Star Trace Gate

The sudden deduction of twenty points from his behavioral compatibility score left Ren feeling both bewildered and terrified.

He stood there blankly outside the Hall of Immortality, his fists clenched, trying hard to recall everything he had done since entering the tomb, but he couldn't find anything unusual about his behavior.

After entering the tomb, aside from eating and resting, they only searched for clues about the Origin Eyes in this land of hanging coffins. In order to avoid touching the mechanisms and taboos in the Celestial Palace, they were extremely careful in every action. They never entered areas with illusions or formations, never split up, and never foolishly touched any of the coffins.

Even after deciding to enter the Hall of Immortality, he, his aunt, and Little Fatty observed from a distance, and ultimately only allowed the storyteller to enter alone...

The entire process was flawless to anyone, so he couldn't understand why he had done anything unusual.

As the old saying goes, the unknown is the most terrifying. The Heavenly Dao inexplicably deducted a full twenty points of his behavioral compatibility value without explaining the reason for the deduction. This made Ren Ye's heart jump into his throat, and he felt a sense of despair, as if he were blind and could only sit and wait for death.

Holy crap, what on earth is going on?!

When Ren Ye lowered his head to think, his face turned red with anxiety and his hands trembled, as if he had suddenly suffered a stroke.

Not far away, Little Fatty noticed his unusual behavior and asked with concern, "Brother, why are you shaking like you've been struck by lightning?!"

Ren was engrossed in his own thoughts and completely ignored him.

"Hey bro... we all risked our lives to enter this tomb mainly to help you find the Origin Eyes. Even though we have no clues right now, you absolutely can't give up or lose your mind." Li Xiaopang was so scared he almost peed his pants: "If you told me this now, you'd probably be going crazy... then I'd really jump into a well! Damn it, you really need to have some resilience! Look at me, I've ended up like this with you, and I even dragged Uncle Er and Grandpa Liu down with me... but I'm still optimistic, I can still eat four pork knuckles in one meal!"

"What defines a man? It's someone who can handle things when it matters."

He thought that the blind man was under so much psychological pressure because the clues had gone cold that he was going crazy and losing his mind, so he used himself as an example to try to calm the other man down.

Unexpectedly, Ren Ye didn't appreciate it at all, and instead shouted angrily, "Stop nagging me, I'm really annoyed right now!"

He was always very gentle and soft-spoken with Little Fatty, so this shout startled the other person so much that he was a little menstrual irregular and looked resentful.

"If you're thinking, then think about it. Why are you yelling so loudly?!" Li Xiaopang was good-natured, but he muttered awkwardly, "You scared the crap out of me...!"

"The situation is critical, let him be alone for a while." The storyteller noticed that Ren Ye's expression was not right, so he secretly transmitted his voice to Xiao Pang.

"Do you still have any of the ingredients you brought? I'll go get something to eat...!" Aunt Tianwei also thought that Ren was in an unstable state of mind and irritable because the clues had been cut off, so she prepared to get everyone something to eat and let them rest for a while.

Upon hearing this, Li Xiaopang took out some rice and cooking utensils from his consciousness space and handed them over to his aunt.

Outside the Hall of Immortality, Ren, like a walking corpse, arrived at a secluded corner, then sat down with his back against the brick wall of the tomb passage, hugged his knees, and looked up at the sky and the earth in contemplation.

You must not rush or panic. You must first figure out the logical rules of this behavior fit value step by step.

Ren leaned against the cold tomb passage wall, carefully recalling the specific "events" that had caused the previous increases in the compatibility value, and then finding the roughly the same triggering logic in each of these events.

Two incidents stand out as particularly representative. One involves secretly preparing a lavish dinner for his aunt according to the menu in his uniform. In this incident, Ren Ye initially failed to realize what was happening; he didn't connect the menu to the blind man's plan to show his filial piety to his aunt, which he had prepared in advance as a small surprise when he received his pay.

That time, he was penalized with a deduction of behavioral fit value before he realized what was happening.

The underlying logic of this event is actually about the deep affection between the blind man and his aunt, and how the blind man, despite being taciturn, somewhat withdrawn, and having few friends, is a very grateful and filial person.

Therefore, Ren Ye's unconscious forgetfulness is completely opposite to the blind man's extremely filial character. As a result, Heaven punishes him by deducting his behavioral compatibility score and reminding Ren Ye that his "acting" is terrible.

The second incident was the blind man's attitude towards Yin Ping.

Before the Yin family fell from power, Yin Ping exploited the blind man to the extreme, not only verbally abusing him frequently but also forcing him to prepare his own bathwater. On the surface, Yin Ping appeared to be a spoiled brat who abused his family's power to bully the weak.

But after the Yin family completely collapsed, the blind man was the only person in the entire prison who said a few warm words to Yin Ping, and it was a heartfelt and grateful one.

This is enough to show that although the blind man was bullied, despised and looked down upon by his peers in life, he was not someone who could only see the dark and ugly side of human nature. On the contrary, in his endless life of hardship, he was more willing to remember the warmth that others gave him and to see the beauty that rarely happened.

Therefore, when faced with the collapse of his family and Yin Ping's transformation from Young Master Yin to Yin the Wild Dog overnight, the blind man did not speak sarcastically or hate the other party for his daily exploitation. Instead, he remembered that when he was poor and destitute, the other party would always find an opportunity or excuse to give him some medicine to suppress his illness; and would also give him an excellent evaluation in the monthly performance review.

At that moment, the blind man did not kick the other man when he was down; instead, he thought only of the other man's good qualities, which is why he offered words of comfort and encouragement.

His magnanimity and his "personality" in viewing worldly affairs were very similar to those of Prince Huai. Therefore, after experiencing the blind man's ordeal, Prince Huai also offered words of comfort and encouragement to Yin Ping.

These actions represent a unified "resonance" between the blind man's "past" and Ren Ye's "present," with the two exhibiting a high degree of consistency in their behavioral characteristics. Therefore, at that moment, Ren Ye triggered an increase in his behavioral compatibility value.

From these two events, we can see that the triggering rules for behavioral fit are actually related to two things: first, the difference in "personality" between the actor and the blind man; and second, the "choice" made in a certain major event.

Simply put, if the actor playing Ren Ye reacts, makes decisions, and behaves in ways that are highly inconsistent with the blind man's personality, then his compatibility score will be deducted; conversely, it will increase.

Ren sat on the ground and patiently sorted out the various triggering events before his chaotic thoughts gradually became clear.

He suddenly had a reverse thought: could all his normal behavior after entering the tomb be an "abnormality" in itself?

In other words, the blind man may have done something very unusual after entering the tomb, which is why his normal behavior was inconsistent with his actions and why he was penalized 20 points by the Heavenly Dao.

The little rascal hugged his legs tightly with both arms, and the more he thought about it, the more reliable this reverse thinking deduction seemed...

However, he couldn't immediately imagine what extraordinary things the blind man had done after entering the tomb that would cause him to lose twenty points of behavioral compatibility value at once.

Based on past experience, the greater the difference in behavior between the two, the greater the fluctuation in the compatibility value. In other words, only when Ren Ye's behavior conflicts greatly with that of the blind man will he have so many points deducted.

I'm absolutely stunned! What kind of earth-shattering thing did this blind man do in the tomb to behave so differently from my normal behavior?!

Is it the Temple of the Undying? Could it be that in the real story, it wasn't the storyteller who entered the Temple of the Undying, but the blind man?

That can't be right. When the storyteller entered the Hall of Immortality, I carefully sensed the surrounding area. The devouring power there was something I couldn't possibly withstand; entering would mean certain death.

Where exactly does the problem lie...?

While racking his brains, the Little Bad King unintentionally entered a state of extreme concentration. He completely forgot about his surroundings, the people around him, and couldn't hear any sounds in the fairy palace. He was completely immersed in his own world.

This state, seemingly shielding him from all external perceptions, actually makes his soul, body, and five senses extremely sensitive.

After an unknown amount of time, a familiar medicinal fragrance wafted into his nostrils, the scent clear and close at hand.

"Um……?!"

His previously blank expression suddenly turned suspicious. He instinctively adjusted his posture, trying to pinpoint the source of the medicinal scent.

"tread……!"

Immediately afterward, a light footstep stopped, and he heard it.

"I used Little Fatty's stone pot to cook some rice porridge, and I added some calming powder to it, which will reduce your fatigue." My aunt's voice echoed in my ears: "Don't think about it now, come and have some with us."

"what?!"

Upon hearing his aunt's call, Ren suddenly snapped back to his senses, instinctively gathering his divine sense to perceive the other's presence.

His aunt stood before him, her voice gentle, her pretty face filled with concern: "There's always a way out. You can't drive yourself to a dead end. Come on, let's have some porridge together..."

As she spoke, Ren Ye sensed that the familiar medicinal fragrance suddenly became very faint, almost disappearing completely, as if it had never existed at all.

The feeling is truly mysterious. It's like a cook who braises offal all day long. He's initially covered in a strong aroma of spices, but because he smells it every day, he eventually stops noticing it on a daily basis. However, if the surrounding environment or temperature changes abruptly, he can occasionally smell it again, but only briefly, and he quickly adapts.

The scent was fleeting, yet it shook Ren to his core, causing his thoughts to surge like a storm, completely out of control.

He sat there blankly on the ground, his face directly facing his aunt, his face extremely pale and his lips trembling, looking as if he was about to go completely insane.

Aunt Tianwei frowned: "What's wrong with you?! Say something...!"

After she called his name several times, a normal expression finally returned to the little rascal's face. He paused briefly, stiffly shook his head, and then said softly, "Nothing, I was just thinking about something related to Zhao Mi...!"

"Stop thinking about it, go have some porridge."

"No, Aunt, I just realized the key point. You guys go ahead and eat. I'll sit here for a while longer." Ren Ye waved his hand repeatedly.

Seeing his utterly dazed expression, Aunt Tianwei could only shake her head helplessly: "Alright, I'll get you a bowl of porridge. Drink it while you think about it."

"Okay, okay...!" Ren replied perfunctorily.

Before long, Aunt Tianwei personally served him a bowl of hot porridge, sprinkled some minced meat into it, and then turned to leave, preparing to dine with the storyteller and Little Fatty.

On the ground, Ren sat cross-legged, holding a bowl of porridge in both hands, his face turned towards his aunt's back, his expression gradually becoming gloomy, painful, and on the verge of collapse...