Chapter 47: The Mirror Realm (3)
Sutum came up with the idea of creating rumors to guide people's minds to form ideas.
A rumor, if no one believes it, is just a joke, false and useless, and has no effect on people's minds. Even if it barely spreads, it is just a rumor, which can be easily debunked.
But when this rumor is believed, accepted, and spread for a long time, it will gradually unite people's hearts and minds and unconsciously rely on its rules. This rumor will slowly take root in people's hearts, forming a set of intangible ideas that have real effect.
An idea that is neither right nor wrong, nor good or evil, or even distinguishes between the real and the unreal, but only because people believe that it becomes true.
For a person who agrees with a set of ideas, what he thinks is absolutely true, absolutely correct, and almost irrefutable.
For example, a person who believes in the concept of survival of the fittest, he will feel that the weak are eliminated by society, which is a matter of course, and no matter how much persuasion from others will not work.
Only when he no longer believes in this set of ideas will he develop the mentality of caring for the weak.
An idea in the hands of mortals can only influence their thoughts and actions, while in the hands of demons, it truly has incredible power.
Born of a demonic concept, it is capable of transforming any intangible idea that is in harmony with its essence into a tangible and qualitative supernatural power.
Sutum created the rumors precisely to actively guide the generation of the concept of the mirror.
He concocted dozens of stories that sounded like they were true, and then asked Nick to find dozens of eloquent, demagogic people to suggest them and convince him of their existence. He then had them spread the stories around the inner and outer rings of the city of Sisos, and even as the caravans traveled to other cities.
The purpose of these people is to make these stories widely known, so that people can form a thought in their minds that the mirror is not simply a tool for tidying up and grooming, but has the ability to distinguish between good and evil, and even contains a mysterious world. As for how to guide people to believe in the future, and then turn these thoughts into ideas in people's hearts, it depends on Sutum's ability.
All in all, at least in this tavern, his purpose was achieved.
The so-called worry-free food and clothing are in the mood to think crankily. In this era, because of the existential crisis, people are poor in thought, and their daily chatter is often based on reality. So, although the story told by the young man is not flawless and seems absurd, it is easy to believe in the context of this era.
At this time, who he was talking about in Sural, and even whether there was such a person, few people in the audience around him cared, and no one really wanted to find out.
- Of course, even if they do investigate, they will find that this is a "real thing" and everything is "well documented".
These listeners are now thinking more about the impact on themselves if they believe the "facts" told by young men.
"Anyway, I'm not going to believe it. ”
A bald-headed and shirtless strong man said fiercely, shoved the young man away, and then left the tavern in a rage and a little panic.
Immediately, some people came up with all sorts of excuses to leave.
The rest looked at each other.
A listener sneered, "Hey, I guess, this bald head must have gone back to smash the mirror." ”
Someone next to him was puzzled and looked at him suspiciously. The man slowly explained:
"That bald head just now is called Locke, and he's a tyrant in the Lake Beral area next door. This guy has bullied and humiliated many residents by force, and he has done almost countless bad things, and he came to our Xilin District to avoid the enemy who can't be provoked...... There is something in his heart, and when he hears these bizarre things, he is naturally afraid that there is really some world in the mirror, a ghost in the mirror. ”
"Hehe, in a weak heart, he must be afraid that what this young man said is true, and he has to take some precautions. ”
This man's words are reasonable, so that the people around him have to obey. And with the help of this person's words, the other listeners who were scared away were obviously also shadows in their hearts, so all of a sudden, all kinds of bad things were shaken out one after another.
Sutum secretly wrote down these people, these things.
But a story is a story after all, and it only lasted for a while before the movement subsided. The tavern was also quickly restored to its original state.
Sutum didn't care, this was just the beginning, and when people found out that the story could be proven to be true, then it would naturally make even bigger waves.
It was night, and it was dark and deep.
The entire Xilin area is quiet.
In a secluded house in a residential area, Locke, a bald man, lay on the bed, his nostrils wide open, snoring loudly, and sleeping soundly.
There was a click, and the sound of objects rubbing and moving suddenly appeared in the room.
Gradually, the sound grew louder and louder, mixed with a strange and terrifying laugh.
After a few moments, Locke finally woke up.
He opened his eyes in a daze, and through the hazy starlight shining through the window, he could probably see the source of the sounds.
Right in front of his bed, a glass mirror that had been shattered by him and thrown aside turned out to be weirdly made up at this time, as if the mirror like a spider's web was facing his face.
On the mirror that was barely put together, a vague and indistinguishable human face appeared at this time. The man smiled at him, and suddenly stretched out a pair of arms to him, as if to pull him into the mirror.
Faintly visible, inside the mirror there is an infinite world filled with flames.
"Ahh
Locke let out a heart-rending scream. The sound was so poignant that it pierced the silence of the night and spread rapidly through the darkness, waking many people from their dreams.
Immediately, his voice stopped abruptly, as if something had cut it off.
That night, and for the rest of the day, in other parts of the Outer Ring, there were people who had almost the same experience, and many heard the miserable screams and felt uneasy in their hearts.
The night passed.
The next day, almost everyone knew about the rumors.
The screamers eerily vanished, leaving only broken mirrors and airtight rooms.
Except for angels and demons, no one can quietly take people away from the closed secret room. Angels, who symbolize the divine in people's hearts, obviously do not do such things. Rather than judging that it was done by demons, people are more willing to believe that there really are spirit spirits and world in the mirror, and the disappearance of these people is also due to the mirror.
Affected by this atmosphere of panic, many people began to believe that these people were pulled into the world of the mirror, and perhaps at this moment, it was somewhere in the mirror that they were suffering endlessly.
Under Sutum's deliberate guidance, the story became true, and the rumors became the truth, spreading rapidly. These rumors, with lightning speed, have penetrated into the hearts of the people and changed people's concept of mirrors.
One day, two days, three days, half a month, almost every day, some people suddenly disappear without a trace, as if they have fallen into the world in the mirror.
Of course, most of these people will reappear after a few days.
It's just that they will have some inexplicable scars on their bodies, which can never be caused in the city, and their memories are also vague, describing the process of their disappearance, as if they really went to another world and experienced a nightmarish experience.
These things also once again prove the truth of the rumors.
Unknowingly, there is a large number of people in the city of Sisos who almost completely agree with the statement about the world in the mirror and take it as the truth. This means that the idea of the mirror that Sutum guided to generate has taken shape.
In the ashram room, Sutum looked at a human-tall mirror, his eyes flashing with black light.
His figure was clearly reflected on the smooth mirror, but as the black light in his eyes flickered, the mirror surface rippled like water waves, and soon turned white.
A small black vortex appeared on the white vast mirror, spinning rapidly, faintly visible countless mysterious and strange, shaped like tadpoles, and it seemed that the light points of words and pictures surged from the vast void and plunged into the whirlpool......
The whirlpool is slowly growing, and in the center, a vague world is taking shape.
"It won't be long before I can really condense the ability of the mirror world. ”
Sutum couldn't help but smile on his face.
The black light in his eyes faded, and the vision in the mirror disappeared, and his figure reappeared in the mirror.
It's just that if there is nothing, he feels the existence of layers of space around him, and feels as if he can pass through the mirror surface to reach another world, and even more can use the mirror as a medium to appear directly in another space.
This is exactly the illusion that the ability of the mirror world is about to take shape, and it brings him.