Chapter 64 Swan Castle (Second Update)
This is in stark contrast to the appearance of the Elf Prince.
Yu Naixin had some guesses at the time.
After all, Yu Naixin is very clear about the kind of people who are the guest stars on the dating reality show "Heartbeat 1000%".
None of them were easy to deal with.
In the second simulation, Yu Naixin saw many fragments of the Elf Prince's memories in his sea of consciousness, and only then did she understand the whole story.
Like the werewolf knight, the elf prince also came to "Heartbeat 1000%" from the "outside".
“With your looks, it’s easy for others to like and admire you,” Yu Naixin said gently. “At least in your hometown, countless people are enamored with you.”
"But unfortunately, they only like your appearance."
"Once they get to know you, they'll find that you're all show and no substance."
"What flows through every vein of yours is something dirtier than a stinking ditch, even highly toxic and corrosive. Anyone who accidentally gets contaminated will only suffer a painful death. There is no medicine that can cure it, and even you yourself are helpless."
"So they put away all their kindness towards you and began to reject you, loathe you, and hate you."
"The more they loved you before, the more they will hate you now."
"You felt helpless and lost, wanting to salvage the situation. You searched everywhere for a way to eliminate the toxic blood that resembled sludge from your body, and after overcoming countless difficulties, you finally achieved your goal."
"The way you get it is to use the blood of one hundred young girls to water one hundred red roses, which will wash away all your filth."
"You wanted to achieve this wish so badly that even though you felt fear and guilt when you killed someone for the first time, and your hand holding the knife was trembling, when you killed an innocent girl for the tenth time, all you felt was the anticipation and joy of getting closer to your goal."
"With your looks, coupled with a warm attitude and polite conversation, you can easily find a place where no one knows you and countless girls will fall for you."
"They thought they had found a lover as perfect as a dream, but little did they know that they had fallen into the devil's trap."
"In a short time, you collected the lives and blood of ninety-nine girls and successfully planted ninety-nine delicate, blood-red roses."
"Just kill one more girl and cultivate one more rose, and you will have the new life you've always dreamed of."
"You were so excited that you almost cried tears of joy, but at that moment, an accident happened."
"—You have been forced into 'Heartbeat 1000%'."
"All your previous efforts and hard work have been in vain. In 'Heartbeat 1000%,' you have lost all the right to kill innocent people indiscriminately."
Even if you achieve the hunting conditions during the game with the guests on the show, you can no longer use their blood to water any more roses.
"Their blood will only transform into your gradually increasing spiritual power; you do not have the authority to deal with it before the production team."
"The blood of the female NPC is just empty data, with no real effect."
"You planted red roses all over the dungeon, making the dungeon's name 'Rose Spire,' but no matter how hard you tried, you couldn't grow that one last red rose you wanted."
"Your progress will forever be stuck at the number ninety-nine."
[Wow, this show has only been going on for a short time, and we've already heard such exciting stories about the guests from previous episodes?!]
[Is this the pace of the mutated fusion instance? So fast?! I feel like I haven't even processed the last key piece of information before the next, even more crucial one is hitting me like a punch!]
[The main reason is that this female guest is just too amazing... I'm in awe; she managed to gather so much information in such a short time!]
Is everything she said true?!
[Didn't the Great Demon King say the information came from the rose field below the castle? These red roses have a close relationship with the elves, so even if there's an element of deception involving the elves, the truthfulness is still very high!]
[Putting everything else aside, just looking at the elf's face right now tells you it can't be fake!]
The Elf Prince's face was deathly pale.
Those wounds and unbearable pains that were deliberately buried in the deepest corners of her heart were casually revealed, exposed, torn open, and festering by Yu Naixin.
It made him feel like he had a thorn in his side and a fishbone stuck in his throat.
He felt suffocated.
Yu Naixin, however, still did not let the Elf Prince off the hook.
“You’re already a veteran guest on ‘Heartbeat 1000%’, and you’ve been on far more shows than I have,” Yu Naixin brought up the system screen. “You should know that everything between us that doesn’t trigger privacy rules will be broadcast live to a lot of viewers, right?”
“You can’t see what these audience members are saying right now, but that’s okay, I can see it, and I can read it to you.”
After saying that, Yu Naixin actually opened the bullet screen and started reading from the first comment she saw.
"So the elf had this story before? No wonder he didn't agree when the Great Demon King asked him to go down and pick a rose. I really thought he was trying to win the Great Demon King's favor by showing chivalry, but it turns out he was just too scared."
"Wow, that elf's expression is so sadistic!"
"I'm dying of laughter. Isn't this just a cliché story of reaping what you sow? If he hadn't killed so many people, he wouldn't have been caught in 'Heartbeat 1000%'. He's just hoisted himself by his own petard."
Upon reading this, Yu Naixin's gaze darkened.
Yu Naixin already knew pretty much what the show's episodes meant to these guest stars: it was a cage that imprisoned them.
If there is a domain lord, it's better, at least the instance has its own time cycle, but without a domain lord, the instance is an endless cycle of prisons with no end in sight.
Combining this with previously obtained information, the only task for the show's guests in the dungeon is to outmaneuver the other guests in order to have any chance of survival. When it comes to the final ranking, the show's official ranking is "Purification".
In other words, purification.
After Yu Naixin completed the purification of "Cocoon Village", the entire Cocoon Village completely collapsed and disappeared. Whether it was the scenery, the NPCs, or the dungeon guests, they all ceased to exist.
All the evidence points to one conclusion.
The main purpose of the "Heartbeat 1000%" program team is to control and eliminate these duplicate guests.
These guest characters are all kinds of demons and monsters that are very dangerous to ordinary people.
The memory fragments that Yu Naixin saw did not show the specific way the Elf Prince entered "Heartbeat 1000%", but she knew that he did enter because of indiscriminate killing of innocent people.
From its starting point, "Heartbeat 1000%" stands on the side of ordinary people.
Yu Naixin narrowed her eyes slightly.
Was this at the behest of "He" who controls the entire production team?
In Yu Naixin's actual experience, the way "Heartbeat 1000%" doesn't take the lives of its guests seriously is not uncommon.
Several thoughts flashed through her mind, but Yu Naixin continued reading the comments from the live stream without any pause: "I once watched a 'Rose Spire' and I felt that the fairies seemed to be intentionally or unintentionally avoiding places where roses were in bloom. So that's what it was all about."
"I don't even dare to touch the roses I grew myself, it really makes me laugh!"
"We can't entirely blame the elf for being guilty. Judging from the female guest's account, the elf must have tried to cultivate red roses using the blood of the show's guests and the young female NPCs quite a few times. It doesn't matter if it's an NPC, but the show's guests are real people with wills and souls. They died so tragically at his hands, so there must be resentment attached to the roses after their deaths. If the elf touches them, it will definitely have a negative effect."
"If this resentment accumulates too much, it will form a cursed item. I estimate that the sea of flowers below the castle has already formed, and it will attack everyone indiscriminately. The elf, that executioner, will be targeted to death by the roses the moment he goes down."
"This is the first time I've heard the little witch speak for so long! Her voice is so beautiful, and her pronunciation and sentence structure are so pleasant to listen to. I want to hear the little witch tell another story—"
Yu Naixin's voice abruptly stopped.
"Oh, you don't need to read this one." Yu Naixin scrolled down the bullet comment screen, somewhat speechless. She had been so focused on reading the bullet comments that she hadn't paid much attention to what the content was. "Next one."
The following comments were mostly things like, "Holy crap! The female guest is actually reading?!", "The elf is being publicly executed, hahaha!", and "I've already started to feel sorry for the elf's toes."
Yu Naixin quickly scrolled to the bottom and was too lazy to wait for the next one.
She had never seen the bullet screen in the real-world instance before. When she opened the system screen, she would either buy things or check the time or account balance. As a result, when she read the bullet screen this time, she didn't understand who the "Great Demon King" and "Little Witch" were at first.
The result is that they're all talking about herself?
After putting away the light screen, Yu Naixin turned her gaze with great interest to the elf prince opposite her.
If it weren't for the fact that she could still feel the slow flow of spiritual energy within the Elf Prince's body, Yu Naixin would have thought that she had already called him to death.
Because the other person really wasn't breathing anymore, standing stiffly in place, motionless, more like a sculpture than the swan at the top of the tower.
So, with a high spiritual power coefficient, one can maintain life skills using only spiritual power?
Yu Naixin was even looking forward to the day when she could feel this stifled.
During the process of reading the bullet comments to the Elf Prince, Yu Naixin also seized the opportunity to add several more mirror fragments to his scrolls in order to prevent him from suddenly launching an attack.
Now that only fifty-four pieces of the mirror remain, Yu Naixin, having had enough of watching the Elf Prince break down to the point of wanting to commit suicide, finally took pity on him and let him go.
"Those who sneak into other people's homes and cause trouble are either thieves or rats." Yu Naixin's face suddenly turned cold. "Which one are you?"
"Now, get back to where you belong!"
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Author's Note: Second Update
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