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Chapter 1104 - 494: Xiling Was Actually Filming The Matrix
Voice of All Things—just from the name alone, this ability sounds pretty damn classy.Looking at the description, it doesn’t seem half-bad either.
Being able to directly issue commands to low-intelligence creatures, just reading that feels pretty overbearing.
The only thing is, I don’t know what the ability’s standard is for judging "low intelligence."
Cats and dogs, the kind of animals that can understand some human commands? Or those insects you can’t communicate with at all?
At the very least, the latter should count, right?
So does that mean that in the future, during summer, I can order all the mosquitoes to bite only Bufan’s skin, all the flies to camp on Bao Wei’s food, and all the roundworms to drill into Wang Ze’s ass?
That would be something to look forward to.
Unfortunately, this ability can only make all things understand what I say; it can’t make me understand what they’re saying, so even if I use it, at best we can only do the simplest communication through body language.
Setting reality aside for a moment—do zombies count as living beings?
If they do, then those former humans who are now lower-tier zombies acting purely on instinct—aside from the non-mutated ones—would they be considered low-intelligence or high-intelligence in the eyes of "Voice of All Things"?
Same for the Black Insects. If it can command zombies and Black Insects, then this ability’s rating goes up another tier.
I’ve got a lot of thoughts about this ability, but right now my stored uses are at 0, so there’s no way to test it. I’ll leave it for later.
Lin Li shifted his gaze to the [Shop].
After completing Mission Three, he got 200 System Currency, bringing his total System Currency earned so far to just about 5500—enough to unlock the ninth product slot: "Refreshable Product Slot 8."
—The reason Slot 8 is the ninth is because he previously got a "Product Slot 0" as a mission reward.
["Heaven’s Secret Talisman": 50 System Currency (limit 1 per day)]
[Heaven’s Secret Talisman: Drip blood on it and stick it to your body to use. Once used, it completely disrupts the target’s fate-traces, making it impossible for others to calculate, deduce, or track the target.
The disruption duration depends on the strength of the opponent doing the divination, ranging from 10 minutes to 24 hours. If this talisman is used again within three days, its effect will be halved.]
A new talisman-type item—kind of tasteless for Lin Li, since thanks to the System, he himself is already someone who can’t be divined.
He figured that in the end, since the price isn’t high, he’d probably buy one to pad out the warehouse and then look for a chance to refresh it away.
The next product slot requires a total of 6600 System Currency, but right now his mission panel only has two tasks left: "Blind Date" and "Study the Secret Realm of Wisdom." Compared to the previous period when all six mission slots were filled, it now feels a bit empty.
He wasn’t quite used to it.
Tsk, when he’s free he can wander around and see if he can trigger some new missions.
After dealing with the changes from the System, Lin Li’s gaze returned to reality. Yangliang was still driving down the night road in his plain, no-frills way.
Lin Li turned his head and watched the scenery outside the window for a while, then couldn’t resist the boredom and spoke:
"Uncle, as a Demon Suppression Envoy of the people, I want to test your professional literacy."
Without waiting for Yangliang to say any words of refusal, Lin Li jumped straight in:
"There’s a serial killer who specifically targets sixteen- or seventeen-year-old boys, and he likes to dismember the corpses. So, when you crack the case and go search his house for evidence, what will you find?"
Yangliang: "..."
This is that damn Ten-Bag Teen Group.
He knew the answer, but Yangliang knew something even more important—at times like this, you absolutely must not say the answer Lin Li wants! Otherwise this will never end!
So cold-shoulder treatment it is.
Lin Li: "You’ll find the murder weapon, bloody clothes, incriminating evidence, and souvenirs from the victims."
Yangliang: "?"
f*ck, thinking you were setting me up but then not setting me up is also a way of setting me up!!
Yangliang took a deep breath, and while sticking to his cold-shoulder tactic, he turned up the volume on the car radio, trying to use this to express his attitude and get Lin Li to shut up.
Right now it was a radio program, and they were in the middle of a call-in segment.
The call connected.
Host: "Hello, hi, can you hear me?"
"Yeah, hi, host, I just picked up a wallet while driving on the road. There’s five thousand yuan in it." The listener who’d called in spoke up immediately.
—A big chunk of car radio channels are designed specifically for drivers.
Host: "All right, I understand. Please leave your phone number and the exact location where you picked it up, and our program will help you find the owner."
The listener chuckled: "You’ve got it wrong. I wanted to request Da Zhangwei’s ’Super Cool’ to describe how I’m feeling right now."
Host, Yangliang: "?"
Lin Li: "(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧!"
"The sky is just so bright~ the earth is just so wide~ love is just so rippling~ my heart is just so wild~ the song is just so melodious~ the tune is just so mad~ everything looks awesome~ today I’m just so cool~ ha yi yo oh oh~ ha yi yo oh oh..."
Listening to it, Lin Li started feeling super cool himself, so he spoke up expectantly:
"Uncle, what’s this radio station’s phone number? I’ve also got some good vibes tonight I want to share with everyone."
Yangliang: "..."
In that moment, Yangliang suddenly had a terrifying suspicion.
Brain in a Vat.
A thought experiment: a person’s brain is cut off from their body and placed in a vat filled with nutrient solution that keeps the brain alive. The nerve endings of the brain are connected to a computer, and the computer sends information to the brain according to a program, so that it experiences the illusion that everything is completely normal. For this brain, it seems like people, objects, the sky all still exist; its own movements and bodily sensations can be input. This brain can even have memories input or taken away.