Chapter 24: Full of Malice from the World

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In the seventies and eighties of the last century, there was a boom in ESP research in many major countries in the world, which is the so-called "special function".

At that time, the scientific community in the former Soviet Union had done such a thing.

Place a person with a closed sense of sight and hearing in the middle of a room with a brick wall, tell him that there is no obstacle in front of him, and order him to continue walking.

The results show that on average, every 28,800 real yàn, there may be one real yàn person passing through the wall.

But this seems to have nothing to do with the physique of the person himself, and this situation can occur in anyone, and it is a special state that appears completely randomly.

Ivanovich, the scientist in charge of the research at the time, made a startling conjecture - the rules of the world are not perfect, and that one in 28,800 is the probability of error allowed in our world. Within the time frame of the error, anything that goes beyond common sense is allowed to exist.

The number 28,800 is then multiplied by three, and the resulting 86,400 is exactly the number of seconds in a twenty-four hour day, and this conjecture becomes a more convenient conjecture that "the error allowed in the world is three seconds a day".

This is the "three-second error" conjecture that has not yet been conclusive in ESP research.

Although this "three-second error" conjecture was a scientific discovery in the seventies and eighties of the last century, in fact, as early as thousands of years ago, there were people in Huaxia who mastered the method of exploiting the loopholes in the world's rules, and such people were first called Fangshi.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Fangshi began to flourish, and the "Historical Records" called it "Fang Xian Dao".

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the monks were at their peak, and some of the scholars began to move closer to the rulers.

But although the deception technique was magical, it was just a small trick to sensationalize in the eyes of the emperors at that time, and they were more concerned about their own longevity and the longevity of their rule over the world.

In order to maintain their current status, the focus of Fangshi's research began to be biased towards the pursuit of immortality, and gradually became a lineage of Taoism.

The useless Heavenly Deception Technique interrupted the inheritance of this lineage.

And there is also a line of monks because they are unwilling to be in the same stream with the rulers, and they have always walked and passed on to the people, using illusion and deception to punish evil and promote good, warning people to fear ghosts and gods, and leaving many legends of land gods and immortals in the people.

Later, as the theory of gods and ghosts prevailed, the priests of this vein had to disguise the deception of heaven and earth to avoid the suppression from the rulers, and gradually evolved into the line of magicians.

And Li Mengnan is the only successor of this trickster lineage.

Although in theory the deception technique can do almost anything, in practice it is still subject to many limitations.

First of all, it is called deception, but in fact, heaven cannot be deceived, and anything that has been deceived by the heavens to change its state of existence, once it exceeds the time limit of the deception, it will be forcibly corrected by the rules of the world and restored to its original appearance.

For example:

Li Mengnan can use the Celestial Deception Technique to turn an orange into the color of a rainbow, and even make it glow like a light bulb. But because this is not the original state of this orange in this world, then when the time limit of three seconds per day of the Heaven Deception Technique has passed, this orange will still regain its original color.

However, if it is a physical displacement, such as moving an orange from the outside of the door to the house, or pulling out the flesh of an orange completely without breaking the peel, although the intermediate movement process is skipped, this change will not be fixed by the world rules after the time limit ends.

Li Mengnan is also unable to explain this phenomenon, perhaps because this physical displacement is not seen as a change in the state of existence, so it is selectively ignored by the rules of the world.

Secondly, the use of deception can only be carried out when you can see the object of action, or have a rough idea of the location, size, and shape of the object being used.

Let's still give an example.

Suppose Li Mengnan wants to take out the contents of a safe, he must know the types of items in the safe and where they are placed, and just thinking about "taking out all the contents inside" will not lead to anything.

Finally, and the most incomprehensible point - from the moment of the first use of the deception technique, the user's fortune will gradually decline, which is the legendary "loss of character", and any bad luck can catch up, and he can't wait to drink cold water and stuff his teeth.

It is said that this is the curse of the ancestors, but Li Mengnan does not believe that an old man who has been dead for thousands of years can still manage the affairs of thousands of years later, and it is estimated that there is a natural rejection of the rules of the world for the destroyer.

This is also the reason why the Celestial Deception is called the "Ultimate Forbidden Technique" rather than the "Ultimate Trick".

Every time he thinks of this, Li Mengnan wants to cry without tears, saying that he was just young and ignorant and curious for a while, and then ...... This is another sad story.

However, this curse of "losing character" is not unsolvable, and users can use their own "merits" to offset the side effects of deception.

To put it simply, it is to do good deeds and accumulate virtue.

Although this is only a palliative method, it is better than doing nothing, you know, this curse will gradually accumulate, if you don't ask, it is possible that in the end, there will be five thunders to the top and turn into the scum of heaven and earth.

Li Mengnan still can't explain the reason for this, but a word that has been very popular on the Internet recently makes him feel a little reliable - "positive energy".

Perhaps it is the "positive energy" brought by this good deed that counteracts the malevolent curse from the world.

By the way, Li Mengnan's open-mindedness of treating money like dung is also the sequelae of accumulating merits over the years...... As the saying goes, the wind blows the eggshell, the wealth goes to the people's happiness, and no matter how much money you have, it is not as important as your own life, right?

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After throwing all the piles of tattered debris downstairs into the garbage heap downstairs with a deceptive technique, Li Mengnan took the bucket and mop and other cleaning tools he received from the logistics office and began to clean the entire room.

The most troublesome garbage is disposed of, and the remaining floating dust is not a big problem.

As a child from the countryside, Li Mengnan could run dozens of miles of mountain roads at the age of eight, and at the age of sixteen, he overturned a wild boar with his bare hands.

Li Mengnan swept out the house with a broom a thick layer of floating soil on the ground, carried a bucket to the water room to get a bucket of water, and was about to wipe the windowsill, when the mobile phone thrown on the bed suddenly sounded a long Peking Opera voice.

"Mother-son-!"

Li Mengnan grabbed the bed railing like a dexterous ape, turned over and sat cross-legged on the bed board of the upper bunk, and quickly answered the phone before the music behind him could start.