Chapter 443: Judge yourself and gain new life
Pushing the wine glass in front of Tang Ze, Leon took the crystal handed over by Tang Ze in a calm and unhurried tone.
"The desire stone is the crystallization of human desires and distortions, emotions and persistence. It is also a concrete manifestation of the 'power' of understanding the world." Pinch up the sharp ice crystal-like stone and turn it over Look, his golden eyes exuded a metallic luster as the light and shadow changed, and his tone of voice had a rhyme-like rhythm, "What exactly is twisted desire? It is what people pursue and yearn for, Yearning reaches the point where one's own thinking is affected, and distortion is born from it."
"You want to say that the power of desire is the power of dreams and pursuits?" Tang Ze, who heard some subtext, said. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Ah, that is to say, you can also call it 'will power'. Is that what it means?"
"Yes, it is the power of desire, so it is the power of desire and emotion. Power is a pure driving force for the pursuit of ultimate happiness." As he spoke, Leon held it between his index finger and thumb, flexed his fingers hard, and the slender crystal shattered on his fingertips in the next second.
It was obviously a black crystal with a shell, but after it shattered, it raised golden dust, giving it a special and gorgeous feeling.
The powder flew up into a shining golden mist under the tapered lamp on the bar, and fell regularly into the empty cup in front of Karasawa, accumulating a small puddle at the bottom of the goblet. piles of golden sand.
"That's it?" He leaned closer to the cup and looked at the tiny bit of powder the size of a fingernail from all angles. Tangze clicked his tongue, "It's a bit harsh."
"In How much more of the ordinary quality of desire accumulated in the impression space do you want?" Regarding his question, Leon asked instead without any surprise.
"So you mean, I need to go to more palaces to get some high-quality ones? How do I use this thing? Just make a wish. Can you conjure something for me?" He flicked the goblet. The transparent cup wall made a crisp sound, and Tang Ze asked, "Can anything be changed?"
"It's probably not the first emperor of Qin to make a wish." Looking at Tang Ze who was staring at the cup thoughtfully, Leon complained first, and then added, "As I said, it is the product of wishes and emotions, not a sincere wish. When you can't mobilize your desires and your emotions can't keep up, you will definitely not get the results you want."
"It's very troublesome to have such a metaphysical theory and pay attention to sincerity. Tang Ze complained, but he directly pulled off the newly formed crystals on the brooch one by one and threw them into the cup.
Leaving his fingers, these crystals broke into new powder and gathered around the first pile of gold powder, making the pile slightly larger.
The golden sand that expanded twice finally showed a bit of brightness, and the golden shadow was reflected in the transparent cup wall.
But compared to the empty cup, this small piece of thing is still so pitiful.
"In short, it's something that can be exchanged for anything you want. I understand, it's an event store token, right?" Senior player Karasawa automatically and consciously performed the equivalent conversion, "And he didn't show me the store list. That kind of thing. It’s like saying that you are completely blind, and you are even more evil than Joseph. Don’t you even disclose the probability?”
Leon bent his eyes and turned a deaf ear to his condemnation, and just answered. Said: "This is different from the concept in the games I have played. Did you also say, 'Sincerity leads to spiritual success'."
"After asking for a long time, you are still telling me riddles." Sighing, Tang Ze shook his head, "Just tell me, this thing can be used for you, but I don't know what it can smoke, isn't that the end of it?"
Leon shook his head and said to Tang Ze He was non-committal and just said: "When you actually use it, you will naturally know it. When playing games, you have to keep a little sense of surprise for the first time, right? For someone like you, whether it is props, weapons or money, it will be better as soon as possible." It doesn’t matter to the players who have cleared the game, those Secret Treasure Buds, Hall Master’s Desire, etc. are all overflow resources. It’s also good to give you a way to exchange the overflow for other rewards.”
"...Are you sure it's a sense of surprise, not fright? The more you talk, the more you feel at a loss." Tang Ze rolled his eyelids, feeling that he could see a little bit of the man's smile on Leon's face, "Generally the overflow part is given to The rewards, even if there are any, are mosquito legs, right?”
Sensing the reluctance to give up in Karasawa's voiceover, Leon shrugged helplessly, then took down another wine glass and began to mix his cocktail today: "Well, what I can tell you first is that working harder to save a little won't help. Wrong. If you can fill a cup, there will be a surprise."
Tang Ze snapped his fingers and translated into the game language very quickly, and translated smoothly: "Oh, I understand, the mosquito leg also has a big guarantee, you will definitely get it if you go down the well, right?”
Not only did I learn the mosquito leg, but I also learned a weapon that can be used to kill people. You can see the guaranteed prize pool. This is not forced. Don’t people give up until they hit the bottom line?
Kangze, who has played various games, knows the ropes well and looked at Leon with disdain.
When playing games, be careful with riddles and be wary of numerical traps. He knows very well the deceptions of dog planning.
Leon stopped and turned around to get the bottle, and gave Tangze a rude look: "With so many opinions, just say whether you want it or not."
Coming, coming, some people are dogs The face of planning is really exposed.
Complaining in his heart, Tang Ze quickly said with a look of defeat on his face: "Okay, okay, I'll save it, can't I save it..."
No way, this crappy game, look at it It looks like a game, it plays like a game, but as Lyon said in the past, no matter how much it looks like a game, it is still real and his new life.
Thinking of this problem, Tang Ze had new questions.
"My Death coop has reached 3." Summoning his blue tarot cards and holding them in his hands like playing poker, Karasawa pulled out the Death card, flipped it over and showed it, "What is 'Fate Shift 1st '? Let me tell you, this is P5, and it is not a previous game where there is a lot of bitterness and hatred, and we don't want to engage in community relations. "
Looking at the past works, there are also communities. There is a precedent for the relationship to break up, and even if it doesn't break up... there is no guarantee that your coop will live well.
Even if they are the 25-year-old muffin man, even if they are Toru Adachi, they are opposite to the protagonist in terms of relationship and position. They deserve to be praised, but they can still achieve resonance and mutual recognition...
So in the P series, the breakdown of social relations represents the true severing of ties.
If there is such a possibility, whether it is alienation, going in the opposite direction, or a more extreme situation, he has not yet reached the full limit, the story has not finished yet, and the coop people are simply gone...
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Tang Ze lowered his head and glanced at the tarot cards spread out like a fan in his hand.
Unlike the original P5 with fake Igor, his Tarot does not show the distorted red card face of the P5 Tarot, but maintains the stable and peaceful Tarot that it should have originally. blue form.
For example, in the picture of Death he took out, in front of the plain blue gate, a white skull was placed there - not to mention, combined with the TV version of the cutscenes, it looks quite right. of.
But these Wade Tarot cards, which have various abstract meanings, now all have their own names in his eyes.
When Karasawa moved his eyes upward, it was as if he saw it in the system interface. The character's image, name, and the comments written by Leon quietly appeared on the card surface.
Edogawa Conan, Maori Ran, Amuro Toru, Hattori Heiji, Miyano Akemi, Hoshikawa Teru...
One by one, names passed in front of my eyes. He closed the Tarot and Karasawa closed his eyes. Then he opened his eyes again and looked at Leon at the bar with a particularly serious expression.
No matter what the outcome is, if he loses these companions during his journey, this is something he will never accept now.
The feelings that have been paid and the bonds that have been created are all real things.
Looking at Tang Ze's expression at this moment, carefully looking at the expression on his face inch by inch, Leon first suppressed the casual smile on his face, and then raised the corners of his mouth again.
He showed the business smile that Tang Ze had seen when they first met.
"You're a little panicked." With this statement, Leon's voice also lost the casual calmness brought by familiarity and gags, and returned to the calmness he had every time he read out the lines of the contract. A magnetic voice with a mystical flavor, "You pretend not to care that much, but you yourself have actually cared about 'fate' for a long time."
Someone was stung. Tang Ze narrowed his eyes, but did not look away after all.
The word destiny is something that Lyon will mention from time to time.
This was the case when they first met. Combined with his status as "Judge", Tangze always believed that the Riddler must know a lot of things that he didn't know.
Therefore, when he had such doubts, the first person he thought of testing and asking was Leon.
He was not disappointed, Leon continued. "You have been struggling with whether you should change those things, whether you should do so many things, for fear that you will flap the wings of a butterfly and trigger a powerful storm in the long run..."
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Using a steady and slow speaking speed, Leon analyzed Tang Ze's thoughts as if talking eloquently.
“Sometimes you hate those established things, those plots and stories that you have seen, and you will feel that according to your own wishes, you can change the plots that you hate, or use them to suit your needs. is also a struggle for the destiny of freedom.
"But there are also many times when you look at the world that has been changed beyond recognition by you, and you will have the fear of not knowing how to move forward. You are afraid that the day when you can no longer predict opportunities and predict the future will eventually come. < br>
“You are hesitating, you are worried, you are afraid that without the ability to predict, you will not be able to protect everything in the face of unprepared emergencies, you will not be able to maintain everything now...< br>
“You’re scared.”
This long sentence contains a judgmental tone that does not contain much subjective emotion. Leon seems to be stating his understanding of Tang in a straightforward manner. Ze's thoughts and words were calm and clear, as if he just wanted to express the fact that I have seen through your thoughts.
However, the golden eyes under the blue hat brim curved a little more, looking at Tang Ze steadily with a little teasing and ridicule.
Staring at such a pair of mocking eyes, Tang Ze took a deep breath.
Leon's statement may be a bit exaggerated, but overall this statement...
It's not wrong.
"I am indeed a little scared."
Tang Ze did not move his eyes away, staring into Leon's eyes as if he was struggling.
"I'm afraid that I haven't changed anything, but I'm also afraid that I've changed too much. I'm afraid that the people I tried my best to save and the regrets I wanted to save will eventually return to the established track. I All my efforts will be in vain... But if I really change that much, the uncontrollable future and unpredictable changes will only interrupt my plans that I think are perfect again and again."
"You are afraid of losing control. You are always afraid of losing control. You think your strength is to use all your reaction capabilities within a controllable range to complete the original planned goals." Lyon said directly, "You think your advantage is , lies in the control ability that the extra information brings to you. But that may not be the case in the future."
Tang Ze twitched his lips and admitted frankly: "Yes. You're right."
When he saw the words "Destiny Deflection 1st", he felt a lot of relief in his heart. He felt that he had done nothing wrong, but he couldn't help but have more doubts.
Where is Xingchuan Hui? Where is Miyano Akemi? What about Asai Narumi?
For these people whose original destiny will no longer exist, haven't their destiny been deflected? Have they failed?
Just think that the time has not come yet... What happens after that?
Will there be a Destiny Shift 2nd? 3rd? 4th?
Like the eye of a storm, pulling everyone around him into his own wishful thinking and following his footsteps, is this really a good thing?
If the future is completely separated from what he knows and takes an unimagined path, can he really still control these things?
This implicit worry would surface from time to time, briefly capturing Tang Ze's mind, reverberating in his ears like some discordant chords.
"I can understand your worries, Trickster." Using this name again, Leon reached out and patted Tang Ze on the shoulder rarely, "A future built with lies. How far can we go? It's natural to have such doubts."
"Oh, there is usually a twist behind this kind of words." Tang Ze raised his eyebrows after adjusting his emotions. Eyebrows, "What are you going to say next, but...?"
"Yes, but." The worldly expert tone faded away, Leon narrowed his eyes, "But, everything has come to this. Isn’t it too late to worry about the impact I have caused?”
“Huh?” Tang Ze’s raised eyebrows were suppressed by himself, “What do you mean?”
"You have already extended your hand, the first time you couldn't bear it, the first time you had scruples, the first time you regarded your Tarots as your partners, and Not just a cold coop character..." He couldn't tell whether it was with emotion or teasing, Leon's smile widened, "It's already too late, Trickster"
In his smile. Tangze's eyes slowly widened as he sensed some sense of schadenfreude.
"You don't really think of yourself as a player who has traveled through time, do you? You can lie to your buddies, but don't lie to yourself."
Restore to normal state completely Leon finally laughed completely.
“A player will care about rewards, mission progress, and maybe the characters and plot... But a player will worry about gains and losses, and have scruples in order to smoothly promote the development of the story for himself, so that when faced with Will the assistant in the velvet room who knows him best in the world still use words to test possible endings? "
Tangze moved his lips, wanting to retort, but he, who was always best at managing expressions, had an extremely stiff expression on his face at the moment, and could hardly mobilize any muscle feedback.
"Admit it, this guest." Taking out the cup filled with gold sand in front of Karasawa, Leon pushed it into the brightest position under the tapered lamp, picked up the tablecloth on the bar, and wiped it Wiping its shiny outer wall, he bounced it like Tangze did just now, "You are still Tangze. Everything in your previous life has shaped you today, but now you are also a Karasawa. "
"I..." Tangze wanted to refute again, but failed to think of a suitable line again, and choked again.
“Hahaha, it’s so strange to see such an expression on your face.” Seeing Tang Ze whose expression management failed, Leon laughed several times, “You can’t even lie to yourself. The old trickster looked really embarrassed and interesting. This guest is so interesting."
As his words fell, a crisp cracking sound sounded.
Karasawa raised his head and saw that on the ceiling of the bar, among the rings of Klein blue, something was silently shattering. Red and black debris, accompanied by this all-too-familiar sound effect, were flying to the ground. fall.
【rankup! Rank3]
[coop - Destiny Shift 1st]
[You have passed through the abyss of confusion, you have passed through the fog of unknown, you have fallen into the quagmire where you cannot move...
You want to shout, you want to go crazy, you want to change everything.
Your voice is heard, and the unfortunate are blessed with mercy.
Thus, travelers who know the morning star and the North Pole confidently walk into the huge world, carrying their luggage, confidence and wealth, your journey finally sets off.
However, please note -
Human cognition is composed of memories. People see themselves from others, glimpse the future from the past, gain their own from gifts, and gain from the old. Give birth to a new self.
Everything is like the ship of Theseus. Once it sets sail, it is difficult to return.
Are you really who you think you are?
Destiny is the end of choice. The wheels leave ruts instead of falling into them.
This is the intersection between you and judgment - judging yourself and gaining new life. 】
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