Chapter 243 Night of Dreams(1/2)
In the dark void, that ball of light was so eye-catching. At this moment, Lin Tuo confirmed the authenticity of the one-eyed giant's words.
It was indeed the same as the "stars" he had witnessed when he broke through.
The next second, the light group seemed overwhelmed by the huge requests that kept pouring in.
Some were stunned, and some were devastated.
The bright light froze for a moment and showed signs of going out again.
Lin Tuo was dumbfounded for a moment, thinking that it might have been caused by the huge amount of data that caused the computer to crash... Then it would be over, but fortunately, after a moment of sluggishness, the light group started to operate normally again.
"Scared me." Immediately, Lin Tuo, who breathed a sigh of relief, was surprised to find that lines of new requests began to emerge from the light group.
Not a wish request, but a spellcasting request.
It sounds a bit fantasy, but at this moment, Lin Tuo really felt as if he was wandering in a torrent of information.
Wherever the thought comes, you can read the specific contents of more than one billion wishes at will.
And you can choose "Agree" or "No".
"I can choose any wish among them to fulfill it." Lin Tuo suddenly realized, and then he discovered another interesting thing.
That is, the information around you is also different.
Some are bright and some are dark.
When the thought came to him, he instantly understood that bright wishes could be fulfilled, but dark wishes could not be fulfilled...
"Sure enough, the prayer candle cannot satisfy all wishes. It follows a set of rules internally." Lin Tuo was not surprised.
He had anticipated this earlier.
The logic is also very simple. If this artifact really has no restrictions on the types of wishes, there would be no need to escape when being hunted by extraordinary beings such as Hathaway.
It is completely possible to manipulate people into making a wish for "all pursuers to die immediately"... or something like that.
Even more directly, if you promise that "one's abilities will not be restricted in any way", wouldn't it be invincible?
But in fact, it was still being chased everywhere.
In the end, Lin Tuo was forcibly silenced by a "big silence" and collapsed... All this shows that not all wishes can be realized.
However, Lin Tuo still didn't know how this judgment mechanism worked.
Thinking of this, Lin Tuo first touched his consciousness to those "grey" and "unsatisfied" wishes, and tried to read the content randomly:
"I want to have endless wealth."
"I want to be the most powerful person on earth."
"I want endless life and eternal youth."
"I want the ability to make a wish at any time and have it granted."
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Lin Tuo's mind was immersed in the dark torrent, and wishes flowed in front of his eyes.
A considerable number of them are duplicates.
After browsing for a while, Lin Tuo found that most of the wishes were large and unreal. Some of them were more detailed, but they were also classified as unsatisfiable.
Withdrawing his gaze, he immersed his consciousness in the torrent of wishes that could be fulfilled:
"I want a new car."
"I want one million dollars to clear my debt."
"I want to be young and beautiful."
"I want to get rid of illness? Be healthy."
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Lin Tuo raised his eyebrows and realized that this part of his wishes were specific, subtle, and varied. They were generally more practical, and most of them were related to material things and the human condition.
"Is it really limited by the rules?"
Lin Tuo tried to summarize the rules, but was unable to come up with clear results for the time being.
"Would you like to try casting a spell? See the effect?"
Lin Tuo's thoughts changed and he decided to test these wishes in detail.
So, he began to pick and choose, first removing some of the dark side of human nature from the wishes... There are many such wishes? Such as wishing for the death of a specific person? Such as seizing the opposite sex, such as covering up the traces of crime...
There are all kinds of them, which are breathtaking.
Immediately, he eliminated some wishes that might cause harm to society... Even if these requests did not reveal obvious malice and could only exist for one night, they might still cause harm.
Finally, he turned to the remaining relatively harmless wishes and tried to "agree" to them.
As he operated, the broken pattern on the bottom of the candlestick lit up slightly, and Lin Tuo was surprised to find that the votive candle seemed to be trying to draw ether from the spiritual world in some unknown way for consumption.
However, it is probably limited to the degree of damage or the desire, so it is far less than the voracious pouring at the beginning, but a trickle.
Immediately, in the quiet study, the candle flame on the exquisite and simple candlestick began to flicker again and again.
Every time he trembled, a faint halo spread out, covering the entire sand table.
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In China, it is already late at night.
In an old residential building, most of the windows were dark, and only a few were still lit.
In a dim window, a middle-aged woman had just put her child to sleep. She walked out tiredly, glanced at her husband who was snoring loudly in the bedroom, and walked numbly from the narrow corridor to the kitchen, and began to prepare the ingredients for tomorrow's breakfast...
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The house is small, there is no living room, and the kitchen looks crowded and messy. The old wall coverings are partially peeled off, and there are signs of water seepage. There are pieces of sundries placed on the leather-covered stove. When you open the wok, there are
Gives off a disgusting oily smell.
The woman pressed her forehead with the back of her hand, sighed softly, and then began to clean and tidy up skillfully and numbly, with careful and gentle movements.
The door and the wall were too thin, and the sound was loud even at night. After a while, she finally finished cleaning up. She looked out at the old wooden framed and somewhat dirty balcony window, and her vision was pitch black.
A strong sense of loneliness surged into my heart.
She wiped her hands, picked up her phone and checked the time, then clicked on the group chat and flipped through the messages she hadn't had time to read.
After a while, she saw someone talking about making a wish on the spirit network, and her expression changed. Then suddenly on a whim, she put down her phone, clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and said in a low and hoarse voice, as if with emotion:
"Mysterious spirit, listen to my words: I want a new house, bigger, with a living room, a clean kitchen, and a dishwasher..."
Her voice was low, and there was no piety in her tone. It was more like thoughts than dreams.
However, the next second, a halo of light that ordinary people could not detect spread from the sky and rolled over the old buildings.
The woman opened her eyes, then laughed to herself, yawned, and prepared to go to sleep.
But then, she suddenly heard a slight noise, her eyes blurred, and her feet swayed slightly.
She hurriedly tried to hold on to the wall, but was surprised to find that the whole room was undergoing earth-shaking changes!
The small space was opened up and became spacious and bright, the old wall coverings were replaced with exquisite and bright wallpapers, and the leather floors under the feet were transformed into mahogany that reflects the soft luster...
Turning around, I saw that the originally narrow kitchen had become tidy and orderly, with all items neatly placed and a huge dishwasher occupying the entire field of view.
"Ah." She exclaimed.
The husband and children in the room were also woken up and looked blankly at the unfamiliar surroundings with dull eyes.
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The night is dark.
Somewhere in another city, a young blind man carefully stood up, fumbled on his slippers, and walked to the bathroom skillfully like a normal person.
After a while, he returned and climbed into bed carefully, but he couldn't fall asleep anyway. He picked up his phone, turned on it, and then entered the chat software amidst the rapid mechanical sound, and began to "listen" to the chat history.
The sound was too fast for ordinary people to understand, but he still felt it was too slow, and whenever the pictures in the group chat were read aloud, an annoying "unrecognizable" sound would come out.
Finally, he heard a discussion about wishes. People in the group were asking each other whether their wishes were fulfilled, but without exception, no feedback was received on their wishes.
Some people are calm, some are lost, and some question the authenticity of the spiritual network activities...
After a pause, he tapped the screen and paused the reading. Then he was stunned for a while, and then he spoke softly and said without hope:
"Mysterious spirit, listen to my words: I wish I could see this world with my own eyes, just one glance."
After saying that, the room remained calm and unchanged. He sighed, put the phone aside, closed his eyes, and retreated to sleep, but was suddenly startled by the sound outside the window.
He subconsciously turned his head to "look" over, and then his eyes were stung by a beam of light swept by a passing vehicle outside the window.
He groaned, turned his head away, and then suddenly froze. His whole body jumped up like a spring. Regardless of the discomfort in his eyes, he opened his eyes wide and stared at the window under the moonlight. He was completely stunned.
After several seconds, he suddenly shouted loudly, causing his parents to wake up from their deep sleep. They opened the door in a panic and saw the young man in the room looking over with his eyes wide open with tears:
"I...I saw it!"
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To be continued...