Wish (2)
Looking at the colorful candies in Lu Li's hand, Udick and Kor swallowed hard. Yesterday, they and five other people had traveled here by boat, and the person opposite them had given each of them a piece of candy.
They might never have seen candy in their entire lives, only heard of this legendary, incredibly delicious thing. Coupled with the temptation of a wish, all seven of them ate the candy.
After eating the candy, they felt the whole world was so unreal, and then it was as if their souls had left their bodies, and they were transported to another world. However, when Udick and Kor regained consciousness, they had lost all their memories of what had happened before.
Kor and Udick only remembered the blissful feeling after eating the candy, but they lost all their memories afterward, as if they had just had a wonderful dream.
But when they opened their eyes and looked around, they saw the other five people with them emitting black smoke that enveloped their bodies, corroding their flesh until they were nothing but white bones.
The black mist corroded their bodies, turning them into a black substance that transformed into a monster whose form kept changing. Just a few seconds later, the monster turned into black smoke and dissipated.
They survived in a daze, but didn't even know how the others died. After that, they seemed to be abandoned, and Lu Li remained silent, ignoring whatever they said.
After waiting a day, they saw five new people arrive, and now another piece of candy was placed in front of them, asking if they wanted some.
"Will there be any problems?" Kor swallowed hard, looking at the candy in Lu Li's hand. That wonderful, pleasurable feeling welled up in his heart again, making him think involuntarily, "I survived eating it before, so it shouldn't be a problem this time either, right?"
"As long as you can persevere and not lose yourselves, there won't be any problems," Lu Li said with a smile. "Of course, you can choose not to eat, but you'll have to experience the consequences for yourselves."
The first to Gluttony was Udick, who had little resistance to delicious food and had experienced the wonderful feeling before. Taking a chance, he took the candy from Lu Li's hand and ate it in one bite.
Perhaps inspired by Udick's actions, the others also ate the candy one after another. Only Bangier looked at the candy in his hand and his sister tied to his side with some worry, and said anxiously, "Can my sister not eat it, or can I take her place?"
"No, otherwise I'll kill her right now." Lu Li shook his head in refusal, appearing exceptionally cold. "Let me give you a hint: the more you resist, the less chance you have of surviving."
Clutching the candy in his hand, and looking at the inhumanly handsome man before him, Bangier shifted his body and found that the chains no longer emitted the constant fear, but his body was still bound and unable to move.
Knowing they couldn't escape Bangier and Korandi ate the candy, and then felt that everything was an illusion. The world kept changing, their souls seemed to leave their bodies, and the world became unfamiliar.
When Bangier regained some consciousness, he found himself in a pure white space with nothing around him. He looked around and touched the floor, but couldn't tell what material it was made of.
"Is anyone there?" Bangier called out, but received no response. He looked around and found the place seemed endless, with no one in sight. "I wonder how Korandi is doing?"
"Brother?" Bangier, who was thinking about Korandi's situation, suddenly heard Korandi's voice behind him. He turned around and saw that the other side of the pure white space behind him had turned into darkness.
His sister, Korandi, was standing there looking pretty. Upon seeing her, Bangier rushed over, scooped Korandi up in his arms, and anxiously asked, "Korandi, are you alright? Where were you? I was so worried!"
"I'm fine, I just suddenly appeared here," Korandi said sweetly.
At this moment, Lu Li and Dark River were standing in the Candy House, looking at the seven people who were tied up opposite them. These seven people were all emitting wisps of black flame, and their expressions were extremely enjoyable, or rather, unrestrained.
The old village chief was laughing maniacally, saying, "They're all mine! They're all mine! All these things are mine!"
The expressions of the others weren't much better. The queen seemed to be dreaming of regaining her youth and fully ruling the kingdom again, while Udick and the others looked like they were enjoying their meal.
"Do you think they can hold on?" Dark River looked unsure. "I think they're all so caught up in their own desires that they can't extricate themselves. Sooner or later, they'll be completely consumed by their own dark side."
"Not necessarily, maybe they can pull through." Lu Li looked at the seven people and said something that even he himself didn't quite believe.
That rainbow-colored candy was actually a curse. That's right, it was the Madness Curse that Lu Li had obtained before but never used. The effect of this Madness Curse was to make people start to doubt reality, and finally place their hopes on a vague god called "Yellow Face Village", and finally sacrifice themselves to become a monster.
The curse that Lu Li received was devoured by the unknown thing in his mind, and only the first half of the curse was spat out; the part about sacrificing oneself to become a monster was missing.
It wasn't until Lu Li obtained a copy of the Theseus Immortality Technique from the Theseus Magic Society, as agreed, that the curse was finally lifted.
Lu Li then learned about the Theseus Immortality Technique. The core idea of the Immortality Technique is to continuously renew the decaying parts of oneself and replace them with new parts, thereby ensuring that one remains forever new.
Immortality is like a ship, and it's impossible for one person to steer a ship alone. Everyone has their own flaws, and having flaws means that one cannot achieve immortality.
Just as Theseus is a ship, each person is a tree. No matter how long a tree lives, it will eventually die. But if you make it into a plank and fill it on the ship Theseus, your own concept is already connected with Theseus. You become a part of Theseus.
The Theseus Immortality Technique, even if it transforms oneself from a tree into a plank and Integration into the specific operation of the great ship Theseus, essentially means that all those who cultivate the Theseus Immortality Technique are building a great ship called Theseus.
They elevated their concept of self and merged with Theseus to become Theseus. So even if the part of their body that they merged with decayed later, their essence had already become one with Theseus.
Therefore, anyone who masters the Theseus Immortality Technique can call themselves Theseus. Lu Li's evaluation of this secret technique is: If I cannot live forever, then let Theseus live forever, because I am already Theseus.
Um, I don't know if Xu Ming explained the Theseus Immortality Technique clearly. Also, the four chapters that were supposed to be updated were delayed tonight because of some things, so I can only make up for it tomorrow.
Another thing is about my junior brother, Mu Mu. His novel, "The Gate of Silver," was released today. I'll post a recommendation in a separate chapter later, so everyone can go and support it. I heard that he dressed up as a woman when he got 444 first-day subscriptions.