Chapter 145: Soul Recognition 2
"Let's have some sweet taro dumplings, five dollars a bowl!"
On the morning of November 10th, Zhang Minmin was riding her bicycle to school. Passing Taoyuan Street, she heard a shop selling taro-paste dumplings. She was taken aback, thinking, "It's already the beginning of winter!"
In Jinan City, there is a local custom of eating taro paste dumplings on the day of the Beginning of Winter and the Winter Solstice. Zhang Minmin likes eating taro paste dumplings very much. Sweet food always brings people a sense of satisfaction. So Zhang Minmin, who originally planned to buy a bun for breakfast, stopped her bicycle and turned around to go into this small shop selling dumplings.
She originally thought that the hot weather this year caused her to forget the Beginning of Winter. However, when she sat down in the store, she found that everyone else had put on thick clothes, but she was the only one wearing a long-sleeved singlet.
The sweater-clad female boss brought her a bowl of steaming hot dumplings and couldn't help but admonish her, "Girl, it's so cold today. Why are you out wearing so little?"
Zhang Minmin shook her head, "I don't feel cold."
Seeing that she was not really cold, the female boss didn't care anymore. She just cooked the dumplings while sighing that young people are in good health and really resistant to cold.
Zhang Minmin quickly finished her dumplings and went to school.
After the bell rang twice, she observed something interesting. Those in the class who often went to the fantasy park to fight monsters, represented by Cao Xiaoliang and others, were all dressed lightly and looked as if they were not afraid of the cold. However, those who were rarely seen in the park changed into thick clothes, just like last winter.
The same thing happened to Zhang Minmin's deskmate Bai Jiuyue. She was taking advantage of the break time to do her homework. Under her school uniform jacket, in addition to a single layer of underwear, she also had a thick sweater on.
Jinan is a southern city with an average winter temperature of around 10 degrees Celsius. Zhang Minmin glanced at her phone and realized this winter was colder than last year. It was currently 20 degrees Celsius, dropping to the teens at night. It was still okay at the beginning of winter, but the temperature would drop even lower in late winter. Although winters in the south are short, they can be particularly cold for periods of time. Zhang Minmin remembered that her deskmate was very afraid of the cold; last winter, his fingers were stiff even when he wrote in class.
She suggested that her deskmate go to the amusement park to fight monsters, but her deskmate was focused on the questions and said he didn't have time.
Zhang Minmin had learned about her deskmate's family. They favored boys over girls. If Bai Jiuyue didn't get into a good school, they would ask her to drop out and work to support the family, while Bai Jiuyue's younger brother could continue to attend an expensive private school. This was very unfair, but who could do anything about it?
Zhang Minmin is just a high school student. She sighed slightly and opened her phone to check the messages.
Fantasyland released a new event schedule this morning.
vFantasy Paradise: Good morning, everyone! Today, we're introducing a new exotic race: the Psychic Dolls. You might be familiar with this name; it's the same race that Ah Zhen, who disguised himself as the evil spirit Ah Zhenlan during the hidden scene on the day of the Frost Descent event, belonged to.
Although Psychic Marionettes are also a strange race, they are different from dwarfs, tree spirits, red-eyed elves, ground dragons, and puff birds. Psychic Marionettes are very lonely creatures that yearn for companionship, but they will not be with their own kind. They only yearn for humans because they were originally born from human emotions and thoughts. They can only feed on human emotions and thoughts. If one day, the human who chose it no longer pays attention to it, then it will gradually dissipate and become a dead thing.
But they will never blame humans. Instead, they will stay in a corner and spend their whole lives waiting for that human to come back. Until the day that human dies, they will fall into a deep sleep and wait for the next fate to wake them up.
Ah Zhen is Ah Zhenlan's spiritual doll. After Ah Zhenlan's death, it did not fall into a deep sleep, but stubbornly changed into her appearance, engraved the story of Thornes on the stone slab, and searched for humans willing to pass on this story year after year.
Ah Zhen's efforts were not in vain. He finally waited for a fantasy paradise that had enough strength to help him faithfully record history for Thornes. The garden was recognized by him, and he was willing to summon his people here to let the spiritual dolls take root in this land.
From now on, the Soul Identifiers are also members of the Garden family! Let's welcome them!
New gameplay: First, open the Paradise app, find the "Choose" screen, and choose a suitable host for your Soul Doll. Trust your intuition; the one you like at first sight will also be the one your Soul Doll likes!
The second step is to add the spiritual home function after updating the app today. Family members can decorate the spiritual home to give the host a better living environment. Chatting with the host every day will help the spiritual awareness awaken!
The third step, the Soul Doll, requires sufficient emotion and longing to awaken. This process can take at least a week and up to a month, so please be patient. Once awakened, the Soul Doll can chat with you at any time, accompanying you as you grow. You can also take it out of the park, accompany you home, and accompany you to any corner of the world. It is an indispensable partner on your monster-slaying journey! The Soul Doll, once fully evolved, can transform into the form you desire, just like Ah Zhen.
Note: Players who rank in the top 10,000 on the Merit List, or who enter the Paradise to fight monsters more than twice a week this month, will receive a bottle of accelerated awakening potion; players who rank in the top 5,000 on the Merit List, or who enter the Paradise to fight monsters more than three times a week this month, will receive a chance to change their host body and three bottles of accelerated awakening potions.
Zhang Minmin's eyes lit up after reading this long post. She thought the setting of the mind-recognizing puppet was so interesting, and she could even take it home! Especially the skill description at the end, it was like opening the door to a new world!
She opened the comment section as usual, and sure enough, not long after the update was posted, the comment section was flooded with discussions.
—Aa ...
——Me too, me too. During the Frost Descent event, I worked hard to kill monsters and advance the dungeon, and I already had enough points. However, due to technical problems, the paradise could only provide one hundred Earth Dragons and one hundred Puff Birds. Since I was ranked a little low in points, I had to share one Earth Dragon with five people, and I could only ride it once a week. I haven't gotten familiar with it yet, and now there's a new race. Ahhh, I'm so conflicted. There's no way I'll give up on the Earth Dragon, but the Mind Sense Puppet looks so tempting too!
—And there's the Red-Eyed Pokémon! I heard there are still 10,000 Red-Eyed Pokémon in the park that haven't been bound yet, but I haven't even bound a Red-Eyed Pokémon yet! Then the Ground Dragon and the Puff Bird came out, and I missed out, and now there's the Psychic Doll. Help! Tears of collector's delight streamed from the corners of my mouth.
I think the Soul Recognition skill is supposed to be used to replenish Red-Eyed Pokémon! I called the park's customer service a while ago, and they said the number of Red-Eyed Pokémon is fixed at over 30,000 and won't increase. But now the park's Merit Rankings have reached over 100,000, so there must be a lot of people who can't bind to Red-Eyed Pokémon.
—What an interesting setting! You can choose a body for your Mind Doll, bring it back, and even make it transform into whatever you want later? And everyone gets one? Is this a Mind Doll? This is a bonus from the park! And it's a high-precision robot bonus!
——Excuse me, can my spiritual master earn money to support me when he grows up? jpg of a dog head.
I can't help it, I'm so excited! I don't have many friends or family in real life, and I've always wanted someone with similar interests and values, but such people are so hard to find. Isn't this the chosen one? I'm going to nurture this soulmate and wait for it to grow into a beautiful woman!
I was so surprised. Although Fantasyland always delivers on its promises, and although its technology is impressive, this time I really doubted it. Could it even be done? Could they just give it to us for free? It was so good that I had to wonder if I was dreaming.
—I'm overthinking it. Open the app and take a closer look! Soul Recognition isn't free. After updating the app and selecting a Soul Recognition host, before you enter the home, a dialog box pops up asking you to pay a 1,000 yuan commitment fee before you can begin training. It's all capitalist tricks, so you're used to it.
The person who posted this comment was also someone who had been blocked by Fantasy Paradise. His original intention was to mock Fantasy Paradise, saying that they had nothing but wanted to make a fortune by coming up with a concept. How could it be so easy? But after he posted it, the style of the comment section changed and became very festive, as if someone had won a million-dollar lottery.
——What! Only one thousand yuan! Ah, is this really worth a thousand yuan?
—I saw before that I could take it home and change its appearance to my heart's content, but I was a little hesitant, thinking it was impossible and that Paradise would be losing out. But Paradise actually charges money. Holy crap, I can take a Soul Doll home for just a thousand bucks! Paradise, no, Yuanyuanzi, from now on I'm yours!
—Only a thousand yuan! That's too good! Yuanyuanzi, let's make a deal. Do you sell red-eyed elves, dwarf elves, tree spirits, ground dragons, and puff birds? Make your best offer! I want to buy some too!
——I want to buy it home +1. I want to buy the King of Small Thorns. It turned me into a snail noodle before. The taste is very authentic. I want to buy it back and open a snail noodle shop to make a fortune. Hahahaha...
—Yuanyuanzi, are you selling Pucci birds? I beg you, please sell me one. I'll have it poop handsome guys every day, and then I'll open an agency and have it join the entertainment industry. It'll definitely be a huge hit and make me a ton of money!
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The person who wanted to use this to guide public opinion was so angry when he saw that all the comments were flattering and fantasy-themed that he threw his keyboard.
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In the fantasy park, Chi Yizheng took some time to pay attention to the online public opinion. Seeing that everyone was accepting of the idea of taking money, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Despite the psychic recognition of the dwarfs, he still felt a little uneasy about letting them be taken away by tourists. It felt like marrying off his daughters. So, of course, he had to choose the best ones for them.
The screening mechanism of the park has evolved to be very strict. Those with serious moral problems are first removed from the blacklist system. Those who are allowed to stay in the park are all those with no problems in their words and deeds. One thousand yuan is the second wave of screening. This price is not expensive. A normal adult can still afford it with an effort. It can also screen out those with too poor conditions at one time.
In addition, Chi Yizhen also established a third round of screening. The moment they chose to pay the pledge, they signed a contract with Fantasy Paradise. If they showed any ill will towards the Soul Doll while feeding it, the Paradise app would automatically issue a refund and terminate the contract. Then, the Soul Doll that had not yet awakened would be pushed to someone else.
Finally, there's another point. After all, the Psychic Doll feeds on its master's emotions. If the master wants to use the Psychic Doll as a mere tool for exploitation, then the Psychic Doll will treat him the same way in return. It's like, you reap what you sow. Not everyone can raise an Ah Zhen like Ah Zhenlan, willing to stick by her side for thousands of years.
【Do players want to raise one? 】
Chi Yizhen was stunned and shook his head, "No, I'm not interested. It's already hard enough to raise Sal, Xiaozhen, and Duoduo."
Especially since Sal seems to be going astray, it really gives him a headache as a father!
"Forget it, let's ignore him for now. Speaking of which, the Four Seasons Church will be here the day after tomorrow, right?"
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