Chapter 173 Jishi Medical University 31

As Yu Naixin's figure quickly disappeared outside the laboratory building, neither the audience nor the other guest involved felt any surprise.

[Hahahaha, "Yao Ling" really can't be bothered to even acknowledge the Frankenstein's monster professor!]

[I didn't initially find the Frankenstein's monster professor's words particularly awkward, but the fact that the only witness present so readily chose to ignore them made his one-man show seem rather embarrassing, hahaha!]

[That's hilarious, it's true!]

The Frankenstein-like figure himself didn't seem embarrassed at all; he naturally lowered his raised hands, looking quite calm.

[It's not exactly calm. The Frankenstein's monster of an actor clearly has a burning, expectant glint in his eyes. It seems he sees this female guest as an opponent he absolutely must face head-on!]

[The favorability rating had already reached 70%, but the guest on the sidelines wasn't showing tenderness or love for the guest on the show, but rather a desire to conquer?! Okay, well, a desire to conquer can be considered a form of affection...]

I'm really looking forward to the next clash between the two guests!

The live stream chat was buzzing with lively discussion, but the night that Yu Naixin walked into was eerily quiet.

The giant banyan tree outside the laboratory building was a place she would inevitably pass by. Yu Naixin glanced over there casually and noticed that the forest of aerial roots was grayish-brown.

It's just like the aerial roots of an ordinary banyan tree.

Yu Naixin gave a soft chuckle.

The banyan tree spirit youth is still the same; if he senses anything amiss, he'd rather play dead than take any risks.

Before she entered the laboratory building tonight, the aerial roots she saw still faintly glowed with a blood-red luster, as if they were secretly enticing her to come closer and explore.

As a result, after she came out, he immediately stopped all his seductive behavior and became well-behaved.

Yu Naixin had deliberately kept quiet this time, but when the banyan spirit youth saw her emerge unscathed from the Frankenstein professor's territory so quickly and with obvious ease, he realized something and chose to avoid her.

With her arms crossed, Yu Naixin walked a few steps straight toward the banyan tree.

[What is "Yao Ling" doing? Is she really planning to immediately go and raise the favorability of the banyan tree spirit youth after finishing with the Frankenstein professor?!]

[No, that shouldn't be it. I remember when "Yao Ling" arrived at the lab building tonight, the aerial roots of the banyan tree weren't this color; they were blood-red.]

There were many observant and deductive viewers in the live stream, and soon the barrage comments clarified the cause and effect relationship.

【!? My goodness! "Yao Ling"—when the banyan tree spirit wanted her to come over, she ignored it; when the banyan tree spirit didn't want her to come over, she insisted on going near it! Hahahaha, she's determined to go against the dungeon guest, she's determined to defy the dungeon guest's wishes!】

[...Damn it, I've discovered I have a condition where seeing the characters for "Ruyi" (如意, meaning good fortune) near me immediately reminds me of the opera "Ruyi Opera House"... That extra episode was too weird; I can't even imagine how it will develop...]

[The banyan tree spirit youth is such a coward! He took the initiative to provoke her, but then backed out halfway through when he didn't achieve his goal. "Yao Ling" has been slacking off for days for some unknown reason. Finally, we're seeing some exciting and stimulating content. Banyan tree spirit youth, give it your all!]

[This isn't the first time he's done this. To be more precise, aren't both of the guest stars on this reality show experts at changing their tune? Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to expand "Jishi Medical University" to its current size, and now they're about to add a third guest star.]

Wait a minute, I suddenly have a bold guess: Was Yaoling's various antics of slacking off these past few days partly a deliberate attempt to lower the banyan tree spirit youth's guard?!

[Hmm...now that you mention it, it's actually quite possible!]

Yu Naixin walked until she was about to touch the aerial root forest.

The enormous banyan tree remained unresponsive, its aerial roots swaying gently in the occasional night breeze, creating a sense of serene tranquility.

After watching with great interest for a while, Yu Naixin left with a faint smile on her lips, as if she had just watched a good show, and was quite satisfied.

Yu Naixin had no intention of forcibly dragging the banyan tree spirit youth out of the treehouse.

She wanted him to willingly come out to see her on his own.

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Unsurprisingly, she returned to dormitory 201. Just as the viewers in the live stream had guessed, Yu Naixin couldn't wait to open her phone and start playing Snake, a game she had played countless times before.

The comments section is already numb to this; everyone agrees that this strange and amazing female guest really loves this pixelated Snake game.

I love it much more than those shows where you have to win over guests or complete dungeons.

Some viewers even seriously debated whether Yu Naixin preferred Dou Dizhu (a card game) or Snake (another card game).

Then came three more days of calm.

Yu Naixin is like an ordinary college student who just drifts through life, playing on her phone in class and wandering around the campus and streets after class.

Based on the established pattern of previous episodes of "Jishi Medical University", the fifth to eighth days of the episode's run are indeed a relatively stable period if the other guest who was not chosen as the male guest's favorite does not take any action. This allows the guests who successfully escaped in the first four days to catch their breath.

However, since the "Frankenstein's monster" professor, whom Yu Naixin had chosen as her ideal man, did not make any further moves, Yu Naixin was genuinely more relaxed and comfortable these three days than she was in the lounge.

The viewers in the live stream were both incredibly bored and eagerly waiting for Yu Naixin to do something special in the next scene, convincing themselves to stay in the live stream.

After all, this female guest, "Yao Ling," is really interesting when she's not slacking off.

Yu Naixin, having nothing better to do, scrolled through the barrage of comments and felt a little sorry for the viewers.

Yu Naixin had also scanned the earlier comments, but what caught her attention was the viewer who meticulously analyzed a long string of precise information when many viewers couldn't help but close the live stream to relieve their disgust.

This audience member was a familiar face to Yu Naixin, whom she had met during the simulation. She observed and deduced the deeper meanings hidden behind Yu Naixin's seemingly casual wandering.

For example, the teachers you ask questions to are all NPCs with clues related to the third terrifying rumor, the dungeon guest who is about to mutate and proliferate.

Yu Naixin still remembers the viewer's comment, "You really can't be fooled or misled by the appearance of 'Yao Ling'."

Back when he was a guest on the show, this audience member was probably listed on the "Experience Ranking," "Wealth Ranking," and "Cleansing Ranking" in the title section.

In this real-life version of the show, Yu Naixin also didn't give up on her strategy.

The button that was taken from the Frankenstein professor's white coat and thrown into the water under the bridge was the very first preparation.

The opportunity that Yu Naixin had been waiting for soon arrived.

A full week has passed in this episode of "Jishi Medical University," and many plot points that need to be advanced are starting to urge the show's guests to take action.

Almost all the teachers assigned tasks, and a midterm exam will be held in five days. The exam score accounts for a large proportion of the final grade point average. If you don't pass, your final grade point average will also be impossible to pass.

[How did things get so far? Very few of the previous female guests made it this far, and more than half of the survivors perished because of their poor midterm exam results...]

Yes, this midterm exam is crucial. Even if you fail, you can't just answer carelessly. I remember someone doing some research and figuring out that if you get about 25% to 30% of the questions right, you can safely get through the ordeal after the results are released. If the guests on the show are willing to put in some effort in this regard, they should be fine. Those exam papers are mostly multiple choice and true/false questions, so the difficulty level isn't too high.

[If the correct answer rate is below 10%, the entire class will be transformed into an NPC, because in the setting, Jishi Medical University is a top-tier medical school. If the guest on the show does such a poor result in their first major exam as a freshman, it seriously violates their character setting, and the surrounding NPCs will immediately recognize their "outsider" identity.]

The university president is also an academic heavyweight; you can often hear various lecturers openly or subtly praising him during class. The school's atmosphere is also quite rigorous; otherwise, there wouldn't have been this incident on the first night where my roommate, an NPC, reminded me to go to the lab building for a make-up lab class.

As soon as the news of the midterm exams came out, Yu Naixin's class visibly became even more scrambled.

The most obvious example is that Lin Yuting no longer invites Yu Naixin to go for a walk in the cafeteria, but instead invites Yu Naixin to study in the library, and Li Yuanyuan's laptop is now playing serious subject course PPTs.