Chapter 160 Mountains and rivers, inside and outside
Ning Zhe quickly recalled the rules that he called the 'Ideological Seal':
1. God is everywhere
2. God is not allowed Looking directly
3. Those who look directly at God will be stamped with thoughts by God
The contents of the stencil are freely edited by the gods or those who enslave the gods.
Strictly speaking, Ning Zhe did not have the ability to stamp people's thoughts. The reason why he was able to use 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 of thought stamps. Tu Yu mistook Ning Zhe for Yu Ziqian, so Ning Zhe could use Tai Yi to simulate a false rule.
Rules are absolute, rules are fair, any weird rules have their fatal flaws, and Ning Zhe doesn't know what the flaws of the 'Thought Seal' are, so he almost never uses it to be on the safe side. This ability, even if it is a false rule that is too easy to simulate.
From the time he obtained Yu Ziqian's identity until now, Ning Zhe has only left a mark on three people.
One is himself, he forces himself to believe that he is Ning Zhe.
The second is Feng Yushu, who forced Feng Yushu to obey his words.
The third one is Xia Yubing. He forced Xia Yubing to believe that he could only escape from Zanju Town by relying on himself.
The first two uses were successful. Ning Zhe firmly believed that he was Ning Zhe, and Feng Yushu did have unconditional trust and loyalty to him. However, when it came to Xia Yubing, the ideological seal failed.
Why does it fail?
Ning Zhe quickly listed several possibilities in his mind:
[1. Tu Yu found out his identity]
The reason why he can use the Thought Seal is because of stealing If the identity of "Yu Ziqian whom Tu Yu knows" is changed, then as long as Tu Yu thinks through some clues that the current Yu Ziqian may have become someone else, then Tai Yi's rules will become invalid.
As far as Ning Zhe knows, Yu Ziqian hides the ability of 'Thought Seal' very deeply. Almost no one except Tu Yu knows the existence of this rule. Even Tu Yu Not long ago, when I helped Yu Ziqian hunt down the survivors of Bishuiwan Manor, I learned that Yu Ziqian had "some kind of ability to change people's cognition."
Without the foundation of 'Tu Yu's misunderstanding', no matter how solid the tall building is, it is just a castle in the air and collapses suddenly.
[2. Interference from other rules]
Just like Taiyi can interfere with the good or bad judgment of the snake god Zhaoyou, transferring the punishment of those who violate the taboos of the lunar calendar to other people.
So Ning Zhe has every reason to believe that there is another kind of rule in the world that can interfere with human cognition and can hedge or deflect the process of imprinting his thoughts into Xia Yubing's subconscious.
[3. I have always misunderstood the conditions for determining the ability of ideological stamping]
During this time, he paid for consultation with Lan Shiwen, and also contacted several upgraders who had interacted with Yu Ziqian, and supplemented himself with a lot of basic knowledge about the strange world and the ghosts of the rules.
All upgraders have a consensus: the rules are silent.
In most cases, the weird rules that have not been triggered will only run silently and will not actively interfere with the outside world, as if they do not exist. Instead of wandering around looking for people to kill like zombies in horror movies.
Any strange rule that wants to interfere with reality and have an effect on people needs a 'medium'.
The medium that triggers Taiyi is ‘cognition’.
The medium that triggers the summons is 'good or bad'.
The medium that triggers the special transfer is ‘Shadow’.
So what is the medium through which the ‘God who cannot be looked directly at’ acts on reality?
Ning Zhe once believed that God could not look directly into the eyes, and the eyes were the windows to the soul, so he naturally felt that the medium through which God stamped thoughts on people was the 'eyes', or 'looking into each other'. ’, and he did successfully put a stamp of thought on both himself and Feng Yushu by making eye contact.
But judging from the current situation, my reasoning at the time seemed... somewhat biased.
Use an analogy with an electric light. Humans trigger rules through media, just like flipping a switch to turn on a light.
[Press the switch] and then [the light turns on]. This process was so natural that he misjudged it and mistakenly thought that the light turned on was really Caused by pressing the switch myself.
But in fact, in the process of [switching power supply], the [switch] is just a superficial appearance. The reason why the light turns on is because the [power] is turned on. This is the real underlying reason why the light turns on. The switch just happens to be connected to the power supply.
As long as the line is connected normally, even if the switch is removed, the light will still stay on.
On the other hand, if there is a lack of power supply, even if the switch is turned on normally, the light will still not light up.
Ning Zhe felt that he seemed to...confuse the [switch] on the surface with the [power] on the inner layer.
Perhaps it is not the act of ‘looking at each other’ that triggers the mental imprint, but something else that happens incidentally when two people look at each other.
When he looked at Xia Yubing, the incidental incident did not happen, and the real condition was not triggered. He was just flipping a switch whose circuit had been broken long ago and had no electricity.
However, all of this is just a hasty guess made by Ning Zhe in a short period of time. Confirming these ideas requires time and opportunities, and now he happens to be lacking both.
"Take this woman out first..." Ning Zhe took a deep breath and asked Xia Yubing's aunt for the final payment after going out before confirming his last guess about the 'god who cannot be looked at directly'.
As for the first two guesses, he can now find a way to confirm them.
Ning Zhe stopped and stood in front of Xia Yubing.
"What's wrong?" Xia Yubing asked cautiously, for fear that he would suddenly go crazy and beat herself up.
“Give me your makeup mirror.” Ning Zhe said.
Xia Yubing silently took out a small mirror for touch-up makeup from her bag and handed it to him.
Ning Zhe opened the small mirror and looked at himself reflected in the mirror. His beautiful eyes were as bright as the sun and the moon. He looked at himself in the mirror and said:
“I am Ning Zhe.”
“I am Ning Zhe, too.” He said again.
“We are all Ning Zhe.” A hoarse voice came 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 is still slowly crawling towards the center of the sky, like a fat white silkworm pupating on a stool.
The cold moonlight shone down like water, reflecting a psychopath wearing a mask, holding her makeup mirror and looking at the mirror in a nervous manner, saying something like, 'We are all Ning Zhe'.
Xia Yubing had goosebumps all over her body, and the hairs on her back stood up.
"Okay, give it back to you." Ning Zhe successfully planted a ideological seal on himself, falsifying the first conjecture.
Tu Yu didn't see through his identity.
"No, no, no, I'll give it to you..."
Xia Yubing waved her hands repeatedly, obediently.
(End of this chapter)