Crow's Paradise

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 composed of dark red flames.

A black silhouette-like outline emerged from the frame hole, and through the frame hole, a one-eyed light crow was formed.

There are gear connecting rods everywhere on the body, a mechanical crow composed of various mechanical parts.

Yao Yan's attention first focused on a peculiar crow.

One side is black, the other side is white.

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

At this moment, something like flames and bricks appeared on its body.

However, Yao Yan could separate it.

Yao Yan also did this.

With the surge of his will, those masonry-like "armor" feathers were separated from the black and white strange crow, and then reassembled.

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

"Resembling" the black and white strange crow.

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

And how its abilities are used.

Following Yao Yan's will, flames rose out of thin air in the body of the hollow sculpture-like crow.

From the eyes of this sculptured crow, Yao Yan saw the rising flames.

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

The next moment, Yao Yan looked at the abnormal shadow crow.

Immediately, he controlled the Shadow Crow to pounce towards the sculpture-like crow.

The abnormal 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]

[Spiritual 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 is consumed, and then the other party is pulled close to the user. The target being pulled nearby will ignite flames. 】

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

Once again, just like his habitual choice of words and sentences, just like his habit of describing, it was as if what he had written appeared on the black page.

The beacon crow, coupled with the descriptions of abilities 1 and 2, clearly pointed to a story in his memory.

The beacon fire plays with the princes.

In terms of structural skeleton, The Beacon Fire Princes and Crying Wolf are very similar stories.

They all describe deceiving others for fun, exhausting the trust of others, and ultimately leading to the inability to be rescued in times of crisis.

Is it because the underlying core skeleton of the story is close to each other, so it merges into one?

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

It's just these details that many people think are "irrelevant."

For example, when the wolf comes, the child herding sheep is happy for himself, but the result is that the sheep is eaten.

The beacon fire play on the princes was performed by King Zhou You in order to win the smile of a beautiful woman, but the result was King Zhou You's death.

But that's all.

Perhaps more importantly than this, he used the Shadow Crow's ability on himself.

Originally, because he judged that the one in "hell" might leave some traps for him, just like he did to the other party, he tried to avoid using his abilities on himself.

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

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

He will make decisions and actions based on the logical judgment formed based on the memory of Yao Yan during his lifetime, but because he is even more alienated from "Yao Yan's memory".

This also includes the judgment of “importance”.

The logic formed based on "Yao Yan's memory" has a weaker influence on "him".

Originally, it was because his connection with this memory had weakened.

To be precise, "self-identity" becomes weaker.

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

Now, however, his relationship with this memory and logic has weakened.

This "I" has also faded.

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

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

However, he lost his sense of identity.

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

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

It was this memory and logic that lacked a sense of identity for him.

That’s not right, because he is doing the “thinking” process.

To put it another way, it should be - when someone is thinking, they think that their brain does not belong to them.

This is what's happening to him now.

Not quite right either.

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

Well, this is more accurate.

According to the logic formed by "Yao Yan's memory", he should avoid some potentially life-threatening operations for the sake of "life safety".

Just because of the lack of identification with "self" also affects the emphasis on "one's own life".

And this "feeling" further affected his judgment process.

thus forming

Oh, by the way, if I’m not mistaken——

Driven by will, the Shattered Shadow Crow separated from the Beacon Fire Crow's body.

The words on the black page disappeared.

After breaking away, the Shadow Crow flew directly towards another crow.

It was a crow with a somewhat strange appearance.

Its body has many spins?

Its body is "curled up".

The head of this crow seems to be holding its own tail feathers, and its feathers themselves are not straight lines of birds, but curled into spirals, almost circular patterns.

It seems as if it itself is composed of countless spiral shadows.

Yao Yan's eyes turned to the black page:

[Secondary ability: vicious cycle]

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

[Ability 1: When the target has a persistent 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 time of the negative effect will be extended. 】

[Ability 2: For every additional mark generated, the aggravating effect will be enhanced one additional time. 】

Well, yes, that’s right, it’s a vicious cycle.

The lack of identification with "self" leads to a weakened emphasis on "one's own life".

The lack of emphasis on life further affected his judgment process, weakened his self-identity, and then continued the cycle.

However, that boundary has never been broken.

His sense of identity is alienating, but not completely disengaged.

While thinking, he took back the 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 information was abolished before, but considering that every time you get a new ability, you still need to enter to see it, so it was added back.