There is nothing wrong with the training method of the Justice Messenger

It was originally a crystal clear, pure white scene - but at this moment a layer of fog rose.

This indicates that the cultivation of the mind has come to a standstill.

This is undoubtedly very bad news.

But when Li Nian "looked" at this scenery, he felt unusually calm. Instead, he felt that he had grasped the key thing and realized that it was the most fundamental problem in the deepest part of his mind.

Li Nian thought it was a good thing. Why not? The hidden dangers emerged, making him aware of their existence, so he could prepare for them early.

The only problem is... I don't know what went wrong.

Just as it appears in the state of mind, it is shrouded in fog, which is different from the previous "confusion" in that it just does not know its true nature.

However, compared with the sense of crisis, Li Nian now feels more novelty. The appearance of fog indicates that the practice of his mind has come to a standstill. This is the first obstacle he has encountered since coming to this world. After all, his practice has been going smoothly all along. Now there is a sudden problem. This is his first experience after getting the system.

"Compared to cultivating strength, cultivating the mind is much more troublesome."

Li Nian actually understood what his situation was.

Those who are involved in the matter are easily blinded by a single leaf.

Having learned so many things, no matter what knowledge system it is, when it comes to cultivating the mind, people will emphasize its long process and dangerous changes. Among the possible problems listed, the one Li Nian faces is the most typical and common example, and it is not worth being surprised by.

When you can’t figure things out, there’s fog.

It's just the fog that's spreading, not the growth of inner demons. The cultivation of the state of mind has come to a standstill, but it has not regressed.

The problem is neither big nor small.

It has to be solved eventually.

The solution is simple.

If there is fog on the lake of your heart, just clear it away. As for how to do it, it's not a big deal.

Or to see the truth and organize your thoughts...

But now Li Nian is too lazy to think about it anymore.

After all, this fog in the mind is newly created after organizing thoughts in order to solve the problem.

Thinking about any problem will bring about new problems. This is the so-called "going off on a tangent". Li Nian has a deep understanding of this. If you can't find the key point, you are just wasting your energy and time. The more anxious and urgent you are in trying to find the key point, the harder it will be to find it.

It is enough to make the problem surface.

Wait for an opportunity, and when the fog is cleared, you will be able to move to a higher level.

Chapter 204: The Clouds Clear and the Mist Dissipates

The cell phone rang and Li Nian answered the call.

Every time at this moment, the first thing Li Nian subconsciously thought of was that someone had come to him for something related to his work as an exorcist. He got a little nervous for a moment and quickly took out his cell phone to see that the incoming call was not the backed-up Onmyoji number, but an unfamiliar number. Li Nian was slightly stunned by this, and while he breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and suddenly felt a little empathy for Isayama.

Up to now, he has taken on many commissions related to spiritual disasters. Often when a phone call comes, Li Nian will be instructed to run around everywhere. Although he can understand the suddenness of accidents and the necessity of rapid handling, and has no complaints about the content of the work, the irregularity of the time does bother Li Nian a little. He will feel a little nervous because of the phone calls, because he has been woken up in the middle of the night several times, and he has to say that he is a little resistant.

While reflecting on the fact that “it’s not okay for a social animal to have such thoughts”, Li Nian answered the call from an unknown number.

"Which one?"

"Ah, I got through, didn't I? Sorry, is this Mr. Muzi?"

A clear female voice was heard on the other end of the line, in a polite and respectful business tone, actively confirming the identity of the person on the other end.

"...Who is Teacher Muzi?" Li Nian asked doubtfully.

It seemed that she had not expected to be rejected. The woman on the other end was stunned and a little flustered.

"Huh? But... the contact information on the page is this..."

Li Nian frowned, and immediately thought that since the phone didn't even know who he was, it must be that kind of call, some kind of sales or advertisement. In short, it was just the usual harassment, or even a scam. He just said "You called the wrong number" in a bad mood, and then hung up, blocked the call, and reported it smoothly, and then threw the phone back into his pocket.

……

……

Now that Li Nian left first, Wu Geng seemed unable to sit still any longer. He said goodbye to everyone with a heavy look on his face, then pushed the door open and left in a hurry.

Sawamura also felt that there was no need to stay and planned to say hello to Kasumigaoka and leave, but he found that this senior was looking behind him. He looked over and realized that Kasumigaoka was looking at Aki.

An Yi obviously had no intention of leaving. He had taken out a notebook and a pen at some point and was sitting there with a sad face, as if he wanted to write something but didn't know where to start. He was still worried about the plan.

This guy has been busy with the project plan these days. You can see that he has been thinking hard all day and all night. It is obvious that he is not getting enough sleep because of this. What is even more obvious is that there has been no progress. Perhaps An Yi is not aware of it. After all the hard work, he actually looks quite exhausted.

Looking at her childhood sweetheart like this, Sawamura couldn't help but feel a little distressed - she shook her head violently, thinking to herself, you idiot, you asked for this, you said you wanted to make a game, you pulled a group of people like her over, but in the end you couldn't even write a decent project plan, you deserve to be so troubled.

Thinking of this, he wanted to make a sarcastic remark, but for some reason he changed his mind and instead said something comforting.

"No matter what, you should get some rest, stupid Tomoya."

An Yi waved his hands without even raising his eyes and just said "oh" as a response. Seeing his perfunctory attitude, Sawamura was furious. He snorted coldly: "No, I think you'd better die of stupidity!", and left angrily with his schoolbag.

"Why is Eriri so unreasonably angry again..." An Yi looked up at her receding back, not understanding why, and then ignored her and continued to ponder over the blank manuscript paper.

Kato, who was watching this scene, sighed with mixed feelings.

"What a suffocating operation. I don't know what to say..."

"That's right."

Kasumigaoka nodded in agreement, but her expression was as if she had seen an interesting scene and found it very funny. Kato was speechless when he noticed this, and felt that what Li Nian said was right, this senior was a bit demonic in some ways.

"Never mind that." Kato said with some concern: "Amai-san still looks a little bit unwell. I don't know if he can produce the project plan or not..."

"..."

Kasumigaoka calmed down a little and felt that Kato's thoughts were right. This producer still hadn't figured out his thoughts, but he kept mumbling words like "direction", "concept", and "clarity". These words didn't mean he had no clue...

"Anyway, Li Nian and I have talked enough."

Kasumigaoka felt that Li Nian and herself had already set their standards low enough, and they had said enough and given enough hints up to now. It would be really troubling if this classmate An Yi still couldn't make a breakthrough and couldn't even come up with a business plan.

At this time, Kato shook his head.

"In fact, I think it's because senior sister and Li Nian talked too much that people are confused."

"……What's the meaning?"

"Although I still don't quite understand some of your wordings because they sound too adult-like. Concepts, directions, and logic all seem to be explained clearly, but it's because of the mixing of these words that it makes people feel overwhelmed. Can ordinary high school students keep up with your pace? I don't think so."

"...I think that with the current level of education, our language has been simplified to a level that even monkeys can understand. Both Li Nian and I have taken good care of your understanding."

"…I'm sorry that my IQ isn't as high as a monkey's."

"Uh, sorry, I didn't mean to say that, it was just an analogy." Kasumigaoka looked away awkwardly.

"Okay... Anyway, I don't quite understand what Senior Kasumigaoka means, but I think what Li Nian means should be simpler."

“…Oh? How do you mean?”

Kasumigaoka became interested, and even Amaki looked up.

Recalling Li Nian's words, Kato gave his own answer.

"[No matter what you do, An Yi, or what kind of game you want to make, as long as you can really make it, I will accompany you to the end.], I think that's what that person meant."

"Alas... If I could really think positively, I would be much more relaxed now." An Yi herself did not believe it: "I can do whatever I want. I can write a plan for you in a minute. But weren't the things I wrote before rejected out of hand?"

"If I remember correctly, it's because you, Aki-san, who was so confused, didn't even know what you wanted to do in the end..."

“Eh…ah…this…”

As if this sentence had touched a sore spot, An Yi began to stammer.

"If you don't know what you want to do, how can you ask others to help you?" Kato said seriously with great confidence. "On the other hand, you already have such excellent people like Kasumigaoka-senpai and Li Nian to help you. What can't Amaki do?"

"No, it's because I want to create the "masterpiece" that I dream of... my plan as a blueprint..."

"I don't really understand what it means to be a "masterpiece"... But no matter what kind of work it is, you won't know its quality until it's actually made, right? You're right to aim for excellent results, Amaki-san, but aren't you skipping too many steps? Now that all the conditions are in place, all you need to do now is give everyone a general direction, right?"

"..."

Aki looked towards Kasumigaoka.

From the very beginning, Kasumigaoka was listening carefully to Kato's words, with an expression as if she was thinking about something. When she met Aki's gaze, she seemed to come back to her senses, sighed, and then spoke.

"To put it simply, maybe what Kato thinks is right... Li Nian's requirements have always been very clear. She wants you to submit a plan - she wants you to sort out your ideas, that's all. So, Amai, what questions do you still have?"

An Yi thought about it and said with a wry smile.

"I just feel that... I have to make my project worthy of these two authors who think highly of me... I have to aim for a "masterpiece"."

If I don't achieve this, I won't be responding to your expectations and requests - that's what An Yi thinks.

"Actually, I've been thinking a lot these days... I feel like I have a lot of good ideas, but every time I think about how to respond to the expectations of my senior and Li Nian, I feel like this won't work, this isn't good, this isn't enough... Am I really wrong?"

An Yi spoke bitterly, as if she herself felt embarrassed, but there was a rare hint of deep weakness in her words.

Ben is an unusually positive guy who can cheer up quickly even if he is depressed for a while, but at this moment, An Yi seems very helpless.

He is really under tremendous pressure.

The idea of ​​making games is real. It is an idea that has always been rooted in my mind. It is not for any big reason. As Li Nian said, I have played excellent works and was deeply moved by them, so I also want to make such works to move others.

It's just that the conditions have always been lacking in the past, so I could only bury it as an unrealistic idea... But when two excellent authors suddenly appeared beside me, and my childhood sweetheart, who is also a painter, happened to have grown to a considerable level, the missing conditions were suddenly met, and the thoughts of the past broke through the soil again and began to grow uncontrollably.

If you want to do something, really want to do something, if this group of people get together, they can definitely do something!

With this thought in mind, I finally gathered everyone together, only to find that the fundamental problem was with myself...

Planning, planning, planning.

It won’t work if it’s not a qualified plan... No, if it’s not an excellent plan, it’s not worthy of the production members who have such talent.

It was not until this moment that Kasumigaoka realized the demon in this boy's heart.

This boy, who had always been ignored by her and regarded as a "showy producer", was actually not a heartless guy. On the contrary, compared with everyone else who had their own goals, he was the one in the team who wanted the game to succeed the most and was willing to make the greatest effort for it.

He will stagnate because...

"You really don't have that ability." Kasumigaoka said, "As a creator, I know very well that you can't make a breakthrough in a short period of time, and it's impossible for you to write a plan as good as you wish."

An Yi was slightly stunned by this verdict.

Sure enough.

While feeling lost, I also feel a sense of relief.

Li Nian himself said that he didn't have much expectations for him at all.

Then, the final failure was already doomed. He could not submit a plan that would satisfy everyone in the final time. In this case...

"Can I give up now?"

An Yi asked with a smile.

"No."

As a result, he was hit back in seconds.

"I've been trapped by boring thoughts, so I say you newbies think too much."

Kasumigaoka, who had always been a kind and gentle senior, now looked at him with a cold and disdainful look.

"Weaklings love to make excuses for themselves. What's the logic of not working hard because they don't have the ability? Where do you think the strength of me and that guy comes from? You don't really believe in the nonsense that there is an absolute gap between geniuses and ordinary people, do you? Who hasn't worked hard all the way? You are weak now because you didn't work hard in the past. You want to break through to a level that matches ours just on a sudden whim? You think too highly of yourself. I understand why Li Nian was so reluctant at the beginning, because not only is your creative level so weak, but you also have a first-class arrogance."

"Huh? Ah?" Kato was so frightened that he froze and took a few steps back involuntarily.

An Yi was speechless, and suddenly recalled that she was once criticized for her planning. She thought that Kasumigaoka senior on the other end of the line might be in the same situation. When she thought that the lecture would not stop for a while, she immediately began to tremble.

Sure enough, Kasumigaoka seemed to be getting more and more impatient as she began to shake her legs and stamp her feet. Along with the rhythmic sound of her soles hitting the ground, her venomous tongue kept bombarding her with a barrage of venom.

"Didn't you hear what Kato said just now? How low has Li Nian lowered his requirements? It's almost like "I'll accompany you to the end no matter what you want to do." As a result, you, as the main person, are here complaining and grumbling for a long time without saying a word? Do you really think that writing a business plan is as difficult as ascending to heaven? I've already said that no one has high hopes for you, why are you still so proud? Above this, they just want you to give a general direction, is it difficult? Is it difficult? Who will write the final script? It's me and that guy who will write it, understand? Why do you think so much? As a producer, you should have the awareness of instructing your subordinates to act. What's the point of planning if you are worried about the script and can't write it? That's why herbivorous otakus are troublesome. If you learned a little bit of decisiveness from that guy, you would have started making games by now, don't you understand?"

“… Got it…?”

"You know shit, do you? If you really understand, then put aside your meaningless complaints and try your best to think, work hard and write. If you want to grow as a creator to the level of being worthy of us, then this is the only way. If you don't understand this simple truth, you might as well find a gun and start your life over again."

"..." An Yi, who was shaking like a sieve, could no longer speak.

"Why is such a useless person the producer? Really..."

Kato suddenly remembered something and said cautiously, "Although Li Nian has lowered her requirements, it is you, Kasumigaoka-senpai, who insists on not giving it to us if the project is not good enough, isn't it you…"

Kasumigaoka froze all of a sudden.

"…Did I say that? I don't remember."