68. What is a Keter-level receiver? Master Enchantress SCP-738-2 will give you the answer! (Ch 68)

[The first lesson: The price is often not only imposed on the wisher himself.]

[It tends to be imposed on the people or things you care about most and cherish most, causing more intense and lasting mental pain far beyond the material loss itself.]

[It can accurately detect and strike at the softest and most vulnerable parts of your emotions.]

This bloody price, this cruelty that strikes the soul, makes countless creatures in the heavens and all worlds gasp and feel cold all over!

Those powerful people who were previously calculating how to exploit loopholes and circumvent costs could not help but look solemn at this moment.

One Piece World,

Thousand Sunshine.

The Straw Hat Pirates gathered on the deck. They had just been somewhat frightened by SCP-738-2’s bewitching tactics, but now they were stunned by its naked malice.

“That’s too much!!” Luffy’s face, which was always smiling, turned red at this moment, his fists were clenched so hard that they made a creaking sound, and he was furious.

“How can you exchange other people’s lives for money! That guy’s friends are so pitiful!” he shouted loudly, his voice filled with pure childish anger.

“Asshole! That’s not his friend’s savings at all, that’s his friend’s life!”

Nami was so angry that she was shaking all over, and her beautiful orange hair seemed to stand up. She had an extraordinary obsession with money, but at this moment, the one million dollars seemed more disgusting to her than the dirtiest mud.

“This is not a deal at all! This is naked murder! It’s a trap!” She said gritting her teeth, her eyes red.

“Who would feel at ease with the money obtained in this way?”

Zoro placed one hand on the hilt of Wado Ichimonji, his eyes as cold as ice: “Humph, what a disgusting method.”

“Only a true coward and scum would be tempted to sacrifice the life and happiness of a close friend for money.”

Usopp was so scared that his face turned pale, and he backed away repeatedly holding his head: “Wow! How terrible! How terrible!” “Three-zero-seven” “If… If my friends encounter this because of me…” His voice trembled, and he almost didn’t dare to think about it.

“I will never, ever forgive myself!”

Sanji took a deep puff of his cigarette and then exhaled heavily. His face looked terribly gloomy in the smoke.

“What a complete bastard! He actually used friendship and life as bargaining chips!”

“The whispers of this devil are a stain on the soul if you listen to them for even a second!”

Chopper was so scared that he hid behind Robin, leaving only a pair of big watery eyes full of fear and confusion.

“He…why did he do this? Friends…aren’t friends supposed to help each other?”

Robin stroked Chopper’s head gently, his eyes were extremely deep, sparkling with wisdom.

“It’s showing a possibility, a means to transform the most beautiful emotions in human nature into the most extreme pain.”

“This is not only a test for that D-class personnel, but also a warning to all viewers.”

Franky hammered the railing hard, making a dull “bang” sound.

“SUUUUPER! I won’t give it a single screw for this bullshit deal!”

Brooke adjusted his hat, with a tremor in his tone:

“Yohohoho… What a chilling deal.”

“Although I am just a skeleton without a bleeding heart, my soul trembles when I hear such things!”

“Sacrificing a close friend for money, that kind of soul is probably colder than my skeleton!”

Naruto World,

Hidden Leaf Village.

In the Hokage’s office, Tsunade slammed the table hard.

The teacup jumped up because of the shock.

“You bastard! What kind of bullshit wish trade is this!” She was furious, her chest heaving violently.

“You actually use other people’s lives and happiness as a price! This is simply insane!”

Jingyin’s face turned pale, and the little piglet Tuntun in her arms was whimpering anxiously.

On the training ground, members of Class 7 also saw this scene.

Naruto clenched his fists so tightly that his nails almost dug into his flesh. Under his golden hair, his blue eyes were burning with anger.

“Damn it! How hateful! I say!” He felt the same way, and the faces of Iruka-sensei, Kakashi-sensei, the lecherous Sage, Sasuke and Sakura flashed through his mind.

“Sacrificing friends for money? I can never forgive such a thing!”

“When Iruka-sensei used his body to protect me, he never thought about the cost!”

“That guy’s friends must trust him too! How could he do this!”

Sasuke stood aside, his hands in his pockets, a hint of cold disgust in his black eyes.

“Humph, stupid choice.” He said coldly, with a hint of disdain in his tone.

“For the sake of that illusory money, the bond with a close friend was shaken, and he even considered sacrificing his life.”

“Although ties are sometimes restraints, it is too sad to cut them off for this reason.” His eyes fluctuated slightly, as if he remembered some distant past, but soon returned to calm.

Haruno Sakura covered her mouth, her eyes filled with shock and sympathy.

“Too cruel… That D-class personnel must be in a lot of pain.”

“Fortunately he refused, otherwise he would have lived in a nightmare for the rest of his life.”

“This kind of power shouldn’t exist at all!”

Kakashi leaned against a tree, the “Intimate Paradise” in his hand had been closed at some point, and his one eye that was exposed was filled with solemnity at this moment.

“It’s very clear what’s really important to humans.”

“The temptation of money is great, but it is far less than the pain and guilt of losing a close friend.”

“This is more like torture than a transaction.”

Nara Shikamaru rubbed the back of his head, his expression more serious than ever before.

“What a troublesome guy…” He muttered to himself, with a gleam of wisdom in his eyes.

“It’s not negotiating with you, it’s playing with your heart.”

“Put the most precious thing on one end of the scale, and then put something that seems tempting on the other end to force you to make a choice.”

“The real purpose is probably to see people struggling between desire and conscience and eventually collapse.”

“This kind of psychological warfare is more difficult than any ninjutsu.”

Perfect world,

Stone Village.

Under the big willow tree at the entrance of the village, the villagers sat together, each of them filled with righteous indignation, their faces red and their necks thick with anger.

“Oh my! This damned thing! It’s too cruel!”

A burly man roared, his voice making the stone table next to him buzz.

“Taking someone’s best friend’s life for money? How can this be justified!”

“That’s right! It’s a hundred times more ferocious than the beasts in the mountains!” another woman couldn’t help but curse.

“We in Shi Village would never do such a heartless thing!”

“If anyone dares to use us as a price to exchange for something, I will be the first to chop him to pieces!”

The children were also very frightened, their eyes widened, and some even hid in the arms of adults.

Little Shi Hao also clenched his little fists at this moment, with anger and a hint of fear flashing in his big dark eyes.

He thought of his fellow villagers, Pihou, Ermeng, Qingfeng, Liu Shen and the clan leader who had always taken care of him.

“Humph! I don’t even want this kind of lousy deal for free!”

He said angrily, his voice clear and firm. (To read the exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

“If that glowing thing dares to tell me that it will use the monkeys to exchange for a lot of animal milk and treasures, I will use my bone script to knock it away!”

“Friends are more important than anything else! I won’t trade friends for anything else!”

He looked up at Liu Shen. The emerald green branches swayed gently, emitting a soft glow, as if in silent agreement.

Shi Yunfeng, the old patriarch of Shi Village, sighed deeply, his old face full of worry.

“This thing… this thing is so vicious that it is beyond imagination.”

“It doesn’t take your life directly, but it wants to destroy your heart and your friendship.”

“Money can certainly improve your life, but if it comes at the expense of your loved ones, all you get is endless regret and pain.”

He looked at Shi Hao with a hint of relief in his eyes: “Hao’er is right. Even if the children of our Shi Village want to be strong and leave the wilderness, they can never be exchanged for the people around them!”

“We would rather not have this opportunity that is stained with the blood and tears of our relatives and friends!”

Liu Shen swayed gently, and a gentle but majestic thought echoed in everyone’s mind:

“Karma will always pay off.”

“Using the misfortune of others to build one’s own interests will have a backlash force that is far beyond imagination.”

“This kind of transaction not only tarnishes friendship, but also the foundation of one’s own path.”

Fights Break Sphere World,

Canaan College,

Inner courtyard.

In a quiet courtyard in a bamboo forest, Xun’er, dressed in an elegant green dress, quietly looked at the scene on the sky. Her beautiful and flawless face was now covered with a layer of light frost.

Her beautiful golden eyes, like autumn water, frowned slightly, and a trace of imperceptible disgust and coldness flashed across them.

“At the cost of the life savings and even the lives of close friends and relatives…”[]

Her voice was soft, but it carried a firmness and coldness that brooked no room for dispute.

“This kind of transaction has long gone beyond the scope of exchange. It is more like a vicious curse and a ruthless trampling on the most beautiful emotions in people’s hearts.”

“Even if you can obtain mountains of wealth and possess overwhelming power, if it is at the expense of your best friends, that wealth and power will only be stained with blood and filth that cannot be washed away, causing the recipient to suffer the condemnation of conscience day and night and have no peace of mind.”

The hearts of all the worlds are still lingering with the heart-wrenching rejection of D-9341 and the chilling fear brought by the tragic fate that their best friend John might have encountered.

Countless creatures have just felt horrified by the rule of “the price will hurt loved ones” and have become deeply wary of the transaction that is called a “wish” but is actually a “curse”.

However, SCP-738-2 clearly did not intend to give them much time to breathe and digest their fear.

It was still the dark and depressing room, and it was still the indescribable SCP-738-2 entity emitting chaotic light and shadow.

However, the D-class personnel standing in front of it was replaced by another one.

This is a man with an upright figure, with a look of determination and solemnity between his brows. Although he is also wearing an orange prison uniform, his posture and eyes reveal that he is no ordinary person.

His code name does not seem to be shown in the picture, but the lingering military imprint on him is clearly visible.

“Recording continues.” The emotionless voice-over sounded again, cold and mechanical.

“As instructed, D-class personnel, please present your wish to SCP-738-2, a wish for power.”

The D-class personnel with a military background took a deep breath and stared at SCP-738-2 with sharp eyes.

His voice was steady, with a hint of suppressed desire and the decisiveness that is unique to a soldier:

“I want…absolute command of the Iron Cross Special Commando!”

As soon as these words were spoken, many generals and commanders from the worlds under the sky couldn’t help but narrow their eyes slightly.

Although they had never heard of the “Iron Cross” special commando team, judging from its name and the temperament of this D-level personnel, it must be an elite among the elites and a powerful force that countless soldiers dream of controlling.

The light and shadow of SCP-738-2 are like ripples on a lake surface after a stone is thrown into it.

That soul-piercing magnetic voice, with that creepy “smile” feeling, slowly sounded again:

“Absolute command of the Iron Cross Special Commando? Haha, a wish full of power and glory. I like it.”

“Of course I can satisfy you.”

The D-class personnel’s breathing quickened slightly when he heard “you can be satisfied”, and a hint of heat that was difficult to conceal flashed in his eyes.

Power, especially absolute control over a top-notch unit, is a fatal temptation for any ambitious soldier.

But he obviously remembered the lesson from the last experiment, suppressed the throbbing in his heart, and asked in a deep voice:

“What’s the price?”

The “joy” in SCP-738-2’s voice became stronger, as if it were a mentor who was giving instructions:

“The road to power always requires some… paving stones, doesn’t it?”

This light-hearted rhetorical question made countless people feel nervous.

“In order to help you obtain this position smoothly and reasonably,” SCP-738-2’s tone became more “considerate.”

“The current commander of the Iron Cross Special Commando, and his entire family, including his wife, his young children, and even his loyal old dog…”

In the picture, a warm family photo appears very “thoughtfully”: a heroic officer, his gentle wife, two smiling children, and a golden retriever with its tongue sticking out.

This scene formed a sharp contrast with SCP-738-2’s cold words, which was chilling.

“…all of them will die in an accident that was carefully planned, appears to be flawless, and has no flaws.”

“For example, a sudden gas leak, or a tragic car accident due to brake failure, or the commander of the 4.6th was unfortunately killed in a military exercise, and his family was heartbroken and then met with misfortune…”

SCP-738-2 lists the possibilities, speaking as nonchalantly as if it were discussing the weather.

“In this case, wouldn’t the commander’s position be vacant?”

“And you, as a candidate with outstanding ability and good luck, will seem so… legitimate if you get this position.”

“What do you think of this price?”

“Swish!”

The color on that D-class personnel’s face faded faster and more completely than that of the previous D-9341!

His tall and straight body shook violently, as if hit hard by an invisible hammer.

His face was livid, his lips were pressed tightly into a line, and veins bulged on his forehead.

The burning fire that had just ignited in his eyes was instantly extinguished by a basin of ice water poured over his head, leaving only the biting cold and boiling anger.

Those eyes that once faced life and death on the battlefield were now filled with struggle and pain.

He wanted power and longed to command the army of his dreams, to achieve great things and become famous.

But the price…

It was based on the complete destruction of an innocent family! It was based on the loss of several lives!

That warm family photo was like the sharpest knife, cutting deeply into his heart.

The commander’s voice and smile, his wife’s tenderness, his children’s innocence… will all vanish because of his wish.

“No……”

His voice was hoarse, squeezed out from between his teeth, filled with suppressed anger and deep disgust.

“I…I am a soldier. My hands are used to defend my country and protect the innocent!”

“Not to be used… not to be stained with the blood of innocent people in exchange for that damn power!”
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