When Ling Wuji heard her say that, he immediately asked, “Teacher, do you know how adults solve problems?”

“what?”

Ling Wuji learned the “fly rubbing hands” action.

Shizuka Hiratsuka immediately looked at him in disbelief: “You’re not short of money, are you?”

“Teacher, although I don’t mind your words of disparagement towards me, if you disparage me too much, it might cause the price to fluctuate, right?”

“No, Ling, why do you want to make such a request?” Hiratsuka Shizuka had to hold back for a moment, then said, “No matter how you look at it, you don’t look like someone who would be short of money, do you?”

“From my personal perspective, it’s just because I don’t want this to become a simple debt of gratitude.”

“Why? In the secular sense, a debt of favor is harder to repay than money. And even if I can’t come up with that much money, Kirisu-sensei’s family is much richer than mine.”

“I have no interest in your family background. From my personal perspective, I just want to avoid trouble.” Ling Wuji was too lazy to continue to hide the truth and let people misunderstand him, so he said directly, “To avoid the trouble of continuing to communicate, it is better to make things clear now.”

“Ling, what you mean is that after this matter is resolved, I’d better not come looking for you again.”

“You can understand it that way.”

“Although I know you have always been cynical to a certain extent, I thought you were just a teenager so your thoughts were inevitably a little extreme. I didn’t expect that after entering college, not only did you not improve, but you became even worse?”

“Teacher, if you want to continue preaching, then I cannot accept your request. I have to serve you tea and send you off.”

“But I don’t see any tea leaves now.”

Hiratsuka Shizuka pretended to be confused.

Ling Wuzhi just looked at her silently, thinking that if she continued to pretend, he would chase her away without hesitation and let her go wherever she wanted. Anyway, she could solve this little problem by going to find Yukinoshita Haruno.

In Ling Wuji’s opinion, this problem of Kirisu Mando is indeed just a small problem.

Although his proposal to arbitrarily modify memories and personal thoughts made Shizuka Hiratsuka feel chilled.

As for Ling Wuji’s attitude, although Hiratsuka Shizuka had not had an in-depth communication with Kirisu Madoka and learned about the concept of self-boundaries proposed by Ling Wuji in her previous conversation with Awashima Seri, she now inevitably thought that Ling Wuji’s approach was simply rewriting other people’s inner selves unscrupulously and completely compressing other people’s self-boundaries to almost nothing. For this kid, perhaps the whole world is just a game, and ordinary people may just be NPCs in the game to him.

“Even if it is, so what?”

Ling Wu Ji remained the same and spoke casually.

Shizuka Hiratsuka originally wanted to say something, but finally stopped. She looked at the young man, trying to find any discrepancies in her memory, and find traces that the young man had modified her memory. But in fact, she was not a person with a photographic memory. She could not remember many things after a few months. Not to mention, in her opinion, Ling Wuji now blatantly revealed that he possessed that ability. Even if she knew the truth now, she might not be able to keep the truth in her memory in the future, right?

“To be honest, I’m not very interested in what you think of me, teacher. Anyway, we probably won’t have any intersection in the future. However, if you don’t want me to solve the problem that way, then I can only use another method to solve the problem. In my opinion, the other method is not much better.”

“what way?”

“religion.”

Let Wu Ji speak.

“religion?”

Shizuka Hiratsuka looked at the boy in confusion, not knowing why Ling Wuji would say such a term at this time. Wasn’t he always uninterested in or disgusted with religion? After all, he always spoke in the tone of a materialist. As for whether he was really a materialist…

Shizuka Hiratsuka shook her head. She really had no intention of continuing to explore the kid’s thoughts.

“So you can accept this or you can’t accept this?”

Hiratsuka Shizuka pondered for a moment, then said: “If you can convince Kirisu to accept religious beliefs, I have no objection, provided that you use normal means to convince him.”

“Normal means?” Ling Wuji also shook his head and said, “Teacher, why are you so opposed to my idea of ​​modifying her memory that you even use what you call abnormal means to solve this problem?”

“because……”

Hiratsuka Shizuka couldn’t tell why for a moment.

“Because the way I solved that problem was by changing her self?”

Hiratsuka Shizuka’s eyes suddenly lit up: “Yes!”

“But the question is, if she can really solve this problem knowing everything and understanding everything, has her self been changed in the process? So is the means used in the process really that important?”

“important!”

Hiratsuka Shizuka just spoke word by word.

“why?”

“Admittedly, as you said, maybe when the problem was solved, her self did change, and she would not be the same person she was before. But if she changed in the process of being aware of what she was doing, then she made her own choice and chose what kind of person she would become. It was her previous self that determined what her later self would become, not a demon like you who wanted to change people’s hearts without restraint!”

Ling Wu Ji pondered for a moment, and finally applauded Hiratsuka Shizuka’s speech.

Then he sent her out.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, since you can talk so much about the truth, why don’t you try to convince her yourself instead of coming to me for help?”

“The issue is……”

“The problem is that you can’t convince her? But if you can’t convince her and you’re not willing to accept my approach, then your purpose should be just to make me use my eloquence, right? And you think I can’t be trusted, so you have to witness the process of this happening with your own eyes. Even when I use some unorthodox theories, you might even try to undermine me. In that case, why should I go to the trouble of doing this? You might as well go find her sister to protect her closely and wait for her to get over the psychological trauma.”

After Ling Wuji finished speaking, he was ready to close the door of the room and isolate Hiratsuka Shizuka outside.

Hiratsuka Shizuka felt that what Ling Wuzhi said was also a solution.

So she couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.

When I came to my senses, I heard another bang, and then there was no knock on his door again.

……

Actually, to be honest, Kirisu Mafuyu’s problem is purely a psychological problem, but the reasons for this problem are too complicated. Although, as Ling Wuji said, letting Kirisu Miharu protect her sister closely is actually a good idea, but Kirisu Miharu is a student who is about to graduate and does not have time to do that.

Although she would definitely like to do that.

But Kirisu Madoka didn’t want her sister to make such a big sacrifice for her.

So she rejected Shizuka Hiratsuka’s proposal.

However, she was very curious about why Hiratsuka Shizuka wanted to find Ling Wuji to solve the problem, so she couldn’t help but ask about the first two methods from her former colleague. As a normal adult, she certainly didn’t want her self to be modified so unscrupulously. Although sometimes she felt that forgetting everything might be a good choice, that would be a bit too cowardly.

“But religion is also a cowardly choice, right?”

Hiratsuka Shizuka was a little dumbfounded by Kirisu Madoka’s desire to understand the religion that Ling Wuzhi was talking about.

However, when people face things they cannot understand, they can’t help but hope that there is something that can give a universal explanation. When faced with a dilemma that they cannot solve, they will always turn to some mysterious existence for help. For Kirisu Madoka, her personal world is already crumbling, so she needs to introduce a new reference point to maintain that crumbling world, even if it is religion.

One can even say that it is fortunately religion.

So Hiratsuka Shizuka spoke again.

She originally thought that Ling Wuji would come in person to explain to Kirisu Madoka, but she didn’t expect that the person who showed up was a woman she didn’t know but who had the demeanor of a professional elite. She looked at that person and never expected that Ling Wuji would have any connection with such a woman…

No.

To be honest, it’s not surprising that there are any kind of people around Ling Wuji…

“It’s you?”

But Kirisu Mafuyu acted very surprised, as if she had known this woman for a long time.

At this time, Awashima Seri also nodded and said, “It’s me.”

“Aren’t you the deputy director of Scepter 4?”

“I quit two days ago.”

“why?”

“personal reasons.”

Obviously he didn’t want to say more.

Kirisu Mafuyu and Hiratsuka Shizuka were struck by the absurdity of the news and could not organize their words for a long time. However, Hiratsuka Shizuka quickly thought that if the deputy director of Scepter 4 could be bewitched by this so-called religion, it can be seen that Ling Wuji’s brainwashing ability is simply amazing!

But if he used some shady means…

No, that’s not right. If he has such a useful method, why doesn’t he use it directly on himself?

And if he continues to complete his commission even in this situation…

Shizuka Hiratsuka found that the more she tried to explore Ling Wuzhi’s thoughts, the more confused she became, as if her brain was put into a washing machine and was being stirred wildly.

So in the end she gave up thinking and chose to go with Kirisu Mafuyu to listen to the religion described by the woman. However, after listening for a while, she found that this religion was indeed not like ordinary religions that praised their own gods, saying that they were saviors, people who would destroy the world and then continue to create the world. In Awashima Seri’s description, one could hear a lot of practical things, and those “truths” that were shrouded in the logic of ordinary charlatans seemed unusually straightforward in her mouth.

“So, what do I get from joining this religion?”

“The blessing of the Star Lord.”

Awashima Seri just spoke word by word.

Although she still didn’t elaborate on what this star god was.

However, Kirisu Mafuyu couldn’t figure out what she was thinking at this time. Maybe she really just did as Hiratsuka Shizuka said, she didn’t believe in her own talent, didn’t believe that she could do the same as her sister Kirisu Miharu at this age, or maybe she really didn’t want to be a part of this era, so she just wanted to find something to hide.

Everything is fine.

As long as she can continue to live her previous life with peace of mind.

But at this moment, she couldn’t help but think back to the past. Her past life couldn’t be said to be the life she wanted, right? Although she knew that she couldn’t go back and couldn’t return to the competition field, she could only muddle through and continue to be a mediocre teacher.

So if this star god can really bless her…

So Kirisu Madoka made her choice quickly.

……

Is Kirisu Madoka an independent and strong woman?

Maybe.

Maybe it’s hard to say.

However, perhaps it is because the temperament of Awashima Seri is really representative of that type of person, and even a person like her has thrown herself into the arms of religion and even resigned. Although at this time people generally think that Awashima Seri has actually begun to go downhill in life, Kirisu Madoka did not see any irrationality in this woman, so he finally chose to believe her.

But her choice, in a sense, made the waves of this era even more intense and swept across the entire society.

But even if she didn’t choose that, there would be no essential difference.

How this era will develop is a common choice made by everyone.

Although there are cases like Ling Wuji where the choice made by one person is worth the choice made by thousands of people.

But Ling Wuji himself did not make a choice. He just looked down at the world calmly as if he was standing on the clouds. So he saw that Kirisu Manfuyu’s mind quickly merged into the “kingdom of God” of the sky barrier. There, her mind, which was as shaken as a candle in the wind, quickly calmed down. No matter how objectively Ling Wuji described his Shinto system, the so-called Shinto is essentially a system that calms people’s hearts and adds strength to people’s minds. It cannot be said to be materialistic. People who join this system will naturally feel the power to calm people’s hearts, just like a drop of water merging into the sea and feeling that it is the sea.

Although that is essentially an illusion.