Melting

After dinner, Lu Ban washed the dishes, and Feng Yu said goodbye and left, preparing to go to Massachusetts to continue her original work.

[Weird Amusement Park] requires an open space to be developed, Lu Ban plans to find some free time on a quiet night to try it out in the suburbs.

He sat in front of the computer, watching the cold, indifferent text of the system piece together bit by bit.

[Career Development Task]

[Never forget your original aspiration, let literature convey the truth, and use your works to spread new hope. The past will always happen in the future, and only by presenting it can we give the world a true warning. It is your duty to do so.]

[Requirement: To influence people's values and worldview through one's work]

[Influence: 0/100000000]

"True works of art can influence a person's life, whether in a good way or a bad way."

"Does having an influence of 100 million mean I'm going to influence the values of 100 million people?"

Lu Ban believes that it is easy to make people think a movie is good, and it is also easy to make people want to watch a movie several times.

However, it is very difficult to influence people's cognition and change their values and worldview through a film.

First of all, film is an art form that requires understanding. To watch a movie, you need to learn to listen, read, and speak, have normal eyesight, and have the time and financial means to watch movies.

All these factors combined mean that those who can appreciate movies generally possess a considerable level of cognitive ability, and understanding the content requires even greater comprehension.

For example, if a kindergarten child is taught how to use an automatic rifle from a young age and is told that he should practice shooting before meals every day, then over time he will form this perception and associate eating with shooting.

But if you say these things to a high school student, he'll just think you're crazy.

This creates a paradox.

Watching movies requires a certain level of comprehension, and with such comprehension, one will not easily change their view of the world because of the content of the movie.

If you can easily change your worldview, then you may not necessarily be able to understand the content of the movie.

Of course, there are other people who can do similar things.

Some works can change people's views on family, love, career, and the world. Such works have mostly transcended the realm of simple entertainment films and entered the realm of true art.

Just like the classic saying, "Don't read Water Margin when you're young," meaning that you shouldn't read Water Margin when you're young and inexperienced, as you might easily learn from the characters' fighting and killing and solve problems with violence.

However, once you reach adulthood, it's extremely difficult to change your worldview because of a movie.

Despite possessing extraordinary works, Lu Ban was still somewhat uneasy.

However, Lu Ban quickly realized something.

It's said to be about influence, but without genuine change, it's hard to say whether it will be effective.

For example, if we use force or other means to change people's perceptions and make them think that something is something else, does that count as changing their worldview?

Just like the classic Mandela effect, even though Mandela lived into the 21st century, many people thought he was already dead. Many people are also confused about whether he was one of the 56 constellations or one of the 56 ethnic groups.

For a certain period of time, brainwashing-style distorted propaganda about things that are not familiar to the general public can also achieve the effect of changing public perception.

Today, many people only remember the global spread of the Spanish flu, but few people actually know that the flu did not originate in Spain.

However, these are all unorthodox methods, which Lu Ban is not good at.

He still wants to touch people's hearts through his work.

Thinking of this, Lu Ban checked the materials he had obtained.

It includes most of the footage of the wasteland, as well as the insect swarms left outside and Frostheart's encounters after he entered the wormhole, but it lacks most of the footage after he passed through the wormhole.

Perhaps it's due to the influence of the Old Ones that those fragments that cause strong mental pollution are consciously avoided.

If the image of the Old Ones bound by the black hole were actually shown on the big screen, Lu Ban wouldn't have to worry about failing the mission, but the audience would probably go crazy in no time, or become believers in that Mud Monster.

As Lu Ban was thinking about this, he remembered the new ability he had gained.

[melt].

Just like his previous abilities, the corresponding knowledge had already been engraved in Lu Ban's brain.

He fully understood how to use this ability.

When Lu Ban arrived at the restroom, he looked in the mirror.

Lu Ban smiled in the mirror, as if greeting someone.

Suddenly, Lu Ban's face became distorted and flat, like an ice cream ball dropped onto a hot asphalt road at midday in the middle of summer.

Then, Lu Ban melted.

He turned into a puddle of slime, just like the famous Mud Pokémon.

Lu Ban can move and change at will, and sense its surroundings.

Next, Lu Ban arrived at the entrance to the sewer.

He cried.

Meanwhile, some of Lu Ban remained in the restroom.

The Lu Ban, flowing down the sewer, soon reached the actual city sewers, where it was filthy and reeked of stench.

Lu Ban crawled out of the sewer crack again and came to the grass in the community.

There happened to be a young girl walking her dog here. The dog came to the bushes and was about to poop.

Seeing this, Lu Ban went over to them.

"You can't urinate or defecate anywhere."

Lu Ban thoughtfully offered a reminder.

The dog, which was halfway through defecating, suddenly smelled something. The whole dog tensed up immediately, and before it had finished defecating, it started running wildly with half of its feces still attached, dragging the young girl along with it as she stumbled and ran away.

Lu Ban felt he had done another good deed, and a thought crossed his mind.

The melting Lu Ban suddenly began to shrink towards a certain point. The Lu Ban on the grass floated up and disappeared into the cracks in the wall, through the vents and sewers, and back to the part of the Lu Ban located in the bathroom.

Lu Ban quickly took shape again.

Simply put, the ability of [Melting] grants Lu Ban the power to transform himself into a slime-like soft monster. He can move like a slime, split himself to expand his sensory range, and also quickly gather at any point in the slime to reshape himself into a human form.

When injured by a knife or other trauma, it can soften itself, dissipate physical damage, and essentially achieve the effect of physical immunity.

In the future, Lu Ban will only need to leave a piece of himself at home. Even if he goes abroad, he can instantly melt and recombine to return home.

Although he didn't know if inter-realm travel was even possible, Lu Ban was already quite satisfied.

"Next, I need to find some time to see what exactly happened at the Amusement Park."

Lu Ban thought to himself.

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