Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Ren Xiaoyue stood in a dark alley...
Ren Xiaoyue stood in a dark alley, looking at the cars running on the road outside, whose technological level was at least forty years behind, with a confused look on her face.
If memory serves her right, she should be dead.
If I had known I would have to work overtime, I wouldn’t have gone to the company gym to exercise. Ren Xiaoyue thought with regret. Can this kind of death be considered an occupational injury? Probably not.
She was dead anyway.
Ren Xiaoyue sighed, put aside her worries for the moment, looked around, and tried to figure out the current situation. When she looked down at the white dress that obviously did not belong to her, a voice suddenly rang in her mind.
[Hello host, unfortunately, you have died in your original world. 】
Ren Xiaoyue raised her eyebrows and said nothing.
[You may be confused, please don't worry, I will explain to you what is going on. 】
Immediately afterwards, the mysterious voice that suddenly appeared in Ren Xiaoyue's mind gave her a detailed introduction to the current situation, just as it said.
Ren Xiaoyue was indeed dead, but not completely dead.
She should have died suddenly on that treadmill, but this mysterious voice calling itself the system chose her. The system temporarily saved her body, downgrading her fate from sudden death on the spot to becoming a vegetable.
Of course, all this is not free.
The system took her through a comic book. Only by becoming a popular character in the comic book and paying enough popularity to the system could she be resurrected in her original world.
On the contrary, if she is still a passerby before the end of the comic, she will die completely.
The system chattered a lot and Ren Xiaoyue listened quietly without interrupting.
The system said it had prepared a golden finger for Ren Xiaoyue. First, she can check the details, settings and already drawn parts of the comic story. Second, she can exchange any item from the system through popularity points. Third, after each comic is updated, she can browse the designated forum provided by the system.
The system also said that there is bad news now. Ren Xiaoyue is currently a blank character with no settings in the comics, and the comics have been serialized for some time.
After the system finished telling the whole story, Ren Xiaoyue was not in a hurry to bind to the system. She just asked out of curiosity: "During the time I stayed in the comic world, was the time in my world still?"
【no. 】
Ren Xiaoyue hummed, then asked: "So as long as I gain enough popularity to go home, I can leave?"
[No, you can only wait until the manga is finished. 】
Ren Xiaoyue:……?
She asked, "When the comic ends, won't 10 or 20 years have passed in my world?"
[No, according to my estimation, your world has only been in the past five years at most. 】System explanation.
"Okay, here's another question," Ren Xiaoyue said, "What if I died in the comics? Will it have any impact?"
[After you die, your popularity value will continue to be calculated until the end of the comic. If your popularity score does not meet the requirement at the end, you will actually die. 】
Ren Xiaoyue said "Oh", but still didn't say whether she was willing to sign a binding agreement with the system. She opened the system panel, looked through the outline provided by the system, and got a general understanding of the comic.
To sum up, this comic is a story about a boy who lives in the countryside with his mother and goes out on an adventure.
The male protagonist Lu Ze lives with his mother in a remote town. He has never seen his father since he was a child. Every time he mentions his father to his mother, his mother always avoids the topic and talks about other things.
Because of his father and also because of his interest in the world outside the small town, the hero and his childhood sweetheart, the heroine, came to the Academy for Superpowers to study together.
While going to school, the hero met new friends and embarked on many adventures (for example, he was framed and sent to prison, his mother was not his biological mother but an adoptive mother, and his childhood sweetheart was a royal family member). In the end, he discovered that his father was actually a villain who had done all kinds of bad things, and he was just an escaped experimental subject.
For his own personal safety and to protect his mother, the male protagonist destroyed the evil villain organization, and the comic came to an end.
In addition to the story outline, Ren Xiaoyue also took a general look at other settings.
For example, the technology in the comic world is backward compared to the world where Ren Xiaoyue lives. There are no mobile phones, and the cars are models from decades ago. It is a bit like the Belle Elysee in the 20th century.
The names of the characters in the comics are rather random. Some have the same surname first and given name last, like hers, while others have the name first and surname last, like in the United States, highlighting a combination of Chinese and Western styles.
In addition, this world also has the setting of superpowers.
Seeing this, Ren Xiaoyue paused. She followed the settings provided by the system, closed her eyes, and felt whether there were any additional magical powers in her body.
After feeling nothing, Ren Xiaoyue fell into deep thought.
In this high-risk world, you have no means of self-protection and are willing to complete the mission with your head on your shoulders?
She asked the system again: "I have nothing now, what's the point of knowing the story line?"
【You have one chance to set your own background. 】The system did not deny the fact that Ren Xiaoyue had nothing in her hands.【You can go to any comic character and tell him the opportunity you set. As long as the other party believes what you say, your setting will come true. 】
[This ability to drastically modify the world line can only be used once for free, and is only useful in front of named characters in the comics. If the other party doesn’t believe you, you’ll start out as you are now, with nothing. 】
"Oh?" Ren Xiaoyue continued to ask, "That is to say, if I can pay enough popularity points, I can modify the settings again."
[In theory, this is true, but the popularity value required to modify the settings is higher than the value you resurrected. 】The system answered diligently.
It means it's totally not worth it, Ren Xiaoyue let out a light sigh.
"I roughly understand the situation. What if I refuse to bind to you?" Although she roughly knew how the system would answer, Ren Xiaoyue still confirmed.
[I will no longer protect your body and you will die immediately. 】The system gave an expected answer.
There is really no free lunch in the world.
Ren Xiaoyue smiled as if nothing had happened and readily agreed: "Of course I won't joke with my own life, bind it."
【I’m glad you made the right choice. 】Faced with her straightforwardness, the system gave her sincere compliments.
After the system was bound, Ren Xiaoyue looked at the pedestrians outside, shrank back into the shadow of the alley, and asked tentatively, "Can you buy on credit?"
She got a positive answer.
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Half an hour later, Ren Xiaoyue walked on the moist soil towards her destination.
The drizzle fell, wetting Ren Xiaoyue's hair and her khaki coat. Ignoring the discomfort of her clothes sticking to her body, she walked towards a house with a red roof.
Even from a distance, Ren Xiaoyue could see the smoke rising from the chimney of the house. I guess the residents of the house are cooking dinner.
Ren Xiaoyue is going to find the male protagonist's adoptive mother.
The protagonist's adoptive mother is named Lu Hui. Her original name was Xilaiya. She was once a member of the villain organization, but as a researcher and her father was one of the funders of the villain organization, she did not come into contact with the dark side of the organization.
It wasn't until the lab chaos six years ago that she realized what a ridiculous environment she was living in. She thought she was researching a miracle drug to save others, but in fact she was aiding and abetting evil and destroying others.
By chance, she took the male protagonist away and cut off contact with her family. She named herself Lu Hui and the male protagonist Lu Ze.
Ren Xiaoyue came to her because Lu Hui was easier to deceive.
From childhood to adulthood, she has always lived in an ivory tower and has a simple personality. Only the accident six years ago made her see those dark and cold things for the first time, but that didn't mean she could change herself immediately.
Lu Hui's personality has been established. Although she escaped from the organization and wandered outside for many years, she was lucky and had never encountered any bad people or things. She is still a relatively naive person.
Plus, if you want to become a popular character, is there a better setting than a plum blossom falling from the sky? As the saying goes, green plums cannot compare to those that fall from the sky, but those that fall from the sky cannot compare to the green plums that fall from the sky. Most characters that combine these two popular attributes receive a lot of attention.
Ren Xiaoyue wants to package herself as an experimental subject with the same background as the male protagonist, and Lu Hui is the most suitable person at the moment.
According to the information provided by the system, the opening plot of this comic is that the male and female protagonists, who are childhood sweethearts, want to go out and explore the world together, but are opposed by their parents on both sides.
After an unexpected incident, the heroine's parents realized that the heroine had grown up, and their attitude changed from dissuasion to guidance. They suggested that the heroine first go to the Academy for Superpowers to enrich herself, and then go on adventures after she has gained a certain amount of knowledge.
After the protagonist's adoptive mother learned about this, she also realized that this small town was not the protagonist's stage, and after some hesitation, she chose to let the protagonist leave.
The comic has now been serialized to the point where the hero and heroine encounter an unexpected event - they meet a wanted criminal who has fled to the town. Faced with this extremely vicious wanted criminal who wants to kill people to silence them, the hero and heroine work together to defeat him and activate their supernatural powers.
What Ren Xiaoyue has to do now is to make Lu Hui believe her lies while the male protagonist is fighting with the wanted criminal outside.
She stopped in front of Lu Hui's house, smoothed her clothes, and knocked on the door.
Boom boom boom, boom boom boom. Ren Xiaoyue knocked six times in a regular pattern. Soon, she heard footsteps approaching the door.
Lu Hui came over. Ren Xiaoyue adjusted her expression.
"Hello, what can I do for you?" Lu Hui opened the door a crack and looked at Ren Xiaoyue.
This woman, who was in her thirties, had a beautiful and peaceful face. She had long reddish-brown hair tied up and wore a simple shirt and trousers. She carefully judged Ren Xiaoyue with her green eyes.
Here comes her first hurdle. Ren Xiaoyue glanced at the anti-theft chain behind the door without leaving a trace, and smiled with relief: "Finally found you...Dr. Xilaiya."
"I wonder if you still remember me?" Ren Xiaoyue said.
The name "Dr. Xilaiya" made Lu Hui's pupils shrink for a moment, but she pinched the door panel, pretending not to understand, and asked in confusion: "Sorry, did you find the wrong person? There is no one named Xilaiya here."
"I'm not your enemy, Doctor," Ren Xiaoyue shook her head. "If I were your enemy, it wouldn't be me knocking on the door, but that bunch of dirty running dogs."
Ren Xiaoyue pretended to miss him and stroked her black hair: "You definitely don't remember me... I only met you once, and my hair was still white at that time. If it weren't for you, I would have been killed immediately, instead of escaping that day and living until now."
Lu Hui looked at the woman in front of him and actually began to wonder if he had seen her before.
White-haired experimental subject, could it be?
This person's words reminded Lu Hui of a forgotten memory. It was when she had just entered the research institute not long ago. Because she was not familiar with the ways inside the institute, she accidentally bumped into people from the organization who were handling experimental subjects.
She was naive and blind at that time, and she believed them when they said that these were patients who had signed the contract voluntarily and that their current terrible condition was due to the failure of the experiment, and that they would bury the children one by one afterwards.
At that time... Lu Hui's thoughts gradually drifted away. At that time, she was ready to leave immediately, but before leaving, perhaps guided by fate, she saw a child who was pressed at the bottom move his fingers.
There are still people alive! She shouted it out directly at that time, and later, the staff who handled the matter promised to check it out and then sent her away.
Could this person be the child? After picking up this memory, Lu Hui was a little shaken. Apart from the people who dealt with the experimental subjects at that time and herself, perhaps only the experimental subjects themselves knew about this.
"I would have been thrown into the incinerator, but that experiment was very important. They wanted to create a killing weapon that could negate all superpowers, so when you found signs of life in me, they dug me out." Ren Xiaoyue added, taking advantage of the opportunity to continue the victory, and looked with satisfaction as Lu Hui became increasingly shaken.
These are all lies of course.
In the comic setting provided by the system, the experimental subject did not participate in any important experiment, and in the end those people did not dig him out from under the pile of corpses (his gender was not even clearly described in the comic) - because that was too much trouble.
This past event was placed in the later plot where the male protagonist explored the organization. The protagonists discovered the experimental records and once again realized the cruelty of the organization.
When Ren Xiaoyue saw this, she felt that this setting was very suitable for manipulation. This kind of seemingly plausible memory could easily make the other party believe it. As an experimental subject, it would be easy for her to accept the setting of herself having powerful abilities.
To this end, she bought contact lenses and a coat from the system on credit, and bargained with the system, convincing it to teleport her to the vicinity of Lu Hui's home for free.
And her judgment was correct.
Lu Hui was torn between her conscience and her desires, and looked at Ren Xiaoyue for a long time. The child in front of her was waiting for her patiently, her figure reflected in his icy blue eyes like gemstones.
Lu Hui looked at Ren Xiaoyue, who looked like a puppy that couldn't find its home, and pursed her lips: "Come in first, it's cold outside."
[The settings have been recorded. You have 5 minutes to supplement the settings. After 5 minutes, you will be teleported to twelve years ago to complete the plot. 】The voices of the system and Lu Hui sounded at the same time.
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