A ghost storyteller can lose his life but cannot lose his job

Chapter 31: Keep an eye on Kuster, this is how the rules of weird talk are used!
"From today on, we no longer ask to be born on the same day of the same month of the same year, but we ask to die on the same day of the same month of the same year for the Rat Immortal."

"From now on, the village can only worship the Rat Immortal. We don't know any rules or weird stories. We are really unfamiliar with them."

"If there is any violation, the sky will strike with lightning!"

In the small courtyard, all the villagers stood in a square, reciting what was written on the paper with nervousness or fear.

Since there are not many literate people in this village, the content on the paper is not words, but more of the reciter's own scribbles, which only they can understand.

Reciting is difficult, but it is not that difficult when there is a rat fairy holding a knife to your neck.

After the overall recitation was finished, some villagers gave individual recitations. The poems were all distillations of the chaotic words in the mind of Rat Immortal, and a strange atmosphere suddenly emerged in the whole courtyard.

"Oh, Rat Immortal, you are April on earth."

"Oh, Rat Immortal, you are the electricity, you are the light, you are the only myth."

“Why do I always have tears in my eyes?”

"Because I love the Rat Immortal deeply."

Regardless of anything else, Kuster, who was covering his remaining ear with the tip of his tail, felt that the village was originally quite normal, but it started to become weird since Zhong Xie came.

And this is exactly what Zhong Xie wanted.

Anyway, it’s not Kuster’s power that is used, but the power of the rules of local ghost stories to train the cute villagers of local ghost stories.

It's quite like NTR, where someone uses your wife and beats your child at the same time, and you can only feel helpless and furious, unable to do anything, unable to change anything, and unable to even "not watch" it.

Because you don't even have a body, your level of deterrence is not even as good as that of a ghost.

Good subject, I'll watch this tonight.

Zhong Xie tried many times, but the local goddess ghost story could not take any measures to resist Zhong Xie.

The rules of the ghost story are very strict. It doesn't resist when you take a step forward. This is definitely not because it is the alphabet circle big shot Em with great endurance, but because it is tied up. Even if it is an Ace, it can't resist. It will only make the already beastly Zhong Xie more excited.

As a purely conceptual horror story, it does form the rules into a set of circular logic, and Zhong Xie will definitely not be able to defeat it within its comfort zone.

But relatively speaking, her influence on reality is limited and indirect.

It cannot directly control the heavens and the earth like Zhong Xie, nor can it easily kill villagers like Zhong Xie, so on a practical level, its influence will soon be surpassed by Zhong Xie.

Ghosts and spirits are scary indeed, but they only seem scary because of constant association. Bandits, on the other hand, are scary whether you think about it or not, because they can really put a big knife on your neck.

If you are not afraid, they can still put the knife on the neck of your family. There is always a situation that you are afraid of.

Although these villagers possessed the ability to revive and restart infinitely, they still did not dare to resist Zhong Xie at this moment. Perhaps they were afraid of the Rat Immortal who was more than ten meters tall, or perhaps it was because the village chief had already established the rules.

Frequent death and resurrection is not advisable. There will be punishment coming from the dark, which is more terrifying than complete death.

At this point, it no longer matters whether the village chief made it up or not. The villagers just need to follow the footsteps of the Rat Immortal.

Anyway, the Rat Immortal won’t hurt anyone at will, he’s even considered a good guy!

"Quick, tear down all the temples!"

Under the leadership of the Rat Immortal, this isolated mountain village began a vigorous "sweeping the old and welcoming the new" activity. The villagers rushed up the mountain with axes, hoes, and rakes to renovate the Niangniang Temple from inside to outside.

All the fences outside the temple were replaced with brick and stone walls. If there were not enough bricks and stones, the village chief’s small house would be demolished.

The road in the temple should be replaced with pebbles, which are plentiful in the river. Anyway, the road should be made smooth and elegant. If you want to be rich, you must first build roads, no matter where the roads are, just follow the instructions of the immortal.

And the most critical step is here, the statue of the Faceless Goddess in the temple must be smashed.

Smash off the old shackles and create a new era.

Finally, in the center of the open-air temple with a skylight, the villagers erected a statue of the Rat Immortal.

Well, the statue of the Faceless Goddess represents feudal superstition, while the statue of the Rat Immortal celebrates the progress of the times. If you want to know the reason, it is naturally the indestructible hoe in the hands of the statue of the Rat Immortal.

No matter how hard a bone you are, once you meet the immortal's hoe, you will become as soft as boneless in a moment.

Then again, why does the original Niangniang Temple have a roof, but the Daxian Temple has no roof?

Is it because the Rat Immortal shares the joys and sorrows with the people and is willing to bask in the same sunshine and share the same rain?

No, no, no, it’s because the temple is too small to accommodate the ten-meter-tall and imposing statue of the Rat Immortal.

The immortal was born to make breakthroughs in the sky, so how could he be covered by this goddess's small temple?

No matter how hard it is, the immortal cannot suffer. Zhong Xie's ancestral temple must be built according to the highest standards. No matter whether he can bear the cause and effect or not, as long as the immortal is happy, it's fine.

It’s okay for the villagers to work more and sleep less, but will they lose weight?
Really not.

Because the villagers' flesh and blood all grow from the fields, not from their own bodies, so it doesn't matter if they suffer a little bit of hardship and fatigue. At worst, the Rat Immortal will help you reincarnate, and in the next life we will be reborn as humans and continue to help the Immortal build the temple.

Anyway, the temple was originally built by the villagers at the request of the village chief, so it doesn't matter if it is destroyed and rebuilt now. It definitely doesn't violate the rules, and Zhong Xie will not let the local ghost stories find any handle on it.

I just like to see it looking frustrated and helpless, hehe.

Although the furious empress was Zhong Xie's imagination and he had no idea what the local ghost story was thinking, he didn't care at all because he had delusions.

It's like I could tell the real from the fake before.

Instead of thinking about this, you might as well help cut down the trees near the temple, as they block the immortal from basking in the sun.

Anyway, ever since the Rat Immortal was born, the whole village has never had peace. A group of villagers work from nine in the morning to nine in the evening, all week long.

And the next thing Zhong Xie did after completing the rural infrastructure was even more interesting.

Preaching, teaching, and answering questions.

The rural infrastructure construction has been in turmoil for nearly a week. Has the Rat Immortal really been just having fun during this period?

Yes.

But as he searched, the ideas in Zhong Xie's mind gradually became clearer, and he first did a simple experiment.

In the morning, when passing by the fields, Zhong Xie taught a villager the scientific composting method (made up, mental hospitals don't teach this) and demonstrated the forming process. In the afternoon, when repairing the ancestral hall, the villager was accidentally crushed to death by the beam, and the whole village quickly buried the man and had a feast. When the villagers returned the next day, Zhong Xie saw the results of the scientific composting method in various fields. Although the works looked different, they were indeed what he taught.

Sure enough, the story the village chief once told contained the weaknesses of local ghost stories.

Death will bring the villagers' souls close to the goddess, who will be able to know everything that happened to them and share it with every villager.

The villagers' heads are grown in the fields, their brains are generated by ghost stories, and the information contained in them is naturally known to the ghost stories.

However, the influence of ghost stories on the brain is limited and cannot control the actions of the villagers.

Otherwise, local ghost stories would not need to find a village chief as a "spokesperson" to establish rules and pass on messages.

From this, Zhong Xie understood another rule:
Dead villagers will share information with the Empress, regardless of whether the information is true or false, or whether the information is useful or not.

The operation of the rules is automated, which is why the village chief has set a rule that "no one can die or be resurrected at will".

What causes the serious burden of ghost stories is not the resurrection of the dead villagers, but the information in the villagers' heads during the resurrection process!
In this case, the problem is simple.

There is no need to physically erase the existence of these villagers, all we need to do is "teach them, educate them, and resolve their doubts."

Therefore, during their free time of rural infrastructure construction every day, villagers still need to carry small stools to the village chief's yard to listen to the lectures of the Rat Immortal, and what the Rat Immortal teaches are naturally some advanced ideas.

For example, "Mr. Desai", "The power of kings is granted by God, and so is the power of immortals", and "Small villages with few people should implement ostracism."

Zhong Xie didn't need to care whether the villagers could understand him or not. He just spread his messy theories around and changed them three or four times a day.

It’s okay if you don’t understand it, but it’s even worse if you only understand it partially, as it’s more likely to cause redundancy of erroneous data.

After two or three days, even the rural infrastructure construction was suspended, and preaching and teaching became the first thing these villagers had to do.

I don’t know if it’s because the local ghost stories have made the villagers’ minds more flexible, but Zhong Xie unexpectedly discovered that these villagers have particularly strong abilities to understand and accept.

In a sense, they may all be manifestations of special personalities of local ghost stories, and are not as uneducateable as the old stubborn people in the poor mountains and bad waters.

Normally they just don't think, because thinking would occupy too much of the "CPU" and memory of the local ghost stories.

The more one thinks about what Zhong Xie teaches, the more obsessed one becomes. They are contradictory yet have something in common, and contain quite a few logical traps. Within two days, those farmers had become mentally unstable.

There is a strong inconsistency between their behavior and language, and there are many cases where their words and actions are inconsistent, as if they were attacked by some malicious virus program that caused a bug.

Today, the Rat Immortal is the Outer God in the Cthulhu mythology, constantly emitting spiritual pollution and torturing the brains of every villager.

The whispers of the outer gods really do contain infinite mysteries, and ordinary people will lose a lot of San points just by listening to them.

For example, "affirmation, negation, negation of negation", there is also a popular version "right, wrong, oh right, right", and there are "critique of pure reason, the law of knowledge and the law of morality" and "the ghost of a mouse goddess is wandering in the village fields."

Since you use the rules to quietly occupy the villagers' brains, I will bombard these villagers' brains with massive amounts of spam information and reversely attack the firewall until the program crashes and the victory settlement screen of "The Rat Immortal Bows Three Times" appears.

Preaching and teaching are going on steadily and orderly every day.

Until Zhong Xie strolled among the fields and saw Uncle Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism having sex with Aunt Q, the iron-clad woman, in the field, and also saw the Crown Prince of the Han Dynasty dating Yehe Guwalgiya, and also saw groups of Mi guards holding a meeting to criticize Eryou.

He knew that he had succeeded in spiritually corrupting the village.

Of course, now is not the time to attack, Zhong Xie is still accumulating strength.

Assume that the villagers are bombs, the stored information is the amount of gunpowder, and the fuse is "death".

The villagers haven't died yet, so this information has not yet flooded into the minds of local ghost stories, like a sword of Damocles hanging in the air, brewing an atmosphere of terror and oppression indefinitely.

Once these information bombs are completed, Zhong Xie will start legalism education just like in the movie "The Wave", which can easily brainwash the villagers and drive them toward collective death.

That's when the bomb will explode completely.

All this was happening right under the noses of local ghost stories. Zhong Xie couldn't hide it, nor did he want to. Anyway, he felt that his life was very comfortable, to the point where he didn't even want to leave even if they kicked him out.

There are not many people in this world who can listen to his preaching quietly for a week, but there happens to be one such person in the village.

There are three hundred and thirty-four.

Awesome.

Everyone has different abilities to understand and believe in different ideas. In the next month, Zhong Xie plans to help them delve deeper into the ideological theories they are good at, understand these spiritual crystallizations, and achieve the effect of "spiritual pillar".

This village actually doesn't need farmers to farm. They can eat meat without doing anything. The material world can be easily satisfied, so why not strengthen the spiritual world?

What is Plato Academy? Is it as powerful as my Zhongxie Academy?
The thoughts of the students here are truly broad-minded, spanning five thousand years, and even touching upon the governing policies of the Paradox players.

After teaching these students, Zhong Xie could watch them exchange ideas, which was quite interesting like "cricket fighting".

He wanted to see who would win the championship trophy of this ultimate debate.

Of course, if it weren’t for the pressure from the Rat Immortal, a village war would have broken out long ago. After all, fists are always stronger than reason.

Every verbal clash of ideas and doctrines contains far more information than what can be “taught and taught”. After the preliminary preparations are completed, this information will multiply exponentially and be stored redundantly, waiting for the right opportunity.

This kind of debate is like a night chat in the boys' dormitory. It makes sense but is meaningless. Not only does it waste time, it will also affect your mood at 8 am the next day.

Zhong Xie only needs to export garbage, but there are many things to consider for local ghost stories.

This is what rule-based ghost stories are like. Once the rules are established, they become very stubborn and obstinate.

It is obvious that it can no longer accept the operation of these villagers' programs, but it insists on continuing to operate according to the rules because this is the foundation of its existence.

Just like the empire's tribute system, even though the internal financial problems were already very serious, the empire still had to send fleets to travel around the world every year, at least to save face.

This is probably what local ghost stories are like nowadays. They like to puff themselves up and pretend to be strong, just like a little female ghost, sticking their butt out and insisting that they don't feel anything. If they have the guts, they will continue.

But it's not its fault. Zhong Xie has already figured out the common characteristics of rule-based ghost stories, and what follows is a powerful and miraculous winning blow.

In fact, conceptual ghost stories also have standardized solutions, and information bombs are just one of the implementation methods.

So next, Kuster, show me, this is how the rules of weird talk are used!
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