Speaking of the process of making this blessing card, it is indeed much easier than finding a doll.
Several material locations have been directly informed to the "travelers". They only need to avoid the evil ghost townspeople on the road, and after arriving at the designated location, learn how to make them with the "craftsmen" who have been waiting for them in those locations.
There will be no evil ghost townspeople in those locations. They only need to pass some non-fatal tests - such as soaking the wooden sign with their own blood and dyeing the wooden sign red, or having to interact with a person when making lanyard tassels.
Talk to the female ghost in the mirror, get a lock of her long hair, and use her long hair as braiding material.
It is even easier to write the prayer content with ink. You only need to make the words look good. However, only true wishes can leave ink marks on the blood-colored wooden plaque. Otherwise, no matter how thick the ink is poured on it, it will not leave any trace.
Once all three places have been visited, the blessing sign will be finished. All you need to do is hang the sign on the sacred tree at eight o'clock in the evening. You can make your own arrangements for the rest of the time.
Therefore, those who chose the blessing card returned to Baibao Street early, looked for information from various merchants, and tried to receive side tasks from the merchants to gain points.
However, as night falls, the closer it gets to eight o'clock, the more uneasy these people feel.
Deducers rarely make mistakes with their sixth sense. Their game is so easy to complete - this "easiness" is compared to the first day - I am afraid that the hidden dangers will be exposed when the time comes to hang up the lucky cards.
Zhang Yu thought so too. Therefore, when he saw Yu Xing's figure in Baibao Street, he immediately rushed forward and told Yu Xing in detail about today's experience, including the kind of thing that would happen later, like a child finding its parents.
The more uneasy feeling.
That's why Yu Xing sat with him at the tea stall in advance to observe the sacred tree.
Then, during the day, the sacred tree, which looked normal among many spectators, quietly turned into such an evil appearance at night.
The cursed power mixed with the twisted energy of the snake girl surrounded the sacred tree. Others could not see it, but Yu Xing could tell it at a glance.
This tree possesses both cursed and distorted power. It is so impure that not even the black mist in his body is interested in devouring it.
For the curse of the ghost sinking tree, another tree is nothing more than its own nutrition or a limb that has not yet been connected. If it encounters it, it will either be devoured or assimilated. Not to mention the black mist will surge, and even the black lines will not be able to help but come from it.
Appears under the skin.
But the sacred tree in front of me is like a plate of delicacies drizzled with rotten pus. No matter how appetizing it is, the moment the pus is poured on it, it is already a disgusting waste.
"Captain... So what kind of curse will we experience?" Zhang Yu was flustered.
This feeling of panic was not due to his own timidity, but rather occurred naturally as time went by, as if some hidden pattern was giving them a warning before they were about to hang up the prayer plaques.
Yu Xing suddenly sighed.
Lan Wuye's heart tightened: "What, what's wrong?"
Yu Xing said: "It's nothing, I just feel that your cognition has been affected unconsciously."
The two juniors at the same table slept in the hotel last night. They had not experienced the cognitive distortions in the townspeople's homes, so they were not keen enough for today's blessing card game.
Otherwise, Zhang Yu would not have described the game as simple and easy when he first reported his experience to him.
Although Yu Xing mentioned that they were affected, the tone seemed not to be serious. Zhang Yu breathed out quietly: "Captain, I shouldn't have been affected too much, right?"
He himself didn't even feel anything was different from before.
"You said a lot, but you are so stupid." Yu Xing glanced at him sideways, which made Zhang Yu's heart skip a beat.
Considering that the snake girl's cognitive distortion is irresistible to Zhang Yu... and Lan Wu, Yu Xing didn't make it difficult for them to think about it themselves, and instead said:
"Where are your prayer cards?"
The two of them took out the finished signs from their pockets and put them on the table, but they were always face down, with the ink-stained side pressed down.
Yu Xing glanced at it, and Zhang Yu explained: "Although there is no danger in writing a wish, the craftsman added a rule to us."
"Before the prayer plaque is hung on the sacred tree, we cannot let anyone know the wishes we wrote down, otherwise it will be counterattacked and run counter to our wishes."
So they trusted Yu Xing and took it out as soon as they asked, but they still didn't dare to let Yu Xing see the front of the blessing card.
Yu Xing lowered his eyes and smiled with unknown meaning: "That's it."
He reached out and picked up the blue piece without looking at the hidden wish. Instead, he rubbed his thumb on the back of the card for a while and fiddled with the tassels twice.
The smooth and flexible touch passed through his fingertips. He put down the sign and said with a dull expression: "If it weren't for cognitive distortion, do you really think that something made of female ghost hair and your blood can be used?"
"Blood is the best medium for many curses. The female ghost belongs to Yin, and her hair is also a Yin thing. If it were any other derivation copy, you would never contribute your own blood, let alone let the female ghost's hair be bound to your own blood.
."
This is equivalent to knowing that the ghost is going to kill you, but you quickly deliver the murder weapon to the ghost.
His words were not serious, but there was a flash of blood on the tip of his tongue, and it was like a long sharp needle that punctured the balloon that enveloped Zhang Yu and Lan Wu's awareness.
There seemed to be a bang in my head.
Zhang Yu's eyes shrank, and he felt like he was waking up from a dream. His mind was clear. When he looked at the blessing card again, he felt cold sweat break out from his back.
Yes, how could he not realize that this was inappropriate?
Even if making a blessing card is a necessary task, he does not have the ability to confuse the audience and replace his own blood with other blood, but he should not be unaware of it after doing this, thinking that making a blessing card is "simple"
"!
"At that time... it was the craftsman who kept talking in my ear." Lan Wu shook his head and got goosebumps all over his body. He recalled carefully, attracting Yu Xing's attention.
"At that time, every time we went to a place, we would meet different craftsmen. The one who taught us to soak the wooden signs with blood was a middle-aged man, the one who weaved the lanyards and tassels was a woman, and the one who wrote the wishes in ink was an old man."
"They only teach one-on-one. When someone is studying in the room, others can only wait outside and cannot hear any sounds in the room."
Lan Wu pressed his temples: "When I went in, no matter which craftsman they were, they were very close to me. I was originally wary of them, but somehow I gradually became completely unguarded, even though they were almost within earshot of me.
Teach me how to do it."
"And then, no matter what they say, you think it's logical and not a big deal?" Yu Xing tilted his head.
"...Yeah." Lan Wu nodded, "Actually, I know it's wrong to do this, but I can't arouse the interest in resisting. There seems to be a voice saying, if it's wrong, it's wrong, and it's not a big deal."
A trace of humiliation flashed across Zhang Yu's face: "I feel like the kind of fool in a mystery novel who is hypnotized by the villain with a few words and then becomes a time bomb for the protagonist's team."
Lan Wu: "..." Thank you, then I am a fool too.
"Let's talk about the female ghost in the mirror. I heard you say before that the craftsman has a mirror. You must ask the female ghost in the mirror for a lock of her hair before you can start making lanyards and tassels." Yu Xing nodded at the table.
, "The female ghost has a weird temper. She is always angry, happy, and sad for no reason, but she is always easy to talk to and will give you her hair after a while."
"Now tell me, what does she want?"
Lan Wu was speechless.
"A female ghost doesn't even attack. Even if she is angry, she just doesn't want to give her hair. Ha, she is really a kind ghost." Yu Xing mocked, "There is another even more outrageous factor, Zhang Yu."
The person who was named shivered.
"For you, what is the most wrong thing about the female ghost?"
Zhang Yu quickly recalled the entire exchange with the female ghost.
In the mirror, the female ghost could only reveal a head and a part of her neck. Her face was covered by her big, shiny black braids, which were braided at her chin, and the tail of her hair was thrown back on her shoulders.
Only then can the neck be exposed.
The female ghost asked him where he came from, but he only said that he was from far away.
The female ghost asked him what he wanted, and he honestly replied that he wanted a lock of her hair.
The female ghost asked him again what he wished for, and he said many small and unimportant wishes, such as making dumplings with Ran Ran next time; buying a complete set of Yuan Shang's collector's edition books; asking Ran Ran to wear a maid outfit once this year...
…
Then the female ghost was angry and sad at the same time, asking why she still listened to people talk about love after she died, and asked him, didn't he have something more important and a bigger wish?
Zhang Yu's final answer was that his greater wish is
Marry Ranran.
The female ghost was completely speechless. Even the weird feeling brought by the thick black shiny braid seemed to have dissipated a lot. Then she said in an impatient tone, "I'll give you the hair. Get out of here. I won't even bother you with another word."
Hate."
When communicating with the female ghost, the surroundings became completely white, and the sense of existence of the room where I was originally disappeared completely. Only the mirror and the wooden chair sitting under my butt were left in my consciousness.
The female ghost asked him to get out, and everything returned to the original state. The craftsman was standing next to the mirror, and in front of the mirror, there was a long strand of hair, and only his own figure was left in the mirror.
"I understand." Zhang Yu had a flash of inspiration, "The most wrong thing is the existence of the female ghost itself!"
Lan Wu was surprised, but Zhang Yu continued:
"From the moment we entered Nanshui Town, the ghosts we encountered were either monsters from the townspeople, strange things like ceramic waiters, shadows from the afterimages of the past, or ritual robes and ritual clothes that were inexplicably connected to our lives.
Flesh ghosts and stuff like that.”
"There has never been a disembodied female ghost!"
"Not to mention that the ghost in the mirror uses the mirror as a medium. Her existence is too abrupt and she is not next to anything." After Zhang Yu finished speaking, he looked at Yu Xing hesitantly, "Captain, am I... am I right?
?”
Yu Xing smiled and said: "Okay, I still have some brains left."
"Let's put aside the issue of female ghosts for now and let's look at the aspect of writing wishes."
"Now that it is known that you have provided blood and are connected to the female ghost's hair, you have to write down your true wishes."
"Any idea what's going to happen?"
"Cursed." Zhang Yu dryly copied the answer that Yu Xing had announced long ago.
Yu Xing laughed, okay, this kid is pretty good at taking advantage of loopholes.
He curled his lips: "...First of all, the prayer cards are made by your own hands from beginning to end. This means that you are 'voluntarily' offering your blood to ask the sacred tree for your wishes to come true."
"This action is not a simple prayer, but is almost like self-sacrifice. The harder the wish is to come true, the more things you need to sacrifice. As long as you hang up the blessing plaque, the curse will take effect."
"Coupled with this power of cognitive distortion..."
"I think that when you are alone at night, the sacred tree will deceive your cognition and make your brain think that your wish has been fulfilled, and add a memory to you out of thin air."
"Of course you will feel something is wrong. In fact, it is very easy to find the loopholes in a forced memory. It may only take you half an hour to expose this lie."
"But within half an hour before this is exposed, your consciousness will be fulfilled by default. During this period, the sacred tree can use the rules of the curse to absorb your life as its nutrients."
"It only takes less than half an hour to suck someone dry."
Whether it was Zhang Yu, Lan Wu, or Shen Po and others at the next table who had pricked up their ears to listen at some point, they were all horrified by this last sentence.
If this is the case, the real test of choosing a blessing card is whether the deducer can realize as quickly as possible that the memory of the wish fulfilled is false. As long as the brain remembers that "the wish has not been fulfilled", it can prevent the sacred tree from getting the reward.
In the name of absorbing their vitality.
But it's not easy either.
Moreover, sucking it dry means sucking it dry. Even if it is not directly sucked to death by the sacred tree, a part of the life force will be taken away more or less in the delayed time. Whether you can still stand up by then, and whether you can stay awake and not comatose, all matter.
It's hard to say.
"How could you guess so specifically?" At that moment, the goddess at the next table couldn't help it anymore, and her hoarse voice added another layer of weirdness in the night.
Yu Xing had already known that the people at the next table were eavesdropping, so since he told the truth, he didn't mind if the others followed and gained some benefits.
"Specific? Of course it's because I know him too well." Yu Xing grinned and gave a scary smile to the table next to him.
If he had only encountered the power of Qianjie a few times and found it thorny and troublesome, the power of the curse had been with him for hundreds of years. From the beginning, he had to fumble around on his own, and after becoming a deducer, he gradually understood more. Now, he has
Understand the function of the curse.
Ghost Chenshu can make wishes and curses.
But the Ghost Chenshu will not help people realize their wishes. As long as it lures people closer, it will unreasonably devour everything with curses.
As for wish, it is just an excuse.
Now this sacred tree is only so big. It can be seen that Snake Girl can't cultivate it well. She also added Qianjie's ability to it. The finished product is naturally not as overbearing in terms of curse ability, but she can use her cognition to exploit loopholes.
method has become feasible.
If he were this tree, he would also choose this direction of growth, so as not to turn himself into a useless waste.
"Then what do we do?"
Over there, a few people hesitated, and then a voice asked.
Yu Xing said in surprise: "Are you all out of your mind too?"
Everyone: "..."
Maybe it's a little bit, I feel like my head is empty.
"There are only two solutions, one is to fight against cognitive distortion, and the other is to fight against curse." Yu Xing raised his eyebrows, "Nanshui Town is the home of cognitive distortion, and you are not sure to stop it before you can accept the consequences.
If it’s a sacred tree, then of course we have to start with the curse.”
Compared to cognitive distortions, deducers have a much deeper understanding of curses.
To give a very simple example, if Carlos were here, he would definitely be able to hang up prayer signs without any scruples. When the curse came, he would have so many scapegoats and throw more of them out, and the sacred tree would have nothing to do with him.
Cognitive distortion is located at each person through the blood on the blessing card, but the cognitive distortion of the sacred tree comes from the curse. The little paper people may not be able to transfer the cognitive distortion, but as long as they can transfer the curse, the cognitive distortion will naturally
It then becomes invalid.
After all, the sacred tree was just something planted by Snake Girl. She probably stole a core branch of the Ghost Chen tree somewhere, planted it in the soil, and then used human fertilizer to add some fertilizer to grow like this. The age is too young.
In fact, compared to this group of averagely powerful deducers, it is nothing at all.
Which gamer hasn't ordered damage transfer yet?
Yu Xing paused.
Oh, except Zhang Yu.
Even the amulet that Lan Wu carried as a gift from Medusa might be able to withstand the devouring effect of the curse. In other words, in Nanshui Town, the most terrifying thing is the cognitive damage, and the curse is like a younger brother.
As long as you have a clear mind and don't look like a fool and a lazy person like now, the sacred tree is nothing to be afraid of.
Oh, except Zhang Yu.
But this is also the difficulty after Yu Xing made it clear. If no one here understands the ghost tree, it is naturally impossible to determine what means this sacred tree will use to harm people, and it is difficult to deal with it in advance. The characteristic of cognitive distortion is
quietly.
Others are already immersed in the dream of wish fulfillment, and they may not even think about dealing with the curse.
Sitting at the next table are the goddess, Gu Xing and the devil.
The devil's choice was to find a doll, and it had nothing to do with her to hang a lucky card. Moreover, she didn't dare to talk to Yu Xing for the time being, so she kept pretending to be dead.
Both Shenpo and Gu Xing expressed their gratitude to Yu Xing.
Only Zhang Yu felt numb.
But he didn't panic. In this situation, his captain would not abandon him, so he looked at Yu Xing helplessly: "Captain, what should I do?"
Yu Xing's eyes flashed with amusement, and he was about to speak——
Zhang Yu said hurriedly: "Because my cognition was affected, I just let myself give up thinking. I already knew I was wrong."
"Other people can still survive without their brains, but they still have the ability to protect themselves and fight. I only have a brain, but I can still be so careless. Moreover, my characteristics are more resistant to cognitive distortions, but they are not brought into play. If there is no captain,
I'm dying, I should remember this lesson."
"I have gained experience this time, so I must be careful next time! My life is my own. Since I have chosen this path without the ability to fight, I should be more cautious!"
This light-speed introspection stunned several people around him.
Zhang Yu curled up into a ball and was so scared that it was visible to the naked eye, trying to make Yu Xing feel better with this funny gesture.
After his observation, he has already seen that Yu Xing is more willing to show weakness!
Yu Xing's character is very strong, and he also likes to tease people in irrelevant aspects for fun. When dealing with him, usually when trying to make him realize where his mistakes are, he will "humiliate" him severely and make him grow long.
memory.
If you want to skip the humiliation stage and get help directly, it is better to proactively admit your mistakes and take the initiative to grab the advantage.