Chapter 036: Ancient House Phantom (8)
The person upstairs' eyes flickered a few times, and she floated down in front of him with her sleeves waving: "So you knew, you interrupted on purpose."
The man in red thought of something else: "Last time when I came back to kiss those two, you interrupted them on purpose. As soon as you called their names, they woke up."
Then I thought: “When you first came to get the plaque, you also knew that the person standing by the railing was not your nephew.”
Tao Xing nodded: "The first time I came here, I knew that Tao Sansi standing on the third floor was you, Tao Erxian on the second floor was you, and Tao Yiming who came down the stairs to help me was also you."
Xianyue's pupils shrank slightly: "You deliberately teased me and asked me to help you walk around!"
"You didn't come down the first two times I called you. I didn't expect you to be so obedient suddenly." Tao Xing said with a smile.
Xianyue gritted his teeth, turned around and turned away.
Tao Xing walked around to him and said, "You should have known that your illusions are useless to me. I can't see gold, silver, money, ghosts or spirits."
Fortunately, he couldn't see it, so he was not afraid.
Xianyue did not comment. The first time they came in, the three nephews were confused by the illusion, but this one did not react at all. This aroused his curiosity, so he transformed into the appearance of those three people and observed him.
Also out of curiosity, I agreed to come down and help him, wanting to see what was special about him.
All I can say is, don’t be too curious.
He said, "So, in the Tao family, you also know that it was me who came back to you to ask for the plaque. You said you didn't like this one time, and then you said you didn't like that one time. You were teasing me!"
"You lied to me first, saying you were this person and that person, and even pretending to be my ancestor." Tao Xing said, "Even if you revealed your true identity, you would make up an identity, saying you were my father's concubine. Until I came to find you and lived here, you were still lying to me."
Xianyue was about to say something, but after hearing this he thought of something else: "You already knew that I'm not a human, so why did you come to me?" It was not to get the plaque back. If he wanted it, he wouldn't have given it to him. It was not to ask for protection either. He said it didn't matter whether he received protection or not.
"I didn't lie to you. I didn't ask for any blessing from the Tao family. I came here just for you." Tao Xing sighed, "It's a pity that you didn't appreciate it. As soon as I walked in, a strong wind blew and the legs of the bench flew everywhere."
"My territory, why should I let you in?" Xianyue snorted, "I don't understand why illusions are useless to you."
"I don't know either. Maybe there is someone better than me." Tao Xing said vaguely.
There is a solution to the illusion, and some people may have the ability to do so. Xianyue did not ask in detail, but only said, "You were frightened by the bones, but you were pretending. You wanted to run away holding the plaque, that was intentional."
Having said that, Tao Xing stopped smiling. "It's true that I was scared by the bones." He couldn't stand scary things. "You ran away with the plaque on purpose, because you turned into bones to scare me first."
He couldn't see the illusion, but he could see the person himself transforming into other appearances. He could transform into other people, and he could also transform into the appearance of bones. Xianyue was probably at his wit's end. As the illusion couldn't scare him, he had to do it himself.
"You were trying to lure Tao Xiaowen and the other man who were having a secret meeting to the backyard with illusions, but I interrupted you. You wanted to chase me away."
Xianyue bit her lip: "I was angry at that time, but didn't I keep you later?"
"So what about today? I stopped Wang Li. How are you going to get rid of me?"
"I... didn't mean to chase you away today."
"It's not a question of whether to rush or not." Tao Xing looked at him, "What are you going to do?"
He walked a few steps to the backyard and said, "I've been here before. Even if I can resist illusions, the dust here will still cause hallucinations. There are sounds of flowing magma, crying, and screaming. Others don't have the same resistance as me. If they come here, I'm afraid they can not only hear but also see. What I heard was already tragic enough. What they saw must be even worse. They are already terrified. If they see something else, it's normal to be scared crazy."
He turned to look at the man in red again, "I thought it was because the ancestors of the Tao family sealed you away and you hated the Tao family. That's why you used illusions to confuse the Tao family's descendants and led them to the backyard to see a more shocking scene. The two collateral descendants who came in to look for the plaque the first time became abnormal because of this. But today Wang Li also saw the illusion, which means you are not just targeting the Tao family."
"But..." He frowned, "I don't quite understand. The day Tao Yiming and I came, the three of them kept saying they saw ghosts, all kinds of ghosts. But Tao Xiaowen and Wang Li saw money. Do your illusions differ from person to person?"
Xianyue's eyes flickered several times, and she didn't look at him. After a moment, she raised her sleeves and looked up at him: "Those two people and the few of you are here to find the plaque. They have some plans. I transformed into a ghost to punish them. The two people who had a secret meeting with the surname Wang have no plans. I just tempted them with desire."
He sneered as he spoke: "What can a mere human seal do to me? It has never sealed me. The seal here has never existed."
Tao Xing was stunned. He said that when he took out the plaque from the wall, his three nephews screamed and told them to be careful of the seal, but he didn't feel anything.
That’s right, there is no seal at all.
So when the third nephew was frightened he said that he had recited the mantra to lift the seal many times, but it was of no use. Of course it was useless, because there was no seal, and the "ghost" was an illusion created by this person.
He looked at Xianyue again and said, "Whether it's intimidation or bribery, whether it's a member of the Tao family or an outsider, you don't want anyone who comes into this house to leave safely."
Xianyue also looked at him: "They wanted to come in on their own, they had their own plans, they were greedy for money and couldn't resist the temptation, what does it have to do with me? They were frightened to the point of losing their minds and committing suicide, I didn't kill them, what does it have to do with me?"
Tao Xing sighed slightly: "In your eyes, humans are really hateful."
"You are barely an exception." Xianyue said, "I didn't want to let you in, but you insisted. I also told you not to go to the backyard. I didn't want to do anything to you, so don't come here to blame me!"
"I said, everything I do can be replaced. I'm not special." Tao Xing turned around and heard the voice of the system in his consciousness.
080 read: "Host, a message popped up in the program, the details of this world mission have been released, the mission target: the ancient house is transformed, the spirit body born from this house has been born for 1,100 years."
080 paused for a moment and said, "Remarks: The old house has been around for a long time, and the spiritual energy has dissipated. This spirit will automatically disappear in a hundred years."
Tao Xing narrowed her eyes slightly: "Will he disappear?"
More than a hundred years is a relatively long life for humans, but for him, it is really short.
"Yes." 080 said, "He was born based on this house. The house itself has spiritual energy, so he was born. After thousands of years, this spiritual energy will always dissipate. When the spiritual energy dissipates, the spirit disappears. This is the rule of the world and cannot be controlled, just like when humans reach a certain age, they will eventually die, and no one can change that."
Tao Xing closed her eyes and nodded slightly: "And then?"
080 continues: "The reason why he was judged as a villain is that he indiscriminately confuses the human mind. Anyone whose mind is disturbed by him ends up committing suicide. The way he commits suicide is cruel and the death is horrible."
"The mission of the fast traveler: stop the target from deceiving people with illusions. Every time he deceives one more person, the influence of the illusion will expand a little. If more people die, the expansion range will become a entity. In other words, the scale of the ancient house will become larger and larger. Later, the people in this town will die abnormally, and all the houses will be occupied by the ancient house and become a part of it. As he absorbs the abnormal mental state of humans endlessly, he will also lose his mind.
When it expands to its limit, the planet's self-protection mechanism will fight back and attack him, but he has no mind, and will continue to expand even if he is constantly attacked. This is not to satisfy his own "egoism", but just an irrational growth and expansion, which is a disaster for mankind and has no benefit to him at all.
After that, the city, the entire planet... ceased to exist. There was only him and this huge house on the planet. He destroyed everyone there, but he could not leave. He still had to rely on this planet to survive. The planet's counterattack was getting stronger, forcing him to endure the pain of the attack every moment until his spirit dissipated.
Although the spirit will eventually dissipate, there is a big difference between dying a natural death and dying in agony.”
080 finished speaking and checked the progress: "Host, right now his ability is only limited to the backyard. If humans enter the backyard, they will go mad. We can't let him expand any further."
Tao Xing nodded, remained silent for a moment, and looked at the person in front of him: "I am not asking you to blame. You are not a human being. I am not asking you to think from a human perspective."
Xianyue was slightly stunned, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
Tao Xing shrugged and looked around: "I've been stuck in the house for several days. I plan to go out for a walk."
The man in red frowned: "Are you leaving?"
"I'm not leaving. I'm going out for a walk and will be back." Tao Xing leaned over to look at him, "How about you come with me?"
080 alert: "Host, won't he be dangerous to humans if he goes out?"
Tao Xing smiled faintly, pressed the system back, looked at the person in front of him, and waited for his reply.
Xianyue retracted his gaze: "I'm not going out."
"I know you can't leave the plaque, and I also know... you can't carry it with you for long." Otherwise, he wouldn't have hidden it on the beam after taking it back. He would definitely carry with him and protect something that is so closely related to him.
Xianyue admitted: "The plaque weighs a thousand pounds to me, and it is difficult for me to lift it."
"In a human hand, it's just an ordinary weight."
"Damn human beings." Xianyue said again.
"If you trust me, I'll hold it for you. If you want it, I'll give it to you."
Xianyue raised her eyes: "I just don't want to go out. I have been here for a thousand years and it's been great."
He had only gone out once in the past thousand years, which was the day the plaque was brought to the Tao family's new house.
"Are you scared?" Tao Xing asked.
The man in front of him glared at him and said, "What am I afraid of?"
"Your abilities are useless outside."
"You, how do you know?"
“Last time I asked if you could replicate it if you brought money in, you just brushed it off, and from your expression I understood that money cannot be replicated… It’s not that it cannot be replicated, but the things you replicate are real in this room, but once you leave, they will disappear. Money is useless in this room, it is only useful outside, but it disappears outside, so it’s useless to replicate the money.
But this shows that your abilities are limited outside the house. The ability to replicate will be invalid once you leave the house. Similarly, the ability to create illusions will also be invalid. Am I right?"
Although this ability will disappear after leaving the body, the food eaten inside is real and has been absorbed by humans, so it is not eaten in vain. Similarly, the illusions have also been absorbed by humans' minds and are still useful after leaving the body, so a disrupted mind is still difficult to recover after leaving the body.
080 understood after hearing this, oh, his ability will be invalid if he goes out, he can't cast illusions, then there is no danger, the host's trick is very effective, if he is not allowed to stay here, he will not be able to confuse people.
Tao Xing finished speaking and laughed again: "Humans have never had these special abilities, and they live well. Don't be afraid."
Xianyue snorted coldly: "When did I become so destitute as to be compared with humans?"
"Okay..." Tao Xing sighed, "If you don't want to go out, forget it."
He stood up and simply cleaned up the table. Before going upstairs, he leaned over Xianyue's shoulder and whispered, "But the milk tea you like is made by the abominable humans."
Xianyue was startled, his face moved slightly, and his eyes flickered.
When it got dark, a red shadow pushed open the door of Tao Xing's room.
The man raised his head and said, "I reluctantly agree to accompany you for a walk, but I won't stay long, a few days at most."
Anyway, he can still turn into wind and change into other people's appearance at will. These abilities can be used outside the house. After all, he is stronger than humans.
Tao Xing slightly curved her lips and said, "Okay."
"Before you leave..."
Tao Xing smiled, pulled the person over, and leaned over to press him down.
080 didn't understand: "Host, why did you agree to let him come back? Wouldn't he still be able to cast illusions after he comes back?"
"This house is his real body, how can we not let him come back?"
"Then why did you take him out?"
"Go out and see the humans."
The system thought: "Oh, host, you want him to see that humans are not evil, but how can you guarantee that he will see the good side? You can't control this."
"Humans are inherently both good and evil. I didn't let him see only the good side. I just let him go out and see it." Tao Xing coughed lightly, "You can block it now."
080 reacted: "Okay, host." Then he dived into the deep consciousness.
The next day, the two set out on their journey.
Xianyue had no identification information and it was inconvenient for him to buy a ticket, so Tao Xing planned to travel by car. Of course, to be on the safe side, he borrowed the Great Elder's ID card. In case he needed to prove his identity, Xianyue could transform into the Great Elder. When the Great Elder heard that the "God of Home" was going to travel, he wanted to carry him on his back himself, let alone borrow his ID card and appearance.
Xianyue's red dress was too dazzling and was bound to attract attention outside. He changed into a Chinese Tang suit similar to Tao Xing's style, with long hair hanging down to his waist. In other words, he was still quite dazzling.
The car started, and the long-haired man in the passenger seat was startled. Looking out the window at the houses receding one after another, he pouted and said, "I can turn into wind much faster than this."
"You mean, you want to come down and fly?" Tao Xing said.
"No, why would I want to fly when I can just sit and move forward?"
Tao Xing smiled secretly, afraid that he would be bored, so she turned on the music.
The sudden sound startled him again. Xianyue glanced down for a long time before he could see clearly where the sound came from. The soothing music made people think deeply and relax. Outside the window, the hustle and bustle of traffic passed by one by one. He had never seen the world in the past and did not know the changes over thousands of years. All his knowledge was in that house. He knew the world from the lives of the eight generations of Tao's ancestors.
He had seen a family rise and fall over several generations, but the changes in the world he had seen through them were not as clear and profound.
Later, someone cleaned and repaired the house, and let him know that there was such a thing as electric lights, but he knew very little else.
The houses and buildings outside are completely different from his original home, the house with flying eaves on all sides.
“I don’t know if it’s always been like this,” he said.
Tao Xing chuckled. Thousands of years have passed and the world has changed so much, how could it remain the same?
As he watched, he felt sleepy and dozed off leaning against the backrest.
When he was half asleep, he was suddenly awakened by a sound like a gong. He opened his eyes and looked around with red eyes: "What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Tao Xing was adjusting the music, "and suddenly a cheerful and exciting song came on."
Xianyue glared at him angrily: "Change it, I don't like this song."
"Okay." Tao Xing pressed the button, "You can also tune your own song if you like it."
Xianyue looked at the button disdainfully, paused for a moment, and reached out to press the place that Tao Xing had just pressed.
Suddenly, there was another loud gong explosion, and he was so frightened that he almost turned into wind and flew out.
The person driving next to him kept laughing. Xianyue bit her lip and said, "I don't want to listen anymore. I'll turn it off."
Tao Xing turned off the music and said, "But won't you be bored? We are going to the beach, and it will take a long time."
"I won't listen if it's boring."
"Oh." Tao Xing nodded and continued driving.
The people around me wanted to take a nap, but for some reason they couldn't. They looked out the window, seeing tall buildings, mountains, trees, and crowds of people... there was nothing to see.
Well, he was getting bored.
"When we get to the service area, we'll stop and rest for a while. I'll teach you how to use your cell phone." Tao Xing saw it.
The fonts Xianyue could recognize were still ancient traditional Chinese characters, and it took him some effort to recognize simplified Chinese characters, but he was able to recognize them at least. After resting for two hours in the service area, he successfully learned how to play the game.
After that, the journey was no longer boring.
Not only was I not bored, I didn't even have time to talk to the driver. No matter what I asked him, he just said "No thanks."
Arriving at the service area again, Tao Xing said, "I'm going to buy you a cup of milk tea. Do you want some?"
The "homebody" who was addicted to the game didn't even raise his head: "Yes, bring me a cup."
Tao Xing: “…”
At night, when we arrived at our destination, we were required to provide our identity information when checking in at the hotel, so we had to use the identity of the Great Elder.
Xianyue transformed into the appearance of a great elder, wearing a gray and white robe, with slightly gray hair on his temples and wrinkles on his forehead. He then held his cell phone, concentrating fully.
When Tao Xing finished the formalities and came to find him, he saw that he had put down his phone and was furious.
"What's the matter?"
The "Great Elder" with slightly white hair and beard frowned: "The other side said I am no more than ten years old!"
"oh?"
"I've lived for so many years and they actually question my age. I'm over a thousand..."
Tao Xing quickly covered his mouth and pulled him into the room.
The hotel receptionist looked at it again and again, his face full of question marks, and he couldn't help but touch the back of his head.
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