I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 515 - 515 514. Melting_1

Chapter 515: 514. Melting_1 Chapter 515: 514. Melting_1 After dinner, Lu Ban washed the dishes, and Feng Yu said goodbye and left to continue her original work in Massachusetts.

[Mysterious Amusement Park] required a vacant area to set up, and Lu Ban planned to find an empty night to go to the suburbs to give it a try.

He sat in front of the computer and watched as the System’s cold and indifferent text slowly came together.

[Career Development Task]

[Don’t forget your original intention, communicate your message through literature, and spread new hope with your works. What happened in the past will always take place in the future. Only by presenting it can you truly warn humanity. It is your undeniable duty.]

[Requirement: Influence people’s values and worldviews with your work]

[Influence: 0/100000000]

[“A true work of art can influence a person’s entire life, for better or worse.”]

“A hundred million influence points, does this mean I have to affect the world view of a hundred million people?”

Lu Ban felt that making a movie that people liked was easy, and getting people to want to watch a movie several times was also easy.

But to influence people’s cognition and change their values and worldviews through a movie was very difficult.

First, movies themselves are an art form that requires understanding. To watch a movie, one must learn to listen, read, and speak, have normal vision, and also have the time and financial strength to watch a movie.

Combining all these factors, most who can appreciate movies already possess a considerable level of cognitive ability, and understanding the content requires even more comprehension.

For example, if you teach a kindergartner how to use an automatic rifle from a young age and tell them they need to practice shooting before every meal, over time they will develop the cognition that eating and shooting go hand in hand.

But if you tell a high school student this, they’ll just think you’re crazy.

This creates a paradox.

Watching a movie requires a certain level of comprehension, yet possessing such comprehension means one is unlikely to change their view of the world simply based on a movie’s content.

If one could so easily change their worldview, they probably wouldn’t be able to understand the content in the movie either.

Of course, there are some people who can do things like this.

Some works can change people’s views on family, love, career, and the world. These types of works often transcend the realm of purely entertaining movies and enter the domain of true art.

It’s like the classic saying, “The young shouldn’t read ‘The Water Margin’,” meaning that when people are naive, they shouldn’t read “The Water Margin” as they might learn to use violence to solve problems from the characters in the book.

As for adults wanting to change their worldview because of a movie, that’s incredibly hard.

Even though Lu Ban has extraordinary works, he still feels some trepidation.

However, Lu Ban quickly thought.

It’s called influence, but he wonders if insincere changes count.

For example, if you use force or some other means to change everyone’s cognition, making them believe a certain thing or event is something else, does that also count as changing their worldview?

It’s like the classic Mandela Effect, where many people thought Nelson Mandela had already died even though he actually lived into the twenty-first century. Whether there are 56 constellations or 56 ethnic groups, many people are also confused.

During certain times, brainwashing propaganda about things that the public is not familiar with can also achieve the effect of changing their cognition.

Nowadays, many people only remember the global pandemic of the Spanish flu, but few understand that it didn’t actually originate in Spain.

However, these methods are underhanded, and Lu Ban is not adept at them.

He still wants to touch people’s hearts with his work.

With this in mind, Lu Ban checked the materials he had received.

This included most of the imagery data of the Wasteland and the encounter of the bugs and Shuangxin left outside after he entered the Wormhole, just lacking most of the images after he passed through the Wormhole himself.

It was probably due to the influence of the Ancient Overlord that all the fragments causing extreme mental pollution were autonomously avoided.

If the image of the Ancient Overlord bound by the Black Hole were really to be broadcast on the big screen, Lu Ban wouldn’t have to worry about not completing the task, but the audience watching would likely fall into madness within minutes, or become disciples of the Sludge Monster.

As he thought this, Lu Ban remembered the new ability he had acquired.

Melting.

Just like his previous abilities, the corresponding knowledge was already engraved in Lu Ban’s brain.

He fully understood how to use this ability.

Coming to the restroom, Lu Ban looked at himself in the mirror.

The Lu Ban in the mirror smiled, as if greeting someone.

Suddenly, Lu Ban’s whole face distorted, flattened, like an ice cream scoop dropped on the scorching tarmac at high noon in the middle of summer.

Then, Lu Ban melted.

He turned into a puddle of slime, much like the famous Sludge Pokémon.

Lu Ban could move, change shape, and sense his surroundings at will.

Then, Lu Ban made his way to the entrance of the sewer.

He flowed down.

At the same time, a part of Lu Ban remained in the restroom.

The Lu Ban flowing down the drain soon reached the actual city sewage, filled with foul odors and filth.

Lu Ban crawled out from the outside sewer crack and arrived at the grassy area of the community.

There, a young girl was walking her dog, which approached the bushes, ready to do its business.

Lu Ban approached.

“You can’t just pee or poop wherever, you know.”

Lu Ban considerately reminded her.

The dog, which was doing its business halfway through, suddenly sniffed something and instantly tensed up. Without finishing, it started to run away frantically, dragging the young girl along in a stumbling chase.

Lu Ban felt he had done another good deed. With a thought,

The melting Lu Ban suddenly began to contract towards a certain point, the Lu Ban on the grass swooshed up and into a crack in the wall, through the vent, down the sewer, and back to the part of Lu Ban in the restroom.

Soon, Lu Ban took shape again.

In simple terms, the ability of Melting gave Lu Ban the power to turn into a slime-like sludge monster, allowing him to move like a slime monster, splitting himself and extending his sensory range. Moreover, he could quickly retract to any piece of slime and reform into human shape.

When facing cuts or other injuries, he could also soften himself, dissolving physical damage, basically achieving immunity to physical harm.

In the future, Lu Ban would only need to leave a piece of himself at home, and even if he went abroad, he could instantly melt and reassemble to achieve the action of coming home.

Although he didn’t know whether it would work for travel across Foreign Domains, Lu Ban was already very satisfied.

“Next, I need to find time to see what’s really happening at the amusement park.”

Lu Ban thought.

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