Dad, Please Let Me Be Your One-and-Only Fan! - Chapter 227

It can only be described as a very clever and subtle approach.

Chu Yuanqing calculated that it was 12:45 pm, and the original training time was 2 pm. The dance studio was also very close to the hotel, only a 10-minute taxi ride away, so there was time to chat with the other party.

"I'm going to take a nap."

The Pure White Witch gave everyone this reason, then hurriedly left the restaurant, went upstairs to her room, sat on the edge of the bed, unlocked her phone screen, and tapped the icon. Inside was only a simple interface, the layout of which looked like some cheap game where you raise an electronic pet.

The mascot and head instructor of Flashdance is sitting in a technologically advanced room filled with cables and blue light. The room and its surroundings are all in a blurry pixel art style, making it look like an old game from twenty or thirty years ago.

To be honest, if she hadn't been prejudiced, she probably wouldn't have recognized that this pixelated chibi-style pet rabbit was the same bad-tempered red-eyed rabbit from the show.

--Tick-tock, tick-tock.

A dialog box pops up on the screen, and with the sound of typing, one word after another appears, weaving together into a very formulaic greeting.

"Dear Magical Girl, as you begin your journey into the magical world, do you need any help?"

Then, two options pop up.

Yes.

II. No.

Chu Yuanqing was somewhat confused. The mascot on her phone was smiling at her, looking like an NPC in a game who was responsible for guiding new players, safe and friendly.

The girl's delicate and lovely face was serious. She thought for a moment before realizing a problem: it wasn't what she had imagined—a frank and serious discussion about the secrets of the program, the truth of magic, and the origin of the Calamity Beasts.

Dream Weaver Rabbit probably sees itself as a child of this age and feels that the way of communication is too adult and too heavy, fearing that it will bring her a burden, so she simply changed to a lighter form.

For example, these pixelated games with their ridiculous art style.

For some reason, she always felt like she was being looked down upon.

However, it's wrong to let someone down; the authorities are ultimately looking out for themselves.

Chu Yuanqing was always very understanding. Instead of directly criticizing, she honestly chose the "yes" option.

Then, three options appeared on the screen.

Firstly, it involves [correcting reality].

Second is -- [Basic Magical Knowledge].

Thirdly, there is the [Illustrated Compendium of Calamities].

Chu Yuanqing first clicked on the first option. After clicking, there was only an input box. According to the helpful tips below, you could enter a number. It was said that the larger the number entered, the greater the help it would provide in reality.

Chu Yuanqing didn't think much of it. She tentatively typed in a few numbers and clicked confirm.

The next second, the phone emitted a pleasant "ding-dong" sound, and a text message notification popped up from the top of the screen.

"Received amount: 87,990.00 yuan."

Wow, so this is how you alter reality?

Chu Yuanqing's small hand trembled.

Although she is not short of money now, her 17 years of working life as a corporate slave and dealing with the daily grind still make her feel shocked by such a way of making money without working.

The Pure White Witch resisted the worldly desire to press an extremely long string of numbers to buy ten villas for her Little Cotton-padded Jacket, and hurriedly exited the interface, clicking on the second option.

The interface features a pixel-art style library with a book catalog for viewing.

This includes, but is not limited to: <The Origin of Magic: The Obsidian Chapter>, <On the Stages of Witch's Growth>, <The Types of Soul Flower>, <The Complete Guide to Blessings in the Language of Flower Language>, <The Shining Foundation: The Wish of the Heart>, <The Classification and Discussion of Magic Power>, <Basic Spell: 17th Revised Edition>...

Chu Yuanqing randomly opened a few books and found that they were all very substantial, not just superficial books with titles and names. She briefly flipped through the illustrations and introductions of Basic Spell, and with a snap of her fingers, silver magic instantly formed a phantom dragon shadow that filled the room.

--Advanced Technique: Water Dragon.

Fearing that reversing the material structure would cause the moisture overflowing from this enormous creature to soak her sheets, she only constructed the framework and prototype, without deconstructing the magic into pure water, thus only casting half of the spell.

The technique is indeed correct.

Chu Yuanqing was somewhat surprised. This option was more generous than the previous blue-green editor. They were all knowledge compiled bit by bit after human civilization developed the [Witch] system, and could be called priceless treasures in the true sense.

Although after understanding the core mechanisms of [desire] and [idealism], the so-called knowledge of spells is not very meaningful to her. With a little more effort, she can reverse-engineer a new encyclopedia of spells. However, human imagination has its limits.

Chu Yuanqing was able to create the [Silver Mirror] magic because she possessed this power in the past and had a high level of mastery over it. The process of reversing it into a spell was simple, but spell types involving areas of knowledge gaps could not be obtained simply by making a wish.

On the other hand, this means that Flashdance is betting heavily on itself.

If the blue-green modifiers, in the context of the apocalypse, could be considered a sugar-coated bullet, then these [magical common sense] pieces involving numerous secrets and practical value express trust in oneself and are quite sincere.

Chu Yuanqing silently clicked on the last option.

[The Cataclysm Compendium], as its name suggests, is a compendium of Calamity Beasts. It collects the abilities, appearances, habits, weaknesses, and a rough classification system of all the Calamity Beasts that the Magic Countermeasures Bureau has encountered so far.

The wording in the encyclopedia is very cautious. At least half of the information for the hundreds or thousands of Calamity Beasts is missing, or it is noted that there is a speculative element involved. It has some practical value, but not much.

This is more like an "introductory text" to help people understand the species of Calamity Beasts.

It's worth mentioning that the official team seems to have done this intentionally, placing Nightmare's illustration at the top of the B-Class category in the encyclopedia.

Chu Yuanqing glanced at it briefly; the illustrated guide was very rudimentary.

There are many kinds of Calamity Beasts.

Among the thirteen Disaster God, those like [Amaterasu], [Ymir], and [Old Testament] will each have their own "pantheon" under their command, and each "pantheon" will have tens of thousands of different types of Calamity Beasts.

As for the purely conceptual type like [King of Salt], it will only expand the Pure White Forbidden Zone, assimilating and eroding everything within its reach. Within it, a kind of Calamity Beasts called Apostle will emerge. They will bear some of the authority of [King of Salt], have a clear hierarchy, and are extremely rare.

And without the thirteen Disaster God under their command, the number of wildly growing Calamity Beasts would only increase.

Because humans can transform into Calamity Beasts.

Chu Yuanqing's parents were transformed into ferocious and terrifying beasts by a phenomenon called "catastrophe." In the previous Worldline, she was also brought back to that pure land of humanity by the search and rescue team of the City of Doomsday under the same circumstances.

It can be said that after surviving the various disasters brought by the Disaster God, this plague-like product is the major crisis that directly threatens the remaining survivors.

As for these "Disaster God" who divide up forbidden areas and govern without actively annihilating humanity, they are merely the supreme shadow of despair in the underlying tone of the era.

Even later on, the world-destroying bosses were the Supreme Calamity Beast that would occasionally be swarmed out of their territories.

Therefore, Chu Yuanqing's act of killing [Amaterasu] with Laevateinn and seizing his power after the Witch forged the sword was two versions ahead of its time. It was the first time that mankind had shown its majesty to the gods, and it can be said to have ushered in the dawn of New Era.

"Isn't the most crucial illustration included?"

Chu Yuanqing murmured to herself. She didn't remember much about the Disaster God anymore, and she was hoping to recall some memories by looking at the encyclopedia. Unfortunately, either <Flash Dance> didn't intend to let her access this level of information so early, or it simply couldn't analyze any information at all.

In short, the encyclopedia makes no mention of this matter.

But that's normal; in fact, the official trust they've shown is already quite high.

Dream Weaver Rabbit doesn't reveal its identity when communicating, it's like giving these things away for free.

Chu Yuanqing could simply close the app and pretend nothing had happened. She exited the [Calamity Compendium] and returned to the initial screen. She tapped the chibi rabbit's ears with her fingertip, rubbed them vigorously as if in revenge, and then smiled, her eyes crinkling.

"Aren't you going to come out and meet me, Dream Weaver Rabbit?"

As soon as the words were spoken, the pixel-art interface was modified and altered in the data stream, transforming into the current anime-style character illustrations in <Shine Front>.

The rabbit that was originally sitting in the middle of the cable has also transformed into a slender-waisted, long-legged anime bunny girl.

Dream Weaver's silver hair cascaded down to the ground covered with cables. Her pupils were a vicious and cold crimson. Her face, meticulously synthesized by countless AIs, was simply dreamlike. Combined with the bunny girl outfit that revealed a large expanse of white skin and flaunted her body curves, she gave off a sense of being the female protagonist in a borderline mobile game.

The virtual image of this anime girl is so ridiculous compared to the appearance of past mascots.

Chu Yuanqing was a little unaccustomed to it, but he could accept this setting.

Dream Weaver's true form is Super AI; its so-called image is just a mass of data that can transform into whatever it wants. However, this particular appearance seems more suited to running a casino.

On the other hand, what really made her feel uneasy was that...

Although that red-eyed rabbit was clearly sarcastic, scornful, and extremely wicked, and loved to play pranks, for some reason, she always felt that if Dream Weaver were to announce its new form to the public, those flaws would all turn into some kind of adorable charm.

At that time, Dream Weaver's popularity might surpass that of all the other contestants.

After all, compared to the contestants who are divided into hundreds of regions, each vying for their own country's and territory's traffic, Dream Weaver, as the head mentor, is truly known worldwide.

If this guy were to use his current image as a VTuber, I reckon there would be a bunch of people with special XPs rushing to join him, even in the Great Xia alone.

The Pure White Witch politely said:

"Could you change the look? It just doesn't feel right."

Dream Weaver slightly turned her head, revealing a familiar smile, and said:

"It's a pity, out of sincerity, I even revealed a little of my true appearance to you."

As the girl spoke, the scene on the screen shed its game shell and directly showed the appearance of the underground central room in the form of a video call. She shed her perfect AI-integrated appearance and erased the cute filter of the two-dimensional world. In its place was another appearance that was both real and illusory.

Chu Yuanqing suddenly realized that this appearance was somewhat similar to how Dream Weaver had seen him during the second Public Performance.

At that time, the other party was a rather hazy outline of a girl, with a complex data flow as the main theme. Her face was not clear, and there were traces of magic and spells, as well as scientific technology, making her unfathomable.

The difference now is that it's no longer a blurry figure constructed from data, but a humanoid projection reconstructed by AI, roughly a three-dimensional replica of the bunny girl from before.

And soon,

"Who says you are the hope of humanity? As you wish."

As Dream Weaver spoke, it transformed back into the familiar Dream Weaver Rabbit. Without beating around the bush, it stated directly:

"Chu Yuanqing, you have discovered the secret of <Flash Dance>, and you have also encountered the Calamity Beasts lurking in the dark side of the world."

"Besides those things, I can tell you more of the truth."

"And that depends on what you want to know."

Chu Yuanqing was silent for a moment, then she said bluntly:

What exactly does Flashdance want to achieve?

"I can vaguely guess that you not only want to use this project to cultivate more Magical Girl, but it should also be related to the stage itself."

The Dream Weaver Rabbit was not surprised to hear this.

Chu Yuanqing's rapid progress was already fully demonstrated in the previous battle.

Not to mention, when she encountered a nightmare during the second Public Performance, she, along with the other Little Idol ' [Flow State] state, used her own Destined Magic to create Shine Magic for the first time.

The terrible state of the nightmare was at least partly due to the purifying effect of the Shine Magic, and not entirely due to Chu Yuanqing's efforts.

Under these circumstances, it's quite normal for the other party to guess some of Flash Dance's secret plans.

Do you remember the Calamity Beasts we encountered during the second Public Performance?

Chu Yuanqing nodded to indicate that he remembered.

Dream Weaver Rabbit continued:

"The brilliance you displayed on stage back then, under normal circumstances, would have required a group field spell created by the combined Destined Magic of multiple [Witch]."

"The goal of <Flash Dance> is to cultivate enough [Witch] teams across hundreds of competition zones, so that at a certain point in time, they can all take to the stage together to create Shine Magic that covers the entire world, thereby eradicating all the Calamity Beasts."

In short, Flashdance's goal is to bring world peace through the stage.

Chu Yuanqing was somewhat shocked. She had guessed part of it before, but she didn't expect the authorities to take such a big step. Could such a grand, Utopia- like project really be achieved in just four months?

The feasibility of this plan was originally an unknown.

Add to that the limited-time offer for [Pure White], and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it went bankrupt ahead of schedule.

But...

It must be said that Utopia has Utopia advantages, and she truly longed for the future that this project would realize.

If all future crises could be resolved effortlessly and without bloodshed using such a light and airy method as the stage, then everyone—from the Little Idol around me to my daughter and Charlotte —could continue to live peaceful lives, without being drawn into a terrifying war against endless Disaster Tide.

Chu Yuanqing asked earnestly:

"I'd like to know what role I'll play in this project according to your plans."

This is a crucial issue.

The Dream Weaver Rabbit and its official backers wouldn't be so kind to me for no reason. The fact that it provides this information and access, and reveals so many core secrets, only proves that from its perspective, it is more important than the other [Witch] in the <Flash Dance> project.

Dream Weaver fell silent upon hearing this. Her remaining humanity told her that while letting Chu Yuanqing know the whole truth directly would be fair, it would definitely be the worst choice.

First, the truth is too cruel; informing them would add too much pressure, doing more harm than good.

Second, the authorities must not allow Chu Yuanqing to develop any resistance to the position of [Lighthouse].

This position can only be filled voluntarily; otherwise, the resentment generated by the [Lighthouse] will be amplified infinitely during that Shine Magic, becoming the most deadly impurity.

The problem is, who, after learning the truth, would still have the courage to shoulder this responsibility?

But not telling them isn't an option either. The Cult of Disaster Gods and the Calamity Beasts lurk in the shadows of society, and some things will inevitably come out eventually, especially in the last few days, or even the last month, before [Pure White] collapses. The filth suppressed by this city wall will spring up like mushrooms after rain.