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Chapter 13 Self-Introduction?
Jiang Xingni was used to seeing faces in the mirror, but this was the first time she had seen her own face from this perspective.
Although it's a familiar face, it's portrayed differently in the comics.
Is this the difference between three-dimensional and two-dimensional?
The image of her making her entrance was truly stunning; her debut as a new character was already quite remarkable—something Jiang Xingni hadn't anticipated.
If Jiang Xingni has such a long screen time, his subsequent performance needs to match that screen time, otherwise he will easily be criticized and written out of the story.
She clicked on the bullet comments on the current page, and the originally clean page was instantly covered by countless colorful bullet comments.
"Ahhhhh, honey, let me lick you—"
"Five minutes. I need all her information!"
"A reserve member of the main character group! Absolutely! I guarantee it!"
"You all guessed she's part of the main cast... well, I'll just blindly guess she's the main villain!"
A series of comments flashed through Jiang Xingni's vision. She didn't bother to read what the comments said, but tapped her chin with her fingertip and continued scrolling down to see the Easter eggs, guided by the comments.
The Easter egg depicts Jiang Xingni's situation in the mall. She escapes from the shadow puppet show on the second floor, arrives outside the mall, and makes eye contact with the officials who come to handle the situation for a moment.
Although the official may not have known it at all, this brief eye contact did bring Jiang Xingni a considerable benefit.
Specifically, she managed to get some contact with it.
However, these were not things that Jiang Xingni was concerned about at the moment. While reading the official handling of the mall, she slowed down and focused on interpreting the information conveyed between a few comic panels.
"Why are you looking at this?" the system couldn't help but ask Jiang Xingni again. "If you care about your popularity, you should check out the forums now!"
It remembers examples from its own database, and in this case, it should use the forum to shape its image and sophistication.
Instead of just staring at such unimportant plot points like Jiang Xingni!
"This is no trivial plot point." Jiang Xingni caught the fleeting thought, and a slight smile appeared on her lips as she answered the system's questions in her mind.
"My special ability is the Eye of Truth, something related to seeing, something related to reality. What words can you think of that?"
The system, guided by her, began to think. Numerous comics from this world flashed through the system's database, but in the end, under Jiang Xingni's gaze, only a vague sentence remained—[Uh, there's only one truth?]
Jiang Xingni: "..."
Okay, I won't keep you in suspense any longer.
Jiang Xingni sighed: "Omniscient."
In fact, Jiang Xingni also wanted to create an omniscient and omnipotent persona for himself, but the ability to be omniscient was still somewhat related to him, while being omnipotent was completely fictitious.
Even if Jiang Xingni wanted to force his way in, he couldn't.
However, being omniscient but not omnipotent is also suitable for selling the "beautiful, strong, and tragic" character trope—seeing how the story will unfold but always being unable to stop certain things.
She had no choice but to abandon the idea and instead focus on how to leverage the "omniscient" perspective.
This is certainly not something I can do right now, but I can use some details to let high-level readers analyze the clues and then completely confirm this persona someday in the future.
After the officials arrived, they took control of all the innocent people on the second floor of the mall who had been affected by the shadow puppet show.
No one watched the "shadow puppet show" playing on their phones; the person handling it was quite competent, Jiang Xing thought to himself.
Then they were taken away one by one for medical and metaphysical examinations, and finally the mall's surveillance footage was destroyed.
"Could it be the 'human skin shadow puppet' from Nanshan Village?"
"Wasn't it a Class C anomaly? How could it cause such a huge impact?"
"...Perhaps we misjudged it, hence its C rating."
"Isn't it just a bunch of kids from Taixu Academy who's in charge of handling it? Damn."
Jiang Xingni calmly analyzed the information revealed in these few sentences of conversation—they categorized this abnormal event into levels, possibly A, B, C, and D, but the criteria for this categorization were currently unclear. The evaluation was not entirely accurate and could be wrong. The protagonist group's predicament was partly due to the fact that this "human skin puppet" was beyond their ability to handle.
However, from the perspective of the comic, Jiang Xingni is certain that the main characters will be able to resolve this unusual event unscathed.
That's the protagonist's halo! Too bad she doesn't have that.
The second update's plot is familiar to Jiang Xingni, and it's something she's experienced.
The scenes depicted in the comics are not from Jiang Xingni's perspective, so she can also see what this eerie realm looks like without the influence of light spots and orbits.
She walked at the very front, and it was actually so dark that she should not have been able to see her at all, but for the sake of the reader's experience, Jiang Xingni could still see her own back.
"Who understands? Even though my wife has only been on the show for a short time, seeing her at the front makes me feel so safe..."
"What does it mean to see the true nature of the world? Anyone want to discuss this?"
"Let's discuss it on the forum. We're gathered here, of course, to admire the beauty of our shared wife!"
Jiang Xing glanced at the comment and decided to check the forum later—she wondered how the readers would interpret her statement about "the reality of the world."
The remaining scenes were not much different from what Jiang Xingni had experienced, so she just glanced at them.
It wasn't until Jiang Xingni gave the answer that it was to the west that the main characters exchanged glances, then left Jiang Xingni behind and set off to pursue the mystery of the village.
The live chat was filled with "???" comments.
"Wait a minute? I thought my wife had already joined the main cast?"
"Are you four running too fast? Did you forget someone?!"
"It suddenly occurred to me, do those four still not know their wives' names...?"
"Don't even mention them, we don't know either! What could be something a VIP member like me shouldn't know! It's just a name—"
"Wife, you're so mysterious, wife, I love you so much."
Jiang Xingni didn't realize until the comments reminded her that she really hadn't introduced herself to the main characters...?
At first, there was a rush of time, and there wasn't enough time to introduce myself.
Later, due to a series of unexpected events, and the fact that Jiang Xingni could directly call them by name, they forgot that they were supposed to introduce themselves.
...I am indeed a little embarrassed.
Jiang Xingni offered a somewhat insincere apology to the main characters in his heart, then made a note of it, saying that he would have to introduce himself sometime later.
This perfectly highlights that she has now acknowledged the main characters.