Chapter 296 The Other Side Of The World
The Other Side Of The World
The moment she got home, Chi Xiaocheng took advantage of Su Tao's shower to sneak into her room with Su Tao's phone.
After connecting it to her own beat-up, second-hand laptop and running a scan, she immediately discovered something amiss.
Su Tao's phone had been hacked!
Chi Xiaocheng's first reaction was to check Su Tao's photo album.
Then she breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness Tao Tao's album doesn't have any weird selfies."
Otherwise, she would have used up all her emotional value to uproot that hacker and the organization behind them!
Now, she should be thankful that Su Tao was straight.
Her phone barely had any selfies of herself; if there were any, they were group photos of her and Chi Xiaocheng.
Chi Xiaocheng first cleared all the foreign content from Su Tao's phone, then considered tracing the hacker back through the "internet cable."
But her intermediate hacking skills were ultimately not as impressive as her intermediate acting.
She couldn't track them down and could only protect herself.
After spending time building several firewalls for Su Tao's phone, Chi Xiaocheng calmed down and began to think.
Someone was monitoring Su Tao's phone, and then that car came along. If it weren't for her alertness skill, most people wouldn't have paid much attention to the license plate in that heavy rain after seeing the phone message.
They were clearly waiting, and that was the only car around. Thinking about getting into the car quickly to avoid the rain and go home, if one overlooked the details and got into the car, escaping wouldn't be so easy.
She could darken, but she couldn't avoid methods like poison.
So the question was, who was targeting Tao Tao?
Or were they using Tao Tao to target her?
Chi Xiaocheng first asked in her mind, "System, Lin Fangya was killed by that special envoy Qiu. I shouldn't be targeted by the world's will, right?"
The system was silent for a moment.
[Host, you were the direct cause. From any cause-and-effect perspective, you meddled in this matter, so the blame is definitely on you.]
[Originally, you were faking death and were ignored by the world's will. Your character authority is increasing, but it's not as outrageous as before. This time, this system suspects that Su Tao is the target.]
Chi Xiaocheng stroked her chin and nodded slightly. "She's the female lead, so it's reasonable that she's being targeted by inexplicable things. In the end, she'll probably be able to turn danger into safety?"
If it were according to the original novel, that would indeed be the case.
But now, there was her, an unstable variable.
Just like the previous assassination.
If she hadn't relied on the skill given by the system to push Su Tao away, that shot would have killed the female lead.
However, the system's words did not mean that.
[No, what I mean is that Su Tao's character authority as the female lead has decreased.]
"Wait, isn't she the only female lead in the book? Why would it decrease?"
Her Su Tao has the highest authority in this novel world.
[Host, your thinking is correct, but in the mid-to-late stages, Su Tao only has the title of the protagonist, not the most important character in the author's pen.]
[Moreover, where does she have the appearance of the heroic female lead she once had?]
The halo was still there, but because of you, the host, she had gradually lost her original confidence.
She had become self-deprecating and paranoid.
Like a lofty fairy, she had fallen into the mortal world and become tainted with dust.
Chi Xiaocheng was silent for a moment. "So Tao Tao's decreased character authority, is it a good thing or a bad thing, and what impact will it have?"
[There are good and bad things.]
[If she once had 100% character authority, she would be "invincible" on the level of immortality in this world unless her lifespan naturally came to an end. Unless she wanted to commit suicide, she couldn't die no matter what.]
[The worst outcome would be a lifelong vegetative state.]
[The downside of reduced character authority is that she is no longer protected by the world's will as she once was. Things will no longer be completed according to her wishes, and she will die due to various accidents instead of being absolutely alive.]
[The good thing about low character authority is that she can break away from the control of the world's will and reduce the influence of the world's will on the character.]
[Just like the original script before you transmigrated, the world's will controlled everything. Even if Su Tao cared about you very much and wanted to apologize and explain things after arguing in high school, she would follow the original plot under the influence of the world's will.]
[Subconsciously leaning towards the various male leads.]
"So after I came, Tao Tao started to value me again because the world's will couldn't absolutely control her?"
[Yes, a pot of soup has been mixed with a rat dropping. Under the premise of not wanting to throw it away, the focus has shifted to how to fish out the rat dropping and throw it away, instead of focusing on continuing to cook the soup.]
[Su Tao began to gradually break away from her original perfect white moonlight persona and had more flaws.]
[Therefore, character authority will also decrease, thereby possessing more self-thought and breaking away from the control of the world's will.]
After listening to the system's explanation, Chi Xiaocheng nodded slightly.
She then asked, "Can you show me the character authority in numerical form?"
[I'm sorry, host. This system is only making inferences and cannot display it in data form. Even the data in the status glasses is based on the character's status and makes inferences that are close to reality, not 100% accurate.]
"Then just make up a number for me to refer to!"
[...]
[Inferring…]
[Main characters: Host 15%, Su Tao 95%, Chu Lingfeng 80%, Dongfang Yang 70%, Si Chen 55%, Xiao Ming 40%]
[Minor characters: Ye Ershao 60%, Chi Song 35%, Brother Long 10%, Fang Ning 5%, Liu Guijia 4%, Huang Limei 4%, Chen Qian 1%, Xiao Wei 0%]
[The data is inferred based on the original plot and the current plot and is for reference only.]
"What kind of relationship do we have that you even put up a disclaimer?"
After complaining slightly, Chi Xiaocheng focused her attention on the data.
She could understand her own 15%. After all, she indirectly killed a character favored by the world's will.
But the large gap in authority among the other male leads was something Chi Xiaocheng couldn't understand, especially that divine doctor Chu Lingfeng, who was even higher than Dongfang Yang!
[The current timeline belongs to Chu Lingfeng's divine doctor arc in the book. He will have a lot of his own plot and will be pushed by the world's will, so his authority is high. Dongfang Yang's authority was not very high in the original work.]
Listening to the system's explanation, Chi Xiaocheng nodded.
She could understand Si Chen and Xiao Ming, the Dragon Kings. They were far from their plot lines.
If Ye Liang hadn't died, this guy's authority would probably have been 90%-95%.
But this Ye Ershao's authority was so high. Could it be that Lin Fangya had died, and he had taken over the woman's and Ye Liang's property?
Her brother's 35% was also a bit high, and...
"Why does Ningning have 5%? She doesn't even have a name in the original work. Even in the early plot, she was only introduced as Liu Guijia's little follower."
[She interfered with the plot between the host and Su Tao. As long as it is related to the female lead, it will increase the authority.]
[The higher the authority, the easier it is to be noticed by the world's will. If one's own beliefs are not firm, one will be easily influenced and controlled.]
The last sentence from the system made Chi Xiaocheng feel like she was sitting on pins and needles.
It was as if countless eyes were staring at her in the dark.
At the same time, she deeply felt for the first time that this world was being controlled by an invisible hand.
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