Chapter 503 Above the Posa (38) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
The first emotional gap was opened.
Bai Jinshu lowered his eyes and smiled calmly.
The reason why Scarao is always successful and can escape from everyone's sight time and again is actually very simple. He simply never states his purpose directly, but uses some ambiguous language, accidental passing by, and just the right information to push his target and manipulate other people's emotions, making them think that this is their own choice and walk step by step towards the path he hopes to see.
The more complex and challenging the process is, the more Skao likes it.
Therefore, he prefers to choose some people who are "impossible" to do such things, and guide them step by step to break through the shackles in their hearts and be reborn into another person.
This is true for Xiao Gui and Wen Qi as well.
As long as one is a human being, he or she will have emotions, and as long as there are emotions, they can be provoked, exploited and instigated.
The so-called absolute rationality is just not being hit in the pain points. If there is no emotion, then create one.
The little ghost has no emotions and claims to be rational. He feels that he has been imprisoned at the bottom of the Forgotten River for decades and has no connection with anything in the world of the living. So let's give him a connection to arouse his disgust.
For a remnant soul whose soul was separated and sent to the underworld at birth, what else can it have that truly belongs to him?
It's nothing more than blood, family, and parents.
Hu Qiong has never appeared in Xiao Gui's field of vision. It is easiest to make a fuss about her. By portraying her as an emotional image that is the opposite of rationality, Xiao Gui can maximize his greatest disgust for people who have a completely opposite style of behavior to himself.
Wen Qi chose to make up three names with disgusting meanings to deepen the disgust in the little ghost's heart.
She might know something about the inside story, or she might have only been able to think of this for a short period of time. If Scario were to do it, he would not choose to make a fuss about the name.
It is still unknown whether Hu Qiong is in love. These names are just made up by her to disgust people. She only plays with the names. If Xiao Gui is overly cautious, or the emotions are not provoked enough, as long as he asks Hu Qiong to verify, he will find content that is completely opposite to what she said.
Bai Jinshu tapped the table lightly with his fingertips.
But this is not important. It is still unknown what Hu Qiong's attitude towards this kid is, and the goal this time is very simple, just to make the kid want to kill Lin Jianyu.
It is different from those ordinary people that Scarao has guided before. For ordinary people, Scarao needs to hint at a method of killing and make those who usually dare not resist take the first step. As for the little devil who is used to seeing killing and has no sense of good and evil, he only needs to affect his emotions and make him want to kill Lin Jianyu.
Manipulation of emotions. These words are easy to say, but when it comes to putting them into practice, most people don’t even have a clear perception of emotions, which are invisible and intangible. It is even more difficult to manipulate others to ensure that every step they take is on the fork in the road that you hope to see.
Didn’t Scario fail twice in his first attempt at the sword before he got the right opportunity?
Wen Qi has such a talent that with just a little guidance, she can find the right clues.
All he had to do was sit by and make sure things didn't get out of control at every turn.
The other people in the room didn't know what was going on. Bai Jinshu yawned calmly and looked around.
After hearing Wen Qi's words, except for the little ghost who showed disgust, Qiu Zihan and Tang Ling both had toothache expressions on their faces.
Chang William looked very sleepy, and was completely unaware of the story told by Wen Qi and the eerie atmosphere in the pharmacy.
Only Zhao Yinglai vaguely felt something, but because there was still a little ghost in Jiang Jie's body, he did not dare to show it too obviously. He could only glance at him vaguely a few times.
Bai Jinshu smiled back, and successfully saw Zhao Yinglai leaning back as if he had a chill, with a look on his face that said, "Brother, stop smiling. It's definitely not good if you smile at me now."
Bai Jinshu blinked innocently.
He really had no intention of doing anything to Zhaoying, he was just smiling at the little kid.
Zhao Yinglai shrank back with a look of refusal on his face.
Scarao would not do anything to her, but the way he smiled made her feel that nothing good was going to happen tonight, and she roughly guessed what Scarao wanted to do.
At the beginning, he definitely had no intention of doing anything other than rescuing people. Didn’t he even tolerate Chang William when he entered the unknown space? If he had been like this at the beginning and wanted to plot against everyone he met, Chang William would have been killed long ago.
At first, they entered here just to rescue people. It was after the eighth team member was stabbed and seriously injured that Scaro planned to retaliate.
The captain of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau had been targeted for so many years, and this time he was sent to another world. Xiao Guo in the team had magic supplies specifically for him, and they were so well prepared that the number of people involved was probably too many to count on two hands. Skao wanted to settle accounts one by one, and even if he didn't need time to investigate, he would need time to deal with it slowly.
Seven days is too short a time. They are not sure whether outsiders who have no identity in this world can appear in their world. Even if Scarao has recovered from his anger, it is impossible for him, an ordinary person who is not good at fighting, to go to their house and deal with these people directly.
So he set his sights on Wen Qi.
As long as Wen Qi, a student who he personally certified as "very similar to himself", can become the same kind of person as him and return to another world to kill all those who have abused her, Skao's goal will be achieved.
But Wen Qi seemed to have subtly lacked that bit of understanding... or maybe she had never thought about doing anything to those people. She was too mature mentally, and had come into contact with all kinds of people in society too early. She knew clearly that with her own abilities, she might not be able to do anything to those people even if she went to the police station with solid evidence.
So her original plan was to create a substitute and stay away from that environment, and she had no intention of confronting these people head-on.
But who could blame her for her bad luck in meeting Scarao? Once Scarao had set his eyes on her, there was no way he could let her escape. He exposed Wen Qi step by step, deliberately creating an image in front of her that "Scao knew everything", and killed Fang Sha and Cai Hong without leaving any trace, which aggravated the "mysterious" attribute of Scarao's identity.
The reason why Wen Qi didn't want to kill them was simply because she felt that she was not capable enough. All we had to do was make her realize her abilities.
At this time, as long as he reveals a little bit of his purpose, Wen Qi will take the bait and become a qualified liquidation tool.
Among the group of people who caused the captain of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau to be seriously injured, Lin Jianyu was the first to be held accountable by Skao.
Lin Jianyu is the only one that Skao must immediately avenge. The sooner he dies, the better. It would be best if he died without bloodshed across the world tonight.
So, this little ghost who was most convenient to control became Wen Qi's whetstone.
Zhao Yinglai twitched his lips and looked at Wen Qi, who was obviously getting into the groove. He gradually realized that as long as he continued talking, he would be able to push the little ghost to kill Lin Jianyu. He felt that she was being targeted by Scarao, and he didn't know whether she had accumulated good fortune in her eight lifetimes or had just had bad luck.
Tonight, the core of the conversation was not the little ghost she brought back, but Wen Qi, the agent of Skao.
And Wen Qi, who was doing this for the first time...actually performed much better than Bai Jinshu expected.
Bai Jinshu raised his head and looked at Wen Qi without emotion.
Although he was a little slow to react, his ability to grasp the key points was much better than those students in Scarao's memory.
If it were someone else, they would probably start out like Qiu Zihan or Tang Ling, standing on their own perspective and trying to incite the little ghost to kill by proving how much Lin Jianyu deserves to die or how many evil things he has done.
And these are exactly what the little ghost cares least about.
Wen Qi is different. She will think, observe, and subconsciously analyze what the person she needs to mobilize emotions for lacks the most and what is most likely to be shown.
The little ghost was too rational. She knew very well that in order to get him to take action, the first step was to make him break away from his rational state of not caring about anything and make him feel disgusted with someone or something.
It doesn’t matter what this person or thing is. What matters is that it can stir up his emotions and create a crack in his rationality, so that you can continue to write your story along this crack.
The feeling of disgust towards the name alone was definitely not enough to make the little ghost kill Lin Jianyu.
But if you add anything else along with this [disgusting], that may not be the case.
No matter how much this half of the soul talks, the living environment of the other half of the soul actually makes him understand the world with violence.
He doesn't care how many people Lin Jianyu has killed and how much evil he has done, because he has no concept that breaking the law is not wrong and killing is not good. The little ghost's only way to solve the problem is to kill.
He was unwilling to kill only because he associated killing with the residual soul that had lost its mind, and regarded it as a manifestation of "unreason". Therefore, he wanted to use the behavior of "not killing" to contrast himself as the rational party with the irrational party and show his superiority.
But similarly, when faced with a problem, he has never seen how normal people solve it, so in reality the only way he can solve the problem is to kill. He is unwilling to kill Lin Jianyu simply because Lin Jianyu is not a "problem".
If you want to provoke him to take action, you cannot emphasize what Lin Jianyu did to others, but instead make Lin Jianyu his "problem."
Bai Jinshu raised his head and held his chin with his hand in his hand, and said in surprise: "So Hu Qiong also came up with names back then? Come to think of it, didn't Hu Qiong tell Lin Jianyu about these names?"
"Probably... probably not," Wen Qi blinked and continued, "If Hu Qiong had said that, then Lin Jianyu should have called these names."
The subtext is that if the kid heard what she said before, he wouldn't be so surprised.
Wen Qi spoke in a very skillful tone. It was not the kind of bewitching gentleness and encouragement of Scarao. Instead, it was very light and weak, as if she was always asking for other people's opinions, with a pitiful tone.
What she is best at is putting herself in a weak position in a conversation, exuding a weak aura to the strong, and narrating information from the bottom up.
When faced with a little girl in her early teens or 15s wearing a white dress, most adults will unconsciously regard themselves as superior.
Words spoken in this tone naturally make people feel a little more credible, and even Hu Qiong in her words seems a little more pitiful.
"Maybe it was because of that love-brained girl...that unlucky girl didn't have the chance to tell him before she died." Tang Ling felt like he couldn't continue scolding.
Although it is true that she is in love, it is still very tragic. There is no need to say this in front of someone else's son.
Hu Qiong died suddenly, and her family would definitely not like the way these names were spoken to her. She probably didn't dare to tell her family when she was alive, so she never had the chance to tell them.
Under Wen Qi's tone, she unconsciously classified Hu Qiong, who she had scolded as "love-brained" and "cowardly for not turning into a ghost" just a few minutes ago, as a pitiful person, slowed down her tone, and softened her heart.
She felt a little bit reluctant, and Qiu Zihan of course fell into this trap.
"That's too tragic. Not only did he die before he could even name the child, but he was also turned into a ghost and cut in two," he said, looking at the ghost. "Did he call you these names?"
"No," the kid's tone didn't sound very good, "He didn't call my name."
"Ah? That's so rude, what did he call you?" Qiu Zihan dragged a plate of melon seeds over and gave the kid a handful, "Hey, you're not going to call me 'hey', 'hey', 'hey' like me, are you?"
"I don't crack melon seeds..." Zhao Yinglai waved his hand silently, "You eat them yourself."
Qiu Zihan is a really carefree kid.
The little ghost who shared the same body was irritated by these names and remained silent for a while: "... First, don't call me hey."
Second, he doesn't even have a name.
If it had never happened before, how could I be disgusted by this name shared by the two remaining souls?
For Lin Jianyu, the other half of the soul is irrational, and will not respond to his calls. It all depends on his mood. When the company needs him in the bidding for listing, he is the sweet "son". When he finds that the little ghost's appetite is getting bigger and bigger and starts to force him to kill people, he is "that thing".
From beginning to end, there was no such thing as a name.
The irrational other half of the kid never thought there was anything wrong with this, and he didn't think there was anything wrong either.
Thinking about it now, compared to hearing such a disgusting name from Lin Jianyu's mouth, he now feels that it is better to have no name.
He thought about it for a while, and just as he finished speaking, he heard Qiu Zihan impatiently say: "Your name is Chu Yuxuan!"
Little Devil:?
He rarely showed a confused look.
Why did he call her Chu Yuxuan?
Is this what the outside world is like? Why can't he understand what these people from the mortal world say?
[This is so funny. First of all, my name is not Hey, my name is Chu Yuxuan. ]
[What does Zi Han usually watch? ]
【Hu Ailin was stunned by what he said.】
[I've told you not to call her Hu Ailin, why do you keep calling her Hu Ailin? Hu Ailin obviously hates being called Hu Ailin, but you keep calling her Hu Ailin. This will cause great harm to Hu Ailin.]
[You didn't let him go either.]
Qiu Zihan was still happily eating melon seeds: "First, your name is not Hey, your name is Chu Yuxuan."
Tang Ling couldn't stand listening any longer and patted him on the back of the head: "Speak properly, where did you hear such nonsense?"
"What's wrong with just joking?" Qiu Zihan said confidently, "Besides, isn't this the idol drama that you and my sister watched? How come you two can watch it but I can't?"
"Weren't you doing your homework in your room while we were watching the show?" Tang Ling said with a forced smile.
"This... this, I heard it, you guys turned up the TV volume so loud," Qiu Zihan decisively changed the subject, "That Chu Yuxuan, no, this kid... forget it, it's that guy. Your dad is really dishonest. It's been more than 20 years, and you don't know how much dirty and tiring work you've done for him. He even named his cat and dog Mimi and Wangcai, and he didn't even give them names. He's really not a human being!"
Qiu Zihan's face was full of righteousness, and his intention to shift the blame was too obvious, so everyone curled their lips in silence.
The little ghost didn't look angry at all: "What's the problem?"
He obviously felt that if he had to be called [Hu Ailin], [Hu Nianlin] and [Hu Youlin], then he might as well have no name at all: "It's not important."
"Besides," he looked up at Qiu Zihan, his tone flat, "Do you want to be called this name?"
"It's okay? My father's last name is Qiu, and my mother's last name is Yun. Qiu Aiyun is a bit strange, but Qiu Nianyun and Qiu Youyun are both nice to hear." Qiu Zihan scratched his head and really thought about it. "If you don't like it, then change it. You don't want to be called Zihan, do you?"
Everyone: …
You just took advantage of your parents' nice last names! Compared with these three names, Zi Han is not even a little bit more pretty.
The little kid who didn’t understand the popular name Zi Han:?
"Why not?" he asked back in confusion.
Isn’t the name Zi Han much better than the others?
"Then Hu Zihan? Lin Zihan?" Qiu Zihan asked, "It sounds like he's okay, so why don't you join our Zihan army!"
Little Ghost: "...What is Zi Han's army?"
He could no longer understand what this person was saying.
"It's a team composed of all Zi Hans like us," Qiu Zi Han said excitedly, "Three Zi Hans can be eliminated if they are lined up side by side, four Zi Hans can go to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, seven Zi Hans can be combined into seven dragon balls, twenty-three Zi Hans can form a football team, and one hundred and eighty-eight Zi Hans can go to Liangshan!"
"If you don't want to join Zi Han's army, you can also join Zi Xuan's army," Qiu Zi Han counted on his fingers, "Zi Rui, Zi Lang, and Zi Heng are also good. They all have the character Zi in their generation, which makes them sound young and can reduce their age fundamentally. If you call out your name on the street, eight out of ten people will turn around. Everyone you know will say that your name is so familiar, because he has a classmate, a colleague, a friend, or a distant relative named your second cousin."
This is all nonsense.
Tang Ling twitched his lips, not wanting to admit that this guy was his best friend's younger brother.
But it was obvious to the naked eye that after Qiu Zihan's interruption, the little ghost's expression became much better.
It seemed like he was actually thinking of giving himself a name.
"Zi Rui... Zi Xuan..." He recited those names calmly, "Anything else?"
"Zilang, Ziheng." Qiu Zihan leaned over and added.
Tang Ling: ...
"Say less." She pulled Qiu Zihan back to the topic, "The problem now is obviously not the name, but that Lin Jianyu already knew about Hu Qiong's pregnancy."
Wen Qi deliberately indulged Qiu Zihan's jokes for more than ten minutes, and waited until Tang Lingzheng returned to the topic before he slowly spoke.
"Is that really the case?" She lowered her eyes and spoke in a low voice, as if she was really regretful. "When Sister Hu Qiong was pregnant, she never contacted Lin Jianyu, but after she died, Lin Jianyu came immediately and even personally organized Sister Hu Qiong's funeral. I thought he still had feelings for Sister Hu Qiong."
"It's hard not to go and see your ex-girlfriend when she's dead..." Chang William replied subconsciously, "What's more, Hu Qiong died of a difficult labor while pregnant..."
His voice suddenly stopped.
"That's not right," Chang William slammed the table as if he had discovered a clue. "This guy knew his girlfriend was dead, and then he turned her child into a ghost. If he hadn't made preparations in advance, how could he have done it so well?"
"Ah?" Wen Qi looked up in surprise, "He actually planned to turn his child into a ghost a long time ago?"
"You don't understand this, do you?" Chang William straightened his chest. "You are young, so it's normal that you don't understand the twists and turns between adults. Let me tell you, there are many disgusting things like this in the circle of rich people."
Wen Qi blinked and looked over with a curious look.
"I'll just tell you a few." Chang William hadn't really met anyone he could brag about since he entered this unknown space. Wen Qi's eyes and attitude suddenly made him swell up. He coughed a few times and began to talk, "For example, have you heard of the lucky beads?"
"What is this?" Wen Qi asked curiously.
The kid frowned, obviously knowing what this thing was.
The barrage obviously also knows:
【Such disgusting things are said in the middle of the night.】
【Bad luck, bad luck.】
[…Everyone who does this is an idiot.]
【Second.】
Bai Jinshu also frowned slightly, but he did not respond to Chang William's words, instead he let him continue proudly: "Do you know about live eggs? They are a very special kind of egg. Inside the eggshell is not egg white and yolk, but a chick that is in the process of hatching. The chick's head, wings, and feet have already grown out of shape. When you eat it, it tastes like both meat and eggs, so it is called a live egg."
"So what do you think the lucky beads refer to?" He looked at Wen Qi.
"Is it... eggs?" Wen Qi asked softly tentatively.
"No," William Chang shook his head, "It's a pregnant woman."
Wen Qi gasped, her face turned pale instantly, and she covered her mouth with one hand: "Pregnant woman!"
Qiu Zihan was also shocked: "Rich people eat pregnant women!"
His train of thought choked William Chang: "...not eating pregnant women."
【On Zi Han’s amazing train of thought. 】
[I was feeling quite disgusted at first, but you made me laugh.]
[It can't be considered a magical brain circuit. It's obviously Chang William who said something wrong. He first used the metaphor of eating live pearls, so he can't help but think of eating. ]
[But Zi Han's thinking is still quite curious to think of eating pregnant women...]
【What cannibalistic thinking. 】
【#Zi Han, the cannibal’s supreme high priest#】
After a few jokes in the barrage, the atmosphere suddenly became much better.
In the unknown space, Bai Jinshu supported his chin with one hand and looked at Wen Qi, feeling that pretending to be weak is also a technical job.
Wen Qi had to pretend to be surprised, look pale, flatter Chang William, and maintain a weak and innocent look all the time, which was tiring to watch.
After her surprised performance as if she knew nothing, everyone believed her interpretation except Bai Jinshu and Zhao Yinglai, and even the little ghost didn't notice anything unusual.
After all, Wen Qi was suppressed by Bai Jinshu the whole night and never dared to reveal her true nature. Instead, she acted pitiful and miserable from the very beginning.
However, for Wen Qi, this is probably an image that she habitually displays, just like Scaro's gentleness and politeness. Maintaining this image has become an instinct of the brain and a part of external social interaction.
"These lucky beads are made by some rich people who specifically find some pregnant women, and then..." Chang William gestured, "After that, the pregnant women will abort the babies in their bellies, thus getting rid of their bad luck, and their luck will change."
Wen Qi's face turned pale, as if she was frightened and nauseated. She covered her mouth with both hands, and after a long while she uttered a word: "Really?"
"So perverted?" Qiu Zihan blurted out.
"Really," William Chang nodded, "So the perversion of rich people is far beyond your imagination. I suspect that Lin Jianyu wanted to do something with the baby in his girlfriend's belly from the beginning, but his girlfriend refused. She was afraid that he would do something to her child, so she dropped out of school and planned to give birth to the child."
"Then Lin Jianyu was planning to attack Sister Hu Qiong from the very beginning." Wen Qi's eyes were filled with tears, she couldn't believe it.
"Yeah," William Chang shook his head, "Otherwise how could he get in touch with the master who made the joker cards right away? He's a college student, where did he get such connections? How could he be so decisive?"
"Then...then Sister Hu Qiong wouldn't be..." Wen Qi stumbled.
"Don't talk about Hu Qiong, maybe this little ghost will get into trouble," Chang William was beaming with joy, and he turned to the little ghost. "Have you ever heard a saying that people are scarier than ghosts, because people can scheme, but ghosts can't. When this little ghost loses his mind, he can defeat everyone with his strength. He doesn't know what fear is, and dares to kill anyone. Those people definitely don't dare to do anything to him, but if he becomes rational, he will be controlled by others, and then he will probably be more than just sealed."
"Then...then it should stay in this world. Where did Brother Jiang Jie find him?" Wen Qi pursed her lips. She didn't expect Chang William to be so cooperative. She continued with his words, "The other world is too dangerous."
As she spoke, she glanced at the kid out of the corner of her eye.
It was hard to tell whether the kid was happy or angry from his expression at the moment. Wen Qi was unsure whether her words would have any effect, so she could only watch Bai Jinshu quietly.
Bai Jinshu was exchanging glances with Zhao Yinglai.
Zhao Yinglai: [Wen Qi succeeded. ]
Zhao Yinglai: [She has a different style from you, but she does have some of your calculating style. ]
Bai Jinshu: [… Nonsense.]
He threw a very obscure Skao-style speechless look at Zhao Yinglai.
He didn't even look at how many reels of Skao Wen Qi had seen.
However, although she has seen a lot of Scarao's revolving doors, her approach is obviously different from Scarao's. Perhaps because of her upbringing, Wen Qi is very good at retreating to advance, and standing from the perspective of the weak to implicitly "praise and kill".
For example, he kept saying that Xu Ke was a good person, and put him in a bad situation, forcing him to argue with teammates who shared the same interests with him for Wen Qi, and he was caught between the two sides.
For example, it seems that he cares about letting the little ghost stay in this world, but in fact, this sentence is no different from a threat. How could the little ghost who has been at the bottom of the Forgotten River for decades be willing to return to the deep water again?
He had had enough of such days. The nonsensical communication between Qiu Zihan and him made this half of the soul, which had never come into contact with a living person, feel the feeling of communicating with others; Chang William's implicit boasting made him understand that Lin Jianyu would definitely suppress the other half of the soul to death, and maybe when he died, the other half of the soul would still be suppressed; Wen Qi's retreat made him see clearly that Lin Jianyu was the sword of Damocles hanging over his head, his "problem", and the hidden danger that he had to solve if he didn't want to go back to the deep water.
Admittedly, the little ghosts are definitely more inclined to integration. They can certainly use the exchange of "We let you go to the world of the living, and you kill Lin Jianyu" from the beginning, but in this way, the relationship between them becomes a pure transaction. Once the transaction is completed and Lin Jianyu dies, the relationship between them will end.
Scarao didn't want this to happen, and Wen Qi was unwilling to stop there after she realized what was happening.
She wanted to turn the little ghost into her helper and her "friend". She wanted the little ghost to kill Lin Jianyu from the bottom of his heart.
Then, as one of the indispensable participants when the rational little ghost killed the first person, she would naturally have a more special position.
Once Wen Qi had this idea, it meant that Bai Jinshu's goal had been mostly achieved.
How could a person who just wants to escape from his original family and live a good life need a "friend" who can do nothing but kill people?
If the rhythm of the conversation in the first half was still under Bai Jinshu's control, then the second half was completely under Wen Qi's control.
She opened up the emotional cracks of the little ghost, and then Qiu Zihan's jokes, Chang William's proud popular science, Wen Qi's retreat to advance, and finally a sentence that seemed to be concerned but was actually a reminder: "Do you still want to stay underwater?"
If you don't kill Lin Jianyu, how many years will you continue to stay underwater?
Wen Qi pinched her fingertips nervously and shifted her gaze from Scarao's face to Jiang Jie's face.
At a certain moment, a hint of murderous intent flashed in Jiang Jie's eyes that clearly did not belong to him.
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