Then, Mo Zhi explained the scene at Hongshi Village.
Qiao Busui listened carefully, his brows furrowed, as if he was trying to remember. Unpredictable was calm and waited with a smile.
On the way back from Hongshi Village, he thought of asking Qiao Bushi for some clues about the "murderer".
There is a saying that goes well, Qiao Busheng has eaten more salt than Mozhi has eaten rice. With thousands of years of experience, he naturally has extensive knowledge, and he may know some information about the "murderer"'s contract ability.
But this time, Qiao Budie was disappointing. He shook his head:
"I have heard of the ability to petrify, but this ability should turn the target directly into stone, and the target will return to human form after the contract ability is terminated. In other words, under normal circumstances, this contract ability should be reversible. "
"It causes the muscles to be petrified from the inside out, but the outside of the body is no different from ordinary people. This sounds very scary. It is indeed an abolition of the contract. I have never heard of it."
"This is exactly the difference between a contract and annulled contract." Mo Zhi sighed:
“What about soul singers?”
Qiao Budie still shook his head: "In the past two hundred years, I have been in Hot Springs City. I don't go out much and I don't know much about the new people who have emerged in modern times."
Okay, I was disappointed and shook my head helplessly.
I don’t even know about it, so I can only collect clues from other places.
Qiao didn't care whether he died or not. He remained silent and started chatting on another topic:
"When I first met you, you were just a white-level punisher. Now you have been promoted to red-level. Did you upgrade recently?"
"Well" Mu Zhi sat cross-legged on the bed, pulled the cute little bunny pajamas and covered his chest:
"I have only been a contractor for a month, and I was promoted to the red level a few days ago."
"It's only been a month!" Qiao Bushi almost jumped up when he heard this.
Mo Zhi spread his hands and said, "Compared to you who haven't been able to advance to the red level in a thousand years, I am certainly much faster."
"Die!" Qiao Bushi knew that Mu Zhi was teasing, and snorted coldly. He couldn't be promoted just because the price was that he was prohibited from upgrading.
"Why so fast?" Qiao Bushi murmured. After thinking for a few seconds, he asked:
"What is your emotional obsession? Can you tell me?"
"What does this have to do with emotional obsession?" He was confused and confused, but he still answered truthfully:
"It's fraud."
I have just been promoted to red level, and I am in the stage of re-accumulation of contract ability habituation. I have not yet felt the emotional obsession of red level again, so there is no risk in being found out by Qiao Bushi. Moreover, this old Qiao has already moved in honestly. I have returned home, and I have completed the three things I promised, so I have initial trust.
"Fraud. No wonder you are so cunning." Qiao Bushit thought deeply, then suddenly touched his palm and asked as if he had discovered something:
"Can you tell me about your abilities? I mean, how did you use your abilities before and how did you pay the price for original sin? Forget it, there's no need to talk about original sin."
Does this have anything to do with it? It’s unclear. So, after briefly thinking about it, I selected a few experiences of using abilities in the past and recounted them. Including plagiarizing test papers during exams, and eavesdropping on Julia and Wells in the Federo family. Voices from my heart, and guessing cherries with Miss Shirelin today
He "possessed" Xiaoya tonight just wanted to ask for clues about Qiao Bushi, and the new housekeeper also needed to come back to "inspect" the situation on the first day of his stay. At this time, after the official business was done, it was natural for him to chat with Qiao Busha for a few words.
Unexpectedly, Qiao Bushi's eyebrows furrowed more and more as he listened, and he fell into deep thought as he heard the unpredictable narration. After a long time, he said in a low tone:
"I probably understand why you were promoted to red level in such a short period of time."
"Oh?" Mo Zhi was very surprised and listened attentively.
Qiao Busui stood up slowly and sighed: "It should be that you have been following your emotional obsessions and cheating!"
“This allows you to repeat your emotional obsessions over and over again, which leads to a rapid increase in levels.”
Unpredictable is a little confused: "Emotional obsession?"
Qiao Bushi's face showed determination. He paused, organized his words, and said slowly and clearly:
"Actually, I have discovered a long time ago that if the contractor always follows the behavior of emotional obsession, the level will increase faster."
Qiao Budie stared at him unpredictably and continued: "For example, your emotional obsession is fraud. Although you didn't know your obsession was this when you woke up, but... if you think about your various behaviors, you have been everywhere. Liar!"
"This may be due to your nature. You are a cunning guy and a liar, so your behavior coincides with your emotional obsession."
Seeing the unexpected surprise, Qiao Busui waved his hand and told him not to interrupt:
"Also, and more importantly, your contract ability! Every time you read the mind, the content of the payment, in addition to directly reciting the target's voice as it is, is actually just refining the central idea of the other party's voice, and then using your language Reorganize it”
"Take that time when you took the exam. You changed Jessica's voice into another statement and covered up the price you paid as a confession. This is a fraud, a fraud on the ability to contract! Also! , you read the voice of Wells and use another ironic language to explain what he was thinking. Think about it, is this also considered a kind of deception? "
"Today's Cherry Guess is the same. Although this time you are repeating what the other party is thinking without making any changes, your behavior is to tease the girl, and you have designed a small trap. This is also deceiving and defrauding the girl's emotions! "
"There's something else you didn't say. You and I fought all night long, and we kept making strange moves. This is also a kind of fraud. Whether it was using a Molotov cocktail to attack the smiling assassin O'Bryth, or soaking the bear with water. , or shouting to make my emotional obsession attack. In a sense, your actions are all fraud."
"Understood? You are a person who keeps lying to others! And it just so happens that your emotional obsession is deception. Therefore, this secret agreement can allow you to continuously improve your contract ability and habituate it."
Mozhi was stunned, and after staring for a long time, he said in an exclamation tone:
"Is this what it is?"
Immediately, he immediately realized the meaning behind this phenomenon and asked:
"In other words, for me, the more I lie to others, the faster I will level up, and the more I lie to others, the stronger I will be?"
Qiao Bushu stared at the visual inspection, seemingly verifying his conjecture again, and then nodded heavily:
"It should be. That's what it is! For you, lying can speed up the upgrade."
This is really inexplicable and unpredictable. I don’t know how I should feel. People are pretending to be pigs and obscenely developing, constantly leapfrogging tigers to become stronger. What the hell is it that I can become stronger by cheating?
After thinking about it, I couldn't believe that the old liar's logic was applied to several contractors he knew, and he frowned again:
"For all contractors, can they quickly improve their level by following their emotional obsessions?"
If this logic applies to me, there is no reason why it shouldn't apply to other contractors.
Moreover, Pandora has a large number of contractors under its jurisdiction and has been studying it for thousands of years. How could it not have been discovered?
Qiao Budie was thoughtful, thought quietly for a while, and said:
"It may be that this method is not necessarily applicable to everyone. For example, my emotional obsession is to cheat money, but because of the price prohibition, I cannot upgrade my level. Therefore, I have to endure the torture of my emotional obsession, but I have no choice but to Don’t cheat a little money here and there to relieve the psychological obsession brought about by emotional obsession.”
"There is another very important point. Almost all contractors know that the accumulation of emotional obsessions will eventually lead to crazy consciousness. From this point on, the general view in the contractor world is that emotional obsessions are not a good thing, and we must try our best. restraint."
"So, everyone chooses to restrain or resist their emotional paranoia instead of following this feeling. Therefore, they are not like you, a weirdo, who actually implements the deception of emotional obsession into the bone marrow. Alas, I can only say that you are a lover You lousy liar."
This barely makes sense, Mo Zhi secretly speculated.
If according to what the old liar said, his emotional obsession is fraud, it means that the harder he deceives others, the faster his emotional obsession will come, and thus the faster he will upgrade and the stronger his contracting ability will be.
But in the later stages, the accumulation of emotional obsessions will inevitably lead to confusion, uncontrolled rationality, and ultimately madness. In other words, this is an endless cycle -
The more he deceives, the stronger he becomes, and the stronger he becomes, the crazier he becomes. In the end, he becomes more deceitful and crazier, until he becomes a complete madman.
Damn, this is really a closed loop!
Therefore, even Zongchen Baiyi, who can represent Pandora, feels that emotional obsession is not a good thing, and believes that the obsession generated by it needs to be confronted——
Zongchen Baiyi's emotional obsession is his love for stones, and he carved Iron Eagle Westo into a stone sculpture in order to turn this obsession into the memory of his comrades - this is also a way to fight against his emotional obsession.
Seeing the unpredictability, Qiao Budie remained silent and sneered:
"You're not thinking about how to deceive people in the future right now? This will make you stronger quickly."
Mo Zhi curled his lips and denied: "No, how could it be! I am an honest and reliable young man, how could I go around lying to people?"
"You see, this is also a kind of deception. Lies come out when you open your mouth." Hearing this, Qiao Bushu sneered again and again, and his tone turned solemn:
"I suggest you. Although this can make you stronger quickly, the emotional obsession will accumulate faster."
Mozhi sighed, nodded helplessly, and said a verb:
"Grass!"
This is a bit contradictory.
Fraud is an escalating experience for oneself, but this experience is like a chronic poison that can lead to mental illness.
Qiao Busui clapped his fingers and said, "However, now that you have discovered this, you can still increase your level by constantly deceiving people until you become a half-spirit."
"Before becoming a semi-spirit, no matter what, the emotional obsession of a junior contractor will not be too strong and can still be resisted. You should still upgrade to the semi-spirit level as soon as possible."
"With the level and status of a semi-spirit, you will have more resources to deal with the sequelae of emotional obsession, right?"
"If you hesitate to move forward, you will slowly be consumed by yourself."
"I understand." Mo Zhi nodded.
What Qiao Bushi said is indeed a feasible suggestion. Since emotional obsession is unavoidable, it is better to raise the level to the semi-spirit level first, and then think of a solution - a semi-spirit will always have more solutions than the current self.
"However, raising the level is not a simple matter."
Qiao Busui interrupted his unpredictable thinking and said something shocking again:
"I'm afraid you don't know the probability of successful promotion of contractors. After my long-term statistics, in my thousands of years of experience, I have roughly calculated the probability range of successful promotion of contractors of each level."
Unpredictable was once again startled by Qiao Budie.
Qiao Bushid showed surprise on his face, smiled proudly, and said in a rather formal tone:
"The probability of success when promoting from white level to red level is four-fifths. From red level to orange level, multiply by four-fifths. From orange level to yellow level, multiply by four-fifths. Of course, green level and above It’s just a half-spirit. I don’t know that many half-spirits. I don’t know if this rule applies to intermediate contractors. However, this rule applies to green level and below, and I think it should be similar above.”
Unpredictable was really shocked this time. To be able to calculate such accurate figures, I am afraid that big data is needed to support it. Only Qiao Bushi, a guy who has lived for thousands of years, has the time and energy to collect "samples" and calculate this. law.
Exponential growth.
The success rate from white level to red level is 80%;
The success rate from red level to orange level is 64%;
The success rate from orange level to yellow level is 51.2%, only about half the probability;
The progression from yellow to green is only about 40%. I counted on my fingers and found to my surprise that if this rule is followed from green level and above, then the probability of success in advancing from blue level to purple level is only about 20%.
Only 20%!
The road of being a contractor is even more troublesome than cultivating immortals. The effect of eliminating emotional obsessions is somewhat similar to cutting off cause and effect, and the success rate of upgrading is still so low, which is equivalent to overcoming tribulation every time you upgrade.
"Is your success rate reliable?" Mo Zhi subconsciously questioned. As a habit, you always have to take a moment if anything happens.
Qiao Budie made a sound and did not bother to refute:
"It should be almost like this. Moreover, this is the probability when you feel the emotional obsession and then upgrade. If you fuse the Origin Stone without feeling the obsession, the probability of a successful upgrade will be so low that it is outrageously low."
Okay, Mozhi breathed out a breath, feeling that his eyelids were already fighting, and then said to Qiao Bushi:
"Thank you, Dad Qiao, for sharing. My body has been returned to Xiaoya. I'm going to bed."
After saying that, Mu Zhi returned to the starry sky of consciousness and secretly woke Xiao Ya up.
"Dad, I think I had another nightmare just now." Xiaoya, who regained her body, covered her mouth with her hand and said in panic.
"Don't be afraid. Dad is here. You are too tired today."
Qiao Fushu looked cheerful.
"Really?" Qiao Ya then lay on the bed again.
"Yes, be good. Baby, go to sleep." Qiao Bushit's face was kind, but the corners of his eyes were bitter.
The night is already deep.
The unpredictable person in the bedroom opened his eyes, looked at the dim ceiling, and turned over.
The secrets revealed by Qiao Busui were still surging in his heart.
This Qiao Bushi is definitely at the Yao Lao level.
Surprisingly, I can even discover this kind of pattern. These thousand years of experience and experience can help me avoid many detours.
Turning him into a butler would be the right move.
(End of chapter)
