My chat group is full of female losers

Chapter 388 The real plan

On Black Wind Mountain.

As Si Ren looked at his followers, who were in excruciating pain and refused to respond, his expression gradually darkened.

At this crucial moment when victory was within reach, right in front of Fei Wu, her followers, who should have been at her beck and call, suddenly lost control, making her feel utterly humiliated.

"What the hell are you doing? Why are you yelling all of a sudden?" Si Ren screamed again.

However, Xiao Cui and the others still did not respond. They were just trembling in pain, as if they were enduring some kind of invisible torture.

The Third Princess and Changhong's faces also darkened.

They naturally wouldn't feel sorry for their followers, nor would they think about why they were in so much pain or how they could help them.

In their view, giving orders and having their followers respond is a matter of course, an irrefutable truth. So what if they suddenly have a headache?
Even if their entire family dies before their eyes, even if all four limbs are severed, even if they only have their last breath left, they cannot ignore her! Because she is the female lead's follower!

Changhong shook her head, looking utterly disgusted, and said, "Even though I've painstakingly taught you for so long, you're still this stupid. Oh well, it seems you've been corrupted by this world for too long. The innate brilliance of a woman has been completely stolen."

The third princess also sneered, raised her right hand, and prepared to cast a spell.

However, just as they were about to make their move, the three of them suddenly changed their expressions and exclaimed in unison.

Their outstretched hands had somehow become translucent, like fine glass.

"my hand!"

"what happened!?"

In an instant, panic filled the faces of all three.

They all understood what this meant, but they didn't understand why it was happening at this moment.

"why?"

"How could this be?"

But no matter how much they couldn't accept it, the reality was right in front of them.

They could clearly see the transparency spreading upwards along their arms!

Just as they panicked, the three henchmen suddenly stopped struggling, and then...

They all raised their heads.

Their eyes changed.

There was no longer fanatical worship there, but rather overwhelming hatred.

They almost simultaneously pulled out daggers from their pockets and rushed towards the three leading ladies.

puff!

Three muffled thuds of sharp blades piercing flesh rang out simultaneously.

The three princesses, Changhong, and Siren were caught off guard and their bodies stiffened abruptly. They stared in disbelief at the three daggers stuck in their abdomens.

They stared wide-eyed at the three faces before them.

In their extreme shock, they even forgot to be angry.

"What are you doing?" Si Ren asked, trembling. "Are you crazy?"

"Yes, I've gone mad!" Xiao Cui's face was covered in tears, her voice hoarse and venomous. "You killed Li Lang to keep me by your side! You used me as a scapegoat to escape yourself! You forced me to my death to test that fool!"

"And yet I've remained loyal to you, acting like your dog! I believed your bullshit theories, thinking these were all experiences you gave me. What persecution by the Xiongdao Society? Bah! The one who's been persecuting me from beginning to end is clearly you!"

“Princess,” Yun Que said, her voice as cold as snow as she looked at Chang Hong, “No, you’re not a princess at all. I remember everything now. I’m not some orphan girl from the borderlands, nor did I come from a war-torn frontier.”

“My name isn’t Yun Que, it’s Zhou Jing Shu. My family is from Jiangnan, and we’re in the silk business. My father is charitable, and my mother is gentle and virtuous. I never suffered the loss of my family or nearly starved to death!”

"It's you! It's you, you vixen! You've set your sights on me! You spread rumors, incited a mob to destroy my home, and made them hang my parents' heads on the city wall as a warning!"

"Then you fabricated lies and brainwashed me! And I actually believed you! I treated you like my savior! Changhong, you beast who killed my parents! Today I will make you pay for your crimes in blood!"

The Khatun didn't speak, but her eyes said it all. The scene of the Third Princess detonating the explosion of Tsering to buy herself time to escape kept replaying in her mind.

At this moment, she felt only fear and confusion. She couldn't understand why she had been persuaded by the Third Princess with just a few words, why she had for a time taken her actions for granted, cheered for her son's death, and completely ignored Tielan's murder, fanatically believing in this beast like a fool. But it didn't matter; she had finally come to her senses. She would take revenge—for Tielan, for her son, the Khan, and for the entire desert tribe that had perished!
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Qin Su, standing beside the ruins of the dilapidated temple, was completely bewildered.

She couldn't understand why things had suddenly reversed, or why her followers had suddenly betrayed her on the spot.

She couldn't help but look at Chu Lu and ask, "Chu Lu, what's going on?"

Chu Lu, on the other hand, had a smile on his face.

The scene before us is actually quite simple, and there's only one root cause. That is the only weakness of the female protagonist—she must be loved.

Ultimately, the female protagonist is a female-oriented character. Like other protagonists, their core purpose is to be loved. Once they lose that love, they lose their value and vanish like a mirage. This is what Chu Lu learned in the previous Xianxia (fantasy martial arts) instance.

And this applies to Fei Wu as well.

Fei Wu's situation is even more complicated.

Typical female protagonists frequently enter new dungeons and can easily brainwash several followers. However, Fei Wu, as the department head, no longer enters dungeons. Therefore, she needs to have a dungeon character who is madly in love with her by her side to maintain her sense of purpose.

Such a role is referred to as an "oxygen tank" by them.

Therefore, as long as these oxygen tanks are brought to their senses and their love for the female lead is stopped, the latter will naturally perish. And as a superior alternative to corruption value, correction value naturally also has the ability to undo brainwashing and awaken characters in the instance.

But Chu Lu also learned another piece of knowledge in the Sha Pei instance.

When a character in a dungeon is brainwashed to an excessive degree, it is impossible to restore her sanity directly. A stronger stimulus must be used to break down her mental barriers first.

When he saw Fei Wu's oxygen tank portrait for the second time in the capital, he didn't recognize her at first because the portrait itself was somewhat distorted, and because the current Ling Shi and the Ling Shi in his dream were slightly different in clothing, hairstyle, expression, and even appearance. It wasn't until he looked at it a few more times that he suddenly realized. It was at that moment that the basic outline of the entire plan began to take shape in his mind.

First, they defeated the White Flag Army, forcing Su Lianyue to flee; then they deliberately left clues so that Shen Yanchen, who was an inside agent, would notice them.

If, after catching up with Su Lianyue, one can rely on the White Flag Army around her to maximize the correction value, that would be the best outcome.

If they can't get to the maximum level, they can create a one-on-one situation between Xie Mingshu and Fei Wu, allowing Xie Mingshu to take the stage.

If even Xie Mingshu fails, then by having her confront the Ling family face to face, we can provoke the Ling family and give him a chance to awaken them.

This was Chu Lu's entire plan. From the beginning, he never intended to rely solely on the correction value, nor did he intend to depend on Xie Mingshu. Instead, he prepared multiple interconnected backup plans, turning the failure of each step into the driving force for advancing the next step, thus ensuring the final victory to the greatest extent possible.

This has led to the current situation.

Watching the three female protagonists scream in terror as their bodies gradually disappeared, Chu Lu slowly stood up from the ground.

"This time, I won."

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Meanwhile, in another world: the headquarters of the Heavenly Demon Cult.

"What do I want you to do? This is a question that can't be answered in just a few words," Shen Miaomiao paused and said, "I can only start from the beginning."

"Then you can say it, I have time now anyway," Hua Honglian said.

Shen Miaomiao looked at Hua Honglian, who was wary, and slowly told her story.

“Every chat group owner has a fixed term. When my term as group owner ended, Qin Su wanted me to return to the real world, but I was already tired of life there and didn’t want to go back.”

"So I used a little trick. I first lied and said that I had accidentally lost some of the group owner's privileges. Then, on the day I stepped down, I used the hidden privileges to create the illusion that I had returned to reality. In reality, I had hidden in a female-oriented online world. Qin Su was completely unaware. That's how I got rid of Qin Su and became free and happy."

"But you should know what happened next. Zhang Lan betrayed Qin Su, established a female protagonist organization, and began to wantonly invade other novel worlds and persecute those innocent female protagonists. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I secretly stepped in to save those female protagonists and eventually established the Alliance of Abused Female Protagonists."

“Zhang Lan is very powerful, and I don’t want to go head-to-head with her, so I originally planned to just stay in the background and live a peaceful life. But recently, the alliance encountered a big problem and needed a good enough person to solve it.”

“There are no suitable candidates within the alliance, so I have to look outside,” Shen Miaomiao said.

Hua Honglian instantly realized: "So you chose me? Why? Wait, was our last meeting intentional on your part? And what happened afterward... the imperial court, the Heavenly Demon Sect, and the righteous path all forcing me to make a statement, couldn't that have been arranged by you too?"

“The meeting was indeed intentional,” Shen Miaomiao explained gently. “I did want to push you to face the problem directly, but it only served as guidance. I don’t have the energy to control so many people. The situation you encountered later was just a conflict that was bound to erupt sooner or later.”

"Why did you do this?" Hua Honglian pressed.

“This is a test.” Shen Miaomiao said seriously, “The trouble we’ve encountered is very tricky, and sometimes we have to make extremely painful decisions. The heroines in angst novels are generally indecisive and simply can’t make sacrifices like you.”

“I see. But,” Hua Honglian said with a puzzled look, “why don’t you go find Chu Lu?”

(End of this chapter)