Chapter 521: Cannot Sit Idly By (9/10, Autumn Subscription)

Huh?

Fang Yue was taken aback.

"You Sisi? I don't have anyth—"

"No need to say more. After that pile of strange things under Qingsi County are repelled or killed, regardless of the outcome, I will set off for Chunuan City. I'll notify you then. I hope you won't forget what you said today."

Fang Yue felt a bit depressed. No wonder Captain Wu had suddenly turned cold toward him—so he thought Fang Yue wasn't planning to go rescue anyone.

Speaking of which, who exactly was spreading rumors? How could there possibly be anything between me and You Sisi? This is way too damaging to my image.

The first person Fang Yue thought of was Jing Yan—that guy was loud-mouthed, loved gossip, and liked filming…

Wait!

Fang Yue narrowed his eyes, suddenly recalling that on the way back, Jing Yan kept riding over to his side every now and then, filming and recording from every angle like a mobile camera, and every shot included You Sisi in the frame. Several times he'd even gone up to talk to her…

There's only one truth!

He logged out of the game and opened the forum.

Sure enough…

Bravo! You really are a soulless camera!

"Jingse Studio 【Character Chronicle】 Issue 15: Yese Liming's First Romance! Who Is This Mysterious Her?"

Damn it! If you're going to cash in on trash, at least give me a heads-up first!

Fang Yue stared at the replies below with a helpless expression.

"Ahhhh! I! Don't! Believe it! My idol belongs to me alone forever!"

"No—I want this woman's full dossier within three minutes, I'm going into the game to tear her apart!!"

"Steal my idol and her grocery bill will definitely be super-doubled!!"

"Hehehe, didn't expect my idol to be a fellow traveler. Let me tell you, girls' hands are soft and cool, really nice to touch. Too bad I've only touched them in the game."

"Don't believe rumors, don't spread rumors, sit tight and wait for the reversal!"

Fang Yue: …

The last reply got it right.

Fang Yue could already picture what the next post would be—

"Reversal! The idol doesn't have a girlfriend! We're all the idol's wings."

Damn it, are you throwing away your whole reputation for traffic? This Jing Yan, he's way too willing to cash in on my personal image.

I'll log back into the game later and settle the score with him.

He first told Yuan Jie the latest news about Bai Xiaoya. Amid Yuan Jie's excited little fists pounding on her chest, Fang Yue soothed her agitation, then went to talk with the doctors.

"So… as long as Bai Xiaoya has a strong intention to log out of the game, and makes the choice to log out, and you coordinate fully with her from outside, you can make her wake up in reality?"

"Right! The tricky part is, she couldn't log out before, because her body was already close to necrosis. A person's subconscious will refuse to log out of the game—she won't know when she can log out, and she won't dare to log out.

Because when she logs out, her body is frozen and necrotic, so her flesh and spirit will Synchronize-death at the moment of logging out—in other words, true death.

But now, we've tuned to a Synchronize frequency, thawed the body to a certain degree, and reactivated the cells. Then she can log out smoothly. This consumes a huge amount of energy, manpower, and material resources, so we can only maintain this state for about two hours.

During this window, you need to push her to log out, and strongly hint to her that she's still alive, that she'll Synchronize-wake up in reality. If all goes well, we can successfully awaken her."

Fang Yue listened and understood that this sounded simple but would be a real pain to pull off.

Hinting at things—he's not a hypnotist, how is he supposed to do that?

"That can be trained, it's not hard. But from what you said… Miss Bai Xiaoya has lost her memory in the game?"

"Yes."

"Then it's even simpler. With memory loss, many things are blank. You just need to explain things clearly to her, and amnesiacs will generally accept everything you say wholesale, and believe it without a doubt."

Huh?

That's it?

Fang Yue was stunned for a moment. After hearing the doctor's follow-up explanation, he roughly understood why.

Simply put, it's a lack of knowledge in a certain area—a blank domain.

At that point, as long as someone brings up information in that area, the blank domain, like a blank sheet of paper, will be dyed in that person's color.

If there are many information channels and you know a lot, the paper will end up many colors.

But if… only Fang Yue is feeding her information in that area, then the color Bai Xiaoya receives is only that one color, and it naturally sinks into the subconscious.

"Brilliant!"

Fang Yue got excited, told Yuan Jie the good news, had the doctors prepare, and hurried into the game.

……

"Bai Daya! Bai Daya!"

The moment he entered the game, Fang Yue ran around shouting for her, and finally spotted her in the cafeteria.

What a sight that was.

On the left, a table heaped with a full Manchu-Han Imperial Feast, all ice-cold. Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu sat with a mournful face, eating bite by bite as if completing a mission.

On the right, a table heaped with a full Manchu-Han Imperial Feast, all piping hot. Bai Xiaoya was like a heartless eating machine—open her mouth, smack her lips, and down went a whole dish.

Gulp gulp gulp, she could mow down a row of dishes. And she still felt it wasn't enough. Not caring in the slightest that her clothes were getting splattered with gravy, she climbed onto the table and swept her way across.

"Ah, Ye Ge!"

Seeing Fang Yue, Bai Xiaoya paused, then broke into a silly grin.

"Delicious! Want some?"

Fang Yue:???

Like hell I do…

"Come with me."

"I haven't finished eating yet!" Bai Xiaoya flatly refused to leave.

Fang Yue felt exasperated — now this was a true foodie.

"Pack it up. I'll have someone pack these and send them to the room later."

"What's pack it up?" Bai Xiaoya asked, puzzled.

"…It means eating somewhere else."

"Oh! Well, alright then!"

Patting herself, Bai Xiaoya climbed down from the table, staining herself with a fresh load of vegetable soup.

Fang Yue couldn't help but press a hand to his forehead.

Forget it — once they got back to reality, she'd be normal again.

Grabbing her and heading out, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's eyes darted — she was about to slip away, but Fang Yue called sharply from a distance: "You keep eating. Don't think I don't know — you've been slacking off again while I was gone."

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu immediately wilted… She pretended to wipe away tears, but Fang Yue had already walked far away.

Staring at a table full of cold dishes and patting her big belly, she suddenly envied Bai Xiaoya's terrifying appetite.

If she had that kind of appetite, she could polish off all these dishes in no time and run off to play.

Too bad this place was too far from the Extreme Ice Sect — otherwise she could have gone to find Wei Ba to play…

While Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu was daydreaming about this and that, Fang Yue had already brought the absent-minded Bai Xiaoya to his room in the Qingsi.

But he didn't notice that his actions had been seen by Yu Baiyi, who happened to be passing by.

"Such a filthy act — I cannot stand by and do nothing!"

(End of chapter)