Taoist Master, wishing for a sacrifice-based system

Chapter 66 The Price of a Perfect Persona: Complete Paralysis, Forever Nailed to the Pillar of Heroic Shame!

The seventh day since Xiao Yu's "heroic act".

His hospital room.

A VIP ward in a top-tier hospital.

There are two plainclothes security guards at the entrance 24 hours a day.

There is a long corridor separating the ward from the outside.

A long table was placed at the end of the corridor.

The long table was piled high with tens of thousands of letters from fans.

Every letter begins with "Dear Brother Yu".

"My eternal hero."

"Wait until you wake up."

Fans started from the first day he was injured.

They waited outside the hospital.

It started with a few hundred people.

The second day saw several thousand.

On the fifth day, it became a sea.

For safety reasons, the hospital...

A special square had to be designated.

Let the fans gather in the square to protect each other.

Do not approach the ward.

But it can be separated from the hospital building by a great distance.

Facing a certain window.

Say the name.

"Xiao Yu."

"Xiao Yu."

"Xiao Yu."

Ten thousand fans.

They chanted his name in unison.

Every night at 9 PM.

It will proceed on time.

The third night.

A fan girl fainted from crying in the square.

He was taken to the next ward by ambulance.

Her first words upon waking were, "Brother Yu—is Brother Yu alright?"

This sentence was captured on film.

Put it online.

It became the most popular video on the entire internet that night.

"Brother Yu is loved so deeply by your fans!"

"This is a true two-way journey."

"From today onwards, I am also a fan of Brother Yu."

"How come I never noticed how good he was before?"

"Brother Yu, you have to hang in there!"

These comments.

One after another.

One after another.

Xiao Yu's fan count surpassed 100 million on the seventh day after he was completely "dead".

One hundred million fans.

That was when he was alive.

A number that has never been reached.

He was alive in his last moments.

He gained 100 million fans, a number he had never achieved in his entire life.

A "hero forever" for 100 million people.

The afternoon of the seventh day.

The attending physician from the hospital arrived at the ward.

He used professional gestures to perform a neurological response test on Xiao Yu.

Shining a flashlight.

acupuncture.

Sound stimulation.

Then he closed the notebook.

He walked out of the ward.

He said something to Sister Liu, Xiao Yu's agent, who was waiting outside.

"He's awake."

Sister Liu's tears welled up instantly.

"He's awake? He's awake?!"

"Can he talk?! Can he move?!"

The doctor looked at her.

The doctor remained silent for a few seconds.

Then he said, "Awake. But unable to breathe on my own. Unable to speak on my own. Unable to move on my own."

Simply put—

'

"He has regained consciousness."

"But his body is just an empty shell."

Sister Liu froze on the spot.

Her fleeting joy vanished instantly.

Then it was pressed down by something heavier, more sinister, and more speechless.

Because she realized this clarity.

Not a good thing.

This clarity is the cruelest thing.

Sister Liu entered the ward.

Xiao Yu lay on the bed.

With tubes inserted.

His face was deathly pale.

But his eyes turned around.

slowly.

From the ceiling.

He turned to Sister Liu, who had just walked in.

He met her gaze.

There's something in his eyes.

It's not peaceful.

It is not peaceful.

It's a burning, desperate feeling that you want to shout out but can never shout out.

"Xiao Yu," Sister Liu's voice trembled, "Can you hear me?"

Xiao Yu's eyes rolled downwards.

It turned up again.

It looked like he was nodding.

Sister Liu's tears fell.

She took his hand.

"Xiao Yu----"

"You now—"

She spoke with difficulty.

"You are now a hero of all China."

"You saved Guoguo."

"You now have 100 million fans."

Your story is going to be made into a movie.

"Your name—"

"It will be remembered forever."

"I know what you most want to do—"

'

Sister Liu's voice choked with emotion.

"But you can't do those things anymore."

"You must be a hero."

"You can't be anything else."

"Did you hear that?"

Xiao Yu's eyes did not move.

Just staring at the ceiling.

His eyes slowly... slowly... slowly became clouded with something.

It's not sadness.

It's a complete abandonment.

When a person realizes that he has been nailed to an identity and can never get off, what he gives up is not his life.

What he gave up was "himself".

Sister Liu sat in the ward for an hour.

After she went out.

Xiao Yu's tears.

It slowly slid down from the corner of his eye.

No sound.

There were no convulsions.

Because he couldn't have a spasm.

All he could do was cry.

a drop.

Two drops.

Three drops.

Tears streamed down his cheeks.

It slipped onto the pillow.

The pillow is white.

A wet patch spread out from the white background.

The corridor outside the ward.

Ten thousand fan letters.

They were neatly piled on the long table.

Every single one of them started with the same words.

"My dear Yu-ge, my eternal hero."

That night.

The media released a major video.

The title is "A Role Model for Youth in an Era".

The video played all of Xiao Yu's "positive energy" clips from the past three years.

Teaching in rural areas.

Donations.

Anti-drug public service live broadcast.

希望小学。

Frontline drug enforcement on the border.

The final frame freezes on the moment he falls onto the red carpet, his back protecting Guoguo.

At the end of the video.

The host spoke in an extremely solemn and unshakeable tone.

"A person's value."

"It doesn't depend on how long he lived."

"It depends on what he leaves behind for this era."

This video.

Within one hour.

The post has been shared over 20 million times.

Comment area.

They are all the same word.

"hero."

"hero."

"hero."

Countless heroes.

It flooded the entire comment section.

It drowned out the "hero" himself, who lay in a hospital bed, forever unable to speak.

Qingyun Temple.

Qin Du sat in a grand chair.

Su Nian stood beside him.

Neither of them spoke.

In the courtyard, the tranquil atmosphere of the purifying array flowed gently in the night breeze.

It's very light.

Very soft.

Qin Du's field of vision, bottom right corner—

System panel —

It lit up silently.

[Ding. Your wish has been granted.]

[Xu Wanzhe: Xiao Yu (Chen Haoxian)]

[Maru no Nakamaru: The perfect, positive image will forever be frozen in history. No scandal can be exposed. Fans across the internet will forever regard him as a hero.]

[Maru Nozomi Achievement Rate: 100%]

[Implementation Method: Xu Wanzhe will permanently withdraw from the public eye under the guise of "acting as a hero." All evidence related to the scandal will be jointly erased by official and financial forces and will never be exposed again. His fan base will double, and the "hero" designation will be issued by the highest-level official body, permanently and irrevocably.]

[Compensatory internal strangulation: High cervical vertebrae fracture, total paralysis, unable to breathe, speak, or move independently. Consciousness fully preserved. The rest of his life is nailed to the identity of a "hero," listening to outside praise until death. Unable to admit the scandal. Unable to relinquish the persona. Unable to return to being "Xiao Yu" himself.]

[Gained Incense Points: +1800.]