Falsifying history is good business

Lin You stood at the door of a restaurant and looked up and down at the street. There were few pedestrians but the street was bustling with people.

At the farthest intersection, two cars collided with each other, and it seemed that the drivers of both cars had road rage and started fighting over a disagreement. Closer, groups of people on the sidewalk were almost all arguing.

Couples quarreled, parents quarreled with children, brothers and sisters complained to each other; even in the buildings along the road, the sounds of excited and angry quarrels kept floating out from the doors and windows.

The better ones will go their separate ways after a few arguments; the worse ones will tend to fight during the argument.

Similar situations are happening all over London, and will soon spread to the whole of the UK and even the world. And the source of everything is in the restaurant in front of Lin You.

Lin You narrowed his eyes slightly, and the scene in his sight immediately changed; a hidden energy invisible to the naked eye was spreading outward from the restaurant. It was invisible and intangible, pointing directly at people's hearts, and even launched an "attack" without any concealment when it came into contact with Lin You.

As I said before, people who use energy are rough and crude.

“But it’s not strong.” Lin You commented in a low voice, and then a dimensional space took shape on the spot, covering the entire restaurant from the outside, blocking the spread of the obscure energy.

After thinking about it, Lin You casually released a "Muggle Repelling Spell" before entering the door.

After pushing the door open, the light in front of him suddenly dimmed, as if it had gone dark in an instant, and he had to rely entirely on the lights for illumination. Lin You understood that the restaurant had essentially become a cage, with the hidden energy not only spreading outward, but also blocking the inside and outside of the restaurant, allowing no one to enter but no one to leave.

At this time, a series of "weird" farces were taking place in this not-so-big restaurant.

A married woman couldn't wait to have sex with a handsome young man at a restaurant booth after just knowing him for a quarter of an hour; the married woman was in her middle age and was not satisfied with her increasingly fat husband, but the young man had other intentions because he knew that the married woman was the CEO of the company he was interviewing for.

Then, the married woman's husband came back from the restaurant bathroom and a fight broke out immediately.

On the other hand, the waitress, who is a single mother, is hysterically cursing and attacking the chef because the waitress has a crush on the chef, but the chef is a pedophile. Every time the chef agrees to go to the waitress's house, it is actually to secretly abuse the waitress's son.

In a small restaurant with only six or seven people, several bloody farces could break out. There was only one middle-aged man in the whole restaurant, who looked contented and did not seem to have any problems. However, he was wearing a hospital gown from a mental hospital, which he only covered with an outer coat.

What attracted Lin You's attention the most was the ruby ​​in the middle-aged man's hand, which was the center of the hidden energy. At a glance, Earl Goff knew that it was the last artifact that the sleep demon wanted to pursue.

"Fortunately, this place is remote, otherwise it would be dinner time and who knows how many people would die." Lin You muttered softly, and as far as his mind went, all the people who were fighting and arguing fell unconscious at the same time, and all the noise returned to silence.

The sudden change stunned the middle-aged man, and he then noticed Lin You's gradually revealing figure.

"who are you?"

"A person who comes to clean up the mess." Lin You approached the man and sat at the same table with him. "You have caused a lot of trouble. If I hadn't come, hundreds of thousands of people would have died around the world today."

From what he had seen and heard along the way, Lin You felt that what he said might be too conservative.

In terms of human nature, violent conflicts caused by a simple question like "What are you looking at?" are common among different groups of people, and are not limited to a small number of people in certain areas. The hidden energy released by rubies directly hits the heart, and the interpersonal conflicts caused are definitely far greater than a simple question like "What are you looking at?"

The middle-aged man said, "I just let them speak the truth in their hearts." He held the gem tightly and discovered that Count Goff was not affected by the gem. This discovery made the middle-aged man, who originally had a mysterious confidence in the power of the sleep demon, panic.

"What's in your heart? If you can't even write it down in your diary, how can you tell it all to others?" Lin You shook his head and smiled bitterly, "No wonder so many people quarreled and fought along the way. The power of what's in your heart is much stronger than 'what are you looking at'."

After laughing, Earl Goff solemnly made a request to the middle-aged man: "Stop your farce, hand over the gem, or return it to its owner."

"A farce, you call this a farce? Do you think it's a boring after-dinner joke or prank?" The middle-aged man suddenly flew into a rage. His anger made him forget the panic in his heart, and also the fear brought by Lin You's loss of control over the gem. "I am here to transform this world and reshape its rules. I want everyone to abandon lies, embrace the truth, be their true selves, and shape the real world - it's me who makes this world more real!"

Lin You laughed: "If I wasn't sure that Patrick Morgan was dead, I would have thought that there was another God of Truth standing in front of me!"

"What did you say?" "Nothing, it's just that your words reminded me of a dead friend, don't worry about it." Lin You smiled and waved his hand, showing that he had the initiative in the conversation. "There are many people who think that the world is wrong and want to change it. Putting aside the ignorant, fearless, incompetent and meaningless clamor, the remaining people who truly believe that the world needs to be changed can be divided into two categories: one is idealistic revolutionaries, and the other is patients in mental hospitals. Judging from the series of chaos you have created, I can only classify you as the latter."

The term "mental hospital patient" obviously offended the other party.

“Do you know what you are saying?” The middle-aged man stood up suddenly holding the gem, as if doing so could give himself courage; he did not realize that all his courage actually rested on a stone.

As always, the gem had no effect on Lin You. Even the little girl Minerva could sense the influence of the gem and break free immediately, let alone Lin You?

After all, the middle-aged man was not the original owner of the gem; if it was Sandman in his prime who was to unleash the power of the gem, Earl Goff probably wouldn't be able to deal with it so easily.

Therefore, Lin You can criticize the other party openly: "Of course I know what I am talking about. Don't you want to hear the truth? What I am saying now is the truth, but you don't seem to like it. This contradiction is very confusing."

The middle-aged man's expression suddenly froze, and he slowly sat back down. After a long while, he muttered, "You are not affected by the gem."

"But that doesn't mean I'm not speaking from my heart," Lin You responded. "If you can't accept the truth from others, and can't accept a world with only the truth, then how can you talk about changing the world?"

The middle-aged man was led into self-doubt, which was not difficult for the Ophiuchus Saint, as he hypnotized the entire sanctuary with just a few words.

"Who are you?" The middle-aged man struggled to "wake up", and his face once again revealed the fear that the situation was out of control.

"I said, I am the one who cleans up your mess; my duty is to maintain the normal operation of social order and prevent it from being affected by supernatural forces." Lin You looked at the ruby, "Specifically for today and you, the so-called supernatural power is the gem in your hand."

The middle-aged man seemed to have found a target for his counterattack, and couldn't wait to sneer: "Oh, in short, a person who is dedicated to maintaining a false world."

"Because I don't tell the truth all the time, I am therefore false?" Lin You responded with a mocking sneer, "Do you know the difference between materialism and atheism?"

Faced with the rhetorical question, the middle-aged man was a little confused. He didn't know how to answer this question. First, this question seemed to have nothing to do with the current situation; second, he had lived in a mental hospital since he was a child and had never received any philosophical education.

Fortunately, Lin You didn't expect to get an answer from the other party.

“Materialism is materialistic and recognizes the existence of everything that can be verified; although atheists are also materialistic on the surface, they absolutely deny the existence of God—even if the existence of God is confirmed one day. From a certain perspective, when the day God is confirmed to exist, atheism will completely degenerate into idealism.”

"What does this have to do with me?" The middle-aged man was furious, partly because the situation continued to get out of control, and partly because he simply couldn't understand what the other party was saying.

The ignorant may occasionally appear fearless, but more often they are filled with impotent rage.

"Because your current situation is very similar to that of an atheist who has confirmed the existence of gods." Lin You ignored the other party's shouting and continued to talk, "Your experiment has proved that you are wrong. A world with only truth is full of violence and is not beautiful. Even you yourself don't like to hear certain truths. Furthermore, a world distorted by personal will cannot be called real anyway.

But you stubbornly refuse to admit this, and still fantasize about the so-called real world in your heart. In fact, you and I both know very well that what you want is never to "change the world", what you really want to do is to destroy the world, destroy the real world you live in. "

"You...you're talking nonsense...you're lying!" The middle-aged man felt that his body was gradually losing support, and he was losing miserably in the spiritual confrontation.

Lin You's face was filled with more sarcasm. "In fact, telling the truth doesn't hurt people. Even lies don't hurt people. Do you know what really hurts people?"

"Wha...what?"

"What really hurts is when a lie is exposed. So, when will you dare to admit that I have hit the nail on the head? When will you dare to admit that you just want to destroy the world to vent your anger, and have never thought about making the world a better place?"

Lin You's tone was calm and indifferent, but to the middle-aged man, every word in his words was as cold as a knife, piercing him full of holes.

The external force from the gemstone was not enough to rely on, and the faith that supported the middle-aged man's actions gradually collapsed. (End of this chapter)