Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 763 Xia Shou's Conjecture (Part )
This conjecture gradually emerged after encountering the evil king, but the abnormality had actually begun to show signs of it earlier.

After he led everyone into the book world of "The Season of Falling Stars" in the underworld, he read the diary he wrote in the mental hospital. One of the contents was:

[What you wrote down now is all true. You are now in another world supporting King Arthur to become King Arthur. When you return to the real world, Alice will help you continue to support Arthur, and you have to kill someone in reality.

If nothing unexpected happens, that person should look like this, and his name should be Van Cleef (if he hasn't changed his name). You have to kill him, and then Alice can let the Dream Picker Bird summon you back to that world...】

This time, the masked man he met in Tianyu Haoting Community proved the authenticity of the notes.

That is to say, when he kills a character in the book that corresponds to a character outside the book, the person in the world outside the book will also die.

In addition, what Edson said to him also had a special meaning. Edson said that he thanked him on behalf of all the Secret Tongues, and stated that the name of the Secret Transmitter would no longer be sealed from now on.

At that time, Xia Shou was wondering what he had to thank for? Why did the followers of the Secret Man thank him?
After he devoured the body of the Assassin and saw his biography, Xia Shou gradually found some clues. His intuition told him that the key lay in the Assassin he killed, and that Assassin was the target that Edward had repeatedly told him to kill personally.

He must be the one to kill the other party, the other party is a believer named Forget-me-not under Mo Mi, after he successfully kills the other party, the name of the secret transmitter is no longer sealed, and he is also thanked by Mi She... These fragmentary details, when pieced together, seem to have similarities with the diary he wrote during his illness.

The only difference is that the diary he wrote during his illness required him to eliminate real people outside the book by killing the characters in the book, while Edward's requirement for him was to kill people in reality.

So, what impact will killing someone have in real life?
A dimension higher than reality...the kingdom of God?

Although it made sense, Xia Shou was not sure because the ability sounded too outrageous.

But if he could really do that, then he might be able to kill Naganuma Jusaburo as depicted in the painting by destroying the painter's painting!

The characters in the book correspond to real-life prototypes, but now it’s just the other way around. The one in the painting is the prototype, and the abnormality has escaped from the painting and come to reality.

According to the logic of Xia Shou's reasoning, he actually has to kill the other person in the painting, but first of all, he has no way to enter the painting. Secondly, if you change your thinking, the painting itself exists in the real world. It was originally a thing of the real world.

Its essence is Naganuma Juzaburo's emotions. Naganuma Juzaburo created a narrative layer and then injected his own emotions into it, just like Naganuma Juzaburo wrote a book and then created a prototype of himself in it.

In this case...if I interfere using the same method as Naganuma Jusaburo, maybe I will succeed!
To be honest, even Xia Shou himself felt it was far-fetched. The only evidence that made him think this behavior was feasible was the secrets revealed to him by Xiao Gao. The guy mentioned Hallward!

Xiao Gao said that Hallward was the key figure in this Divine Law incident, but that was because from Xiao Gao's perspective, the intelligence was incomplete. Hallward was not the key figure, but the clue to the key figure!

Hallward was the painter who painted Dorian Gray in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". He created the magical painting and was eventually killed by Dorian Gray. This is a plot in the novel written by Oscar Wilde.

In the real Hidden History , this may not be the case, but it is clear that Wilde must have borrowed a lot of inspiration from the real Dorian Gray, so the development of the novel's plot should also have a certain reference.

Xia Shou remembered that at the end of the novel, the corrupt Dorian Gray finally awakened his conscience. He raised his knife and stabbed the ugly portrait, but he died mysteriously. His face instantly became ugly and old, but the portrait returned to its original appearance at this moment, becoming as young and pure as before.

For Xia Shou, the ending of the novel character is not the key, but the way it ends. In the end, Dorian Gray assassinates the portrait in reality, and this action affects his real self, and in turn affects the painting. Hallward and Naganuma Jusaburo are very similar!

Although Naganuma Jusaburo's ability is far from comparable to that of this legendary painter, the information provided by Kodaka always feels like it is hinting at something.

Even the name emphasized by the gods in the woodland is "the painter's painting".

Following these unfounded thoughts, Xia Shou saw a glimmer of hope. Perhaps the emotions that seemed to have escaped from the painting and parasitized Hui Yu were essentially still the painter's painting.

Just like a fictional character created based on a real person will never erase the real person's existence in reality, the two... correspond to each other.

If someone else were to analyze this matter, they would definitely think that it was a fantasy, because the moment Huiyu gained Naganuma Jusaburo's emotions, the painting had lost all its abnormality and became an ordinary painting.

But Xia Shou didn’t think so. The reason was simple. He had already encountered an exception!

Rosa had read "The Season of Falling Stars" and he also said that the book itself did not have the slightest bit of extraordinary aura and was just an ordinary book, but facts have proved that the book is very unusual.

The inability to observe abnormalities simply means that the existing system of supernatural science cannot explain it. It does not mean that objects without abnormalities are truly ordinary things!
Xia Shou used crushed grass tips to carefully outline the wound on the boy's neck in the self-portrait, trying to make it as realistic as possible.

When he finished doing all this, he took the Tongziqie from Su Yue and stabbed the boy in the painting.

...He didn't know what the use of this was. Anyway, he would kill it once by drawing, and then kill it again by destroying reality. It was always good to try more. Maybe this thing would be very similar to The Picture of Dorian Gray?

"A Shou, what are you doing?" Su Weiyu, who was lying on the ground, asked weakly.

Xia Shou took a deep breath and said, "If saving Brother Bai's child doesn't work, then there is really nothing we can do."

Su Weiyu frowned and asked worriedly, "Did something happen to the child?"

"I can't tell you now. Just lie down and rest. Wait for me for a while. I will take you back soon."

After saying that, Xia Shou stood up and walked towards the patch of grass that was the bloodiest.

He walked forward step by step, and with every step, the dark shadow under his feet expanded a little.

When Xia Shou stood in the center, the black shadow completely covered the area.

(End of this chapter)