15. Rules of Use
The box is back.
When I took the rectangular thing out of my pocket, I was completely stunned.
The box, which had been broken by my stepping on before, was back in my pocket intact, and it looked exactly the same, with signs of wear on all sides of the box, and the corners were polished to a shiny, which was the original wooden box and not a new one.
Something did tug at the corner of my coat just now, and I could be sure it wasn't the man standing behind me, it was a short guy with his hands just big enough to reach my pockets while avoiding the eyes of the four men behind me.
A half-height puppet? Pretty much so.
The fire crew didn't seem to be planning to leave the puppet workshop right away, and we didn't need to linger any longer on this side of the alley, so we returned to the hotel.
It was just after twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and the three of us immediately began to shiyan. Qiao Wei said that the box may have a limit on the number of wishes, and the box seems to be able to never be destroyed, so I thought maybe we could make a wish and let the puppets in the box tell us some information we want to know.
This time, the person who made the wish was replaced by me.
I made a wish for the box, hoping that it would tell me everything about how to use the box, including the range of abilities, the number of times it can be used, whether there are contraindications, etc., in short, I hope that the puppet in the box will give me a detailed instruction manual.
When I was done, I put a notepad and a pen on the edge of the box, and the three of us all went downstairs to find a 24-hour McDonald's for coffee.
We waited for two hours, and I thought that was enough time for the puppet to write the instructions, so we went back to our hotel room.
The box was still on the table, as were the notepad and pen, but there was no writing on it, and our first shiyan ended in failure.
We didn't do it right away, it was getting late, and I didn't want to go back and forth between the hotel and McDonald's downstairs all night, so we just found a place to sleep and waited until tomorrow morning.
It is estimated that sleeping on the floor made Li Xiang very uncomfortable, so he woke up earlier than me, and he was still yelling next to my bed.
I was dazed and heard Li Xiang shouting "Yes, yes", I didn't want to pay attention to him, but suddenly I realized what Li wanted to shout "Yes", so I opened my eyes abruptly and sat up from the bed.
"There are words in the manual?!!!" I shouted too.
"Hmm!" Li Xiang nodded vigorously and said, "There are words!" It's quite a few, show you! ”
As he spoke, Li Xiang also handed me the notepad that was originally on the table.
Two pages of words were slowly written on the notepad, the handwriting was very neat, and each word was written squarely, like a printer's typed Songti characters, but I was sure that they were written with the black pen I had placed on the table.
I carefully read each word of the two-page "manual" from front to back.
This note contains all the things I asked to express when I made my previous vows.
The first clause of the instructions clearly states that the wishing box relies on the puppet to complete the wish on behalf of the wisher, and this wish can be a general result, or it can be very specific, as long as the difficulty is within the puppet's ability, then the puppet will complete it on behalf of the wisher.
Qiao Wei's speculation about the number of wishes is correct, the wishing box does have a strict limit on the number of times, the box can only complete three wishes per day, once all three wishes are completed, then the wish will have to wait until the next day.
In addition, the Wishing Box can only determine the content of the wish simply or easily, and there is no restriction on the criteria of good and evil. Killing, arson, this kind of should be considered within the reach of manpower, although this is a bad thing, but the box will still be done.
The zuihou in the manual is about the taboo of the use of the box.,Or it can also be said to be a note.,It's also a wish to make a wish on the box.,Simply put, you need to pay a price.,This price is the soul.。 When a certain number of vows are made, the person making the wish has to give his soul to the box.
"What does it mean to offer the soul of the one who made the wish?" Li Xiang pointed behind me and pointed to the part of the instruction manual.
"If I'm right, I'd be dead. If you make a wish a certain number of times, you will die. I replied.
"Huh?! How many times is that? I don't think it's written on it! Li Xiang said nervously.
I read the manual briefly, and it really didn't state the specific number of times, only gave a vague statement, and there is no fixed standard for estimating this amount, which may vary from person to person and from wish to wish.
I told Li Xiang what I thought, and Li Xiang immediately panicked after hearing it, he stared at the box and asked several questions in a row, such as whether the wish he made before would take effect for a few days? If one day his wish suddenly comes true, will he die after him? And did his master Mao Xiansheng die because he made too many wishes?
I can't answer these questions, but I can make a wish to the box and ask the box to help answer it.
Li Xiang immediately shook his head like a drum, and he said that instead of asking those answers, it would be better to make a wish to completely get rid of the relationship with the box, and he still wanted to live a little longer than to fulfill his wish and make his wish come true.
So Li Xiang also used today's second wishing right - to let the box invalidate all the wishes he had made before but had not yet been fulfilled, as if he had not made these wishes.
I think this wish must be within the scope of "human reach", as long as Li Xiang makes a wish, the wish will definitely come true. Li Xiang waited for a while to make sure that he was not dead, and now he was completely relieved, and handed the wishing box to me and said that he never wanted to touch this thing again.
Li Xiang's problem was solved by himself, and the number of wishes the box made today was only once.
I do have a lot of questions that need to be answered by the box, but there is obviously more important things to get out of here.
I first called Mao Xiankang, the person who answered the phone was still his wife, and things were the same as I thought, Mao Xiankang still hasn't gone home, and no one has made any contact with him, so he disappeared. Mao Xiankang's wife also called the police, but the police's answer was that the case would not be filed until 48 hours after the disappearance.
So after ending the call with Mao Xiankang's wife, I immediately made my third wish for today's box to the box.
"Take me to Mao Xiankang!"