Chapter 140 The Lounge: She is the new history.
However, looking at it from another angle, if "that person" is so weak that they can be described as on the verge of death, yet they can still unleash such powerful energy, then just how terrifying must their energy be at their peak?!
Yu Naixin's eyes were filled with gloom.
From the priest's folding fan and the barrage comments from the viewers in the live stream, Yu Naixin knew that "that person" had encountered problems in recent years. As for how long "recent years" actually is, given the nature of the time flow within "Heartbeat 1000%", it is difficult to define accurately.
In these "recent years", "that person" began to lose precise control over the entire "Heartbeat 1000%" program, and loopholes occurred from time to time. Before these "recent years", how long did "He" maintain the orderly operation of "Heartbeat 1000%"?
The number of program copies contained within this dating reality show is at least in the hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands. Some will disappear along the way due to the changes made by the program's guests. The total number of program copies that have passed through the hands of "that person" is probably a rather astonishing number.
Considering the large number of viewers in the live stream who were once guests on the show, as well as the background and cultural expression of the three program segments that Yu Naixin has participated in and experienced, namely "Cocoon Village," "Swan Castle," and "Xiawei Temple," the actual running time of "Heartbeat 1000%" is at least several hundred years.
Yu Naixin is very observant. In her live stream chat, there have been more than a few instances where viewers mentioned a certain ranking that other viewers couldn't understand at all. For example, someone once described the headless stone ghost's speech as having "the beauty of scrolling on a phone on a high-speed train, where it can freeze for three seconds in one second." Soon after, someone wondered, "What is a high-speed train?"
The time span of these former guests appearing on "Heartbeat 1000%" is estimated to be quite large. Among the active viewers in Yu Naixin's live broadcast room, there may very well be people from decades or even hundreds of years ago.
The fact that "the guests on the show are all human beings" is a consensus among the audience, and Yu Naixin has reason to guess that the group of "guests on the show" are all from their home planet Earth, just like her.
Extending our thinking from this perspective, "Heartbeat 1000%" binds humans on Earth to the show as guests, with the core purpose of having the guests purify the non-human, demonic, and monster-like guest characters. The show's rules also clearly favor the guests, imposing more restrictions on the guest characters.
So, as the mastermind behind "Heartbeat 1000%", "that person's" identity, even if not the same as Earth's human, wouldn't be too different.
Yu Naixin was very interested in this.
Is it really possible for a human being to reach the same level as "He"?
Although she now knows that "He" is not the cruel and evil mastermind she initially thought, Yu Naixin's desire to eliminate "He" remains unchanged.
The fact that "He" used a simulator to make amends came later. The beginning of everything was when "He" forcibly dragged her into "Heartbeat 1000%" without distinguishing right from wrong.
Yu Naixin has always been known for remembering both kindness and grudges.
She wanted to understand more specifically the strength of "that person" so that she could carry out targeted revenge against "him".
The shock of seeing "that person" in person gradually subsided for Yu Naixin. She kicked off her sneakers, changed into the cotton slippers in the lounge, bought a cherry smoothie from the system's regular shop, and sat comfortably on the bed to carry out the routine inventory check of the system's light screen backpack.
Yu Naixin had put the priest's folding fan and the paper dog, two special magical artifacts, back into her inventory the moment she discovered that Xiawei Temple was beginning to collapse and disappear. Now, she casually released them.
The paper puppy was still incredibly excited to see Yu Naixin, its tail practically wagging like a propeller, circling around Yu Naixin's feet that were dangling by the bed, and even trying to jump up and touch them.
However, it still remembered the command not to disturb its owner, and after playing for a while, it obediently lay down under the bed and quietly kept its owner company at Yu Naixin's feet.
Compared to the paper puppy, the priest's folding fan became the loud and boisterous one.
As soon as it came out of the inventory, the entire fan fell vertically with a "thud" and crashed onto the floor.
It was quite unusual for such a commotion to occur on a priest's folding fan. Yu Naixin, sipping her shaved ice from her straw, looked at the pile of fans on the ground with some confusion.
Soon, the priest's folding fan stood up on its own, returning to its normal state of unfolding and floating in the air with the fox's head facing Yu Naixin.
"Miss Yu!" The priest, folding fan, stammered as he spoke, "You...you! You've received a title?!"
Clearly, it wasn't just the viewers in the live stream who were shocked that Yu Naixin had earned a title after participating in just three episodes of the show.
As a domain lord-level special spiritual artifact that is like an encyclopedia of "Heartbeat 1000%", the priest's folding fan was so astonished because it knew so much about this kind of knowledge and information.
This is an explosive event that has completely overturned the entire "Heartbeat 1000%" program!
After witnessing Yu Naixin's thought process and methods, the former fox demon priest was certain that its owner would bring about a revolutionary change to "Heartbeat 1000%".
Even so, the priest with the folding fan never expected that this day would come so soon!
In just three episodes of the show, only those guests who survived are considered to have left the "newcomer" stage. Usually, it takes five episodes to be called a "veteran guest," but Yu Naixin has already received that title?!
The priest felt as if he were seeing a baby who had just learned to stand and walk after crawling on all fours, suddenly running to a sports field to compete with other well-trained professional adult athletes.
Moreover, this little baby's performance was no less than that of any adult competitor; in fact, her very first move made it clear that she was destined for the championship.
This whole thing was so surreal that it took the priest a while to regain his senses.
Seeing that the priest's folding fan was fine, Yu Naixin ignored it and, while drinking her smoothie, turned on the system screen and looked intently at the upper left corner, where she found that all four small icons had finally been unlocked.
Yu Naixin clicked on the Sweet Coin icon on the far right. The coin, engraved with a straight love knot, lit up, and the interface opened, showing Yu Naixin how much balance she currently had in her account.
The last time Yu Naixin paid attention to her account balance was before fulfilling her vow in "Xiawei Temple," when her total Sweet Coins were 1619.
Yu Naixin originally thought that this was about all she could earn from this episode, maybe 1800 at most. But after the production team notified her that she had won the title, the viewers who flooded into the live stream in those two short minutes showered her with hundreds more in donations.
The guests stay in the show's alternate episodes, and every morning at sunrise, which is 6 a.m., they have to pay the production team a survival fee. Yu Naixin paid this fee when she was in "Cocoon Village". The first day it was 10 Sweet Coins, the second day it was 12, and the third day it was 15, showing an increasing trend.
However, Yu Naixin didn't stay in "Cocoon Village" for more than a few days. The later "Swan Castle" did not require a survival fee. That episode only lasted four hours from the start to the deadline. The principle of the "Heartbeat 1000%" program team was to encourage the guests to complete the episode, rather than to make things difficult for them. Given the tight schedule, they automatically ignored the survival fee requirement.
The "Xiawei Temple" event is long, so the survival fee returns. Like "Cocoon Village," the first three days require 10, 12, and 15 coins respectively, while the fourth day requires 20 Sweet Coins.
This amount of money wasn't a big deal for Yu Naixin; she paid it when the time came.
The cultivation medicine, which operates on a similar model to the survival fee refresh, is what Yu Naixin is focusing on.
After arriving at the lounge for the first time, Yu Naixin bought out all the basic and intermediate Qi-Nourishing Medicines in the system shop. Then, she used them all in Swan Castle to control the vampire duke. During the few days she stayed at Xiawei Temple, Yu Naixin had three chances to refresh the Qi-Nourishing Medicines. Every day, she took the time to buy all the basic and intermediate ones, spending a total of 630 Sweet Coins.
This is a great thing, especially since Yu Naixin's spiritual power coefficient has increased by 10 points, now reaching 123.6. She will need to use the Qi-nourishing medicine a lot in the future.
The healing medicine, which was placed alongside the Qi-nourishing medicine in the system shop, wasn't something Yu Naixin urgently needed. Besides, it was much more expensive, costing 600 Sweet Coins per tube. Yu Naixin only bought two medium-grade tubes, totaling 1200 yuan.
All these expenses amounted to nearly 2,000 Sweet Coins. Without any final settlement reward, Yu Naixin only managed to bring back 306 Sweet Coins from "Xiawei Temple".
Adding to the 4,000 Sweet Coins spent on buying four substitute straw men during the dungeon, Yu Naixin couldn't help but gasp. She really spent money on this dungeon.
The final settlement rewards remained unchanged: 100% cleansing level gave Yu Naixin 1000 Sweet Coins, and the two dungeon guests' full favorability also gave Yu Naixin a total of 283 Sweet Coins, barely making her wallet not so empty, with 1589 yuan.
Yu Naixin just spent 9 Sweet Coins on cherry smoothies. This time, she's not planning to start the next episode too soon in the lounge, but rather to take a good rest.
In "Xiawei Temple", those two special memory illusions took her almost three years to complete. Even though Yu Naixin didn't need to do anything in the environment and only needed to watch these two special "movies", it was still a full three years.
Psychologically, Yu Naixin knew that she really needed to stop and relax.
Unfortunately, there was a room fee of 100 Sweet Coins every 24 hours in the lounge. Yu Naixin didn't intend to skimp on food and drinks. After doing a quick calculation, she paid 700 yuan for the lounge. She planned to stay there for a week and give herself a short vacation.
After reviewing the account information, Yu Naixin exited the interface and returned to the system screen homepage. She looked at the second icon on the right, the one that had been locked before.
The section after unlocking features a pattern that is difficult for Yu Naixin to describe. On the left, there are two nail-like protrusions on the outside of a vertical line, the upper right part looks like oracle bone script, and below is a pattern that resembles a simplified mountain range.
Yu Naixin stared at the pattern for a long time, her brows furrowed. She felt it looked familiar but couldn't quite place it.
According to the consistent principles of "Heartbeat 1000%", this pattern must be directly related to the "titles obtained by the program guests". However, Yu Naixin thought of simplified Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters, regular script, clerical script, running script, and even earlier clerical script and seal script, but she couldn't find a single character that was different from "title" or "title" that could match this pattern.
Taking a sip of cherry smoothie, Yu Naixin looked away from the system screen, her brain, which had been boosted by more than 120 points of spiritual power, suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
She remembered.
This pattern is the character "应" (ying) from bronze inscriptions! She had seen it in a museum before!
After recognizing her, Yu Naixin's doubts only increased.
What is the relationship between “应” and “标题”?
Moreover, bronze inscriptions date back to the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties. Is "that person" some kind of ancient relic from that time?! Or is it simply a matter of "His" personal preference for this script?
Yu Naixin currently has too little information to make any educated guesses, so she didn't dwell on it and directly opened the icon officially named "Title Bar" to enter the subpage.
The two large characters “曜灵” are right in the center of the subpage.
These two characters, like all the text on the system screen before, are simplified Chinese characters that Yu Naixin is most familiar with. Below them is a detailed explanation of the title.
[Title Attribute: Fire.]
[Title Buff: Greatly increases the recipient's physical and mental recovery abilities, and significantly enhances resistance to negative damage such as pain, curses, and poison.]
[Title Skill 1: "Most Popular Guest". The holder's attractiveness to guests in dungeons is greatly increased; dungeon guests will be more eager to have you than guests on other programs.]
[Title Skill Two: "Sweeping Reaper". The recipient will experience a significant increase in efficiency when tackling dungeon guests.]
The explanation wasn't long, but Yu Naixin couldn't help but stare blankly several times while reading it.
...The amount of information in this is frighteningly large!
Yu Naixin first called over the priest with the folding fan: "Do titles have attributes?"
She had heard the priest explain buffs and skills from the folding fan, but this attribute listed first was something she had never heard of before.
"Your title has attributes?!" the priest with the folding fan exclaimed in surprise, but quickly realized, "That's right, you got the title after just three dungeon runs, so it's normal for the title to be special."
It flew to Yu Naixin's side and explained to its owner, "Attributes are characteristics that only a very small number of titles possess, and proportionally speaking, there is about a 4% probability."
"Titles with attributes are usually more powerful than ordinary titles."
"The attributes themselves are divided into five major categories: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Specifically, within each title, the fewer attributes it contains, the more powerful it is. Generally speaking—Holy crap?!"
The priest's folding fan, which was originally just a normal explanation of science, transformed into a loud and clear exclamation after it flew to Yu Naixin's hand and saw the text displayed on Yu Naixin's system screen.
"Y-you! You! You! You!" The fox with the priest's folding fan's eyes nearly widened, and it stammered again, "Why do you only have one title attribute?!"
It quickly added what it hadn't finished saying: "Generally, most titles have four attributes! It's rare for them to have three. 'Heartbeat 1000%' has never even had a title with two attributes before, so how come yours only has one?!"
Yu Naixin looked at the priest's folding fan and raised an eyebrow: "Does a title with fewer attributes necessarily mean it's more powerful?"
The priest with the folding fan nodded quickly: "That's right! However, how much of an effect a title can have depends on how the recipient uses it; it doesn't inherently have an absolute strength or weakness."
Yu Naixin couldn't help but chuckle.
From the moment she learned that the special items in "Heartbeat 1000%" were called "Special Spiritual Artifacts," she had a feeling about it. Later, she came into contact with the concept of "spiritual power," and now there are even "title attributes" of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. It seems that the fewer the types of attributes, the more powerful the character...
Isn't this the spiritual root from the Xianxia (fantasy martial arts) worldview?
"That person" is probably of the same nationality as her hometown; she is not a cultivator herself, but just a cultivator enthusiast.
Aside from this attribute, the remaining title bonuses and two skills are all easy for Yu Naixin to understand.
The buff allows her to save a lot of healing potions. These items are so expensive in the system shop, so needing less can save a lot of money. It greatly ensures her survival rate in "Heartbeat 1000%" and also minimizes the impact of various types of damage, allowing her to continue operating or thinking.
Yu Naixin estimated that with her current physical strength, a substitute straw man definitely wouldn't be able to kill her.
Skill one is to turn her into a live target, so you won't need to find the dungeon guests yourself anymore. As soon as they smell her scent, all the dungeon guests will be eager to come over.
Skill two is even simpler and more direct, allowing her to more easily gain the favor of the dungeon guests.
With this series of titles and effects, Yu Naixin dares to guarantee that when it comes to winning over the guests on the show, no other guest on "Heartbeat 1000%" will be able to rival her.
The cheat code that "that person" gave her this time was even better than that of a simulator.
The meaning of "He" is also very clear: "He" has given her all the blessings he could, hoping that she can continue to work hard and complete more program episodes.
The priestess's fan and the viewers in the live stream have mentioned more than once that Yu Naixin is the only guest who can achieve a perfect result every time she participates in a dungeon show.
Even the most powerful guests in the history of "Heartbeat 1000%" could not achieve this.
In other words, Yu Naixin is now a new chapter in history.
Yu Naixin's eyelids drooped slightly, and her long eyelashes cast a soft shadow on her peach blossom eyes.
She became even more certain that "that person" was truly on the verge of collapse.
Suddenly granting her so much authority at this time simply means that they have high hopes for her and want to encourage her to achieve even greater success.
If she weren't truly limited in her time, such a title that disrupts the balance of the entire dating show would never have been bestowed upon her by "that person".
"That person" seems to be taking a huge gamble.
I'm betting that Yu Naixin can be the key figure to turn around the current situation of "Heartbeat 1000%".
To be honest, Yu Naixin's feelings are quite complicated right now.
She was so focused on getting rid of "He" that "He" showed her such high regard.
Yu Naixin clicked her tongue very softly.
By doing this, isn't "that person" telling her that they might have a formal meeting soon?
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Author's Note: Double updates in one go, as promised!
Zhong Dingwen "responded" to my Weibo post with a picture, but it doesn't really matter whether I see it or not [Good luck Lianlian]
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