Chapter 267 Beacon Spiral Mask

A crow with a wide beak.

A crow with a body as fluid as ink.

A crow with a body like a shadow and a black shadow like a page in its claws.

A crow made of dark red flames.

A one-eyed light crow came out of a frame hole with a black shadow outline like a silhouette.

A mechanical crow with gears and connecting rods all over its body, made up of various mechanical parts.

Yao Yan's attention was first focused on a strange crow.

One side was black, and the other side was white.

But it was no longer a mixture of sheep and wolf characteristics.

At this moment, there was something like flame and brick on its body.

However, Yao Yan could separate it.

Yao Yan did so.

As his will surged, the "armor" feathers like bricks and stones separated from the black and white crow's body and then reassembled.

The next moment, a sculptured crow that looked like a sculpture, a lamp stand, or a fire stand on the wall appeared in Yao Yan's field of vision.

It was "very similar" to the black and white crow.

To be precise, it gave Yao Yan a feeling of being "very similar" to the black and white crow.

And how to use its ability.

Accompanying Yao Yan's will, flames rose from the hollow sculpture-like crow's body.

From the eye sockets of the sculpture crow, Yao Yan saw the rising flames.

At this moment, the other crows around him all turned their eyes to it.

The next moment, Yao Yan looked at the Deformed Shadow Crow.

Then, he controlled the Deformed Shadow Crow to pounce on the sculpture-like crow.

The Deformed Shadow Crow turned into a shadow, and lines of text appeared on the black page.

It's just that it's incomplete.

[Secondary ability: beacon fire]

[Spirit form: hollow sculpture, flames will ignite inside when the ability is activated]

[Ability 1: When there is a relationship connection between the user and the target, part of this relationship will be consumed, and then the other party will be pulled near the user. The target pulled near will ignite flames. 】

【Ability 2: Select a target, and after successfully using ability 1, eliminate a negative state on the target. 】

Once again, just like his usual wording and sentence structure, just like his habit of describing, it was as if what he wrote down was emerging on the black page.

The beacon crow, plus the descriptions of ability 1 and ability 2, clearly pointed to a story in his memory.

Playing with the princes with beacon fire.

In terms of the structural skeleton, playing with the princes with beacon fire and The Wolf is Coming are very similar stories.

Both describe deceiving others for fun, exhausting others' trust, and ultimately leading to the fact that they cannot be rescued in distress.

Is it because the core skeleton of the underlying story is similar that they can be integrated?

However, if you look carefully, you will find that there are still differences in details between the two stories.

It's just that these details will be considered "insignificant" by many people.

For example, The Wolf is Coming was a shepherd boy for his own pleasure, but the sheep was eaten.

Playing with the princes with beacon fire was done by King You of Zhou to win the smile of a beautiful woman, but King You of Zhou died.

But that's all.

Perhaps more importantly, he used the ability of the Deformed Shadow Crow on himself.

Originally, he judged that the person in "Hell" might leave some traps for him, just like he did to the other party, so he tried to avoid using the ability on himself.

However, after this "near death", his alienation from his own memory became stronger.

The original "worry" and various judgments had less impact on him.

He would make decisions and take actions based on the logical judgment formed based on Yao Yan's memory before his death, but because he was more alienated from "Yao Yan's memory".

This also includes the judgment of "importance".

The logic formed according to "Yao Yan's memory" has a weaker impact on "him".

Originally, because his connection with this memory has weakened.

To be precise, "self-identity" has weakened.

According to Yao Yan's memory and logic, "the subject who thinks and judges based on this memory" is regarded as "I".

However, now, his relationship with this memory and logic has weakened.

This "I" has also faded.

If you want to simplify it, you can regard it as "sense of identity".

Judging from memory, he is indeed a part of "Yao Yan".

However, he has lost his sense of identity.

No, there is something wrong with the logic of this sentence.

The sense of identity is woven by "memory and logic".

It is this memory and logic that he lacks a sense of identity.

That is not right either, because he is the one who is doing the "thinking" process.

To put it another way, it should be - when someone is thinking, he thinks that his brain does not belong to him.

This is what is happening to him now.

That is not quite right either.

It should be said that he knows that his brain belongs to him, but he feels that his brain does not belong to him.

Well, this statement is more accurate.

According to the logic formed by "Yao Yan's memory", he should avoid some operations that may endanger his life for the sake of "life safety".

It is just because of the lack of identity with "self", which also affects the importance of "one's own life".

And this "feeling" further affects his judgment process.

Thus forming

Oh, by the way, if I am not mistaken -

Driven by will, the Deformed Shadow Crow separated from the body of the Fire Crow.

The words on the black page disappeared.

After separating, the Deformed Shadow Crow flew directly to another crow.

It was a crow with a strange appearance.

Its body had many spirals?

Its body was "curled up".

The head of this crow seemed to be holding its tail feathers, and its feathers were not straight lines like birds, but curled into a spiral, close to a circular pattern.

It seemed that it was composed of countless spiral shadows.

Yao Yan's eyes turned to the black page:

[Secondary ability: Vicious cycle]

[Spiral form: Spiral Crow, a crow composed of countless spiral feathers]

[Ability 1: When the target has a continuous negative state, it can be used to aggravate the negative effect. After the aggravated negative effect takes effect once, a mark will be added. When the mark exists, the duration of the negative effect will be extended. ]

[Ability 2: For each additional mark generated, the aggravated effect will be enhanced once more. ]

Yes, that's right, it's a vicious cycle.

Lack of self-identification leads to a decrease in the importance of "one's own life".

Because of the lack of emphasis on life, his judgment process is further affected, which makes his self-identity weakened, and then the cycle continues.

However, that boundary has never been broken.

His sense of identity is alienated, but not completely separated.

While thinking, he took back the Deformed Shadow Crow, and then all the crows focused their attention on the last "new member".

It was a crow wearing a mask.

ps: In fact, this setting of displaying intelligence was abolished before, but considering that every time you get a new ability, you need to enter to see it, it was added back.