Because of lying with heads raised, the sky wasn't pierced by the target, sparing the innocent from harm.
As for why Lin Yi wouldn't let Wang Qiu'er lie with her head down, it's because he clearly remembered an anime where Pinocchio told a lie to the ground, and then his nose reached the moon...
Of course, anime exaggerates, the reward settings here wouldn't allow a lie to make the nose grow that long.
Hearing this, everyone began to recall the lie Wang Qiu'er had just told.
If it's a lie that the Three-eyed Golden Lion has a gender, does the truth mean the Three-eyed Golden Lion actually has no gender?!
So Wang Qiu'er initially could have liked men as well as women?
But she just happened to fall for Huo Yuhao first, so she thought she was a female from then on... Lin Yi sniggered internally.
...
"Let's start."
Hearing the voice coming from behind, Wang Qiu'er suddenly felt great pressure.
Senior Lin Yi asked her to tell a lie that would extend her nose beyond a hundred meters to demonstrate the effect.
But...but what kind of lie could achieve that?
If I don't meet Senior Lin Yi's requirements, will he be disappointed in me and send me back twenty thousand years in twenty days or so?
But I don't want to go back now, my lifespan would decrease if I went back, and...
Wang Qiu'er suddenly closed her eyes in dismay.
Fearing that Lin Yi was in a rush, she raised her head and nearly gritted her teeth as she said, "Last night in a dream, I wasn't sitting on Lin Yi doing shameful things!"
The scene fell silent.
Expressions on everyone's face suddenly froze.
Very quickly.
With a "whoosh" sound, Wang Qiu'er's wooden nose shot straight into the sky, piercing through the clouds, with the tip almost invisible to the naked eye.
Lin Yi looked up and roughly estimated that the nose had grown to about eight or nine hundred meters!
He was quite pleased with the results of this test.
Well, wait a minute, it seems that's not quite the point...
Lin Yi shifted his gaze from the sky, and looking at everyone's stiff expressions, as well as Wang Qiu'er's blushing cheeks, he suddenly remembered the lie she had just told.
What?! Sitting on top of me?! Doing shameful things?! That would mean...
"Last night, Auspicious Beast fell asleep and kept clamping my arm with its thighs, the body was trembling nonstop, and Goose Goose saw it,"
Standing beside Gu Yuena, Bi Ji, with a blank but serious expression, said while biting her finger.
Her voice wasn't loud, but because the scene was so quiet, her words clearly reached everyone's ears.
"Thump."
Attracted by the sound, Lin Yi saw Wang Qiu'er's nose retract, and then she plopped down on her buttocks, burying her face, red like a cooked crab, between her knees.
So embarrassed she couldn't show her face!!!
With too many points of ridicule, everyone kept silent, wildly imagining the scene...or the scene in the dream.
Lin Yi cleared his throat twice, breaking the silence, "The reward testing segment is over, Wang Qiu'er, commence your second attack of the day."
"Yes!"
Wang Qiu'er's muffled voice came from her knees.
Lin Yi gave her about half a minute to recover, and when she stood up, her cheeks were still embarrassingly red, and her gaze remained downward.
"Let's start."
No sooner had Lin Yi finished speaking than Wang Qiu'er, without looking up, patted the iron hide of Bumblebee.
Understanding Wang Qiu'er's intention, Bumblebee immediately raised its arm. The mechanical parts started operating, and the sound of rotating gears could be heard as a dark muzzle pointed at Lin Yi.
"Bang!"
Fireworks erupted.
Bumblebee fired a cannon shell at Lin Yi.
With a "boom," the shell exploded upon Lin Yi's body, shrapnel and flames ravaged his figure in an instant, and a cloud of white smoke spread out as the attack concluded.
And clearly, this attack was capable of causing damage rebound.
Regaining her senses, Wang Qiu'er patted Bumblebee's iron hide again.
Following its master's command, Bumblebee, like an emotionless robot, continued to raise its arm and fire another cannon shell.
Based on the emotions conveyed by its master, it judged this to be an important and precise action, and thus made no superfluous movements for fear of affecting the result Wang Qiu'er desired.
The swelling Golden Storm was shattered by Bumblebee's second cannon shell. Lin Yi simply glanced at it and silently made a mental note, now this is equivalent damage.
He looked at the panel.
[Health Loss: 236487]
[Remaining Health: 899884763475]
[Damage Level: Red (Novice)]
[Random Reward: Memory Erasure Spell and Memory Supplement Spell]
[Host Reward: Memory Erasure Spell and Memory Supplement Spell [Degree Critical Hit]]
The names of these rewards made their meanings quite easy to infer.
Yet for the sake of accuracy, Lin Yi still perused the annotations.
A moment later, he said to Wang Qiu'er, "Damage 236487, Red Junior level, your reward is Memory Erasure Spell and Memory Supplement Spell, two abilities in total."
"Red Junior?!"
Wang Qiu'er covered her mouth in surprise.
She had not expected to obtain a Red Level reward so quickly; it was truly unexpected.
Bumblebee was indeed formidable!
Lin Yi: "Both of these abilities are area-of-effect powers targeting everything within a hundred meters. Let's discuss the first one, the Memory Erasure Spell. As the name suggests, it can erase the memory of a specific event you designate within a hundred-meter radius. Remember, you can only erase one event at a time, once per day, and you can freely choose whose memory you want to erase, as long as they are within the hundred meters."
"The Memory Erasure Spell ignores the level of the target, and the erased memory can only be of events that occurred within the last twenty-four hours."
"The second ability, the Memory Supplement Spell, has the same range. Within a hundred meters, you can implant a set of false memories into everyone, a fabrication of your choosing, again, one event at a time, once per day. You can also freely choose whose memory you want to augment, as long as they are within the hundred meters."
"The duration of the Memory Supplement Spell's effect depends on the strength of the recipient; the stronger they are, the faster the implanted memory will fade. Another point, the fabricated memory can be inserted into any time period within the target's memories."
Lin Yi paused before adding, "There's no need to go into detail about the Memory Erasure Spell, but regarding the applications of the Memory Supplement Spell, there are many possibilities. Let me give you an example to help you understand."
"For instance, you could implant in me a memory of someone murdering my kin. Until that memory fades, I would despise that person to the core."
"Or, you could give me a memory of a blissful life with a certain woman; until the memory fades, I would believe she was or at some point in time had been my beloved, someone significant to me."
ps. Third update, thank you all for following!