Chapter 171 Jishi Medical University 29
Yu Naixin definitely has a lot of experience in winning over the guests in the "Heartbeat 1000%" segment and gaining their favor.
In short, it's about "catering to their preferences".
Finding the desires and obsessions of the guests in the story, fulfilling their long-cherished wishes, healing their old wounds, and bringing them surprises are the most convenient, quick, and precise ways to increase their favorability.
Logically speaking, in the very limited time allotted for a segment of a program, it's impossible for someone to change their attitude towards another person from cold indifference and calculation to deep affection and unwavering devotion by only making a few special moves or even just one or two targeted actions.
However, the guest characters are not human in any sense, and cannot be understood using the same concepts as ordinary people.
Their obsessions and desires are much deeper and more stubborn than those of ordinary people.
Through the previous episodes, Yu Naixin also realized that another important reason was that these episode guests were all under the supervision and control of "Heartbeat 1000%".
Since "that person" has organized a "love variety show" called "Heartbeat 1000%", and has set up various macro and micro aspects with great care and attention, and has also given special consideration to the "show guests", it is clear that they do not intend to imprison the show guests in this cage like the dungeon guests, but rather to encourage the show guests to complete the task of cleansing the dungeon.
In other words, every segment of "Heartbeat 1000%" contains a path that allows the show's guests to win over any of the other guests to 100% affection.
This inevitably involves the fact that, after certain prerequisites are met, "Heartbeat 1000%" orders the guest characters to increase their favorability by an unequal amount.
This refers to the "forced procedure" mentioned in the live stream viewers' comments.
The heart in Yu Naixin's hand at this moment is the core prop for a forced procedure involving the Frankenstein's monster professor.
The original official plan for this mandatory procedure was that the guests would use scattered clues from different locations and times within the program's content to deduce that the cold storage contained an item that could help them win over Professor Frankenstein. The guests would then need to secretly retrieve the heart from the cold storage without Professor Frankenstein's knowledge. Finally, after Professor Frankenstein discovers the heart is missing, the guests would "find" it and return it to him, calming his anger and tension, and gaining his favor.
As for how to open the door of this cold storage room using conventional methods, Yu Naixin had already figured it out during the simulation process: she would need to borrow the power of another guest from the dungeon and have the banyan tree spirit youth help her.
The venue for the "Jishi Medical University" segment isn't small, but frankly, only one guest and two other guests have any independent consciousness. The remaining thousands of students, teachers, and other characters are all NPCs. Once the heart is lost, even the Stitched-together professor would know, using the simplest process of elimination, that it was definitely the guest who did it, with the banyan tree spirit youth as an accomplice at most.
Professor Frankenstein knows his utterly despised "neighbor" all too well. It's impossible for the banyan spirit youth to steal his things from directly beneath his territory alone. Even if he's an accomplice of the show's guests, he's definitely not the principal offender, but rather an accessory.
However, as long as the guests on the show are clever enough and clean enough, leaving no convincing evidence, then the Frankenstein professor can only be a mute who has swallowed bitterness and accept the setup of the "Heartbeat 1000%" program team.
The timing of the guest handing the heart to the Stitched-together professor is crucial; it can't be too abrupt, and the actor has to be convincing enough to avoid finding any major flaws.
All the performances of the guests during the show will affect the final score of the task. The more convincing their acting is and the better they take care of Professor Frankenstein's emotions, the higher the professor's favorability will be in the end.
Someone like Yu Naixin, who brazenly snatched the heart right under the nose of the Frankenstein's monster professor and then seamlessly returned it to him without any pretense, could theoretically earn at most two or three percent of the professor's favorability.
However, the truth is that after Yu Naixin handed the heart to the Stitched-together professor as if it were charity, the professor's favorability towards Yu Naixin increased significantly.
The most obvious sign was that Professor Frankenstein suddenly broke free from his out-of-control rampage. The three- or four-meter-long black and red tentacles in the corridor returned to where they came from, as if a replay had been pressed, and shrank back into Professor Frankenstein's body.
The fragments of organs and tissues hanging from the tips of the black and red tentacles were pieced back into place, and even the viscous blood on the tentacles was absorbed back without leaving a single drop.
Apart from the few sutures on his face breaking open, Professor Frankenstein's entire body had returned to its original appearance.
The viewers in the live stream were stunned.
[What?! What happened?! The Frankenstein's monster has become human again?!]
[Damn it, even NPCs' mutations can't be reversed, but the Frankenstein professor's condition was clearly much more severe than mutation, how did he turn back?!]
In the show "Heartbeat 1000%", there are only two possibilities for this situation. One is that the guest's spiritual power suddenly doubled, giving him several times more strength than before, allowing him to regain control of his body. The other is that the guest suddenly developed a very high level of affection for the show's guest, and in order to avoid potentially harming the show's guest, he desperately tried to regain his sanity.
The underlying logic of "Heartbeat 1000%" wouldn't allow for a significant increase in the spiritual power coefficient of the guest characters in a short period of time. Looking at the entire history of "Heartbeat 1000%", only the recent frequent bugs have created this unique exception, "Ruyi Opera House". Therefore, it's highly likely that the Frankenstein's monster professor has genuinely fallen for "Yao Ling"!
[...Rationally, I know this can only be the result of "Yao Ling's" manipulation, but emotionally I really can't understand it! How could "Yao Ling's" purely coercive manipulation manage to make the Frankenstein's monster professor fall for it?!]
[Uh, actually, the alienation of NPCs can be reversed. The Little Witch did it in the dungeon show before last...]
[!! Longtime viewers of "Yao Ling" from before, please say more! Look at all those long, analytical comments in the chat! More and more viewers who were disgusted and left the stream are coming back in! I won't be able to see your comments anymore in a bit!]
Yu Naixin was able to raise Professor Frankenstein's favorability in such a perfunctory and purely formal way, mainly thanks to the skill of her title.
[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.]
In this official episode, Yu Naixin did not lower Professor Frankenstein's favorability to a negative number below zero, so the title skill two can play a positive role.
Even though Professor Frankenstein's monster was still wary and had weakened the effectiveness of his title skill for the past few days, he still couldn't counter the combined attack of Yu Naixin and "that person" given that "Heartbeat 1000%" was openly giving Yu Naixin a cheat code.
Yu Naixin roughly estimated that Professor Frankenstein's affection for her had now reached between 60% and 70%.
In less than thirty seconds, Professor Frankenstein went from being enraged to completely losing control, and then being forcibly calmed down. He simply couldn't accept and adapt to all of this all at once.
His face, with its uneven skin tone and deep, handsome features, was filled with a blank expression; he looked completely dazed.
Yu Naixin couldn't help but chuckle.
A sweet and cheerful laugh brought the Frankenstein professor back to his senses. His dark gray pupils regained focus, and when he slowly looked at Yu Naixin, his expression was quite complicated.
Professor Frankenstein could still sense the approximate source of the skill effect from Yu Naixin, which belonged to her title.
The move this female guest used against him was a blatant and overt scheme.
Behind the hasty decision lies the manifestation of absolute strength.
The Frankenstein professor's gaze fell on the heart in Yu Naixin's hand.
The fresh organs, which had just been taken out of the cold storage, had already developed patches of water droplets on their surface due to the change in the surrounding temperature. The water and blood mixed together and dripped onto Yu Naixin's palm.
The crimson blood contrasted sharply with the snow-white skin, giving the Frankenstein's monster an impulse for a moment.
He wanted to wipe away the filth for her.
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