Chapter 462 Chapter 460: Extreme Measures
Chapter 460: Extreme Measures
Based on calculations, the following recommendations will be presented in two scenarios.
The AI named Heavenly Dao, housed within the status glasses, was continuously analyzing the content Su Tao desired.
First, one method is to try and find doctors and experts to restore Chi Xiaocheng's memory.
Seeing the words 'doctors' and 'experts', Su Tao couldn't help but frown.
She currently detested so-called experts; in fact, if it weren't for the hypnosis from Dongfang Yang's so-called master-grandfather, that fellow named Dongfang Wen, Xiaocheng wouldn't be in her current state.
The text in the glasses continued to scroll.
The advantage of this method is that once Chi Xiaocheng recovers her original memories, the current situation might change and develop in the direction you desire.
The disadvantage of this method is that the recovered memories will merge with her current memories. Regardless of how Chi Xiaocheng was before, she will, to some extent, still have feelings for Dongfang Yang.
In other words, recovering her memories might not be a good solution.
The second method is to forcibly apprehend Chi Xiaocheng.
"Seize her?"
Yes. Your request to me is merely to keep Chi Xiaocheng by your side, not necessarily to make her love you. Under any circumstances, she has already betrayed you. Without resorting to extraordinary measures, it will be difficult to keep her.
Given her betrayal, it is utterly impossible to retain her heart. All you can do is first retain her person and, through unconventional means, make her dependent on you.
Su Tao swallowed hard.
"Such as?"
Stockholm Syndrome: By subjecting Chi Xiaocheng to extreme violence, she will first fear you, causing her emotions to become distorted, and gradually, she will be unable to leave you.
Some extreme medical procedures that induce dependence, thereby controlling her mind and body, forcing her into a hallucinatory state, and subsequently controlling her consciousness and thoughts, can achieve similar effects.
Through methods like brainwashing and hypnosis, influencing her memory and personality, using violence to curb violence, making her lose her memory once more to forget Dongfang Yang, and then you can instill a portion of false memories, thereby achieving the effect of making her fall in love with you again.
The Heavenly Dao AI proposed three methods, but they left Su Tao utterly aghast.
There was no doubt that each of these three methods was more extreme than the last.
Yet, she had to admit that as a last resort, these methods could indeed bring Xiaocheng back to her side and make her love her in a different way.
However, such actions would ultimately cause too much harm to Xiaocheng.
That thought and impulse were merely fleeting. Su Tao took a deep breath.
"Are there any other methods?"
All have been presented.
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Su Tao typed out a question mark. "And you call yourself a super high-tech AI? Why do you only give three or five methods, and all of them so extreme? Aren't there any gentler options?"
...
Using psychologists, experts, and the like to treat her memory is already considered a gentle method. I, Heavenly Dao, only provide the advice you require. Please refrain from personal attacks.
"Tsk!"
Su Tao took off the glasses, feeling even more agitated within.
She had thought this so-called AI would offer good advice, but it turned out like this anyway.
Spouting so much nonsensical content, advising her to harm Xiaocheng?
How could she possibly harm Xiaocheng!
Even if Xiaocheng... even if she...
The words caught in her throat, and Su Tao fell silent again.
She felt as if she had come full circle, back to where she started.
It was again about solving Xiaocheng's memory problem.
The difference was, her chances were even slimmer now. If before, Xiaocheng merely had a good impression of Dongfang Yang...
Then the current Xiaocheng had probably already fallen for Dongfang Yang, hadn't she?
And what was she to do now?
...
Meanwhile, on the other side of Su Tao's dilemma, Chi Xiaocheng had already set out for Si Chen's villa.
The fully trusted reinforcement she intended to seek was precisely Si Chen.
She had already decided that this time, she would find a way to reduce Si Chen's influence to below 50%, completely freeing him from the control of the World Will.
Although doing so would reduce the portion of good fortune she received from being protected by this world.
But wasn't this, in a way, another level of freedom?
However, while the car was en route, the System, which had always been rather inconspicuous, delivered bad news to Chi Xiaocheng.
Host, the World Will has acted.
Just now, I clearly felt its presence descending.
Sitting in the taxi, Chi Xiaocheng's heart also skipped a beat with that sentence. "Did it descend personally? No way. The rich antagonist hasn't even appeared yet."
It cannot descend personally; like me, it can only descend as a medium. It might have connected with Su Tao through some object, thereby appearing in the real world, just as I can only appear as your System, Host.
"Connected with Taotao through some object?"
Chi Xiaocheng frowned, unable to understand how Su Tao, with her monotonous life, could have gotten involved with the World Will.
"How much influence does Taotao still have?"
The estimate is a minimum of 50%. In her current state, her mentality could be influenced by the World Will at any moment.
"Or rather, it has already started being influenced."
Chi Xiaocheng recalled Su Tao's abnormal appearance when they last parted ways; she had said nothing upon entering the cafe, yet her expression dramatically changed, and she wanted to leave.
She liked me so much, yet she didn't even offer a single explanation.
"System, are there any countermeasures?"
Find the item through which the World Will descended as a medium, and destroy it.
In reality, the System roughly guessed what item the World Will descended through.
It's just that...
It wasn't sure whether it should say or not.
Since the World Will had managed to descend with such difficulty, it would certainly not have taken zero defensive measures. If confronted head-on, there was a possibility of unforeseen accidents.
Meanwhile, Chi Xiaocheng was deep in thought throughout the journey: what kind of medium could allow the World Will to descend at this particular moment?
Taotao's dramatic change in expression at that time proved that something must have influenced her, if it was indeed an item.
In other words, it must be something she might be carrying.
"A newly replaced phone?"
Was that possible? If a phone could serve as a medium, or any ordinary object found in reality, then the World Will would have descended long ago.
Chi Xiaocheng pondered continuously, when suddenly, something occurred to her.
Last time at home, when she used the fruit knife bought from the System Mall, she surprisingly couldn't easily cut an apple in half with it.
One had to know that fruit knives produced by the System were sharp enough to cut through iron like mud; even reinforced concrete walls could be partially pierced.
The nutrient instant noodles stored in the utility room, as well as the various odds and ends she had won from past lucky draws and kept, had all become tasteless.
Could it be that...
Chi Xiaocheng's pupils contracted. "System, the items I bought with emotional points, and the things I got from lucky draws, were all created by you using stolen energy, right?"
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