Chapter 186 Jishi Medical University 44
From the perspective of the young banyan tree spirit in "Jishi Medical University" until now, apart from the brief moment when Yu Naixin came to cut down the tree, the entire live stream has long consisted of the monotonous daily life of the young banyan tree spirit staying in the treehouse, resulting in a consistently small number of viewers.
Those who are still watching the live stream from the perspective of the "Banyan Tree Spirit Youth" are basically there because of the "Banyan Tree Spirit Youth" face. In particular, it is not common to see such a socially awkward and quiet guest in the "Heartbeat 1000%" segment, so the audience can see something new.
A small portion of the audience chose other perspectives because they were not interested in Yu Naixin, the main character of this episode, or even disliked her.
The moment Yu Naixin appeared on camera, the previously sparse comments suddenly became much denser.
[What the heck?! The female guest is so cool?! She really single-handedly pierced through the darkness! I suddenly understand what it means for some people to be the absolute center of attention the moment they appear!]
[This entrance was quite shocking! When I watched it from the perspective of a guest on the show, I thought she was being a bit pretentious, always deliberately acting lazy and casual despite her obvious talent. I never expected it to look like this from another perspective!]
[Yes, yes, yes! I also felt that the audience members from the female guest's perspective were incredibly annoying, praising her excessively for the smallest, seemingly insignificant details. But after so much time, seeing her again suddenly, only the word "stunning" can describe my feelings! She truly has the looks and presence to instantly capture your attention!]
[What was her title again? It was a bit obscure, I don't remember, maybe it meant sunlight or lamplight? She truly dispelled all the darkness here in an instant!]
[It's "Yao Ling." She took out that red lotus lamp when she fought the Frankenstein monster. Back then, it only had the brightness and range of a regular flashlight. How could it illuminate such a large area?!]
The brightness and distance of the butter lotus lamp can be adjusted at will according to the owner's wishes.
The light here, under Yu Naixin's manipulation, was not dazzling, but it was enough to clearly reveal the figures of all 161 students and 12 faculty members.
The dimmer the light, the more easily it nourishes a person's dark side; conversely, unobstructed light can help bring back a person's rationality.
In particular, the person who created the light has just revealed extremely terrifying methods.
Under the light of the butter lotus lamp in Yu Naixin's hand, the students who were originally excited all fell silent. Only a very few dared to stand stiffly and secretly examine the broken aerial roots on the ground, truly fulfilling the requirement of the faculty and staff to "stand still and not move."
The young banyan tree spirit stared at the scene before him, momentarily losing all his ability to think.
Yu Naixin's smile and gaze were directed at the young man from the banyan tree spirit; no one could experience such a powerful sense of amazement as him.
It was clearly Yu Naixin's arrival that illuminated the night sky, but the young banyan tree spirit felt as if she had made the heavens and earth pale in comparison.
The long-dormant goodwill is beginning to show signs of loosening.
The Frankenstein's monster professor was also completely captivated by this scene.
Unlike the young people who were amazed by the most direct visual appeal of the Banyan Tree Spirit, the Frankenstein Professor's focus was on Yu Naixin's domineering and powerful aura, and how she instantly took control of the situation, completely intimidating hundreds of people.
She spoke casually and matter-of-factly, as if she were born to be a ruler who could control everything, wielding her power with ease.
The Frankenstein professor's deep gray pupils emitted an astonishing light.
For the Frankenstein's monster professor, "admiration for the strong" is something ingrained in his very bones.
Born into a world of suffering, Professor Frankenstein is a monster who constantly craves power.
He was willing to feign madness and act like a servile dog in order to seize every opportunity to improve his spiritual power.
Even after successfully retaliating against his persecutors, his long-held obsession could not be easily changed. The Frankenstein Professor continued his frenzied hunting, exhausting all means to strengthen himself.
Among the samples held by Yu Naixin, Professor Frankenstein was the guest who killed people most frequently during the outside world period, and also the guest who took the shortest time from starting to cause trouble to being captured by "Heartbeat 1000%".
After "Satisfying Medical University" opened, the Frankenstein professor was pleasantly surprised that it could provide him with a constant stream of high-quality prey, but he also occasionally felt disgusted in his heart that these program guests were too weak.
"Heartbeat 1000%" is at least labeled as a "dating reality show." In countless loops where the time, place, and plot remain largely unchanged, the Frankenstein's monster professor certainly fantasizes and hopes that he might spark a romantic connection with a female guest, adding some fresh excitement to his monotonous and repetitive life.
However, due to his and another guest's similar cautious and survival-first approach, the guests matched with him on "Jishi Medical University" have always been of mediocre quality.
None of them could catch the eye of the Frankenstein's monster professor.
Until this time, Yu Naixin appeared.
He was wary of the female guest's abilities, yet he was also inevitably deeply attracted to her.
After all, this time, Yu Naixin did not reveal any overly destructive abilities at the beginning, so the Frankenstein professor's initial favorability was not as negative as it was during the first simulation, and he did not dare to have any improper thoughts about her.
The Frankenstein's monster professor could sense that his affection for Yu Naixin had quietly surpassed the 90% mark.
He became increasingly restless and wanted to leave his home turf, come out of the laboratory building, and go to a place closer to Yu Naixin.
Having been neighbors who wished the other would die sooner for so many years, the banyan spirit youth quickly noticed the rather restless movements of the Frankenstein professor.
Finally shifting his attention away from Yu Naixin, the banyan tree spirit youth suddenly came to his senses and realized that something was extremely wrong!
How did Yu Naixin manage to get these dozen or so faculty and staff NPCs to obey her so obediently?!
No matter how much the NPCs serve the guests, they still have certain established logic to follow; otherwise, there wouldn't be any information that requires the guests to fulfill certain prerequisites.
The Banyan Tree Spirit Youth initially chose to develop student NPCs into his followers not only because the students had an overwhelming numerical advantage, but also because these college students in their teens and early twenties were very easy to bewitch and control.
Those faculty and staff NPCs are adults with some social experience and more mature minds, so it's much more difficult to brainwash them.
The presence of student NPCs in "Jishi Medical University" is already very low, and the presence of faculty and staff is even lower. The young man from the banyan tree spirit can't even recall a single faculty or staff NPC with a slight impression. He only knows that a few teachers would occasionally reveal some clues to the guests in class.
But Yu Naixin, clearly the leader, led a dozen or so faculty and staff members to their territory, the home turf of these two guest stars?!
And then there's Yu Naixin's line, "Hurry up and come out to thank me..."
The young banyan tree spirit felt an increasing unease in his heart.
Compared to the Frankenstein's monster of a professor's fanaticism for Yu Naixin herself, the Banyan Tree Youth have always been much more rational.
Even though Yu Naixin had already raised his favorability to over 60% through the forced walking mechanism, and he did indeed have some extra tender feelings for Yu Naixin, the banyan tree spirit youth was still able to analyze, based on his past experience and his own perception, that the rate at which his favorability was increasing was abnormal.
The guests on the show use all sorts of methods, so it's not surprising that someone of Yu Naixin's caliber has a few extremely powerful tricks up her sleeve; the young people who are like banyan trees can understand that.
He had even prepared for the worst, which was that Yu Naixin would raise his favorability rating to 99% before the end of this episode.
Every cleansing process completed by the guests on the show is based on their level of favorability, allowing the "Heartbeat 1000%" production team to extract the spiritual energy coefficient from the corresponding guest's body.
A higher level of favorability naturally means a larger share of spiritual energy coefficients will be extracted, with the value increasing exponentially and also affected by the total amount of spiritual energy coefficients held by each instance guest.
The young banyan tree spirit once calculated that as long as the favorability rating of the person being pursued did not exceed 10%, the spiritual power coefficient that would be deducted would only be several decimal places before appearing as a significant number, which was almost negligible.
This is also the result that the vast majority of previous performances of "Jishi Medical University" ultimately had on him.
However, when the favorability rating of the person being pursued reaches the range of 10% to 20%, it may result in a loss of a fraction of a point to a fraction of a point in their spiritual power coefficient. The range of 20% to 30% corresponds to a cost of 5 to 10 points in spiritual power coefficient.
So far, the young banyan tree spirit has not been won over by any program guest with a favorability rating of over 30%. However, based on the existing data, if Yu Naixin wins over his favorability rating of 99% in this episode, he will lose at least half of his spiritual power coefficient.
At that time, he will only have a spiritual power coefficient of slightly over one hundred.
Even the young banyan tree spirit couldn't imagine what it would be like to return to the days when he didn't even have a spiritual power coefficient of 180.
However, he now realizes that this may not even be the worst outcome.
The worst-case scenario is... he might actually give 100% of his affection to Yu Naixin!
The young banyan tree spirit's intuition was frantically sounding an alarm; some catastrophic disaster was brewing.
The last time he had a similar feeling was when "that person" attacked him!
The banyan tree remained quiet, and Yu Naixin wasn't particularly surprised that the banyan tree spirit youth didn't seem to be coming out.
She first greeted the NPC next to her: "Director Zou, Teacher Qi, please count the number of students and take them back. Remember to do a good job of follow-up ideological education."
"Don't put too much pressure on them. They are also victims of being misled. Making a small mistake is not a big deal."
"I'll handle the rest."
At this moment, Yu Naixin's live stream was about to explode.
The dense barrage of comments almost blocked the entire screen, to the point that some comments overlapped.
Unlike the two young viewers who were watching from the perspective of the banyan tree spirits and only saw Yu Naixin again after such a long time, these viewers watched the whole thing Yu Naixin did after she went to the administration building.
【My goodness?! No way?! Is this for real?!】
[I was laughing out loud when I saw the analyses and speculations in the comments, thinking they were incredibly far-fetched and wildly imaginative. But it turns out they're true?!]
[But what's the point? Being able to command NPCs isn't very useful! Or does "Yao Ling" know a way to use NPCs to help conquer the two dungeon guests?]
[This Demon King doesn't seem to be using NPCs to help her conquer the dungeon guests at all; she's clearly using NPCs to defeat them! Does this banyan tree spirit youth have a masochistic fetish? Does he derive pleasure from being tortured? Like the vampire duke before?]
Director Zou and Teacher Qi were the two most influential people in this group of faculty and staff. Upon hearing Yu Naixin's instructions, they immediately obeyed and carried them out with a respectful attitude.
Organized by twelve faculty NPCs, all students who participated in this cult ritual were evacuated in an orderly manner.
What was supposed to be a farce that escalated into a physical altercation ended peacefully and quietly.
One hundred and sixty-one students walked past Yu Naixin one by one, including Li Yuanyuan.
Looking at Yu Naixin again, Li Yuanyuan's expression was quite complicated: "...So, you are the principal."
Yu Naixin smiled and said, "Go back and get some rest. Also, please tell Yuting for me. She must be worried because we haven't returned to the dorm yet.
【!! It's true! "Yao Ling" herself admitted it! She went to the administration building, used the Crimson Lotus Lantern to open the principal's office door, and then had the origami dog make her a business suit, all to become the "principal"!】
In this episode, Yu Naixin's outfits included the tracksuit she brought with her, two basic casual outfits from her dorm room bed drawer, and clothes she would borrow from her roommate Lin Yuting after they got to know each other.
When Yu Naixin was a slacker college student, some viewers exclaimed that "Yao Ling" looks good even if she wears a burlap sack. Most people wouldn't care about her clothes.
Even the banyan tree spirit youth and the Frankenstein professor didn't immediately notice that Yu Naixin had changed into a formal suit when she arrived.
It wasn't the kind of stiff uniform; it was a gray shirt with a ruffled stand-up collar, a short dark brown blazer, and wide-leg dark brown suit pants—a more fashionable and casual professional look.
Made from paper-cut dog using her best skills, the style and pattern perfectly met Yu Naixin's requirements.
【?! No, I still don't understand at all! How did "Yao Ling" become a "principal"?! Aren't the identities of the program guests given by the system at the beginning of each dungeon program? I know that some program guests can have some hidden identities uncovered, but those are basically expansions like a small-town resident becoming a factory worker, or an ordinary employee becoming a special assistant—that's reasonable. At the very least, they have to discover that they are an enemy spy for a certain faction. How can someone go from a college student to a university principal?! This transformation is too abrupt and strange!】
[I heard from longtime viewers a while ago that "Yao Ling" had an unexpected ability to switch identities, but I didn't really understand. Seeing it firsthand now, I'm truly amazed... Since this isn't the first time "Yao Ling" has done this, we can rule out the possibility of it being a bug in "Heartbeat 1000%". At least so far, the show's system has promptly fixed bugs, preventing the same bug from recurring. "Yao Ling" must have met some very strict prerequisites for the NPCs to recognize her as "Principal." After all, if switching identities were so easy, how could so many incredibly talented guests on the show throughout history not have accomplished something similar?]
[...I have absolutely no idea how "Yao Ling" managed to do that. All I know is that she gained access to the principal's office and changed into clothes the principal would wear? Those two things alone couldn't possibly have achieved such a good result!]
[After careful recollection, I can confirm that the "Principal" character in "Jishi Medical University" has always been a background NPC. Aside from NPCs expressing admiration and respect for the Principal during midterms, no one mentions him otherwise. "Yao Ling" seems to have appeared out of nowhere.]
[Hiss, right. The "principal" does have his own persona; he's a renowned medical expert with a stellar reputation among the entire school. No matter how capable "Yao Ling" is, his age is a factor. Being the top student in all exams isn't a problem, but fitting the "principal's" persona is practically impossible, right?!]
[Someone needs to help! Has anyone figured out what the Great Demon King's actions are all about?!]
This time, even viewers with the strongest analytical and reasoning abilities simply couldn't understand how Yu Naixin became the president of Jishi Medical University.
Because many crucial processes were completed by Yu Naixin during two simulations, the audience during the official start of the segment had no way of knowing this.
Yu Naixin had already figured out the basic character design of the "Principal" during the first simulation, and also confirmed that the "Principal" is not a specific NPC. Even the principal's office is a closed space that is never opened, which is not essentially different from the "Mountain God" in "Cocoon Village".
If that's the case, then we can definitely make use of it.
While Yu Naixin mostly presented herself as a laid-back college student in the official episodes, she was a true know-it-all and a prolific learner during the first simulation.
She studied all the school's textbooks carefully and actively sought advice from teachers everywhere. Even when the entire program was almost over twenty days in, she was still reading various books in the library.
What makes Yu Naixin feel most at ease is that, as a program segment, the knowledge contained in "Jishi Medical University" is limited in both breadth and depth.
The content and difficulty of the midterm exam are a very convincing example.
Yu Naixin is able to deduce the corresponding era through the internet access on her mobile phone, and she can also learn about the most advanced medical fields in the program segments through her mobile phone, and then learn and master them.
Yu Naixin is confident that even if there were an NPC who served as the president of Jishi Medical University, he would not be more comprehensive in his professional knowledge than her.
To be on the safe side, Yu Naixin also instilled in the third guest, the drowned ghost student, the information that her hidden identity was the school principal when she "brought out" the third guest.
Considering the background of the episode where "several terrifying rumors have been circulating in the school recently," and the conversations Yu Naixin had with the teachers, the principal's decision to personally infiltrate the student body to find out who was behind it all, since the school was unable to find out, is a plausible explanation that could be fabricated.
The drowned ghost student has just been born, like a blank sheet of paper. Yu Naixin also has the superb skill to manipulate the thoughts of the guest in the episode, so it is not difficult for her to do this.
However, this kind of forced approach has significant limitations. For example, Yu Naixin cannot directly increase the drowned ghost student's affection for her through this method; she still has to follow the logic of "Heartbeat 1000%" to win him over.
So, Yu Naixin took a roundabout approach and told the drowned ghost student the explanation he had created.
As a guest character born within the "Satisfactory Medical University" segment, both the "drowning ghost" and "student" aspects of the program are closely related to the segment itself.
A college student who drowned and became a ghost is moved and develops goodwill towards his school principal when he discovers that the principal has gone to great lengths to find out the truth about the ghost and to clear his name. The principal even disguises himself as an ordinary student. It is only natural that the principal would be moved and develop goodwill towards the principal.
With this foundation of goodwill, and further enhanced by Yu Naixin's title, it's easy to raise the still quite naive drowned student's favorability to a very high level.
The show's guests cannot obtain real-time data on the favorability ratings of the other guests, so Yu Naixin can only estimate based on her own experience, which is about 80%.
After doing all this, Yu Naixin did not continue to press her advantage with the drowned student, but instead set him aside and continued to make real progress in "finding the truth" to solidify her persona.
Based on Yu Naixin's understanding of the drowned ghost student, he must have been hiding in the shadows these past two days, observing everything he was still unfamiliar with. Naturally, she, who had had unusual contact with him, was a key person he was paying attention to.
Seeing that Yu Naixin not only talked the talk but also walked the walk, the student's goodwill towards her increased further.
At this point, Yu Naixin possessed the knowledge a principal should have, and her "qualifications" were not in question.
She was also the only person allowed into the principal's office, wielding unique "power."
She said the things a principal would say, did the things a principal would do, and added a little appropriate clothing as an embellishment, making her "persona" impeccable.
Furthermore, with the "mass base" that the drowned ghost students firmly believed in, Yu Naixin's identity as "principal" can be said to be a sure thing.
The viewers in the live stream were not the only ones shocked by Yu Naixin's change of identity.
After overhearing Yu Naixin and Li Yuanyuan's conversation, both the banyan tree spirit youth and the Frankenstein professor experienced a moment of mental blankness.
What on earth is all this?!
The young people of Banyan Tree Spirit need to react faster to what Yu Naixin's brand-new "principal" identity represents.
The title of this program segment is "Jishi Medical University," and the "principal" of a university can't be too little power.
Medical schools place great emphasis on science and practice. Even in a dating reality show like "Heartbeat 1000%", the attitudes of the faculty and staff towards the "Big Banyan Tree Believers" are clearly opposed.
In other words, the "principal," as the highest representative of the school, has considerable influence over the source of these "unscientific and terrifying rumors" spread by their guest speakers.
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