Chapter 255 Perfect Perspective (Monthly Ticket Bonus)
Looking at the topic introduction and countdown on the light screen above his head, the corners of Wen Nan's lips curled up.
A full 10 hours, converting fear into desire? Sure enough, this topic 3. is tailor-made for Wen Nan, right?
For Wen Nan, this was just like shooting an arrow first and then drawing the target, which was no different from directly deciding him to win.
Who else can be better than him at generating and relieving desire in a bad environment? For such a topic, Wen Nan just wants to say, please come up with more! Speaking of which, I haven't seen those "them" who used to be with me for a long time, and I miss them very much.
Who will be the exclusive test subject tailored for him this time? Xiaozhen? Xiaochu? Xiaozhang? Or all of them?
Just as he was thinking about it, the space in front of him changed, the floating light screen above his head went out, the ground under his feet collapsed, and the figures of the other two candidates in the distance gradually disappeared.
In my mind, the system prompt sounded——
9527: [We are creating a dedicated testing space for you based on your situation. This process may extract some of your memories and emotions, causing side effects including but not limited to headaches, dizziness, vomiting, etc. Please try to be patient...]
9527: [Memory and emotion extraction begins now...]
Wen Nan stood still in the pitch-black darkness, looking at the system prompts, waiting for the headache or dizziness to come.
Yet no feeling came.
9527: [Memory and emotion extraction completed. Now we will start to create a dedicated space for you and create a dedicated object for qualification testing...]
9527: [Completed: 10%...]
9527: [Completed: 30%...]
9527: [Completed: 99%...]
The progress bar is stuck at 99% and won't move.
Wen Nan was a little confused. He looked around and made sure that he was still standing in darkness, as if in some chaotic world that had just begun, with nothing there.
Where was his private space? Where were the subjects he was testing on? He was ready for a happy reunion, so why didn't his old friends show up? After being stuck at 99% for 10 minutes, the system seemed to have finally given up, and the prompt jumped to -
9527: [We are sorry to inform you that the creation of your exclusive test space and object has failed! ]
9527: [We have not been able to extract any fear elements from your existing memories, so we are unable to construct a target for you.]
9527: [The initial fear value is now returned to you: 0. ]
9527: [Then, please do your best to exert your ultimate charm, use your wisdom, bravely face your fear, and transform it into desire! ]
Looking at the last row of default official slogans, and then looking at the big zero above his head, Wen Nan wanted to curse in his heart.
I don't even have an initial fear value, what the hell do you want me to transform? What about the tailor-made customization and the predetermined winner?
If he does this, isn't he going to lose? Wen Nan made a not-so-elegant gesture towards the system above his head, and caught a glimpse of the golden pattern on his palm with his peripheral vision, and was stunned.
He took his hand back, spread out his palm, and looked at the circular driving pattern. He suddenly remembered what was said in the topic introduction, that players can use all props and skills to obtain conversion rate at all costs.
So if he now uses the golden control pattern to summon the slave, can he go to the other party's space and convert his fear value into his desire value?
As soon as this thought came to mind, the system prompt sounded in my mind immediately -
9527: [It is detected that the character controlled by your golden driving pattern is currently in the process of creating an exclusive test space. If you turn on the pattern summoning function, according to the highest authority of the golden driving pattern, the character will be forced to leave his exclusive space and come to your side to wait for your orders. At the same time, the character will lose the conditions to use the exclusive space to convert fear value. ]
9527: [The golden control pattern is a one-way control pattern. The master can summon the slave to his side at any time and any place. The slave has no right to exercise the summoning function on the master. Therefore, you cannot use this pattern to enter the exclusive test space where the character you control is located. Please be aware of this.]
To put it bluntly, this is a one-way transmission channel - the slave can come to find the master, but the master cannot go to find the slave.
Wen Nan curled the corners of his lips.
So what should he do now? Sitting in this empty space, waiting to see who will win between candidate number 1 and candidate number 2?
This qualification test is too boring for him. If he had known the result would be like this, he might as well have given up the qualification for the test right from the beginning.
Wen Nan sat down cross-legged, propped his chin with one hand, and began to think about how to entertain himself and pass the time.
Just when he was drowsy, two faint lights appeared in the distance, like two stars, slowly emerging in the dark night.
Wen Nan stood up and walked towards the brighter star.
After walking briskly for about a quarter of an hour, a strange scene appeared in front of Wen Nan.
There was a dim light overhead, and next to it was a whole row of cubicles. Next to the cubicles was a row of urinals covered in dirty urine stains, and opposite the urinals was a washbasin.
There is no doubt that this is a public toilet.
However, there were no walls around the toilet, only the furnishings inside. Wen Nan stood in the darkness beside it, looking inside like a bystander looking at a toy house displayed in a window.
Just when I was full of doubts, the system sounded in my mind -
9527: [Since you have failed to successfully build a dedicated test space, you are currently in the void space, not restricted by the range of the Scepter Sheath test space, and can move freely.]
9527: [You are currently approaching the test space of candidate No. 2. Due to the restrictions of the Scepter Sheath rules, you will not be able to enter the test space, but you have full viewing authority. Candidates within the test space will not be able to detect your presence. Please be aware of this.]
That is to say, because there is no fear value, Wen Nan, who is stuck in a bug, is now like a ghost, can float around, and has the best audience seat to watch other people participating in the entire test process up close?
Does this sound good? Wen Nan took two steps to the side and saw a strange man in a locked compartment.
The man was about twenty years old, with very eye-catching golden shoulder-length hair and a pair of emerald green eyes. Combined with his angular face, he was of standard Caucasian descent.
Although he looked like an adult male, he was actually wearing a middle school uniform - a navy blue suit jacket with a school badge, suit pants, a white shirt, and a tie casually hung around his neck.
Looking around this men's restroom, judging from the decoration style, it also looks like a public toilet in the school.
It seems that the exclusive testing space built by the Scepter Scabbard for the other party is his memory of middle school, but it still retains the appearance and body of the character used by the other party in the current copy.
Therefore, the blond-haired, blue-eyed adult male that Wen Nan saw now was the appearance of Candidate No. 2 in the copy.
With this kind of appearance, he would definitely be recognized at a glance if he walked in a crowd, so Wen Nan must have never seen this person before.
What is the other party's identity? As soon as this question came to my mind, a series of clear and crisp ringtones of "ding, ding, ding" immediately rang in my mind.
Wen Nan was startled, and following the ringtone, he checked his system and found that the faction card he had previously placed in the equipment reserve column was now flashing with gold and silver light, prompting the players to check it as soon as possible.
Wen Nan clicked on the card and saw a row of small words appearing on the card with the word [奸] written on it:
[The player bound to this faction card is detected to be within 5 meters of you, please be careful!] The treacherous minister Wei Zhe who has never appeared is the No. 2 candidate in front of you?
No wonder the other party has been manipulating various women and players and acting as the mastermind. It is indeed too ostentatious for him to appear near the campus with such a face.
But then again, this treacherous minister Wei Zhe has such powerful skills in controlling women and holds a fragment of the magic wand. His player level must be very high. Why would he end up in an intermediate copy?
Could it be that... the other party was here for the sheath of the magic wand? Who was this person? Wen Nan took another step towards the other party's test space, half squatted down, and looked closely at Wei Zhe's face.
He has fair skin and handsome looks, especially those lake-like green eyes. I'm sure he's popular with girls.
Wen Nan's gaze followed the other person's eyes and slowly moved to a teardrop mole under the right corner of the other person's eye.
It is quite rare for a man to have a teardrop mole.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Wei Zhe suddenly thrust his body forward and raised his arms as if he was going to swing them towards Wen Nan.
Wen Nan subconsciously raised his head and took a step back. When he stood still again, he remembered that the other party couldn't see him at all. This sudden action was probably not directed at him.
Wei Zhe turned his head slightly and stared vigilantly at the crack of the cubicle door in front of him, as if he was carefully identifying the movements in the direction of the toilet door.
And in his raised hand, he was holding something with pointed ends.
At first glance, that thing looked a bit like a spindle, with silk threads wrapped around the middle. As Wei Zhe's fingers moved, the silk threads were pulled out from the spindle one by one and slowly wrapped around his fingertips.
I’m not sure if this is Wei Zhe’s skill or equipment, but I guess this is what he uses to control those female characters, something similar to soul thread.
Click.
There was a noise outside the toilet, and then the old wooden door creaked open.
A huge foot stepped into the toilet door from the darkness, and with a "bang", the ground shook.
Wen Nan turned his head to look at the door, and saw a huge figure twice his height squeezing in.
That's a puppet.
The giant puppet, more than three meters tall, was wearing an intricately shaped wizard robe that emitted a lavender glow. Its round wooden head was inlaid with two emerald green gemstone eyes, and there was a black dot at the lower right corner of the eye.
At the moment when the puppet's huge body squeezed into the toilet, a line of words immediately appeared above Wei Zhe's head -
[Fear value: 86; Desire value: 0; Conversion rate: 0.] Is this strange-looking puppet the object of Wei Zhe's greatest fear in his heart and memory? His fear value for this puppet is as high as 86. Is this player a victim of the uncanny valley effect?
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the huge puppet walk precisely to the door of the compartment where Wei Zhe was and stop.
Wei Zhe sat on the toilet in the cubicle, his body stiff and motionless, but his breathing became increasingly heavy uncontrollably.
In the toilet corridor separated by a door, the puppet was forced to bend its body because of its huge size, standing in the small room, with its head almost touching the door.
A pair of eyes made of emerald green gems were pressed tightly against the crack of the door, looking into the compartment.
Wei Zhe was originally staring at the crack in the door, and when he met those green eyes, he was so scared that his whole body trembled, and he shrank back, with his back pressed against the water tank of the toilet.
"Xiaozhe, open the door. I see you." The puppet spoke in a hoarse voice, neither male nor female, speaking word by word, "Come out."
Wei Zhe's face was pale, his forehead was covered in sweat, his shirt was soaked with sweat, and his body was shaking slightly uncontrollably, but he had no intention of opening the door. He even put his legs on the toilet lid to keep himself further away from the monster outside the door.
The giant puppet was angry at Wei Zhe's behavior. It straightened its body a little, and its joints made a creaking sound like an old wooden door turning.
Raising his arm, the giant puppet slapped the door of the compartment in front of him and smashed it to pieces with a slap, as if it was not a door but just a wafer.
Wei Zhe huddled on the toilet like a little chicken, staring motionlessly at the face of the puppet in front of him with a sinister smile.
As a spectator from a God's perspective, Wen Nan couldn't help but fall into deep thought as he watched the scene before him.
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The current Wei Zhe was not as smart and calm as described in his identity introduction. He did not look like a strong man holding the fragment of the divine staff at all. Instead... he looked like a young student who had not experienced the world.
Wen Nan suspected that this exclusive test space, like the situation when Wen Nan was trapped inside the sheath of the divine staff, had some kind of subconscious hypnotic effect on the candidate, putting the candidate in a half-asleep and half-awake state, thereby maximizing the other party's fear value.
What Wei Zhe was experiencing at this moment should be a scene evolved from an experience he had in middle school. In this test, he did not realize that he was already an adult advanced player. He just felt that he had returned to school and turned into that weak and helpless boy again.
Seeing that the other party was still trying in vain to hide, the giant puppet ran out of patience and stretched out his palm to grab Wei Zhe like he was pinching a chick.
Wei Zhe raised his hand, and the silver threads on his fingertips shot out like spider silk towards his palm.
The palm was immediately tied up and then pressed to the ground, as if it had merged with the ground and could not move.
However, the giant puppet that lost one hand did not stop moving. It quickly stretched out its other hand and grabbed Wei Zhe's body.
Lifting the toilet lid with his fingertips, the puppet poked Wei Zhe's head directly into the toilet, pressed the flush switch, and watched Wei Zhe suffocate and struggle in the whirlpool formed by the toilet water.
"I'll give you a chance to be my dog," the puppet said word by word, looking at Wei Zhe, who was flopping around beside the toilet. "You didn't listen, and even openly contradicted me in the classroom this morning. Then don't be a dog. I don't need a dog that bites people. From now on, I'll make you live worse than a maggot."
Wei Zhe's head was pressed firmly into the toilet water. He tried to argue for himself: "Big brother, please, I, I, I will listen..."
As he spoke, he was forced to swallow a large amount of toilet water that smelled fishy and tasted like disinfectant, choking and shaking all over.
The puppet finally loosened its grip and moved its huge head closer to the toilet. "Hmm? Say it again?"
"I, Ula, I'll listen to you..." Wei Zhe's head was submerged in the water, and his speech was still intermittent.
The puppet was forced to move its head closer, "You, again--"
--clang!
The silver thread on Wei Zhe's fingertips suddenly flew across the puppet's neck like a gust of wind.
The extremely tough filaments can turn into sharp blades at a fast enough speed.
Before the puppet could come to his senses, his huge head had been chopped off at the root.
With a thud, the head fell to the ground and rolled back and forth.
Wei Zhe stood up by the toilet and reached out his hand towards the head on the ground.
"Swoosh", "swoosh", "swoosh", "swoosh".
Dozens of silver threads shot out at the same time, cutting the head into pieces. The two emerald green gems inlaid on the head fell to the ground.
Wei Zhe shook the water off his head, rushed forward, grabbed the two emeralds, and threw them out of the window. Then, his whole body went limp, and he sat on the ground, starting to laugh a little neurotically.
The numbers floating above his head changed.
[Fear value: 36; Desire value: 0; Conversion rate: 0.] After killing the giant puppet in one fell swoop, Wei Zhe's fear value dropped sharply from 86 to 36, but the conversion rate was still 0.
He used killing to completely eliminate the target, but it was obvious that he could not generate any desire for the target, and this was not the result required for this qualification test.
Wen Nan, who was standing in the audience, felt that the topic was a bit abnormal when he saw this.
Overcoming fear and killing the monster in the shadow of childhood is not enough, but also generating desire? This is a daunting challenge for most players.
After all, they are not like Wen Nan, a pure mental patient.
After laughing wildly, Wei Zhe raised his head slightly and took a look at the number above his head. Then, his eyes became gloomy.
Obviously, he realized at this moment that simply killing the puppet was not the correct way to solve the problem.
With his hands clenched into fists, Wei Zhe stared fixedly at the pile of wood lying on the ground next to him. After a moment, the wood in front of him suddenly disappeared, and the toilet became empty again.
Then, with a "bang", a huge foot stepped into the toilet door from the darkness.
Wen Nan raised his eyebrows slightly. It turned out that this test space filled with a terrifying atmosphere would continuously create new goals to ensure that the candidates would not have nothing to do during the next test period? That was quite considerate.
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw Wei Zhe stand up, slowly take two steps back, and stare closely at the giant puppet that walked in.
This time, he no longer hid in the toilet cubicle, but chose to face the target that frightened him directly. At the same time, he put away the "spindle" wrapped with silver threads in his hand and decided to change his way of solving the problem.
Wen Nan didn't know, nor did he care, what his new idea for solving the problem was.
Wen Nan turned around and walked towards where another light source appeared.
The exclusive testing space for candidate No. 1 is much more spacious than that for candidate No. 2. It is an ordinary residence with two bedrooms and two living rooms.
The house is fully furnished with all kinds of furniture, with a warm ceiling light on overhead. The news is playing on the TV in the living room. In the kitchen next door, a long-haired woman in an apron is cooking. The sound of the range hood and the sizzling sound of stir-frying in the wok, mixed with the woman's humming tune, fills the space with a warm and comfortable atmosphere.
For a moment, Wen Nan almost suspected that No. 1 had the same bug as him.
But when I got closer, I could see clearly that the floor of the room was covered with thick black blood.
The woman in the apron was cooking while stepping on the blood that had submerged the soles of her shoes.
After walking around for two steps, Wen Nan saw that, beside the sofa in the living room, a girl was lying face down on the ground with a fruit knife stuck in her back.
Continuing forward to the other side of the kitchen, Wen Nan was slightly startled when he saw the face of the woman cooking.
She has no face.
In other words, no facial features.
At first glance, they look like the mannequins that are placed in front of clothing stores.
Wen Nan tilted his head slightly, staring at the woman, wondering, what was the source of the fear in this test space? The faceless woman in the kitchen? The blood on the floor? Or the body next to the sofa?
Just as he was thinking about it, the faceless woman suddenly stopped what she was doing, turned her head, and stared straight at Wen Nan with her flat face.
Wen Nan was stunned for a moment, suspecting that the other party had seen him, but he quickly dismissed the thought.
Because he heard a knock on the door in the corner, and it was obvious that the faceless woman was attracted by the sound.
“Stop knocking,” the faceless woman shouted in the direction the voice came from, “I won’t let you out before the time is up. You better reflect on your actions in there.”
After the Faceless Woman finished speaking, the knocking on the door stopped. She started humming the song again, picked up the spatula again, and started cooking.
Wen Nan continued walking forward, bypassing the kitchen, and found a storage room between the two bedrooms that was even smaller than the closet. The knock on the door came from the storage room.
Is this some kind of Harry's personal bedroom?
Wen Nan complained inwardly, bent down, put his eyes on the crack of the storage room door, and looked inside.
The storage room was very dark. Wen Nan took a long time to adjust to it before he could finally see clearly what was going on inside. Then his breathing stagnated.
In the room, there was a cross-shaped wooden frame, on which was tied up an almost naked girl with ropes and shackles.
The girl lowered her head, her eyes covered with a black cloth, and her messy hair was wet with sweat and stuck to her face.
When Wen Nan looked through the crack in the door, the other person just raised his head.
A familiar and delicate face appeared before Wen Nan.
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