"Thank you, teacher."
"You're welcome. Come find me if you need anything."
Fang Zheng smiled at the girl in uniform and nodded. After hearing his response, the two girls bowed hastily and left the room. After closing the door, their screams could still be heard faintly.
Fang Zheng glanced at the door, then looked away, picked up the coffee on the table, and looked at the laptop next to him again.
After arriving in this "closed world", Fang Zheng spent almost two days figuring out the situation inside this world.
First of all, according to the background setting of this world, a meteorite hit the earth, and then an alien virus invaded... Well, this is a very Hollywood science fiction theme.
Then a few years ago, in an event called "Lost Christmas", the virus began to break out on a large scale, and many people died. After that, the international community blocked Japan and sent an organization called GHQ to govern the area where the epidemic occurred.
In order to resist the tyranny of GHQ, a resistance organization called the Funeral Society was established in the Japanese underground...
Hmm? Why does this setting sound so familiar?
If GHQ is replaced by Brittany, and the funeral home is replaced by a revolutionary organization...
Well, it turns out that humans are repeating the same mistakes.
If this setting is true, then Fang Zheng will definitely stand on the side of GHQ. In the mecha world, he tried every means to divide Area 11 into the hands of the Chinese Federation. If it were here, Fang Zheng would naturally not help that funeral home.
Japan independence? Don’t even think about it. Just dream on.
But unfortunately, the outside world is now destroyed, and this closed world... seems ridiculous.
Yes, very ridiculous.
According to Fang Zheng's observation, the memories of everyone in this closed world have been rewritten and affected. They have no idea about the nuclear explosion, and are unaware of what is happening in the outside world. They are like unconscious actors in a stage play, faithfully performing their roles.
This reminded Fang Zheng of a movie called "The Truman Show" that was just like this, except that in that movie, only Truman was unaware of the situation, and everyone else was an actor. But in this world, except for a certain existence, everyone else was "Truman".
If this was just an ordinary world, Fang Zheng would have taken action long ago, just like he did with the black and white bear before, just overturn the table.
But now he couldn't do that. Considering that the other party might have the same authority as himself, Fang Zheng had to be careful. He had only seen the Goddess of Order in the Order Clan, but from what Fang Zheng knew about the Goddess of Order... well, she was a psychopath.
It is also a very dangerous neurosis.
If that was just a personality problem of the Goddess of Order, it would be fine, but if that was the general situation of the Order Clan...
It’s better to be timid first.
So Fang Zheng entered the No. 1 High School in Tianwang Province as a health doctor. According to his understanding, this kind of second-year setting must be related to high school students. As long as he is in high school, he should be able to quickly come into contact with the main characters in this "copy". Then Fang Zheng can observe the main characters and figure out what the guy behind the scenes wants to do.
As for why it is a health doctor...the reason is very simple.
This is a job that allows you to legally watch high school girls take off their clothes.
It can also prevent some men and women from using the sacred health room to do unholy things.
What's more, you can slack off on weekdays without having to prepare lesson plans or assign homework, and you don't have to worry about exams.
It's really a win-win situation.
“Drip…drip…”
Suddenly, at this moment, a sound came from the laptop in front of Fang Zheng, which made him shift his gaze and look at the screen in front of him. Then Fang Zheng gently moved his fingers and tapped the keyboard.
Soon, the scene changed, and then a young man in uniform was seen walking slowly forward in the ruins at dusk.
"Ah, as expected...it's all a routine."
Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders. Just in case, he released Ding Dong to monitor every area of the closed world. According to Fang Zheng's experience, this kind of setting usually starts from some uninhabited places, especially those areas in the city that were blocked due to "virus outbreaks".
Generally speaking, this kind of place is where the protagonist appears. Either he accidentally came here while chasing something, or he heard a sound he shouldn't have heard. In short, it must be that he is courting death and has a strong spirit of adventure.
Of course, this is reasonable. After all, if you transform on the street in front of everyone, and then after the transformation you see a group of onlookers surrounding you and taking pictures with their mobile phones... wouldn't that be embarrassing?
It would be less shameful to find a place where there are few people.
"Come, let me see who this lucky guy is..."
Fang Zheng tapped the keyboard again, and the face of a brown-haired, extremely weak-looking boy immediately appeared on the screen.
"Well, Sakuramitsu Shu, 17 years old, a 2nd year A student at Tennou First High School... Tsk, a man."
Seeing that the other person was a man, Fang Zheng's interest dropped by more than half.
It would be great if this setting was about a magical girl. What’s good about a man? I’m the god of magical girls. Protecting a man is not an option for me.
So after that, Fang Zheng watched the actions of the young man named Sakuramitsu Shu with little interest. He watched him come to the blockade area and meet a man with long golden hair. Oh, this man was the leader of the resistance organization called Funeral Home, Tsuchiya Gaya.
This is also normal. After all, the protagonist cannot meet a small soldier at the beginning.
Then the man named Tsuchiya Gaya said a bunch of incomprehensible words to Sakuragi Shu, and then the GHQ army suddenly broke in - this is also normal, after all, it is necessary to create a critical atmosphere in order to make the protagonist wake up, pretending to be cool and cheating.
Then everyone was scattered in the GHQ army attack, and then Sakuramanji ran and ran, and somehow came to the street, and then saw a girl with pink hair and twin ponytails. The twin ponytail girl was standing in front of a huge robot, and seemed to be in danger.
As expected, Sakuraman Shu rushed over, hugged the girl, and as expected...
"Um?"
At this moment, Fang Zheng saw that something in Sakuman Shu's chest seemed to be shattered and exploded. Then, a ball of white light suddenly appeared, wrapping Sakuman Shu and the girl in it.
Wait, this can't be the magic boy transforming.
Seeing this, Fang Zheng's face darkened. He couldn't help but think of the Goddess of Order. The Goddess of Order had that kind of perverted wailing, so maybe other people in the Order Clan also had it? What if there really was a weirdo in the Order Clan who liked to watch the magic boy transform? !
If you say this, I'll give up on the show!
As the God of Magical Girls, this is my bottom line, okay!
But fortunately, the next moment Fang Zheng saw Sakurami Shu suddenly reach out his hand, reach into the chest of the pink-haired girl, and then pull out a... sword?
Well, at least it wasn't a transformation, so he endured it.
Looking at Sakuragi Shu holding high the sword that was taller than himself, and then a beam of green light shot straight into the sky, Fang Zheng also showed unusual calmness.
Next, just as Fang Zheng had imagined, as the protagonist was being bullied, the mecha on the other side launched an attack without hesitation, and was then chopped to pieces by Sakuman Shu's sword, becoming the first victim after the protagonist's aura awakened. Then the second mecha also rushed over and became the soul killed by Sakuman Shu's sword again.
Then Sakuramitsu Shu ran to the girl who seemed unconscious and picked her up. However, immediately afterwards, the big sword summoned by Sakuramitsu Shu quickly disappeared and returned to the girl's body.
"I see. This setting is interesting, but it's too stupid."
Seeing this, Fang Zheng almost understood it. In simple terms, the protagonist's cheat should be to summon weapons from other people's bodies. However, the problem is that after the weapon is summoned, the person involved will be unconscious and no different from a dead person. To be honest, at this time, just send a long-range sniper to shoot the girl, and everything will be solved, right?
And if you want to protect the girl, then it means having an extra burden - it doesn't matter if you are in a crushing situation, but if the two sides are evenly matched, wouldn't it be a hindrance?
As expected, such a second-year setting can only be used with this second-year background. If it were Fang Zheng, he would not want such an idiotic ability. Besides...
Thinking of this, Fang Zheng glanced at the sword elf emblem in his hand.
He already has enough weapons. If he gets new ones, there might be a fire in his harem.
Then Fang Zheng saw Sakuman Shu leaving the scene with the girl, and met the leader of the resistance organization again. The other party also diligently explained to Sakuman Shu about his power - it came from something called "enhanced genome", which can give the user power. According to Tsuchiya Gaya, this was supposed to be used for him... Fang Zheng sneered at this, this only shows that you have the heart of a protagonist but not the life of a protagonist.
Simply put, this power is to explore the characteristics of each person and then transform them into "voids". The greatsword in the body of the girl named Yui Inori is her "void".
"I see, after all this fuss, that pink-haired guy is a guaranteed SR."
After hearing this, Fang Zheng finally understood. This is like drawing people as if they were Gachapon. What you get depends on luck. And that pink-haired girl is the official SR. Otherwise, just imagine, you rush forward, protect the girl, burst out with strength, and then draw a teapot, a pen, a cup, a game console from the girl's body...
This is still considered good, what if they pull out a vibrator, a flying cup, or a pillow...
What the hell are you still pretending to be the protagonist? Just die socially.
However, I quite like this design, and I can consider whether to use it in the next game version update.
Well... by the way, players can recruit NPC followers, and then grant them the ability of hollowing. What they can draw from the followers depends on luck. Paying gold can increase the chance of getting high-level followers. You can also design some very cute, tragic, and low-dropping loli characters for players to draw... Or you can do this: at the beginning, the cute characters are only low-star, and then players need to pay gold items to upgrade their levels. After continuously paying gold to upgrade to the top level, you can use the hollow ability to draw weapons from the NPC's body.
However, we cannot do without restrictions. We can set a certain probability of failure in upgrading the NPC level. After failure, the NPC will fall into a weakened state. In order to remove the weakened state, the player needs to buy potions to heal the NPC. If the number of failures is too many, the NPC will die... This will also stimulate the player's guilty psychology.
Wait, this seems a bit too pale. Got it! You can design a system where the player and the NPC need to improve their favorability first, and then the hole can be used after the favorability reaches the maximum. Then, each time the NPC's level is upgraded, the upper limit of the favorability will be increased.
Only after improving the favorability will players cherish NPCs. Otherwise, if there is no emotional foundation, it will be difficult to spend money.
In this way, players not only need to spend money to buy upgrade items and healing items, but also spend money to buy items that increase favorability...
Oh, I’m not sleepy anymore when I talk about this.
Thinking of this, Fang Zheng immediately stopped caring about Sakuman Shu's life or death and started designing his own game version update plan.
Anyway, it looks like he should be the protagonist, so he won't die anytime soon.
After Fang Zheng finished the settings and had nothing to do, he learned about the news of that day from the news on the Internet. Although the news was very general, it boiled down to the fact that a terrorist organization called the Funeral Home launched a terrorist attack on GHQ, calling on the public to report to the relevant authorities immediately if they knew any news about the Funeral Home.
"That's not professional at all. At least give a bounty amount."
Looking at the news and announcement in front of him, Fang Zheng curled his lips. This announcement was too perfunctory. As the saying goes, money makes the world go round. You should at least have money first, right? You want news without even money. How can such a good thing happen? Unless there are kind-hearted residents in Chaoyang District who report it...
“Boom boom boom.”
Just as Fang Zheng was reading the news and his mind was running wild, the door of the health room rang, and Fang Zheng turned off his laptop and turned around.
"Come in."
After hearing Fang Zheng's voice, the door of the health room opened, and then a girl with short black hair and glasses walked in.
"Sorry to bother you, Mr. Fang Zheng."
"Nothing, I'm just bored. What's going on? Kusama-san?"
Fang Zheng looked at the girl in front of him and asked. If he remembered correctly, this girl should be the class monitor of Class 2-A, Kusama Kanon... Oh, so in that case, she should be in the same class as Ouma Shu?
"Well, I'm showing the transfer students around the school building."
"oh……"
Hearing this, Fang Zheng nodded and cast his gaze towards the figure behind Kusama Kanon... Hmm? Isn't this the initial SR?
"Her name is Yui Kiri, and she is a student who transferred in today."
Having said that, Kusama Kanon looked at Yui Inori.
"Student Yui, this is Mr. Fang Zheng from the health room. If you need anything, you can talk to him."
"Hello, Yui-san, I'm Fang Zheng."
At this moment, Fang Zheng also stood up with a smile on his face and extended his hand.
"I am mainly responsible for the health and psychological management of my classmates. If there is anything unpleasant, you can talk to me at any time. I also serve as a psychological counselor."
After all, having a sword pulled out of your body is probably a very unpleasant thing to do.
"Hello, I'm Yui."
Looking at Fang Zheng in front of her, the girl named Yui was silent for a moment, then she stretched out her hand, shook hands gently with Fang Zheng, said hello, and then turned and left.
"So the one called Sakuraman Shu is the protagonist?"
Fang Zheng laughed as he watched Yui leave. This was all a routine. The mysterious girl he met yesterday suddenly transferred to his class. It was all a routine... Logically speaking, what followed should be the happy daily life of Yui and Sakuragi at school, and then they would go out to do some underground work at some point, and then they would develop feelings for each other... After all, isn't this how it all unfolds?
But I don’t want to do that this time.
Thinking of this, Fang Zheng picked up his phone and dialed the number.
"Hello, is this GHQ? I have information about the funeral home. There is a person in Tennoshu Daiichi High School who has close ties with the funeral home... Yes, that's right, his name is Sakuramitsu Shu, and he's a student in Class 2A. As for my identity..."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng raised the corner of his mouth.
"I'm just an enthusiastic Chaoyang citizen."