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"d.a.m.n!" Liu Shuai was so shocked that he almost shouted out, but when the words reached his mouth, he held it back and lowered his voice. Seeing that no one was looking in this direction, he continued to speak with Zhou Yuan: "I mean, Great Deity Zhou, when did you come? Can't you inform me in advance? "
"Wasn't there a whoosh just now? wasn't it a form of informing? " Zhou Yuan smiled as he sat down. Looking at the illusions Long Fei had set up around him, he nodded and said to Liu Shuai, "Don't blame me. I've been learning from Mr. Zhang Chi Hang all the time. Long Fei, the illusion you created is not bad, but it can only prevent the outside world from seeing our movements. It cannot s.h.i.+eld the sound. If we were to speak louder, people outside would easily detect us. Or if there is a fight outside, they can hurt us by throwing a teapot or a stool."
Long Fei nodded. Before he could speak, Zhou Yuan extended a finger, and the water- ripple like illusion suddenly flashed with a bright halo, which flashed three times and then disappeared, as though nothing had happened.
Seeing Zhou Yuan weirdly pointed his finger, but nothing happened except the change of the halo, Hao Ning couldn't help but ask Zhou Yuan what he was doing. At this time, a waitress walked over. Hao Ning knew that although the waitress couldn't see the movements of the people in the illusion from outside, she would see everything if she walked into it. He immediately sat upright, thinking about how to deal with the waitress.
Out of their expectation, after the waitress came in, she didn't seem to notice anything abnormal. She hurriedly said while trying to maintain a smile, "h.e.l.lo. If you feel it is noisy, we can change your seat —"
"Noisy?" Hao Ning thought for a moment. The waitress was most likely worried that the people who shouted just now would cause trouble for the others, so she advised them to change their seat. Just as Hao Ning was about to say yes, he looked around from the corner of his eyes and saw a few waitresses whispering to other customers, some of who had already paid and left without saying a word.
"They're convincing the customers to pay the bill and leave?" Hao Ning secretly laughed in his heart, thinking that the restaurant was unlucky since it had been wrecked a few times recently. He thought, "They have experience. They know how to evacuate customers when this kind of things happen."
Therefore, Hao Ning did not want to make things difficult for the waitress. He thought it would be good to change a table, but before he could say anything, the waitress seemed to have muttered to herself, "Eh? You want to pay the bill? OK, a plate of cuc.u.mber salad, 20 yuan, OK, see you..."
After that, the waitress stepped back with the professional smile on her face, looked at the air, rolled her eyes, touched her chest, and said: "We finally sent away these b.a.s.t.a.r.ds. They ordered a plate of cuc.u.mber and kept talking the whole afternoon. If there was a fight and they got injured, we would have to pay the medical fees. What shameless people! I 've never seen anyone like them."
"Are you insane? — — "Liu Shuai did not have time to react to what was going on, but when he heard the last sentence, "What shameless people! I 've never seen anyone like them." his face turned red and he slammed the table and stood up immediately, pointing at the waitress's nose," What did you say? Do you dare to repeat it?"
Unexpectedly, the waitress seemed not to hear his words and turned to leave. Seeing the waitress ignore him, Liu Shuai became angrier. He stood in front of the waitress, not allowing her to go. To his surprise, the waitress directly pa.s.sed through Liu Shuai like a ghost, and carried the plate away!
"What the f * ck!" Hao Ning saw the waitress "pa.s.sing through" Liu Shuai's body. Wasn't it a scene that often appeared in ghost movies? He immediately went forward to touch Liu Shuai, whose body was an actual existence. Hao Ning's face was quickly filled with confusion, and he rubbed himself as he said in shock, "What's wrong? Was the waitress a ghost?"
"Well …" Long Fei was, after all, the Dragon G.o.d. He reacted in an instant and gulped down his saliva as he looked at Zhou Yuan, "Great deity, did you cast a technique just now?"
"Hha, that's the new technique I just learned. It seems quite useful." Zhou Yuan clapped his hands happily and laughed, not afraid of being heard, "So powerful!"
Hao Ning looked outside of the illusion. It seemed that no one had heard Zhou Yuan's voice. He began to believe that it was the result of Zhou Yuan's finger-pointing, "Zhou Yuan, what trick did you use just now?"
"What do you mean by trick?" Zhou Yuan was happy to be called a Great Deity by Long Fei, but he soon got embarra.s.sed by Hao Ning's question, "Isn't this just an extension of my innate talent of 'fake, good and beauty'?"
"What is 'fake, good and beauty'?" Long Fei did not understand, but his face was full of envy, "You experts indeed have your own merits."
"Bull s.h.i.+t. Don't believe him. He has many faults except he is tall." Hao Ning did not buy Zhou Yuan's words, and stared at Zhou Yuan who wanted to argue, "He has only followed Zhang Chihang for a few days and begun to speak weirdly. You! Don't play tricks! Speak human language! "
"But I'm already a G.o.d …" Being roared by Hao Ning, Zhou Yuan pitifully added, "Moreover, I have other merits except for my height!"
"f.u.c.k, how did you become an actor too?" Hao Ning couldn't hold back his laughter. He moved forward to hit Zhou Yuan and made a gentle swing that dodged Zhou Yuan's block. Zhou Yuan's forehead was violently beaten.
"Ouch!" Zhou Yuan held his head and cried, "Why doesn't it work on you? It seems like what Teacher Zhang said is right. I shouldn't fuss about it with you... "
"Stop talking nonsense! Just tell us!" Hao Ning laughed in his heart. Just as he touched Zhou Yuan, he felt that it was a little strange. He used the method of "giving back to him what he has done" and it worked.
"Alright, alright," Zhou Yuan held his head and did not dare to show off anymore. He said honestly, "Right now, this illusion not only allows people outside to see the fake image inside, but also allows them to touch the fake image inside when they come in, and all of the reactions of the people inside are exactly the same as what the people outside have in their mind. In other words, the 'we' that the waitress saw was actually the 'we' that he was thinking in his heart —" Zhou Yuan said to Hao Ning, "Just like what I said before, what I showed to you is the fake image that people have in their mind. This kind of fake image, when reaching the final state, becomes real, on the contrary, the real will be fake by then."
"The fake becomes real, and the real becomes fake?" Hao Ning thought about his words as he recalled the scene just now, and he suddenly understood, "So the waitress was not speaking to us, but to the men in her heart?"
"That's right," Zhou Yuan smiled, "And the ones who paid the bill and left under her gaze were the ones in her mind. Otherwise, she would not dare to say those words in front of us."
"Oh my G.o.d …" Only then did Liu Shuai understand, and after rubbing his bald head, he exclaimed, "This technique is just …"
"However, the waitress must have been tolerating us for a long time," Hao Ning said embarra.s.sedly, as he thought about how the waitress complained that they only ordered a plate of cuc.u.mber the whole afternoon and she must have a ma.s.sive grudge against them, "She must have bottled up her words until we were all gone."
"Hha, humans are hypocritical," Long Fei said with a smile as he understood. "You don't dare to tell the truth in front of others, but dare to curse behind their backs."
"Err …" Liu Shuai glared at Long Fei who shut his mouth immediately. Liu Shuai still wondered, "Why could the waitress pa.s.s through me? It cannot be done with any deceptive tricks or camouflage. Unless her soul left her body."
"Could it be that the real and the fake had switched?" Hao Ning felt that there was something wrong. So he carefully thought about what Zhou Yuan had just said and asked, "Is it as you said, when it reached the ultimate state, the fake becomes real, and the real becomes fake?"
"Hao Ning is smart," Zhou Yuan gave a thumb up and praised. "In the illusion, since the "we" in their mind had become real, then the real us were naturally fake. In this way, if we don't exist, what's so strange about them pa.s.sing through us?"
"Holy sh*t..." Liu Shuai rubbed his forehead, "I've never heard of such a technique. What's its name?"
"Nonsense," Zhou Yuan was a bit proud. He arrogantly waved his hand right in front of the waitress who was pa.s.sing through his body. As expected, the waitress didn't see him. And They continued their work and even pa.s.sed through Zhou Yuan a few times. Zhou Yuan laughed complacently, "I have not been comprehending this technique for too long. Of course, you have not heard of it. I don't know how to call it. Maybe we just call it Fake Reality Realm?"
"Fake Reality Realm?" Long Fei pondered, then nodded, "Interesting. Normal illusions can only be called illusions, but yours is a reality. Very interesting."
"Don't talk about its name. You did this the moment you arrived. It's not just a show-off, right?" Hao Ning interrupted Zhou Yuan, "How did you show up? We didn't see you walk in from the door."
"You really have a lot of questions," Zhou Yuan said as he poured a cup of tea and drank it, then said with a smile, "Mr. Zhang said that there might be a big show here today and wanted me to watch it together with you guys. But I can only watch, not partic.i.p.ate, so I came up with this idea. Also, I didn't walk over here. I used an escaping technique. What escaping technique? I call it 'Moment Escape.' F * ck, I'm as good as Hao Ning at picking names … "
"Avalokitesvara? What is he trying to do now?" Hao Ning didn't care about Zhou Yuan's ridiculing him. He thought for a while and said in surprise, "Did you just say Moment Escape? Were you going back and forth through the Wechat Moment? "
"Of course," Zhou Yuan curled his lips and nodded as if it was a matter that goes without saying, "Come on, I am the G.o.d of Moment. I can travel at will through it, although it costs me some mana." As he spoke, he closed his eyes and counted with his fingers for a long time. He felt sorry for having spent so much energy, "What a pity!" He sighed like a miser.
"F * ck." Liu Shuai opened his eyes wide, "It's too exaggerated … Does that mean as long as somebody installs WeChat in his phone, you can freely show up… "
"It's not the time to exclaim. I'm not a Peeping Tom," Zhou Yuan looked at Liu Shuai with disdain, then looked at the hall and clapped as he shouted with a smile, "Ah! They're going to fight. They're going to fight!"
"What kind of G.o.d is he? Apparently, he's a social unrest agitator!" Hao Ning and Liu Shuai laughed bitterly as they looked towards the hall.
The man who shouted stood up and glared at the pa.s.sage between the kitchen and the hall as if he was waiting for the manager of the restaurant to come out. The manager was unlucky. Usually, managers were responsible for the customer service and the restaurant's income, but the manager of this restaurant was also accountable for the customers' personal safety when the restaurant became a base of free fighting.
However, the situation today seemed to be a little different from the usual. Usually, if a "trouble maker" slammed the table and shouted, other customers would keep silent or pay the bill as soon as possible and leave. It was like this during the A Zhe incident and the incident of Qili's "going crazy". No matter how brave a person was, once he saw someone causing trouble, he would immediately pay the bill and leave without saying a word. That's the fine tradition of "acting like a hero behind and pretending to be the grandson in front" in time of peace. However, it was completely different today. After the person shouted, only a few people paid the bill and left. The remaining customers didn't lower their heads to eat. Instead, they looked at that person with smiles on their faces.
"Hey, Hao Ning, listen to me," Liu Shuai looked at those people who were watching and smiling, rubbed his forehead and asked, "Don't you think their smiles are strange?"
"Strange?" Hao Ning heard what Liu Shuai said and realized that his attention had all been attracted to the person who caused the trouble. He then looked at the smiles of the others, realizing that they were indeed different. "That is not the smile of an ordinary person. Its deep meaning is something I have never seen before. If I'm not mistaken, it is not a smile that exists in the mortal world!"
"Oh? Not in the mortal world? " Hearing Hao Ning's cautious description, Long Fei who was drinking tea put the cup down and went over to ask, "What is the deep meaning of it?"
Long Fei was so agitated that his spittle jumped on Hao Ning's face.
"Ah, go back, go back. Your 'Amberlite Fragrance' is about to splatter on me!" Hao Ning retreated in disgust, then looked at the people in the middle of the hall. He laughed coldly and said in all seriousness, "If I'm not wrong, their smiles, are the legendary — Evil yet Charming Smiles!"
"Puff--" Liu Shuai spouted the water in his mouth out when he heard Hao Ning said that in such a severe way. This time, Zhou Yuan did not even look at the water as it turned into colorful fireworks and bloomed behind him, perfectly setting him off as a picture that would only appear in Wechat Moments. His skin did not have any pores, and his big eyes looked even bigger with the pupils black and bright. And his skin was so white that it made Long Fei look blacker for a few degrees.
"Holy sh*t..." Hao Ning knew that it was Zhou Yuan's trick again, so he couldn't help but retort, "Enough! Other G.o.ds use their mana to take down the Spirit Demon beings, but yours is just a scam."
"Hehe," Zhou Yuan scratched his head, retracted his technique, returned to his original form and asked again, "You just said 'Evil yet Charming Smile'. what kind of mysterious smile is that?"
"Hha, you, a Moment G.o.d, didn't know that? Although you are a new cyber G.o.d, your knowledge level is outdated." Liu Shuai looked at Zhou Yuan. His skills were outstanding, but he didn't know much of this world. Thus, Liu Shuai explained with a smile," Evil yet Charming Smile is not a mysterious smile, but just a description that often appears in online novels. The authors always say somebody shows an Evil yet Charming Smile when they don't know how to describe the character's expression. This description has been abused and was laughed at by many readers. No wonder Hao Ning said that it's not a mortal's smile, because it's a smile faked by the authors!"
Liu Shuai's expression changed. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at Hao Ning: "If this kind of smile that only appears in novels appears on a mortal's face …"
"That means —" Hao Ning only wanted to make a joke, but upon hearing Liu Shuai's words, his expression turned serious as he muttered to himself, "The souls of these people were probably invaded by the spirit of the book, just like Qili."
"What the f * ck!" Long Fei's eyes were wide open as he looked at the people in the hall in disbelief, "Are you talking about all these people? All their souls have a problem? What a big deal! How much effort would it take to do it!? How is this possible!?"
"Zhou Yuan..." Hao Ning looked at Zhou Yuan, saying slowly: "What exactly does this Avalokitesvara want you to see?"