The newspaper used in the game was a loophole Yan Hui exploited.

It contained a lot of information. Although he couldn't say it directly, because the Boss rarely paid attention, a lot of the news on it was closely related to this world.

Mingmei and Mu Chen quickly told everyone they could about this information, except for Lu Xiaoyao, who was very close to the Boss.

After all, her every move seemed to be getting a lot of attention from the Boss.

The next day, Mu Chen delivered the news to Qi Hai葵 and Li Yuan via milk delivery. Especially Li Yuan, because of what Mingmei and Mu Chen had mentioned about him and Hu Yue yesterday, Mu Chen specifically found Li Yuan when no one was paying attention and asked him about it.

Li Yuan's expression wasn't good about this.

"I don't know either. The identity of this character does record that he has someone he likes, but it doesn't say that she's married." When Li Yuan saw that the character Hu Yue was playing was the one he liked, Li Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

But what followed was the passion in his body, the uncontrollable emotions when he saw her, and the unrestrained things he did in the street. Li Yuan felt embarrassed when he thought about being seen by people he knew.

And what Mu Chen told him about the identity of the character Hu Yue was playing made Li Yuan's mood sink.

"Ah Yue didn't tell me what her role in this game was all about, but yesterday's Doug incident was handled by me afterwards. I can guess some things. I don't think she's worried that I'll have an opinion if I know…"

Li Yuan said in a low voice, "Rather than Ah Yue not telling me what kind of identity she's playing, I've noticed something else."

"You, noticed what?"

Mu Chen knew that he and Qi Hai葵 belonged to the type with high mental strength and were very sensitive. For some things, their intuition was really accurate.

"I vaguely feel that the role I'm playing is not something I can completely control… I know that when we play games, we've said that we'll be affected by the character's own settings. When there's a possibility of out-of-character behavior (ooC), the system will automatically recognize and replace us to do some things.

It's just that this feeling is more obvious in this game."

Qi Hai葵 had always believed that his mental strength was so high that the game's rule about character data affecting the player themselves was just for show.

But precisely because of this, for players with super-S mental strength like them, they could be very敏锐ly aware of these subtle changes. He felt very clearly the constraints of the character on him in this game.

"Sometimes, although I can't say I hate the choices and decisions my body makes about some things, I definitely don't have a good impression of them, but when my body does these things, it feels very natural.

For example, yesterday 'I' handled Doug with one sentence, fired him, didn't make a big deal out of it, and didn't call the police… In my opinion, the way this matter was handled is just, very wrong…"

At least, Li Yuan felt that if he replaced one person, not Hu Yue, just a stranger.

Would he still be able to beat up a school teacher and report him for XSR without any investigation or police involvement, and fire the teacher so rudely and decisively?

Even if he disregarded Hu Yue's character, if he could still do it, it would mean that this character was stupid and only listened to one side of the story.

If it was preferential treatment, because of Hu Yue's ability to make him believe that the other party wasn't a good person, he directly fired the teacher to vent his anger for the character Hu Yue was playing,

Then his character wouldn't be considered very good either.

Blinded by beauty, using power to oppress people…

Li Yuan vaguely sensed that his character might not be a good thing.

…

"His feeling is pretty good."

After delivering the milk in the morning, Mu Chen went to Mingmei's shop and talked about what Li Yuan had said with Yuan Fang and her.

Yuan Fang touched the incomplete limbs of his character and said in a low voice, "I can also feel that inexplicable negative emotion spreading in my heart. It seems like someone in my mind keeps saying that I'm a cripple… I can't even protect my own child…"

"Wait, your two characters have a child?"

It was the first time Mingmei had heard them talk about children.

"Yes, but she died a few years ago." Yuan Fang took a breath. When he mentioned the child, his character's chest suddenly felt stuffy.

"My wife and I couldn't accept the blow, so we changed places and started a new life."

"'Your' daughter, how did she die?"

"She jumped off a building." Yuan Fang said faintly, "Why do the characters in the game commit suicide at the drop of a hat? Life is very precious, you know?"

As he spoke, Yuan Fang sighed. He thought that he would get used to it after seeing so much killing, but Yuan Fang felt that after playing so many games, he felt even more uncomfortable seeing these lives pass away.

Mu Chen looked at the two emotions of disbelief and sadness constantly flashing across Yuan Fang's face, but he said, "Shouldn't you be paying attention to your child's psychological condition? Who would want to take that step without being completely devastated?"

"This…" Yuan Fang looked up at Mu Chen. Mu Chen didn't give Yuan Fang any more answers, but just said, "Although this 'A Maiden's思念' was originally an adult horror game, it mainly talked about paying attention to the mental health of minors. I think… there shouldn't only be the perspective of the Boss, a teenager, in the game, right? Maybe… in the stories we don't know, your stories also exist in it, filling this world. Just like this…"

As he said that, Mu Chen pointed to a piece of content on the newspaper he had been holding in his hand—about the city's middle schools launching psychological health promotion activities, which introduced some tragedies that had occurred in schools in the city in recent years due to neglecting psychological health.

"This is… is this how the newspaper functions…?"

They didn't expect this newspaper to be quite relevant.

Yuan Fang and Mingmei also looked at the newspaper in Mu Chen's hand. Mingmei caught a glimpse of other news in the corner of the newspaper.

A message about an adult molesting a minor appeared in front of Mingmei, causing her to frown.

On the social news bulletin board next to it, there was also a naked corpse that had been found in the lake in the city center park this morning with its organs cut off and its face poked烂. They were gathering clues.

Below, there was also something about a husband returning home early and discovering his wife's infidelity, chasing the male gigolo for two streets…

Mingmei looked at the gossip, serious, and entertaining news on the newspaper. The more she tried to connect them with reality, the more incredible she found it.

What was this game doing?

The negative energy was overflowing.

"Chengdong Middle School has been rebuilt."

Yuan Fang looked at the other side of the newspaper, his fingers trembling as he pointed to the school site in the photo. His character's memory suddenly assaulted him.

"This is…"

"Hmm?"

Mingmei and Mu Chen heard the noise and looked at the emotional reaction from Yuan Fang's character, so they quickly looked over. A school that had caught fire in the night a year ago was being rebuilt because the fire was too intense at the time. Now it was rebuilt and preparing to enroll students.

"It seems that a lot of people died in that school back then…"

Mingmei looked at the news content, which mentioned that many students and teachers had died in the fire that year. Because she and Mu Chen were looking at it too carefully, they ignored the arc that quietly rose at the corner of Yuan Fang's mouth beside them—

"Yes, a lot of people died there back then…"