Xiu Erdai's daily essays

2488_Gambles and bonuses

Me: "Facing my fear for a long time, and not collapsing in the accumulation of fatigue for several months, this must at least be... the state of mind of a foundation-establishing monk, and it may be even more tenacious. You know, Wulinggen It can be cultivated after certain special opportunities or certain harsh conditions are met.”

Feng Ci: "I don't know. We just ask you, don't play too much."

Me: "My guarantee is always valid. Everything I did in this incident will never directly cause anyone to suffer physical or mental harm."

Feng Ci: "Doesn't matter if it's indirect?"

Me: "The scope of 'indirect' is too large, I'm afraid I don't have the ability to be careful. Yunxiazong and others have helped me pay attention, but you are more familiar with the mortal world, so I will trouble you to be more careful."

Feng Ci: "... Well, I should say something that I shouldn't say in my capacity. Mr. Pei, you are the most reasonable person among the Jindan cultivators I have contacted. You didn't pretend that we didn't exist, and you didn't demonstrate or threaten us. , you have satisfied or at least partially satisfied all our requirements, and given reasonable reasons for the unsatisfied parts, but your way of doing things..."

Me: "It's definitely not the most embarrassing thing for you."

Feng Ci: "That's right... I always feel that you are quite familiar with the mortal world."

Me: "If you read a lot of information, there will not be many new things in the world."

Feng Ci: "Okay. I'll go and notify to prepare for the mopping up. When do you think most of these people who have swallowed the nightmare seeds will be unable to survive and choose to pay back the debt?"

Me: "You must have more practical experience than me in this area. To put it bluntly, it is the combination of insomnia and fear. After tonight, there will probably be the first batch of surrenders. After three days, there should be the second batch of concentrated ones. After the third batch. Most of the people should not be able to hold on within this week, and it’s hard to say how long those who have survived the week can continue to endure.”

Someone started a bet, betting on who can last the longest under the seeds of nightmares, and how much time is the longest.

There are also crowdfunding bonuses, ready to reward the top three who last the longest.

Someone asked me: "There is still a gamble in this crowdfunding, should the profits also belong to you?"

Me: "No. Although strictly speaking, this incident is a derivative incident of infringement of my portrait rights, the key point lies in their ability to fight fear and fatigue. From the perspective of cultivation, it is the state of mind. I respect people with excellent states of mind. It's their actual ability that has nothing to do with me, so the benefit they get from it belongs to them."

2489_ not less than seven days

Me: "However, I have to add a prerequisite. I don't care about the game, but if you really want to reward them with crowdfunding bonuses, in addition to the relative ranking of the top three, those three must persist for more than seven days. If everyone If the support time is less than seven days, then the funds raised cannot be given to any of them. As for what you will do with the funds at that time, I don’t care, and I will not accept it.”

After that, some more gambling items were added, betting on whether, how many people, and which people can last for more than seven days.

The crowdfunding bonus has also changed the rules: the bonus will be distributed to all those who survive for more than seven days, and the longer the duration, the greater the bonus.After the crowdfunding is over and the list of winners is determined, the specific distribution ratio will be set by public solicitation.

The gambling game is booming, and the amount of crowdfunding is also rising steadily. It quickly climbs to the point where the total amount is enough for anyone who eats the nightmare seeds to pay off the debt owed to me, and it will continue to accumulate at this speed. At that time, if only one person wins the prize, then the amount of prize he will get will be so huge that he can leave a large sum of money after paying back my money with the prize money.This is not a loss but a profit, so those who are still holding on have more motivation to hold on.

Before crowdfunding became popular, some people had already announced their abstention.After making sure they started working hard to pay back my debt, I suppressed the growth of the nightmare seeds in them.Afterwards, some of them continued to work hard to raise money, while others saw that the crowdfunding bonus was so high, plus they had no nightmares, got a good night's sleep, and their minds became alive again.For the latter group of people, I fulfilled their desire to re-enter the competition, revoked the suppression of the nightmare seeds, and let them continue their nightmares.

I commented: "Until you pay off your debts to me, I will not remove the nightmare seeds in your body, but just suppress them, so if you say you don't want nightmares and want to raise money, but your actual actions don't match, then the suppression will It will be cancelled, and the nightmare will continue."

Me: "In addition, there is a bonus for more than seven days. It refers to more than seven consecutive days, not the total number of intermittents. I suppressed it in the middle, that is, the nightmare was interrupted. The timer is reset. After the suppression is cancelled, start again time."

Stimulated by the bonus, some people who were trembling with fear on the first day gritted their teeth.

Feng Ci told me: "People make money and birds die for food. These people use your appearance and reputation for profit, and even when they know that they are infringing rights, they still refuse to pay compensation. They are all deviant people. Raising bonuses is too stimulating for them, as long as they stare at the increasing bonuses, they will ignore the abnormalities in their bodies, and it is very likely... that they will die suddenly."

Me: "Their list has been made public. People around them are watching them closely because they want to watch the show and want to make trouble. When they have abnormalities, they may ignore them, but the people who stare But there are always people who can find out, and there are many good people who will make this discovery public."

2490_herd effect

Me: "The name, coordinates, and real-time status of every person who has taken the nightmare seeds are listed on the nightmare leaderboard of the gaming bureau. It can be said that all their situations are under the watchful eyes of the whole world."

Feng Ci: "Then the whole world watched them collapse quickly. Some people who paid off your debts within the time limit, at the beginning saw the crowdfunding prize money continued to increase and regretted that they did not deny it to the end and could not participate in this competition, but now Seeing the miserable conditions of those participants, they are glad that they did not participate."

Me: "I know what you want to say. These people look so miserable and insane, and the influence is not good. It not only makes people with good intentions intolerable, but also makes people with malicious intentions move their minds."

Feng Ci: "This is a public execution, mentally retarded. We have banned minors from watching related live broadcasts. However, due to too much attention to this matter in the early stage, minors who are interested in this have already known what happened. Prohibiting it now is just to let them turn their viewing channels underground."

Feng Ci: "It's the debtors who have come to this point. It's their own choice. We don't mean to accuse you of being too aggressive in asking for debts. But now, some negative things, some will have a large-scale bad effect. stuff, it's too public."

Feng Ci: "Ordinary people don't regard self-cultivation and self-strengthening as an indispensable and high-priority lifelong task like monks. Not being shaken by the environment or others is the basic quality of monks, not ordinary people. Many Ordinary people are easily influenced by the environment, they may not have malicious intentions, but when many, many people do, say, and think that way, more people will do, say, and think things that should be prevented thing. The herd effect is sometimes, very scary.”

Negative herd effect, brainwashing... pyramid schemes, cults, even turmoil...war...

Me: "You're right. I thought it was too simple. I'll try my best to remedy it. If you have a solution, please let me know and I will try my best to cooperate."

The Special Events Department said that this incident can be analyzed in two stages.The former stage is about charging portrait fees, and the latter stage is about the penalties for those who refuse to pay and its extended impact.

Things in the previous stage have basically ended smoothly, but the latter stage is getting out of control.The root of the loss of control lies in the fact that gambling games, crowdfunding bonuses, and live reports are largely no longer related to me, and their nature has become the passion of mortals.

Feng Ci: "When monks take the lead, mortals who are used to the big movements of monks will tend to regard themselves as bystanders, just watching the development of things, commenting most, but not participating too much. However, when you create A situation that many mortals are enthusiastically concerned about, but when you stand back and wait for development, this event becomes a mortal taking over the leadership, and it is a spontaneous leadership without a unified manager."

2491_ Take back the dominance

Feng Ci: "For monks' spontaneous incidents, the bottom line can be determined by their cultivation level, but the mortal world does not have such a recognized standard. Including the official, if they are too tough in the society, it is more likely to backfire."

Feng Ci: "Now there is a major premise. The vast majority of people who participate in crowdfunding bonuses, watch live broadcasts, and participate in gambling games are just ordinary people and have no malicious intentions. To a large extent, when they start participating, they are just playing. A piece of leisure content is not much different from paying attention to all the hot news.”

Feng Ci: "The crux of the problem is that there are too many people, and because the live broadcast and related reports of those who have nightmares are making ordinary people feel more and more uncomfortable, so many people's emotions have gradually turned negative. We have to bring these people's emotions back into the positive territory in a way that doesn't make them resist before they go completely negative."

Feng Ci: "The method we suggest is that you take back the dominance and let the nature of this matter return to the level of monks. The isolation between monks and mortals, which has been deeply rooted in the impression of mortals, will alleviate their discomfort. , weaken their sense of engagement, and thus protect their emotions.”

...It sounds very complicated, no wonder the Kunlun monks who care about the whole world are so complicated.

Feng Ci: "As for the way to regain the dominance, it's up to you."

Feng Ci: "If you act tough, then the people who are interrupted will be dissatisfied with you, but it is normal for mortals to be dissatisfied with monks, and they will forget after a while. Wait for you to come back to mortals after five or ten years. In the world, few people may remember who you are. This is the most efficient method, and the only thing that needs to be sacrificed in this method is your temporary positive reputation in the mortal world."

Feng Ci: "If you want to use a softer method, then you need to provide a reasonable reason for your behavior of taking back the dominance. After all, you have said before that you don't care about the gambling game, and don't care about crowdfunding bonuses except for the seven-day requirement. You have never been involved in reports from mortal world channels other than Baowen. If you want to overthrow the above statements and practices, then you need to give reasons, and most mortals must be able to understand and think it is acceptable accepted reasons."

Me: "I'll try."

However, Feng Ci and the others didn't tell me, if I choose the tough line, how should I be tough... Could it be that they tacitly believe that monks know how to be tough on mortals?If this is what it means, then it is quite normal for mortals to feel dissatisfied with monks.