Chapter 85, Restroom (Two Updates Combined)
"No, no, no, there's no comparison at all!" The fox head on the fan shook its head frantically, almost like a rattle drum. "The importance of the spiritual power coefficient is something that special spiritual artifacts simply can't compare to!"
The priest, folding his fan, spoke at length with great passion, but Yu Naixin merely listened without reacting much.
Because Yu Naixin's attention was mainly focused on the palm of her left hand at this moment.
The golden key, carrying the spiritual power of the four male guests it "captured," was delivered to Yu Naixin's place.
The entire process was very clear to Yu Naixin's perception; it was her own intense aversion that triggered the resonance of the golden key in the system's item bar.
Even though the Golden Key, as a prop, no longer possesses the faint remnants of the souls of those tragically deceased female guests like Rosiluna, and only retains a tiny, almost negligible amount of spiritual power, it still retains the kindness and thoughtfulness inherited from Rosiluna.
It is the embodiment of the countless blood debts owed by these four male guests. Even though its spiritual power is not enough to give it any special prop functions, it is basically just a pure decoration. However, no one can be more effective than it in excluding these four male guests.
The golden key and the four streams of light that the four male guests transformed into are naturally incompatible.
Yu Naixin was able to observe from the microscopic changes in the spiritual energy structure inside the golden key that after the golden key appeared and helped her reject the forced binding of the four special spiritual artifacts represented by the four streams of light, it should have completely vanished, losing the last bit of spiritual energy support and maintenance.
However, the golden key was activated starting from Yu Naixin's hands.
Why should only those four bloodthirsty executioners be kept out?
This was Yu Naixin's strongest thought at the time.
So, following her instincts, Yu Naixin directly channeled all the spiritual power in her body into the golden key to help it.
—Go and take revenge. No matter how far we can go, at least make those four executioners suffer.
Yu Naixin had almost exhausted her own spiritual power when she subdued the vampire duke in the banquet hall on the first floor of Swan Castle. Later, she was given two doses of Qi-nourishing medicine, one of the primary level and one of the intermediate level, which were also used on the vampire duke.
However, spiritual energy can be restored in the host's body at an extremely slow rate over time. The entire "Swan Castle" episode was quite rushed, and by now, Yu Naixin's spiritual energy had barely recovered to about 0.5 coefficient.
She gave him the golden key without reservation.
A spiritual power coefficient of 0.5 may seem very low on paper, but compared to the spiritual power of the Golden Key itself, which has an uncountable number of decimal places, it is still quite considerable.
The essence of the four streams of light is that the four male guests have removed all their internal and external defenses, condensing all their life force and spiritual power to the extreme to form a special spiritual artifact. It is perfectly reasonable to describe it as "fragile".
Moreover, these four streaks of light were focused on rushing to Yu Naixin's side and were completely unprepared. Faced with the sudden attack from the golden key, they had no ability to resist at all.
It was with this 0.5 coefficient of spiritual power that the Golden Key managed to turn the tide and kill the four streaks of light.
Amidst the dazzling golden light, the long-awaited punishment finally fell upon the four murderers.
Yu Naixin also helped the Golden Key adjust its state twice along the way, so that it could better control the spiritual power she inputted.
It's a bit of a pity that the golden key can't be tied to Yu Naixin herself like the paper puppy or the priest's folding fan, otherwise Yu Naixin could have handled it more easily.
However, the final result was still very gratifying.
The golden key obliterated the souls and wills of the four male guests within the four streams of light. Amid their screams of despair, the golden key, along with its spoils, fed back the highly concentrated and pure spiritual power of the vampire duke, the elf prince, the werewolf knight, and the ghost wizard within the four streams of light to Yu Naixin.
Yu Naixin wholeheartedly aided it in its revenge, and it reciprocated by giving all the fruits of its revenge to Yu Naixin without reservation.
The moment the spiritual energy entered Yu Naixin's body, the golden key could no longer maintain its form and completely dissipated in Yu Naixin's palm.
Yu Naixin's eyelids drooped slightly.
Seeing that the entire Swan Castle was about to collapse completely, there was no time to care about anything else. Yu Naixin raised her hand and put the priest's folding fan back into her system screen.
Almost at the same time that Yu Naixin finished doing all this, the dilapidated castle scene in front of her disappeared completely, and the appearance of her own lounge reappeared around Yu Naixin.
She has successfully completed the "Swan Castle" segment and returned to a place where she can rest a bit.
[Congratulations to the female guest on "Heartbeat 1000%"! You have successfully completed this episode's challenge and are currently calculating your final reward!]
The program team's notification sounded as scheduled.
[It has been detected that you have completed 100% of the cleansing process in this program's instance. Your reward multiplier is 10x, and you have received a total of 1000 Sweet Coins!]
[Detected that your affection level with male guest "Werewolf Knight" has reached 100%, and "Werewolf Knight's" spirit power coefficient is 209. You have received an extra 209 Sweet Coins as a reward!]
[Detected that your affection level with male guest "Ghost Wizard" has reached 100%, and "Ghost Wizard's" spiritual power coefficient is 180. You have received an extra 180 Sweet Coins as a reward!]
[Detected that your affection level with male guest "Elf Prince" has reached 100%, and "Elf Prince's" spiritual power coefficient is 241. You have received an extra 241 Sweet Coins as a reward!]
[Detection indicates your affection level with male guest "Vampire Duke" has reached 100%, and his spiritual power coefficient is 306. You have received an additional 306 Sweet Coins as a reward!]
The format of the "purification level" and the "sweet coin" reward given to male guests with full favorability is exactly the same as the settlement of the previous episode.
The four male guests' high level of affection directly earned them corresponding amounts of Sweet Coins, totaling 936, nearly a thousand.
Yu Naixin felt that this was more in line with the system's description of "generous rewards".
The amount of "Sweet Coins" given by the Paper Doll Boy and the White Bone Scholar in the "Cocoon Village" episode was really too little.
Yu Naixin also noticed that the reward for 100% completion of "Swan Castle" is also 1000 Sweet Coins, which is exactly the same as that of "Cocoon Village".
She had already asked Priest Folding Fan about this when she was in the rest room last time: whether the reward for the cleansing level in each dungeon session was a fixed value, and the answer was yes.
"The base reward for all guests' performance in all episodes is 100 Sweet Coins," Priest Folding Fan said at the time. "Depending on each guest's performance, the reward multiplier will be affected, resulting in differences in the final reward amount received by each guest."
"According to the underlying logic of 'Heartbeat 1000%', the calculation of the degree of cleansing does not include data after the decimal point, but discards it. In other words, the final degree of cleansing of the guests on the show can only be data such as 20% or 31%, and there is no data such as 20.2% or 31.3%."
"For program guests whose cleansing level is less than 10% in the same instance program, they will not be able to receive the cleansing level settlement reward. Whether it is a program guest with a cleansing level of 9% or a program guest with a cleansing level of 1%, they will only receive 0 Sweet Coins in the final cleansing level settlement reward."
"Only when the cleansing level is greater than or equal to 10% can you receive this reward, and the reward amplification coefficient will be calculated according to the specific value of the cleansing level."
"This is also how 'Heartbeat 1000%' encourages the show's guests to resist the challenges of the alternate episodes as much as possible. If the challenges are too mild, the show's guests can only survive the alternate episodes, but there are no rewards to be won."
Regarding the "guaranteeing the survival of the program guests from the dungeon program", Priest Folding Fan also explained that as long as the program guests can leave the dungeon program alive and come to the rest room, all the injuries they have suffered will be completely restored.
Even if a person is on their last breath, they can be saved and brought back to life.
Unless the guests on the show are also bound to a cursed special artifact, the negative impact of this is not within the reach of the dressing room.
However, generally speaking, very few guests on the show will be able to see cursed special artifacts. Special artifacts are very rare items in the entire "Heartbeat 1000%" show.
Guests like Yu Naixin are not within the scope of this discussion.
To paraphrase the priest's words, Yu Naixin has encountered very few common occurrences since joining the dating reality show "Heartbeat 1000%".
"The reward amplification coefficient is calculated with decimal points," the priest with the folding fan dutifully explained, telling Yu Naixin all the details he knew from his encyclopedia. "A 10% cleansing level corresponds to the initial 1x reward amplification coefficient, 11% is 1.1x, 20% is 2x, and so on."
"Miss Yu, your 100% cleansing level naturally corresponds to the highest 10x reward amplification coefficient. The calculation is performed on the base reward value of 100 Sweet Coins to obtain the final number of Sweet Coins."
"As long as you can obtain the reward for the degree of cleansing, the guests on the show will have at least 100 Sweet Coins, and at most 1,000 Sweet Coins like you, Miss Yu."
At this point, Priest Folding Fan emphasized, "For a big-name guest like you, Miss Yu, 100 Sweet Coins may not be much, but for ordinary guests, a guaranteed reward of 100 Sweet Coins is already quite good."
Yu Naixin does know this.
After all, based on the prices in the system shop, it can be deduced that even if you don't have enough to buy special items, 100 Sweet Coins can still buy a considerable amount of things.
"What if the final cleansing level of the show's guests is only 0%?" Yu Naixin asked curiously, "Will they be punished by the 'Heartbeat 1000%' production team?"
“Of course there will be punishment,” the priest replied with a folding fan. “As long as the guests do even the slightest cleansing during the dungeon, even if the actual data shows a number several decimal places, the system will automatically count it as a 1% cleansing level.”
"A 0% cleansing level only means that the program guests did not conduct any effective cleansing."
"Whether it's due to passive resistance and failure to cleanse, or the inability to find a way to cleanse in the end, the 'Heartbeat 1000%' program team will uniformly judge it as a failure to complete the program's task."
"Failed guests will not have the opportunity to leave the program instance; they will remain inside the instance and wait to be devoured by other guests."
Last time Yu Naixin was in the lounge, the rewards for the cleansing level and the male guests' high favorability were listed, and the entire settlement was already completed.
But this time, it's clear there are other projects as well.
[Your purification level in this program instance has been detected to be 100%. Your spiritual power coefficient has increased by 10!]
This is the same as what the priest folding fan said before. Each degree of purification in the tens can bring 1 point of spiritual power coefficient. Yu Naixin's purification was perfect, so she naturally got the highest spiritual power coefficient of 10 points.
[It has been detected that you have received spiritual energy from the male guest "Werewolf Knight". Since your cleansing level in this episode was 100%, the highest value will be used for the conversion. Your conversion factor is 0.1, and your spiritual energy coefficient has increased by 20.9.]
[It has been detected that you have received spiritual power from the male guest "Ghost Wizard". Since your cleansing level in this episode was 100%, the highest value will be used for the conversion. Your conversion factor is 0.1, and your spiritual power coefficient has increased by 18.]
[It has been detected that you have received spiritual power from the male guest "Elf Prince". Since your purification level in this episode was 100%, the highest value will be used for the conversion. Your conversion factor is 0.1, and your spiritual power coefficient has increased by 24.1.]
[It has been detected that you have received spiritual power from the male guest "Vampire Duke". Since your purification level in this episode was 100%, the highest value will be used for the conversion. Your conversion factor is 0.1, and your spiritual power coefficient has increased by 30.6.]
Settlement complete. We look forward to your next appearance!
Yu Naixin: "...!"
Yu Naixin carefully read through the four settlement items, and also released the strategist, Priest Folding Fan, to read them with her.
After reading these four points, the priest with the folding fan fell into a long silence.
“Miss Yu…” The priest’s voice trembled as he held the folding fan, “You… your spiritual power coefficient increased by 93.6 in just one moment?!”
"Adding your original 10-coefficient spiritual power, and the 10-coefficient spiritual power you just received as a reward for completing the purification process, your spiritual power coefficient has now exceeded 110?!"
"Most of the guest characters in 'Heartbeat 1000%' don't have such a high spiritual power coefficient! Most of the guest characters have a spiritual power coefficient between 10 and 50, and those with a coefficient above 50 are already very difficult to deal with!"
"My goodness! Even the spiritual power gained by a guest in a dungeon devouring a guest on a TV show isn't this exaggerated! Oh right, Miss Yu, since you've already achieved perfect purification, you're definitely going to receive the highest-level reward..."
"But this is unbelievable! The show's guests can actually get spiritual energy coefficients from the alternate guests?!"
"Is this...is this really not a dream?!"
Yu Naixin ignored the priest's excited mood and excited words, and immediately grasped the key point: "So if I encounter a dungeon guest with a lower spiritual power coefficient than me in future dungeon shows, I can directly suppress him with force?"
"Yes, yes!" The priest nodded vigorously. "Theoretically, it's entirely possible!"
At this point, the priest with the folding fan finally calmed down a bit and quickly added, "However, you are a guest on the show, unlike the guests on the dungeon who naturally possess the means to use spiritual power. You will need to purchase some technique items from the special shop and use them as a medium to unleash the spiritual power within you."
"You can open the special shop and search for keywords such as cultivation techniques, supernatural powers, breathing techniques, and sequence potions."
“These props are very expensive, but they shouldn’t be a problem for you, Miss Yu.”
In the live stream of "Swan Castle," Yu Naixin received donations from viewers, and Priestess Folding Fan could hear them simultaneously. Although she didn't know the exact amount, it was definitely no less than four figures.
Not to mention that Yu Naixin received rewards for her performance in this episode, and the extra rewards she received from the four male guests who gave her full favorability, which together amounted to nearly 2,000 Sweet Coins.
If I remember correctly, 3000 Sweet Coins can buy a pretty good quality spiritual skill item with the Priest's Folding Fan.
However, after the priest finished speaking, it did not see Yu Naixin start shopping in the special mall as expected. Instead, it saw Yu Naixin looking at it speechlessly.
Priest's Folding Fan: "...?"
Yu Naixin sighed and directly opened her special online store interface to show it.
“I have no idea where those techniques and tools you mentioned come from.” Yu Naixin shook her head. “In my special shop, all the items except for the Spirit Summoning Pill, which I have already bought and is sold out, have one thing in common: they only have a one-time use effect.”
Whether it's the "Fire Talisman," "Teleportation Scroll," "Golden Bell Shield," "Slime Wand," "Charm Spell," or "Invisibility Mask," they are all items that are gone once used.
Even the most advanced "substitute straw man" is essentially a disposable prop.
It was only after browsing through the entire system's special shop that Yu Naixin was able to understand why special magical artifacts were so powerful.
Because they can all be used continuously.
Not to mention the paper dog and the priest's folding fan, even the jade and white bone mahjong set has a full set of four pieces, which can be used four times.
After all, the Jade White Bone Mahjong set is incredibly powerful in terms of its effects, and it's not a special spiritual artifact of the Domain Lord level, so it's normal for "Heartbeat 1000%" to limit the number of times it can be used.
The items mentioned by the priest with the folding fan were all clearly designed for continuous use.
The priest with the folding fan was also dumbfounded.
The fox in the simple drawing blinked its eyes, and after a while, it remembered: "Um... what I'm talking about are the props that will be added to the program guest system shop once you have a title..."
Oh no, it forgot that its owner is still a novice on the show.
Spiritual power is such a difficult thing to increase! Even if you complete every dungeon event perfectly, you still need to participate in nine dungeon events to accumulate 100 spiritual power!
How could a program guest who could achieve this level not have a title? Priest Folding Fan subconsciously categorized Yu Naixin here.
However, Yu Naixin only participated in two episodes of the show and already had a spiritual power coefficient of 113.6!
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