Restricted Fantasy I Chapter 391: Cocoon Room

"That bastard Ye Shiyu ran away again!!"

At this mont, on the streets of Linn, a sedan was driving toward the city center.

Inside the car, Tong Yingying was cursing continuously as she drove.

Yan Huan, sitting in the front passenger seat, remained silent. His gaze was fixed tightly on Ye's International, which towered amid the torrential rain.

The sense of oppression lingering around Ye's International was becoming increasingly obvious. The only possibility was a Modifier...

Moreover, it was a Phase Four Modifier, one that was about to trigger the descent of an evil god.

The descent of an evil god required the Modifier to reach the fourth stage, and the host absolutely had to be present.

Therefore, Ye Shiyu would definitely go to Ye's International.

"Rumble!"

Amid the faint flashes of lightning, Yan Huan withdrew his gaze and looked at the increasingly bustling streets alongside them.

It was currently afternoon, almost ti for the evening rush hour.

Everywhere he looked, pedestrians were walking by, holding umbrellas and staring at their mobile phones.

The faint light glowing from their phones appeared especially conspicuous in the gloomy environnt caused by the rain.

"Whoosh—"

Passing by slow-moving vehicles one after another, Yan Huan could see through the rain-streaked windows that the people inside those cars were also holding up their phones, looking at who knows what.

Even the drivers at the wheel...

"..."

Seeing this, Yan Huan couldn't help but frown, an ominous premonition welling up in his heart.

In the back seat, An Le supported the unconscious Aruiya, not saying a word.

She was also displeased with Ye Shiyu, but now that Xiao Huan was resurrected, nothing else mattered...

Whatever attitude Xiao Huan had, she would share it.

So, since Xiao Huan wasn't speaking at the mont, she remained silent as well.

Hearing this, Sakuramiya Hitomi, who was sitting in the back behind the passenger seat, shook her head and retorted,

"No, Ye Shiyu is not soone who likes to run away.

"Her previous state was obviously wrong. She looked as if she had been frightened.

"But even so, knowing full well that we were all at the funeral ho, she still dared to co and steal the president's body?

"It was the sa during the High Table Dinner. Even when trapped by Perfect Sakuranomiya in a collapsing reality barrier where she could die at any mont, she still dared to stay behind and hypnotize my clone to save the president..."

'Back then, was it Ye Shiyu who hypnotized the Sakuramiya clone, causing Perfect Sakuranomiya to freeze?'

Yan Huan turned his head and glanced at Sakuramiya Hitomi.

At that ti, he had used Baqiao's USB drive to cut off all the power, but Perfect Sakuranomiya had a strong constitution. It should have been extrely difficult to kiss her lips and enter the reality barrier within that short power outage.

Yet, he had managed to kiss her effortlessly...

So it was all because of Ye Shiyu.

He hadn't known about this, even though so much ti had passed.

"...Are you and Ye Shiyu on good terms? From the mont Yan Huan's accident happened yesterday until today, how many tis have you spoken up for her?"

In the driver's seat, Tong Yingying, not being good at arguing, could only glare resentfully at Sakuramiya Hitomi through the rearview mirror.

"I am simply seeking truth from facts, stating what I saw rather than making assumptions based on subjective impressions!"

Sakuramiya Hitomi frowned and continued to argue back,

"It is just like how Nara says you are a bad-tempered old woman who only knows how to smoke, drink, and wallow in despair!

"But after actually spending ti with you, I do not think that way.

"On the contrary, I feel that you are a very kind, reliable, and charming older sister who just has a straightforward temper!

"Is this not the exact sa logic?"

Hearing this, Tong Yingying paused slightly, her face involuntarily flushing red.

In the passenger seat, Yan Huan couldn't help but chuckle upon hearing that, which angered Tong Yingying enough to reach over and punch him.

Yan Huan took the punch without much reaction. He simply looked at the approaching Ye's International and reached out to pull the USB drive from Tong Yingying's car console.

"Buzz!"

His eyes flickered slightly, and a faint glimr seed to surge across the surface of the USB drive.

An electronic U-shaped virus.

As long as it was plugged into an internet-connected device and allowed to boot for fifteen minutes, it could disconnect all electronic devices within the internet coverage area.

"No matter what is going on with Ye Shiyu, she must be at Ye's International right now. The situation is extrely dangerous, exactly the sa as it was in Tokyo..."

Upon hearing the word "Tokyo," both Tong Yingying and Sakuramiya Hitomi's faces involuntarily paled.

Only An Le turned her head away and held Aruiya tightly.

"So, I will need your help shortly... Here, Hitomi, take this."

"Eh?"

Sakuramiya Hitomi reached out and took the USB drive Yan Huan handed her, listening as he spoke,

"Hitomi, in a mont, I need you to take this USB drive into Ye's International, plug it into a random computer, and stand by it while timing for exactly fifteen minutes."

"Understood..."

Saying that, Yan Huan turned his gaze to An Le.

"An Le, you just watch over Aruiya, okay?"

"But..."

"Oh, also, I will count down three, two, one, and then you hit

with a weak burst of Pleasure Manipulation!"

"Huh?"

Tong Yingying and Sakuramiya Hitomi both glanced at Yan Huan. They couldn't shake the feeling that he was stacking buffs before fighting a boss.

An Le blinked as well. Although she didn't understand, she still reached out her finger.

"Three... two... one..."

"Clang!!"

In an instant, Yan Huan's face seed to grow infinitely heavier.

It was a Counter-Parry!

After acquiring 100% Resistance, he rubbed his face and imdiately said while gritting his teeth,

"An Le, Hitomi, no matter what happens next, you must not use your Modifiers again. Otherwise, I really don't have another Crab dicine left."

"...Okay."

An Le remained silent for a long ti. Knowing the gravity of the situation, she could only nod in agreent.

"What about ?"

Tong Yingying, who was driving, suddenly spoke up to ask, while Yan Huan smiled faintly.

"Sister Tong, I need you to go to the Ye's International employee dormitory and look for Aunt Ye, can you do that? She is very important to ; I absolutely cannot let anything happen to her."

"...Then what about you?"

"I will go resolve the Modifier and try my best to stop it from blowing up Linn... With your help, my chances of winning should be much higher."

Yan Huan rubbed the Crab dicine in his hand and took a deep breath as he watched the Ye's International Tower drawing closer and closer.

In truth, the tasks assigned to the three of them were secondary.

Yan Huan's real goal was to keep them away from the current Phase Four Index Finger.

Not to ntion that they had just taken the Crab dicine, resetting their Modifier progress to zero, so it was impossible for them to help anyway.

Furthermore, once that evil god descended, it might resonate with the other Finger-class Modifiers.

Similar to last ti in Tokyo, ti had been paused, and the other Fingers had materialized one after another to stop Myau-chan...

So, it was better for Yan Huan to go alone.

Giving them tasks was simply a way to reduce the ti spent explaining.

"Screech!!"

At this mont, at the entrance of Ye's International, Tong Yingying's sedan slamd on the brakes, stopping abruptly amidst the heavy curtain of rain.

The Comrcial Street during the evening rush hour was bustling with people coming and going.

But the Ye's International Tower alone was terrifyingly quiet.

Yan Huan and Sakuramiya Hitomi got out of the car. They glanced back at Tong Yingying inside the vehicle and An Le holding Aruiya, then turned and left.

"Clack..."

Inside the car, Tong Yingying also racked the slide of her gun, opened the door, and sprinted toward the employee dormitory.

Only An Le, holding the unconscious Aruiya, looked through the car window at the towering skyscraper piercing the sky.

"Ding."

The sensor doors slowly slid open. The interior of the building was brightly lit, yet not a single person could be seen.

Normally, Ye's International had thousands of people working here every day, but today it was so bizarrely empty that it felt like Yan Huan and Sakuramiya Hitomi were the only two people inside.

"Buzz..."

"Don't look at any electronic devices. You must be careful, Hitomi."

"Understood, President..."

Sakuramiya Hitomi pursed her lips, clutching tightly to the USB drive Yan Huan had handed her.

anwhile, Yan Huan stood alone in front of the elevators. Out of the six elevators, five were on standby on the first floor...

Only one was ascending, heading toward the Leaf AI departnt.

He didn't know who was going up...

"..."

Yan Huan frowned and imdiately pressed the "Up" button.

"Ding!"

An adjacent elevator door instantly opened. Yan Huan rushed inside and pressed the corresponding floor.

"Buzz..."

As the elevator doors slowly closed, the lights inside the elevator began to flicker.

The surrounding screens faintly flickered with a terrifying, eerie purple hue...

Clearly, it was Hypnosis.

But this ti, Yan Huan was prepared in advance. He had already set up the Counter-Parry in the car, gaining 100% Resistance.

"Is that all?"

Yan Huan sneered, offering a mocking smirk as he watched the elevator ascend floor by floor.

"Buzz."

Hearing his taunt, the previously eerie purple screens dimd slightly, stopping the hypnosis.

"Clack!"

The next second, the elevator stopped abruptly, and all the lights inside suddenly went out.

"..."

Seeing this, Yan Huan was slightly taken aback.

"Crack, creak..."

Imdiately after, he seed to hear the sound of sothing snapping...

"Shit—"

Hearing the sound, Yan Huan realized what was happening, his pupils shrinking violently.

"Rumble!!"

The next second, the elevator he was in plumted from high in the air, hurtling straight toward the ground.

On the first floor, Sakuramiya Hitomi, who had just crouched down and plugged in the USB drive, started her stopwatch to ti it.

"Boom!!"

Right behind her, the deafening crash of a heavy object smashing into the ground rang out imdiately.

The massive shockwave and the screeching sound of friction forcefully blew the first-floor elevator doors slightly ajar, faintly revealing the dust-filled gloom inside.

"President?!"

Sakuramiya Hitomi's face was filled with horror. She thought Yan Huan was about to start round two of his revival match right after coming back to life.

However, before she could run over in a panic...

...she heard Yan Huan's voice echoing from the elevator shaft.

"I'm fine, Hitomi! Keep going!!"

"Eh? President, are you really okay?!"

"I'm fine!"

In the pitch-black elevator shaft, Yan Huan was clinging to a mostly snapped elevator cable with one hand, panting as he shouted downward.

After saying that, he took a deep breath, fixing his gaze on the tightly shut elevator doors of the seventh floor right in front of him.

"Hoo..."

After swaying slightly in the elevator shaft, he planted a foot against the wall and pushed off forcefully, launching himself straight at the elevator doors.

"Bang!" With a loud crash, Yan Huan smashed directly into the completely deserted seventh floor.

Without stopping for a mont, he turned and sprinted wildly toward the ergency exit.

"Tap-tap-tap!"

"Bam!"

In the darkness, Yan Huan kicked the door open and twisted his body, stepping into the AI Departnt where he hadn't even interned for a few days.

At this mont, all the computers in the AI Departnt were brightly lit, lines of code and text that Yan Huan couldn't understand flashing rapidly across their screens.

And right at the end of the departnt, behind a massive glass door, were pale floors and walls...

Inside, rows of brightly lit servers stood tall.

"Hum..."

In front of those servers, Yan Huan caught a faint glimpse of the corner of Ye Shiyu's soaking wet hospital gown.

"Click..."

"Sister Shiyu!"

Seeing her, Yan Huan imdiately tightened his grip on the Crab dicine and pushed open the glass door to the server room.

Inside, Ye Shiyu stood there, staring blankly at Yan Huan.

"Sister Shiyu, there's no ti to explain. Quick, eat this!"

Gritting his teeth, Yan Huan clutched the Crab dicine and charged straight toward Ye Shiyu.

Just as he was about to hand her the Crab dicine, he saw Ye Shiyu shake her head and hurriedly back away several steps.

"No... I don't want to..."

Yan Huan's expression blanked slightly at the sight.

"As long as I eat this, I will lose all my current abilities, right?"

He raised his eyes to look at Ye Shiyu, only to see her staring wide-eyed back at him, her voice trembling as she spoke.

"Just now, I saw everything... You and them, together so happily, Xiao Huan..."

Yan Huan narrowed his eyes, simply watching the Ye Shiyu in front of him.

"Why? This is completely unfair... I obviously didn't do it on purpose. I just wanted to protect Xiao Huan. They were the ones who almost ruined everything, so why am I the one being blad?

"Actually, when you died, Xiao Huan, apart from being afraid, I actually felt a bit glad... Because if I couldn't have you, they couldn't have you either. Isn't that wonderful...

"I could even steal Xiao Huan's body, and we could be together forever...

"But why... why..."

Ye Shiyu moved a little closer to Yan Huan. As her pink lips parted slightly, Yan Huan could faintly see inside her mouth.

At this mont, as long as Yan Huan used force, he could shove the Crab dicine directly into her mouth.

"As long as they gave up and I didn't, I would have the chance to kill them all, and then monopolize Xiao Huan... So, why should I eat it..."

Hearing this, Yan Huan's fists clenched bit by bit.

"..."

But in the next second, his fists suddenly relaxed.

He just looked at the Ye Shiyu in front of him and suddenly asked,

"Then just now, when all three of them had taken the Crab dicine, resetting their Modifier progress to zero, and Aruiya was still unconscious... Since you didn't strike then, what were you running away for?"

"Eh?"

Hearing this, the Ye Shiyu in front of him suddenly froze, seemingly stumped by Yan Huan's question.

Seeing this, Yan Huan rely closed his eyes and said softly,

"Do you know? During the ti I was dead, I went to a very beautiful place...

"There, I saw you as my future wife...

"She was just as quiet as you, with an expressionless face...

"She cared about

deeply, saw through my worries, and told

many things, allowing

to co up with a way to return...

"It made

feel, for the first ti, that being with you in the future would actually be quite a nice thing..."

Saying that, Yan Huan opened his eyes and finally said,

"So... I am no longer afraid of you, Ye Shiyu.

"Or should I say, Index Finger?"

Hearing this, the vividly realistic Ye Shiyu in front of him widened her eyes...

Cracks began to slowly appear on her body.

[Defeat... feat...]

[Bzz... Bzz!!]

But this ti, the scene before his eyes started to collapse bit by bit before the virtual text could even finish displaying.

Replacing it was Ye Shiyu, kneeling on the ground, staring at him with eyes filled with utter terror.

Her hands hung powerlessly at her sides, but her head was tilted unnaturally, looking just like a doll suspended by illusionary threads...

Her face was terrifyingly pale, completely overwritten by extre dread.

That fear was accelerating the terrifying entity within her body. Just one step further, and her Modifier would imdiately undergo a qualitative transformation.

And...

This ti, the Battle Defeat CG did not happen in a re instant...

It was synchronized with reality!

If Yan Huan hadn't suppressed his anger and fear during the Battle Defeat CG just now, and had forcibly fed Ye Shiyu the Crab dicine...

Ye Shiyu's fear would have definitely gone one step further...

The Modifier would have absolutely detonated!

Almost tricked once again, Yan Huan took a deep breath.

"I... I didn't want to hurt you... I just... didn't want you to end up in a vegetative state, Xiao Huan..."

"I know... I don't bla you, Sister Shiyu."

In front of him, Ye Shiyu, whose eyes were full of fear and slowly forming cracks, was still muttering to herself.

Upon hearing Yan Huan's words, her eyes trembled slightly, seemingly finally showing a hint of a reaction.

"Sister Shiyu, listen to , calm down... don't be afraid, okay?"

Seeing this, Yan Huan took a deep breath, hastily squatted down, and picked up the Crab dicine, trying to coax her gently.

At this mont, deep within Ye Shiyu's eyes, more and more cracks were forming, as if sothing was about to break out of a cocoon, reminding Yan Huan of the pressing urgency of ti.

As long as he took it slowly...

Slowly...

"Sister Shiyu, look at ... I'm right here..."

"Xiao... Xiao Huan..."

Ye Shiyu's eyes were extrely cloudy, failing to register Yan Huan's presence at all.

But as Yan Huan drew closer, she seed to sense sothing. As she spoke with trembling lips, a single tear fell down.

"Sister Shiyu, open your mouth, okay? I can help you..."

"Xiao Huan..."

Right before him, Ye Shiyu's eyes had beco completely covered in cracks.

She seed unable to see or feel anything anymore...

Aside from endless, boundless fear.

But at this mont, with trembling lips, she still tried to open her mouth bit by bit...

Now is the ti!

Seeing this, Yan Huan quickly raised the Crab dicine.

"Hum—"

"Smack!"

However, right at that mont, a pale hand suddenly patted Ye Shiyu's shoulder.

"Shiyu...

"Actually, no matter what you do... nothing will change...

"Whether it is ... or Xiao Huan... we are all lying to you..."

Hearing this, Yan Huan's pupils shrank.

He looked up in disbelief, only to see Ye Lan, with hollow eyes and her head lowered, gently grasping Ye Shiyu's shoulder.

"Ugh!"

The instant Ye Lan spoke those words, Ye Shiyu's body convulsed violently, and her slightly parted lips instantly snapped shut.

Seeing this, Yan Huan's eyes instantly turned bloodshot.

"Index Finger, you motherfucker!!"

But at this mont, Ye Lan's soft words seed to have awakened the deepest, darkest fears within Ye Shiyu's body.

"Buzz!!"

In an instant, the cracks in Ye Shiyu's eyes completely shattered...

"Crack-crack-crack-crack!!!"

An illusory shockwave erupted from Ye Shiyu's body, sending Yan Huan flying backward.

Yan Huan rolled twice on the ground and violently threw his head up, only to see—

From the cracks in Ye Shiyu's right eye, countless threads burst forth like an erupting volcano.

"Whoosh!!"

The illusionary threads pierced right through the Ye's International Tower, shooting straight into the clouds...

Then, like blooming fireworks, they cascaded back down toward the ground.

In midair, the illusory white threads instantly split into tens of thousands of strands, precisely dropping into the mobile phone held in every person's hand.

"Whoosh..."

On the ground, pedestrians continued to walk back and forth, completely unaware of what had just happened.

Only the Modifier hosts witnessed this incredibly spectacular scene...

From the dark clouds, through a radiant hole in the sky, tens of thousands of threads cascaded down like a waterfall, splintering into the world.

"..."

In an instant, the entire Ye's International Tower seed to beco bustling and noisy.

"Sisters planning to get married in the future, be careful! It's a man's nature to cheat..."

Hearing this voice, Yan Huan widened his eyes and turned back, just in ti to see screen after screen floating outside the door, pulled up by illusory threads...

Computers, tablets, mobile phones, televisions...

One of the screens was playing a short video zood in at a bizarrely large proportion.

Inside it, only the eyes of the female strear speaking were visible, staring straight at Yan Huan who was still in the server room,

"Bzz..."

"A little advice from the future... A woman's biggest failure is finding a useless husband who can't make money."

The next second, that screen dissolved into static.

In its place, another video appeared on a display next to it.

Similarly, it showed only the horrifyingly magnified eye of the influencer who was speaking.

"If you want your future to be smooth sailing, a man absolutely must find a woman who brings him prosperity..."

On the other side, within another display, another bizarrely magnified male eye abruptly lit up amidst a screen of static.

It, too, stared intensely at Yan Huan, shifting across different screens and different videos.

"Bzz..."

"When you step into society in the future, you will realize that all won have been spoiled into acting like entitled princesses..."

At this mont, more and more videos began to light up across the densely packed displays hovering in midair.

In every single display, there was a grotesquely magnified body part of so influencer.

"A truth you will only understand in the future: giving birth and raising is not a favor; uplifting and supporting is..."

"Only after traversing ten thousand mountains will you realize: the rain from your original family will leave you wet for a lifeti..."

"Bzz..."

"Ah, society in the future... unfilial children make it hard for the elderly..."

"If you don't think for yourself now, your future will definitely be miserable... Just like recently, an 85-year-old was abandoned by their children..."

"Bzz..."

And right as those overlapping voices—male and female, of varying ages—rang out...

Those distinct body parts kept darting upward, migrating through various short videos and displays, gathering above Ye Shiyu.

"Hum!!"

When Yan Huan, with wide eyes, turned his head to look at Ye Shiyu once again...

Countless displays were already floating above her head.

Those screens of different dinsions, sizes, and functions flickered with static, suspended by threads as they slowly stitched themselves together.

Like pieces of a complete jigsaw puzzle, they gradually assembled into sothing resembling a mirror.

And as each body part scurried upward, arriving at the screen wall hovering over Ye Shiyu, they finally ford a silhouette...

Its body was impossibly gargantuan, manifested entirely through two-dinsional electronic information screens.

Its face and form were spliced together from hundreds and thousands of different video fragnts. Although it was horrific, it sohow didn't look discordant, as if they had always belonged together as one entity...

They gathered together like pieces of a puzzle, ultimately transforming into a colossal deity with exactly eight arms, sitting cross-legged in midair.

The very mont It materialized, beneath the screens, the infinite threads sprouting from deep within Ye Shiyu's eyes completely hoisted her into the air...

Ye Shiyu's eyes were dull and lifeless, her hands and feet twisted unnaturally, yet her face was utterly consud by fear.

Like a sacrifice suppressed by that deity.

Like a doll manipulated by countless displays.

And like a coward crushed under the weight of the future.

"Hum..."

At this mont, within the countless displays, the deity stitched and sewn together from innurable videos slightly lowered Its gaze to look at Yan Huan...

At the sa ti, an electronic amalgamation of voices—male and female, old and young blended together—softly spoke,

"We et again...

"Yan Huan."