Chapter 143 The Ouija Board (20) [So, "fire is also rain..."]
Why use the lips as the dot? Since it's spelled out as an eye, I thought the goat's eye would be the dot?
[When this eye moves, doesn't it look like a clock?]
[The hands of a clock! So, Ah-Tan used a Ouija board to transfer the hands of the clock to the cult leader!]
[Ah Tan going to those crime scenes is also a kind of pinpointing, isn't it? It's like the goat's left eye, working in conjunction with the pointer.]
Wow, this is way too much!
Everyone has come to terms with it; they misunderstood Ah Tan. Ah Tan wasn't targeting the main characters; he just felt that no one should die.
That fits the character perfectly.
This is true misanthropy: having witnessed the world's destruction countless times, and deciding to destroy it again oneself.
[Although Dichu is indeed too evil, ahhh, he doesn't deserve this much, do we really have to wipe him out?]
[Haha, probably not (although it sounds very impressive). Wasn't Ah Tan's exchange with Director Jiang to make this timeline the only reality? How can it be the only one if everything is destroyed?]
In the comic, the terrifying panoramic view of eyes finally converges into Xie Tan's eyes.
His eyes were filled with the deep blue of pool water, so the chaotic lines in those circles looked even more like ripples on the water.
The water, encased in incantations, overflowed the pool, rushed ashore, and followed in his footsteps.
The door opened.
The wind lifted the corner of his clothes.
Meanwhile, Su Shao gestured for her chattering brothers and sisters to be quiet and went into the stairwell.
Chang Mingai sat on the armrest, swinging her legs, her heels hitting the iron railing with a piercing sound.
"Your Excellency, the ritual is complete. What's next?"
The cult leader, using the body of a beautiful young girl, curled his uniquely red lips and uttered a single word: "Wait."
Su Shao: "I see the ceremony has been drawn up, but it hasn't been started yet. It seems something is missing, but is this what we're waiting for?"
“That’s right, our mission is basically complete. Next, we just need to guard the ceremony and wait for it to begin,” the leader said. “The ‘beginning’ part is the task of our little allies.”
"My lord, if I may be so bold as to ask, how... how do I activate this?"
Su Shao had never seen a ceremony of such scale before. Even as an observer, she could not see or understand it. Just trying to take a look was like staring into an abyss, with the calls of demons at the bottom of the abyss in her ears, luring her to fall.
This made her realize more deeply that observation is merely an incomplete product of the eye of observation; this is the extent that the eye of observation can achieve, the true "power of God."
The cult leader tilted his head, looking at her with crooked eyes. His smile was like withered flowers and willows floating on a ditch. Su Shao felt a chill in her heart. Even though she was not facing the Eye of Observation, it was as if her thoughts had been seen through at a glance.
What was he laughing at? She dared not think about it.
The cult leader knew she was uncomfortable being stared at, but instead of looking away, he laughed even more heartily.
He never cared about other people's feelings, but only took it aback and went further. He said, "Don't think about it so complicatedly. Just think of it as arson. Pour oil, light it, that's it."
After saying that, he slid down the handrail to the landing platform and looked out the window.
Looking from here, you can see the direction of the stadium and swimming pool.
"The one who's going to light the fire hasn't arrived yet, but as for pouring the oil... he's here."
The boy stood at the entrance of the club building, and just then looked up, his expression completely indifferent.
The watermarks that meandered behind him, like a stream, evaporated, chilling the air.
Dark clouds gathered on the horizon.
"Is it going to rain?" Su Shao said, "This..."
Water is for extinguishing fires, and oil is for fueling fires, so what does it mean to pour oil?
But the cult leader said, "You could also say it's a 'small fire' being lit up, after all, rain is also fire."
Su Shao was taken aback, but instantly understood; it was recorded in Aztec mythology.
But some of her brothers and sisters didn't understand, and since the leader was in a good mood, she explained it to them with a smile.
[When the water overflowed the pool, I got goosebumps all over. Is this the closed loop of fate in Enze's storyline?]
Who is the "fire starter" the cult leader mentioned?
[I'm guessing it's LuLu. Who remembers the Sleeping Chapter? No one threw in mirror shards to "heat" the seawater, but the sea still boiled. That was the time LuLu entered the town.]
Indeed, with the sun itself here, what need is there for fragments? It'll burn wherever it goes!
Is this also the reason why CEO Lu got involved in the incident? Actually, it wasn't that he got involved, but rather that dark forces were moving towards him.
[Could there be debris beneath the pool, stirring up the rain, just like in the town? So the rain is fire?]
Just as the leader said, in Aztec mythology, the Third and Fourth Ages were disrupted by the Smoke Mirror.
One explanation is that the rain god stopped sending rain, causing a severe drought. People prayed for rain, and the annoyed rain god sent down heavenly fire (some say the fire rain was made from a smoke mirror), which is known as the "Four Rain Era".
Another event caused the goddess of water to break down and weep, resulting in a massive flood, some of which turned into rain, known as the "Four Flood Era".
Therefore, one could say, "Fire is rain, and rain is fire."
[My goodness! So when Ah Tan said death was "water overflowing," he wasn't just referring to Enze's original way of dying in the Bubble chapter, nor was he referring to Enze's actual way of dying now.]
If rain is fire, then "water overflowing" is "fire burning out," which means the sun's power is at its peak, or "the sun descending," right?
These are countless apocalypses witnessed by Atan through his Observational Eyes! These aren't just human deaths anymore; they're the deaths of timelines!
Oh my god!!!
In the comic, when Xie Tan steps through the gate, the thirteen black goat lips overlapping in the club building open at the same time.
Xie Tan finally realized whose voices they were. They were the thirteen members of the Black Goat tribe who had failed to return. However, they had already been refined, and the leader, as if suffering from a split personality, manipulated these voices, talking endlessly to himself.
[Neuropathy. ]
Neuropathy.
He thought of himself in the comic book.
Forum readers shared the same sentiment.
[If I didn't know that the cult leader's power was like this, this would really seem like insanity.]
Does his power mean he's not mentally ill?
[Hmm, this scene looks familiar...]
[Does the cult leader often do this?]
[No, it's from the Yin Peach Blossom arc. After Sixth Sister created the deity in the Smoke Mirror, wasn't that how the demon dog spoke?]
[Yeah! Mixing countless voices together, using a group surround sound system—isn't that just like the God of Mirrors?]
[Could the cult leader's ability also be the ability of the Mirror God?!]
[No surprise, right? The leader was originally part of the observation plan.]
[Wait, the cult leader called Sister Peony "Observation Five"? Isn't he Observation Five??]
Holy crap, he's Observation Seven!
【Huh? What is Atan then? Isn't Atan Observation Seven?】
In the comic, the boy's face was deathly pale, more like a ghost than a ghost, and his eyes were filled with an inescapable disgust.
He ignored the cult leader's words and Su Shao's presence, leaving alone.
On the wall, the mouth of the celebrity in the photo opens and closes, blinks like eyes, and the tongue is the pupil, staring at the figure of the boy as he disappears like a ghost before slowly returning to his normal position.
Everything has a price...
[So we are the same kind! This is something deeper than blood ties, like a curse.]
He thought with a chuckle.
In an instant, his smile turned into a sharp, cold glint, telling Su Shao to step aside.
Since the child doesn't want to use it, then don't get in his way.
[My uncle actually had some genuine feelings for me.]
Can I say it? Such terrifying sincerity, such hellish family ties.
Ah-Tan looks terrible, has he had another attack?
So you mean "of the same kind"? Ah Tan has the side effect of the Eye of Observation, and the leader's current state is also a side effect of that power, right?
Is the cult leader actually an observer?
Soon, the comic answered everyone's questions.
Xie Tan and the cult leader both left, leaving Su Shao alone in the corridor. In the long silence, the four ghosts slowly emerged. Her sister's pale hair clung to her face, and Su Shao's stiff body stirred as if it were warming up.
“…How scary.” the older sister muttered.
"I remember that the cult leader is also an observer, right?" The second brother moved a little further away from the portrait hanging on the wall.
Third Brother said, "Fourth Sister is the most talented among this batch. To be chosen by that Judgment Granny, even the old sheep's eyes can be wrong sometimes... Oh, it's not the first time. Are Adult and Observation Six siblings? This brother and sister are really..."
The three of them died young; one was still a child, and the other two were somewhere between children and teenagers.
On the contrary, the youngest sister, Su Zhi, with her white hair, looked about the same age as Su Shao. She said, "The master is the only sacrifice that was not taken back."
"And they established a cult to suppress the Black Goat, which is why I pledged allegiance to the cult leader," Su Shao said.
"So he was supposed to be Observer Seven, but he didn't? Then who is the new Observer Seven?"
"There are no new ones, it's been empty."
"How could this be! Weren't other clansmen used to fill the gaps? That shouldn't be the case. Weren't the fourth, twelfth, and sixteenth clansmen all replaced later?"
"Is the patriarch still clinging to the wishful thinking of refining the cult master? That's incredibly absurd."
"No, the 'supplementary' also uses the initial observation plus the new one's refinement. Without the fourth sister's batch of sacrifices that are causally connected to the Smoke Mirror, it would be impossible to refine the observation."
"Then there's nothing we can do. The refining of Observation Seven was ruined from the very beginning."
Su Zhi said softly, "I have heard the head of the family mention it before..."
The other four ghosts all looked at her.
“I was eavesdropping, so I didn’t hear the whole thing. It was something like they were saying that if they couldn’t capture the cult leader, the existence of Observation Seven would be meaningless, and that… his situation is somewhat similar to ours?” Su Zhi said.
"Hmm? So it needs something else to refine with him?"
“There are plenty of people like that; the second one is an example.”
After a long silence, Su Shao said, "I heard from the children in the cult that the Eye of Observation is Observation Seven."
"Well, it's been fixed now!"
"But his family knew nothing about him."
"Then who created him? If he's not in the family, why is he called 'Observation Seven'?"
"Shh," Su Shao stopped them. "He's watching, don't say anything more."
The ghosts immediately shut their mouths, obediently floating beside her as she left.
Wow, so Ah Tan filled the vacancy for cult leader?
[Old Observation 7 and New Observation 7]
[It should be the failed observation seven and the actual observation seven, haha]
[At their first meeting, the cult leader didn't recognize Ah Tan either. He only found out who he was later. So, he wasn't someone the cult leader had cultivated, nor was he a Black Goat...]
[Isn't that Mommy? Mommy has been hiding Ah-Tan all this time.]
No, it's that curse!
[Ahhh, so that terrifying conjecture is true! Because of this "inheritance" curse, after Mommy died, the Eye of Observation was "inherited" by Atan!]
That damned black goat!!!
[And it wasn't just the last batch of offerings that created the causal relationship with the smoke mirror; Atan was there too! It's just that the others couldn't see it!]
[Wow, so Ah Tan can achieve the Observation skill without the previous one, because he, like the last batch of sacrifices, is inherently bound by karma.]
[Therefore, the gap in observation seven was automatically filled!!]
[That makes sense. The "S" represents both the spirits' cry for help and Observation Seven, which refers to the cult leader and Atan. Now it seems they were indeed conspiring together.]
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