Chapter 128 The Myth of Opposition

However, just as she finished speaking, a young man in a black shirt and a blue morning coat sitting on a chair nearby seemed to echo excitedly:

"Oh, "The Flame at Twelve O'Clock"? It was the book that the thief used the clock tower to set up a mechanism when it automatically rang at noon, causing the flame to ignite, attracting the attention of the police and guards, and taking advantage of the opportunity to get the pendant on Mrs. Sterling's chest, right?"

Yao Yan couldn't help but turn his head to look at him, and the man looked very excited.

But, I don't know why he was excited.

Is it a novel, or

"Yes." Yao Yan imitated Mrs. Bisso's tone, "It's this one."

"Sure enough! This is also a book I like very much!"

After the young man finished speaking, he seemed to remember something, smiled awkwardly at the people around him, and then lowered his voice to Yao Yan:

"Oh, sorry, I am"

"Igonaris Killion, I know." Yao Yan dug out the name of this person from the original owner's memory.

Unlike her husband, the noble alderman, Alderman Ording was a commoner.

This man is the brother of the municipal official.

However, the relationship is not very good. The political forces of the nobles and the common people are opposite.

It's just that it is not consistent with the suspected prototype of Rome.

This society, which is close to modern productivity, has long passed the period of large estates and slave labor, and the social foundation and system are specious.

It can only be said that it is just a Roman Republic.

Moreover, there are other more complicated factors, such as

After she said the other party's name, she continued:

"Is Mrs. Kielion here too?"

Although the municipal official himself is a commoner, his wife is from another aristocratic power.

"No, she and her father went to attend a friend's wedding." The young man, Igonaris, was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and explained.

"Really? You wanted to hold a wedding ceremony on the Stairway to Heaven, but it was rejected, making the entire Gilion family a laughing stock, so you can only find a place to hold it quietly?"

Yao Yan imitated Mrs. Bisso's harsh tone familiarly, and made the same sarcastic remarks to Gilion as her character habit, and then he immediately made amends to avoid unnecessary trouble:

"Compared to those old nobles, you have more hope. Those rotten old things should have been buried long ago."

She looked dissatisfied with some people in her family.

Igonaris's excited expression at first sank, and her smile disappeared a little, but after her words, the smile returned again.

However, before he could speak, Yao Yan spoke:

"Do you also know about that ancient book?"

He returned to the previous topic.

Although the return to the topic was very abrupt, it was obvious that neither of them paid attention, or rather, they both cared about the ancient book.

And Yao Yan also realized this.

The drama was probably about to end, and they had no confirmed time.

If we don't spread it now, we may not have time later.

Yao Yan raised his head slightly and glanced at the sky outside the window of the airship.

At this time, he also heard the other party's response:

"No, I haven't heard of this book. Can you tell me about it?"

Igonaris looked curious.

Yao Yan didn't say much, but just embedded the core of the fire-eater story he made up into the story of "Twelve O'Clock Flame".

It's not a coincidence, but the thief novel "Twelve O'Clock Flame" is similar to other earlier thief novels. At that time, the sunstone had not been used on a large scale and was a discovery at the "frontier of science and technology".

Detective novels are closely related to criminal investigation, and many of them are even written by professionals.

The thief novels have to describe the struggle between the thief and the detective, the police, and the battle of wits with the stolen company or the nobles. They either write about the ingenious mechanisms of the ancient times, or go to the forefront of science and technology and use technology to overcome the information gap of readers.

In this world, the sunstone itself is both an "ancient artifact" related to the myth of the sun god and a "frontier of science and technology" that is fought over by major technology companies.

He "explained" in a slightly louder voice than Mrs. Bisso usually did:

"In that ancient book, there is a record of a monster called fire-eaters, which can devour flames and then generate gems. Those gems are sunstones."

"These monsters are not afraid of any flames or light, and can even devour light and fire."

At this point, Mrs. Bisso's voice was amplified again:

"According to the records in that ancient book, even if you light various things at night, you still can't see anything because it is swallowed by monsters like fire-eaters."

"Ah? The flames and light are swallowed by monsters at night?"

Triss asked in confusion, her expression obviously extremely surprised.

Night is called night because there is no light, and day is called day because it is bright.

Cause and effect are reversed, right?

What a strange legend.

Triss's doubtful gaze only made Yao Yan smile. He was not sure, but said:

"According to the description in this book, the sun god and the fire eater are the same monster. The sun god represents the day, and the fire eater represents the night. The two have the same status."

Having read various folk legends and myths, and understood the common points of various myths, Yao Yan is very good at making up such myths:

"Fire-eaters are also called gods of the night or darkness in some remote areas."

"The power of the two was originally equal, but the sun god has been killed by the fire thief."

"At night, only the blood of the sun god and the light of the sun stone can illuminate the darkness."

"But during the day, because the sun god is dead, all creatures can leave shadows during the day."

Simple and clear, easy-to-understand binary opposition myth.

Yao Yan knew that it was not so easy to be believed by people when he made up a myth out of thin air. It was easiest to be accepted by embedding the fabricated myth into the existing and widely known myth.

In addition, he also took advantage of the natural laws of this world.

That is, at night, there will be no light other than the sun stone that can illuminate the darkness.

It's just that.

"Hahaha, the sun stone illuminates the night, hahaha!"

At this time, a laugh came from behind the three people, and a man with a beard laughed.

After the three of them turned their eyes, he stopped laughing and quickly stretched out his hand to gesture:

"Well, by the way, the sunstone only generates heat, and it won't get hot without light."

"This story is too fake."

Triss on the side nodded repeatedly. These myths completely violate the laws of nature.

However, Yao Yan did not react much, but just said:

"After all, it is a handwritten book of unknown origin. It even says that the fire thief is the subordinate sent by the fire eater, and the purpose is to kill the sun god."

"Hahaha, the fire thief has come out, it's too fake, it's really a myth made up by ancient people, who would believe it now?"

The bearded uncle laughed again.

However, some people who originally noticed this place because of the noise and laughed when they heard Yao Yan's words stopped laughing at this time.

Sure enough, adding the fire thief to the story is a good choice.

All the ingredients are false, and the rumors created in this way are too unreliable. However, nine out of ten are true and one out of ten are false, or eight out of ten are true and two out of ten are false, which is at least half true and half false, making it easier for people to believe.

After all, even if humans are dead, their judgment mechanism of like and yes is still vague, and in most cases, it cannot be accurately quantified.

Observing the expressions of the guests at the auction that he disrupted, Yao Yan felt a little more relaxed.

The effect of spending a day to create and spread fake books was not as good as the effect of spreading them in this occasion. Should we really use newspapers and magazines to publish short stories?

If only there were a network in this world.

Various rumors ferment very quickly.

However, if the scale of the rumors is too large, it is estimated that it will drain his power once it is used, just like the previous incarnation of a fire giant.

It would be great if the scale of the rumors could be accurately controlled.

However, there is no if.

I don’t know how much power Mo Ya can exert with rumors of this scale?