"I..."
Yu Zu choked, wasn’t it you who said to hold the child, how co you’re blaming her now?
"Take the child away, be more careful next ti, there are so many bad people outside, the safety issues for children are a big hidden danger. You ’mothers’ need to be extra careful."
Da Jianbi said casually.
"You... you are right..."
"I’ll take the child back and comfort it properly."
Yu Zu was speechless and didn’t want to bicker with Da Jianbi. Anyway, it wouldn’t be long before this guy would fully integrate into the life of Entertainnt City.
That’s for sure. So far, the number of cultivators who could leave Entertainnt City can be counted on two hands.
Da Jianbi watched Yu Zu leave and then turned around to walk in the opposite direction.
He already had a plan in mind and successfully reached a consensus with the Ghost Infant.
In this silent contest, only those who managed to realize the special nature of the Ghost Infant and make good use of it could win.
And he had already ford an alliance with it, seizing the initiative.
The rest was up to the operation of [Maze of Lies].
"Haha, from now on, I won’t tell a single truth, and likewise, I won’t make a single mistake!"
"In contests between people, I, Da Jianbi, have never lost!"
Da Jianbi watched the children playing and frolicking on the lawn, patiently observing, like a lion crouched before the hunt.
Everyone has their own circles, and children are no exception; he wanted to figure out the network of relationships among these children to infiltrate the enemy.
To contend with this city, the quickest way was to stand on the sa front as these children.
When over ninety-five percent of the residents began to support the heretics, even Fu Xinren couldn’t remain calm.
"I’ve invented a new ga, want to play together?"
A quarter of an hour later, Da Jianbi approached a few children temporarily without their mothers watching over them, and communicated with them.
"What ga?"
The children asked curiously.
"A ga that can make everyone happy, I call it The King’s Speech, everyone will participate."
"You also have to co, according to the address I give."
Da Jianbi said.
"But I’m very happy, we have delicious food and fun things every day, and mom tells us bedti stories."
A child said.
"These are indeed joyful, but have you really grown up, are you sure you’re on the path to growing up?"
"What is one plus one?"
Da Jianbi said seriously.
"It’s two."
The child was puzzled, confused about Da Jianbi’s talk of growing up.
"Then, what is one thousand minus seven?"
Da Jianbi continued to ask.
"One thousand minus seven... is... is..."
The child counted on fingers, but four-digit subtraction was clearly beyond his understanding, unable to calculate it.
Da Jianbi proceeded step by step: "How old are you?"
"Five... I’m five years old!"
The child said.
"Then do you rember how many years you’ve lived in this city?"
"Judging by your ability to do simple addition and subtraction, counting to ten should be no difficulty for you."
Da Jianbi smiled, patted the boy’s head encouragingly.
"I know this, five years!"
"We’ve all lived here for five years, so we’re five years old!"
A nearby girl raised her hand and answered earnestly.
"Yes, that’s right, I have indeed lived here for five years, I once read in a book about a person stranded on a desert island who wrote tally marks every day to record ti, and I carve one tally every year, my room has exactly five tally marks!"
The little boy got excited, feeling accomplished for being able to think through Da Jianbi’s question.
"Yes, correct, you rember very clearly, but the first year after being born, there’s no mory, infants don’t rember how old they are, nor do they have a concept of ti."
"So people only have their own mories starting at two years old, so if you rember living in the city for five years, then you are at least six, maybe even seven or eight years old!"
"And for people at that age, learning is essential, yet you can’t even do addition and subtraction within a thousand, that’s unreasonable, soone is restricting your healthy growth!"
Da Jianbi’s lips curled into a smirk, said persuasively.
As expected, the biggest secret of this city is that the ’mothers’ can never sincerely be for the children’s good; they are Fu Xinren’s tools, only serving the upper echelons!
"But..."
"Addition and subtraction within a thousand is too complicated, maybe we’ll learn that soon."
A child protested defiantly.
"Think carefully, in the five years of living here, has anyone taught you more advanced knowledge?"
"When you could correctly recognize your surroundings, did the absorption of knowledge also co to a halt?"
"And... how do you know you’re only five years old?"
"No one can tally marks when just born; who told you you are five years old? If you want to figure out this problem, co to this address at midnight tonight."
Da Jianbi gently tapped the ground, and the weeds on the lawn began to wriggle, forming a na: Little Black House.
"But we have to sleep at midnight, mom says if we don’t sleep by then we won’t grow tall, and mom will get angry."
"So, from after dinner, you have to start sleeping, at midnight, when your body’s energy is flourishing, ancients practicing at this hour achieved twice the result with half the effort, conversely, it’s beneficial."
Da Jianbi dropped this line, and left lightly.
For the rest of the day, Da Jianbi road among various circles of children, guiding them gradually, following the sa pattern, planting seeds of doubt in the heart of every child.
He believed these children would co.
This move was very bold, any slight mistake could cost him as the last survivor, but he succeeded.
"Li Xiaobai, you said Fu Xinren’s Law isn’t the Law of Neutrality, so it’s impossible to use, but that’s not right. Such city-encompassing rule-based Laws always have gaps."
"Though it took quite a bit of ti, my [Maze of Lies] has finally rged with this city. I can’t resist the rules, but the physical control of this city belongs to !"
Da Jianbi murmured to himself.
[Maze of Lies]’s core is a palm-sized maze, which can ld into any building, and thus control the building freely.
But due to the heavy limitations of this ability, there’s been virtually no chance to use it, and today it was put to use.
By evening.
The city fell into an eerie silence.
The mothers found that the children they each watched over obediently went to bed right after dinner, which wasn’t their bedti at all, let alone the usual energetic children who didn’t want to sleep at all.
They usually had to coax the children for a long ti before they fell asleep.
What’s going on today?
Could it be that the children were collectively ill?
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