Chapter 144: Love Variety Show: Saving the Black-Material Movie Emperor 13

I don't understand what it means?

Jin Chen sat up straight, his gaze turning somewhat sharp, and he asked again.

【9272, what just happened to you?】

【Nothing just happened.】

9272 replied.

Before Jin Chen could react,

Another wave of stabbing pain surged in his mind, and simultaneously a sudden mysterious power was contending against the force that brought this pain.

In a daze, Jin Chen felt that this power was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't quite say why.

The two powers seemed to be fighting in his mind, clashing with each other.

Jin Chen's head felt as if it were being overturned like a raging sea, painful.

He sat cross-legged, circulating spiritual power throughout his body, and a silvery-white glow gradually appeared in the room.

After a while, the mysterious power gained the upper hand, driving out that extremely aggressive force from Jin Chen's mind.

He could sense that his connection to the system had been severed.

Could that stimulating force be coming from 9272?

【Reconnecting……Connection successful!】

【Host!! I'm back……Host, what's wrong with your sea of consciousness?!】

0731's noisy voice suddenly appeared.

Jin Chen let out a sigh of relief.

【It might be 9272's doing—what kind of defective AI is it exactly?】

0731's voice paused, then after a long while it trembled as it spoke.

【... Host, are you saying it's a temporary system sent by the Spirit Terminal Main System?】

【Yes.】

【But……but it never even had a chance to connect; it was directly destroyed by a program invasion, and now it's still undergoing repairs in the Main Space!】

Jin Chen suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils filled with shock.

Who was that system that had been in his mind these past few days?

【Host, don't worry, I'll report this to the Main System right away!】

0731's tone was also anxious; after forming a physical body this time, many hazy memories appeared in his mind, and he subconsciously grew closer to Jin Chen and the Little Pitiful One, fearing they might come to harm.

【0731, hide.】

Jin Chen's tone suddenly turned icy, containing limitless vigorous power waiting to be unleashed.

【Ah? Okay, okay!】

0731 hurriedly hugged himself and fled to a corner of the space.

Jin Chen set up a barrier in the room.

Closing his eyes, he formed hand seals and circulated his spiritual power.

In an instant, brilliant white light blazed, within it tiny silver glimmers; Jin Chen sat within it, his true form's illusory apparition slowly emerging, noble and mysterious.

0731 opened his mouth wide, his black-bean-sized eyes full of astonishment; this spiritual power was as vast as an ocean, seemingly inexhaustible and endless.

Meanwhile, the mysterious power that had originally intended to leave his mind, upon sensing Jin Chen circulating the Grand Circulation to probe his sea of consciousness, lurked again, guarding the core of his sea of consciousness.

Jin Chen suddenly moved his chin slightly, his brows furrowing, and he found an abnormality in his sea of consciousness.

A black rose.

Faintly, incantations appeared on its petals.

Curse-Destroying Flower.

Jin Chen suddenly acted, turning his spiritual power into a sword-like beam, and uprooted the Curse-Destroying Flower root and all.

He also laid down a formation, so if any further growth traces appeared, he could detect them immediately.

Seeing Jin Chen approach, the mysterious power gladly coiled around him.

Jin Chen gave it a flick, and some images flashed in his memory, but he could not grasp them.

However, the mysterious power did not linger long; after a few seconds of intimacy, it flew away from his sea of consciousness.

Jin Chen also opened his eyes at the same time, and his sea of consciousness returned to calm.

He moved his neck, withdrew his spiritual power, and dispelled the barrier.

【0731.】

【Hey! I'm here, Host!】

【It's fine, go to sleep.】

Jin Chen turned off the light.

0731:???

It rubbed its own head, then began checking this world's plot and progress.

At the same time, the neighboring room.

Song Pojian had already fallen into a deep sleep; a golden-light phantom returned to his body, and the room fell silent again.

——

The guests welcomed their first mission.

"Good morning, guests; please pick up today's mission card at the living room sofa."

As soon as the livestream began, the Director Team's blaring voice sounded.

Le Gui Lu yawned as he walked out of the room.

He is a trainee-type idol, and fans have already seen his natural-looking face thousands of times, so he is completely unpretentious.

「Mission, mission! Let me see what the mission card is. 」

Le Gui Lu went downstairs and sat on the sofa, then saw a large box placed on the coffee table.

「What? 」

「We need to draw a mission card. 」

The Director Team prompted.

Le Gui Lu reached his hand into the box, realized it was all cards inside, and casually picked one out.

「A blue card. 」

Le Gui Lu looked up, down, left, and right; there were no words on it.

The Director Team also fell silent, presumably waiting until everyone had drawn their cards before explaining.

The other guests came out of the rooms one after another.

Jin Chen and Song Pojian almost opened their doors at the same time, and both looked toward each other's doorways, resulting in their gazes meeting exactly.

「Good morning, Brother Pojian—」

Jin Chen immediately broke into a smile.

「Good morning. 」

Song Pojian also responded with a smile.

Just making eye contact, the two seemed to be surrounded by pink bubbles, the atmosphere sweet and ambiguous.

「Jin Chen! Hurry up and come down to draw a card! 」

Le Gui Lu looked up and saw the two people in the hallway, and shouted loudly.

「Coming. 」

Jin Chen poked his head out to respond, taking Song Pojian's hand as they walked down the stairs.

Song Pojian, who had figured out a lot last night, today also no longer acted as cold as before, and tried to respond to Jin Chen.

The two sat close together on the sofa.

「Come on, draw a card! 」

Le Gui Lu pointed to the big box.

Jin Chen drew a blue card, while Song Pojian drew a gray one.

After everyone had finished drawing cards, the Director Team began announcing today's mission.

「According to the results of last night's message distribution, guests who drew the blue mission card should go to Blue Bay Corner and, together with local residents, take a fishing boat out to sea to catch seafood, preparing a lavish dinner for your love interest. 」

「Guests who drew the gray mission card, please prepare a surprise for your love interest inside the villa! 」

Jin Chen's expression instantly shifted from disappointment to delight.

He turned his head, looking expectantly at Song Pojian, but because of the show's rules he could not say what everyone tacitly understood.

〖Chenchen, hurry up and put away that worthless look of yours hahahaha! 〗

〖Jin Chen: My wife is going to prepare a surprise for me! Happy! 〗

Song Pojian noticed his gaze and chuckled, saying, "You might as well shout it out at the camera; do you think this is subtle?"

「I don't care either way. 」

Jin Chen grinned and wrapped his arms around Song Pojian's arm, asking, "Brother Pojian, what do you want to eat?"

「Oysters and swimming crab. 」

Song Pojian thought seriously, "As for the rest, you can improvise as you like."

「Good! 」

Jin Chen turned his peach-blossom eyes again, leaned his face close, and whispered.

「Then can I know part of the surprise? 」

「To be honest, 」 Song Pojian laughed, 「I haven't figured it out yet. 」

A mocking laugh suddenly came from beside him.

「That's true, after all, someone of Senior Song's age certainly wouldn't prepare a surprise. 」

Su Feng said this jokingly.