Chapter 110 Yin Peach Blossom (40) [Is A-Tan also an Eye of Observation? ...]
The Smoke Mirror, the source of power, is omniscient and omnipotent.
If there truly is a God, He must be within it.
So on this road leading to it, countless people made wishes upon it.
Xie Tan, who was reading the comic, realized that his mind had probably started to go haywire when he saw Xiao Liu being killed by the cat demon, which was the first hallucination.
Because in the comics, among the many illusions that appeared around him, he only had a vague impression of some of them.
He was more impressed with the last batch of offerings because they were closely related to Xiao Liu.
Countless images filled with information and suppressed emotions, constantly shifting, meant that it was only a matter of time before his pheromones went out of control under such high pressure. In fact, the fact that they only started acting up after he left Black Goat with Xiao Liu was already a blessing for him.
On the way to the Smoke Mirror, the first person to make a wish was the head of the Black Goat family at that time.
He knelt devoutly before the mirror, reciting reverent incantations, and finally said, "God, bless me, bless my family, may they live forever, never to perish, and stand eternally..." atop the mountain.
Before he could finish speaking, the power of the Smoke Mirror surged violently. He couldn't care less about his unfulfilled wish, and he was also afraid that his greed had angered the gods, so he withdrew halfway.
The black smoke from the riot dissipated, washing away this illusion, and then transformed into some guys who took advantage of their positions to get in front of the mirror, including Xiao Liu's guardian.
He prostrated himself, revealing his greedy and delusional thoughts. He became embarrassed, fearing the deity in the mirror would look down on him. Then, the talisman on his body received a secret signal from his subordinates outside the door, saying that the patriarch was going out. He suddenly felt guilty and added a final, solemn vow: "Of course, nothing is more important than the family. To dedicate myself to the family is my lifelong wish. As long as the family's wishes are fulfilled, what are my little wishes?"
The smoke mirror remained oblivious and silent, offering no response and failing to grant his wish. Consequently, the caretaker's attitude changed. He became convinced that there was no god in the mirror and held it in utter contempt, especially regarding the last batch of offerings.
Then there were the wishes of the other offerings. Xie Tan looked straight ahead, passing through the greed, desires, helplessness, and longings of these people, just as he passed through real fog, only getting a little damp.
Along the way, the smoke mirror is a constant destination, as if it were in a secret room, looking down on everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen, including Xie Tan, who has traveled thousands of miles and is walking step by step toward it.
Is this a smoke screen? Or is it a wishing machine?
[Making a wish upon the Smoke Mirror is bizarre. What kind of thought process is that? Please review all of the Smoke Mirror's nicknames again. Are you making a wish to the God of Night, the Mocker, the one who enslaves us, and the enemy of all sides? It sounds more like courting death.]
This is definitely a bad sign. It reminds me of making a wish to the devil—it might come true, but it will inevitably be misinterpreted.
[You're overthinking it. Mirrors are empty, and gods don't exist. The black spot last time was probably just smoke that happened to drift there.]
[The patriarch is dreaming right from the start!]
I'm too lazy to even criticize Sixth Sister for being the caretaker. Are you making a wish or just reciting a menu? You might as well be the god in this role.
[I have a question. Those hallucinations were related to Xiao Liu, and could be attributed to Atan's memories. Could the other wishes also be Atan's memories? How did he know them?]
[I also want to ask, surely it's impossible that the others weren't on guard at all, and besides, Ah Tan isn't from the same era as them. It's more like he used some forbidden technique just to see Mommy once, who knows?]
[Actually, the hallucinations of Sixth Sister's death might not be Ah Tan's memories, because Sixth Sister's perspective on him has decreased, and it doesn't seem like she's looking at Ah Tan anymore.]
Yes, although their teamwork was just as seamless, and they were in a life-or-death emergency, there was a subtle difference in their way of interacting compared to before.
[These shouldn't be Ah Tan's memories in the first place. Ah Tan traveled to the past, and his mother was still so young. It would be about forty years before he was born. How could she have these memories? Besides, these memories couldn't possibly exist at the same time.]
So, whose perspective did Ah-Tan borrow to see this?
[The overlapping plans, the repeated deaths, and the previous hallucinations seem more like "parallel worlds," or other abandoned "worldlines," and it doesn't make sense to use anyone's perspective...]
[Wait, Ah Tan is an observer!! Sixth Sister was once the Eye of Observation.]
[So this is how OMG observations are used?]
[My God, if the Stormy Days series and the Dream series actually happened... the world keeps rebooting? And the timelines heading towards destruction are abandoned?]
So, Ah-Tan focused on the perspective of a single person across all timelines to observe Mommy's experiences in different timelines?
Why not observe the mother herself directly?
[Because Mommy is also an observer? Just like a doctor can't heal himself, holy crap...]
[That's not right. At the end, Ah Tan saw the wishes of the offerings. These offerings were what he observed later, weren't they?]
[Is it because Mommy has a higher level of observational vision? Suppressing Ah Tan]
[That's not right... Is it possible that Atan's observations weren't just ordinary?]
【What the heck?!】
[Yes! Ah Tan isn't among these offerings; this was a project from many years ago.]
[If Observer Twelve calls Wolf Father "Uncle," then he's not from that batch. Like the current head of the family, he's probably a new observer filling the vacancies left by the deaths of other observers. Many observation plans have probably been abandoned.]
[Another strange thing is that the color tone of the smoke mirror remains unchanged during the initial heartwarming moments between mother and child. It's as if it's the same regardless of the timeline, point in time, or location. It gives me the feeling that the smoke mirror ignores the world restart and time itself.]
In other words, it perceives different timelines as occurring in parallel, like multiple television programs playing simultaneously, and the previous second and the next second are the same second to it. Its consciousness is equal in length to the timeline, and there is no distinction between the past, present, and future?
[…Wow, does that mean the Smoke Mirror can see any world line and any time? Isn't that just the Pro Max version of Ah Tan's current situation?]
[This should be the complete version. Could the so-called "Eye of Observation" be part of the Smoke Mirror's divine power?]
So Ah Tan went straight to the smoke mirror not only to quickly end the death broadcast of his mother, but he was actually "focusing"?
The previous hallucinations were more the work of the fog, which exploited Ah Tan's inner weaknesses and connected him to someone else's perspective. I guess it was one of the sacrifices from the same batch.
Later, Ah Tan uses the only smoke mirror as a fixed point to search for the world line he wants to see and gather certain information?
[This description makes it seem like the various worldlines unfold like a kaleidoscope around the smoke mirror.]
[Ah Tan is definitely not an ordinary observer; the ritual he planned was a time-travel ritual.]
[Is Atan also an eye of observation?]
In the "Sleeping Beauty" arc, the prophecy points to the Eye of Observation's activation. Later, everyone speculated that the White Octopus Clan Head used his mother's belongings as a smokescreen to conceal himself... But if Ah-Tan is also part of the Eye of Observation, who was the smokescreen for whom?
[Wow, and since they are both Eyes of Observation, they shouldn't be able to observe each other directly. Ah Tan was able to see Mommy's other timelines by borrowing the perspective of a special person. Therefore, the White Octopus Clan Head couldn't observe the other Eye of Observation, and since he thought everything was within his own scheme, he found it even harder to detect Ah Tan's existence.]
[Little Atan is the mastermind behind everything, manipulating everything—it's terrifying... Can I borrow his brain for a moment...?]
[And although montage was used, and the interactions with the mother were only shown in fragments, the story told in those few sentences sounded so familiar... Isn't this a story from a previous series?!]
[My favorite post-apocalyptic theme is here! This is definitely a story from the Stormy Days series. I'm guessing it'll be an eclipse arc!]
[I thought it was an Easter egg, but it turns out it was foreshadowing, you bastard, Sword God!!!]
So the Stormy Day series and the Dream series are actually events that happened in the abandoned timeline, right? A-Tan observed them and even told them to his mom as stories.
[Ah Tan's expression was quite funny, like he was racking his brains, having exhausted all his fairy tale repertoire, but not wanting to disappoint Sixth Sister, he simply used a destroyed timeline as a story. This doting on Mommy part made me laugh so hard.]
[There must be a deeper meaning behind Atan's story about Alice, right? The story he highlighted is about Alice and the one that seems to be from the Stormy Day series.]
I agree! Does anyone remember when Ah-Tan mentioned "the story of the fake turtle is about to begin" before leaving?
[Is this some kind of hint about the cult leader?!]
In the comic, when Xie Tan actually entered the secret room, the girl knelt in front of the mirror, and this time it was no longer an illusion.
Her yearning for freedom made Xie Tan stop in his tracks.
The gods remain silent and do not exist.
Everyone else left, and even her entourage didn't bother to look at her, not wanting to waste their time.
The girl knew, or rather, she knew best, that God did not exist, because she could "see" that the mirror was empty.
But she still prayed devoutly and sincerely, like someone who happened to encounter a meteor shower outside the window, and so she briefly let her dreams run wild.
Xie Tan alone, his expression somber, gazed at the girl with a complex mix of emotions, as if he already knew the outcome and was quietly waiting for something, yet he couldn't help but murmur, "The outside world might not be as good as you think..."
It was as if he couldn't bear to see her disappointed expression.
But the next second, even though Xiao Liu was blocked by the fog and didn't notice him, she unexpectedly answered his question. She said, "Even just one look at the storm of the apocalypse."
Xie Tan fell silent, all the complexities crumbling and settling down, transforming into a sense of relaxation and acceptance, a feeling of "Ah, this is her."
Thus, in the composition, Xie Tan looks at Xiao Liu, Xiao Liu looks at the smoke mirror, the three points form a line extending from the outside in. At the end of this line, a black dot suddenly condenses in the smoke mirror.
The most unlikely miracle has occurred.
"Okay, I heard you."
"All of them have been achieved."
The fickle god laughed.
The mirror, completely swallowed by that patch of black, stared at the girl in front of it... or even further away, including the boy behind her.
It's still a straight line, but the direction has changed. Xie Tan has become the end point of this line. Black smoke drifts away, carrying with it the question from the god in the distance.
"Will you wish to die?" He asked.
This question seems to be directed at Xiao Liu.
But first, Xie Tan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he raised his eyes.
He knew... that God was asking him.
While many on the forum were marveling at "Xiao Liu is a black goat" and "this is impermanence," some astute comic book readers noticed a blind spot.
Wait, didn't that mirror just flirt with Ah Tan? The black smoke wrapped its arm around his waist—isn't that black smoke his hand?!
[Not necessarily the hand [yellow heart]]
[His words were intriguing, asking Ah Tan who he was thinking about... I can smell a hint of jealousy in his voice.]
[Isn't Lu Lu just the consciousness of the Smoke Mirror? So who is this other half, the "evil"?]
[Wouldn't that be the opposite of an angel dog—a devil dog!]
[Mirror God: Are you being polite?]
So what is the evil side jealous of... Oh no, I'm already imagining a scenario where two souls are locked in a love triangle, with an angel and a demon sandwiched between them...
Is it possible—and I mean possibly—that this is Lu Lu?
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