Otto's daily life

Chapter 393 Wish, Resentment

"These are our findings during this period. Let me summarize them for you."

Iyuen was standing on a high platform, with XIG's friends, Fujimiya, and Yana, Reiko and others sitting below him, who were there to watch the show.

It was a press conference, very lively.

"More than a thousand years ago, there lived a group of people who were not disturbed by war. They lived in a remote mountain forest and led a peaceful life. That's why their clothes don't look like they were made in that era. They worshipped their own gods, worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, and didn't communicate with outsiders."

I explained the background in my dream, ignored the rustling sounds below, and tried hard to tell the story clearly.

"Sacred object? Is it the wishing stone statue?" Lingzi put down the ballpoint pen and couldn't help asking.

I Meng shook my head: "No, he came later and surpassed the others. The original sacred object was the Y-shaped stone pillar standing in the center of the ancient tomb."

Yanai bit the candy in his mouth and crushed it. "This tribe is fighting with the stone, right?"

Zhu Xingzhen stuffed potato chips into his mouth and said vaguely: "Maybe he was covered by a stone. It's better to believe in Gaia than to believe in a stone. At least he is orthodox."

Yanai chuckled and said, "Gaia is mud, not stone."

I Meng scratched my face shyly, and he felt embarrassed because of what she said.

Seeing that my dream was about to be distracted, Kajio tried hard to pull me back and said, "Wake up." She said, "You are made of mud, why are you so happy?"

"and then."

I came back to my senses from the dream: “But one day, an unidentified object fell from the sky, with billowing black smoke, and crashed to the ground, killing a bunch of beasts that were trying to hunt.

It is precisely because of this that the stone statue, or unidentified object, was picked up by them and regarded as a divine soldier sent from heaven, a blessing from the gods. After all, as soon as it appeared, there was meat to eat, which was much more reliable than that useless stone pillar. "

When he said this, Imeng shrugged helplessly, and I could see that he was speechless.

Yanai secretly despised the stone pillar. It just appeared for a moment and captured the hearts of human beings. What use are you to? Bah, little trash.

"Afterwards, the statue deceived humans into believing in him and devoting everything they had to him."

"Can he really fulfill people's wishes?" Kajio asked in surprise. If one wants to be worshipped, he must have something to show for it.

Thinking of the stone statue sitting in the restaurant and enjoying a meal, he couldn't imagine that the other party was a charlatan.

I Meng shook my head and nodded again: "He does have it, but, just like we imagined, it has limitations."

After saying that, he spread out a few enlarged pictures, and Yanai recognized at a glance that it was the parchment that Zhuxing Zhen picked up.

"This is a record from an eyewitness who witnessed it back then. After translation, we came to this conclusion: the person in need prays to the other party and offers a part of himself, which could be a body, emotion, or more likely something cherished by the other party. The stone statue, accompanied by thick black fog, fulfills the wishes of the person praying." I Meng told them what I had translated.

Yanai wondered, "Why would there be a fool who would exchange something he cherishes for the fulfillment of his wish? He already has it, okay?"

Fujimiya suddenly said, "Take Moroboshi Shin and exchange it for the candies you can never finish. Do you want to do that?"

Yanai's eyes lit up: "Change!"

Zhu Xingzhen: “!!!” He looked at Yanai in disbelief. No, you didn’t hesitate for even a second, not a single second.

"Little fool Yanai!"

"I'll beat you up!"

Ignoring the brother and sister who were fighting again, I continued, "However, the fulfillment of these wishes is accompanied by a series of tragedies, not just for the wisher."

"What do you mean?" Daocheng's intuition told her that she would definitely not like what was said next.

I dreamed with a frown on my face, as if I had encountered a difficult problem that I couldn't understand: "For example, his beloved girl was going to marry someone else, so he made a wish, offering his wealth as a condition for the girl to marry him again."

Xiaohui listened very carefully, "Then what?" Success?

“Then, not long after, his wish came true because the other groom-to-be died in an accident.

He got his wish.”

Yoneda was quick to notice something was wrong and asked tentatively, "He must have killed the groom-to-be."

I clapped my hands and nodded to confirm his guess: "Yes, he paid money to kill the other party and got the beauty back."

"Eh? Doesn't that mean the wishing mechanism failed? After all, the statue didn't do anything?" Lingzi raised her hand to speak.

Yanai took over the conversation, "No, it succeeded. He paid with money to fulfill his wish. From another perspective, it is indeed a wish-granting machine."

With a tooth mark on his face, Zhu Xingzhen nodded and added: "As expected, the other party is able to use malice to evoke the darkness hidden deep in the hearts of humans, use them as nourishment, and feed themselves back."

"Malice?" I murmured in my dreams when I heard the new word.

Zhu Xingzhen nodded, but when he heard about the black fog, he had a guess. It could so easily provoke the darkness in the human heart. Combined with what they encountered at the beginning, it was easy to think of that disgusting thing.

"Just think of it as a thing that can magnify the dark side of humanity. You've all seen this thing before. It's the source of the foul-smelling gas. It was originally a force of energy, but for some reason, it was in that form the last time we encountered it. Maybe it has mutated." Zhu Xingzhen stroked his chin and said hesitantly.

I dreamed and suddenly realized: "That corresponds to the content of the diary. The protagonist of the diary recorded that as the news spread, their tribe's life was getting better and better, but the conflicts became more intense. Only he and a small number of people did not make a wish for it."

"They tried to flee their homeland with an uneasy mood, but failed. Those crazy tribesmen who had lost their conscience killed them with hideous faces and dedicated them to the stone statue. This is the end of the diary.

There is no record of what happened afterwards, after all, the protagonist has passed away, but the truth of the matter has been roughly revealed. The only doubts are why the stone statue was sealed there and who built the tomb in the end. "

I dreamed of turning off the projection equipment and making a final summary. They had already tested the alien technology and, as expected, it should have landed on Earth together with the stone statue.

It is easy to imagine how much impact the magical functions of those things had on the ignorant humans at that time. They only added a touch of mystery to the stone statues.

It's like if they brought a lighter back to ancient times, they would definitely be regarded as messengers of the god of fire by the humans at that time.

It’s just a pity for those innocent lives. They had tried so hard to resist the inner temptation and the greed of the outside world, but in the end they died at the malice of their own people.

Thinking of this, I sighed silently.