Sometimes people are like this. For example, one of the most difficult questions encountered in exams is that they clearly remember that they have read it, when, where, and in what posture, but they forget to read the content. what.
Kou Tong was sitting on the cruise ship, and the other two people who didn't know their origins were on the side, and neither of them spoke. The three of them were surrounded by a small round table, each sitting on a chair, and there was a very curious puppy, staring at Kou Tong with wet eyes, as if with some kind of vigilance.
There was a bunch of flowers on the round table, and there was a small teacup in front of everyone. Kou Tong suddenly felt like he had broken into Alice's dream. The two people next to him were like another version of the March Hare and Mr. Hat.
His eyes swept away, the "magician" did not know when he changed the lily in his hand to a rose, but the flowers on his clothes changed from roses to lilies. When did this magical moment happen, Kou Tong actually He didn't notice it at all - as if he was like that, the flowers seemed to be blooming on him, so naturally they were invisible.
"What is that?" Kou Tong broke the silence.
The magician explained: "These flowers are a philosophy. Roses are red, representing fiery life, and lilies are white, representing the other extreme, like death, or all things that flow, cold. Life and death are changing all the time. , no moment is stagnant, each moment of change symbolizes the inherent death and the beginning of new life, they all happen in an instant.”
Kou Tong felt that philosophy was very pretentious, but at this time he didn't laugh or nod-because after listening to it, he felt that the man had something to say.
The magician continued: "This is nature. Creation must be accompanied by destruction, and they go hand in hand until infinity. Man expresses this with a symbol, which is '∞'. The never-ending transition between two levels is infinity. "
Kou Tong frowned, unable to assess whether the man was a conscious subject or was projected by some object in the conscious subject.
He asked, "You mean, there's nothing we can keep?"
The magician said: "Even we are constantly dying and reborn, walking on a time line that will never stop. How can we keep other things?"
Kou Tong faintly moved in his heart, and he asked, "Is the changed me still me?"
The magician didn't answer, but the man in the hat laughed and asked, "Why do you have to know the answer?"
Before Kou Tong could speak, the man wearing the hat lowered his head, which made his face stick out from under the hat, showing a somewhat melancholy expression.
"If you admit it, it's you. If you don't admit it, it's not you. It's nothing. But whether you admit it or not, it's your destiny." He said in a slightly cold tone, "Just like us, we Everyone holds a part of the world's secrets, but must meticulously carry out the master's orders, this is fate."
Kou Tong noticed the words he used: "You?"
The man in the hat stretched out a finger and looked straight at Kou Tong with his melancholy eyes. He said, "Shh—"
Kou Tong was speechless, feeling that this situation was very familiar, a bit like old man Ji pretending to be a ghost and cheating money.
The atmosphere between the three people became strangely silent again. Kou Tong was looking at the two other people. He found that the two of them were a bit like a set program. When they were not touched, they would always sit there. Not moving, even the frequency of drinking tea is very fixed.
It seems to be the creation of a subject of consciousness - Kou Tong thought, and it seems that it should not be projected by someone in real life, and the corresponding object is likely to be some kind of object in their space.
cartoon
No... Kou Tong quickly rejected the idea, it shouldn't be.
He often has some teenage patients who need counseling. For the convenience of communication, he has also seen at a glance that teenagers are full of sports stars, entertainment stars and various anime characters' interests and hobbies. He doesn't remember any cartoon characters. Such.
what is that…
They have a lingering temperament of the gods, and their clothes are complicated. Some of them have very obvious symbolic meanings in the sense of semiotics, and some of them are subtle hints. Kou Tong's art is not specialized in this. So it's not very clear.
Is it some kind of occult prop, or is it something related to a religion
The speed of the boat suddenly slowed down, and the puppy who had been staring at Kou Tong suddenly raised his front paws and said, "Wow!"
The man in the hat let go and let it jump out of his arms. Kou Tong turned his head and saw a small island in front of his eyes. The island was filled with a layer of white fog, with plants and hills looming.
A huge white stone was revealed in the drifting clouds. It was close to the sea, like a firm guardian. Behind it were two huge pillars, one black and one white, like an incomplete arch.
A woman wearing a robe and a strange high hat stood there, her hands were open, but there was no expression on her face. From a distance, Kou Tong thought she was a stone statue.
It wasn't until he got closer that he realized that it turned out to be a living person.
The woman's body does not know what lineage it has. The color of the eyeballs is extremely light. Under the effect of the strange light distorted by the white mist, it seems to be a bit transparent.
The magician and the man in the hat stood on the boat and watched Kou Tong get off the boat and walked to the place where the two stone pillars were, without intending to send it off.
It wasn't until Kou Tong walked to the woman's side that she seemed to have some kind of program activated in her body, her eyes slowly turned to one side, she gave Kou Tong a deep look, and said, "Please come with me."
Hearing her voice in his ears, Dr. Kou, who was very strong in spirit and abnormal in nerves, was in a trance for a moment - if you have to describe it, it was like some kind of voice from heaven, and mortals couldn't tell the huge mystery contained in it. and beauty. There is always a white mist around the woman in the robe, no matter how close she is, she can't see her whole body completely, and the white mist seems to have life.
Seven conscious subjects were involved in this abnormal program space at the same time, but needless to say, Kou Tong, who had landed in one place, and the three of them, Manman and He Xiaozhi who joined later, did not show special regional awareness. A harmonious and weird method, mixed with other people's consciousness projections.
This person is different. He or she seems to have occupied the entire nameless island, facing the direction of the mainland far away, and it is very clear.
Kou Tong couldn't help but think of what Manman said, "invader", only a person who thinks he is the master of a certain place will say this word.
He looked back and found that the back road was gone. Bai Wu was like an excess of cotton, covering the entire island tightly. At that moment, a thought suddenly crossed into Kou Tong's mind - Huang Jinchen wants How to keep up
I don't know how far behind the woman, Kou Tong came to a castle - it was really a castle, but for some reason, this thing gave him a very strange feeling, as if it was out of tune with the whole nameless island full of mysticism. Yes, it stood there abruptly, like a pennant from the secular world, like a salute in the field of theology.
The gate of the castle opened in front of Kou Tong, the woman stopped, as if she was about to return to her NPC state, Kou Tong hurriedly took the time to ask, "Do I need to keep walking in?"
The woman turned her inorganic gaze, landed on his face, and nodded silently.
Kou Tong frowned, and said improvised: "This beautiful sister, I see that your special hat looks familiar, haven't we met before?"
Even if the woman in the top hat is an intelligent NPC, there are things that are not limited by the program.
However, she just stared at Kou Tong silently for a while, and did not react angrily to this almost teasing remark, standing there staring at Kou Tong with wide eyes.
Kou Tong sighed, thinking that he didn't say anything. It seemed that this NPC was not as smart as the previous two, and then he turned and walked into the gloomy castle.
Behind him, the gate of the castle slowly closed itself, and at this moment, the woman who was about to separate the door from him spoke out, and she still said in that miraculous voice: "Because we are everywhere. ."
Kou Tong turned around abruptly, and saw a familiar melancholy on the woman's face, like a god who was imprisoned somewhere by her broken wings. She was beautiful, mysterious, but not disturbing. Some kind of warmth like a mother. She clasped her fingers in front of her chest and lowered her transparent eyes, as if silently reciting a blessing that no one could understand.
Like a holy priestess...
As soon as this idea came up, Kou Tong suddenly seemed to be struck by lightning - a magician, a priestess, a man with a high hat like a wandering philosopher, a wheel of fortune that symbolized a strange fate... full of symbolic meanings Symbols, strong theological overtones, are tarot cards!
This is a kind of card that originated in Italy during the Renaissance in the fifteenth century. Strictly speaking, it is an expression carrier of Western mysticism philosophy. It can also be said to be a popular product of Neoplatonism. There are different versions, and different versions also have There are different decks, and there are different opinions about the analysis of tarot cards.
Later, it was also used as a revelation tool similar to psychological counseling... and then for some unknown reason, it became a fortune-telling tool that teenagers like to see.
Among them, the Big Arcana has a total of twenty one with numbers, and a Fool card.
There were magicians, priestesses, popes, and so on - now that I think about it, that Mr. Hat with a dog might be the Fool representing the Greater Arcana.
Every card face in the Tarot has been projected, and each card has an inherent meaning, which is said to have a relationship with Freemasonry and Rosicrucian Society. It embodies some ancient pagan philosophical views in another cultural system. These views are not the thoughts of the conscious subject, but what he passively accepts out of "common sense".
Kou Tong quickly passed through the castle and finally stopped in front of a door.
He didn't move, but the door opened automatically. Inside was a very high arch with the wheel of fortune with a super motor like a perpetual motion machine engraved on it. On the top, sitting a thin figure wrapped in a black robe.
Kou Tong saw that she should be a girl.
She raised her head, looked at him with a look that made Kou Tong horrified, and said softly, "Doctor Kou, it's been a long time, do you still remember me?"
This title immediately reminded Kou Tong that this was probably a patient or a family member of a patient he had dealt with, but he couldn't remember who it was, so he looked at her and made a gesture: "You... Did you get that thing covered on it?"
She laughed, still staring at him with that almost fiery gaze, slowly rolling up her veil and explaining softly, "It's just for the purity of divination, have you seen my servants? ?"
Kou Tong suddenly widened his eyes and blurted out, "You are... Qin Qin!"
As soon as these words came out, Kou Tong immediately regretted it - since he saw the expression on Qin Qin's face, he was as bright and pleasant as it seemed to be lit up by something.
This girl was not the patient he handled. When he saw her, the projector was in the debugging stage. Kou Tong went to one of his professors to collect parameters and saw this special patient in the professor's reception room.
That was probably... Five or six years ago, the person in front of her was still a little girl of fourteen or fifteen years old. The hormones of puberty made her develop rapidly, and her body looked a little round and chubby. When he saw her, she was sitting alone on the sofa with such a black gauze around her face, and she was playing with a set of tarot cards in her hands.
Her mother was talking to the professor outside, and Kou Tong came back in a hurry because of a missing document. Seeing her playing with her things alone, like an older autistic patient, it was natural After saying hello, he poured a glass of water for her.
As a result, he found something, and when he was about to leave, when he turned around, he found that the little girl's eyes fell directly on him.
"Mom said I was sick." Kou Tong remembered the little girl saying.
Kou Tong paused, bent down, and asked her in a soft voice, "Why?"
The girl said coldly: "Because she is sick, she won't believe what I say, and she will scream and make a fuss no matter what I do."
This kind of parent is not without precedent. Although Kou Tong doesn't believe it, he nodded understandingly and asked tentatively, "Is it because you always wear a veil? Some adults are not able to accept the trendy clothes of your young people."
The girl explained softly, "It's just for the purity of divination."
Kou Tong didn't talk to her, and the professor hurried over. What impressed him was that after he walked a few steps, he turned his head back once, just through the glass window, and looked at the girl's eyes, the girl looked at him as if she was hungry a lot. The people in the sky are staring at the grilled steak, which is a little creepy.
It was not until a long time later, when he accidentally talked about it, that the professor told him that this girl named Qin Qin was a delusional patient.
And now, after such a long time, she can actually recognize herself accurately, and the starving ghost staring at the roast whole sheep still doesn't change...
Kou Tong suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.