm after transforming into a dragon, only to have Jiao Heng Immortal Lord tear out his immortal bones and cast him down to the mortal world because Bai Xi loved him. Bai Xi was a ruthless one, too. He spent another five hundred years ascending to the Celestial Realm, then used every means at his disposal to make Jiao Heng fall in love with him. He then arranged for the immortals to catch them together, causing both Jiao Heng and himself to have their immortal roots torn out and be cast down to the mortal world. As Jiao Heng fell from the Immortal's Chasm, Bai Xi smiled at him and said, "Jiao Heng, do you remember the white dragon who was tortured and skinned because of you? I don't love you. I came back only for revenge!" From then on, Bai Xi severed his ties to love and desire, abandoned the path to immortality, and took up ghost cultivation. But the God of War of the Celestial Realm, who had once discarded him like trash, began clinging to him. The Turing Pawnshop is Bai Xi's base in the mortal realm. By day, he does business with the living; by night, with the dead. If you can pay the price, there is nothing Bai Xi can't do. The Turing Pawnshop has three rules: Pay first, then the work gets done. No refunds, whether the job succeeds or fails. Anyone surnamed Jiao, living or dead, is forbidden from entering. Blurb for Raising Kids in the Apocalypse: Yun Huacen is a genius. At just eighteen, he had already earned a doctorate in biomedical science. Unfortunately, he also died of leukemia at the age of eighteen. When he woke again, he had been reborn in the body of a man with the same name. Strangely, he possessed all the man's memories and could also foresee everything that would happen in the future. The original owner was a world-renowned biomedical scientist, and a complete madman. When the zombie virus broke out, the original owner even used human beings as lab rats to study it. After three years, he finally developed a drug that could kill the zombie virus, but on the very day the drug was completed, his "lab rats" devoured him alive. Yun Huacen looked at the rows of metal cages in the laboratory and the fearful eyes of the frail children inside. With a helpless sigh, he began his life as their caretaker. Of course, these "kids" aren't just the children. There are also two feline aliens, three canine aliens, one mutated Chinese cabbage, and two mutated potatoes... As time goes by, the number of his "kids" keeps growing, and their variety keeps expanding. From humans to animals to plants, he has them all. While everyone else in the apocalypse worries about food, he worries about having fish, meat, and vegetables every day. Yun Huacen: "Cai Cai, we're having stir-fried cabbage today." Cai Cai opens its mouth and spits out a head of Chinese cabbage. Yun Huacen: "Dou Dou, give me some spicy and sour shredded potatoes, too." Dou Dou crouches and strains, and a potato pops out. Yun Huacen: "..." Yun Huacen thought life would continue peacefully like this, but then he noticed the children around him looking at him differently, their gazes so heated that he couldn't handle it. "I thought of you as my kids. What do you think of me?" Theme: Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil.