An infinite journey starting from paradise

"Teacher...I believe you...ah~hmm~"

Explaining his stance with a groan, Lin Shangren continued his "telegraph" and asked, "Will paralyzing the Paradise system from within affect our consciousness?"

Lin Shangren silently recited Teacher Aoi's answer in his mind: "It will...restart. She is...in pain."

"what?"

Teacher Aoi's movements haven't stopped yet:

"She... saved you. She... wanted you... to kill her. She... was desperate... only then... perfect."

Chapter 12 Mission Accomplished, But Not Complete

"teacher…?"

Perhaps it was because the desire was too strong and clouded Lin Shangren's mind, or perhaps it was because the perception of sensations became relatively numb after being congested. In short, Lin Shangren failed to understand the punctuation of Teacher Aoi's answer.

"Is it 'she wants to save me' or 'she misses me'? What does 'kill her' mean? Who is 'she' here?"

As he pondered, Lin Shangren began to twist his waist, making his "external brain" vibrate rhythmically.

"Who is she? He Huan?"

"Has he realized this? It seems that he really is the person that the child has been thinking about."

Teacher Aoi looked at Lin Shangren's slightly flushed face with complicated eyes.

She is making a decision, a decision similar to the trolley problem: which is more important, the "life" and happiness of a young girl or the "happiness" of hundreds of millions of people?

"You've already made the decision. There's no point in hesitating now, right?"

"Okay, Lin, the teacher is going to speed up~"

"teacher…?"

Lin Shangren heard a hint of determination in Teacher Aoi's teasing tone.

"Wow...this...this is too intense!"

Teacher Aoi's frequency of "sending messages" gradually increased, the intervals between password characters shortened, and the intensity also increased.

"If you... die, she will become the core of loneliness and pain... and you will kill her... filled with hatred... If you live, stay in paradise. Don't hate her... and keep reincarnating. Don't let anyone know that you remember!"

Lin Shangren's brain was working rapidly, transforming Teacher Aoi's actions into intermittent words bit by bit.

“Teacher…I want…I want…wu…”

The intense stimulation shattered Lin Shangren's sanity. As desire surged out, his brain became unprecedentedly clear.

Lin Shangren saw his burning filth staining Teacher Aoi's face and messy black hair. He heard the woman's screams and saw Teacher Aoi spitting bubbles through the glass curtain wall...

[Consciousness attack detected]

"!!!"

Lin Shangren suddenly found that the scene before his eyes had completely changed. The person in front of him was still Teacher Aoi, but now she was nailed to a cross and placed in a huge water tank.

The water in the tank has already submerged Teacher Aoi's head. Her black hair spreads out like waterweed, and Teacher Aoi herself is constantly vomiting air from her lungs, looking extremely painful. (Don't worry, the teacher won't die in real life. After all, this book has "harem" in its label~)

"Teacher, teacher is going to drown!"

Lin Shangren heard a woman's scream, and the voice sounded very familiar to him. It was Ando Toko!

She should have been electrocuted, but now she was standing next to Hayashi Naoto. There were four other people with her: Hokariha, Manaka Gakuen, Byakuya Rinone, and Makiwa Rika.

Obviously, the game progress has been reset again, but... this time the chicken being used as a warning to the monkeys has become Teacher Aoi.

"asshole!"

Lin Shangren rushed towards the huge water tank like a mad dog.

"Let the teacher out...let the teacher out!"

Lin Shangren punched the water tank with all his might, even though he knew that the body about to drown in the tank was a virtual one. He knew that even if he could really break the tank and rescue Teacher Aoi, everything would be reset again.

But he urgently needed to vent his anger, which would affect his calm thinking.

"Bastard! Bastard! Damn it! Beast!"

The virtual body felt waves of "real" pain. The skin woven with code was cracked by the impact of the real physics engine. The blood constructed by the function flowed out from the cracks, dyeing the water tank made of data in front of Lin Shangren red.

"Shangren...don't do this...the teacher has already...already..."

Lin Shangren heard Fan Qiye's dissuasion with a slightly tearful tone, and his arms were hugged tightly by her.

"let me go!"

"A virtual body can feel real pain... so, do you feel pain too?"

With this thought in mind, Lin Shangren took the opportunity to break free from Fan Qiye's arms and threw this so-called "childhood sweetheart" heavily against the hard glass curtain wall.

Just when Lin Shangren was about to "accidentally" throw a few more punches, the scene was reset again as expected.

This time, the person behind the scenes gave up on the fancy "water torture" and chose the simplest electric chair.

"Shangren, don't go over there, it's too dangerous!"

Looking at Teacher Aoi struggling in pain on the electric chair and Fan Kariya holding his arm tightly, Lin Shangren suppressed the urge to throw Fan Kariya over his shoulder onto the electric chair.

"Okay, okay, you want to play like this, right? Since you're like this, don't blame me for being rude! You like rewinding, right? You like playing perverted games, right? Then I'll let you know what real hard work is!"

Lin Shangren's eyes became extremely cold

Fan Kariye had no idea how big a mess she had made this time. She fully believed that her plan was a great success.

She successfully eliminated the unstable factor of Aoi Nanazuki, and the mental state of the Sleeping Beauty preparatory body gradually became desperate. Most importantly, Lin Shangren, a man from nowhere, did not seem to find anything wrong.

"Everything is going smoothly. As long as Sleeping Beauty cuts off her last ties, the real paradise system, my own paradise system, will be officially operational." Fan Kariye hugged Lin Shangren's arm tightly, "Let's play the childhood sweetheart role-playing game for a while longer."

"You want to erase my memory, right? You want me to think you're my childhood sweetheart? Fine, then let me 'love' you properly!"

Thinking of this, Lin Shangren suddenly had a strange feeling, as if he had released something that he had been hiding in his heart.

The following process is almost the same as the first time playing the game.

It’s just that Ando Tomoko, as the “class monitor”, replaced Aoi Natsuki’s role as the “teacher”: comforting the frightened Rika and mediating the quarrel between Hehuan and Rinone.

[The game will officially start in twenty minutes. Players can use this time to adjust their status.]

The mechanical synthesized sound stopped, and the girls, like last time, started arguing about whether to participate in the game obediently. However, this time, the person who came to mediate was not Aoi-sensei but Ando Toko.

Unlike Teacher Aoi, Ando Tomoko did not offer to sacrifice herself.

This is normal, after all, she is just a very realistic AI, not a real person like Aoi. Even if the Paradise system can simulate a completely realistic body, it is difficult for AI to react like a normal human woman during sex.

Lin Shangren watched all this in silence.

"System," Lin Shangren said in his mind, "Open the task panel."

Goal 1: Find out the truth about the world (80%)

"This is a virtual world simulated by the Paradise System, with Sleeping Beauty at its core. However, because Sleeping Beauty is not perfect, the Paradise System also has flaws. This perverted game is designed to perfect Sleeping Beauty, which is... the true meaning of happiness."

Damn it... If it weren't for the inference based on the system prompts and the information from Teacher Aoi, no one would have thought that a system that can simulate such a realistic virtual world would have a girl at its core.

For some reason, Hehuan's flaw as a Sleeping Beauty is related to me. Perhaps it's something that happened during those three days when I lost my memory. In short, the person behind the scenes wants to use me to perfect Hehuan.

The way to perfect Hehuan is to play this game. Specifically, I have to hate Hehuan during the game and kill her with my own hands. As for why this is the case, I have no idea.

For some reason, Hehuan is also pushing this plan forward. According to the last information left by the teacher...she seems to be trying to save me?

If I die, she will live alone and in pain, but if I kill her according to her wishes, she will become the perfect Sleeping Beauty, and I can survive?"

After Lin Shangren completed his answer, which was half based on reasoning and half based on tentative guessing, the progress of the task of goal one finally reached 100%.

Congratulations on completing mission objective one.

[Newcomer mission, completing goal one is considered a success]

"Although I don't know how you were able to learn the truth about the world without even leaving the virtual world, congratulations, my master."

[Task rewards are being distributed...]

[The system backpack is open, and you can store items provided by the system.]

[The item extraction function is enabled, the current number of extractions is 5]

[World Anchor x1 and Crossing Quota x1 have been distributed. Please check in the system backpack.]

My Lord, you can choose to return to the original anchor world or continue to complete the remaining tasks. Of course, if you choose to continue the task, you can also choose to return to the original world at any time.

[The system recommends that you choose to continue the task...]

"Obviously, I should continue. It would be too cowardly to leave like this," Lin Shangren replied in his mind. "I still have many questions to answer. Besides... I still need to love my 'childhood sweetheart' well."

"Eh?"

Fan Qiye was suddenly stunned. For some reason, she felt a chill on her spine, as if she was being stared at by something scary.

She turned around and saw Lin Shangren, who was looking down in thought. Lin Shangren also raised his head at this time, and their eyes met.

"he?"

Lin Shangren did not make any unnecessary reaction, but just gave Fan Qiye a very warm smile.

Chapter 13 You said it yourself! Don’t regret it!

Lin Shangren squatted in a corner of the room, and from a distance he seemed very depressed.

Fan Kariye stood not far from Lin Shangren, comforting the sobbing Lixiang while secretly observing Lin Shangren's situation.

"Is it because the image of his teacher's death had such a huge impact on him? He was able to remain calm when Ando Tomoko was electrocuted several times before, but when Aoi Natsuki died, he became depressed..."

Feeling something strange, Fan Qiye withdrew his consciousness from the virtual body and returned to the real world.

"Lin Shangren's data is all normal, and the brain-computer interface and memory blocking program are also functioning normally."

While thinking, Fan Kariya turned his attention to Aoi Nayue again. She was now lying "peacefully" in the sleeping chamber. The brain-computer interface leading to the paradise system at the back of her neck had been disconnected, and she had fallen into a coma.

Hokariya looked around the makeshift laboratory. The layout was identical to the main white room in the game, with everything from the ceiling to the floor painted pale white.

The difference is that in the game, there is a display screen in the center of the main room, while in this laboratory there is a huge petri dish in the center.

This is the core of the park system - "Sleeping Beauty".

"We didn't prepare enough test subjects. I should have left a few alive. Hee, but it doesn't matter. If he really wants to choose Ando Tomoko, he can just make her act like she'd rather die than surrender, and then disqualify her from the game."

After confirming that everything was correct, Fan Qiye reopened the brain-computer interface and let his consciousness enter the false "paradise".

At this time, Fan Kariye discovered that Lin Shangren, who was originally in the corner looking emo, actually raised his head and gave her a smile that seemed a little forced.

"Has he adjusted yet? It looks like the game can continue."

Lin Shangren has indeed adjusted himself, and just now he has thoroughly understood the new functions unlocked by his system.

There is no need to elaborate on things that are obvious at a glance, such as "system backpack", "world anchor", and "travel quota". What really aroused Lin Shangren's interest was this so-called extraction function.

"Complete tasks to get a chance to draw prizes. An old-fashioned but practical setup. However, what's in the prize pool for this draw function? System, can't you explain it to me?"

【Everything is included, and there is no waste】

"Don't you think your two statements contradict each other? It reeks of an 'omnipotence paradox,'" Lin Shangren complained. "It encompasses everything, but there's no waste. So if I want the waste, can I extract it?"

【…】

"Forget it, I won't embarrass you. Just try one shot first. And I'm warning you, you'd better not give me useless junk!"

[Ding~ Extraction completed.]

[Congratulations on obtaining the item: Soft Rice Immortal's Steel Wool]

[Item Description: This is a strange flower from another world, its language symbolizing "wealth and forbearance." Using this item grants immunity to attacks and damage from wealthy women for forty minutes.]

[Item Note: "Child, if you can't bring her to orgasm within forty minutes, then you're not cut out for a gigolo." Said the Gigolo Immortal.]

Looking at the ball of steel wool that appeared in the system backpack, and then looking at the prop description given by the system, Lin Shangren was speechless for a moment.

After adjusting his mood, Lin Shangren asked, "The stuff is good...but, system, are you really a serious system?"

【…】

"You're pretending to be serious, aren't you? Fine, then have another one."

[Ding~ Extraction completed]