Xiu Erdai's daily essays

06764-Be useful

Me: "I can't guarantee that it will work, but it shouldn't be all dead. I have some experience in building channels and protecting people in time and space channels, and I think the magic stone will protect them during the process of leaving here."

Yang Ye: "Yes, the magic stone has been protecting us in various things. Sometimes I think that the magic stone is the real God of Harvest, and the one outside who is demanding believers is a false god."

Yang Ye: "But I don't have any evidence. This idea is not so much that I feel some signs, but rather that I desire it. If the magic stone is the real god, then at least we still have hope to overthrow the status quo."

Zhang Mi: "But even though the magic stone is the real god, the real god has been beaten by the false gods so that he can only take the few people left to hide in the ground, even if he tries to open the door on the ground, he misses it. The strength is already extremely weak, don't talk about turning over, I'm afraid it's not far from disappearing, right?"

Yang Ye: "Gods rely on faith to be powerful. Regardless of whether the one on the ground is a false god or not, he has attracted the power of faith from countless plant believers, and the only ones who believe in magic stones are us underground, and among them There are also a large part of the false gods who don't believe in the magic stone, and the constant weakness of the magic stone is inevitable."

The village chief: "Believe it or not, at this point, it's not easy to force. Everyone is living day by day, so let's try our best to enjoy our impossible life. Although I'm sorry for the protection of the magic stone, but We're really... tired."

Yang Ye shook his head, changed the subject, and said to Zhang Mi with a smile, "Since Pei Lin came, your tone and expression seem...more serious?"

Zhang Mi: "Because I want to be someone useful to our Second Young Master. Second Young Master doesn't like hippie smiles when talking about business."

Village head: "Didn't you say to be someone useful to me?"

Zhang Mi: "Because the second son didn't come at that time. You are the person with the highest status in this village besides Yang Ye and his guards. Their affairs are confidential. I don't want to get involved too much, so I can only mainly You are entangled with benefits. But after the second son came, the second son can leak more benefits to me, so I will switch to Mingzhu."

Me: "What benefits did I pass on to you?"

Zhang Mi: "The existence of the second son is a benefit in itself. As long as I can see the second son, I am happy and feel that the world is full of love and hope... What is that?" He looked at the replica of Ermao in my hand and asked.

Me: "A lie detector." Then the test result turned out to be true.

06765 - Polygraph

Zhang Mi also saw the conclusion displayed on Ermao's replica, and agreed: "Of course what I said to Ergong is sincere."

Village head: "Isn't that what you told me?"

I threw the Ermao replica lie detector into the arms of the village head, and Zhang Mi said to the village head and the lie detector: "It is also true. Sincerity with a time limit."

The polygraph expresses approval.

Yang Ye: "This thing... can also detect the sincerity of belief?"

Me: "Basically, it's just a toy. It can only detect the kind of lying that is particularly guilty. As long as the liar thinks that what he said is true, it may identify it as true. For example, what Zhang Mi just mentioned "True with a time period". Similar to people in love who say "I only love you for the rest of my life", although it will be a lie if you look at it ten years later, but when you say it, the speaker is still very serious."

Me: "For another example, I said that I believe in the God of Harvest. But the word 'believe' here is actually an omission. I implicitly mean that I believe that there is a creature or thing like the God of Harvest, which exists objectively. I also believe that if I Provide him with benefits, and he will give me benefits back. But this is obviously not the same thing as the belief that the God of Harvest wants and the belief that believers understand."

Me: "You don't have to tell lies to deceive people. This lie detector is more accurate in identifying lies, but it is not very good at identifying deception. And it is biased when it recognizes. Because it belongs to me, so when I lie to you, even if it If it recognizes it, it may pretend to be blind; but when you lie to me, even if it doesn't fully recognize it, as long as it finds doubts, it may rather kill the wrong conclusion first."

Village head: "It's funny."

I almost habitually asked, 'Do you want to buy it? 'But in the state of Moshi Village where there is no food, I'd better not find them unhappy.

Me: "I can borrow you to play, as my rent to live here."

The village head returned the polygraph to me: "Let's pay the rent with food. We can't afford toys because of the conditions here."

Yang Ye: "The key point is that the function of the lie detector will make everyone think of bad things. Before fleeing underground, the god-defying people were tested for lies many times. It is precisely because the lie detector did not pass completely that later The panicked escape, and the later attempts to return to the ground but were unable."

Me: "I bring a lot of edible things with me, but what you can eat... maybe Yang Ye, you can eat more. Others probably can't bear the spiritual power in the food, so they can only eat a small amount."

06766- food

I took out a basket of potatoes and put them on the ground: "Try it first." Magic Stone Village needs food that can fill the stomach, so Tongming fruit and ice sculpture snacks are not suitable, they must be staple food.

Village head: "This...is really much more generous than Zhang Mi."

Zhang Mi: "As a Golden Core Stage who doesn't need to eat, I'm very lucky to be able to take out food with me."

Me: "What food did you bring with you?"

Zhang Mi: "Bigu Dan. Sometimes it is used to trade small things, and it is better than spirit stones in certain environments."

Me: "Sometimes food does have a harder currency."

Zhang Mi: "However, it must first be proved that it is food."

Me: "full stomach, non-toxic, no side effects."

Zhang Mi: "The last one is difficult to detect for a while."

Me: "To be honest, even if there are foods such as potatoes and rice in the local area, the other party can't be sure whether I have added harmful substances or not. Across the world wall, even if it is the same kind of plants, there must be elemental differences , and even if it is harmless to use on me, it does not mean that it is also harmless to use on the other party."

Yang Ye: "When we eat plant fruits, we often experience symptoms of poisoning. The same person who eats the fruit on the same tree is fine on the first day, but the next day, he would have vomiting and diarrhea until he collapsed."

Me: "This is also the God of Harvest's... punishment?"

Yang Ye: "If the annual harvest is to the extent that we will starve to death, then basically all the food is safe; if the harvest looks like it can feed us all year round, then at least one-third of the food needs to be eaten. Something went wrong."

Yang Ye: "The God of Harvest is forcing us to eat meat, our animal friends, and even human beings to eat each other. If we still can't become his believers, he will define us as something that shouldn't exist. things, they should be destroyed."

Me: "So you are all vegetarian?"

Yang Ye: "Yes. When people are too hungry to survive, some people will commit suicide, and the corpses after suicide will not stay, but will be melted into the magic stone. Whenever the magic stone acquires a new sacrificer, the next In a few years it will be stronger against the God of Harvest, allowing us to obtain more edible substances."

Yang Ye: "In fact, this is eating corpses and companions in disguise. Even if every suicide is voluntary, we all know... Once no one is voluntary, there will be coercion. We can't kill the God of Harvest and His followers, but it is not difficult for us to kill each other."

So that's why I didn't see the old man at all when I came here?

06767 - from the heart

Me: "In order to maintain a relatively stable food, will the people here melt into magic stones after they live to a certain age? They will not wait until the crops are insufficient and everyone is starving to come to the rescue, but regularly... to offer Festival?"

Yang Ye was silent for a while, then nodded: "Yes. The timetable for the suicide was made by me. After taking over the job of the teacher, I not only failed to lead everyone back to the ground and retrieve the new students, but I also took away their life."

Village head: "There is no way. It is better to die than to die all."

Yang Ye: "There is a solution to any problem. If I can't find it, it just means I'm incompetent."

The village chief: "It's okay, high priest, we are all mentally prepared to die at any time. You don't have to be psychologically burdened, just try the method you think may be useful. We are lucky if we succeed, and we are lucky if we don't. If it becomes like this, the worst thing is to die, and you will be liberated if you die."

Yang Ye: "But merging into the magic stone may not be a relief. Maybe the spirit is still alive at that time, and can perceive everything. Watching the people in the cage continue to live with depression, hopelessness and strong spirit, watching the believers of the God of Harvest Continuing to covet us all the time."

Yang Ye: "It is even possible that the magic stone can sense that the God of Harvest is trying to assimilate the magic stone and wants the magic stone to become his believer. But the magic stone is the same as when it was a human being, it cannot be wholeheartedly devout, so continue to To survive in a hopeless numbness, not to receive God's favor, and to live in the realm of God."

Me: "If it doesn't work, let's open the door next to the God of Harvest, and everyone will fuck and beat the God of Harvest together, and try to hit him once or twice before the God of Harvest is angry and wipes out all of you?"

Yang Ye: "The God of Harvest will not kill us directly, he will only take away our harvest and let us gradually weaken with nothing. Be a believer in the understanding, walk on the ground, and the rest of the stubborn people who still can't learn to believe in despair can only be accompanied by the magic stone."

Yang Ye: "When some of the creatures in the magic stone village become believers, some of them merge into the magic stone, and the rest die, the magic stone should be shattered, and then there is no power in this world that can hinder the god of harvest in the slightest. God has truly become the only one in this world.”

Me: "In such a desperate situation, the villagers of Moshi Village can still show such a happy smile, which is amazing. There is no forced smile, and it seems that they are all happy from the heart, which is amazing."

The village chief: "Because we have reached such a desperate situation, we have to treat ourselves as well as possible. Anyway, we will die in the end. Crying every day is death, laughing every day is death, so let's laugh. Those of us who have no faith, God won't protect us, we have to protect our own happiness."