Mental power is a very abstract thing.
Compared to the perception in the companion power branch, mental power is more complex, more all-encompassing, and more aggressive.
In Xie Xingzhi's understanding, even if all the accompanying forces of humans are inclined towards spiritual power, they will not be able to bring them into play without a specific talent sequence.
But evil and falling are different.
The various data obtained by the Xie family and the research obtained from the Mechanical City show that:
If the evil spirit's mental power is strong enough, it will directly form an entry.
Even for a very small number of evil people with extremely strong mental powers, there will be entry stacking.
There are even abnormal situations such as mental power*2, mental power*4, mental power*5, etc.
Although these entries belong to ordinary distortion entries, after stacking, they are in a completely different field.
Xie Xingzhi didn't know where Bai Wu got the number of this area.
But the closer he got to the lake, the more he felt the terrifying presence of the guardian of this area.
In Xie Xingzhi's opinion, there must be at least a monster with a mental power stacking level of seven... Otherwise, it would be impossible to create such a realistic illusion.
It's just... Even though Xie Xingzhi, a data-oriented person, was already sufficiently alert and wary of this place, he still underestimated the two super evils in this area.
After all, long before Hong Yin's red skirt turned black... her mental power had already reached level 12. Compared to level 7, it was a completely unknown area.
And here... there lives a monster whose mental power is even more terrifying than Hong Yin.
If he knew the truth, Xie Xingzhi would definitely not continue to go to that lake.
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Although the fortune teller is respected, the place where she lives is not very good.
It was just a small house like any other villager's, without even a courtyard. In front of the door stood an old locust tree, with many blessing ribbons hanging on its branches.
There was a smell of Chinese medicine in the house. Due to the various customs and sanitary conditions in the village, the villagers were not immune to all diseases.
Many people need to see a doctor, and young people will help the fortune teller collect herbs.
Bai Wu looked at these herbs and was convinced that the witch was not just playing tricks.
He was squatting outside the witch's door, while the witch was sitting in the house, smoking a big pipe.
Bai Wu didn't want to waste time and said:
"Now can you tell me the relationship between the lake god and the evil spirit in the lake?"
"I was once like you, without fear. When I was young, I wanted to leave the village and learn some skills, but the outside world was very complicated. I walked from one village to another, learned some medical skills and witchcraft, and was able to support myself."
Bai Wu nodded. The so-called witchcraft is a trick to deceive people, but as long as you can deceive yourself, there will definitely be people who believe in it.
Speaking of which, I haven’t seen the Tower God Society for a long time. Lilith and Cain disappeared one after another, and the president of the Tower God Society seemed to have disappeared as well.
Bai Wu came back to his senses and responded to the witch:
"But why did you come back?"
The witch didn't say anything, but at this time, Bai Wu turned around and noticed that the witch was looking at his legs.
Bai Wu smiled and probably knew the reason. The witch skipped the topic:
"The lake god does exist. As early as twenty years ago, we saw mountain deer in the lake. Their antlers had flowers on them, and their hooves stepped on the water, but there were no ripples. I saw it with my own eyes."
"A deer lives for a thousand years, and turns white after five hundred years. It was a white deer. The moment I saw it, I believed that there are gods in this world. If there are no gods, how could there be such a beautiful creation?"
"This village has existed for thousands of years, and the tradition of worshipping the lake god is not new to our village. The lake god blesses everyone with safety and good weather for the village."
Bai Wu didn't know what year this era was, but what was certain was that this was the pre-tower era. But even if it was the year 2128, or twenty years earlier... the impact of the end of the world would be very small.
At that time, Professor Tao, Xie Yingjie, and even Jing Si and Jing Liu had not even appeared.
It’s not that he hasn’t appeared in any of the events that Bai Wu has been involved in so far, but he has never appeared so early.
"You saw it with your own eyes? A white deer with antlers blooming and walking on the water?"
"Of course I saw it with my own eyes... ahem... there were many other people who saw that divine creature. If you don't believe me, you can go ask others, such as Feng Haiping from the Feng family, Zhu Ji from the Zhu family, and the hunter Zhang Hu... there were many people who saw that white deer back then."
"So the deer is by the lake? You think that's the lake god's true form?"
"The lake god appeared in an auspicious manner, and everyone thought that good things were going to happen in the village. This showed that the great lake sacrifice was effective, and the lake god was very satisfied with it. Everything we did was right!"
Bai Wu probably understood some of the logic of this witch.
First of all, they believe that Bailu is the lake god.
Secondly, the appearance of the white deer means that the white deer is very happy, the lake god is very happy, the lake god is very happy, and the grand sacrifice in the lake is correct. It means that the traditions of our ancestors are useful and worth continuing.
The witch may have regarded herself as an ordinary person and believed that the white deer was a miracle. In such an ignorant village, people attributed anything unscientific they saw to a miracle. Therefore, they had to respect the witch, who was closer to God, even more.
Everything was just as Bai Wu had guessed. The purpose of the witch telling these things was to make Bai Wu understand that the lake god existed and that there were gods in this world.
Since there are gods, you should also believe that what I, a person who pretends to be a god, say is the truth.
It's ridiculous, isn't it? But in the thousands of years of civilization in Bai Wu's previous life, most of the people who played tricks had this kind of bullshit logic.
"I still don't know what the grand sacrifice in the lake is? What are the sacrifices?" Bai Wu asked the most crucial question.
"The Lake Festival just ended last year. How come you don't know what the Lake Festival is?"
"So since this is not a secret, just tell me directly. After all, I can find out by asking Lao Zhao when I go back."
"You spoke strangely today... This is of course no secret. It has been like this for thousands of years. The Lake God likes children of your age the most."
The witch watched Zhao Kuan grow up, and she always felt that Zhao Kuan seemed to be possessed by evil spirits today.
The witch's focus was completely different from Bai Wu's. Although he had long guessed that the offerings for the grand sacrifice were not good things, this kind of feudal and superstitious behavior might carry some kind of evil.
But after hearing what the witch said, Bai Wu still felt that he had underestimated the evil of this group of people.
Things were taking a turn for the worst.
It seemed like he was experiencing some distorted history, but Bai Wu did not forget that he was in the mind of a monster.
How much resentment do those children who died in the lake have? How many children have died over the past thousands of years
As the Tower Age came, the outside of the tower began to become distorted, and all kinds of strange rules emerged. God knows whether those corpses that had long sunk to the bottom of the lake... were accumulating strong resentment
If all these grievances were gathered together, they would be no less than the grievances that Hong Yin absorbed in the Ninth Mental Hospital.
Bai Wu sneered:
"Did anything good happen to the village afterwards? Did the crops get better, or did the villagers stop getting sick? By the way, were you beaten on the legs? Was it because your witchcraft was exposed, and the people from other villages got furious and beat you up?"
Although in the first scene, Bai Wu noticed the witch without eyes jumping around.
But now I think that the image of the witch may be full of the resentful imagination of the owner of the memory - a person without vision.
The witch said angrily:
"Are you still questioning the existence of the Lake God?"
"Yes, I question the existence of the Lake God. I should go back. If I go back too late, Lao Zhao might die."
Bai Wu stood up and left, but the witch stopped him and said:
"What are you going to do? You are cursed now, and if you go back you will harm your father!"
Bai Wu ignored the fortune-teller and even walked faster.
Seven hundred years.
Since this world is the spiritual world of a certain monster, it is very likely that this monster has some problems.
When I came to this area, I entered the spirit world without any warning. As you can imagine, the level of this monster is very high.
Bai Wu now has a general understanding of the whole incident, but he always feels that he is still missing a key clue.
If the evil in the lake was a sacrifice for the great lake festival a year ago, then what was its purpose? If it was to protect everyone, then why did Hong Yin ask for help from him
If it is so kind, shouldn't it get along well with Hong Yin
Watching the white mist go away until the figure disappeared, the witch's expression changed from anger to confusion, and finally... to resentment.
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Bai Wu quickly returned to the Zhao family.
He began to use the Eye of Prell to inspect the Zhao family inside and out.
Sure enough, a pig with signs of mutation was found in the Zhao family's livestock shed. The master of the Zhao family also raised an old yellow dog, which also had problems. Perhaps in the near future, they will become truly evil.
Some objects in the house also began to be possessed by spirits, such as candles, which were supposed to burn for a while and then burn out, but would continue to burn after the wax was burned out.
Whether it is the mutation of livestock or the candlelight, it can lead to the demise of the Zhao family.
But when Bai Wu tried to correct these things... he suddenly found that he could do nothing.
The extinguished candle will be rekindled. When he told the Zhao family about the mutation of livestock, the Zhao family seemed to hear nothing.
He was silenced by some powerful force...
Bai Wu's original plan was to eliminate all potential safety hazards and then let the Zhao family tell the world... the evil in the lake was fake.
It is not a cursed monster, it just comes to tell everyone that disaster is coming. Its ability should be to see the disaster that is about to happen. Perhaps it is similar to Elijah's sense of life and death.
Although there are still some things Bai Wu doesn't understand, the most important thing for Bai Wu right now is to change the development of things.
What Bai Wu didn't expect was that... there was a huge force stopping him.
Soon, news came from the witch, asking the Zhao family to lock up Zhao Kuan.
Bai Wu's resistance was futile... Zhao Kuan's body had no fighting power at all.
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As Bai Wu made some forbidden moves, the whole scene began to change. History was forcibly returning to the right track.
The streets were originally normal, but hair like seaweed began to grow from every corner.
As Xie Xingzhi was walking towards the lake, he suddenly felt a tightness in his chest and his breathing became rapid.
His steps were fast, but he suddenly seemed to hit a wall of air. As the dizziness in his consciousness ended...
Xie Xingzhi found himself lying in a coffin. This coffin was not unfamiliar to him... It was the same coffin he lay in when he entered this scene.
He was about to open the coffin, but suddenly found that it had been nailed shut. In the first scene, Xie Xingzhi and his companions were able to show their magical powers based on their own sequences.
But in the second scene, everyone seemed to have really become the characters they played.
No matter how Xie Xingzhi pushed back, the coffin was sealed tightly. Xie Xingzhi felt that the space he was in seemed to be pushed by a certain force.
He heard the sound of falling into the water, and before he fell into the water, he also heard the words of the villagers:
"People who are possessed by evil spirits cannot survive. Only by offering them to the lake god can the lake god's anger be appeased."
The situation on Wujiu is not optimistic either.
He followed the guidance of the paper man and arrived at the lake without any delay. Zao Lake was filled with an atmosphere of deathly silence.
The resentment in the entire lake was like boiling water turning into mist.
The black monster, which had just been playing with the paper figures in its own home, was now tied to a huge stand.
At the side of the support, Wujiu met the witch, the village chief, and Zhu's father...
Memories began to emerge, and Wujiu suddenly felt a sense of fear.
The witch with sunken eyes jumped up and down and chanted a spell, holding a torch in her hand... and then slowly brought the torch closer to the dark monster.
Even from a distance, Wujiu could feel the despair in this monster's heart.
The torches quickly set the support on fire, and the fire spread even faster than Wujiu had imagined. It was like a hungry beast smelling its prey and began to devour the black monster.
The black monster can't speak at all...
If Bai Wu saw this scene, he would sort out all the clues. But when Wu Jiu saw this scene, he just felt his heart aching.
He had never seen this black monster before. He had only met it once. It was hiding behind the paper man, and its ugly face almost made Wujiu mistake it for some evil creature.
But at this moment, watching the monster wailing, Wujiu felt extremely sad.
The black monster couldn't speak, but just as the fire burned it to ashes, the monster suddenly let out a shrill cry:
"Dad...save me..."
At this time in history, the monster did not utter this cry, nor did it speak any human language until its death, but in its final howl, the owner of the paper figurine shop seemed to hear an illusion.
At this moment, Wujiu finally realized that this black monster was actually the child of the person he played!
Although he had no feelings for the child and didn't know what had happened in the village, Wujiu couldn't suppress the grief in his heart.
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Scenes of despair appeared one after another.
Bai Wu felt a great sense of crisis in his intuition. He was sure that he had done nothing wrong. The only way to return to the real world and find Hong Yin was to make a choice.
Either believe the witch, or believe Zhu Jin and the black monster in the lake.
But why... I have made a choice, but I can't change anything
He struggled hard, trying to untie the ropes that bound him.
At the same time, the Zhao family caught fire. As the fire spread, the livestock in the Zhao family's livestock shed also began to go berserk.
All the hidden dangers that Bai Wu had seen before became the Zhao family's doom...
As scenes from history began to happen forcibly, complete memories began to emerge in Bai Wu's mind... and a voice in his consciousness asking for help.
"Brother...save me...I did something wrong..."
(I have almost finished laying the groundwork. I should be able to revisit the foreshadowing and give the answer to the mystery starting from the next chapter, but I guess... it will be tomorrow. I have something to do tonight. I will definitely update twice tomorrow.)