Chapter 149 The Ouija Board (26) "I've already said it, I want him..."
Xie Tan slowed his breathing.
When the second brother in the movie "One Glances at Five" left, he considerately closed the window, but he still felt cold.
The chill seemed not to come from the outside world, but from something in his blood and bone marrow, churning his senses.
So he desperately wanted to see him, that place that seemed to be the only warm place in the whole world.
But if Lu Jinzhao was right behind the door, Xie Tan would find it difficult to resist.
His mind was in turmoil, many things were unclear, and this was a dangerous game, even the sun was caught in someone's conspiracy.
"Sun" was a word that didn't feel real to him; he only knew that Lu Jinzhao loved to meddle in other people's business and do foolish things.
The earth is vast, yet it can be shattered; the deep sea is mysterious, yet it can be lifted into the sky by tsunamis; the sky is boundless, yet it can also experience solar and lunar eclipses, and the dust of the apocalypse can obscure the colors of the sky; even this world is constantly falling apart, abandoning countless destinies.
Even if the sun was high in the sky, causing all of this, just like in this story, wasn't he, the one who held the chessboard in the eyes of others, also bewildered by everything, just a piece in the game?
He... didn't want him to be in danger.
Xie Tan remained silent for a while, and was about to get out of bed when the door was violently opened. The person who came in made him pause, which also made him relax a little.
"Why didn't you open the door? You didn't even say anything. I thought something had happened to you." Su He frowned.
He was still the same as always, closing the door and sitting unrestrainedly in the chair, staring at Xie Tan as if he could see something out of him.
Normally, Xie Tan would either ignore him or coldly ask him why he came, but he vaguely remembered that Su He helped him up, checked his condition, and even put a coat on him. Besides, it was Su He and Observation Ten who destroyed the four eyes that Twelve had disturbed.
Oh, right, where's your coat?
"I'm fine," Xie Tan said softly. "Your clothes..."
Su He relaxed, waved her hand, and said expressionlessly, "That bastard burned it, didn't he? He took you away, he's so shameless."
Xie Tan recalled the discord between Su He and the cult leader.
Su He: "You shouldn't have trusted him."
"So you're here to give an educational presentation?"
"This is my honest opinion." Su He had endless patience for Xie Tan. He wanted to light a cigarette, but seeing Xie Tan's still pale face, which wasn't much better, he rubbed his fingers together a few times and gave up the idea.
He habitually rested his arms on his thighs and leaned forward when he spoke, a posture Xie Tan always felt resembled that of a ferocious beast poised to pounce.
But now, the beast spoke calmly, as if imparting hunting experience to its cubs: "I'm not stupid. I've been through this ritual too. You know the side effects. This is what an incomplete Eye of Observation looks like."
Even though Xie Tan was used to being indifferent, he couldn't hide the surprise in his eyes.
Wait, what does "unfinished eye of observation" mean?
It was rare for Su He to see him not hiding his thoughts, and even though it was only a little, it was enough to make him chuckle: "Do I know what's strange about it? It's not hard to guess. People who don't understand observation would think that you and Su Huang, ah, and her back then, are all at the level of complete observers. But I am also a half-witness to the event with a lot of karma, so you can't fool me."
"Although I was shocked when I first guessed it, upon closer reflection, it makes perfect sense. The Smoke Mirror is the true form of the god in the mirror. He is not human and does not even have a human form. The Eye of Observation is the power of a god, which is naturally not something that a mortal body can control. Few who become observers can retain their human form, let alone the Eye of Observation. The price you and she paid to retain this form is naturally heavy."
"Su Huang is a different kind of person. He doesn't care about being human or anything like that, so even if you're at the same level, he should be above you. Ever since he fabricated the story that there were gods in the smoke mirror, hasn't he been trying to create a god? If that god were himself, that would be even better. The human world has become a burden to him. He just wants to be free and ascend to immortality."
"Heh, what a pity. Have you ever seen what he looks like? Although he's completely disfigured and incredibly ugly, he still retains a faint human form. He hasn't been able to completely shed the 'human' attribute."
In Xie Tan's mind, the image of the white octopus family head appeared.
Su He continued, "A complete smoke mirror can observe any time and any space at any time. You can see the beginning and at the same time capture the ending in your eyes. No, it should be the entire trajectory from beginning to end, and countless trajectories, all appearing in your eyes at the same time. But you can't do that, right? You are also limited and have side effects, but it is much stronger than other observation methods."
"Su Huang is the same. Ha, the old man still thinks I don't know him. No one can withstand such a huge amount of information. After seeing all the causes and effects and the truth, he won't go crazy. You are still one step away from the finish line. Just like the last piece of the Black Goat puzzle is always the most important."
"As I've already said, it's about completely burning away the 'human' attributes to complete the final step of refining."
Xie Tan's heart skipped a beat, and he saw Su He staring straight at him, saying, "It's this ceremony."
The empty dormitory fell silent, eerily quiet, adding to the gloomy atmosphere.
Xie Tan said calmly, "Tell me something I don't know."
Many people who don't know this say so.
"Ha, is there really something you don't know? Why do you think everyone's afraid of you?"
"You're scared too?"
“...a little brat.”
Su He turned her head slightly to look out the window, seemingly lost in memories.
"The eighteen observations encompass a variety of attempts. The One-Eye-Five Project involves multiple blood relatives forming one observation, while Observations Six and Seven aim to combine two observations into one, similar to double pupils. However, in her words, it's more like a pair of orbiting stars, neither of which can be missing."
Xie Tan understood that, unlike the simple offerings numbered six and seven, observations six and seven were actually part of the same observation plan.
Therefore, since the cult leader wasn't captured, Observation Seven couldn't be completed. Similarly, Observation Six became meaningless, essentially rendering both observations useless. That's why the Black Goat sent Little Six to the timeline of Observation Two, making use of the waste.
"She had no talent to begin with, nor any interest in it. The old man must have sensed something. Even though she was useless and the Double Pupil Project couldn't be completed, he still wouldn't let her go. He still refined her into a crippled observer... It seems that he, who will become the Eye of Observation in the future, was sending a message to his past self. But she will also become the Eye of Observation in her own future, so she still managed to escape."
Su He paused here, her tone becoming very complicated: "Then, 'impermanence' descended upon her again, just like history repeating itself... Of all the observations, she alone, a flawed product whose plan had failed, became the first eye of observation."
Xie Tan had a flash of inspiration, so those "supplementary observations" later on were not to fill gaps. Including Su Huang himself, he wanted to replicate Xiao Liu's miracle.
"Becoming a member of the Observer tribe means being able to be burned to death by the sun's fire, thus escaping the curse of immortality. So when they were chasing and intercepting her, using you as bait, and surrounding her to burn her to death in the Four Seasons Mountain, she once again turned the tables on them—the sun's fire can burn an Observer to death, but it can also forge a true Eye of Observation. All it takes is the ritual of the 'Sun Calendar Stone.' Rather than die, it's better to become a monster that kills the Black Goat. She forged all those tribesmen into the ritual."
The observers could be burned to death, and those people became the materials for the birth of the Eye of Observation, becoming part of its creation, just like the observers themselves, losing their immortality.
“She said goodbye to me like she was comforting a child, saying that if she didn’t come back, but just went to a very far place, she would reassure me that she would be fine, that she was a liar,” Su He said indifferently.
Xie Tan's lips parted slightly, and he could only offer words of comfort: "Perhaps she wasn't lying to you."
He didn't even believe it himself after he said it.
Su He couldn't help but laugh: "You're just like her, you don't put your heart into comforting people... so I won't let you go to your death too, you little liar born of a liar."
Like a plastic bag suddenly vacuumed, the wind clung tightly to the windows, and there were walls and doors that Xie Tan couldn't see; the dormitory was sealed off.
Xie Tan paused: "Don't you have any new ideas?"
"It seems I have quite a few like-minded people. Reflect on yourself."
What are you afraid of?
"You were right about what you just said. I am afraid of you. I am afraid of your death, Xie Tan."
Su He stared intently at him.
"Don't project your guilt towards her onto me," Xie Tan said slowly. "You seem to have misunderstood me. I'm here to kill Su Huang, not to commit suicide... I need to watch him die."
He slowly broke into a smile, his eyes widening slightly as he stared intently at Su He, exuding a kind of inhuman madness: "Do you expect me to just sit here and watch you fail?"
Su He felt a chill run down his spine, finally understanding the fear that others felt towards him.
In an instant, Xie Tan's smile softened again, and he coaxed, "If it were her wish, would you do everything, defy everything, and give everything to fulfill it? You would. In this respect, we are the same, only you can understand me... so only you should not stop me."
"I want the Black Goat to cease to exist." He smiled like a flower blooming eerily in hell, not to guide the dead, but to stir up chaos, to devour whose flesh, to drink whose blood. "I want him dead, Su He."
"..."
Su He was speechless.
"What, are you going to save his life?" the boy said sarcastically.
After a long while, Su He found her voice, which was hoarse: "...But she failed. She couldn't become a true Eye of Observation. She died in the ritual. How can you guarantee that you won't repeat the same mistake?"
"So I found allies," Xie Tan said lazily.
"That trash cult leader? That damned Observer Seven? I'm lucky he didn't stab me in the back! Do you think that bastard wasn't fawning over her when she was performing this ritual? Maybe the ritual failed because of him! Do you really trust him?"
Was the cult leader also present back then, as an ally?
Xie Tan was filled with thoughts, but he only said, "I need him."
That's the truth. So far, many of the plans for their alliance have been completed by the cult leader. Others may think he's done a lot, but he knows for sure that his real contribution is probably that Ouija board.
“You really do know all the prophecies,” Su He suddenly said. “The prophecies came from that mouth. The divination results of the old woman were missing a bone fragment, which he took away because it pointed to himself—that fragment meant ‘a multitude of tongues’.”
He stared intently at Xie Tan: "He was originally part of divine power, or more accurately, part of the Eye of Observation, like the hands of a clock, also on the 'circle' represented by the Eye of Observation. Refining them into the ritual will ensure everything goes smoothly... You've planned it all out. You just want to complete the final step, abandon everything about being human, and become that true Eye of Observation."
As one of the masterminds behind the scenes, Xie Tan finally learned the general details of the plan.
He spoke slowly again: "Observation can suppress incomplete observation, and an unfinished eye of observation can also absolutely suppress observation. So, to suppress another unfinished eye of observation, one must naturally become a true eye of observation."
His deep eyes held only obsession, and his smile instantly reminded Su He of Lu Jinzhao from earlier, as if it were painted on his face.
A painting praising the devil.
"I told you, I'm going to kill him."
Nothing could be more serious than this.
After a long while, Su He came back to her senses from her daze and silence.
The wind's blockade didn't break; instead, it reinforced it to the extreme, making the small dormitory as solid as a rock.
As if he had finally made up his mind, he took out the paper with the Ouija board drawn by Xie Tan, placed it on the table, and calmly said, "Then let's invite the spirit of the Ouija board."
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