Chapter 211: Lin Bai's Wonderful Metaphors

【Rhetoric can improve the effectiveness of expression, making your language more vivid, lively, and concise. It can turn the mundane into the vivid, the profound into the simple, and the complex into the easy. Skillful use of rhetoric will make your language more pleasing to the ear. Please speak using metaphors within the next twelve hours. Reward: The decibel value of your voice will double.】

You Smile When You See Me is actually a passive Skill.

When Lin Bai is happy, those around him, regardless of whether they are sad or angry, will involuntarily break into a smile.

Currently, Lin Bai has not discovered any use for this Skill.

However, the upcoming mission reward is somewhat terrifying, and quite practical.

Doubling the volume might not be very useful, but doubling the intensity is no simple matter.

That is not just simply turning him into a loudspeaker.

As long as the volume of his speech is loud enough, doubling the decibel value can completely turn him into a human-shaped self-propelled cannon.

Let's put it this way!

The volume of a normal person's speech is about forty decibels, and the maximum decibel level a human can shout is about 100 decibels.

After doubling, two hundred decibels is roughly equivalent to the sound of a nuclear explosion.

In other words, if Lin Bai raises his voice to speak, he could probably deafen everyone around him.

If he reinforces it with Spiritual Power or Internal Energy, to a certain extent, he could shock people to death or tear them apart with sound waves...

In the movie "Kung Fu," the Landlady uses a large bell combined with the Lion Roar Technique to whip up a gale, destroy doors and windows, and defeat the Beast, but doubling the volume is far more terrifying than her Lion Roar Technique.

Moreover, sound waves are an area-of-effect attack; as long as you have a throat, it is a more powerful means of attack than the Lightning Storm released by the Recording Pen.

I never expected the greatest attack Skill to come from the Great Language System.

Lin Bai secretly rejoiced; not giving up on any mission was indeed the right decision. With so many systems, who knows what powerful rewards they might give!

As for the metaphorical sentences required by the mission, they are easy to come up with...

Lin Bai does not know what the ultimate reward will be when the Great Language System is finished, but if he continues like this, going back to Earth to be a writer should be no problem.

"Alliance Leader, do we need to discuss any strategies in advance?" Ge Feiyun asked, stepping forward as she saw Lin Bai return to his normal speaking mode. "The Chaoyuan Sword Sect is fighting on their home turf and has Medicine King Valley providing them with pills. If we are not careful, I fear we will suffer casualties."

"Valley Master Ge, even if I were to devise a strategy as seamless as a heavenly robe, would you all follow the arrangements as completely as worker bees diligently gathering nectar?" Lin Bai looked at Ge Feiyun and asked with a smile. His offensive means were too few, and the reward of doubling the volume was too tempting, so he impatiently began a new round of missions.

The rhetorical device of metaphor basically does not affect daily communication.

He was a master of sentence construction in elementary school; using this way of speaking is too easy!

Worker bees diligently gathering nectar?

What on earth is that?

Ge Feiyun was confused, but she understood the meaning Lin Bai wanted to convey. Influenced by the Skill, she involuntarily broke into a smile: "What are you saying, Alliance Leader? We and those sanctimonious Righteous Sects are natural enemies to begin with. Now that we finally have a chance to wipe them out, we will naturally do our utmost."

Damn it!

I can't stop smiling.

I can't even judge the other party's true thoughts based on their expressions anymore!

This damn Skill, can't it link up with the Emotion System and judge whether I'm actually happy or just pretending?

I just smiled out of habit, how can you conclude that I'm in a happy state?

Sweeping his gaze across the surroundings and looking at the sea of sincere smiles, Lin Bai restrained his own smile and said sternly: "It was I who judged the gentleman with a petty mind. I will swoop down from the sky like an eagle spreading its wings to soar, showing that group of rabbit-like opponents the power of the Law. You all just need to act like turtles and pull your heads back into your shells to protect yourselves."

"..."

Ge Feiyun had a face full of black lines.

Xin Shang and the others cast strange looks at Lin Bai in unison.

What eagle?

What turtle?

What is this guy doing again?

Can he speak normally?

"Alliance Leader, has your 'Words Manifesting into Law' improved again?" Xin Shang asked tentatively.

"Sect Leader Xin, you are as clever as a bear that has just woken from hibernation looking for food." Lin Bai gave Xin Shang a thumbs up and involuntarily broke into a smile.

He had been compared to a bear.

Xin Shang's face sank, but as Lin Bai's smile bloomed, he immediately followed suit and smiled.

The completely uncontrollable smile finally made Xin Shang realize something was wrong.

It clearly wasn't a happy occasion, so why was he smiling?

But when he saw that everyone around Lin Bai was wearing the same smile, a feeling of horror immediately gripped his heart.

He wanted to restrain his smile.

But the muscles on his face felt as if they had been frozen, and no matter what, he could not change his expression.

Damn it!

What on earth is happening?

Xin Shang was going crazy.

He had thought he had gradually adapted to Lin Bai's insane rhythm.

But discovering that he couldn't even control his own smile, the terror in his heart was about to break through the sky. When the hell did he get hit by this?

【Fear from Xin Shang, Ge Feiyun, Zhao Tulong, Qingyu, Daoxu...; +1 +1 +1 +1】

Everyone had smiles on their faces, yet the emotion they were conveying was fear. Lin Bai looked around and sighed inexplicably. Fine, he had involuntarily broken into a smile again.

The style of this broken game was being led more and more astray by him. If this continues, he will have no friends and will go further and further down the path of being a loner.

"Alliance Leader, our smiles?" When Lin Bai's smile faded, Xin Shang regained control of his facial expressions. He suppressed the palpitation in his heart and asked tentatively.

"My Law Cultivation is like a rocket soaring into the sky, taking a big step forward on the road to becoming the Heavenly Dao. At this moment, my influence on you is like the sun to all things. When the sun rises, all things awaken; when the sun sets, all things rest." Lin Bai looked around at everyone and said proudly, "Of course, you must not be as afraid as a little white rabbit seeing a big bad wolf; you should get used to my influence on you like the spring breeze brushing over the earth. When one day I embody the Heavenly Dao, the world will return to peace just like snow falling from the sky."

"..." Listening to this long string of headache-inducing metaphors, Xin Shang struggled for a long time before he finally understood what Lin Bai was saying. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "Alliance Leader, do you mean that your 'Words Follow the Law' has improved, and your smile will affect the people around you?"

"Your comprehension ability is just like water that has just started to boil—it's bubbling." Lin Bai gave a thumbs-up again, the corners of his mouth curling upward.

"..."

Xin Shang, Ge Feiyun, and the others looked at each other, staring at the identical smiles on each other's faces, wanting to cry but having no tears. If anyone said the laws weren't real, they would fight them to the death. To think the laws were practiced in such a way—no wonder no one had succeeded in tens of thousands of years. However, for the Justice Alliance to be able to find a way to practice the laws, there shouldn't be a single normal person inside!

What the hell is all this?

F***!

Someone with great power, come and kill this lunatic!

I f***ing can't take it anymore!

Two lines of clear tears fell down Daoxu's cheeks. Even though he hated Lin Bai to death, he was still being influenced by Lin Bai to smile involuntarily. He was truly on the verge of a breakdown.

If he had known it would come to this, he would have abandoned the temple and left no matter what back then...

"I smile, and everyone will follow suit, but it has no effect on other aspects of you, just like the wind and a cow," Lin Bai straightened his face and explained.

He felt it was necessary to change his current genial way of treating others. Although everyone was smiling at him, all the people around him had the same smile. Not to mention how they felt, from his own perspective, it was quite creepy!

"Xiao Qi, is Master usually like this?" Hu He looked at Lin Bai's back and asked, full of worry.

"No." The little white fox blinked a few times and said, "He doesn't practice 'Words Follow the Law' this frequently on normal days. It must be because the great battle is imminent and he needs to deepen his cultivation! Mother, you'll get used to it. This is still considered mild; when Master was practicing the Anger Dao, he would pick a fight with whoever he caught!"

"..." Hu He was speechless.

"666"

"Nowadays, only 'WTF' can express my current mood. Are the developers' brains full of holes? How did he even come up with this way of practicing!"

"With Shopkeeper Lin here, the game won't collapse."

"Having read through many NPCs, Shopkeeper Lin is still the most flamboyant!"

"Even mental patients aren't as funny as him. No one can imitate Shopkeeper Lin's temperament. I just love the way he practices 'Words Follow the Law' with such a straight face."

"Please, what makes you think Shopkeeper Lin isn't a mental patient?"

"I increasingly don't want Shopkeeper Lin to be defeated. He has become my source of happiness and a database for learning knowledge. If Shopkeeper Lin is defeated, I don't know what meaning life would have left!"

"To the brother above, I understand the happiness, but what can you learn from Shopkeeper Lin?"

"I learned his exquisite language and his thick skin. Ever since I started following Shopkeeper Lin, my salary has increased, I found a girlfriend, and I don't even lack words when writing essays anymore!"

"You're still writing essays? If you actually dared to write those rotten metaphors of Shopkeeper Lin's on an exam paper, the teacher would dare to give you a zero."

"My admiration for Shopkeeper Lin is like the hydrogen balloon released by the kid next door—it's f***ing gone to the sky!"

"My love for Shopkeeper Lin is like the pie handmade by the pretty widow next door; I look forward to it every day."

"Everyone here is an excellent Heavenly Dao Candidate. You should all be sent to be foils for Shopkeeper Lin, just like one teapot paired with several teacups..."

"You all only care about Shopkeeper Lin's metaphors, but have you thought about his smile?"

"His smile is as sweet and cute as a technician from Red Romance No. 1."

"Get lost. Shopkeeper Lin's smile not only affected the NPCs but also the players. Don't you find it strange?"

"I don't find it strange; I find it terrifying. At first, I thought it was fun, but when everyone in the live stream camera showed the same smile, it felt like I was watching a horror movie. It was so awkward."

"That's not what I meant. I'm saying, is it normal for mental-type Skills to affect players?"

"NPC Skills can kill players, so why can't mental-type Skills affect players?"

"The body active in the game belongs to the Game Company, but the mind controlling that body is ours. Theoretically, we want it to cry, and it will cry; we want it to laugh, and it will laugh. But now? The smile is out of our control. Don't you find that scary? This means the Game Company can control our thoughts!"

"You're overthinking it. The Game Company doesn't need to control our thoughts at all. They only need to control the body in the game and make the body make a smiling expression. Xin Shang and the others are also smiling along with Lin Bai, but they still have their own thoughts!"

"Exactly, stop spreading conspiracy theories. When you play the game, your whole person is lying in the Game Capsule. It's too easy for the Game Company to kill you; why would they go through such trouble..."

"Life is short, enjoy it while you can. Instead of worrying about those random things, why not care about when the Game Company will release the next batch of accounts? I can't wait to join the Beggar Sect."

【Gugao Laoren】 keeps a constant eye on the overall development of the situation.

He watches the videos of the players from the Chaoyuan Sword Sect one moment and pays attention to the attitude of the peripheral players toward the Justice Alliance the next, managing the overall situation and responsible for coordinating the work progress of the entire Beggar Sect.

Coordinating a large sect of three thousand people is not easy. He must ensure the healthy development of the Beggar Sect and also ensure the interests of the advertising sponsors, making the upcoming great battle as exciting as possible, so it won't be like last time where the players didn't even show their faces before Lin Bai settled everything.

The Beggar Sect seems to make a lot of money, but this money is not easy to take.

Therefore.

When He Qin and the others drove the players out and closed the doors to discuss countermeasures;

When the Transformation Pill was exposed and the Beast Taming Studio drove thousands of Demon Beasts to support the Chaoyuan Sword Sect;

When Tang Lanling and others brought players to act as messengers to seek help from the Seven Orthodox Sects, and all sorts of other things gathered together.

【Gugao Laoren】 was happy, because this meant variables; with variables, the battle would be exciting.

Otherwise.

If only Shopkeeper Lin were allowed to show off, the Beggar Sect would decline sooner or later...

Shopkeeper Lin is too shrewd. Compared to him, other NPCs are like wood. It is only because 【Gugao Laoren】 is eating Lin Bai's food; if he had joined another sect, learned of Shopkeeper Lin's brilliance, and watched his own sect's NPCs being used as background boards by Lin Bai, he would have deleted his account and stopped playing long ago.

And when 【Gugao Laoren】 saw that Lin Bai's smile could affect players, he ultimately sighed silently.

Lin Bai's growth is too fast.

Although players are trying hard to defend the game, there are many smart people. I'm afraid it won't be long before the fact that Lin Bai's Skill can affect reality and that the other side is a real world can no longer be hidden.

During the two days Lin Bai was away, 【Lao Mi】 almost ignored the affairs of the Beggar Sect, immersing himself entirely in the City Lord's Mansion, even neglecting his girlfriend 【Gengmi】.

During the time Lin Bai went on the expedition, 【Gugao Laoren】 spent some effort searching and investigating the background of the Game Company, the composition of its personnel, and so on, but gained nothing.

As for the game license, it could be found, but with the official technology of the game, obtaining a copyright certificate, a game license, and such is perfectly normal.

Perhaps it is not just the players in the game who are in trouble, but also the Real World; the Xianxia World game has only appeared for two or three months, yet it is already subtly influencing every walk of life!

Gugao Laoren sighed once more, not knowing what kind of waves would be stirred up in the Real World when everything finally erupted...

(End of this chapter)