In the study room where the light was blocked by books, Zhang Yue, who was sitting at the desk, looked at the high-level math problem in front of him, unable to write for a long time, his gaze wandered for a while.
As an ordinary person, it is very difficult to maintain a high degree of concentration for a long time. Anyone can do it? There are occasional distractions, drinking water or convenience. However, under the supervision of that weird "test paper monster", he can't do any of these things. All he can do is study without stopping.
Perhaps, in the eyes of this test paper monster, I'm just a learning robot that doesn't use rest. Parents and teachers must like it very much. People become related and enter the small black room, there is no way to ask for help.
The illusory eye on the ceiling stared at him fixedly. When Zhang Yue paused for more than half a minute, illusory tentacles distributed in the surrounding space suddenly entangled him
He suddenly screamed, rolled down from the chair, curled up into a ball, rolled on the ground, twitched in pain, and screamed.
I saw countless fine tentacles entangled upwards from his limbs, deeply rooted in his body. The bright red blood rushed up along the transparent tentacles crazily, making the illusory eye look even more strange and deep.
Zhang Yue's face turned pale with the flow of blood. He struggled painfully on the ground, feeling tears and snot pouring out together, and he couldn't feel a severe dizziness in his head.
He had no doubt that he would die the next moment.
At this moment, he suddenly "saw?" A brilliant brilliance appeared out of nowhere above his head. It was like a starlight descending suddenly, enveloping him all at once.
Saying no? A sense of comfort surrounded him all of a sudden.
Zhang Yue even instinctively sensed that this "starlight" contains powerful power, which can help him get out of the current desperate situation, but he doesn't know how to do it—
As soon as such an idea was born, densely packed words gradually appeared in the depths of the illusory starlight, and they intertwined with each other, unfolding a starry sky in front of Zhang Yue.
He read it almost subconsciously.
"...This, this is "Investigator's Daily"! Is it the content of that book?" Zhang Yue was so shocked by the familiar text that he almost stopped thinking.
The next moment, he watched those words dissipate, and illusory pictures evolved in the depths of the starlight, as if a real world was being born bit by bit in the depths of the starlight. As a true fan, he Even recognize the content of the screen at a glance.
"This is the protagonist, Ji Bai, and his black cat, Lizi. This is the story of their first encounter..."
Along with this familiar picture, a lot of doubts instantly filled Zhang Yue's mind.
... What's going on? Is this a hallucination I had before I died? Is it because I want to see the plot of that book so much... This is really very possible. Yi Yuanxia’s big piss, don’t you know when it will end, maybe there will be a pit text... no?, no matter whether it is the end or the pit text, I am destined not to see it? Until that day, because I am dying now.
Okay? Willing to...
Zhang Yue was thinking in a mess.
If only I could have special power like Ji Bai, the power to restrain the test paper monsters... If only Ji Bai, the perfect "investigator" could really appear and protect me in reality...
Just thinking of this, Zhang Yue suddenly saw that all the pictures in front of him dissipated and condensed into a thick brilliance, rushing towards him, and he subconsciously squinted his eyes.
In his blurred vision, Zhang Yue saw a blurry illusory figure congealed in front of him, thin and thin, not a strong figure, a casual style hooded sweater and trousers, and a ghostly black cat squatting on his shoulders.
This illusory figure stretched out a hand, pulling towards the dense illusory tentacles—
"... Ji Bai?!"
Zhang Yue's heart suddenly set off a stormy sea.
Tentacles broke in mid-air, and the one-eye on the ceiling was torn into pieces by the black cat's sharp claws. Then, the black cat meowed, jumped onto Zhang Yue from mid-air, and looked at him quietly with a pair of dark blue cat eyes.
One second, two seconds, three seconds... Zhang Yue gradually became sluggish.
Inexplicably, he only felt that all the emotions in his heart were dissipating in an instant. Including the meaning of regret that should have been fierce and turbulent. It was like a piece of jelly being scooped out with a spoon, and his heart was suddenly empty.
At the last moment, the only thought that flashed in his mind was: This seems to be an ability possessed by Lizi in the book - "Salted Fish Gaze". Anyone who looks at him for more than ten seconds will be hit by a click Empty all thoughts and emotions, fall into the salty moment, too lazy to think, too lazy to move, too lazy to do anything.
Then, he gave up struggling, and the whole person fell into the salty fish posture Orz that he wanted to do.
After a long time, Zhang Yue finally broke away from the salty fish emotion of not wanting to do anything, and saw that the brilliance in front of him dissipated, and the last illusory figure quietly dissipated.
"Meow~"
The black cat let out a soft cry, jumped onto the shoulder of that illusory figure, and then dispersed together.
"chestnut!"
Zhang Yue subconsciously called out, fully awake, sat up from the ground, and looked around.
The stacked books and test papers blocked the sunlight outside the window, and the dark study room was empty. The chair he had turned over before was still on the ground, but the weird "test paper monster" disappeared? It's gone, and the illusory figure suspected to be Ji Bai also disappeared. It was as if everything was just an illusion created by him out of thin air.
But Zhang Yue knew that was not the case.
"It's true... Ji Bai really came to reality from the novel... and Li Zi... they really appeared..."
He sat blankly on the ground, the pale face that had lost blood still had the despair not long ago, and after the despair dissipated, he showed surprise, confusion, fear, surprise, and unbelievable emotions. Changing back and forth.
"Could it be that I still have the ability to speak, so that whatever I want can come true?"
The big-hearted Zhang Yue patted his forehead, and in a blink of an eye, he forgot the painful experience he had encountered before, and still thought about making a little joke with himself.
But of course he knew it couldn't be true.
After calming down, recalling the sudden starlight, Zhang Yue afterwards noticed more details that he had noticed before—at that time, he faintly sensed some kind of connection from the depths of the starlight. It seems that he has established a connection with an existence in the depths of the starlight.
For no reason, Zhang Yue intuitively thought of the distressing comment he sent in the book review section of "Investigator's Daily" when the abnormal event was just born.
He suddenly realized: "...is Yuan Xia Da Da?!"
"—Yuanxia must have saved me!"
At the same time, there were not many people who had similar encounters with Zhang Yue. Some of them met like him when the protagonist of the novel appeared in reality, and some temporarily obtained a certain ability of the protagonist in the novel to get out of the crisis. These people are basically loyal fans of the book "Daily Investigators".
Because of the intangible connection from the reputation point, as well as the miraculous experience of the characters and skills in the fantasy novel being realized in reality, they all faintly realized that this matter might be related to the author "Yuanxia".
As ordinary people, under the publicity of the Special Affairs Bureau, they have all heard of the magic of the sealed item and the power of the investigator. As a member of the investigators, "Yuanxia" has some magical abilities. It is not an exaggeration.
All of a sudden, they admired and loved "Yuanxia", the book "Investigator's Daily" and the protagonist Ji Bai who they already loved so much.
——And this deepened love turned into "prestige points", which continued to flow toward Yuan Bu
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On the other side, with the appearance of the Altar of Laziness and Fang Luo's appearance, the deep white mist quickly spread towards the entire Tianze City. Everyone shrouded in the mist fell into a deep sleep, and their consciousness was pulled into a dream in space.
And the monster born in their hearts also chased their consciousness and entered the dreamland.
With the help of Yuan Buwei, Fang Luo, who had gradually obtained most of the control over the dream space, immediately mobilized his own authority.
But after a while, he figured out the situation of these monsters, and told Yuan: "It's remorse... The source of these monsters comes from the thoughts of remorse in everyone's heart, doesn't it? It doesn't take much, just a little bit is enough? .”
Didn't it? To understand immediately.
"There should be a certain sealed item or weirdness that can stimulate these people to hide deep regrets and turn them into monsters to appear in reality? Moreover, these monsters have obviously been distorted and become very extreme. "
It's as if Zhang Yue just regretted that he didn't study hard back then, but the "test paper monster" that appeared has been distorted to the point of "If you don't study hard, you will die?"
Since these monsters come from the remorse that is urged deep in everyone's heart, it is easy to understand why they can't kill them all and come back from the dead.
If it were in Tianze City in reality, it would not be easy to solve it. Most likely to find the source of everything.
— If it is a special sealed item, try to contain it; if it is some kind of weird phenomenon, you must break the weird rules. And to achieve this, it is very likely that the thoughts of remorse in everyone's hearts must be eliminated, just like removing demons in the fairy tale novels.
But how is this possible
As long as a person lives in this world, more or less, there will always be regrets and regrets, especially if there is some kind of power secretly guiding them, this idea is eliminated, another regret Then came out.
Even a saint with a clear conscience and a pure whiteness, and a villain who has committed no crimes without shame, can hardly guarantee that there will be no regrets. Perhaps it can only be done if one is extremely self-aware.
If you want to use the method of "removing demons" to save people, even if you don't want to do it, you think you can't do it.
— Then there is only a simpler and more brutal approach.
What happened to Zhang Yue gave him inspiration.
Just as the perfect "assassination is no one sees", uphold this line of thought. Is it possible to let these people actively dispel the remorse in their hearts? Then let them lose it passively?—Just empty out all their emotions and turn them all into? Salted fish sluggish
The more you think about it, the more perfect it becomes? Didn't it? In order to completely let go of my heart, I have a plan in my chest.
He looked at Fang Luo, who was asking for advice, and smiled and said, "Well, it's very simple. As I said before, what is the most lacking thing in the dream space?"
"Of course it's paint, oh no? I'm talking about emotional thoughts. There are more and more evil spirits now, and there's not enough paint..." Fang Luo subconsciously opened his mouth, complained a few words, and suddenly realized, " Boss, you? You mean..."
"Isn't it? Is it the kind-hearted person who sent you the paint? In the dream space, what is the essential difference between these monsters and nightmare beasts?"
Wasn't it? In order to start carefully teaching the tool man the skills of pulling wool, he also taught a wave of tool ghost squeezing skills by the way.
"And don't? Use you? Do it yourself, so what about a large number of evil spirits."
"Why didn't I think of it?"
Fang Luo's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and he quickly thanked Yuan Buwei for his reminder, as if he completely forgot that he was supposed to be helping Yuan Buwei.
Seeing that Fang Luo, who started to enslave the tool ghost, seemed to have opened the door to a new world, didn't he retreat silently in order to hide his achievements and fame.
System 999, who was watching silently, couldn't bear to look directly at it.
... and foolishly thanked the host. Do you?Think?Think you?Have gone from slave to overseer? No, you've just become a slave leader!