Their commission was suspicious.

Are vampires really ghosts? That is the question.

But it does indeed have the word "ghost" in it.

"A little ghost?!" Li Sushang was so frightened when she was told that the little girl she was supposed to protect was also a ghost that she took a few steps back.

Have I wandered into a haunted house?

"Who are you calling a brat? I'm over 500 years old!" Remilia was so angry when she heard Li Sushang call her a brat that she almost jumped up and hit Li Sushang's knee.

"I am also over 500 years old. I am not afraid of you."

Li Sushang mustered her courage and said.

But to be over 500 years old and still so small, it really must be a ghost.

“...I have a feeling you’re thinking about something bad.” Remilia glanced at Li Sushang.

“Never mind, Chen Luo, I need to talk to you. Could you treat that Arya? She seems to be terrified.” Remilia said to Chen Luo.

"...I'm very curious about what you did to her, no, what your whole family did to her? How could a perfectly healthy person be so frightened? And didn't I give you several cocoons to help you break free and become a butterfly? Those cocoons also have the effect of healing the mind." Chen Luo looked at Remilia with some confusion.

"Uh... anyway, it's not our fault." Remilia was a little embarrassed, but also felt a sense of self-righteousness.

Exactly! Look at what that bastard Arya said! First, she called my sister a little monster. Even though my sister's race isn't human, she shouldn't have said that.

And then he even gave the middle finger at the end, who could tolerate that?

"Okay, I should have realized from the beginning that you coming to the bar to see me at midnight was definitely not a good thing." Chen Luo sighed.

Vampires and humans have different sleep schedules. Vampires sleep during the day, while humans sleep at night. It is currently noon, which, according to the time difference, is midnight for Remilia.

"So, can it be cured?" Remilia asked.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

[Quick Mend]: Save Arya from being almost destroyed, at least let her last one more round.

Reward: 200 Primogems

Difficulty: 3 stars+ [Quick Sewing Technique]

"Don't worry, who am I? A miracle doctor, what can't I cure?" Chen Luo assured him after seeing the request.

Fortunately, Chen Luo had already turned Arya into a doll and even created a save file of Arya's condition; otherwise, healing her would have been quite troublesome.

Although Arya has been completely ruined, Chen Luo can easily restore her mental state to what it was before she was ruined, as long as he takes action.

However, this feature wasn't initially designed to save Arya, but rather to prevent her from falling into despair prematurely.

But Remilia and the others went way too far.

"Um, Mr. Ghost, could you let me out?" Li Sushang asked tentatively.

"Alright, don't worry, I won't hurt you. This is actually a bar, and I'm the manager, so don't worry about me hurting you. I was just joking with you. I'm really a good guy. Could you wait for me for a bit while I'm gone?" Chen Luo said to Li Sushang.

"Are you really a good person?"

"Really, look, I haven't hurt you since you came here. And right now I'm going to help the little girl next to you to help a poor girl who is suffering from emotional trauma."

【persuade】!

Li Sushang must have come into this world by luck. Chen Luo felt quite guilty for scaring Li Sushang away.

[Ding! Based on various factors (the credibility of your being a ghost, Li Sushang's fear of ghosts, the other party's affection for you, the logic in their speech, etc.), you will receive a 50-sided die.]

A 50-sided die proves that failure is possible.

Because persuasion is only successful when the score is below 40.

In a moment of stillness, a 50-sided die falls from the sky and begins to roll.

【1】(Great Success)

[Li Sushang believed your words and considered you her guardian spirit, so she trusted you completely.]

"???" Chen Luo was stunned.

Are you there? Why did you manage to land such a big hit in such a strange place?

Goddess of Dice, are you kidding me?

"Oh, then Mr. Ghost, you go ahead. I'll be waiting for you at the bar. Come back soon, okay?" Li Sushang sheathed her sword and obediently sat down beside him, saying this.

"Uh, well, okay then." Chen Luo was caught off guard by Li Sushang's sudden change to being well-behaved.

So, why was it such a big success?

And what the heck is a guardian spirit?

Why did you suddenly give me this weird identity?

Chapter 890 Chen Luo's "Favoritism" towards Arya

“Her eyes are lifeless, her heart is empty, and her mind is confused… It’s hard to say what exactly you did to her,” Chen Luo said, looking at Arya in front of him.

Although Chen Luo was confused about why Li Sushang believed he was her guardian spirit after Chen Luo rolled a big number on the dice, the work still had to be done.

Chen Luo was also very curious about that quick mending technique.

Moreover, since Arya, who was prepared by Chen Luo as a doll and playmate for Fran, had been broken, Chen Luo naturally had to take responsibility for repairing her.

Arya sat blankly in the chair in front of Chen Luo. On the surface, there were no marks on her body. Even the clothes she had worn at home were completely undamaged.

“We didn’t do anything to her,” Patchouli said, holding a book in her hand.

"You think I'd believe that? You little liar."

“How can reading, reading, and what scholars do be called deception? It’s called embellishment and processing,” Patchouli retorted stubbornly.

"It seems this matter is mainly related to you, or rather, you are definitely the main culprit behind this situation," Chen Luo said, looking at Patchouli.

"Emmm...okay, I admit it, I did it, but I had no choice. Remi insisted." Patchouli immediately shifted the blame to Remilia sitting next to her.

“I don’t think you can put all the blame on me. Even if I did make Patchouli create an extremely terrifying dream for her, isn’t that what she brought on herself? Even if I made a 1% mistake, doesn’t she also make 99% mistakes herself?” Remilia said righteously.

"Just an extremely terrifying dream? What kind of dream could have scared her like that?" Chen Luo asked curiously.

"It's nothing. Although I've read a lot of books, I'm not very creative when it comes to creating dreams. And Remi and the others' suggestions are too difficult for constructing dreams. In the words of your world's programmers, Remi wants a vibrant black and a white with a hint of red—who can create that?" Patchouli rolled her eyes at Remilia as she said this.

Patchouli wasn't very good at constructing dreams, and Remilia's demands were excessively high, to the point that Patchouli simply gave up.

“So when I really couldn’t remember, I remembered what you said about him in the bar, that he wasn’t a good person or something, so I just made her experience what she had done to other people, and that’s how she became like this,” Patchouli said, pointing at Arya.

"You've gone too far! She's just a child of about 10 years old. How could she possibly endure such torture?" Chen Luo looked at Patchouli in disbelief.

Chen Luo found it hard to believe that Patchouli, a witch over a hundred years old, could do such a heinous thing.

"Uh... I did think she did some really bad things, but I'm not good at creating dreams, so the torment she suffered in the dream was probably less than 1/10 of what it was in reality. How was I supposed to know she was so mentally fragile?" Patchouli said innocently.

A dream is ultimately just a dream. It's like being killed in a dream; even if you feel lingering fear after waking up, the dream itself isn't real, so the residual effect is less than 1/10 of the real situation.

Unless you're a professional like Chen Luo, dreams generally don't have much of an impact on the subject; after all, Patchouli just wanted to scare Arya.

Then Arya was completely ruined.

"Perhaps it's not because she's mentally fragile. In fact, after being turned into a doll, her spirit became quite resilient. Maybe it's just that the quantity and quality of the punishments she received were a bit excessive," Chen Luo explained, revealing the reason why Arya had become this way.

Chen Luo wasn't certain of the exact number of people who died at Arya's hands, but it was definitely a large number, and the methods used were absolutely ruthless; otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to torture people to death.

Even conservatively estimating with 20 people, if each of those 20 tortured to death gave Arya 1/10 of their realism, statistically, that could torture Arya to death twice.

Given that this sense of realism is not cumulative but lasts for a long time, death is impossible, but severe psychological trauma is possible, just like the current situation.

"So, can you actually solve this problem?" Remilia urged.

“Yes, teacher, I want this older sister to play with me.” Fran looked at Chen Luo expectantly.

"If I can't even do this kind of thing, then I shouldn't be a puppeteer." Chen Luo said, snapping his fingers.

Immediately afterwards, the soul information about Arya's save point in the group network began to be imported into Arya's current body.

Within the collective network, a vast amount of soul information is recorded.

If Chen Luo's puppet body dies, its soul will be automatically uploaded to the entire network and resurrected in another place.

But if even the soul is destroyed, then this soul information will be needed.

As for whether the doll resurrected using soul information is still the original doll, that's a matter of opinion.

But this is already the limit, after all, the Domination talent is only an SS-level talent, not an SSS-level talent, so it cannot be truly omnipotent.

Because of this ability, Chen Luo successfully restored Arya to her cognitive state from the previous night in just one minute.

Generally speaking, each doll can only retain two soul save points at most. When the next soul save point is generated, the previous one will be automatically deleted to reduce the memory occupation of soul save points on the group network. However, Arya is different. Arya is the real VIP user. Arya has a full 10 save point slots, although only 4 are currently in use.

This is also to allow Arya to repeatedly experience despair, while at the same time allowing Arya to serve as a perfect playmate for Fran's doll.

Chen Luo knows Fran quite well, after all, he raised Fran single-handedly (not really).

Fran can really break a person, which is why Chen Luo created so many soul save points for Arya, so that Arya could always return to normal and then be broken again.

This is the preferential treatment Chen Luo gave to Arya.

"That's great! Big Sister Arya, you're finally back to normal! Now you can play again. Honestly, I won't let you play with Big Sister Arya anymore, so you don't break her again." Fran said to Remilia like a child protecting a toy.

"Uh……"

Although Remilia wanted to retort, she knew it was her fault for breaking her sister's toys.

[Ding! Mission complete]

【Quick Repair Technique】: Select one of your "summoned creatures" and increase its "usable uses" by 1.

"Hmm..." So, the effect of this special card is to revive summoned creatures?

Or is it that it only works through consumption?

For example, old insects?

Chen Luo had always wanted a self-destruct skill, not for himself, but for his puppets, especially the old bug, who should really need it.

So, if this card is paired with it, does that mean the old bug can self-destruct twice? In other words, when the old bug is equipped with [500 Years of Perseverance], it can exert its effect an extra time?

The old bug was overjoyed!

Anyway, Chen Luo was happy for the old bug, so whether the old bug was happy or not didn't really matter.

"Where...where is this? Who are you?" When Arya opened her eyes again, she found a group of people she didn't recognize surrounding her.

What particularly terrified Arya was that the monster Flandre was standing right next to her, as was the evil Lanternman.

"Chen Luo, what happened?" Remilia asked.

“I’ve reconstructed her situation to what it was like before I brought her to the bar yesterday. She has indeed witnessed how terrifying Fran and I are, but she doesn’t know about the bar, nor does she know about your relationship with Fran. So you can start over,” Chen Luo said.

"Is that so? It feels pretty good." Remilia exclaimed in delight.

This means that the toys are currently in the latest version.

Just like new shoes that fit your feet better with repeated walking, two different craftsmen carving essentially the same piece of jade will also create different designs.

Being able to constantly transform Arya back to her pre-socially accustomed state means there are many new and exciting ways to play without getting bored.

At least Arya wouldn't become bolder or more tolerant of despair because of this, so the despair that appeared on Arya's face could be clearly seen every time.

"Then you guys have fun, I'm leaving now." After confirming that Arya had indeed been repaired, Chen Luo said goodbye to Remilia and the others.

Chen Luo should go back soon, because Li Sushang is waiting for him at the bar.

"Okay, goodbye." Completely ignoring Chen Luo's departure, Remilia watched Arya with great interest.

Judging from Arya's current reaction, she really doesn't recognize herself anymore, which is really... quite interesting.

"Sister, stop looking. You can't borrow Arya anymore, or you'll break it next time." Flandre immediately shielded Arya behind her.

"Fran, don't be so stingy. If it breaks again, we can just ask Chen Luo to fix it. Your teacher won't mind the trouble," Remilia said nonchalantly.

“But Remi, haven’t you forgotten something? You said something before, didn’t you? Every gift that fate bestows has a price tag attached. If you owe Chen Luo too much, you might have to give up something even more important.” Patchouli, who was chatting on her phone with someone across the room, reminded her.

Patchouli is currently chatting with Yun Lian'er.

In fact, based on the fact that communicators and mobile phones can communicate and connect with each other after being transformed into dolls, Patchouli and Yun Lian'er created a small group chat.

[Mage Exchange Association]