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Chapter 46 The Road to Your Wish

"My view of 'existence' and the picture I see in 'darkness' should be viewed separately. The former determines the type of asymptote, and the latter is my goal. The asymptote is connected to the heart. We can call the former the mind and the latter the wish. The former is abstract, and the latter is concrete.

"I want to be with you. This is my wish. I have a feeling that if I fulfill this wish, my power will be unusually enhanced. In fact, we have been together for a long time, but because I added other 'conditions' to my wish, it is still a little short.

"From the preliminary round to the semi-finals and then to the finals, I suffered electric shocks, skin cuts, broken bones, and pain from imbalance along the way, which are all bad things. There are also good things: I got a golden hairpin, a silver key, and I overcame my fear of snakes. Especially yesterday, I was no longer afraid of fire.

"But compared to you, those things are nothing. In the past six months, we have become closer and closer, our intersections have increased, and our hearts have become more and more similar.

"At some point in the past, people had a wish. After many moments of accumulation, people have many wishes. Loosely speaking, 'darkness' gives people asymptotes according to each person's mind, characteristics, and essence, and writes the strength and asymptotic rate of each person's wishes.

"If 'Darkness' is sincere enough, the wish chosen is probably the one that has long stayed in people's hearts. From another perspective, after the advent of 'Darkness', people not only get the asymptote, but also the 'ability' to realize their 'wishes'.

"Asymptotes are connected to the heart. They help people realize their wishes. They are the intermediate process and the only way to the result. The asymptotes that the Star Lord mentioned are the abbreviations of 'ancient asymptotes', but there is no ancient level in the seven-fold distribution. I think 'ancient' may refer to the result, not the asymptote. These asymptotes may have another name: wish asymptotes."

Mu Zhengguang wrote down his guess on a piece of paper so as not to forget it. He raised his hand to signal the teacher, and after getting permission, he left the classroom and walked to the window of the next class.

This time, without waiting for others to remind her, Xu Ying said hello to the teacher and left the classroom.

The two went to the stairwell for a secret talk.

Xu Ying leaned against the wall and looked at him with a smile: "What's so important that you're looking for me during class?"

Mu Zhengguang handed her the note and replied briskly, "I understand the original meaning of 'dark'."

She didn't react for a moment, and looked up and asked, "Which 'dark'?"

"Covering the whole world, giving everyone asymptotes to 'darkness'."

"Oh. Go ahead."

Mu Zhengguang leaned over and whispered in her ear: "As you wish. The original meaning of 'An' is to help people realize their wishes, and Asymptote is a tool to realize their wishes..."

Xu Ying interrupted him quietly: "We have the same wish, right?"

As soon as the classmate finished speaking, Mu Zhengguang gave the answer: "Yes."

Xu Ying gently pushed his face away and said helplessly, "I think so. We both got the power at the same time, and we are the same kind of people recognized by fate. But you discovered it so late!"

Mu Zhengguang argued with her with a smile, and said softly: "That's not necessarily true. I think I found more... No, let's not talk about it for now. The specific content is on the note."

Xu Ying took the note and said, "Okay. Is there anything else? If so, I'll go out with you. If not, I'll go back to class."

"It's okay. No, there is something, but I can handle it myself."

"Okay, I'm leaving now. Bye."

"Goodbye." They both returned to the classroom.

Mu Zhengguang has things to do, but he is not in a hurry to act. He writes down the things he needs to do on a piece of sticky paper and makes a simple list. This habit was brought to him by Ying, and he has benefited a lot from it.

He sorted out his thoughts: I didn't think about this when I went home the day before yesterday, but today I thought about it. The yearbook not only contains the "running" of time, but also the "existence" of time. After school, I have to go back to my hometown to pick up the junior high school yearbook, as well as the junior high school graduation photos, and so on. These things that I once considered important are still important now, but to a lesser extent. You can use the yearbook to strengthen yourself, and perhaps I can too. I will remember the past style again and never forget it easily.

In the afternoon, Mu Zhengguang returned home. He rummaged through the drawers and took out the things on the list one by one: yearbook, graduation photos, notices, certificates, essays, train tickets... too many to count.

Finally, he had a pile of miscellaneous items in front of him. Some of them were very new, such as the movie tickets from a few days ago, and some were very old, dating back to the first and second grades of elementary school. He sorted out these things that he no longer used, and then sat quietly, waiting for the hourglass to flow until it was empty.

The hourglass turns upside down, time flows silently, and the strength is transmitted to the heart.

"So this is what you want to emphasize. I thought 1% was too little, but a yearbook adds 1%, which is not only not a small amount, but too much."

Mu Zhengguang called this reinforcement an "auxiliary variable": the past will not change, but as people's thinking, cognition, situation, and experience change, their views on the past will change. These past events are related to the "nature" of the asymptote, but have no direct connection with the desire to be selected. This reinforcement will affect the strength of the asymptote, but it only plays an auxiliary role. The person stepping on the ice dolphin was hit by the golden step-shake, and the asymptote changed, perhaps because the person's characteristics changed.

Mu Zhengguang put away the hourglass, put the sorted old items into a wooden box, and muttered to himself: "5%, no more, no less. But it is not clear what role the auxiliary variables play and what aspects they strengthen."

In the afternoon, Mu Zhengguang had dinner at his hometown. He used the pot at home to make a dish of stir-fried beef with mushrooms. The beef tasted bland. He thought it was because there was not enough seasoning and the marinating time was too short.

Before the evening self-study class, he wrote a note and passed it to Ying, detailing his guess about the auxiliary variables and summarizing what happened that afternoon. The matter of the ice dolphin was also written in it.

Xu Ying took the note, glanced at it, and was impressed: You found such a crucial conclusion in such a short time. I like your wisdom. I will help you verify your conclusion.

There was still some time before the evening self-study began, so Xu Ying went to the teacher's office to ask for leave from her class teacher. But she did not leave the school immediately, she went to the senior three teaching building first.

On this day, at least three students from Pinglin Senior High School Class 19 () worked on strengthening themselves.

Lu Hao wandered around the county town for a long time and finally bought two 16-centimeter-long mantis shrimps in a pet store. He cooked one of the shrimps with its shell and kept the other one.

After cooking, peel the shell, crush, wash and remove the flesh, boil to remove the oil, and dry in the oven. Crush, water-grind, repeat many times. Filter to get solid. Dry to get fragments. Crush, filter, and get powder. After half a day of hard work, he got a small amount of khaki substance.

He thought he was cheated by his good friend. He was busy all afternoon and felt nothing but tired. When he thought about the 600 yuan for a shrimp, he felt worse.

For the other shrimp, do not cook it, just peel it.

Lu Hao quickly rubbed the wet shrimp shells on the grindstone, leaving something like wet chalk dust on the stone surface. It covered the uneven grooves and protrusions in the stone, making the rough stone surface smooth and greatly reducing the efficiency of wear.

Lu Hao made a prompt decision and stopped using the grindstone. While the supermarket was still open, he spent a huge amount of money to buy a wall-breaking machine. Crush and filter, all done in one go, easy and pleasant. The next step is to wait for it to dry naturally to get the powder.

Late at night, he lay exhausted on his bed and was surprised to find that the light and colors under his brush became more and more moving.

(End of this chapter)