Ring of Fate

Chapter 942 "Virus"

Janna left the window and sat back on the sofa, temporarily putting Roxanne's matter behind her.

Today, if the interview goes well, Lumian or Franca will move in with her, and the team will carry out subsequent operations in groups of two - Ludwig will be an accessory for the time being.

Sometimes Janna hoped it was Lumian, and sometimes she prayed it was Franca. During the time in the Dream City, she wanted to spend more time with Franca, encourage her more, be nicer to her, show her importance more, and make her feel truly needed and not alone.

Although Janna had not communicated explicitly with Lumian about this matter, she felt that the two of them had a tacit understanding and some of their daily behaviors were very similar.

As her thoughts raced, Jana suddenly laughed at herself:
"Actually, the best option is for Lumian and Franca to live here."

In this way, Franca would not lack the feeling of being needed, and Lumian would be able to do more things, and she herself would inevitably, like in the past two days, from time to time, unable to help but wonder what Lumian and Franca were talking about, how they were interacting, whether there was any intimate behavior, and whether there was any emotional development.

This made her feel a little sad and uncomfortable, and it also helped her "pain" potion to digest a little more.

When it comes to making others suffer, thanks to Ludwig's presence, Jenna digests the potion very quickly and it won't take long to complete, but when it comes to her own suffering, she still has a long way to go.

She whispered to herself:

“Imagination and suspicion are more painful and more corrosive to the soul than reality.”

This is the role-playing code she summed up, which is more detailed than "making others suffer" and "making oneself suffer". If she is an evil "witch", she can choose a target based on this, get along with him normally on the surface, but make his wife or girlfriend suspicious in the details, gradually making him feel uncomfortable and "making trouble unreasonably", making both of them fall into the abyss of pain.

Of course, she also hopes that the relationship between Lumian and Franca will get better, and that they can redeem each other to some extent.

She was happy to see this happen, but she just didn't want to be left out.

Janna gradually gathered her thoughts, unlocked her phone, and entered the photo album.

She looked at the self-portrait sketch that Luo Shan had sent her yesterday, clicked to enlarge it, and selected the "Delete" button.

She felt that it was very risky to let a "painter"'s paintings stay on her mobile phone.

She didn't delete it yesterday because she wanted to see what changes would come, but nothing happened afterwards. And she couldn't always be on the lookout for the portraits in her phone, as she still had to use her phone to contact Lumian, Franca, Anthony and others!
After deleting the photo, Janna started playing with her phone, starting with hot news, then browsing novels, funny videos, shopping sharing and other content.

Time passed quickly. Janna straightened her back slightly and stretched without moving her hands.

She felt that she could send a message to Franca to ask about the situation over there, but before that, she carefully checked her phone to see if there were any strange applications or statuses.

Suddenly, Janna's gaze froze.

She found that in the album that she had not chosen to exit before, Luo Shan’s sketch of herself was quietly staying in its original position, lifelike, with a smile on her lips and lively eyes!
At this moment, Janna felt uncertain:
Did I really just delete it?

Am I being affected and hallucinating?
Janna quickly calmed down and deleted the photo again calmly.

She spent the next moment staring at the album, waiting to see if Roxanne's self-portrait sketch would suddenly pop up.

After a while, the phone screen went out naturally, and Janna quickly reached out her hand and turned it on again.

The photo with Luo Shan's sketched self-portrait appeared again, in its original position.

Janna identified the problem, but didn't know how to solve it. She didn't even dare to use her mobile phone to search for solutions online.

Just then, she heard the doorbell ringing.

Janna was startled and walked silently to the door, looking outside through the peephole.

She saw Lumian and Franca.

Janna breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door.

During this process, she was still cautious until Lumian and Franca appeared vividly before her, but her spiritual intuition did not give her any warning.

"I just happened to have something to do." Janna said in a low voice.

Franca immediately showed a concerned expression, put the access card into the pocket of her loose trousers, walked into the room, and asked in a deep voice:

"whats the matter?"

——The elevator in DeChuang Garden requires a card. The landlord gave two cards. Janna kept one for herself and gave one to Franca and the others.

After Lumian closed the door and created the "Bottle of Fiction", Janna told him everything about Roxanne in detail.

She concluded:

"I remember the Purifiers told me that their colleagues once met a painter who was receiving mental treatment. The painter always said that his spirit would travel every night, entering a space that was similar to the spirit world but had certain differences, and fighting monsters and enemies who tried to use that space to invade reality, in order to protect the peace of his neighborhood.

"This is very similar to what my astral body saw when I fell asleep."

"You mean, Roxanne's actions to protect the community might just be the other side of the gift of pollution?" Franca understood what Janna wanted to say.

Jane said "hmm":
"This was my previous guess, but after talking to Luo Shan and listening to her introduce those monsters next to my astral body, I felt that she also had the belief and ideal of 'protection'. This should come from Mr. Fool's subconscious understanding and expectations of her."

“In other words, you believe that Roxanne’s protective behavior is not only a requirement of a certain sequence of the gifted power, but also a manifestation of her humanity and will, and is the result of Mr. Fool’s subconscious fighting against the evil god of the Fantasy Society in the character’s inner construction?” Lumian thought of himself, his eyes flickering.

Janna nodded:
"What I'm worried about now is that if our investigation irritates Luo Shan, will it lead to her being completely contaminated and falling into the abyss? Moreover, this may also symbolize Mr. Fool's failure in local events. This failure is very small, but if small failures accumulate, it may cause the balance to tilt irreversibly."

Lumian agreed:
"The first thing we need to do now is to delete that photo."

"Yes, if you leave it in your phone, it will become a bomb that may explode at any time." Franca took Janna's phone and operated it attentively for a while, but the self-portrait sketch of Roshan stubbornly appeared again.

This made Franka frown:

"Do we really need to install those anti-virus software that kills both our enemies and ourselves?"

Lumian glanced at the photo album on the phone screen, reached out and clicked on the photo, and was about to enter the screen directly and the world behind the screen to see if he could encounter Roxanne's sketch self-portrait and destroy it both physically and mystically.

At this time, Franca stopped him:

"Don't worry. Even if you can really enter the world of the phone's memory through the screen, it would be equivalent to confronting Luo Shan's self-portrait face to face. It would be easy for Luo Shan to notice and stimulate her, and then confirm that there is something wrong with us."

At this point, Franka smiled:
"Didn't you add Stiano on WeChat? Since he is the dream image of a high-ranking official in the Church of Steam, his WeChat nickname contains the keyword 'information technology', and he is still studying at university, he might know how to delete this kind of mobile phone virus that originated from the occult."

“Let me ask.” Lumian nodded thoughtfully.

He released the "Bottle of Fiction" and asked Janna to send Roxanne's self-portrait to his WeChat.

Then he sent a message to Stiano:

"Can you help me? My phone has a strange virus."

In just over ten seconds, Stiano, whose nickname is "Electric Power, Energy and Information Technology", replied to him:

"Show me a screenshot."

"He replied pretty quickly. Does this mean he's very interested in this kind of thing?" Franca muttered.

Lumian clicked on the photo, asked Franca to take a screenshot, and sent it to Stiano:

"It's this photo. I can't delete it no matter what I do. If I delete it, it will reappear by itself."

After a while, "Electric Power, Energy and Information Technology" sent a compressed package:
"There's a little program in there. You can use it to load the picture and delete it, and everything will be fine."

Is there really a way to solve it? When Franca and Janna had similar thoughts, Lumian followed the instructions and decompressed the files step by step, releasing a small program called "Information Crusher".

He opened the applet, loaded Luo Shan's sketched self-portrait with it, and clicked the built-in "Delete" button.

Then, Lumian exited the mini program, locked his phone for two seconds, and then opened it again.

He then discovered that the photo in the album had disappeared without a trace and had never returned.

After trying several times, Lumian sent the compressed package to Janna.

Janna also successfully deleted Roxanne's sketched self-portrait photo and secretly returned it to her own photo album without seeing it again.

"He's really awesome..." Franka looked at the "Electric Power and Information Technology" on Lumian's WeChat and said with deep emotion.

Lumian thanked Stiano using voice input.

"Electric Power, Energy and Information Technology" replied:

"This virus is worth studying. You can come to me if you have similar questions in the future."

Can I find a question similar to this one? Lumian sent a nodding emoji thoughtfully.

Only then did Janna relax.

Suddenly, Franka hissed and said:

"In modern society, no, in the dream city, some sequences and some extraordinary abilities have become more terrifying and more difficult to guard against...

"From Luo Shan's case, we can see that if the 'painter's' paintings have extraordinary powers, the corresponding photos of the paintings will also have certain special properties. If this is spread through the Internet and seen and downloaded by thousands of people, how terrible it would be...

"The previous surveillance world was also something we couldn't encounter in reality."

Without waiting for Lumian and Janna to respond, Franca suddenly had an idea:
"Computer viruses and mobile phone viruses are also viruses. Can they be controlled by the 'witch'?

"It shouldn't be possible... but the Beyonders of the Secret Voyeur pathway will definitely be able to control it when they reach a high sequence."

PS: I recommend a book, Lin Hai’s new book, “Reversal”

Introduction: "You can refuse to admit defeat, but you have to admit that you are old!"

"That makes sense, but who said I was old?"

This is the story of an old guy who completed a comeback and scored the winning goal in injury time of his career.

(End of this chapter)