It was a cute chibi figure with three heads, black hair, and black eyes. One could still discern traces of Luo Lin's original appearance between the eyebrows and eyes, but strangely, she was dressed in a shrunken, cartoonish [Stygian Nymph] outfit, looking as if she were bugged character
...Perhaps it truly was bugged, otherwise how could she end up in such a situation?
Luo Lin appeared lifeless, tightly embraced by Veliona. The red-eyed girl vigorously rubbed her own cheeks, then lowered her head like she was cuddling a cat, using her chin to nuzzle Luo Lin's head.
"Stay calm, calm down... sniff..."
"...So cute!"
Seele herself was also enchanted, her eyes gleaming as she joined in rubbing the chibi Luo Lin's round face, causing the Valkyrie to babble incoherently.
A few minutes later, a somewhat embarrassed Seele called a halt to the activity.
"The other me, let's stop for a moment. Sister Luo Lin seems like she has something to say..."
"Um, I'm a bit..."
Veliona looked dazed, and Seele could see the struggle in her red eyes. After a few tens of seconds, Veliona took a deep breath and directly threw Luo Lin out.
"Ah!"
Luo Lin was thrown into the Sea of Quanta in a position resembling a falling onion, struggling to wave her arms and legs, finally landing with a slap on the "sea surface."
After exerting a lot of effort, Luo Lin finally crawled up from the ground, looking at her matched chibi with short arms and legs, even her hands and feet were nowhere to be seen, turning into what seemed like a low-polygon "stick figure."
"After all that rubbing, you just throw me like that?"
Veliona shouted loudly, "That evil charm on your body has started to take effect, I can't control myself!"
Luo Lin was stunned. Was it because of her physique?
She checked her own situation and found that the emotional diffusion switch had suddenly turned back on.
Luo Lin decisively turned off this thing, but Veliona's situation only improved slightly, from extremely uncomfortable to somewhat uncomfortable... Then she ran away from a distance.
Luo Lin tried to take a few steps, but due to unstable balance, she fell down directly, luckily Seele was quick to lift her up.
Seele weighed the chibi Luo Lin, she wasn't heavy at all. She glanced at Veliona, who had closed her eyes and was engaged in an internal struggle, then imitated her previous actions and hugged Luo Lin in her arms.
Soft and plump, with a fresh scent... like some kind of fruit?
Seele pursed her lips, lost in thought.
"Why are you holding me so tightly?"
"Ah, sorry."
Seele placed Luo Lin on the ground and took two steps back.
Chibi Luo Lin looked at her "stick figure hands," unable to scratch her head.
"How am I supposed to hold things like this? Do I have to use 'unscientific' methods like a certain fingerless robotic cat to grab onto things? Then how do I pull the trigger... no, I should turn back!"
Luo Lin chose to solve the problem fundamentally.
She tried to recall the feeling from before, allowing herself to return from the chibi cartoon form to the normal-sized girl.
This time it went very smoothly, Luo Lin quickly grasped the essence of the Sea of Quanta, submitting her desire to return to her normal form.
As a result, she felt everything around her becoming turbulent, like being thrown into a washing machine and spinning wildly for a few minutes. When everything calmed down, Luo Lin was back in the real world.
"Ugh..." The girl retched a couple of times, murmuring, "You just sent me straight back to the real world, huh..."
Senti suddenly shouted, "Luo Lin, you disappeared just now!"
"What? Disappeared?" Luo Lin was puzzled, "I disappeared just now?"
The Herrscher of Sentience popped out, excitedly gesturing and explaining to the Valkyrie what had just happened: "You know I'm resting in your brain, right? Then you said you wanted to try entering the Sea of Quanta, and then whoosh, your body disappeared from the real world and came to this dark place around you..."
Luo Lin was puzzled, "Are you sure it wasn't the Sea of Quanta? Without adaptation to the Sea of Quanta, you can't see anything around you in the sea."
"No, the Herrscher can definitely distinguish between the Virtual Tree and the Sea of Quanta, it's an innate instinct!"
Senti emphasized again, "What I saw was everything around the body of [Stygian Nymph], which was dark and murky, and your consciousness was not in your body, but directly flew into the Sea of Quanta! These are two different things!"
"Huh?"
Luo Lin blinked, her expression becoming serious.
Well, this situation seems a bit familiar...
The Valkyrie tapped the system panel that popped out, saying, "System, check if you're about to malfunction again?"
[Check complete, all systems normal. After the accidents of the past two times, the system has strengthened its vulnerability detection tools to ensure that such major bugs will not occur again.]
"So minor bugs might still occur..." Luo Lin was a bit speechless, it left a lot of room in its speech, "So what exactly happened to me just now?"
[Hmm... To alleviate the host's unnecessary worries, the system pre-declares that this is also one of the unlockable projects in the system, not a bug phenomenon. The host can explore it on their own and unlock the project by completing achievements or challenges.]
"Hmm, this won't affect my communication with Seele in the Sea of Quanta, will it?"
There was a firm assurance in the system's electronic voice: [Absolutely not!]
"...The more you say that, the more worried I get. Well, since that's the case... Senti, can you please observe the body of [Stygian Nymph] again?"
Luo Lin sighed, clenching her fists, enjoying the feeling of her five fingers moving flexibly for a while.
Then, the Valkyrie took two small loaves of bread she had baked in the morning from the kitchen, holding one in her hand and tossing the other into the system's warehouse.
With a solemn expression, she once again invoked the power of the quantum, entering the embrace of the Sea of Quanta.
"Tsk, why am I still in this chibi form... and still wearing the [Stygian Nymph] dress... besides..."
Luo Lin stood with her hands on her hips, looking up at Veliona's face, "Stay calm, okay! Don't come over!"
"I won't take a step." The red-eyed girl nodded, looking serious.
The girl couldn't help but complain, "Your feet really didn't move, but you're floating towards me now!!"
"Tsk." Veliona clicked her tongue, "Can you find a way to contain your 'charming' appearance..."
"Um..."
Luo Lin felt the almost overflowing quantum power inside her, as for her most frequently used Herrscher powers, there was now only a small amount left, barely enough to manipulate her emotional diffusion for a while.
So, Luo Lin began to reminisce about her past life's quiet nights, appreciating the "masterpieces" such as movies and pictures of various "teachers" on her computer and phone during quiet nights...
Then, the corner of the Sea of Quanta quickly calmed down.