Infinite: Starting from Infiltrating Other Spaces

Li Xia glanced at the ordinary people filling the carriage, suddenly sighed, and snapped his fingers.

"Certainly!"

The intelligence agents who were trying to persuade Li Xia felt as if the air around them had turned into solid ice, and their limbs and bones froze on the spot.

They remained seated, leaning forward, mouths agape as if about to speak, their pupils still retaining the earnestness and calculation from before, but their necks, wrists, and fingers could no longer move an inch.

The muscles were completely out of control, even the slightest curve of the fingertips was frozen in place, and the eyelids were so heavy that they felt welded shut, making it impossible to blink.

My throat tightened, and although I was still breathing, I couldn't make a sound. The words that were on the tip of my tongue were stuck in my throat, and I couldn't even move my tongue.

They could clearly perceive the outside world, see the crew-cut men approaching quickly at the doors on both sides, and sense the bewildered gazes of the ordinary passengers around them, but their bodies had become like sculptures.

Blood still flows in the veins, the heart still beats, but all the ability to move independently is completely stripped away. From skin and flesh to joints, every inch of the body is imprisoned in the present moment.

The other ordinary passengers in the carriage only felt that the atmosphere around them was strange, and assumed it was just the stuffiness caused by the lack of air circulation when the train stopped. They did not notice the strange changes that had occurred in that short moment.

Li Xia leaned back in his chair, his expression calm. He hadn't used any palace-level skills; the restraint he had just cast was still based on the power of will.

In one corner of the entire carriage, time seemed to be captured and sealed away. The air was still, the figures stood frozen, and the noise continued to flow elsewhere in the carriage, but this small area alone became a still world isolated from the outside world.

"I'm sorry to bother you, sir."

The young man in the lead had clearly received some information through the earpiece.

They first whispered something to Li Xia, then looked at the several people who stood like statues, their eyes filled with amazement and disbelief.

Li Xia nodded, stood up, and said, "It's up to you."

He waved to the three little ones and walked out of the train.

He had intended to just sit there until he reached his destination...

With another casual wave of his finger, their figures faded and disappeared little by little, as if erased by an eraser.

Li Xia leaped into the air and soared into the sky.

Once it reached a certain altitude, a very conspicuous sonic boom cloud exploded around it with a loud bang, and it sped away into the distance.

....................

In the dead of night, the entire Taoist temple was deserted, and even the maintenance staff had already fallen asleep.

The candlelight in front of the deity in the main hall was burning faintly, and the offerings in front of him were still very fresh, clearly changed every day.

Li Xia stood in front of the statue, looking up at the sculpture that looked exactly like herself.

A faint stream of light flowed toward him, and a halo slowly appeared behind his head, the halo of light that had been spreading within the halo becoming even more dazzling.

When those wishes gathered on the halo, they did not directly merge into it, but instead surrounded the halo, radiating extremely mesmerizing and dazzling colors, enveloping his entire body in a divine light.

Li Xia closed his eyes, and countless chaotic sounds rushed towards him, like whispers or unconscious murmurs.

These are all things that tourists and pilgrims have prayed for in the past.

He came here to conduct an experiment, which is... what would happen if these wishes were fulfilled?

Li Xia decided to pick the one with the loudest voice.

"True Lord, if you truly have a spirit, please manifest yourself and punish those people!"

Indeed... nothing in the world is more intense and pure than hatred. The sound was so loud that it even drowned out love, wealth, power, wine, and women.

Just you!

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Chapter 5 The Wish of All Beings

Li Xia searched for the loudest prayer and soon found the person making the wish.

This is a somewhat crowded urban village, with low-rise buildings and a messy crisscrossing of power lines.

In this era of massive infrastructure development, such urban villages stand out as a scar on the city, appearing somewhat out of place.

The reason why this scar has been slow to disappear is because of its diversity and cannot be generalized.

Li Xia stood in mid-air, looking down at the buildings, lost in thought once again.

If you want to conduct an experiment, you must have a control group, and the treatment methods must also be different.

For example, is there a difference between letting the other person know that you will fulfill their wish and not letting them know? Will the power of that wish be different?

Does the way of handling things change whether it goes according to his wishes or not? Will the willpower also be different?

Hmm...

Looks like I'll have to make a few more trips...

He raised one hand and flicked it lightly; a faint stream of light flew from his fingertips and dissipated into the air.

Start!

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The world around him became illusory, and a faint, shimmering white aura of wish power emanated from Li Xia's body, while the force that had been suspending him in mid-air slowly dissipated.

The whole world seemed to be detached and then reassembled, carrying a sense of unreality.

The sounds of wind, street noise, and distant car horns faded away one by one, the colors of reality rapidly faded, and a layer of gray mist enveloped the world.

This was his first time entering a dream world, and he found it quite novel.

Li Xia looked down at his body. He thought his consciousness would leave his body, but unexpectedly, the power of his will directly enveloped his body, and in a peculiar way, his physical body entered the dream.

He took a step forward, and his body disappeared instantly. The next moment, however, it was as if he had traveled through time and space and arrived directly in a dimly lit room.

"Waaaaaah"

Suppressed, low, and hoarse sobs echoed in the room.

Just by listening to these cries, you can feel the pain they contain.

A gray-haired man huddled alone in a corner of the room.

The man was wearing a faded work jacket with frayed cuffs, his hair was a mess, and he was curled up in a ball. His low sobs made his shoulders tremble slightly and uncontrollably. The extreme despair he suppressed was buried deep in his heart and turned into a prayer that soared straight to the sky.

This is the source of the loudest prayer, which seems to have become a nightmare, repeating itself even in sleep.

"An'an, it's Daddy's fault..."

A blood-soaked corpse lay before the man. Li Xia's gaze fell upon the body; the still-childish face was filled with pain and gaping wounds.

"It's because Dad is useless... They said you... said you were under too much pressure... that you jumped on your own... It's because Dad is useless."

He seemed to sense something, and slowly raised his head, his tear-filled eyes gradually widening.

Through his blurry, tear-filled eyes, the man stared at the scene before him, frozen in place.

Wearing a three-peaked phoenix crown on his head, boots that chase the wind and flow with the clouds, and a gilded armor, with a halo of authority behind his head and a rainbow of auspicious colors surrounding his body.

The Pure Source Wondrous Way True Lord! The Revered and Benevolent Emperor!

"I have heard your suffering."

That one sentence alone seemed to make the man shed all his pretense, and he trembled as he got up, knelt on the ground, and burst into tears.

"Waaaaah, I...I never thought...you really existed..."

He prostrated himself on the ground, crawled a few steps on his knees, as if he had returned to the front of the hall, and bowed down with a devotion he had never shown before in his life.

Li Xia's fingertips were entwined with the power of the man's will, and countless images seemed to flash before her eyes.

The staggering man lunged at the corpse, the few scoundrels escaped unscathed, the insincere comforts, and the school's cold, impersonal notice...

"Do you want human laws, or do you want them to retaliate in kind?"

The man suddenly raised his head, clenching his teeth as if he wanted to crush them all and spit them out one by one, mixed with blood.

"I...I want them to receive a fair trial!"

Li Xia raised an eyebrow. He could sense the man's hatred and resentment. He had thought the man would choose to retaliate in kind.

He was even prepared to see blood tonight and kill a few little beasts.

"I...I really want them to die, but I can't!"

The man raised his head, his bloodshot eyes seemingly filled with pain and despair:

"I think about their deaths day and night... I thought about giving my life to send them to hell... but... but then I thought... aren't there many other children like An'an...?"

They were terrified...and were suffering the same pain as An'an...

I was thinking...thinking about letting the law bring them to trial. If there were such a trial...would those...those people have some scruples when they commit evil...?

Even with Li Xia's temperament, she was still somewhat moved when she heard the man's words.

This is a dream, and everything said in the dream is what the heart thinks. This ordinary man, at this moment, extended his love to others and did something unprecedented!

Li Xia nodded:

"can!"

He stretched out a hand, gently raised it, and cast a ray of light that enveloped the man and his child. He decided to give the man a white lie:

"This child will be reborn into a good family. As for you... get some sleep."

The world around him gradually faded into nothingness, the man's eyelids began to droop, and endless fatigue washed over him.

He hadn't truly slept for a very, very long time.

............

Inside the office, Director Zhang was in a fit of rage. He slammed the documents in his hand onto the table with a loud bang.

"Planned for more than three months and monitored continuously for a year! An operation involving more than a dozen people!"

You didn't get a single tip-off! You let someone else find a breakthrough and make contact with the target!

Director Zhang stared wide-eyed, his eyes bloodshot, and slammed his clenched fist on the table with a loud thud.

"What are you all doing?! Tell me, what are you doing?! Why did you make such a huge mistake?!"

One person said in a low voice:

"Director... Director, you instructed us not to monitor him, nor to implement the normal highest-level protection procedures... He doesn't report to us where he goes..."

Director Zhang stared incredulously at the radish that had been forced in to be gilded, looking at her as if she were a stupid pig:

"You still want to monitor him? You still want him to report to us??? You should thank your ancestors eight generations back and be grateful that he's even been reincarnated as a Chinese!"

His anger was rising rapidly, and he wanted nothing more than to punch her.

"Didn't you see what conditions the Japanese next door offered? They even offered to use the resources of our country to win your favor!"

Are you genuinely ignorant or just pretending?

Director Zhang slammed his fist on the table again and roared:

"That's a blatant mockery of us, saying we're not the legitimate successors of China, that the legitimate successors are on their side! Damn it, how can you stand this kind of insult?"

Get out! Get out now! Don't ever come back!

The sudden ringing of his cell phone interrupted his spellcasting. Director Zhang was jolted as if by an electric shock, and then hurriedly rushed to the table to pick up the phone.

This phone, which has only one number stored in it and is guaranteed to be on standby 24 hours a day, can only be dialed by Zhenjun!

"Sir, it's me—"

He only got to the beginning before holding the phone in both hands and listening intently, his gaze growing increasingly serious.

Li Xia's voice came through the receiver softly, yet carried immense weight:

"You submit the report, and I'll approve it. If anyone obstructs it, I'll clean up the household registration according to the records. Do you understand?"

Director Zhang felt sweat constantly sliding down his forehead:

"I...I understand! Don't worry, there won't be any problem! It was our oversight before; we neglected both your travel arrangements and some issues related to society..."

"I won't hold this against you. How could such a large country be free of petty scheming?"

Li Xia paused, her voice carrying a hint of meaning: