95 The Imperfection in the Perfect Plan (1/2)
Chapter 95: The Imperfection in the Perfect Plan
Translator: _Min_Editor: Yukira_
[Fury: Muscle Strength +20, Reflex +19, Brain Cell Strength +17. Special ability: Killer instinct, the ability to perceive the location of the heart with any of the five senses.]
He didn't expect to enter <Fury> right here.
Jiang Chen coldly scanned the bodies without red dots, ignoring the pairs of lifeless eyes staring at him, and finally stopping his sight on Yao Tingting.
Zhao Peng lying in the pool of blood, the teacher struggling on the ground beneath the soldiers, the students, even the soldiers...
No heart.
Everyone was a sham, as though they were nothing but an empty shell.
Including Yao Tingting.
”Oh? How did you figure it out?” Yao Tingting paused for a moment before a smile erupted on her face and stood up naked.
It was a peculiar sight—a smiling girl standing while naked. Beside her was the monster with a ferocious expression about to bring her down to the ground, but the monster was cemented in mid-air.
He looked into Yao Tingting's eyes dispassionately and said, ”Because I have an annoying ability, and you happen to have no heart.”
Yao Tingting was momentarily stunned before revealing her signature smile again. She then raised her delicate finger and drew in the air, and a holographic screen appeared out of thin air beside her body.
”Hmmm... so that's how it is. Increase in three body stats and a skill that can ”see” the heart? This isn’t a friendly bug.” A peculiar smile curved on her mouth as she examined the stats on the panel.
”Hehe, although I had formed a variety of conjectures, never would I have thought that..this is a game, right?” Jiang Chen gazed at the beautiful yet pure face as he squeezed the words out of his mouth, ”The secret teller, huh?”
Just now, he finally understood the question that had been plaguing him. The effect of Brain Cell Strength +17 as the result of <Fury> was not an increase in intelligence but rather to break through the barrier in his memory and regained his consciousness.
”Oh, almost but not quite. I am the secret protector. Perhaps it's time for the next round?” Yao Tingting clapped her hands in delight.
The secret protector? There were actually two ”people”?
The occasional explosion in the sky suddenly stopped, and the war outside came to a halt with the sound of the clap.
The colors of the world began to fade starting from the corner of the stadium as bits and pieces dissipated gradually.
”Do you intend to continue this boring game?” Jiang Chen sneered as he said with disdain.
”Why not?”
The silvery laughter sounded disturbing.
”I am looking forward to your next round of performance.” After looking at Jiang Chen one last time, Yao Tingting faded along with everything in that world.
Really?
He looked at the interdimensional bracelet on his wrist. The bracelet's ability was not copied into this world, so there was no way to return to the modern world in the game.
[I just have to rely on other means to break through the game...]
The floor was already disintegrating as Jiang Chen silently watched his body along with the fragments dissipate into the abyss...
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11 June 2171, summer
The diary only had dates in it, and no other texts had been written in it.
He felt a slight dizziness as though he had just taken a nap, and everything that just happened was like a reverie.
Dropping down the pen, Jiang Chen looked around the ”familiar” room.
”Fury is still in effect.”
”Could it be because of the increase in Brain Cell Strength that my memory was not erased?” He faintly closed his eyes as he searched for the clues in his memory.
Memory before entering the game was retained, the N cycle memory was saved, and the N-1 cycle memory was missing.
When he opened his eyes, his line of sight caught the diary to the electronic clock on the table.
<7:37 pm>
”So, this is the starting point of the game. Then, all previous memories should be false.”
In reality, it didn't feel good to negate the realistic memory one by one. It's as if you're living a great life, then one night you had a nightmare, a mysterious figure told you that the world in the dream was the reality, and when you woke up you'd go into a virtual world.
”Yao Tingting is the secret protector. No, to be more accurate, she should have been replaced by a secret at some point...” That book was a clue, and Jiang Chen desperately searched for the details in his memory. [It appears that when I shared the ”spoiler,” the secret guardian noticed the discrepancy. It was just a sense of dj vu, but it had thought that I ”recovered my memory”?]
It seemed that from that point on, the book in Yao Tingting's hands disappeared.
That person had been replaced since then.
[So if this is the case, it suspected that I woke up from the hypnotism, so it replaced Yao Tingting's identity and joined the game as a participant?]
Therefore, anyone could be the secret protector.
[Wait, what's the point of this game?]
Frowning, he sat quietly on the desk as he recalled the diary in the activity room on the second floor of the library.