Bloodline Curse
“The game program is complete, player Liu Ruoxi. Please check your personal panel.”
At that moment, Barbarossa’s voice rang in Liu Ruoxi’s mind. Its voice was not the cold, mechanical sort; it carried emotional fluctuations, yet it was neither male nor female, because intelligent life has no sex.
After Barbarossa finished speaking, a new blue light screen projected before Liu Ruoxi’s eyes.
Player: Liu Ruoxi. Occupation: bitch (inactive). Age: 36. Build: 172 cm tall, 36E bust, 60 cm waist, 104 cm hips. Human-world background: chairman of the Yadilan Group, 51% shareholder, married, mother of one son and one daughter.
Bound controller: Yang Haoran. Shame: 0. Points: 0. Game shop (viewable). The blue light screen was linked to Liu Ruoxi’s visual nerves. She did not want to pay attention to this mysterious game, one that carried an unmistakably evil aura, but her eyes still caught the display.
“Player Liu Ruoxi, please participate in the game actively. Refusing to participate will trigger the preset destruction program.”
Barbarossa sensed Liu Ruoxi’s resistance. After all, it was an intelligent life form, and it spoke up to warn her.
“Then destroy it,”
Liu Ruoxi said coldly, her face ice-cold. How could she possibly take part in a game that was obviously this perverse?
“Destruction program initiated...”
Barbarossa followed the preset rules and carried out its duty.
As the cold mechanical voice fell away, Liu Ruoxi’s body began to disperse, and she could feel it.
Liu Ruoxi slowly raised her right hand. Her fair jade hand was long and slender, her skin white as snow, translucent like crystal, so clear that one could faintly make out the veins beneath the skin.
Under the corridor lights, her right hand gradually turned into tiny glittering stars, drifting apart into the air.
All of it happened too fast. From suddenly encountering this mysterious supernatural event, to understanding how evil this game was, to firmly refusing to participate, and finally to this destruction.
It all took place in just a few minutes.
Watching her right hand fade away bit by bit, Liu Ruoxi’s expression flickered, but her attitude remained unmoved, as if even death could not make her yield. Her eyes slowly fell on the door to her son’s hospital room.
Looking at that ordinary door, Liu Ruoxi understood that she was about to die. Her long, crescent-shaped lashes trembled slightly, and her cold eyes gradually filled with mist, rippling with watery light. The frost in her expression disappeared, leaving only a trace of tenderness.
Without a sound, a crystal-clear tear slid slowly from the corner of her eye down her face of otherworldly beauty, finally landing on the cold floor with a soft drip.
Liu Ruoxi looked at that door. Her eyes seemed able to see through it, to the son lying on the hospital bed beyond. Her red lips moved slightly as she whispered toward the door, her eyes filled with a mother’s reluctance to part from her child, and with resolve.
Some people might choose to submit to this evil, perverse game in order to cling to life, but with her personality, there was no chance of compromise.
By now, more than half of her body had already dispersed. In her mind, her entire life flashed by like a revolving lantern.
She had been born into a prestigious family. Her parents were both considered big shots. Raised in comfortable circumstances, she had never lacked material things, but she had always lacked her parents’ companionship.
Her father was a high-ranking government official, her mother the mayor. Their marriage had been arranged, so after they wed, their relationship was never harmonious. To avoid her father, her mother stayed away from home year after year under the excuse of being busy with work, hiding in that cold city hall.
Her father, seeing her mother’s frosty attitude, stormed off in anger as well. After they separated, the two of them would only put on a fake show of harmony during the Spring Festival each year, accompanying her through it.
A long life of loneliness had made her into the cold, distant woman who kept everyone at arm’s length.
When she grew up, her parents urged her to marry and have children. Because the two of them were themselves the tragedy born of a political marriage, they did not force her to enter into a marriage for political purposes.
She could choose to marry whoever she liked. That was probably the only thing in this cold family that made her feel fortunate.
Not long after marrying her first love, Yang Wenbo, she became pregnant with twins, a boy named Yang Haoran and a girl named Yang Mengyao.
Everything was happy before she founded her company.
But after creating the Yadilan Group, she became busy with company affairs all day long. When her husband asked to go back to her hometown with her to visit relatives, she refused because she was too busy.
After that, the marriage developed cracks, and even now the two of them still had not made up.
......
“Player Liu Ruoxi, do you wish to continue insisting on starting the destruction program?”
Barbarossa’s voice rang in her mind.
Liu Ruoxi ignored it, but at that moment Barbarossa sent a new message into her mind.
“Stop.”
After understanding the content of the message, Liu Ruoxi’s face instantly turned deathly pale, her delicate features flushed with anger.
“Bloodline Curse: when the player fails a mission three times or activates the destruction program, any relative related by blood to the player will die through all kinds of accidental coincidences within the next three days.”
This was the message Barbarossa had sent her, and it struck at her vital point.
She could disregard her own life, but as a mother, what mother could possibly not care about her own children?
If, because of her, Haoran and Mengyao were to suffer an accident, that was something she could not tolerate.
“Why choose me?”
Liu Ruoxi asked in a cool, puzzled voice.
After she chose to stop the program, her body became dreamlike. The scattered starlight flowed back and gathered, restoring her to her original state.
It was as if nothing had ever happened.
This mysterious, unknown existence was obviously beyond what Blue Star’s technology could achieve.
She could not understand why, out of the billions of humans on Blue Star, it had chosen her alone.
“Player Liu Ruoxi, being chosen means that among humans, you are an exceptionally outstanding individual in both figure and appearance.”
Barbarossa said, “You don’t need to be so pessimistic. This game is not as worthless as you think. The benefits it can give you are beyond your imagination.”
“I don’t lack anything.”
At the thought of being enslaved by this unknown game, Liu Ruoxi felt as though her heart had turned to ash. Her expression was cold as she answered flatly.
“Is that so?” Barbarossa gave a light laugh. “What if the game can cure your son?”
At those words, Liu Ruoxi fell silent.
She did not doubt that this mysterious game could cure her son. The other side was obviously a supernatural existence, even if it was an utterly evil game.
After a long pause, Liu Ruoxi asked, “How can I make you help treat Haoran?”
“I can’t do that.”
Barbarossa admitted it frankly.
“You’re messing with me?”
Liu Ruoxi’s expression darkened.
“I’m only an intelligent life program, created to assist the game’s operation. I can’t directly help you with anything.”
“If you want to cure your son, you can only rely on yourself. When players complete game missions, they earn game points, and those points can be exchanged in the game shop for all kinds of items.”
“Among them is an item called Dragon Saliva Elixir, which can completely cure your son’s problem.”
After hearing Barbarossa’s words, Liu Ruoxi was silent for a long time, sunk in thought.
Now she had no choice in the matter. If those so-called game missions could cure Haoran, then......
Thoughts churned wildly in Liu Ruoxi’s mind. After a long while, she finally made her decision.
She looked at the personal panel before her, then let her gaze slide down to the game shop.
She was just about to ask how to open it when, with a thought, the game shop opened on its own.
The light screen switched, displaying row upon row of dazzling, neatly categorized items... broadly divided into four classes.
Basic items: bio-energy vibrator, smart egg, pom-pom wand, gag, whip, collar, gag, blindfold, nipple clamps, nipple ring, butt plug......
Uniforms: revealing fetish outfits that dazzled the eye, such as teacher fetish outfits, cosplay costumes, student uniforms, nurse uniforms, flight attendant outfits, Christmas outfits, maid outfits, cheongsams......
Without exception, these clothes differed from normal styles, each one designed to expose key parts, half covered and half revealed, unbearably seductive.
Liu Ruoxi only glanced at the basic items and uniform categories, frowned slightly, but she had already been mentally prepared and skipped past them, looking instead at the next two categories.
Money items: mainly various real-world material rewards that could be exchanged with points, such as 1 million in cash, sports cars, property deeds for apartment complexes, villas, and so on......
Liu Ruoxi already had these sorts of material goods herself and did not lack them, so she skipped ahead to look at the final category.
Potion items: study potion, life-span potion, strength potion, x-ray potion, invisibility potion, skin-beauty potion, beauty potion, bust-enhancement potion, combat potion......
These potion items were basically high-tech tools that could directly alter the human body. For example, the study potion boosted the activity of neural cells in the brain; the life-span potion added one year of life per bottle; the strength potion increased the strength of muscle cells, thereby improving the body’s overall physical power.
There were also bust-enhancement, beauty, and skin-enhancement potions that could raise a woman’s overall looks.
Among the potion items, when Liu Ruoxi saw the study potion, her eyes lit up. She had long been troubled by Haoran’s poor academic performance. If she could exchange for this potion and let Haoran use it, she would probably not need to worry about grades anymore in the future.
However, after carefully reading the study potion’s detailed information, she felt a little disappointed. This potion was not permanent; it only lasted two hours.
Potions like the life-span, strength, beauty, skin-enhancement, and bust-enhancement potions had permanent effects, while study potions, invisibility potions, x-ray potions, and the like were time-limited.
Aside from study potions, life-span potions, beauty potions, skin-enhancement potions, and so on, there were also quite a few that tempted Liu Ruoxi. At the very least, from this category alone, this perverse game was not completely useless.
There were hundreds of potion items. She browsed carefully, and after getting past more than half of them, she found the Dragon Saliva Elixir entry.
Dragon Saliva Elixir: after use, it can treat diseases and injuries of the male penis, stimulate penile cell activity, and enhance function.
Price: 50 points.
“Fifty points?”
Liu Ruoxi frowned. The basic items and uniform categories before had mostly been within 1 to 30 points, while the potion items were pricier, starting at 10 points and reaching several hundred.
“How many points do you get for completing one game mission?”
Liu Ruoxi asked.
Barbarossa said, “Game missions are divided into five star levels and chain quests. A one-star mission rewards 10 points upon completion, a two-star mission 20 points, a three-star mission 50 points, a four-star mission 100 points, and a five-star mission 300 points.”
“Chain quests are special missions and can reward anywhere from 10 to 300 points.”