Chapter 165 Stars, Moon, and Sun (8)
Chapter 165 Stars, Moon, and Sun (8)
From that day on, their relationship quickly blossomed.
To use Yi Yi's words, it would be—
"I played a walkthrough game that was so easy it was practically idiotic..."
Yi Yi looked at Ai Yi, who said he was going to take her to a secret base. He turned around to carefully help her across the uneven road.
Yi waved to signal him to turn around.
Ai Yi was puzzled, but she still obediently turned around.
Using the difference in elevation, Yi Yi quickly climbed onto Ai Yi's back.
Ai Yi carried Yi Yi steadily on her back, but stood there stunned.
Yi Yi shifted her position a couple of times, wrapped her legs around his waist, and said, "What are you doing? Support me! It's tiring like this!"
Ai Yi then came to her senses and steadily supported Yi Yi's thigh.
Yi Yi loosened her grip on Ai Yi's hands and feet, and lay comfortably on Ai Yi's back, watching with great interest as his horns changed from grayish-blue to grayish-pink.
She didn't forget to add fuel to the fire: "Alright, you can carry me from here on out! Princess Ai is so amazing, she can definitely do it, right?"
Ai Yi immediately perked up and assured everyone that he would absolutely not fail in his mission.
He steadily carried Yiyi toward their destination.
Even though there was still a long way to go, there wasn't a single complaint.
Yi Yi lay on Ai Yi's back, feeling so comfortable from the rhythmic swaying that she almost fell asleep.
She mentally summoned her cerebellum and lazily asked, "Don't you have any other auxiliary functions, like a favorability progress bar or something?"
The cerebellum states: "That kind of thing does exist, but it's only for reference."
Yi Yi was speechless: 【…So what's going on now? I haven't even successfully won him over yet? I feel like I've practically turned him into an embryo!】
The cerebellum was momentarily speechless.
Yi Yi sensed its eerie silence and had a bad feeling. She asked, "What's wrong? Did something happen again?"
The cerebellum denied any accident, but after stammering for a while, it finally said: "The strategy should have been successful, but..."
"But what? Why didn't he turn back into a human after we successfully completed the mission? Or is there some plot to follow? Like, going through mountains and rivers together to defeat the witch or something?" Yi Yi couldn't help but urge him on.
Cerebellum, no longer hesitant, blurted out all the facts that Yi Yi had forgotten: [It's not a matter of whether the romance succeeds or not; the specific condition for lifting the curse isn't success in the romance, but rather that someone must truly fall in love with him! Love him even more than that witch!]
Yi Yi was slightly taken aback, and then subconsciously wanted to refute.
The words of rebuttal were stuck in my throat, and there was no reason for them to come out.
Yes, I subconsciously considered things using a game-like mindset.
The condition for breaking the curse is that I love him, not that he loves me!
You little rascal, you tricked me here!
Yi Yi sneered, then stubbornly replied, "No, I love him!"
Cerebellum was speechless again, and after thinking for a long time, it could only utter one sentence: "Curses don't lie, little Yiyi."
Yi Yi gently wrapped her arms around Ai Yi's neck, lowered her eyes, and said earnestly, "No, I truly love him, it's just that I didn't fulfill the additional conditions."
The way to break the curse is for someone to truly love him, surpassing the witch's intense, conflicting emotions of love and hate.
So, is it a lack of love, or a lack of sincerity?
I think so...
As she said, every time she plays a game, she genuinely falls in love with the corresponding character...
Inside the suit that serves as the "female lead".
Therefore, no matter how intense the emotions are, when they are detached from the female lead's character, they will transform into a fondness for the fictional character.
This kind of love... can't be considered genuine.
It's not exactly strong!
Yi Yi may not seem like a typical STEM geek or gaming geek.
But she does prefer the simple, straightforward logic of just choosing an if condition and then printing the output.
No, in fact, the more complicated things are essentially just adding more restrictive if statements and then filtering them one by one using print().
The same applies to playing games. At worst, you can keep trying and running the code again to find the optimal print() line.
With this mindset, it's pointless to say that no matter how much effort you put in, it's all in vain.
After all, someone once told me that the human heart is not something that can be calculated through such thinking!
That's why I like playing these kinds of games...
With her eyes lowered, Yi Yi pondered to herself: unlocking people's hearts and exploring the most complex and flexible program in the world!
No, it should be that they wanted to understand people's hearts, so they learned the simplest and most direct way of expressing themselves through code, which can encompass countless complex changes when it runs.
Which one is it?
I think I've almost forgotten!
After all, I genuinely love both code and various literary works!
Back in college, I tried to create a game similar to Love Dream!
It turns out someone else did it...
I'd actually quite like to meet the founder of Lianmeng, to see who this guy with the same thought process as me really is...
After all, even the first game he played was based on his favorite story, "The Butterfly Lovers".
Yi Yi yawned and her mind wandered, thinking of a bunch of random things.
Trying to bring her thoughts back, she continued to think: It turns out I played too many games and took things for granted.
If Ai's goal is actually my "love," then it is indeed a good move.
only……
"Cerebellum, in this world of data, aren't all emotional indicators simulated by data?" Yi Yi asked the cerebellum in her mind. "Then what are the criteria for judgment? Behavior? Hormones? Or the level of neural activity?"
Unexpectedly, the cerebellum poured cold water on the idea: "[They do all have it, and it's very strict data monitoring. So, Xiaoyi, if you try to reach the numerical standards through other means, it's probably much harder than you actually falling in love with him.]"
Yi Yi couldn't help but click her tongue and protested: "So that's why my emotional threshold is already so high! He's already my favorite fictional character! I should have just made him the strategist! Why did they make me the empress?!"
[None of that matters now. Now, only you can truly fall in love with the Habsburg prince and break the curse!] The cerebellum responded excitedly.
Yi Yi took a deep breath, unable to suppress the itch in her teeth.
He bit down on Ai's shoulder.
There is actually no pain when it is transmitted to the body through the fabric and fur.
But Ai still trembled and stammered as she tried to turn her head.
Yi Yi nudged him with her head, telling him, "What are you looking at? Get on your way!"
Yi Yi lay on Ai Yi's back, looking increasingly listless as she pondered something.
He let out a long sigh, but still couldn't help asking in his heart: So you knew too?
Because the curse hasn't been lifted yet, and they know my obvious feigned affection?
Even so, did you still choose to give your heart and soul to them?
Ai Yi?
Scratching her head in frustration, Yi Yi sighed again and silently said, "I'm really defeated by you, Ai Yi!"
Given the urgency of the situation, if my actions fail again, it will probably come to the point of shutting down the game, deleting Ai's data, and rewriting the King's data.
I don't want Ai to disappear...
You're really putting me on the hot seat, Ai!
Alright then, use every trick in the book!
Let me see just how far I can go with my love for others!
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