Chapter 160 Jishi Medical University: Two Updates Combined
A small question mark appeared on Yu Naixin's face.
With such a small amount of data, how could the error be 0.5?
It's rare for a priest's folding fan to be so inaccurate; the flow of time within "Heartbeat 1000%" is truly chaotic.
Yu Naixin couldn't help but ask a question: "The viewers of 'Heartbeat 1000%' generally stayed longer than the guests, right? Are there any old viewers who came from the three 'gods' era in this dating reality show now?"
The Priest Folding Fan was used to its master's sudden divergent and jumping thoughts. It immediately followed Yu Naixin's train of thought: "Theoretically speaking, it is possible. Even the ancient 'audience' from the early stages of the 'Heartbeat 1000%' phenomenon may still be active today."
"However, the prerequisites that need to be met are also very stringent."
"I don't know the more specific details. As you know, Ms. Yu, I know far less about the program team, the side programs, the side guests, and the main program guests than about the audience."
The priest's folding fan had explained this to Yu Naixin a long time ago, since neither it nor its predecessor had ever had any dealings with the "audience".
Yu Naixin's thoughts seamlessly returned to their original track.
Logically speaking, going from nothing to something is several times more difficult than going from little to much, but the journey of "Heartbeat 1000%" did not follow this rule.
The first guest to achieve legendary status, "Kumu Fengchun," took an amount of time equivalent to that of "Heartbeat 1000%" to emerge. It took an equally long time for the two guests who achieved legendary status, "Jingtao" and "Mengyan," to appear one after another.
Judging from these precedents, after such a long time, there should be a new show guest who has achieved legendary status. However, in reality, twice as much time has passed since then, and no other show guest has achieved legendary status in the entire dating show industry.
To this day, Yu Naixin is only "most likely" to be deified, but has not actually been deified.
Yu Naixin rested her chin on one hand, her peach blossom eyes rippling with subtle waves, her gaze becoming increasingly deep and unfathomable.
It seems... that the high expectations placed on her by "that great one" have come at a considerable cost to Him.
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After a week had finally passed, Yu Naixin waited under the big banyan tree near the laboratory building at 6 pm, before it got dark, ready to catch the banyan tree spirit youth as soon as possible.
During this week, Yu Naixin occasionally wandered around the laboratory building, and found it to be as normal as if no ghosts of any kind had ever haunted it.
According to the setting of the "Satisfactory Medical University" segment, for the past three consecutive nights, the only large banyan tree in the program venue has had its aerial roots glow with a blood-red luster, just as the terrifying rumors have described.
This is also the first time the show's guests will meet the Banyan Tree Spirit Youth in the show's episode if they don't choose him as their ideal male guest.
However, Yu Naixin waited until 10 p.m., but the banyan tree showed no sign of changing.
Yu Naixin looked up at the top of the banyan tree trunk, her voice filled with disbelief: "...Am I that scary?!"
She had at least done something to the Stitched-together professor, which caused him to avoid her for a whole week. But she hadn't done anything to the banyan spirit youth, so why was he avoiding her like the plague?!
"Be reasonable!" Yu Naixin tried to reason with a tree. "Last week, it was that Frankenstein's monster professor who provoked me first, that's why I yelled at him! As long as you don't play so many tricks like him, we'll just meet, what's the big deal? I'm not going to eat you!"
[Hahahaha, I burst out laughing! This part is so entertaining! Hahahaha!]
[Yao Ling's sweet, slightly childlike voice is so adorable when she shouts loudly! She's so earnest and hardworking when she's trying to reason, hahaha!]
[Look closely at the details of the banyan tree! After "Yao Ling" arrived, the natural swaying of its branches and leaves decreased slightly, but it wasn't very noticeable. Now that "Yao Ling" has spoken, it's completely still! Not a single leaf dares to move!]
[Wow, this is hilarious!]
Stop laughing! The little witch looks so hurt! I'm sorry, I couldn't help but laugh too, hahaha!
[This is truly eye-opening. I've only ever seen guest stars in variety shows frantically searching for each other and main guests frantically avoiding each other; this is the first time I've seen it the other way around.]
It wasn't until Yu Naixin caught a glimpse of Li Yuanyuan approaching out of the corner of her eye that she had to accept the fact that the banyan tree spirit youth had indeed made up his mind to play dead.
Whenever the young banyan tree spirit showed even the slightest intention to show himself, Li Yuanyuan, as an NPC, would remain invisible.
Without disturbing her roommate's routine of paying homage to the banyan tree, Yu Naixin left Li Yuanyuan's blind spot and returned to dormitory 201.
Yu Naixin truly didn't expect that simply having the priest dismantle a laboratory with his folding fan and slightly intimidate the restless Frankenstein professor would scare these two guest stars like this.
Upon closer examination, Yu Naixin could easily identify where the problem lay.
In the first two dungeon runs, she was severely lacking in combat power. After the Swan Castle dungeon run ended, her spiritual power level experienced a qualitative leap. Since there was no place in the next dungeon run where she could use her combat power, she started this dungeon run.
This meant she had no concept of becoming a fighter. Even though she used her spiritual power to transfer to the priest's folding fan and let the priest use the fan to perform moves, the actual effect was completely different when Yu Naixin had only ten points of spiritual power versus when she had more than one hundred points of spiritual power.
Commanding the priest to dismantle the dissection laboratory with a folding fan actually took a heavy toll on Yu Naixin. Her originally full spiritual energy was almost depleted in a flash, and Yu Naixin was almost ready to take out a Qi-nourishing medicine to drink.
The reason why this is not apparent on the surface, and even appears to be very relaxed, is purely because Yu Naixin's mental quality and acting skills are top-notch, and her control over her body is strong enough that she does not show any signs of weakness.
A single jade and white bone mahjong tile revealed to Yu Naixin the exact spiritual power coefficient of the Stitched-too-monster professor: 265. She herself had less than half of the Stitched-too-monster professor's spiritual power coefficient.
If Professor Frankenstein had chosen to stand his ground, Yu Naixin would have had to make some concessions and wouldn't have won such an overwhelming victory in the confrontation.
But unfortunately, there are no "what ifs".
As Yu Naixin gained a deeper understanding of these two guest stars, she came to understand why the segment "Jishi Medical University," in which they were part, had been able to develop so smoothly and steadily to this day.
Because both the Frankenstein's monster professor and the banyan tree spirit youth are very pragmatic and know how to truly know when to advance and when to retreat.
In the early stages, when she was weak, she would yield to the strong guests on the show. Later, when she became strong, she would not hesitate to devour the weaker guests. At the same time, she would be careful not to give the guests too much favor. If she encountered a guest like Yu Naixin who was completely unbeatable, she would also put down her dignity and kneel down to admit defeat.
It can be said that their approach is the one that allows them to survive the longest as guests in the dating reality show "Heartbeat 1000%".
However, no matter how much they want to keep a low profile, the young man from the banyan tree still has to follow the rules of the show.
For two consecutive days, they insisted on preventing the banyan tree from emitting any strange phenomena. On the third night before the final deadline, the banyan tree spirit could only reluctantly come out to perform for a short while.
Yu Naixin crossed her arms in front of her chest, shifted her weight onto her right foot, and casually stomped her left foot on the ground from time to time. With a strange, unsmiling expression on her face, she watched the entire process of the banyan tree's aerial roots turning from brown to blood red.
[Hahahaha, "Yao Ling" looks perfect as an expression! Caption: You finally caught me, huh?]
[I actually managed to discern a look of utter despair from those hundreds of aerial roots, hahaha!]
[Hehehe, the more unwilling the banyan tree spirit is, the more I want to see how "Yao Ling" will torment him after he comes out~ I feel that with "Yao Ling's" personality, he definitely won't let this go so easily after being stood up for so long~]
[That's right, I'm really looking forward to seeing how "Yao Ling" will discipline the banyan tree spirit youth this time!]
[The two of you above probably haven't watched much of "Jishi Medical University," right? I have to give you a reality check: if the banyan tree spirit decides to give up, it will do so thoroughly, potentially leaving "Yaoling" with nowhere to attack.]
In the live stream chat, experienced viewers' predictions were completely correct.
When the time came for him to make his appearance, a door suddenly appeared out of thin air in the center of the massive banyan tree, whose trunk was so thick that it would take four or five people to encircle it. The banyan tree spirit youth pushed open the door from the inside and landed under the tree.
Compared to their last meeting in the waiting area, Yu Naixin could clearly see that this guest had become more melancholic and withdrawn.
The bangs on his forehead no longer only covered half of his eyes, but almost the entire upper half of the banyan tree spirit youth's face. On the half of his handsome face that was exposed, every cell seemed to be showing what it meant to be autistic from the inside out.
Yu Naixin: "..."
She seemed to see herself in the classroom every morning during her high school years, going to study for the first time.
With a long sigh, Yu Naixin was about to speak when the banyan tree spirit youth spoke first.
In a rapid-fire manner, completely at a pace that belied his appearance, he spoke nearly a hundred words in just ten seconds, telling Yu Naixin everything about the rumor he was involved in, from the time and place of all the clues that appeared, to the progressive order of events and the final conclusion.
After saying that, the banyan tree spirit youth raised his sleeve and took out some key items and props that the program guests could only obtain by solving a puzzle from under the banyan tree, and carefully placed them at Yu Naixin's feet.
These things even had a strong earthy smell.
As if he had finally completed his mission, the banyan tree spirit youth flew back to the door on the trunk of the banyan tree at a speed that seemed as if a hundred ferocious beasts were chasing him, just as Yu Naixin's attention was slightly diverted to the newly unearthed props.
The door closed, disappeared, and the aerial roots changed from blood red back to ordinary brown. These steps were completed almost simultaneously by the young banyan tree spirit within the same second.
Yu Naixin only felt a breeze carrying a faint fragrance of plants brush against her face, and then it was all over.
Yu Naixin: "...?!"
What the hell is this?!
[…I'm speechless. Is the banyan tree spirit really that cowardly?!]
[He was just acting from the heart. Rather than be humiliated in various ways by such a terrifying female guest, he preferred to give her all the clues and props he could obtain, ensuring his own safety on the show.]
Please elaborate on the "various forms of humiliation," thank you.
[The guest in the instance was so eager to help the show's guests complete the ending conditions... If I didn't know the truth, I would have thought that the banyan tree spirit had already been won over by "Yao Ling" to the maximum affection level...]
[Wait, the banyan tree spirit youth should have had several more opportunities to appear, right? He just completed all the tasks ahead of schedule; doesn't that violate the rules of the Jishi Medical University?]
[Of course he broke the rules, but he did everything he was supposed to do, so he'll only get a very minor punishment at most. Like the comments said earlier, compared to facing "Yao Ling" head-on, this punishment is nothing.]
With countless viewers in the live stream witnessing his performance, the young banyan spirit finished filming all his scenes in this episode.
It took only eleven seconds.
Yu Naixin stood there speechlessly for eleven seconds, then couldn't help but roll her eyes.
However, this was only the beginning.
Ten days later, a scene unfolded where the Frankenstein's monster professor had no choice but to step in. The Frankenstein's monster professor did the same thing, telling Yu Naixin all the relevant information about himself in the shortest amount of time, and giving all the props to Yu Naixin as if they were hot potatoes, before making a quick escape.
He ran faster than the young banyan tree spirit.
Yu Naixin couldn't even see clearly whether the Stitching Professor had buttoned up every single button on his white coat, as there were too many bloodstains on his coat to make it easy to find the buttons.
Although Yu Naixin later learned from browsing the comments that Professor Frankenstein had a button undone, and that the button had been violently popped open by Professor Frankenstein in the specimen lab and was never found, Yu Naixin still felt very unhappy.
Dissatisfaction in various aspects.
Yu Naixin, holding a collection of puzzle items that none of the previous guests on "Jishi Medical University" had ever had, arrived at her twenty-first day on the show with nothing but boredom. Finally, the deadline arrived, and she could hand in the answers.
When was the last time we saw the death line on "Jishi Medical University"? It feels like ages ago. Finally, another guest has survived to the death line... No, I feel that the word "survive" is not appropriate for "Yao Ling". She basically lay flat all the way to the death line...
【Holy crap, now that you mention it, I remember! All the guests on this dungeon show had the same style! Whether they were the show's guests or the two dungeon guests, they all performed all the meaningful parts right at the beginning, and then they all became more and more slacking off. The two dungeon guests even vanished into thin air as if they had evaporated from the dungeon venue!】
[Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter! It's true!]
[In the early to mid-game, "Yao Ling" was actually quite proactive in finding a third guest for the dungeon, but both the Frankenstein's monster and the Banyan Tree Spirit were uncooperative, causing a lot of information that should have been revealed to stagnate. "Yao Ling" couldn't do anything alone and could only laze around with the two dungeon guests.]
[This is the first time I've watched such a boring dungeon show, and also the first time I've watched such a funny one. I'll definitely watch every stream this "Yao Ling" does from now on, hahaha!]
Amidst the familiar system notification: "[Congratulations, female guest, on successfully completing this episode of 'Heartbeat 1000%'! We are now calculating your final reward!]", Yu Naixin let out a cold "heh heh" laugh, ending the first simulation of this episode.
Yu Naixin didn't get a chance to hear the calculation of the guest's favorability rating, but even if she hadn't heard it, she could roughly estimate that the combined favorability rating of the two male guests probably wouldn't even reach 10%.
Yu Naixin was quite unaccustomed to doing such a bad job of guiding the guest in the dungeon for the first time.
Returning to the moment before the simulation began, Yu Naixin was alone in the waiting area; the Frankenstein's monster professor and the banyan tree spirit youth had not yet arrived.
After glancing at the two locations where the two guest characters were about to appear, Yu Naixin started her second simulation and decided to try a completely new style this time.
As someone who is used to achieving 100% favorability with all the guests in a segment to complete the entire segment, Yu Naixin couldn't help but feel a bit obsessive-compulsive about not being able to get all the data to 100% in the previous simulation.
She was also very curious about what the upcoming third guest character would look like.
Then I might as well play myself as a weak guest on the show who is struggling to face the ever-mutating and proliferating challenge of "Jishi Medical University".
Anyway, both the Frankenstein professor and the banyan tree spirit youth are bullies who prey on the weak and fear the strong; that's how you catch fish.
The next second, two familiar figures appeared out of thin air in the familiar location. Yu Naixin looked at the two guest stars who were gradually becoming clearer, her face tense and her body trembling slightly.
Anyone could tell that this was a female guest who was trying hard to see what the other guest she was about to meet was like, but was too nervous and scared to look closely because of the tension and fear emanating from her heart.
The Stitched-together professor and the banyan tree spirit youth stood at opposite ends of the waiting area, keeping their distance. The banyan tree spirit youth's cold and expressionless face didn't reveal anything yet, but the Stitched-together professor grinned broadly and smiled with great pleasure the moment he saw Yu Naixin's appearance.
The ashen face, stitched together crookedly with blood-soaked thread, revealing a smile that reached the corners of the mouth to the ears, should have been a rather horrifying sight.
Yu Naixin should not have been able to react emotionally to such a scene, but at this moment, the meme of the Frankenstein professor "smiling with eight hundred teeth" suddenly popped into her mind during the last simulation, and she almost couldn't hold back.
Fortunately, Yu Naixin's reaction speed and acting skills were still on point. In the end, only a hint of a smile flashed deep in her eyes, which was quickly covered up by her long, curved eyelashes, so that the two guests on the other side, who were still completely unprepared for her presence, did not sense anything amiss.
The Frankenstein-like professor took a step forward, opened his arms as if to give Yu Naixin a warm hug, and uttered his unchanging opening line: "Welcome, our newest guest, Miss!"
Yu Naixin jolted and instinctively wanted to back away.
However, she was very close to the edge of the waiting area. Yu Naixin stepped backward and her foot hit the edge of the invisible wall. She lost her balance and stumbled, almost falling to the ground.
Seeing this, the Frankenstein professor's smile widened, clearly pleased by Yu Naixin's reaction.
He absolutely loves watching the female guests panic, break down, and despair!
Anyway, judging from the female guest's appearance, she didn't seem like the type to choose him as her ideal man. She would definitely choose the seemingly gentle and harmless young man from the banyan tree. So the Frankenstein professor didn't bother to pretend to be friendly on the surface and directly cornered Yu Naixin to the deepest part of the room.
Let's play around with it for a while and have some fun first.
"Hey, don't be so nervous." Looking down at the petite Yu Naixin, the Frankenstein-like professor finally got a good look at the female guest's face. "Wow? I didn't expect our guest to be so beautiful!"
Yu Naixin looked around helplessly, realizing there was no way to escape the encirclement of the eccentric professor. She could only hurriedly extend her stiff left hand and point to the "distant" banyan tree spirit youth: "I choose him! I choose him as my favorite male guest!"
This is undoubtedly the most effective way to get rid of the Frankenstein's monster right now.
The Frankenstein professor chuckled.
It's a pity that this female guest wasn't slow to react; she couldn't play the game so quickly.
That makes sense, though. If a guest on a show were truly lacking in all aspects, they wouldn't have been matched into the same segment of the show "Heartbeat 1000%" at this point.
Yu Naixin chose the banyan tree spirit youth, so the Frankenstein's monster professor had to leave first.
Just before his figure faded and disappeared, the Frankenstein's monster professor braced himself against the invisible wall, pulling Yu Naixin tightly into his arms, and whispered in her ear in a rather wicked tone, "We'll be meeting soon, Miss Guest..."
Yu Naixin almost lost her composure again, letting a very inappropriate smile bloom on her pale face.
...Unexpectedly, this was the first difficulty encountered in this episode.
This feeling, similar to seeing an acquaintance acting in front of you, is just too funny, what should I do?
Like a seasoned actress, Yu Naixin maintained her composure and finally managed to stand up straight, no longer clinging to the invisible wall behind her, and cautiously and nervously looked at the male guest she had chosen.
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