Chapter 94: Playing with the World
But the key was how to test whether she was truly the world.
It couldn’t be Lou Ling acting, could it? Or perhaps schizophrenia? Or like a certain king, she automatically got herself into people’s minds, which is why I thought she was so unfathomable…
And it couldn’t explain the current ‘situation.’
The surrounding pedestrians had vanished, leaving a world that looked like it had been abandoned. I had previously thought this was just something like an organization’s isolation barrier, but it wasn’t the case.
Since I could ‘see,’ I could now understand. The ‘observation skills’ Qiye gave me were indeed very useful.
This space wasn’t a newly created parallel world; it was a ‘small world’ that had been ‘cut out’ from the complete ‘great world.’
Only the ‘world’ itself could casually do something like this, I thought.
Meaning Lou Ling couldn’t see Lan, probably because she couldn’t perceive beings abandoned by the world? Like, ‘I don’t even bother with trash’ kind of feeling?
In any case, I should ask where Li Nai went first. She should be with her.
I was about to ask this, but Lan spoke to me first.
“Don’t look at me, Juncheng. Just listen to what I say. You don’t need to answer, and don’t reveal my existence.”
I almost answered with “Okay, I got it.” But as the words were about to leave my mouth, I remembered I couldn’t say such things, and I managed to maintain my poker face.
“An Juncheng, you seem to be in trouble recently, but those things aren’t important. What you need to do is help me find Xier, that is, the destined Witch of Fate. Only then can you gather nine destinies. Don’t you want to find the people you’ve lost back?”
The person you’ve lost is right in front of you… and she seems to be plotting something…
I desperately tried not to look at Lan, but from the corner of my eye, I saw Lan look back at me, put her index finger to her lips, and say, “No matter what I do now, don’t stop me, okay? Just stay put and watch my performance, hahaha…”
How could I stop her anyway…
Forget it, whatever she does. I’ll just continue the conversation.
Ah, actually, I just recently found out who took Xier. I even had leverage over them, but… I accidentally lost it due to an accident.
Then Lou Ling didn’t continue speaking, not because she was thinking, but because Lan had pushed her down.
I felt something was wrong with Lan today.
No, although she always spouted dirty jokes and did outrageous things, today was exceptionally severe.
How should I put it? It felt even more stimulating than the time Lianbing went to kiss Xue Qing…
The lilies are blooming and blooming.
Cough, cough. I personally think it’s beautiful, from an aesthetic point of view.
And the fan service index I’m seeing now has probably exceeded the tolerance limit of mainstream anime and is heading towards the 18X R-rated territory.
Then I heard Lou Ling’s usual unchanging voice laced with gasps.
“…What do you want to do to me?”
“I want to eat you.”
Huh? Why are you saying that to me again? I haven’t done anything at all.
Ah, right. Lou Ling can’t see the world’s existence. Meaning, in her eyes, the person doing these kinds of things to her isn’t…
Damn it, I’m really taking the blame here. I didn’t enjoy any of it. And I have to take responsibility in the end? What kind of situation is this? It feels like being cuckolded and thrown into prison… I now understand Shawshank’s feelings.
“Why aren’t you speaking? Do you want me?”
No, I don’t mean that. Lan is the one doing all this to you.
But don’t worry, Lan is still a girl, not a futanari, she won’t actually do anything to you.
Just consider it a massage… But why is Lan suddenly doing this? Did she just feel like it?
“Or… do you want to ‘mess me up’ again?”
I noticed the key point. ‘Again.’
Why ‘again’? Damn it!
Putting aside that it wasn’t me this time, and there wasn’t a previous time, yet she said ‘again.’
Even if I’m a scum now, you can’t just slander me. I’ll take responsibility for what I should, but I absolutely won’t fall for a setup.
Well, the world shouldn’t have any reason to extort me, right…
“That’s not necessarily true. No matter what she was originally, she is now a woman. And when a woman approaches a man, it’s always with a purpose. I told you before, Juncheng. Although you’re no longer a pure little virgin, your ideas in this area are still too naive.”
As expected of Lan. Even if I ignore her, we can still have a conversation in our minds. And this isn’t telepathy; no one would believe it if I said it out loud.
“Hahaha, if I asked you to do this directly to her, you definitely wouldn’t be able to. So, I’ll do it on your behalf. To make a woman obediently open her mouth, one needs to be firm.”
With that, Lan continued to attack the beautiful girl with skilled movements that even seasoned perverts would find inferior.
“Hey, I’ve figured it out, Juncheng. This child really isn’t the world.”
Huh?
She’s not?
But, how could she not be?
“Ah, don’t misunderstand, Juncheng. I’m saying *this* child isn’t, but I never said the *other one* isn’t. You’re just confused.”
Confused about what?
“Think about Younger Sister Xinran and Younger Sister Keling. It’s the same situation.”
The same situation as Xinran and Keling… They are both my sisters, but only one has a blood relation to me. And in the past, I was always confused about which one was my biological sister.
The same means… Lou Ling is also my sister?
Cough, as if. There’s no way she could be my sister. Isn’t the setting of suddenly having a sister ridiculous?
A sister should be someone who’s always been with you, someone you feel familiar with, that’s why it works.
If a sister suddenly appears out of nowhere, what’s the difference from any other female lead? There’s no sisterly feeling at all.
So, let’s put the sister issue aside for now. I think I understand what Lan means.
She’s telling me I’ve ‘confused’ things.
What have I confused?
Does it mean… ‘this one’ isn’t the world.
“Who are you?”
I asked.
To her, the girl who called herself the world.
“An Juncheng, are you questioning my identity? I should have told you, I am…”
“No, ‘you’ are not.”
“You’re a fake, a charlatan pretending to be a god, and Lou Ling, whom you called a ‘simulated personality,’ is the real world.”
Book SFA.
“…How did you know?”
She admitted it!
SF Light Novel.
It’s actually like this!
Damn it, I was just saying it casually, and it turned out to be true?
Wait, wait, wait? So, the one calling herself the world is the simulation, and the original Lou Ling is the real world?
“You really aren’t simple; you’ve seen through this already. You truly have the potential to become the world, more suitable than I am.”
“Then who are you?”
“I am a ‘simulated divine status’ born to appear as the world, a kind of self-protection mechanism. Just as you said, the one outside is the real world.”
Simulated divine status.
It’s the same thing as a simulated personality.
“Could you get off me now? If you just wanted to test my identity, you’ve already achieved your goal.”
I glanced at Lan. She got off Lou Ling with a grin and stood aside, her innocent expression making it seem like she wasn’t the one who had just committed those unspeakable acts.
Lou Ling got up, pulled down her skirt, which had been pulled up to her knees, and re-buttoned her clothes before saying, “You truly are a wicked human. I thought you at least had basic morals and conscience, but it seems I was mistaken.”
…
“Pfft, hahaha! She said you have no morals or conscience, Juncheng? That might be true, after all, you tackled a girl in the street and explored her ‘valley of mystery.’ Oh dear, how terrible.”
You’re the one who did those things!
Damn it… Lan, if you keep testing the boundaries like this, I’ll really want to go CHAOS on you.
No, that would be what she wants, right? So, should I give her the cold shoulder… but perhaps a neglect play would also excite her. Moreover, even if I don’t do anything to her, she’ll find all sorts of ways and excuses to do things to me.
Damn it! Is there no solution?
Is Lan truly such an invincible being?
“In the end, you are the culprit who turned me into this. I should have given up on manipulating you long ago. Our cooperation ends here, An Juncheng. I won’t give you another chance.”
Huh? No, wait, wait!
That was all Lan’s doing!
However, just as I was about to call out to her, Lan directly hugged me and even stuck a large bandage over my mouth. But the bandage seemed to have been wet, losing its stickiness, and it fell off immediately—huh? Wait, could this bandage be the one Lou Ling had on underneath?
“Hahaha, let her go, don’t mind her, Juncheng.”
Lan’s expression was sinister, mingled with a hint of coldness. Her sharp demeanor was like a queen suppressing a concubine.
“If you want to beg for help, just offer everything obediently. And you still want to use this method to make my man grovel to you? What right do you have? Because you are the world? So what, you’ve still been completely overthrown by me.”
…So powerful, Boss Lan, you’re so cool.
Held by Lan and gagged, I naturally couldn’t do anything and could only watch Lou Ling leave…
And then she disappeared.
But this space remained as it was.
I stood there.
After a few more minutes, a figure appeared in the distance. Lou Ling walked back.
…I never expected you to be such a heartless man. Were all those words about finding your important person just lies?
No, of course not… But I’ve already found her…
And she’s the one who told me not to speak.
“Quickly say something that makes you sound like a scum, Juncheng. This is about subverting her perception.”
You said it yourself… I don’t care anymore.
…Yes, thinking about it now, there’s no need to find a woman I’ve already gotten tired of. Isn’t it more satisfying to find a new one? Anyway, there’s no shortage of women.
Damn it… that was too blunt.
What did I just say…
A cold smile. For the first time, she showed such an expression.
“As expected of the man who lied to me and messed me up.”
It was a look of despair after seeing through the bleakness of the world.
“You’ve disappointed me immensely.”
This is truly… I completely fell into the trap. My emotions have been manipulated.
People often say the world is playing me in the palm of its hand, right?
Now, the situation is the complete opposite.
I played the world.
