Embers Ad Infinitum

At night, in a deserted room.

A slightly magnetic man's voice came from a radio. Opposite it, a recording equipment was running quietly, and the sound of electricity sounded from time to time.

After the "Tao and Electrical Maintenance" column ended, another two minutes passed before a robot wearing a black military uniform with red eyes pushed in the door.

He listened to the recorded content completely.

After doing this, Gnawa walked to another room diagonally opposite.

"How is it? What is Wu Meng talking about today?" Jiang Baimian asked.

Gennava raised his right hand and touched it to his chin.

This is unknowingly imitating some of Shang Jianyao's postures.

"The spirit of repairing electrical appliances, what the corporal hears, and not laughing is not enough." Gnawa briefly recounted the main content, "But whether they can affect human beings, I have no way of telling."

Jiang Baimian smiled and said:

"This requires us to experiment."

She led the other members of the "Old Tune Team" into the place where the recording equipment was placed, closed the door, looked around and said:

"Who's going to try it first?"

She did not lead by example because she was worried that uncontrollable developments would occur midway. In that case, she, who was not affected, could still use violent and high-voltage current to create a chaotic electromagnetic environment, interfere with subsequent changes, and block possible accidents.

Long Yuehong glanced at Shang Jianyao, then at Bai Chen, gritted her teeth and said:

"Let me do it."

In his opinion, Shang Jianyao has a fairly powerful awakening ability. Once affected, it will cause great damage. Bai Chen is a woman and is not as tall as him. Let her be an experimental product to make her look better. Timid, cowardly, and graceless.

"Okay, be careful." Jiang Baimian did not stop him.

She, Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen quickly blocked their ears in different ways and only looked at Long Yuehong.

——Compared to the two team members who either wore full-face headphones or stuffed their ears with paper balls, Jiang Baimian had the simplest method, which was to raise his palms and cover his cochlea.

Seeing that his companions were ready, Gnawa turned on the recording equipment.

Long Yuehong sat upright and listened to the recorded content:

"...Electrical appliances are both simple and sophisticated. Simplicity refers to the Tao on which they depend. There are only a few basic principles. Precision refers to the fact that those principles have derived various laws and thousands of combinations, which are complex and wonderful. …

"...When we repair electrical appliances, we must not only grasp the Tao, but also use the Tao to understand the laws and combinations. Only in this way can we see at a glance where the problem is and how it needs to be repaired...

"...For the repairmen who have listened to our radio station, repairing electrical appliances is an art and a practice of Tao. Ordinary people cannot understand this. They either think it is too complicated and cannot understand it at all, or they think it is not possible. This necessity requires more belief in some products of experience. Just like when you tell a person who doesn't know much about electrical appliances, "There is a big problem with your TV and it needs to be repaired as soon as possible," he will often answer you, "Just take a photo and it will be done." Okay, if one stroke is not enough, then two strokes...

"As the saying goes: when a superior man hears the Tao, he practices it diligently; when a sergeant hears the Tao, he lives or perishes; when a junior man hears the Tao, he laughs. Not laughing is not enough to practice the Tao... (Note 1)

“So, we must remember that when faced with things we don’t understand, we must humbly ask for advice, let go of the prejudices brought by experience, and do not be full of resistance at the beginning. We must adopt an open-minded attitude to learn and understand. , to master, to accept..."

Long Yuehong nodded slightly after hearing this, feeling that no matter what, Wu Meng was still very good at speaking truth.

By the time he finished listening, a long time had passed.

After receiving reminders from him and Gnawa, Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, and Bai Chen successively lifted their hearing restrictions.

"I don't think it was affected at all." Long Yuehong first expressed her feelings, and then focused on Wu Meng's words.

Shang Jianyao suddenly laughed and turned off a lamp on the table.

Then, he said to Long Yuehong:

"look:"

Hearing this starting word, Long Yuehong's brows suddenly wrinkled.

Shang Jianyao continued, minding his own business:

"This desk lamp went out. Wang Fugui's old computer also had the keyboard light go out due to a malfunction;

“This desk lamp is an appliance, and so is that old computer;

"Later, the old computer was photographed twice, so..."

Long Yuehong's frown gradually relaxed. He stood up suddenly, walked to the lamp, stretched out his right hand, and patted the lamp holder.

It took three consecutive shots before he finally woke up:

The light switch has been turned off, and it won't light up no matter how much I take pictures!

Long Yuehong turned her head and looked at Shang Jianyao, and said slightly angrily:

"You used 'Mystery Clown', of course it worked!"

Shang Jianyao raised his hand to touch his chin and said with a smile:

"I just adopted the language format of 'reasoning clown', but actually I have no ability at all."

"..." The expression on Long Yuehong's face suddenly froze.

"Really?" he asked again reluctantly.

Shang Jianyao replied sternly:

"It doesn't need to be so formal to lie to you."

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"It seems that it has indeed been affected. The key point should be the sentence 'when faced with things you don't understand, you should humbly ask for advice'. It makes you blindly let go of all past experiences and lose the ability to filter other people's words." , I just know to accept it completely.”

"It can still be like this..." Long Yuehong suddenly woke up and was quite scared.

At this time, Shang Jianyao looked at him and said:

"You said you wanted to treat me to an ice coke. There are only a few places in the Red Giant Wolf area where you can buy it."

Long Yuehong was startled for a moment, then blurted out:

"When did I promise you!"

"Hey, the ability has failed." Shang Jianyao let out a long sigh.

Long Yuehong couldn't laugh or cry for a moment.

Seeing this, Bai Chen took the initiative to ask Ying:

"I'll try it next to make sure that's what I said."

After all, if you want to use it as a "weapon", you must select the sentence with additional abilities. Otherwise, when the two sides are fighting, you can't let the other party patiently listen to "Tao and Electrical Repair" for more than half an hour, right?

Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:

"Let him try it. He was hit last time. You can evaluate the difference between the effect after recording and the effect of listening to the radio directly. Also, try it a few more times to confirm how the effect will attenuate as the number of plays increases. .”

The team leader is so professional, he deserves to be a researcher... Long Yuehong was secretly speechless.

We have been together through life and death for such a long time, and the group members basically knew that Jiang Baimian had a broken ear. Before joining the Security Department, she was doing research work, with the goal of becoming a scientist. As for what aspect, she did not mention.

After everyone else had blocked their ears, Shang Jianyao selected that sentence and listened to it again:

"So, we must remember that when faced with things we don't understand, we must humbly ask for advice..."

When he finished, Long Yuehong took off the full-face headphones and said tentatively:

"I'm your brother."

Shang Jianyao was stunned for a moment and opened his mouth.

The next second, his slightly dazed expression twisted into a smile:

"Hahaha, he is so short, how can he be our brother?"

Hey... Long Yuehong felt insulted.

Shang Jianyao changed his expression again and said seriously:

"There is a possibility of genetic mutation."

"You can't blindly believe it. Let's do a genetic test first."

"Everything is a fantasy, why take it seriously?"

…

Several Shang Jianyao argued for a while, and soon came to the conclusion that they were affected by the recording, and got out of that state.

He put on a professional posture and said:

“The effect is much weaker than what I heard from Lehman last time, but it is enough to affect the awakened ones in the ‘Sea of ​​Origin’, as long as they don’t have to pay special costs to counterattack.

"As for whether it can affect the awakened ones at the 'soul corridor' level, I haven't left the 'Sea of ​​Origin' yet, so I can't judge. I can only say that even if it can, the effect will definitely be very weak."

After repeated experiments by Shang Jianyao, the law of attenuation has also been figured out:

Each time the attenuation is approximately 15 to 18 percent of the original.

In other words, one recording can be used six to seven times, and the effect is worse each time.

But now there are only one or two recordings left that can be used.

The "Old Tune Group" didn't care too much about this. After all, Wu Meng broadcast "Tao and Electrical Maintenance" every day. Even if he didn't exert his ability to influence the audience every time, it would be every few days at most.

As a result, the "old tune team" can be recharged regularly, and often has different effects.

"Even if it can't be used against the master of the 'virtual world', it might be miraculous in other aspects." Jiang Baimian sighed with satisfaction.

She then reminded the team members:

“If you often walk by the river, how can your shoes not get wet?

"I'm worried that in Wu Meng's subsequent broadcasts, there will be more than one sentence that can affect the audience, causing us to ignore some of the effects, and checking each sentence is too tiring and a waste of time, so try to use it sparingly and don't rely on it."

"Okay." The members of the "Old Tune Team" began to check other words in this recording.

By the time it was confirmed that there were no other problems, it was already late at night and everyone was quite mentally exhausted.

"Huh..." Jiang Baimian breathed out and laughed at himself, "It's a pity that I can't induce Wu Meng to say what he wants. I think it's too risky to send him a telegram..."

Shang Jianyao thought for a few seconds and said:

"You can ask Xiao Chong for advice next time. It would be better if you can meet Teacher Du Heng."

Note 1: Quoted from "Tao Te Ching"