Arknights, but all characters are NPCs?

"Ha...that's all."

Anyway, everything is back to normal, so there seems to be no need for Kal'tsit to worry about these things anymore.

and--

Kelsey lowered her head.

The longer she thought about it, the longer she rubbed the kitten.

The key is that this was her subconscious behavior.

This can't be hypnosis, right?

"I always feel that my attitude towards the dream world is a little... too indifferent..."

As vigilant as she was the first two times, she was as lazy this time.

If it was the case the first two times, Lu Shang would come to her almost immediately after she came through...

If Lu Shang saw her like this, there would be no need for hypnosis anymore.

Kelsey reflected.

She pulled out a tissue and wiped her fingertips.

Then he sighed, sat up and looked around.

"Why is Lu Shang, that man, nowhere to be seen this time?"

Somewhat strange.

But after all, she had been here three times, so Kal'tsit didn't hide in the room motionless like she did at the beginning.

She put on her shoes, stood up, opened the door and looked out into the corridor.

Although many operators passed by the door, Lu Shang was still nowhere to be seen.

Kal'tsit didn't wait any longer and walked out of the room, closing the door. But when she looked up, she found a small note stuck on her door.

"Come and play with the control center?"

This is what the little note said.

No doubt it was written by Lu Shang.

And look at the way it's posted like a small advertisement...

This Lu Shang probably didn't know when Kal'tsit would come through again, so he would come to take a look every morning. Seeing that Kal'tsit was still an NPC, he would stick the note on the door and go do something else?

That's probably the case.

So Kal'tsit didn't care. She just confirmed the contents on the note and turned away.

"Yah!"

Walking through the corridor, I saw the familiar three little ones, Popka, Snake Box and Ceob, who were shouting, running past Kal'tsit.

Seeing this, Kal'tsit just smiled and ignored it.

After all, according to Lu Shang, this is one of the programs that must be performed every afternoon.

So Kal'tsit went all the way to the control center, and as expected, met Lu Shang there.

From a distance, I saw Lu Shang sitting at a round table.

Lu Shang sat on a recliner, and there were three chairs beside him.

"Hmm? Hey, here comes the old cat."

Lu Shang picked up the teacup with his right hand and took a sip. After putting it down, he picked up the fork with his right hand, picked up a piece of dessert, and shook it towards Kal'tsit. He looked very happy.

"Want to watch something? I'll play a disc for you?"

Lu Shang pointed to the large screen at the control center with his right hand holding the fork.

After hearing this, Kal'tsit really wanted to say, is this what the control center is used for?

But after thinking about it, Kal'tsit still didn't say anything, she just walked forward, pulled out a chair, and sat down... Well, Kal'tsit still confirmed whether there was anything on the chair first, and even reached out to touch it. After making sure that there was nothing, she sat down.

"Kal'tsit, you are so alert, as if I would secretly harm you."

"..., you won't do it secretly, you will only harm me openly."

Kal'tsit didn't respond. She just sat down, glanced at Lu Shang, and said, "W has been here before?"

"She did. I chased her for almost half an hour." Lu Shang sighed, feeling quite regretful. "It's just that she went back too early, and I didn't have enough fun yet. So it was you, Kal'tsit, who woke W up by force, right?"

"it's me."

Kal'tsit wasn't worried that Lu Shang would suddenly say something like "You've ruined my plans. Since W is gone, let's use you, Kal'tsit, as his replacement."

She didn't even worry whether Lu Shang would put some computer parts in those desserts. She just raised her hand and said, "Please pass the plate of dessert on your left hand over."

"I remember you like coffee, Kal'tsit? And the bitter kind, why do you like sweet coffee this time?"

Although he asked this, Lu Shang still put down his fork and passed the plate and the snack together with his right hand.

After Kal'tsit took it, Lu Shang turned around and looked around: "Kal'tsit is the only one here this time? W didn't come? I even specially prepared two chairs for you."

029. There was no hypnosis this time, because the hypnosis was never lifted from the beginning

"Two chairs...? Wait? How many chairs did I see at first?"

She seemed to remember that there were... three?

Although Kal'tsit was puzzled, she was not alert.

As if her heart had finally settled down, Kal'tsit showed an expression of matter-of-factness on her face.

That’s right, that’s right. After all, he is a mainland businessman, so how can he not do some cool things?

What she saw and what Lu Shang described were contradictory, which was normal.

But her look made Lu Shang laugh: "Don't, I feel like you, Kal'tsit, have some sequelae since you were hypnotized last time. You are suspicious of everything you see. I guess if I move my hand now, you will doubt if I am imitating you. There is no need, really no need."

"I felt compelled to do so because it seemed like something you could do."

Kal'tsit also knew that she was indeed too sensitive, and she even had to worry about the number of chairs.

But when she thought about what Lu Shang had done to her...

Kal'tsit couldn't help but glance at Lu Shang.

"Why are you looking at me?" Lu Shang asked, "I haven't touched you until now, are you blaming me for this?"

"It's weird because you didn't do anything."

This man is Lu Shang.

I knew from the beginning that this guy was definitely not a good person.

Think about it, even including this time, Kal'tsit has only traveled through time three times in total. So what did Lu Shang do to her the first two times?

Kal'tsit no longer wanted to recall how she felt when she found out she was hypnotized.

So it’s not Kal’tsit’s fault for playing badly. She had already made all kinds of mental preparations before traveling here this time.

And now you tell me you want to be a good person?

Kal'tsit would probably laugh out loud.

and so--

"Did you hypnotize me this time?"

Kal'tsit was too lazy to count the number of chairs. Instead, she took a bite of the dessert and asked in an unusually straightforward manner.

"No ah."

Lu Shang reached out and used his fingertips to wipe the cream off the corner of Kal'tsit's mouth, and responded in the same straightforward manner.

After thinking about it, Lu Shang even added: "Don't worry, I didn't lie to you."

"I know, because you have no need to lie to me."

It’s not that Kal’tsit believes in Lu Shang’s character, but that Lu Shang doesn’t need to do anything unnecessary.

The card dialog boxes and hypnosis are too buggy.

If it were W, there would probably be only two reactions at this moment.

Believe it or not.

But Kal'tsit was different. After hearing this, she just thought about it and asked again: "You were hypnotizing me until I left last time, right? So - after I left last time, did you remove the hypnosis?"

Under Kal'tsit's gaze, Lu Shang managed to laugh out loud, and finally, when he had laughed enough, he replied, "No."

"..."

really...

Kal'tsit sighed and sorted out the current situation.

Lu Shang did not lie to her and he did not hypnotize her this time, because she was in a hypnotic state from beginning to end.

"Ha... Help me break the hypnosis."

"What?"

"Because just like you wouldn't lie to me because there's no need, if you really want to do something to me, there's no need to use hypnosis."

In fact, there is a more important reason. Kal'tsit always feels that if she continues like this, she will soon suffer from mental breakdown.

In the real world, she had to force herself to stay awake. The mental fatigue was painful enough. But when she came to the dream world, she had to be suspicious of everything...

So just like Kal'tsit is starting to play badly now, she really doesn't have the energy to play a battle of wits and courage with Lu Shang.

"It seems that Kal'tsit has been hypnotized and your defense has been broken."

"But let me tell you a joke. Before you, Kal'tsit, came here, in this world full of NPCs, hypnosis was actually the most useless thing."

"Hypnosis is at most a buff for yourself, like waking up every day and shouting "Today is another day full of hope" or something like that."

Can this still hypnotize myself?

Kal'tsit wanted to ask this, but didn't have time to do so, because she saw Lu Shang stretch out his hand in her direction and gently stroke his fingertips downwards.

"Ignore the existence of certain NPCs" → "Cancel"

"Ignore physical contact" → "Remove"

"Ignore the various reactions of the body" → "Remove"

"I think it's reasonable to have water stains on my body" → "Remove"

...

Dazzled.

Kal'tsit knew that Lu Shang wanted to reassure her, so he showed her one by one and removed them one by one in front of her, to prevent her from thinking that Lu Shang was saying that all the hypnosis options were removed, but secretly hid a few more hypnosis options.

But the price is that as the number of releases increases, Kal'tsit's understanding of this dream world changes more and more.

until--

"Thinking that being held in someone's arms is the right thing to do" → "Remove"

At the moment of release, Kal'tsit suddenly realized that she was not sitting in the chair and eating dessert as she had imagined.

She was being held in Lu Shang's arms, sitting on his lap face to face.

She originally thought that she was eating the dessert with a fork by herself, but no, the fact was, her hands were around Lu Shang's neck, and the dessert she was eating was fed to her by Lu Shang himself. She only needed to open her mouth and wait for him to feed her.

"you--"