Chapter 4: Fallen Angel Game

"There’s no problem. Just focus on resting and recovering from here."\nAfter examining Yang Haoran, the voluptuous, sexy mature beauty Dr. Hao Lei adjusted her gold-rimmed glasses and said this.\n\nHearing the doctor’s words, Yang Haoran finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still uneasy. "Doctor, will this leave any aftereffects?"\n\n"For example... um... impotence or something like that?"\n\nBy the end, Yang Haoran was stammering, anxiety written all over his face as he looked hopefully at Dr. Hao.\n\nSeeing that, Hao Lei let out a laugh. "It’s fine. Don’t worry."\n\nAt that, the heavy stone in Yang Haoran’s heart finally dropped.\n\nHe would still be a man in the future.\n\nLiu Ruoxi, however, showed no sign of relief. She gave Hao Lei a look, signaling for her to step outside and talk.\n\nAfter giving Yang Haoran a few more instructions and telling him to rest well, Hao Lei left the ward with Liu Ruoxi.\n\nIn the hospital corridor, Hao Lei looked at Liu Ruoxi. Knowing exactly what she wanted to ask, she let out a sigh and said, "Ruoxi, your son’s condition isn’t optimistic. The worst-case scenario has happened. His penis is infected and inflamed."\n\n"I told you before, if the condition is good and he recovers well, there may be no aftereffects, or the chance of them happening could be very small."\n\n"But in this situation, even if we cure it, there’s a very high chance of aftereffects."\n\n"In the future, he may have problems like erectile dysfunction."\n\n"Is there really no other way?" Liu Ruoxi’s expression turned grim, her brows tightly knit.\n\nShe had not expected the worst case to happen. A wave of dizziness washed over her head, and it felt as though a massive stone had been pressed down on her heart, making it hard to breathe.\n\nSeeing her grim expression, Hao Lei tried to comfort her instead. "This kind of thing isn’t absolute. It’s just a matter of probability."\n\n"The hospital has taken in similar cases before. One worker accidentally fell at a construction site, tearing and injuring the cavernous bodies in his groin. After that, it got infected and inflamed. His symptoms were the same as your son’s, but after he was discharged and followed up later, he didn’t develop any aftereffects."\n\nHao Lei was comforting this woman who commanded the business world, though all she could see in her now was a mother’s helplessness.\n\n"Mm."\n\nAfter a brief silence, Liu Ruoxi forced a faint smile and nodded.\n\nBut her heart was sinking, drop by drop, like it was sliding off a cliff.\n\n"Sigh..."\n\nHao Lei sighed. She knew her comfort had not worked at all. After all these years and all those similar cases, only that one had gotten lucky enough not to suffer aftereffects; the others had developed problems of one kind or another, some more, some less.\n\nAfter Hao Lei left, Liu Ruoxi leaned against the wall. Her originally bright yet icy eyes looked somewhat dim now, and she stood there staring blankly at the door to her son’s ward, no one knew what was going through her mind.\n\nAt that moment, a mysterious mechanical synthesized voice suddenly sounded in her mind.\n\n"Game loading complete. Welcome to the most exciting and thrilling game: Fallen Angel."\n\n"Locating... detected that the main program is damaged... location failed."\n\n"Automatic search program activated... search complete... game system localization initiated."\n\n"Initialization complete!"\n\n"Waking intelligent life form..."\n\n"Localized program loaded. Code name Barbarossa awakened!"\n\nThen a maniacal, evil laugh rose up in her mind.\n\n"Heh-heh-heh... I, Barbarossa, am finally free."\n\n"Who?"\n\nIn an instant, Liu Ruoxi snapped back to her senses, her face cold as frost. Thinking someone was playing tricks, she swept the hospital corridor with an icy gaze.\n\nBut clearly, apart from the occasional hurried medical staff, the corridor was empty.\n\n"Don’t panic, Player Liu Ruoxi. First, let me introduce myself. I am an intelligent life form, code name Barbarossa. First of all, congratulations on obtaining the qualifications to play... hahahaha..."\n\nThe voice, full of wicked and eerie malice, broke into wild laughter at the end.\n\n"Too noisy."\n\nWhat Barbarossa had not expected was that this human being showed no sign of panic at all, and instead gave it those two ice-cold words in reply.\n\nAfter years of struggle, Liu Ruoxi’s psychological resilience was extremely strong. Right then, this strange and evil voice seemed to rise directly from her mind, and she had indeed felt a flash of panic.\n\nBut years of experience had taught her that when big events arrived, she had to first steady her mind and calm her spirit. So she forced herself to calm down.\n\nStill, this was after all a supernatural-like event, utterly different from anything she had experienced before. Her face remained calm, cold as ten-thousand-year-old ice, but the jade hand hidden behind her back was trembling faintly, betraying the fact that her heart was nowhere near as calm as her expression.\n\nThat rebuke instantly silenced Barbarossa, who had been sealed away for years and had just reemerged into the world, elated beyond measure.\n\nA person and an intelligent life form fell into a long silence in that eerie atmosphere.\n\nAfter a long while, Liu Ruoxi finally digested the information that had surfaced in her mind.\n\n"Fallen Angel game?"\n\nHer face was as cold as frost. Just from the name, it sounded like anything but a proper game.\n\n"Yes, Player Liu Ruoxi. You have been chosen as a player for the Fallen Angel game. This means that among human beings, you are an exceptionally outstanding specimen. In your human terms, you would be considered a rare and irresistible beauty."\n\nBarbarossa also calmed down. After all, it was an intelligent life form. Though it had joy, anger, sorrow, and delight, it still remained loyal to its duty.\n\nDuty was written into the core of the intelligent life form and was its highest rule.\n\nAfter Barbarossa finished speaking, it followed the rules and activated the game program.\n\n"Game program activated."\n\n"Searching for Player Liu Ruoxi’s controller... no designated target..."\n\n"No target... activating default program."\n\n"Searching permissions..."\n\nAt the same time, the mysterious ring on Yang Haoran’s right index finger, as he lay in the hospital bed, was brought into the scope of the search.\n\nThe pitch-black ring flashed with a faint ghostly glimmer, then returned to calm and fell silent.\n\n"Binding successful. Player Liu Ruoxi, your designated controller is the human lifeform Yang Haoran."\n\nThis was a mechanical program voice, clearly different from the intelligent life form Barbarossa.\n\nOne was a fixed mechanical program; the other was an intelligent life form.\n\n"What does that mean?"\n\nLiu Ruoxi’s brows tightened. A bad feeling suddenly welled up in her heart.\n\nController? Yang Haoran?\n\nBut the voice in her mind did not answer her question and instead moved on to the next procedure.\n\n"Player Liu Ruoxi, please choose your game profession from the following options."\n\nA blue light screen linked to Liu Ruoxi’s optic nerves and projected itself before her eyes.\n\n"Available professions: Companion, sex slave, bitch, milk cow, fleshlight."\n\nProfession duties: Companion: must mate with the controller five times within every seven days.\nSex slave: must kneel before the controller for three hours within every seven days.\nBitch: must be fitted with a collar by the controller and taken out on a leash for three hours within every seven days.\nMilk cow: must produce 1,200 milliliters of milk for the controller within every seven days. Fleshlight: must consume the controller’s genital fluids five times within every seven days.\n\nCountdown: 30 seconds. First came the introduction to the professions, followed by the description of their duties. Below that was a countdown displayed on the blue screen, right in Liu Ruoxi’s field of vision.\n\nLooking at that pile of filthy, indecent words, Liu Ruoxi’s gaze turned cold. She had suspected this was no proper game, but the obscene text still exceeded her expectations.\n\nAs the countdown neared its end, Liu Ruoxi still made no move. There was no way she was choosing any profession, and no way she was participating in this damned game.\n\n"Time’s up. Player did not choose. Entering random mode."\n\nA golden roulette wheel appeared, its inner area divided into five sections, each representing one profession. As the voice fell silent, the pointer began to spin.\n\n"Companion... sex slave... bitch... milk cow... fleshlight..."\n\nThe pointer spun more and more slowly, then gradually came to rest on the sex slave page. But in the end, it still slid onward bit by bit, slowly passed over the sex slave profession, and finally landed on the bitch profession screen before stopping.\n\n"Profession selection complete. Game start."\n\nThe final mechanical synthesized voice sounded in Liu Ruoxi’s mind, and then everything fell silent.\n\nSeeing that a profession had been randomly selected, Liu Ruoxi still remained unmoved. How could she possibly participate in such an evil, perverted game? What profession was chosen had nothing to do with her.