Chapter 160 Mountains and rivers inside and outside
Chapter 160 Mountains and rivers inside and outside
Ning Zhe quickly recalled the rules he called the "ideological stamp":
1. God is everywhere
2. God cannot be looked at directly
3. Those who look directly into the eyes of God will be marked with a mental stamp by God.
The content of the seal is freely edited by God or those who enslave God.
Strictly speaking, Ning Zhe did not have the ability to stamp his thoughts on others. The reason why he could take advantage of this rule to a certain extent was because he replaced Yu Ziqian's identity.
Or to be more precise, it is the identity of 'Yu Ziqian whom Tu Yu knows'.
Tu Yu knew that Yu Ziqian had the ability to imprint thoughts, and Tu Yu mistook Ning Zhe for Yu Ziqian, so Ning Zhe could use Taiyi to simulate a false rule and use it.
The rules are absolute and fair. Any weird rules have their fatal flaws. Ning Zhe does not know what the flaws of the 'Thought Stamp' are, so for safety reasons he almost never uses this ability, even if it is a false rule that is too easy to simulate.
From the time he obtained Yu Ziqian's identity to now, Ning Zhe has only left his ideological stamp on three people.
One of them is himself. He forces himself to believe that he is Ning Zhe.
The second was Feng Yusu, whom he forced to obey him.
The third is Xia Yubing. He forced Xia Yubing to believe that only by relying on herself could she escape from Zanju Town.
The first two uses were successful. Ning Zhe firmly believed that he was Ning Zhe, and Feng Yusu did have unconditional trust and loyalty to him. But when it came to Xia Yubing, the ideological stamp failed.
Why does it fail?
Ning Zhe quickly listed several possibilities in his mind:
[1. Tu Yu discovered his identity]
He was able to use the thought stamp because he had stolen the identity of 'Yu Ziqian that Tu Yu knew'. So as long as Tu Yu found out through some clues that Yu Ziqian might have become someone else, Taiyi's rules would become invalid.
As far as Ning Zhe knows, Yu Ziqian has hidden his ability of 'Thought Stamp' very deeply. Almost no one knows the existence of this rule except Tu Yu. Even Tu Yu only knew that Yu Ziqian possessed 'some ability to change people's cognition' when he helped Yu Ziqian hunt down the survivors of Bishuiwan Manor not long ago.
Without the foundation of 'Tu Yu's wrong perception', even the most solid building will be just a castle in the air and will collapse.
[2. Interference from other rules]
Just like Taiyi can interfere with the snake god Zhaoyou's judgment of good and bad luck, and transfer the punishment for those who violate the taboos of the lunar calendar to other people.
Therefore, Ning Zhe has every reason to believe that there is another rule in the world that can interfere with human cognition and can offset or deflect the process of him imprinting his thoughts into Xia Yubing's subconscious mind.
[3. I have always misunderstood the criteria for determining the ability of the Thought Stamp]
During this period, he paid for consultation with Lan Shiwen and also contacted several Ascenders who had had contact with Yu Ziqian, supplementing himself with a lot of basic knowledge about the weird world and the ghosts of rules.
All the upgraders have one thing in common: the rules are silent.
In most cases, the untriggered weird rules would just run silently, not actively interfering with the outside world, as if they didn't exist. They wouldn't wander around like zombies and evil spirits in horror movies, actively looking for people to kill.
Any strange rule that wants to interfere with reality and act on people requires a "medium".
The medium that triggers too easily is 'cognition'.
The medium that triggers the summoning is "good or bad luck".
The medium that triggers the special move is 'Shadow'.
So what is the medium through which the 'God that cannot be looked at directly' affects reality?
Ning Zhe once believed that it was the "eyes". God cannot be looked directly at, and eyes are the windows to the soul, so he naturally thought that the medium through which God stamps people's thoughts is the "eyes", or "eye contact". He indeed successfully stamped the thoughts of himself and Feng Yusu by eye contact.
But judging from the current situation, my reasoning at that time seemed... a little biased.
To use the light bulb as an analogy, humans trigger rules through the medium, just like flipping a switch to turn on a light.
[Press the switch] and then [the light comes on], this process was so natural that he misjudged it and thought that the light came on just because he pressed the switch.
But in fact, in the process of [switching power on and off], the [switch] is only the appearance. The reason why the light turns on is because the [power] is connected. This is the real deep reason why the light turns on. The switch just happens to be related to the power supply.
As long as the circuit is connected normally, the light will still be on even if the switch is removed.
On the contrary, if there is a lack of power supply, the light will not turn on even if the switch is turned on normally.
Ning Zhe felt that he seemed to have... confused the [switch] on the surface with the [power supply] inside.
Perhaps what triggers the mental stamp is not the act of "looking at each other" itself, but something else that happens when two people look at each other.
But when he looked at Xia Yubing, the incidental incident did not happen, the real condition was not triggered, he was just constantly flipping a switch in which the circuit had long been broken and there was no electricity.
However, all of this was just Ning Zhe's hasty guesses in a short period of time. Confirming these ideas requires time and opportunity, and he lacks both now.
"Let's take this woman out first..." Ning Zhe took a deep breath, and after he went out, he asked Xia Yubing's aunt to pay the balance, and then went to confirm his last guess about the 'God that cannot be looked directly at'.
As for the first two guesses, he can now find ways to confirm them.
Ning Zhe stopped and stood in front of Xia Yubing.
"What's wrong?" Xia Yubing asked cautiously, fearing that he would suddenly go crazy and beat her up again.
"Give me your makeup mirror." Ning Zhe said.
Xia Yubing silently took out a small mirror for touching up makeup from her bag and handed it to him.
Ning Zhe opened the small mirror and looked at his reflection. His beautiful eyes were as bright and brilliant as the sun and the moon. He looked into his eyes and said:
"I'm Ning Zhe."
"I am also Ning Zhe." He said again.
"We are all Ning Zhe." A hoarse voice came faintly from under the evil ghost mask.
"You, your name is Ning Zhe?" Xia Yubing crossed her arms and looked at him with fear in her eyes.
The bright white moon was still slowly crawling towards the center of the sky, like a fat white silkworm crawling forward on a stool.
The cold moonlight sprinkled down like water, reflecting a psychopath wearing a mask. She was holding her makeup mirror and muttering to herself in the mirror, saying something like "We are all Ning Zhe".
Xia Yubing's whole body was covered with goose bumps, and the hair on his back stood up.
"Okay, I'll give it back to you." Ning Zhe successfully planted a mental stamp on himself and disproved the first guess.
Tu Yu did not recognize his identity.
"No, no, I'll give it to you..."
Xia Yubing waved her hands repeatedly, nodding in agreement.
(End of this chapter)