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Chapter 197 Parasites of the Mind
Chapter 197 Parasites of the Mind
Logically speaking, these titles should not have disappeared.
The reason why the Deceitful Game requires them to defeat paradoxes and reclaim their titles during their advancement is to retrieve these sealed and uncirculated powers.
From this perspective, the Deceitful Game aims to prevent the dissipation of power.
If these titles disappear when they are overwritten, then the game should not allow titles to be overwritten so easily.
The result is quite the opposite: if a deceiver does not consciously control their behavior, they are easily overshadowed by a new title.
Could it be that—
"Overwriting the old titles" is exactly what this deceptive game wants to do.
These "unique titles" obviously won't become extinct outside of the paradox; that is, after one is overwritten, another person will acquire it.
Does that mean they were "recycled" somewhere when they were covered?
Thinking of this, Mingpo frowned slightly.
While personifying something is not a good habit, Mingbo did feel that the purpose of the deceitful game was very clear.
Mingpo suddenly remembered her conversation with Shen Yiqi.
"The term 'can store' means it contains and stores the seeds of all good and evil karma and phenomena." In other words, our title comes from these good and evil karma and phenomena.
"What is stored" refers to the formation of new seeds through the activities of the seven senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, etc.), meaning that new titles and copies will be born according to our actions.
The actions of charlatans will continuously generate new seeds.
The game of deception contains the seeds of everything in the world.
A bold thought popped into Mingpo's mind: what if the purpose of the deceptive game was these "seeds"?
Although the Deceitful Game doesn't have a so-called "higher level," and everything is self-circulating, it clearly has its own direction—for example, "the loss and destruction of unique titles is bad," and "deceitful players should not have too serious an impact on the material world."
However, these things are ignored as underlying logic.
If it is truly a self-circulating, dead system, then what is the difference between "good" and "bad"?
So what if all the unique titles are lost? Does that mean the game of deception can't continue? But almost all the paradoxes in the advancement games that Mingbo knows of involve unique titles.
The "vast majority" should be the ordinary charlatans.
Since the special are always fewer than the non-special, if all paradoxes encounter the same probability of being deceived, how could Chizuko possibly encounter a "continuous stream of ascendants"?
In other words, even ordinary paradoxes can't encounter charlatans!
The Deceitful Game lurs overloaded Deceitfuls into these special promotion dungeons, and even those who die inside are exceptionally promoted to host, training new Deceitfuls to pass through these dungeons—all in order to "dig out" the titles inside.
These unique titles that were rescued can easily be "overwritten" by mass-produced titles due to changes in behavior patterns.
"Could it be that—that's not actually 'coverage'?"
Mingbo murmured softly, "It's more like [replacement]."
The deceptive game used mass-produced titles to reclaim the precious unique titles.
"If that's the case—"
Mingpo looked at the Dionysus shrine, his expression turning serious: "Then its value—"
—It's probably even higher than Mingpo had imagined.
Because once a title has been "acquired" by Mingpa, it will not be lost due to being overwritten. This characteristic also applies to the former holder of the Dionysian Shrine, "Limbo."
In other words, Mingpo can compete with the game itself for these "unique titles"!
These are the "seeds" that embody destiny and life.
Mingpo looked up in alarm at the Dionysus shrine.
"Hell Transformation" caused Mingpo to have a momentary hallucination that these were not bottles of wine at all!
Immersed in this are curled-up babies, or hearts and brains!
The paintings on the wine bottles are like photos pasted on the outside of a petri dish.
Mingpo shook his head vigorously and regained consciousness.
But he did not ignore his fleeting illusion.
perhaps----
This is because the Dionysian shrine has "killed" these titles, merely preserving their remnants within the wine.
Just like medicinal wine infused with scorpions, it will also have the effects of scorpions.
and many more.
Scorpion —
Thinking about this, Mingpo suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.
If titles can have a form of spiritual pollution, capable of rewriting a person's consciousness—
—Then why can't we say that this so-called title is a kind of "parasite on the level of thinking"?
Equipping someone with a title is like having a worm crawl into your brain.
The struggle between the Deceivers is like these insects fighting in different Gundams—deceivers from different fields are naturally hostile to each other, just like the contradictions among these insects.
A title of lower rank is not enough to completely control a person, so it will only generate some impulses or change emotions.
Unless one is a simplistic charlatan, it is difficult to be completely influenced by one's own title.
Just like a trainer who isn't high-level enough can't control a high-level Pokémon.
If one reaches the Silver of the Moon or even the Gold of the Year, one will completely and permanently transform into a completely different person from the original one—that is to say, "this advanced insect has completely taken control of its Gundam."
The reason why only the dead can participate in the game of deception may be because the dead no longer have their own "physical bodies." Therefore, they cannot confirm their true selves; all their understanding of their own personality comes from information—from their own memories and the perceptions of others.
"—Could this be the real reason I sold my memories and six days of my life to obtain the Dionysian Shrine?"
Mingpo murmured softly.
In that instant, he felt as if he had seen through the true nature of the world. Yet he didn't know if it was just his imagination—
But if this were a Cthulhu world, he felt he would definitely have lost sanity because of a great inspirational success.
The.
The Dionysian Shrine—though it may seem that it only allows you to switch titles or combine titles.
But it actually "killed" these insects and soaked them in alcohol to extract the active ingredients! In a practical sense, it usurped these powers—making them its own!
Directly confronting deceptive games—
This is what makes it worthy of being called a "divine artifact".
Otherwise, compared to Nidhogg's Fang, which can "completely erase a person's existence from the timeline" or "put the whole world into an eternal loop," the Dionysus Shrine seems far too weak.
"However, if that's the case—"
Mingpo discovered a strange commonality between these two artifacts.
Why do all the effects of these magical artifacts involve disrupting some system within the deceptive game?
The Dionysian Shrine has disrupted the mechanism for extracting, inheriting, and iterating titles.
【Nidhogg's Fang】 destroyed the power of time that allows one to travel back in time without limit.
Aren't Dionysus and Nidhogg both the highest-ranking deities in the game of deception?
Why is it that their power can actually destroy the deceptive game?
However, the current sample size is too small to see clearly. Theoretically, there should be five divine artifacts, but Mingpo only knows the effects of two of them.
"—No, I have to get rid of this title first."
Realizing that her thoughts were starting to wander again, Mingpo felt a chill run down her spine.
While "Hell Transformation" grants Mingpa vivid, lifelike emotions, its powerful inspiration and associative abilities can easily lead to hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. It can cause pointless fears or cause one to become fixated on things too far in the future—much like an artist.
I don't know if it's because the labels of "artistic" or "inspirational" are inherently unstable, or if Mingpo's personality simply can't fully handle them.
Considering she still had a day left, enough time to participate in another game—Mingpo started mixing drinks, preparing a more useful title for her next game.
Combining "Detective" and "Silver Crown of the Madman" creates "The Silence of the Lambs".
After Mingpo drank the glass of wine, his trembling, uneasy pupils gradually stabilized.
Blink, blink—the trembling, eerie green glow gradually "brushed" into a stable, dim yellow after each blink.
Mingpo slowly opened her eyes, revealing an eerily calm smile.
It was a smile that evoked images of "pale" or "empty." The colors of emotion were no longer as vibrant as in a painting, but rather like a blank white sheet.
This doesn't feel like drinking alcohol; it feels more like taking a tranquilizer. Mingpo thought.
His heart became unusually calm once again.
He could no longer hear the throbbing of his own veins, and the black and white world before him was no longer so vibrant; the colors no longer flowed. His mind was no longer filled with wild thoughts, so many guesses and fears. It was as clean as the air after a snowfall.
No more excitement, no more anxiety, no more fear.
A heart as clear as glass.
"very good----"
Mingpo spoke softly, word by word, as if reciting poetry.
The whole world seemed to stand still, while Mingpo leaned back on the sofa with her fingers interlaced, closing her eyes to rest.
Although his life was coming to an end, he was no longer restless.
Just relax and rest, recharge your energy.
"What a beautiful tranquility."
He murmured softly.