novelsite Chapter 318 is completely different!
Chapter 318 is completely different!
Jiang Xingni took another step back, staring thoughtfully at the fireball in front of him.
After a brief period of melancholy, we need to think about practical solutions to this problem.
The strange creature, using Shan Qing's face, continued to ramble on.
Whether Sera's sanity was due to her own characteristics or a tool provided by VOID, she seemed to have heard the word "obsession" before... during the midterm exams.
Jiang Xingni secretly wrote these words down at the time, never expecting to think of them again today.
Jiang Xingni used her superpower to survey her surroundings. The fog vanished under the influence of her power, and she could see the surrounding scenery clearly. The scene, which was not obscured by the fog, was now clearly laid out before Jiang Xingni's eyes.
There were no familiar faces around—neither Xiao Jiming nor Lu Ming were nearby. The ropes connected them to him from a distance, and Jiang Xingni could even tell which brighter rope belonged to Xiao Jiming, while the dimmer one, barely visible and seemingly about to disappear with a gust of wind, definitely belonged to Lu Ming.
However, the ropes on Lu Ming's body were a little special. Jiang Xing thought to himself that everyone's ropes were stable. When they lit up, they lit up; when they dimmed, they dimmed. There was no neutral or wavering choice.
However, Lu Ming's matchmaking was not like that.
When the line extended from Lu Ming, it was indeed incredibly bright at the beginning—almost as bright as the line connecting Xie Yungui and her earlier—but as the distance increased, it flickered a few times, and finally converged on Jiang Xingni, it had become almost invisible.
...Is this bond meant for Jiang Xingni or for Longinus?
Jiang Xingni asked this question with genuine feeling in his heart.
If it was Longinus, she was even more puzzled—Jiang Xingni couldn't even remember what kind of influence she, as Longinus, had on Lu Ming, so that she could still have such a deep impression of Longinus after so long.
Her deepest impression of her last visit to the Lower City was the tragic death of Shan Qing. She could have saved him, but in the screenwriter's writing, she was powerless to resist. This sense of helplessness truly left a deep impression on Jiang Xingni.
As for Lu Ming, Jiang Xingni's only impression of her was that she was a girl created by the screenwriter to take her place after her death. She was a soft-hearted girl who was somewhat timid and a silly child who didn't know how to run away when she saw a monster about to attack her.
Jiang Xingni didn't know what her personality was like now.
Meanwhile, Xiao Jiming, who was face to face with Lu Ming, was ridiculed by Lu Ming eight hundred times in just three minutes, from whether he was blind to whether his brain was rusty.
While ignoring the trash talk from Lu Ming, Xiao Jiming was also racking his brains to find out where the culprit causing the fog was.
He had no idea that the same person was completely different in Jiang Xingni's words and in his own perception.
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Just as Jiang Xingni was about to use his superpower to strike the monster, he heard the system shout in his mind.
【Stars! Stars!】The system screamed. 【Why is Lu Ming's popularity dropping so fast?】
While remaining vigilant, Jiang Xingni glanced at Lu Ming's popularity score, and then successfully fell silent for a moment.
How did she manage to do that?
She clearly remembered that Xiao Jiming and Lu Ming had only met a few minutes ago. Even though the comic had just been updated, she hadn't appeared in the comic for very long, at most only a few panels.
But Lu Ming has this ability: with just a few comic strips, he can successfully push his starting line back further and further.
Jiang Xingni still couldn't understand how someone could make their popularity soar from positive to negative in just a few comic strips.
If Jiang Xingni had the same popularity as Lu Ming, she would have been snatched and eaten by a randomly appearing monster while walking on the street long ago.
"What did Lu Ming do?" Jiang Xingni couldn't help but ask the system in his mind.
She doesn't have time to check the comic's updates right now, but the system is different. The system can read the comic's regular updates. Just because she doesn't use the system to summarize doesn't mean the system doesn't have that function.
"Uh..." The system quickly scanned the updated comic content and spoke hesitantly. "She kept mocking Xiao Jiming."
She never stopped!
If it happened once or twice at the beginning, it would be fine, it's just about character development. But now most of the characters are ruthless and taciturn. Even Lu Xianqing and Su Yanzhi would not choose to curse people openly, but their behind-the-scenes attacks are another matter.
Suddenly, someone like Lu Ming appeared. He wasn't particularly ruthless, but he cursed people incredibly fast. At first, the readers in the real world were curious about him.
Until they discovered that Lu Ming had been cursing Xiao Jiming.
From the moment Xiao Jiming opened his mouth until he closed it, she answered his questions while taking every opportunity to hurl insults at him, thoroughly enjoying herself.
Readers initially thought, "This new character seems quite unique," but then changed their tune to, "Seriously? Why does this guy have such a foul mouth? Xiao Jiming didn't do anything that warranted such insults, did he? Isn't this just making trouble for no reason?"
And so, Lu Ming's public image continued to decline, and his popularity continued to plummet.
After listening to the system's explanation, Jiang Xingni still found it hard to believe that this Lu Ming was actually the same person as the Lu Ming in her memory.
"Are you sure it's not just a coincidence of names?" The fireball in front of him still hadn't launched an attack, so Jiang Xingni listened to "Shan Qing's" rambling while raising reasonable questions about the system's information.
The system had no eyes, but it felt its eyes widen the instant it heard Jiang Xingni's words: [No!]
【How could you be so unreasonable as to not believe me!】The system felt wronged.
[This is the Luming you know, the same Luming whose parents died because of the monsters, who, like you, had no power to save them, and who was then rescued from the monsters by you.]
Jiang Xingni still couldn't believe it.
She felt that the world was sometimes really surreal.
In her memory, Lu Ming was clearly well-behaved and timid. How come after a few months, he has become a wicked junior high school student who spouts nonsense and makes sarcastic remarks to Xiao Jiming—even though she doesn't know yet that he will be her future captain?
It can't be because middle school students are so hard to understand these days, right?
The system is completely clueless about human nature, and it couldn't answer Jiang Xingni's questions with any specific points.
The two men, now unified under one person, stared at each other in bewilderment.