Chapter 149 Romance Contagion (12) (1st update + 2nd update + summary + 2000.5 update) [VIP]
Shi Linling's amnesia suddenly pushed the origin of the book "Romantic Contagion" into a confusing direction.
"Is she a time traveler or a native? Is she a reader who read the book in advance or an ordinary person who got the book later? We can't be sure of anything now," Guan Hongyan walked around the house a little impatiently. "Now if we want to get information about the book, we can only work hard on that senior."
But this person is far away abroad, and I can't fly there to stop him.
Also walking around the house were Zhang Ying and Yun Tian, whose brains were working fast.
"Based on the two clues that she was able to use the original work to serve herself, and that she interfered with it a year before going to school, it seems that Shi Linling was a reader who traveled through the book into this world three years ago," Zhang Ying pinched her chin and thought as she spoke, "In this case, the origin of the book may not be from this world, but appeared along with her travel through time."
"But if we really analyze these two clues, it seems like the natives suddenly awakened after getting the original book," Yun Tian said in a more urgent tone. "The book "Romance Contagion" begins with the car accident of the heroine's parents more than ten years ago. Shi Linling only needs to ask someone to check and find out that there really is such a couple and such a person in the world, and there is even a brief introduction on the title page of the book."
——[A grass-roots girl named Weisheng Peiya, who was born in poverty and lost both her parents, entered the aristocratic school, Olds Business School, through her own efforts. She met the four princes and gradually developed a romantic relationship with one of the princes, Baili Xiaofeng...]
This is the introduction written directly on the title page of the book.
As soon as you see this introduction, you can immediately identify the only two male and female protagonists whose names appear in it: Weisheng Peiya and Baili Xiaofeng.
Compared to Weisheng Peiya, who no one has ever heard of, Baili Xiaofeng is much more well-known, but the story begins with the death of Weisheng Peiya's parents.
So if you want to verify the authenticity of the contents of this book, send someone to check whether there really is a person named Weisheng Peiya, and then check whether her parents have been in a car accident, and whether the compensation has been withheld for no reason. If all the details match up, then even an indigenous person who has no idea what world he is in will find that this book is not simple.
What's more, the above content will be updated in real time.
The three anxious exploration team members made Bai Jinshu feel dizzy.
"Stop, stop..." He held his forehead, "You three are giving me a headache..."
Originally, it was Guan Hongyan who was walking around alone, and later Yun Tian and Zhang Ying joined in. If he didn't stop them in time, the rest of the exploration team would probably have joined in.
"No more, no more," Guan Hongyan sat on the sofa with her arms spread out and sighed, "Who on earth is this Shi Linling?"
"The murderer who killed Weisheng Peiya's parents delayed paying the compensation for more than ten years. Three years ago, all of it was suddenly transferred into her account." Huai Jiamu spoke from the side, attracting everyone's attention.
"Did Shi Linling do it?" Bai Jinshu turned and looked at him.
"Yes," Huai Jiamu nodded, "This matter was done very secretly. Weisheng Peiya just thought that the other party was driving under the influence again and met a tough guy. She also had to deal with the compensation for the delay from more than ten years ago. I don't know if Shi Linling helped her."
"Do good deeds without leaving a name?" Xu Zichen raised his eyebrows, "Or is Shi Linling also deliberately avoiding appearing in the plot?"
Of the eleven people sitting here now, five or six have already been written into the plot. If there were any harm in being written into it, then it would be obvious that those who are now written into it would not be able to escape.
"No one wants to enter the plot. If they are recorded, something will happen that the original author doesn't want to see," Guan Hongyan collapsed on the sofa and turned over weakly. "Let's assume this."
"Assume what?" Bai Jinshu looked over.
"Let's make an assumption," Guan Hongyan turned herself over, "Suppose we all hold the script and need to live in this world for a long time, and this Mary Sue world is absolutely safe, then what kind of reason would make you choose to avoid entering the plot?"
"Hmm..." Xu Zichen frowned and thought for a while, "If I enter the plot, the text may interfere with my thinking and actions, just like the attitude of [Bai Hua Heroine] towards Yun Tian before?"
"Once I enter the text..." Lu Changfeng's right hand was still in a cast, the only one among all the exploration team members who was unfortunately injured, "I may not be able to tell clearly whether my actions and thoughts are generated by myself."
Yun Tian and Zhang Ying gave the same answer: "I'm afraid I'll be assimilated into Mary Sue and become a heroine who cries out diamonds."
The muscular man Lu Wu said sincerely, "I feel that being called Prince XX is too creepy."
He shuddered honestly.
Ming Jingxuan has a special consideration: "If I get involved in the plot and interfere with the follow-up, it is very likely to cause unpredictable consequences. After all, the end of a Mary Sue world can be seen at a glance, but if some other elements are added, it is very likely that the direction of the male and female protagonists will be unpredictable."
Bo Yuan held her chin up: "If I were to travel through time, I would probably worry that if I entered the plot, I wouldn't be able to return to my original world."
Each one is a reasonable reason that may affect the plot holder's choice not to appear in the plot.
"Cen Bingqi, what about you?" After everyone had given their reasons, Guan Hongyan looked curiously in the direction of Cen Bingqi and the team member next to him.
"Suppose I get a novel that might reflect reality," Cen Bingqi lowered his eyes and spoke in a very gentle tone, "then from the perspective of maximizing benefits, entering the plot and changing it to a direction that is beneficial to me is much more useful than hiding behind the scenes and doing small things."
Not to mention that it can be seen from the fact that the senior student failed to stop the [runaway heroine] and Gu Tiancai from returning to China that if one does not personally participate in the plot, then the influence on the plot will be very limited.
The other party doesn't seem like the kind of person who would hesitate because he thinks certain titles are too shameful, or because he is worried that he won't be able to return to his original world.
As long as the plot is changed cleverly enough, the description of the plot that leans towards Mary Sue can be controlled.
"In this situation, there is only one reason that might stop me from doing this." He raised his eyes and scanned everyone. "I don't want to be discovered by another person holding the original book."
"I still don't have any idea of how to be discovered, but losing the original work is a very dangerous thing to do," he said firmly. "This thing... is like an anchor that can stabilize rationality in a world that runs according to all kinds of bizarre logic."
"People with anchor points can stay out of the situation and watch all kinds of bizarre jokes happen to people in the Mary Sue world," Bai Jinshuo stroked the cover of the notebook in his hand, "but once you lose the notebook, you will be quickly assimilated into this world and become an unimportant person in the world of Mary Sue."
"If we hadn't accidentally found this notebook on the first day we entered here..." His voice was light, as if he was telling a ghost story, "it is very likely that now all of us have forgotten the original purpose of coming here, forgotten that we are members of the exploration team, forgotten the Foundation, and also forgotten that we are not actually one of the natives."
But Huai Jiamu and he might be an accident.
The fixed attributes of the two of them should be nested with each other, able to suppress and awaken each other.
If it really comes to that, they might be the only two people in the world who can remain sane.
The investors in the barrage were stunned by this sudden turn of reasoning.
【？ ？ ？】
[Ah? Is that so? ]
[I said there is no real happy space woooooooooooo]
[If they hadn't gotten that notebook, they would probably have forgotten their own names.]
[Ah... my source of happiness turns out to be a white-and-black assimilation space. ]
[On the bright side, if the exploration team members are assimilated, the live broadcast effect may be ten times more enjoyable than it is now. ]
[…That’s true. Assimilation in the Mary Sue world can still be saved. At least nothing too outrageous will happen.]
[At least after being assimilated, you are still human. The most dangerous thing about assimilation-type spaces is that you think you are another race. Even if you are logged out of the space after the exploration time is up and you are not dead yet, you cannot return because of the changes in your body.]
[You mean the one who thought he was a Gundam in the assimilation space last time, so he really became a Gundam after coming out...]
[It’s actually quite scary. ]
[What's so scary? It's so cool to turn into a Gundam, okay? ]
[It’s super cool that my teammates are Gundam, okay? 】
[Can't get Gundam? It doesn't matter if you can't get it. I wish you peace and happiness in the future. It's tasteless. ]*
[…You are a stubborn guy. ]
[So if they really think they are the natives of the Mary Sue world, they won't leave here with the characteristics of the Mary Sue natives that turn red when they are happy, turn blue when they are sad, and drop diamonds when they cry, right? ]
…
Shi Linling's sudden amnesia made everyone pay more attention to the book "Romantic Contagion" in Guan Hongyan's hand.
After everyone nervously asked countless times whether the original book was safe, Guan Hongyan was so annoyed that she threw the book directly into the base of [0106] and told everyone that she had put the book in a place where it would never be lost.
Everyone who didn't want to become the natives of the Mary Sue world finally felt relieved.
Shi Linling's complete amnesia allowed them to deduce two crucial pieces of information: if the original work is lost, one is likely to be assimilated, and there may be a certain degree of hostility between the original work holders.
If both of these are true, then their investigation will become a lot more troublesome.
Because this means they cannot use the simplest method - directly find the person who may have the original work, and then pat each other on the shoulder: Hey, bro, sir, let me ask you something, do you have a book called "Romantic Contagion"? What a coincidence! I have one too, and I just want to ask you where you got this book.
Then when the other party knows that they are the insiders, whether they are telling the truth or not is no longer a question they need to worry about. What they need to consider is some unknown consequences.
Apart from that, the following few days were barely peaceful...
Does it count as...?
This morning, a 120 ambulance came to Olds Business School and took away a senior who had always had a good relationship with the [domineering male protagonist] and who enjoyed seeing students like the [white flower female protagonist] who overestimated their own abilities get frustrated.
At lunchtime, [White Flower Heroine] opened the onion fried meat, onion soup, onion cakes, onion rings, and onion dumplings she had brought with her. Under the complicated looks of the exploration team members, she took out her thermos cup and sat down, saying very frankly, "I called 120."
"What... happened to you this morning?" Guan Hongyan twitched her lips.
"He wanted to lock me in the sports equipment room so that I would miss class," [White Flower Heroine] said calmly, "I was so anxious that I just tore down the door."
Guan Hongyan:……?
Barrage: [……? ]
[What is innate supernatural power? ]
[I think about my sister every day. Do you really need to go to this school? 】
"The wooden door of the school equipment room has metal hinges. It can be pried off with the right tools." Perhaps because the expressions of disbelief on the faces of the exploration team members were too vivid, [White Flower Heroine] put her hands together in front of the onion feast full of lunch boxes. "My door at home has broken many times before and I fixed it myself, so I took the door apart and put it back together. Because he deliberately sent everyone away, no one saw it."
Guan Hongyan: "...Yes, then why did you call 120?"
Wasn't it just a door that was removed? Could it be that the door hit him when it was removed?
"When I went out with the dismantled door in one hand, he was the only one around."
"He tripped over the metal hinge I removed, and ended up scraping his skin on the plastic track in the playground," White Flower explained under the curious gazes of the exploration team members, "He kept hugging his legs and shouting that he was about to die, so I said if you can't walk, I can carry you to the infirmary in the teaching building like a princess."
[White Flower Heroine]: "But he refused to obey."
Barrage:
【……】
[Is this possible, sister? ]
[The heroine of Baihua is a burly woman...]
[Sister, you are such a nice person. You even sent him to the teaching building. ]
[Use the most ordinary words to describe the most bizarre way of handling things. ]
[As expected of the heroine Baihua, she is so helpful. When she saw that the person who bullied her had a lame leg, she was willing to carry him to the infirmary like a princess. 】
[If someone saw him being carried back to the teaching building by the White Flower Princess, I'm afraid he could go to live on Mars tomorrow. ]
[Heroine Baihua] probably also realized this.
“It was during class time and no one else was around,” she answered honestly, stirring her cream of onion soup. “Plus he kept saying he was going to die.”
“So I called 120.”
Exploration team members: ...with mixed feelings.
Xu Zichen: "What did the doctor say?"
[White Flower Female Lead]: "The doctor said that it was fortunate that we called 120 quickly, otherwise the wound would have healed on its own."
What’s the difference between this and being carried back to the teaching building as a princess?
It’s just that the direction of social death has changed!
In the afternoon, the student did not come to school as expected. He might have been preparing to launch himself to Mars.
Dai Anni mercilessly mocked Guan Hongyan and Bai Jinshu while chatting with them: "Ha, have you heard that Chen Chao Media's Chen Xujie's acting skills are much better than the few young actors they just signed. He should pack up or he can't make his debut."
After class, Guan Hongyan watched the White Flower Heroine happily enter the kitchen to start her new job of chopping onions, and felt a dull pain in her heart: "Why do I feel that she has become a lot more sinister since she started working in this restaurant?"
The 120 ambulance call this morning was really mean.
Xu Zichen was beside him, looking sad: "You didn't even take a look at what Baihua, the heroine, had imagined in the recent plot..."
In the imagination of the heroine Bai Hua, this restaurant, which initially appeared out of thin air just to exploit the heroine to cut onions and collect diamonds, has become a battleground in the underworld, with a major incident happening every few days.
The [Bai Hua Heroine] was cutting onions alone in a small, isolated room, and she was grateful that this was a way for Bai Jinshu to protect her.
As we all know, Western restaurants don't need so many onions.
An onion-themed western restaurant wouldn’t need so many.
The other party chose onion, a vegetable that is very spicy to the eye, in order to find him a job, to ensure her safety, and to naturally prevent her from exploring what happened in the restaurant during working hours.
In order not to let them down for their concern for her safety, [Heroine Baihua] decided not to step out of here during working hours!
——Then I started imagining it even more vigorously.
After dealing with the seventh wave of people who wanted to enter this neutral restaurant to cause trouble this week, Xu Zichen sat in the messy lobby with a very melancholy look on his face: "Why don't we tell [White Flower Lady] that this is just an ordinary restaurant?"
Guan Hongyan: "Then she would think, oh my god, they are so protective of me, I must not let them find out that I already know the real purpose of this restaurant, and then she would imagine it more vigorously."
Xu Zichen: ...
Xu Zichen: "Save..."
So many days have passed, and the relationship between the male and female protagonists in "Romantic Contagion" has not made any progress, but the feelings between the female protagonist and this restaurant have become deeper and deeper.
Last time, she had even imagined that if someone came to cause trouble and attacked the kitchen, she would have to be alone with an onion peeler to protect all the chefs and helpers in the kitchen who were unaware of the situation.
The exploration team members were stunned when they saw this.
No, it’s really not necessary!
I appreciate your kindness!
[Heroine Baihua] What kind of body do you have hidden under this dazzling light?
The investors in the barrage laughed like crazy:
【Well done, sister! 】
[What's the point of dating? The restaurant defense battle is more interesting! ]
[Can Baili Xiaofeng have the same fun as peeling onions? Can Baili Xiaofeng have the same fun as peeling onions? Can Baili Xiaofeng have the same fun as peeling onions? ]
[I agree, men are not as interesting as onions.]
[Fuck, you actually remembered the hero's name, you are already a big step ahead of everyone else. ]
[The version of Romantic Contagion has been retired. The current version is the days when I worked in the Black Onion Theme Restaurant. 】
…
While Encounter was rushing towards a not-so-good future under the imagination of the [White Flower Heroine], new news finally came.
"Gu Niannian said that her senior has dealt with things abroad and plans to return to China to find them," Zhang Ying brought new news about the third part, "The family background content we made up before has come true for Yun Tian. It is estimated that this senior has also appeared in the plot and has to be included in the plot."
After all, the balance that has been created has been broken. If you don’t want to be too passive in the future, the best way is to join in.
"What about the [Runaway Female Lead]?" Xu Zichen stood up with interest, "Did she meet the male lead?"
“We met,” this time it was Lu Changfeng who answered. His fractured bone had not healed yet, so he ate with his left hand in a very aggrieved way. “I don’t know who saw Gu Tiancai, took a photo of him and gave it to the male lead.”
"Isn't Gu Tiancai a hacker?" Bai Jinshu peeled an orange and said, "He didn't intercept it?"
"They stopped him," Lu Changfeng twitched his lips, "and then the male lead heard the news and came here in person."
"Why do you still want to take care of a child when you have a broken bone?" Guan Hongyan looked at him strangely.
"Gu Tiancai said that I looked more ferocious after my right hand was broken, like a gangster who was injured in a street fight. Now the owner of the ice cream truck can give him two more balls when he sees me..."
An irrefutable reason.
"What is the hero's title?" Ming Jingxuan asked curiously.
Lu Changfeng: "[Chasing his wife, CEO]."
Yun Tian complained: "Evil... not surprising at all."
No wonder the senior couldn't sit still. If he didn't come in to interfere with the plot, Gu Tiancai, the hacker talent he had favored from the beginning, would soon become the male protagonist.
"Gu Niannian has been on good terms with us recently. She said that she heard about our care for her and wanted to thank us in person and get to know us," Zhang Ying was very reliable. "I've made an appointment for tomorrow afternoon. This is the only time we can see if this person has an original novel."
The exploration team members nodded.
For someone like this who had plans for the [Runaway Female Protagonist] from the very beginning, his way of thinking would definitely be biased towards his own actions. After seeing the [Runaway Female Protagonist] return to China and meet the male protagonist and an unknown kind-hearted person, he must have been extremely wary of the exploration team members.
The difficulty of getting words out of the other person's mouth has increased significantly.
However, if the other party's attitude more or less represents his situation, and if this senior is extremely alert to them and speaks very carefully, then he most likely possesses the original work.
Everyone was ready to deal with the other side. Bai Jinshu even took stock of the 24 personalities he currently had and picked out a naive person who seemed to have a relatively low IQ and was easy to be tricked into doing things.
But surprisingly, the senior did not show up that afternoon.
In Encounter, [the runaway heroine] Gu Niannian waited until after five in the evening before she received a call from her senior.
"Senior Qiu said that he suddenly received news that he had to deal with an emergency," Gu Niannian said with a bit of regret, "so I can only regretfully miss the appointment."
"Emergency?" Zhang Ying pretended not to understand. "Niannian, didn't you say that this senior's business scope is now overseas? Why is there an emergency in China?"
Gu Niannian's face was tangled for a while, and finally she said angrily: "Senior was tripped up by someone!"
“Eh?” Yun Tian opened her eyes wide in pretentiousness. “Is it a business competitor? We can help him! With so many of us and our family’s company putting pressure on him, he won’t dare to continue!”
Gu Niannian's face lit up at first, then suddenly darkened: "This matter has nothing to do with business competition."
"Then he is... injured?" Bai Jinshu asked worriedly, "It's better to call the police if he deliberately causes personal injury."
Gu Niannian was originally reluctant to talk about this matter, but unfortunately her skills were not enough among the exploration team members who were already familiar with all kinds of rhetoric skills. After just a few words, she had already aroused many dissatisfactions in her heart, and she began to complain angrily.
"It was Gu Tiancai's biological father who did it," she said, looking disgusted with him. "When I took Gu Tiancai away a few years ago, he didn't know I was pregnant, and I didn't inform him of the existence of the child, so he always thought I was just developing overseas in the past few years."
"But this time I brought Gu Tiancai back and was seen by his...colleague. Gu Tiancai looks so much like him that he was recognized right away. Now he wants custody of the child back and thinks that I was able to hide it from him a few years ago because of my senior."
"Ah...how can there be such a person?" Bo Yuan sighed half-seriously and half-jokingly.
"Yeah, how could there be such a person..." Yun Tian seemed very angry, "How could he do this! My senior's company is all overseas, and he still wants to deliberately compete maliciously!"
"It's not a business competition..." [Runaway Female Protagonist] held her chin and thought for a while, "He can't touch the senior's company. He is... deliberately causing trouble for the senior's family."
"It seems that there is a cousin in my family who has been engaged to the heir of another company..." [Runaway Female Protagonist] held the cup with both hands, "I'm not sure what happened this time, but it seems that someone instigated it, so the girl suddenly said she wanted to cancel the engagement."
Guan Hongyan:?
Suddenly, an extremely bad premonition arose in her heart.
Guan Hongyan silently turned her head and looked at the exploration team members.
Except for Yun Tian and Zhang Ying, the expressions of the rest of the exploration team members seemed to be strange.
Lu Wu's eyelids twitched wildly: "Is your senior cousin's family... down in financial straits?"
“Eh?” The [Runaway Female Protagonist] was surprised for a moment, then she reacted immediately, “Oh yeah, this matter is a big deal, you should know more about it than me!”
"Although the senior is very capable, his company was not supported by his family, but built by himself," [Runaway Female Protagonist] thought for a moment, "I don't know much about his family situation, you should know more than me, anyway, I heard that it has been going downhill in recent years, and the senior seems to have moved all his business overseas to prevent them from sucking his blood."
"But that cousin has a good relationship with him," she added, "They have had a good relationship since they were young. This time, the cousin got into trouble and was suddenly divorced. It was like a slap in the face for the whole family, so the senior had to go back to deal with it and support the cousin."
Lu Wu: ...
This is an unpleasant feeling.
Lu Wu: "Why don't you take us with you to support your cousin."
"You see, your senior may not be able to handle it alone," Lu Wu, a 30-something man, could not control his expression at this moment, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly uncontrollably, "Take all of us over there, and when the other side sees so many of our companies standing on your cousin's side, they may not dare to say bad things about your senior's family."
"Is this okay?" [Runaway Female Lead] didn't quite understand this, and her eyes lit up when she heard this suggestion, "Will it be too much trouble for you? Will it be okay if you stand on the senior's side?"
"No," Guan Hongyan comforted her skillfully, "Look, there are so many of us, the other side won't dare to do that."
Gu Niannian was a simple-minded person and didn’t think much about it, so she quickly agreed.
In order to give her senior a "surprise", she did not tell him that she had brought people to support her cousin.
So when everyone drove to the enemy's old house, they just caught the end of the drama.
In the ancient courtyard, the dazzling human-shaped light and shadow shouted out the famous line: "Thirty years in the east! Thirty years in the west! Don't despise the young and poor!"
Guan Hongyan: “Ah…”
Lu Wu: “Ah…”
The bad premonition came true.
Barrage:
[grass hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha]
[Save me, save me, save me, hahahahaha]
[Your world is quite colorful. ]
[Help, when can I stop laughing when I see this sentence?]
[I’m back. The excitement I had when I first started watching this Mary Sue world is back! ]
[Signalman, go to the forum and report the new plot! ]
[The signalman has finished reporting and is returning to the team! ]
[Romance infects you, and you always give me new surprises. ]
"Hmm..." Among the petrified exploration team members, Bai Jinshu said leisurely, "I roughly know what the consequences will be if I enter the plot."
Every time a new character enters the plot, a new story line appears in the world again.
New characters are like new whirlpools that will constantly pull various new worlds into them. The combat power of each world is unbalanced, and one day something extraordinary will be pulled in.
Obviously, the new plot that is incorporated this time is the male protagonist who breaks off the engagement.
"Is your senior cousin called Xiaoyan?" Lu Wu asked in a low voice.
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