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Chapter 3 The Eye of Truth
Jiang Xingni suddenly realized: "The rules of acting! I get it."
She turned off her phone screen, and the black screen reflected the little girl's face. Jiang Xing couldn't see her own face clearly, but she was very clear about what she had now.
She's just an ordinary person with decent physical abilities right now. If she wants readers to believe she has superpowers like turning water into ice or setting fires, it's unrealistic and easy to expose.
The superpowers that are compiled need to have room for growth, and they need to be more abstract, not too specific, and not easily seen through.
"The Eye of Truth," the girl murmured to herself. "My special ability is the Eye of Truth."
The system slowly typed out a question mark: ?
Then it saw Jiang Xingni rummage through her backpack, take out her contact lenses, and skillfully put them on using the reflection from her phone's black screen.
The system was even more confused: [What are you doing?]
Jiang Xingni answered confidently, "I'm wearing colored contact lenses!"
Of course I know you're wearing colored contact lenses... The system felt that it had been silent many times since it bound itself to the host.
"So why are you wearing colored contact lenses?" the system asked earnestly.
"Black hair and black eyes, which clash with the main character's elements, make it easy to get criticized," Jiang Xingni explained.
"It seems too late to dye my hair now..." The girl looked thoughtfully at her black hair. "But I can still wear colored contact lenses."
A popular character definitely needs a memorable feature. Simply having "black hair and black eyes" would be a bad start for her. She has no doubt that if she tries to act cool, she will be criticized by the male lead's fans.
With the colored contact lenses on, her original black pupils were covered by a golden hue. Jiang Xing blinked, and under close observation, the system could even see the fine, star-like patterns on her eyes.
Moreover, since Jiang Xingni has already decided to choose the [Eye of Truth] as his fictional superpower, this ability must be manifested in his outward appearance in order to make it more convincing to readers.
Just like in comics, characters with fire powers often have red hair, while characters with ice powers often have blue or silver hair.
The fact that she obtained her superpowers through deception and trickery from readers is a detail that cannot be ignored.
"Why are you so indifferent about the fact that you originated from a comic book?" the system asked.
It originally thought that even if Jiang Xingni didn't break down, she would definitely question the meaning of life, right? In any case, she wouldn't be so calm and almost indifferent.
Jiang Xingni replied calmly, with a hint of a smile, "I grew up in the Lower City."
It was a familiar excuse, but also the truth. She had long been accustomed to grasping everything around her to secure her survival and future.
The lower town is chaotic and dangerous, especially for a young child who has lost his parents.
Jiang Xingni didn't have time to question why fate had brought her this way, or why it had to be her. She simply accepted it and then sought every possible way to change her destiny.
Now, although she knows she's in a comic book, she knows how to survive. Jiang Xingni is good at accepting her situation and continuing to fight for survival.
Chapter Four
A sudden wave of guilt washed over the system, and it tried to ignore the illusion: [Why did you choose the Eye of Truth as your ability?]
The Eye of Truth—this ability doesn't sound like it has much offensive power. Even though they haven't known each other for very long, the system can tell that Jiang Xingni doesn't seem like the kind of person who would rely on others and wholeheartedly act as a support.
Jiang Xingni's explanation was quite simple: "Because this is the easiest one to act."
Other superpowers may have strong offensive capabilities, but they cannot make her wishes come true. In this situation, she can only choose the one with the best cost-effectiveness.
—The comic has now finished its first semester.
The protagonists entered "Taixu Academy" in September of the previous year, which is one of the schools that specializes in training people with superpowers.
Upon seeing the school's name, Jiang Xingni's first reaction was to ask the system, "Is this school a high school or a university?"
The system fell silent: ?
Jiang Xingni muttered to himself, "...Don't tell me it's a vocational school, okay?"
Then she needs to reconsider her role in the storyline. The young girl seriously thinks that the image of a wise man who lives in seclusion in the city should be very popular, right?
In short, Jiang Xingni, who was recently admitted to university through a competition, will definitely not allow her academic qualifications to be lowered.
system:……
System: [The author hasn't considered this issue... You can ask the main characters yourself after you've made contact with them.]
Okay, Jiang Xingni made two preparations and continued to organize the plot from the previous semester.
While she was preparing for the competition, the protagonist went through being recruited, entering the school, dealing with provocations, slapping them in the face, recruiting partners, and fighting together in the final exams, which eventually formed the protagonist group.
The current events are part of their winter break practical activities, or rather, their field experience. During the Spring Festival, an online influencer livestreamed a traditional shadow puppet show from a local village.
However, on the second day of the live stream, the influencer neither broadcast nor gave any notification. Several local fans, who were particularly proactive, decided to go to the location where the influencer was broadcasting to check things out. The group asked around while broadcasting.
Fans saw her in the village, or more accurately, a shadow puppet that captured her spirit.
Just as they stepped forward to investigate, the shadow puppet smiled towards the camera.
The next second, the entire live stream went black.
— This matter did not cause much of a stir, otherwise Jiang Xingni would have known about it at all.
Under the control of the Phenomenon Society, the short live stream video was quickly deleted from the internet, and the fans disappeared without a trace. The Phenomenon Society rated this anomaly as Level C and assigned it to the freshman protagonist group.
The story has now progressed to the point where the main characters have arrived in the village, noticed something amiss, and are investigating.
"Is what's depicted in the comics their current progress?" Jiang Xingni asked after reading the latest chapter again.
【Of course not.】The system replied. 【The events depicted in the comic are things that have already happened; what's happening now will appear in later updates of the comic.】
Jiang Xingni nodded with a hint of regret. If it had happened simultaneously, she could have used the comic to give herself a few more advantages.
This slight disappointment didn't bother Jiang Xing for long; she flipped through the comic again.
[You really like this plot that much? This is the fifth time you've seen it.] The system was puzzled.
"The information in the comics isn't invalid," Jiang Xingni chuckled. "In other words, I can deduce their current location."
The system didn't know the connection between the two sentences, so it remained silent and observed its host.
"They'll be here." Jiang Xingni paused on a certain page, tapping the phone screen lightly with her fingertips, as if she could guess what the system wanted to say, a gentle smile on her lips.
"The plot of a comic book can't be mundane; there will definitely be conflicts and twists." So she made a simple deduction based on the information given in the comic book.
Tuhe River.
As luck would have it, the main characters in the comic are located in the same city as her.
The girl stood up and looked out the window at the shopping mall.
The person she had brushed past before, whom Jiang Xingni suspected was connected to the so-called "Oddity Group," happened to be looking in her direction.
good chance.
Jiang Xing raised the corners of her lips, making her smile even more pronounced.
Regardless of whether the other party was aware of what he had done... Jiang Xingni calmly assessed the situation in his mind. But this eye contact was an opportunity.
If this image were included in a comic, it would be very beneficial for her to create a mysterious character; if it weren't included, she wouldn't lose anything.
The brief eye contact didn't even last a second. Jiang Xing thought that perhaps the other person didn't even know that he had made eye contact with her, and that she had even lightly brushed against him.
Then the little girl sucked the last pearl in her cup into her mouth, chewed it, and walked out of the milk tea shop.
"Can you pinpoint the protagonist's location?" Jiang Xingni asked casually without much hope, but to her surprise, the system, which had always given her the impression of being useless, gave an affirmative answer.
The system said: "I can, but they are not currently in the location you predicted."
Jiang Xingni chuckled silently, then hailed a car on the road and told them the name of the village where the main characters lived.
"Then give me a real-time report of their location," she said to the system in her mind, without a doubt that her judgment was wrong. Even the system began to doubt itself because of the confidence and certainty in her tone.