Translator: La0o9
The hand that easily went through his chest was tightly gripping his heart, with every beat, he felt his very life being held under the control of the other party.
Facing that question, the blind confidence brought by the supposed principle of ‘the law can’t punish a crowd’, as well as the feeling of empowerment brought by being on the side of ‘justice’ vanished without a trace and he was instead filled with unadulterated fear and dread.
The razor-sharp nails lightly squeezed his heart, causing him to tremble, then Negary pulled his hand away.
The man screamed in terror, then swiftly leapt out from the window of Negary’s office.
Quite a few people held a handful of things that they stole and prepared to run away. They wanted to take whatever they were able to grab home as soon as they could, as if doing that would make those things become theirs.
They were like soldiers – no, like bandits who had just finished a raid, taking their spoils of war and were about to return triumphantly.
But the blood that splashed in front of their eyes thoroughly ended their excitement.
The bloody body on the ground had an expression of bliss on his face, as if he was glad of his release from that fear, the face of pure joy was heavily emphasized by the blood around it, creating a scene of bizarre dissonance.
And then, with the consecutive sounds of impacts, several more bodies appeared on the ground.
Suicide was contagious, or perhaps more accurately, all human actions were contagious. You could feel an impulse to yawn just by reading the word ‘yawn’, and those who saw you yawn would likely do the same thing.
This was called the Werther effect, also known as the copycat suicide effect, the most prominent example of how the act of suicide had a certain level of mimesis and infectivity.
Especially within the same community, when members of a community had the same emotion – usually a negative emotion – but lacked a way to resolve or release that emotion, as soon as one individual chose a method of release, the others would soon imitate it without fail.
When everyone was stuck in a state of extreme fear, as soon as one person chose to run away, most of the others would swiftly run away as well; and if the first person instead chose to commit suicide, they would cause most of the others to also commit suicide with them.
Human rationality was nowhere near as sturdy as it was assumed to be, the decision you made might not actually be a decision that you chose to make, but one influenced by various factors within your surroundings instead.
Why do most of those who failed to commit suicide the first time not choose to suicide again? A large part of this was that after experiencing it once, the temptations that caused them to commit suicide the first time were no longer effective, they could now assess those factors calmly and rationally.
Of course, one other possible reason was that when their feet left the ground, their impulse shut off and their rationality took over.
All in all, it was essential for everyone to learn to always keep calm and not be affected by the actions of others.
Seeing the collapsed bodies on the ground like a bunch of spilling Dim Sums, the excited, triumphant bandits were finally shocked awake. Most people believed that death was a distant concept to them, but the moment it showed itself, all self-consolations would be mercilessly ripped away, forcing them to confront the truth.
Especially when these people who committed suicide had the same look of rejoicing for being able to escape, one wouldn’t be able to help themselves from thinking:
“If they weren’t afraid of death, then how terrifying must the one upstairs be to cause these people to dread him even more than death itself?”
WIth their excitement doused by a basin of frigid water, these people felt like there was a blade right in front of their necks, causing them all to cease their ruckus and went silent.
They had thought that the other party wouldn’t retaliate, they had thought that the other party would be helpless in such a situation, they had thought that the other party would act rationally, and they had thought that they would be able to do as they liked.
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〖 I don’t understand what happened either, a group of people suddenly charged into my office and committed group suicide, I was truly helpless to stop it 〗Negary sat on the defendant stand and said helplessly: 〖 I have video evidence right here, I couldn’t do anything but try to convince them before they jumped 〗
The surveillance footage was fully complete, Negary simply walked forward and said a few words, but the other party screamed frantically before jumping out of the window, followed by those who were behind him.
The people’s representatives were glaring in anger at Negary, the family members of the deceased were sobbing and crying out loud, acting like the weak side, gaining them the sympathy of many. Indeed, they were all dead, breadwinners of their families, fathers of their children, husbands of their wives, and sons of their old fathers, how pitiful they were.
But as soon as Negary’s gaze turned towards them, their angry glares shifted away, their cries and sobbing got stuck in their mouths. Negary simply turned back to the judge’s stand and spoke: 〖 Hah, I’ve already provided the evidence, their deaths were truly unrelated to me 〗
〖 They were able to break into my company to steal and destroy, so they could similarly break in to commit suicide 〗Negary stated: 〖 Of course, from a humanitarian perspective, I would appropriately reimburse them 〗
With that, the ‘weak’ finally stopped acting up, and this ridiculous joke of a trial ended without issues.
However, on the following day, after Negary paid a visit to the family members of the dead, they were unable to handle the ‘pain’ of losing their family and chose to commit suicide as well.
There was video evidence this time as well. In the video, Negary gently consoled them for their loss as he handed them their reimbursement, followed by the family members suddenly breaking down and ending their lives. This time there was no one left to even demand reimbursement.
Bullying the weak while avoiding the strong was common human nature, and no one wanted to suddenly commit suicide. Because of this, Negary Inc. seemed to have become a sort of forbidden zone. There were no longer anyone trying to cause trouble here, not even on the internet. Most people had pointed the spearhead of media towards other Authority Holders instead.
Noah continued to stand behind his Lord Negary, all video evidence was recorded by him, and it was because of the ability that he awakened through pseudo-release that the videos showed something completely different from reality.
He named this ability God’s Words Realized. He is capable of bringing the words of his Lord, who was Negary, into reality, his own personal reality that was bestowed by the Lord.
For example, when Negary stated that he only tried to convince that person, Noah was able to manifest it as reality, the video footage was changed by his ability, showing Negary actually trying to convince the man.
As Negary’s ‘Righteous’, Noah’s heart and mind believed in Negary without any reserve, it was because of this that he trusted Negary’s words to simply be ‘the truth’.
Of course, God’s Words Realized’s effect would depend on Noah’s own capabilities. With Noah’s current spiritual willpower, he was not able to unconditionally manifest Negary’s words.
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〖 Huh? Has there been an issue with He Qiao? 〗Negary abruptly opened his eyes. As He Qiao continued to cultivate through [Respiratory Art], her soul had been drawn out a lot by it, to the point that it was only a bit away from coming into direct contact with Disasforce.
Right now, the radiating Disasforce had far surpassed the limit that He Qiao was able to adapt to, and because she was unable to adapt to it, her emotions went out of control, inducing her to aggressively take the initiative to kiss Fang Ze on his lips, then fainted.
This was the symptoms of her soul being influenced by the property of the Disasforce and being unable to adapt to it.
