A Manual for Surviving a Weird World

Chapter 216: Logic Reversal

Chapter 216: Logic Reversal

Old Li wanted to ask more questions, but in a moment of distraction, the man with the devil mask on his face had disappeared, leaving only a bottle of Coke with the cap unscrewed on the bench.

During the entire lunch break, Lao Li tried to convince himself to drink the bottle of Coke.

But he failed.

“Who is that person…”

In the following week, the same problem that troubled Lao Li also occurred to other prisoners in Chenyugu Prison.

In the past two months, vicious crimes have occurred frequently in Taoyuan City. In order to reduce the impact as soon as possible, the court has sentenced a large number of criminals to prison. As the largest and most secure prison in Qinzhou, most of these prisoners affected by the “god” were received by this Chenyugu Prison.

The court inadvertently helped Ning Zhe gather together a large number of people affected by the ‘God Who Cannot Be Looked At Directly’, saving him a lot of trouble.

Every day, a ghostly figure roams around the prison. Ning Zhe patiently contacts one prisoner after another in different time periods, using words, actions, deception, and intimidation. He is not afraid of anything.

Ning Zhe used all the means at his disposal without reservation to steal the same identity from different people:
The identity of ‘God’.

I say that all sins are mine, and my true self is forged with false intentions and false emotions.

Since entering the prison, Ning Zhe’s actions have been smooth without encountering any obstacles, which has given him more time to think and improve his plans.

That night, Ning Zhe tricked the identity of the “God” in his eyes from a buddy who had shot his boss in the head with an ashtray, then quietly slipped out of the cell and turned into a tabby cat that could be seen everywhere, squatting on a tree branch and looking up at the round moon.

Ning Zhe used this free time in prison to sort out his thoughts and slowly straighten out his actions so far.

——As his self-awareness became increasingly blurred, his thinking became more and more laborious and time-consuming, to the point that he needed to frequently remind himself not to forget his original goal.

What am I doing now?
Preparing to kill ‘God’ and control His rules.

This involves a fundamental question:
[How can humans control ghosts? ]

Or to put it another way:
[How do the upgraded ones obtain and control the authority of the rules? ]

Some people in the circle who have been exposed to the weird world but have never had the experience of “controlling ghosts with their own bodies”, as well as some granters who have only a vague understanding of the weird and only know how to recite and use the rules, generally have some misunderstandings about the upgraders.

For example, Van Dyke, an old nobleman from the United States of Europe, once thought when he was young that as long as he could find a way to kill ghosts, he could control them.

Killing ghosts will allow you to control them. This is a very simple and straightforward way of thinking.

This kind of thinking is wrong.

Ning Zhe reviewed the process of Feng Yushu controlling Ye Yao:

The rules of ‘Ye Yao’ are to separate the person affected by the rules from his own shadow, and turn them into two independent individuals, but the states of the two individuals will be synchronized with each other. If a person is injured and loses an arm or a leg, his shadow will also be incomplete, and vice versa. If a person’s shadow is injured, then the person’s body will also be injured at the same location.

At that time, Yu Ziqian was on the rooftop of a high-rise building, remotely controlling his shadow to sneak into the hospital, and then was discovered and cracked by Ning Zhe, who then went to find his real body.

Yu Ziqian’s shadow was stopped and stepped on by Feng Yushu while he was escaping from the hospital to defend his main body. At the moment when Feng Yushu’s toes touched his shadow, two rules were triggered.

The first is the special allowance. The rule of the special allowance is that stepping on the shadow means death. No matter who the opponent is, as long as the shadow is touched by the special allowance, a direct and unavoidable [instant death] effect will follow. This is an instant death rule.

The second is Ye Yao. The rule of Ye Yao is to separate the main body and the shadow, and synchronize the states of the two with each other. If the shadow is injured, it is equivalent to the main body being injured. If the shadow is beheaded, the head of the main body will also be separated from the neck.

The step that Feng Yuxu made on Yu Ziqian’s shadow simultaneously triggered Te Rang’s instant death and Ye Yao’s synchronization.

After Yu Ziqian’s death, the ‘God Who Cannot Be Looked At Directly’ lost his restraints and was unfolded in Taoyuan City. Ye Yao seamlessly took up residence in Feng Yusu, becoming a part of the chain that made up for Te Ran’s flaws.

The reason why Feng Yusu was able to control Ye Yao was not because she killed Ye Yao, but because Ning Zhe cracked Ye Yao’s rules and she then reversed the execution of these rules.

[Crack the operating logic of the rules, and then execute this logic in reverse. ]

This is the method of using one’s body to control ghosts and improve oneself.

Similarly, the reason why Ning Zhe was able to control Zhao You and Tai Yi in Hejia Village was not because he killed the two ghosts, but because he stole Taiyi’s identity and made Zhao You violate the death taboo, thus reversely executing the core rules of the two ghosts.

Each ghost has its own unique core rules, and each ghost has its own unique way of controlling it.

The rule of Taiyi is to steal identity, and the way to control Taiyi is to steal Taiyi’s identity.

The rule of Zhaoyou is to seek good fortune and avoid disaster, and the way to control Zhaoyou is to make him commit a death taboo.

It’s the same now.

If you want to control the ‘God Who Cannot Be Looked At Directly’, you need to find out the logic of the rules of the Thought Stamp, and then run this logic in reverse.

This means that he needs to… stamp his thoughts on God.

God has no form, the moon has no appearance, this is not a simple matter.

“I really don’t know how Yu Ziqian controlled this ghost back then…” Ning Zhe sighed, and what came out of his mouth was a meow.

The round moon climbed up into the sky. Ning Zhe stood on the treetop and looked up at the moon. Suddenly, his foot slipped and he fell from the tree.

“Meow–!!!”

(End of this chapter)