Chapter 389 Players Want Both
8 month 3 day.

in the afternoon.

Apartment, living room.

The warm sunshine sprinkled on the coffee table, and a pot of hot tea was brewed in front of Su Ming.

“…”

It sat woodenly on the sofa, with its hands around its belly.

Shivering.

“Then let me ask the question.”

Su Ming picked up the teacup and took a sip.

“…”

“Did you create this place?”

“…”

It lowered its eyes and responded quietly, “…Yes.”

“How exactly was it created? The sun, people, and even the tea I drink.”

“…”

It stammered with its lips and could not answer for a long time.

“How do you think you can get the confidence to send me out? I mean, do you know how I got here?”

“…”

It was silent and shook its head.

“Regarding your current body, do you know where it came from and what it is?”

“…Monster, it gave it to me.”

“The others?”

“…”

Silence again, holding his head.

“Have you seen it? What does it look like?”

“……No.”

It raised its face, its expression becoming increasingly distorted, “I don’t know, I just heard a voice. Asking me if I wanted to see it. I…I’m sorry.”

【figure:? ? ? 】

【Favourability: 206】

[Description: A hybrid that has extreme love for you. The target is extremely chaotic and has a chance to get out of control. Please pay attention to the guidance.]

Stare at the entry box.

Su Ming lit a cigarette and took a deep breath.

What is this?

After all this time, it was hypnotized?

Many of his ideas, such as being able to get himself out, are stereotypes and have no factual basis at all.

I feel that this place was created by it, but I don’t know how or when it was created.

It didn’t get out of control as expected. It might be even more confused than I was.

“If you can’t answer it, don’t delve into it.”

“I believe… you have no ill intentions. I don’t hate you either.”

“…”

Is it a lie or not?
Until now, Su Ming still couldn’t confirm where she came from.

If I had learned some things from it through asking, which An Shiyao in real life could not possibly know, it would have felt somewhat real.

Now, after asking for a long time, all the answers are baseless, and it feels like… it’s a pre-made person.

It’s all set in advance.

From memory to attitude towards oneself. But that doesn’t make sense… What is the purpose of setting it up? It doesn’t seem to have any malicious intent at the moment.

8 month 3 day.

Night.

Mr. Su Ming is right.

I am sure… because at the end, I missed you too much, even resented you.

So much so that he was deceived by the monster.

I thought, maybe there is a chance to send Mr. Su Ming back before the monster comes in person. What if it works?
But, how did he come?

Why do I always feel that I was the one who brought him here?

Obviously, everything has been prepared since I was here. The monster said that it would be difficult to keep Mr. Su Ming. Only by gradual hypnosis… he would not be able to remember his abilities and what he really wanted to do. Stay here forever.

Could that be the case?
It has nothing to do with what I want to do, the monster used me to delay Mr. Su Ming long enough, it is no longer necessary.

Whether I want to imprison Mr. Su Ming or let him go, they will come and kill him…

Why do I have to do this?

Become a monster before his eyes, become a bad stumbling block. Be disgusted.

Where can I leave?

How can I survive?

“…”

I could still control the other parts of this body, but I couldn’t get any answers from them.

Is it okay to not want anything?
Understood.

I built the prison with my own hands and locked Mr. Su Ming in it, waiting for it to come.

8 month 3 day.

Night.

The second round of questioning began.

Su Ming was still sitting on the main seat on the sofa, and it was sitting opposite him.

I don’t plan to ask about monsters anymore.

If it really comes, then whether you know it or not, it will only be an ending. An ending you wish for. Facing the real body in advance.

To be honest, even though Xiaoye said in reality that he might not be able to defeat them in person, Su Ming hoped to find out in advance. The price was nothing more than that he might be eaten a few times.

What’s so scary about nightmare difficulty?

[In nightmare difficulty, players can exit the mission at any time if the experience is not good. 】

From Su Ming’s perspective alone, if you can’t play, you can just quit.

“What I want to ask is.”

Therefore, Su Ming’s biggest concern, apart from the monster that might appear soon, was whether it was a prefabricated human.

“Since we established our relationship in the hospital, where have I been and what have you been doing?”

“…”

It lowered its eyes and said nothing.

“Since you can’t send me out, you have to let me know what’s going on, right? How can I act if I don’t know anything?”

“…Mr. Su Ming said.”

“What did I say?”

“We have to go to Sea Island City.”

“What to do?”

“…I don’t know. At that time, Mr. Su Ming was just…very tough and made me cry. He said that as long as I knew that he would come back, it would be fine. As long as I knew…he would not abandon me. He would not abandon me. We had only done it a few times and I hadn’t tasted breast milk yet…”

“Okay, I get it. So what are you doing?”

hiss.

It’s really not good.

It should be more than just making someone cry, should it be making them cry?

It seems like something I can say and do.

“I’m…waiting.”

“…”

“Later, I couldn’t wait any longer, so I wanted to look for it myself. But they all said that there had never been an island city in the Snow Country. I’ve never heard of it. People along the coast said that it sank due to an earthquake. I’ve been there, too, but there’s nothing there.”

“…What happened next?”

“…”

It looked away, its expression becoming more distorted. It trembled continuously.

8 month 3 day.

late at night.

For me, that is a very difficult memory.

It shouldn’t be brought up.

But this is all I can say and offer to Mr. Su Ming. Apart from this, there is nothing else I can do to help.

Why are you still so nice to me?
I know that I might be a fake. Maybe everything I remember is pre-made, set up. None of it is real.

Even I was just created to be a stumbling block to Mr. Su Ming’s soft heart.

So warm.

It was the same before. When we were on a date, I would muster up the courage and move Mr. Su Ming over to me while he was sleeping on the grass… so that he would be my lap pillow. When he woke up, I would say that he leaned over to me on his own.

I thought, if there is a chance…what would it be like if Mr. Su Ming provided me with a knee pillow?

But I was very scared at that time. What if I had any strange reaction? Even if I fell asleep like that, it would be seen clearly. What should I do if my traditional and conservative image was shattered?
Only now do I understand.

There is no need to worry so much. Being too conservative will only make you regret after losing something, and you will find that there are too many things that you did not do because of your so-called conservatism, and you will never have the chance to do them again.

“Have you been looking for me since then?”

“…”

Ok.

I ignored my family’s opposition. When my father was alive, he had a clear control and didn’t want to see me “degenerate”. I had no choice but to restrain myself.

After he dies.

I used all means possible to take control of the family business and turn it into money.

Spend your money and all your energy to find the truth about Sea Island City.

Until someone found me and warned me not to ask again. Decades later… I was in a trance, and everyone thought I was sick, so it was only natural that all my savings were defrauded by a strange organization.

But there’s nothing we can do about it, right?
Rather than going to the old site of Haidao City, it is better to fish out something from the bottom of the sea in the restricted area that may be fragments of Mr. Su Ming’s body.

Why not consider investing your money in institutions that study things like time machines and wormholes?

What if it succeeds?

With this in mind, I lived frugally and continued to invest even though I knew I was being cheated.

In the end, I couldn’t even pay the electricity bill. My body suffered from many side effects from working on several tasks at the same time and lack of sleep.

Where is the time machine? Where is the wormhole that can travel back to the past and change the past?
I didn’t get any good news at all. It was all a lie, they came up with some half-truthful theories and swindled me out of my money. It was such a miserable ending.

resentment……

What is the real resentment?
I can’t tell the difference anymore.

If I am just a monster created to soften Mr. Su Ming’s heart. A fake.

Why not add strong instructions?

Must be imprisoned, must be done this way…

It’s just like this now, I don’t understand anything and can’t tell anything apart.

“…”

What is Mr. Su Ming thinking about?

Think about what I said?

Very annoying.

It would be better if they treated me as a monster and just hated me. That way, I could also think “I am a monster”, which is pre-made.

Either you fulfill the monster’s designed purpose, or you are killed.

How did it turn out that I was lying on Mr. Su Ming’s lap?

Can not be done.

As expected, compared to being a stumbling block… Even if I was pre-made, I still like it.

Don’t want to see him sad.

8 month 4 day.

early morning.

The more Su Ming listened to its explanation, the more difficult it was for him to understand.

So true.

Or, if we compare the entity to high-precision AI, it is able to create such realistic memories?
Making it hard to tell the real from the fake?
Too many buffs.

Su Ming was unable to tell the difference. He never thought that the nightmare difficulty would only have a prefabricated human as the boss.

8 month 4 day.

One o’clock.

Su Ming lay on the bed, and did not choose to sleep in a separate bed just because the truth was revealed. He would still hug it.

I used to think it knew everything.

Regarding its own abilities, or even the game… it knew nothing. Everything was pre-made and ready-made. Its only valid memory existed at the moment it saw itself, and the “previous life” it mentioned.

“Screw rustle…”

Pretending to be asleep.

You can clearly see that it climbed up lightly.

What do you want to do?

【Favourability: 209】

[Description: A hybrid who has extreme love for you. The target has a confused mind and may lose control. Please pay attention to the guidance.]

Even without reading the description, Su Ming knew what would happen just based on its personality being similar to An Shiyao’s.

“……sorry.”

He apologized quietly. He reached out his hand again and touched Su Ming’s face. He could feel that hand changing, getting softer and softer.

Hypnotizing?
I thought it would do something more, but after hypnosis it just tiptoed away.

There was a piece of paper left on the bedside table.

[Anyway, see you next time… Mr. Su Ming, don’t worry about anything. Just kill me as a monster.]

【…】

What does it want to do?
8 month 4 day.

Two o’clock in the morning.

Su Ming followed behind it, not too far away.

“…”

It summons the “people” hiding in the darkness. Is that a part of its body?
The sharp blade of the fruit knife cast a cold light in the moonlight.

“Pfft!”

“…”

The scene was amazing, with people lining up in front of it one after another, waiting obediently to be stabbed.

But not a drop of blood was shed.

No one died.

It seems to have discovered this, too.

“Clang.”

Throwing away the fruit knife, he switched to his own hands… using his tentacles to twist the ‘people’ into pieces.

Understood.

It wanted to weaken the body’s ability and strength, but the method it came up with was… too clumsy.

Probably not lying.

What it said was all true. After all, it didn’t even fully understand the body that carried its consciousness.

“…”

Looking at the ‘person’ who came back to life, it seemed desperate.

She wiped her tears again and picked up the fruit knife again.

Towards his neck.

“Wait a minute.”

He was not pretending, he really intended to stab her. He did not hesitate for even a second.

If Su Ming hadn’t been watching, he would have rushed over immediately and stabbed him.

“…Mr. Su Ming?”

“…”

The face, which had already been dirty for a long time, showed a look of surprise.

“I, I am…”

It seemed to want to explain the current situation, but couldn’t organize the right words.

“No need to say more. The worst that can happen is to have another harem.”

“Yao will forgive me.”

Su Ming thought it through.

Why think so much about this?
It would be better to just rescue it and let it return to reality alive. As for its so-called “previous life”, as long as it stays alive, there will be plenty of time to learn about it later.

Moreover, if it can also successfully control the monster’s body, the original body will be weaker and its chances of winning will be greater.

There is absolutely no reason to refuse.

As for taking in a woman who looks exactly like An Shiyao, well… Yao should, probably, maybe, not be too angry, right? At most, I can sleep on the balcony for two days. At most, I’m so greasy that Yao can’t speak.

“From now on, you are Xiao An. You are also one of my wives.”

“I’m going to take you back.”

The idea came through instantly.

It should have been done long ago.

Why not leave the problem you can’t figure out until you solve the problem at hand, and then slowly figure it out when you have enough time? Back to reality, you don’t have to think about it alone. Your wife may give you a better idea.

8 month 4 day.

Two o’clock in the morning.

I can’t put into words how I feel right now.

Mr. Su Ming… is very strange.

He knew clearly that I might be fake, and that I was a monster. But he said that he wanted me to go back too. He wanted to save me.

“…”

When I tried to speak, my arm was grabbed and pulled back.

The knife was left there.

That’s too much.

As soon as I tried to protest, I was immediately kissed.

I knew clearly that this was not the time to react or shed tears.

“Think about it again. Do you want to go back with me, or stay here and become a monster, and be killed as a monster like the note you left?”

“I… wu.”

“Are you really thinking about it? Sorry, I don’t intend to listen to what you have to say.”

“…”

Too bullying.

Just like I remember, at the end they said they wanted to go to Sea Island City. I disagreed, cried, and was scared. I kept doing it until I couldn’t refuse.

I really can’t tell whether what they said is true or false.

But the emotions we hold on to do not mean that we want to disappear silently, or become an easy-to-deal-with stumbling block or a weaker monster.

I also want to…

Grab his coat like this, and get warmth.

“No… I don’t want to be a monster’s tool. Ugh. I really…”

If I end up losing my mind and becoming a minion of a monster.

It would be better to die now.

“No one wants you to be a monster’s prop, but you can be mine. All you have to do next is follow my instructions, and you can come back with me. Don’t worry about anything else.”

“…”

“I believe what you said is true. At least the feelings are real.”

“…”

I stopped struggling and stopped trying to stop him from brushing away my hand that was covering my hem.

“Calm down?”

“…”

My vision is getting blurry.

In fact, it’s just a matter of confirmation. I really can’t tell whether it’s true or false. But Mr. Su Ming is the only one listening.

He is willing to believe and trust me.

“Are you really… planning to marry a monster who could lose control at any time?”

“There are more than one woman around me who is not human. Besides, I think you should be human.”

“…”

“…”

“If you find any signs that I intend to hurt you, please get rid of me without hesitation.”

“Ah.”

“If you can’t go back because of me, please give up on me immediately.”

“…Okay, anything else?”

“…”

No more.

My body started to feel hot. I thought Mr. Su Ming would continue, but he had already moved away and lay on the side.

What I did just now was just to calm me down.

But what exactly is going on?

Right now, I was accepted. I even had the chance to go back with Mr. Su Ming. It was fine for me to be like this…

No matter whether what I said was true or false, I would be taken back. I would be treated the same as my other self.

I am hypocritical.

The last second, Mingming was so desperate that he thought that even if he couldn’t die, he would become weaker. At the very least, he would find a way to disappear or turn into a monster before causing trouble to Mr. Su Ming.

But now, I have hope.

What else can I do?

Correct.

I don’t know enough about the capabilities of this body, but I can ask Mr. Su Ming to understand. The more he knows, the better his chances of winning.

heat……

This kind of ugly greed should no longer exist.

“Xiao An, why don’t you speak?”

“…”

What should I say?
“Something’s wrong. Can you bear it like this? If there’s really nothing you want to do, I’ll go to sleep.”

“…”

There is nothing I want to do.

Enough has happened today. Even more has been achieved.

What I should be thinking about is how to give Mr. Su Ming a better chance of success when he faces a situation like my body losing control, rather than asking for warmth.

“Well.”

But Mr. Su Ming, why did you put your index finger near my mouth?
Then explore from the face to the cafeteria, and then from the cafeteria to other places.

He took it out again and placed it in front of me. I could see clearly in the darkness… that was all the reaction brought about by the manifestation of my uncontrollable reaction.

He grabbed my hand again and moved it to his stomach.

“Actually, there’s no need for hypnosis. I am… a very nice person.”

“I’ll ask you again, you really don’t want to do it?”

“If it doesn’t happen this time, I’ll really fall asleep.”

“…”

No longer holding my hand, but I can’t move away. That warmth… that gesture of wanting me.

“……want.”

“What do you want?”

“…I want both.”

“Everything?”

“…”

My face was definitely getting hotter.

I remember it was the same when I confirmed my relationship with Mr. Su Ming… He forced me to say weird lines.

Is it interest?

Ok.

If so, I will be happy…

“Please… come.”

I struck a shameful pose, as if to welcome him, and looked away.

So sad.

She looked so ashamed, and she had done this before during hypnosis…but now, she felt extremely embarrassed.

8 month 4 day.

Four o’clock in the morning.

Although Su Ming went to Shise with a certain purpose at the beginning, but halfway through… cough.

have to say.

Yao, who is easily shy, and Yao, who has grown into a naughty girl who is even better than her master, have two completely different charms.

Does this count as the second round of training?

never mind.

If it sinks, it sinks. Isn’t this more comfortable and emotional than what it thought it was doing under hypnosis?
Now comes the real strategy.

【Favourability: 212】

The numbers she sees now may be the ones that allow her to control her body.

Ye Ye can betray, and Yun Que can also make judgments based on her willpower, so it is not impossible for her to do so.

Of course, this is the most foolproof and ineffective method.

There is really a lot to do.

Since we know that she could potentially take control of this body, why not find a way to make her lose control and take control?

As for the mission to defeat her, it wasn’t like he had no idea how to accomplish it. Ever since Yun Que’s lucky victory, Su Ming had thought about what to do if he encountered the same situation again.

This time, it was put to use.

There was nothing wrong with wanting to save her.

The worst outcome would be having an extra copy of Yao 2.0 as a wife.

Moreover, Yao probably wouldn’t be willing to sleep on the balcony for two days.

Well, you have to eat and take, and only then can you be called a noble and perfect player. No regrets. As for whether to be born or not, that will be considered after completing the task.

(End of this chapter)