It presented this book to me; it was a deliberate act.
However, the ultimate outcome might not be what it wants to see.
Li Zhiyuan placed the book under his pillow, got out of bed, walked to the closet, and looked at himself in the mirror.
A feeling of strangeness?
But I have felt like a stranger to myself in the mirror for a long time.
Filthy and twisted emotions?
I also wish I had emotions for it to contaminate.
You say I’m like Wei Zhengdao, then is there a possibility...
Li Zhiyuan places his hand on the mirror, the reflection becomes blurry, seeming to turn into a stranger, of course, this is just Li Zhiyuan’s own conjecture.
"Wei Zhengdao, and I, as well as Li Lan, suffer from the same ailment?"
Sleeping early and waking early, he woke up while it was still dark. Turning his head, it wasn’t yet time for the girl to arrive.
After getting up and washing, he picked up the Black Book and walked to the balcony, saw that the door to the eastern room was open, and Alii in a white top and horse-face skirt came out.
She lifted her head and looked up at the boy standing on the upper floor.
Li Zhiyuan showed a smile and waved to her.
Even though it was still not bright, his sun had already risen.
The girl sitting by his side, Li Zhiyuan begins to formally flip through the Black Book.
Familiar handwriting, familiar self-satisfaction.
It seems because it was written for a friend, this feeling is stronger, there is a pleasure in sharing good things with a good friend.
Li Zhiyuan feels that it, perhaps, misjudged the person.
Wei Zhengdao genuinely taught him this method, but some methods are not suitable for everyone.
Reading on, Li Zhiyuan confirmed this speculation.
The first Chapter, controlling the Underworld.
The second Chapter, merging consciousness.
The third Chapter, guiding cognition.
The fourth Chapter, completing manipulation.
This book is not thick, the content isn’t plentiful, only methods are discussed, to learn it, one just needs to copy the approach.
But the difficulty is very great, just controlling the Underworld is not something everyone can master.
Looking at it this way, that it is truly a genius, it genuinely learned it and even controlled so many corpses.
Moreover, this book is very nefarious.
It uses corpses as a type of "animal," establishes a connection through the Underworld, then merges consciousness, reads their memories from life, finally, like hypnotizing or deceiving, manipulates their behavior.
Like... taming an animal.
Maybe, in a proper book, it has to stay poised, repeatedly writing "destroyed for the Righteous."
But in notes written for a friend, it lets loose, revealing real thoughts.
Wei Zhengdao, oh Wei Zhengdao, to come up with such methods, what kind of Righteous are you.
For Li Zhiyuan, the first step isn’t difficult, nor are the third and fourth steps, he has managed to control the Underworld already, and also knows hypnosis, enticing, having rich experience studied by psychologists.
It’s just the second step; he currently has no clue.
Wei Zhengdao’s description is esoteric, and Li Zhiyuan had to try to "translate" it into modern understanding.
It’s like a frequency, similar to a radio, to resonate with the corpse.
Can it be understood this way?
Then how to control this frequency?
Li Zhiyuan leaned back in the rattan chair, covered his face with the book, and closed his eyes.
He tried to find that feeling, first reaching a state between sleep and wakefulness, to enter the Underworld.
Beside, the girl saw the boy lie down and also lay down beside him.
Under the morning light, the boy and girl lay side by side on the rattan chairs, but the girl was on her side, looking at the boy’s face.
Li Zhiyuan found that feeling, seeming to have successfully entered the Underworld, and he slowly opened his eyes, but all around was misty, unable to see anything.
Following the content of the book, Li Zhiyuan began to try to control his conscious imagery to tremble, what he understood as... frequency.
In reality, lying on the rattan chair, the boy’s eyelashes began to flutter rapidly.
Alii noticed, she stretched out her hand wanting to touch, but then withdrew halfway, and immediately, she also closed her eyes.
Around the mist, there was no change.
Li Zhiyuan finally realized a big problem, that is, he didn’t even have a subject t...
...just as he was thinking about whether to get Brother Runsheng to go out and grab a corpse to experiment on.
But just then, the images around started to tremble more rapidly, like some powerful band responding actively to him.
The fog in front of him began to clear, and Li Zhiyuan saw in front of him a girl sitting with knees hugged in the center of the darkness.