I Asked You to Be a Tool-Man Supporting Male Lead, Not a Heartthrob Chapter 64

Chapter 64: Your Bonus Target: Rock Solid and Steady as Mount Tai

When Fu Yue woke up again, he was back in that cave.

Water droplets from the rock walls fell onto his face, bone-chillingly cold.

The sound of footsteps echoed from the cave entrance, followed by a sharp “click”—the sound of a gun’s safety being switched off! The rustling footsteps drew closer and closer.

What’s going on? Fu Yue panicked.

“System! System, are you there? Let me teleport, hurry!”

Fu Yue cried out in his mind.

However, the usually responsive system didn’t give a single peep of a reply.

The newcomer crouched in front of him. Backlit, their face was impossible to see. The person reached out and pinched his chin. “Fu Yue, you can’t escape.”

Fu Yue tried desperately to stand up and run, but his body felt as heavy as lead.

He could only struggle backward, only to crash into someone else’s embrace—it was Jiang Ying.

But the scent of lemongrass on Jiang Ying was gone, replaced by a faint smell of blood. Those light brown eyes were now filled with nothing but mockery. “Fu Yue, this time, I won’t save you.”

Fu Yue looked up in despair as the dark muzzle of a gun was aimed straight at him.

It wasn’t just one gun.

The people standing before him, holding firearms—

Ji Hanmo, Shen Junnian, Pei Luomian. Behind them, even more men with guns continued to approach.

A row of muzzles pointed directly at him.

Fu Yue shook his head in terror.

Bang!

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…

There was no pain, only vertigo.

Fu Yue struggled to open his eyes.

Dazzling sunlight, pure white bedding, and the faint scent of lilies in the air.

Was that just a dream?

“Fu Yue, you’re finally awake!” Shen Junnian leaned in excitedly, giving Fu Yue a massive fright. Pei Luomian stood to the side, and his eldest and second brothers were there as well.

This was the top-tier VIP ward of the Menglan Island Central Hospital.

Fu Yue’s brain was still a bit foggy.

He opened his mouth to speak; his throat still stung fiercely, but his body was no longer burning with fever.

His wrist was wrapped in gauze, and his left leg was stabilized in a brace.

“A mild concussion, a hairline fracture in the left tibia, and multiple soft tissue contusions. The wound on your wrist became slightly inflamed,” Pei Luomian said, looking at Fu Yue’s medical chart. “Your dehydration has been relieved, and your temperature is back to normal. As for the leg injury, you need at least a month of bed rest.”

He closed the chart, his concerned gaze falling on Fu Yue’s face. “Falling from that height… it’s a miracle you’re mostly unharmed.”

“Fu Yue, how did you leave the canyon? How did you end up in the indigenous village?” Shen Junnian asked with concern.

Immediately, images of Jiang Ying’s face flashed through Fu Yue’s mind—carrying him on his back, struggling through the dense jungle.

“I passed out back then, so I don’t remember,” Fu Yue replied, lowering his eyes. “Maybe… it was a local villager.”

He lied.

He concealed the fact that Jiang Ying had saved him.

All because of what Jiang Ying had said to him by that stream—a single sentence that was enough to overturn his entire reality.

Seeing that Fu Yue looked exhausted, Pei Luomian asked everyone to leave the room.

The ward fell silent.

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“System, are you there?”

[…Bzzzt… Host, I… am… here…] The system’s voice was interspersed with slight static, sounding intermittent.

“What’s wrong with you? Your voice sounds weird.”

[…Energy… fluctuations. Because you were in a critical state, the close link between the system and the host caused my energy state to become unstable.]

[To put it simply, you can think of it as me having a bit of a ‘cold.’]

Fu Yue was stunned. “Code can get a cold?”

After a while, the static gradually faded, and the system’s voice returned to its steady tone.

Fu Yue asked jokingly, “Then my hundred-million-yuan bonus won’t ‘catch a cold’ and disappear, will it?”

[…]

The system went silent for two seconds.

[According to my detection, your bonus target is: Rock solid and steady as Mount Tai.]

Fu Yue was amused by its dramatic phrasing.

Earlier in the dream, he had been terrified when the system didn’t respond. He wasn’t just afraid of losing the money; he was afraid he could never return to the real world.

“I just had a weird dream,” Fu Yue said with lingering fear. “In the dream, you suddenly vanished. Then, everyone looked at me with this strange expression, and then…”

[Then what happened?]

“That gang of men executed me.”

In the dream, he had been shot through by at least five people simultaneously.

The system was silent for a long time—so long that Fu Yue thought it had frozen again.

[Theoretically, that shouldn’t happen.]

The system’s answer this time was a bit hesitant, making Fu Yue uneasy.

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“System, what do you mean ‘theoretically’?”

[Host, the scenario you dreamed of likely happens when the ‘Heartthrob Halo’ fails. This causes the characters around you to suffer from a strong withdrawal reaction, leading to such behavior.]

“Withdrawal reaction?”

[Yes. They are used to being influenced by the halo. If it vanishes, their emotional evaluation of you will undergo violent fluctuations.]

Hearing this, Fu Yue understood.

In his dream, the system had vanished, so naturally, the Heartthrob Halo was gone.

As a result, the men who had been influenced by the halo all came to “settle the score.”

Terrifying.

Fu Yue thought of the men in his dream—their bloodshot eyes and the gun barrels pressed against his forehead. A chill ran down his back.

As the system spoke, its internal core flickered subtly.

It knew Fu Yue was repulsed by the halo, so it had hidden some facts.

After this so-called withdrawal reaction, there were even more terrifying consequences.

The “guns” in the dream were a metaphor.

The system wasn’t sure if Fu Yue could accept certain things…

It was afraid that if it spoke the truth, Fu Yue would self-destruct on the spot.

[Host, you don’t need to worry. The system won’t vanish. However…]

“However what?”

[Due to the recent energy instability, some advanced functions—such as the output power of the ‘Heartthrob Halo’—will experience fluctuations.]

“What do you mean by fluctuations?” Fu Yue had a bad feeling.

[It means that today its effect might be 120%, but tomorrow it might drop to 20%.]

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Fu Yue frowned.

The system’s tone today was a bit… guilty?

Fu Yue asked tentatively, “If the system really vanished, what would happen?”

[…]

[Host, that situation will not occur.]

The system clearly hesitated.

But Fu Yue didn’t push further.

With his mindset as a programmer, the answers to questions involving the core existence of a mechanism were usually blocked.

It was like trying to ask an AI core “how to make the system crash”—not only would you not get an answer, but you might trigger a defense mechanism.

It was useless to ask.

Besides, Fu Yue didn’t want that situation to happen.

After leaning back for a while, Fu Yue was about to call a nurse to go to the resort shop to buy a phone when Ji Hanmo walked in.

He was dressed sharply, but the fatigue between his brows couldn’t be hidden.

“Feeling better?” He walked to the bedside, his voice gentle.

The moment Fu Yue saw him, an inexplicable sense of security washed over him.

He guessed that Ji Hanmo had purposely waited for everyone else to leave before coming in.

Pei Luomian, as the island owner and doctor, being in the ward was logical.

Shen Junnian, as a childhood friend, was understandably concerned.

But for Ji Hanmo, a titan of the business world, to show such concern in front of the Fu family would inevitably lead to rumors.

Just earlier, Shen Junnian had whispered a complaint in Fu Yue’s ear before leaving: “Your brothers sure showed up fast. When you went missing, they were still busy talking business at the cocktail party.”

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Fu Zhengan’s attitude of treating Fu Yue as a tool for marriage alliances was already clear.

Ji Hanmo choosing to appear after everyone left to avoid making things difficult for Fu Yue was quite thoughtful.

“Yeah,” Fu Yue replied. “It’s not a big deal.”

“Here.”

A black rectangular box was pressed into his hand.

Fu Yue looked down; it was a brand-new phone.

“Use this for now. Your old broken phone is with me. It won’t turn on, so we’ll have to find a repair shop to recover the data once we’re back,” Ji Hanmo said.

Fu Yue nodded and took it.

Inserting the SIM card and logging into his usual apps was a seamless process.

“How did you end up with my broken phone?”

“I was the one who picked you up from Huoyan Village.” Ji Hanmo pulled out a chair and sat down, his tone casual. “That’s the indigenous people’s private territory on the island. It’s almost an independent kingdom, and they are very hostile toward outsiders.”

Fu Yue’s eyelid twitched.

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