Arknights, but all characters are NPCs?

Provided with delicious food and drinks?

I've finished eating and you're delicious, right?

And after Kai’s mom, how come I have another weird nickname called Kai Meow Meow?

But Kal'tsit didn't ask.

Because even though Lu Shang was scratched by the cat's claws, he didn't get angry. Instead, he waved his hands and didn't care at all.

Isn't it just about not letting the cat's head be rubbed? Then can't Lu Shang just rub other parts?

So when Kal'tsit put her lifted skirt back down with a gloomy face, Lu Shang had already walked in front of Theresa.

"Mr. Lu Shang, Mr. Lu Shang, you are here."

Theresa seemed to have not noticed what had just happened. She held up her skirt and trotted up, saying, "Mr. Lu Shang, you seem to be a little late today. Is it because of the last victim? What did you play after we left last time, Mr. Lu Shang?"

"It was a dream within a dream, but the previous victim had already woken up and gone back to sleep. As for why I came so late--"

Lu Shang didn't say anything, but just turned his head and looked behind him.

Then the doctor came even later. Although he was still dressed in the hood, his cheeks were obviously rosy and he looked refreshed. He was holding a rabbit in his arms and rubbing it.

This made Theresa understand something instantly, and she whispered, "So is it because of the doctor? I thought you were deliberately placing W on her, Mr. Lu Shang."

Place W?

When Lu Shang looked up, he saw W with his arms crossed over his chest, looking at him fiercely.

But after meeting Lu Shang's eyes, W gave him the middle finger and silently gestured with her mouth, "If you dare to attack His Highness, I will kill you, you bastard."

"Put her away? Why should I put her away, Theresa?"

"Hmm? What's the matter, Mr. Lu Shang—huh?!"

With a scream like a girl, Lu Shang reached out, put his arm around Theresa's waist, and lifted her up horizontally.

Then he took a few steps forward and walked to the round table not far from W. Lu Shang then let go and let Theresa sit on the table.

"Okay, I'm going to kiss you forcefully, Theresa. You can scream a few times."

“Eh?” Theresa pretended to be panicked and waved her hands repeatedly: “Please, please don’t do this, Mr. Lu Shang, you can’t - um…”

Even if he kissed Theresa's lips, even if he blocked all of Theresa's words.

But Theresa only symbolically hit Lu Shang a few times with her little fist, and then, as if she had no strength left, she let Lu Shang pick the fruits.

Until It was unknown whether it was due to lack of oxygen or because Mr. Lu Shang actually did these things to her in front of W, Theresa's little face looked red.

"Look." Lu Shang pointed at W who was not far away and said, "Do you see how W reacts?"

The answer is, no response.

W still had his arms crossed over his chest, with an expression that said, "I'm watching you, you bastard."

But W, your prince was just forcibly kissed in front of you, right?

"Mr. Lu Shang? Is she hypnotized?"

"correct."

"What about the content of hypnosis? Is it just that you can't see what you did, Mr. Lu Shang?"

Lu Shang did not answer.

He just took a few steps back, then reached out his hand, wanting to rub Theresa's furry little head.

The next second, W slammed the table and stood up: "You bastard! Take your fucking dog paws away from me! Do you think you can touch His Highness's head?!"

When Lu Shang heard this, he naturally obeyed.

But Lu Shang's hand, which was originally intended to touch Theresa's head, fell down and landed directly on Theresa's chest.

When Theresa let out a whimper,

This time, there was no response.

"It's very simple." Lu Shang smiled and said, "Just let W ignore the matter of Sese."

"Ah... I, I understand... Just like the first time you hypnotized Kal'tsit, Mr. Lu Shang?"

No matter whether Kal'tsit's face turned gloomy again, Theresa herself had sparkling eyes, as if she had a lot of ideas in an instant.

119. W was deeply affected by the story of the boy who cried wolf

"Your Highness...! You... You don't have to do this..."

"It's okay, W. This is a dream world. There's no need to address me as Your Highness. Can't you just treat me as a friend?"

"friend?!"

"WYou don't want to?"

"Yes! Very much! I am invincible... uh... invincible... invincible what? Damn it... I shouldn't have torn up the book and made paper airplanes to play with... What's the idiom... Never mind, cough... I am very happy! Your Highness!"

"Well! I've already told you that we are friends in the dream world. W, you called me Your Highness again. I will be angry if you do that."

"S-Sorry..."

"I was just trying to scare you. Okay, okay, sit down, W. I'll give you a shoulder massage."

As good friends, it is reasonable to massage shoulders and pat backs, isn’t it?

That should be...quite reasonable, right?

W doesn’t know either, after all, she has no friends.

But your Highness's strength is so weak... Is he really massaging the shoulders? Isn't he just putting his hands on them?

And even if I started to pinch their shoulders afterwards...it always felt messy.

Could it be that this is the first time that Your Highness has done something like this?

"I'm sorry."

Theresa seemed to be worried that her shoulder massage service was not up to standard, so she explained in advance: "After coming to the dream world, I am just an ordinary little girl, and my strength is much weaker, so if you feel that my strength is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, please bear with me."

"How could I blame you, Your Highness--!"

"Yeah, I know, I know, W, you have the best heart, but didn't I just say it? We are friends, you don't have to call me Your Highness."

"I...I know."

"Oh, by the way, and W, this is also my first time giving someone a shoulder massage, so I'm really shy, so—"

Theresa whispered, "W, don't look back, okay?"

W: “?”

After experiencing two consecutive plots of empathy + existential ignoring, W is now too sensitive to such things.

What does it mean to never look back?

what?

No? Your Highness, you... you are not...

"Woo..."

"Your Highness?!"

When W suddenly heard Theresa's low moan, he no longer cared about what Theresa had just said. He shouted "I'm sorry..." in his heart and quickly turned his head to look.

The results showed nothing unusual.

Theresa, who was standing behind her, even blinked her eyes in confusion and said, "What's the matter? W, didn't I tell you not to look back? W, you didn't listen to me again."

"But...but Your Highness...didn't you just whimper...?"

"Ah, that's because my hands are sore from pinching."

Theresa shook her wrist and looked at W innocently.

This W immediately looked quite guilty.

What, what’s going on…?

Is it really me who made a mistake?

But the low moan that His Highness made just now sounded like——

wrong!

Hypnosis!

Is this fucking hypnosis?!

I must be hypnotized now, right?

Thinking of this, W turned his head and looked behind Theresa, wanting to see if that bastard Lu Shang was -

"What are you looking at? I'm here."

Unfortunately.

Lu Shang was not behind Theresa at all. Instead, he was a thousand miles away from her. He was standing next to Kal'tsit and playing with the cat.

This completely confused W.

ah...?

Am I really overthinking? Am I misunderstanding something?

But that’s Lu Shang... Could that bastard be playing some other weird game?

So W turned his head again and glanced at Kal'tsit.

"... ...,well..."

Kal'tsit sighed and slapped Lu Shang's paw away: "The one next to me is a real person. He really didn't do anything to your Highness now."

It really wasn’t Lu Shang’s fault?

Then why did Your Highness make a low humming sound just now?

why?

Why else?

Kal'tsit was sitting here and saw everything clearly. After Theresa said to W, "W, don't look back, okay?" she deliberately leaned close to W's ear and imitated a light gasp.

When W turned his head in horror, Theresa immediately raised her head and changed her expression into one that looked extremely innocent.

Theresa even went on to perform moves such as "pressing her body against W's back and rocking back and forth" and "suddenly pressing W's shoulders tightly with both hands and deliberately letting out a whimpering sound through her teeth".

This went on two or three times. Each time, W turned around with a look of horror, while Theresa looked innocent every time.

After this happened so many times, W was completely confused.

Even though Theresa stopped playing around, W was still on edge, convinced that he was hypnotized. He glanced back and forth between Theresa and Lu Shang.

"How does the dream world pull people in? What are the rules? At this stage, we can speculate three conclusions."

But Lu Shang completely ignored W, and even held something like a diary, walking towards Theresa, while concluding in a serious manner:

"The first possibility is memetic infection. As long as you know the existence of the dream world, you will be captured by the dream world."

"But this doesn't explain Kal'tsit, who was the first to come to the dream world, unless you say that Kal'tsit was patient zero."

"Kal'tsit is a pathogen. Anyone who has come into contact with her will be captured by the dream world. Ah, in this case, does your title of madam Kal'tsit become true?"

"But this doesn't explain the situation of Little Platinum and De Gouzi."

"Then there is the second possibility, which is based on the order of the plot. When it comes to the Tower of Babel plot, Kal'tsit, Theresa, and the Doctor, the three of you come over. When it comes to the Born in the Night plot, W comes over. When it comes to the Howling Light plot, Froststar comes in."

"But this doesn't explain why Inès and Tallulah couldn't come in, nor does it explain why this aunt came here even though Zofia's plot hasn't even started yet."

"Finally, there is the third possibility. People who are unhappy with their lives, dissatisfied with reality, burdened with tragedy, or simply want to escape reality and seek a moment of relaxation in dreams will be chosen by the dream world."

"The typical example is probably Texas. Before entering the dream, Texas' mental state was so intense that she wanted to die. After entering the dream and knowing her future, her mental state began to improve. So when she came out of the dream, she no longer met the requirements, and that's why we haven't seen her for so long."

"But if that's the case, then Froststar should have come here long ago, instead of waiting until you, Kal'tsit, found her before she entered the dream."