A Thousand Years in the World Chapter 4 Jörmungad
Of course, Xu Wanqing's purpose was not just to bring breakfast to Qi An. She just had some eyebrows about what Qi An had entrusted to her, and came to inform Qi An.
"You don't take your phone with you when you go out?" is the tone of questioning, but also surprised and strange.
"Of course, it's not like I'm going to die without my phone, and no one will look for me anyway, so why bring my phone?" The same puzzled tone, as if it was a matter of course to go out without anything.
As if choked by Qi An's serious rhetorical question, Xu Wanqing wisely gave up the topic.
"What you told me before, about your dream, I checked the information for you, it's all here, oh, here you go. As he spoke, he took out a thick stack of A4 paper-sized materials from his makeup bag and handed them to Qi An.
Although he was surprised that so much information could be placed in such a small bag, Qi An only took the information silently.
Regarding that dream, Qi An had some strange feelings that he had never felt before, it was a feeling of being out of control. I have never dreamed for thousands of years, but I actually had such a strange lucid dream. The feeling that his life was out of control had never been felt even in the two upheavals he had experienced forty years ago.
It's a bad feeling.
Therefore, when Qi An realized the uncontrollability of this dream, he immediately asked Xu Wanqing to find information, and he had to control his dream.
And what is this dream?
Poros... Volo.. Voloporos ...
What? What is it? What is the sound? Qi An struggled, barely opened his eyes, and his head was still a little groggy.
Dark... Is it dark? No, no. It's just a simple, purest form of black. There is no light, as if you are at the bottom of the sea at 20,000 meters, and there is no light that can reach it, pure darkness.
Qi An tried to make a sound, but found that he couldn't feel his vocal cords at all, and the rest of his body didn't feel anything. This is impossible for Qi'an. A thousand years have passed since he possessed this body, and Qi An's control over his body has long since reached the point where he can control every trace of muscle.
Unable to control his body, it was no less than being grabbed by someone at the throat of the dragon.
Fear crept in. Darkness alone does not give people fear. What people fear most is loneliness in the dark, as if stepping into another world, this world, there is only one living being.
Suddenly, Qi An found himself moving.
The darkness in front of me softened a lot. Is it an illusion? It moved, and the darkness moved. No, it's not the darkness that's moving, it's the moving...
A big snake!
When people see something they can't understand, they tend to panic and even temporarily pause their thinking, which is the brain's self-protection mechanism, and having this mechanism means fear.
And Qi An, he is not afraid of tangible things. Tangible things often mean being able to be attacked, and in the face of what can be attacked, Qi An has some absolute confidence in himself.
Poirot... Voloporos ... The muffled whispers continued, and the thing that forced back the darkness drew nearer, and the darkness softened and softened, and gradually, it became light.
At the junction of light and darkness, Qi An could already clearly see the outline of the big snake. The blue-black body, with metallic scales, dense but not chaotic, is closely arranged together. A pair of bony wings on the back.
It's as if Qi An had a strange idea, like a winged seahorse in a fairy tale. However, although it was weird and even a little funny, Qi An couldn't laugh.
The dragon-shaped head was slightly raised, so that Qi Bai could see its appearance clearly, the hideous fangs moved lightly, and the eyes of the big snake flashed with an inexplicable look.
"On the day the earthly python wakes up, the deathmatch will end, but reincarnation will not be destroyed, it will continue, in a new way. A majestic voice sounded, ethereal as if it were out of the sky, and clear enough to be close to the ear.
Is this a prophecy?
The big snake's huge eyes flashed with an inexplicable look, and there was light in the glass-like eyes that kept flowing, and those eyes gradually enlarged in front of him, and Qi An found that it was because the giant snake had come to him. The huge eyes reflected Qi An's figure, and the huge vertical pupils stared at him deadly, and the eyes were very weird.
He read the serpent's eyes, and he became angry.
That kind of look was familiar to him, and in his distant memory, Huang Chao looked at him like this, as if he was not human, but just a mass of inferior food mixed with flesh and bones.
"You'll understand. The hazy voice sounded again, and the serpent snaked back, away with a soft glow. Once again, the space was shrouded in darkness.
At this time, the picture in front of Qi An's eyes was still, it was a very strange feeling, as if his heartbeat was about to stop, and after a second, it seemed like a century, the picture was broken, Qi An was dazed, and something seemed to be beating in his head.
"So, are you sure this is not an ordinary dream?" Xu Wanqing asked, she couldn't forget the frightened tone of Qi An on the other end of the phone that morning, it was an uneasiness that she had never seen in Qi An in the past year.
Qi An was a little embarrassed, he was just a little out of shape that day because he was disturbed by that strange dream. After a week, of course he has calmed down now.
It's just that it's not easy to explain why he was scared by a dream for the time being, and he can't tell her everything right now and tell her that he hasn't dreamed for more than a thousand years, right?
Regarding Xu Wanqing's question, Qi An only gave an affirmative answer and did not explain more.
The "snake biting its own tail", which is hermaphroditic and coils around the whole world, symbolizes "everything", "perfection", "reincarnation" and "yin and yang", representing the phenomenon of nature that repeats itself, both beginning and end.
Dennis Holloway once compared Voloporos to Timuus, a henchman of Pluto: "It has no eyes, and it doesn't need eyes, because it has nothing in front of it." There are no objects or sounds around it, and time stands still for it. It does not need a digestive system because it neither produces nor consumes, all actions are caused by it, and nothing can affect it. ”
Qi An was sure that the big snake was the Jörmungadr in the data, and although the form was different, the prophesied earthly python was another name for Jörmungad.