Chapter 433: The fifth path
[ Choice 1: In thirty seconds, shout loudly to Sunless Ye: “Love can conquer all. This King’s love for you transcends age, sex, or even space-time transmigration. And all you need to do is take that tiny step forward. That step is truly simple—Ye Sunless, This King already has a girlfriend, are you willing to be a side hoe?” ] [ Choice 2: In thirty seconds, shout loudly to Speechless Li: “Love can conquer all. This King’s love for you transcends age, sex, or even space-time transmigration. And all you need to do is take that tiny step forward. That step is truly simple—Li Speechless, This King already has a girlfriend, are you willing to be a side hoe?” ] [ Choice 3: In thirty seconds, shout loudly to Mu Lengxi: “Love can conquer all. This King’s love for you transcends age, sex, or even space-time transmigration. And all you need to do is take that tiny step forward. That step is truly simple—Mu Lengxi, This King already has a girlfriend, are you willing to be a side hoe?” ] [ Choice 4: In thirty seconds, shout loudly to Dawn Li: “Love can conquer all. This King’s love for you transcends age, sex, or even space-time transmigration. And all you need to do is take that tiny step forward. That step is truly simple—Li Dawn, This King already has a girlfriend, are you willing to be a side hoe?” ](Gentle Reminder: This choice is considered a “Mischief-style choice” where only the choice is performed. No reward.)
“Make your choice, youth!”
The fiery voice constantly resounded in his mind like a demon’s chanting. Shi Xiaobai was flabbergasted when he saw the black text in front of him.
His impassioned feelings had been figuratively doused with an ominous splash that seemed to extinguish his burning feelings by the familiar voice that resounded in his mind. However, he never expected the situation to be that ‘wicked’.
Shi Xiaobai always had a love and hate relationship with the ‘Absolute Choice’. The Absolute Choice would occasionally ‘naughtily’ give him mischievous choices like ‘asking Hisith for his underwear or first kiss’ or ‘confessing to Kali or mock her flat chest’. It would usually change a great situation into an awkward one. Also, there were many times when time repeated that allowed him to painfully repeat many heart-wrenching scenes. From a particular point of view, the Absolute Choice played a ‘wicked’ role.
But without the Absolute Choice, he would have missed many important people in his life or leave behind irredeemable regrets.
Due to the existence of the Absolute Choice, Shi Xiaobai had successfully saved Little Fatso, Chen Lingcun, and the rookies on the sixth level. He had resolved the danger of Kali’s raging corruption. All of this had ended in a tragic failure originally, but thanks to the Absolute Choice’s ability to reset time, he had ended them with a miracle.
Therefore, in the balance of love and hate, Shi Xiaobai did not lean on either side.
But this time, Shi Xiaobai slightly wavered.
Just moments ago, he had just said passionate words that made one’s blood boil in excitement. Even his passion had moved himself.
And at this moment, he had to loudly shout such ridiculous lines in thirty seconds.
Love can conquer all?
Are you willing to be a side hoe?
Those lines really hurt, dude.
Although this was the first time four choices had appeared, the contents of the choices were very similar. All it changed was the target of ‘confession’.
The first choice of Sunless Ye was reasonable. By hardening his conscience to be a two-timing playboy, he just needed to think of a way to explain it to Kali, and he would be able to enjoy the joys of life. Although Sunless might not know the meaning behind ‘side hoe’, or even if she knew, she would not mind or reject it. As for the selfless Kali, she would definitely choose to bear with it. That was a path that led to being a scum reveling in sexual pleasure.
The second choice of Speechless Li was completely absurd. Although the lines used the words, ‘This King’s love for you transcends age, sex’ as a qualifier, trying to twist nonexistent homosexual feelings into ‘magnanimous love’ was something his mind and body could not accept, having ignored the possibility of it not having any chance of success. If he later used a forced explanation that ‘it was all a joke’, it would incur the suspicion of others. It was obvious that this was a self-destructive path that would gross out both others and himself.
The third choice of Mu Lengxi might be the best choice. This name had previously appeared second on the official forecast of the top ten rookies. It was ranked only after Speechless and the reason of selection was only a single line of ‘Beijing super rookie’. As a super rookie among super rookies, Mu Lengxi was extremely mysterious. There was no information on her appearance or features, and there was no way to learn of it. But at this moment, they were already at the seventh level, and removing any other noisy factors, it was already clear who Mu Lengxi was. Shi Xiaobai had guessed a long time ago and had just received confirmation that the silver-haired girl with the black-rimmed glasses who was immersed in reading books was the mysterious Mu Lengxi.
If he said the line to the silver-haired girl, Mu Lengxi, it would be more likely that it would be considered as a form of ‘hitting on her’ or a joke. As they did not know each other for that long, their shared experiences were few and far between. The feelings that they had for each other were far from reaching the stage of ‘confession’. The line could be passed off as a joke. However, by doing so, he might cause Mu Lengxi to bear a grudge deep in her heart. It would also create an awkward situation, which was also an unknown question. However, the bitter fruit was not as bitter as the first two choices. This was a selfish path that would allow him to pay the smallest price but the damage was unknown.
The fourth choice of Dawn Li was probably the biggest joke the Absolute Choice was pulling. Dawn Li was the blond youth in front of him. He was an imitation of the Hero King created by the assessment program. It was a fake existence so it had nothing to do with a ‘confession’. However, Dawn’s setting seemed to perfectly match the qualifiers of age, sex, and space-time transmigration. It would be even more perfect if the qualifiers of transcending reality and virtuality were included. The Absolute Choice’s true motive was to make him choose the fourth choice. However, wasn’t it a bit exaggerated to choose to confess to a counterfeit of a legendary figure from three millennia ago? That was practically a crazy path only a mindless fool would choose.
Scum, self-destruction, selfish, crazy.
That was the true meaning behind the four choices.
Despite Shi Xiaobai having completely analyzed the true meaning behind the four choices, he knew that any path would end up in disaster. However, he had to make a choice. As it was a mischief-style choice, he needed to complete the choice in thirty seconds. If he did not, time would rewind and he would have to make a choice again.
He had once attempted to revolt against the mischief-style choice, but after experiencing several meaningless time resets, he understood that there was a need to complete the choice.
Regardless of how reluctant he was, he had to compromise. That was the hideous face of the mischief-style choices.
At that moment, Shi Xiaobai recalled the nickname he had used in the virtual world—IChooseDogLeading (I’d rather choose death).
However, Shi Xiaobai was not one who compromised with ‘absolutes’.
“Where is the fifth path?”
Shi Xiaobai’s black pair of eyes tried to search for the faint light in the darkness.