frightfiction Chapter 272 I thought it was the character lookup tool that was discriminating against me.
Chapter 272 I thought it was the character lookup tool that was discriminating against me.
Fa Cai explained to An Ling why the transmigrator hadn't returned to his body even though the system had disappeared.
"He is now completely deceived by the system. He believes that he is an outsider who has transmigrated from another world into Gu Chenming's body and will continue to live as Gu Chenming. That's why he can occupy Gu Chenming's body steadily without any connection to his own body."
An Ling's eyes lit up: "So as long as he realizes that he is also a native of this world..."
“That’s right!” The lucky flower ball bounced excitedly. “As long as he understands that he is not a transmigrator, but a native whose memories have been altered by the system, and remembers who he really is, he will resonate with his own body, and his soul will be forcibly returned to its place!”
"Then what are you waiting for!" An Ling said. "Hurry up and change his memory back! This is the work of a traitor in your Bureau, your Bureau has to clean up this mess, right?"
"It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't do it..."
He felt a little guilty about making money.
"The time reversal program activated earlier was the highest-level emergency procedure that the Bureau could use for each novel world. After activating this program, the Bureau could no longer directly intervene in the lives of other people in this world..."
"The reason I can still talk to you is because that emergency procedure was used with you as the anchor point, so you are the only person in this world that our Bureau can contact and use tools to intervene."
An Ling finally understood that this dandelion was like toothpaste, only speaking a little when others squeezed it out.
"Just tell me directly, is there any way to get that person out of Gu Chenming's body?"
"Yes!" Fa Cai replied, "I can't, but you can!"
"Me?" An Ling pondered Fa Cai's words again. "Does that mean if I just tell that person the truth, he'll believe me?"
"No, no, it's not that simple. The effects of system items cannot be eliminated by words alone. We need to find the key point that can truly touch his soul. In layman's terms, we need real evidence, or to discover a real situation that conflicts with the results of the system items."
Fa Cai gave An Ling an example.
"For example, you were previously used by system tools and forced to act according to the character settings set in the novel, right?"
But this compulsion disappeared after your rebirth. It's because you truly experienced being stabbed to death and then reborn, and witnessed the original novel's plot; these real-world shocks freed you from the props' control and brought you completely back to your senses.
"But the prop used on you is more advanced, and you need this kind of shock that shatters your worldview to get rid of it completely."
The tools for modifying memories don't need to go to such extremes. They only need to make the person fully aware of the contradictions between their memories and reality to overcome the problem. For example, although Gu Chenming's mother's memories were previously modified, she regained her true memories after Gu's father produced the audio evidence, which finally made her truly believe in the claims of the transmigrator and the system.
An Ling already had a plan in mind. "So, I need to find out his true identity and show it to him. You know his identity in our world, right?"
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"I do not know either……"
Fa Cai felt a little embarrassed, thinking that he was useless for not knowing anything and being unable to help, so he quickly added:
"After the system selects a host, it will place a special security lock on him to prevent our bureau from detecting him, so I don't know his identity."
However, I know that the system's memory modification tools have limitations. If it's just modification, it can only modify one day's worth of memories, but if it's deletion, there are no time or content restrictions.
"In cases like time travelers, the system can only delete them. Didn't you search for Gu Chenming in the character lookup tool? He only remembers a part of his past, right? That means the part he remembers is real. As long as you search according to that part, you'll definitely find it!"
"I understand now. I roughly know who he is." An Ling recalled what she had found out at the time: an actor who caused death by drunk driving. Even without specifically looking into it, she remembered him.
Although she was still young twelve years ago, she had already entered the entertainment industry, so she knew about these sensational events.
Now that we've started talking about the character lookup tool, Anling remembered another question she still didn't understand.
"Why can the character lookup tool you gave me only find people whose names I've met within the last six months? And why couldn't I find the male and female leads' information at first, but then I could find their original text information first, and then their information in the real world the next time?"
"The reason for this first question is also related to what I just mentioned: we activated the highest level of emergency procedures in this world."
Fa Cai and An Ling said that the character lookup tool was provided by the Administration to each novel world on a one-to-one basis, with only one available for each world. Originally, there should have been no time limit for meeting, and the lookup could be done as long as the name and appearance were known.
It's just that the Bureau's tools were restricted after the emergency procedures were activated, and they could only be used by An Ling, the contact person. That's why we need to meet with her within six months.
As for why the male and female protagonists' information couldn't be found at first, it was because the world's consciousness provided them with special protection.
The reason they were able to find the original information was because the An family held a banquet to reunite Qiu Nian.
That was a key plot point in the original novel, signifying that Qiu Nian's true identity as a rich heiress was fully acknowledged. From that day on, the bug that would cause the world to collapse was completely eliminated, and the world's consciousness's protection mechanism for the male and female protagonists began to loosen at that time.
The reason why the information about the male and female protagonists' real world could be found was because Qiu Nian rejected Gu Chenming's confession, resulting in a bad ending. Their world officially became an independent world, and the male and female protagonists lost their "protagonist halo". The protection mechanism of the world consciousness also completely disappeared, so they could be found by the character query device just like everyone else.
"So that's how it is..." An Ling had previously thought that the character lookup tool was discriminating against her, requiring her to check the "rank" of characters when looking up information.
"Now that the system has been captured and our world has become independent, will this query device be taken back?"
“It can’t be taken back,” Fa Cai shook its flower-shaped head. “There’s only one in a world, and it’s only valid for one year once used. It will expire in another month.”