Section 78 Sleepless Nights (I)
When Luo Kaixian returned to the main house carefully prepared by Helton, it was already the end of the hour, and the female man's guard told him that the two little ladies were feeling a little tired and had already slept, and he didn't want to disturb the two sleeping women, so he had to find the study and go in.
The study was also newly furnished, and Helton, knowing his preferences as a general, was deliberately furnished to be very spacious, except for the bookshelves that were still a little empty on the wall, and there was even a special sleeping couch for temporary rest in the study.
In addition to the big coat on his body, the robe was also thrown on the bookcase that had not yet been officially used, Luo Kai threw himself on the couch first, thinking about everything near and far.
The previous conversation with Helton can be said to be anticlimactic, not that he doesn't want to continue, but that he is a little uneasy.
This chaotic state of mind is not due to someone's words, or someone's hostile offense and complicated trivialities, but from the moment he approached Kaifeng Mansion.
As mentioned countless times above, since arriving in this time and space, Luo Kaixian's body has inexplicably gained many abilities that ordinary people do not have, such as the axe tattoo that still makes him confused, such as the ring that also inexplicably recognizes the master, such as the so-called spiritual power induction that is self-taught, as well as his body that is still constantly strengthened and his memory that is also constantly improving, although the growth of the latter two is becoming decaying...... But everything that is beyond the conventional thinking, except for the occasional complacency, the only thing left is confusion.
Of course, this may be a bit hypocritical. But in Luo Kaixian's view, the ability to be uncontrolled may be a potential danger, and he thinks that everything is what he deserves?
That's a stupid idea.
With this understanding along the way, while gradually grasping the changes, he also looked for answers from some miscellaneous books he had read. Now in his opinion, the changes in his body should be a reinforcement beyond his cognitive scope, and he himself can't figure out the bottom line of the effect of physical strengthening, because he has never had the opportunity to be tested to the limit - he, a general who commands the army, has no chance to personally take risks; But the mental aspect is different, this kind of ability that ordinary people can't detect can make him constantly test, and so far, it is considered a rare achievement.
However, no one can know about this harvest either.
Luo Kaixian felt that the so-called spiritual power in his body was like the divine consciousness in the so-called Taoist system in later generations, and it was also like the heart eye in Buddhist legends, or to apply the omnidirectional scanning he knew in later generations, there were similarities. And as time went on, he became more familiar with it, and he found that this ability was more of a physical function, and it was becoming more mature.
For example, if he is in Constantinople, Tbilisi, and the current Kaifeng Mansion as three different nodes, then when he was first in Constantinople, his ability was like the middle stage of a cataract patient - seeing the world through frosted glass, and when he arrived in Tbilisi, he was half cured, and when he arrived in Kaifeng Mansion, he was basically equivalent to an able-bodied person.
This kind of ability, which is still improving, is also like the vision of a newborn baby gradually growing and maturing after leaving the mother's body, so Luo Kaixian used his accustomed way of understanding to name a name in his heart - spiritual vision.
The ability of mental vision cannot be used often, not because of the limitation of ability, but because of the psychological adaptability of people.
Without him, the visual range of the normal human eye is nothing more than a flattened cone body at 150 degrees vertical and 230 degrees horizontally, but this so-called spiritual vision is different, it is a sphere with people as the core! Therefore, when a person stands and can clearly perceive the 'translucent' under his feet, the feeling of standing 'in the air' is not pleasant, even if a person with a big nerve like Luo Kaixian is still flesh and blood, and there will also be that indelible feeling of vertigo - this is a physiological characteristic (1).
Fortunately, from the very beginning, this ability can be easily manipulated as if you were opening and closing your eyes.
On the way out of Xingyang in the morning, he was constantly observing everything in this classical country with his eyes and spirit at the same time. Needless to say, when you go around the outer city of Kaifeng Mansion in the afternoon, in Luo Kaixian's spiritual vision, Kaifeng Mansion not far away is not a city with flat development, but more like a layered space!
After being stunned, when he looked into the distance with his eyes, he realized that the spiritual vision was not completely real, and the Kaifeng Mansion in his sight was still a classical city in line with this era, not to mention multi-layered, but only a city developed on flat ground.
The misalignment occurred below the ground that he sensed in his mental vision!
After continuing his journey, he remembered a rumor in later generations that this place in Kaifeng was a place that was constantly destroyed and rebuilt, and later generations called it Diecheng (2).
In front of his Luo Kaixian, under the city of Kaifeng, there were at least two cities of different periods - Bianzhou City in the Tang Dynasty and the Great Liang Capital of Wei in the Spring and Autumn Period.
When Luo Kai first remembered this memory, and then compared it, he found many details that ordinary people would never see - the two-story city underground is more ancient than the Kaifeng Mansion on the ground, although the veins can be distinguished from the structural texture, but there are obviously many damages, and the biggest difference is that the Kaifeng Mansion on the ground is active with the people of the Song Kingdom, and in the abandoned city buried underground, in addition to the buildings that still retain the frame in the soil, there are countless bones that no one knows the name of!
In the spiritual vision, Luo Kaixian can always perceive the ubiquitous skeletons that are like stones without flesh and blood, except for some tombs buried in the ground in the outermost part, most of the original owners of the skeletons in different layers are obviously not natural deaths, from their dynamics and posture analysis, he came to a conclusion, that is, sudden floods or wars destroyed everything in different eras.
Luo Kaixian is not a junior brother who has never seen death, and battlefield battles are just commonplace for him, but even if he has seen too many so-called humanistic disasters in later generations, he can't help but be shocked by the cruelty of this era - fortunately, his habitual wooden face does not show it in the daytime.
His shock was not without reason, such as the location of the city gate in a certain section of the underground, which was densely packed with corpses in different postures, those corpses were not only full of distortions, but even different sizes, it was obvious that it was not an ordinary plague pit, it was obviously the result of blocking the city gate with corpses - when did it need to be sealed with corpses or living people?
The answer is self-explanatory.
Another section, which should have been a city street, was paved with a layer of distorted corpses, interspersed with rocks and broken tree branches, the suffering caused by the floods...... And all this, in the so-called "history", has never been recorded!
Just from the northeast of Kaifeng Mansion to the southern suburbs, such a distance of only more than 20 miles, similar to this kind of "scenery" can be said to be more than three or five places......
Because he saw too many things that others couldn't see, when he arrived at this manor in the evening, Luo Kaixian didn't even have much interest in patrolling, and even when he saw Cui Shibalang safe and sound, he didn't even owe surprise.
On such a night, the bright moon hung high outside the window, and it was calculated that it should be the middle of the wax moon according to the season, and he was lying on his back on the couch alone, but it was difficult to sleep peacefully, and his thoughts were thousands.
Straight to speak, Luo does not think that he is a person who likes to be sad and sad, in his opinion, only those so-called poets or some people who like to play the role of public knowledge will have such "feelings".
However, I have seen too many "backward" folklore along the way, and then to the capital of this era, which is often praised by later generations as "the most prosperous and prosperous Eastern empire in the Middle Ages", but the underground of this capital is layers of ruins, with crowds of people on the ground and corpses piled up in the underground ruins......
With such a strong contrast, how can Luo Kaixian, who has already seen everything in his "eyes", be indifferent? How can he say to himself, "Everyone dies", as he did in the past? And then sleep peacefully?
Luo Kaixian is just a "big nerve", not "no heart and no lungs", both words say that people have a strong ability to bear, but there is an essential difference, the former is a strong ability to resist pressure and can resist all kinds of psychological pressure, and the latter is not distracted, that is, the solipsistic mentality of "nothing to do with yourself".
Luo Kaixian, who has always liked to carry the responsibility on his shoulders, obviously can't do it without hearing it, so insomnia is inevitable.
Worried about the country and worried about the people, oh no, the country in front of him is not his country, so it can only be called worried about the people in a nutshell - how much suffering should be suffered in this land of the East?
What kind of impact will it have if he, as an outsider, takes action? Will it get better or worse?
For example, in front of him, because of the incident caused by Cui Shibalang, he Luo someone found that Yang Jingzong and slashed it, what kind of variables would it produce? Even if Emperor Zhao Heng of the Song Dynasty will not care, he will also make a move in order to avoid damage to the imperial power, as for what will happen, it is difficult to speculate now, but it is foreseeable that the situation will no longer be as calm as in front of him, so the matter of this grain purchase will inevitably be affected......
By extension, if he led 140,000 people in Lingzhou to march around to conquer everywhere, what would be the consequences? He can also speculate that he can first lead to the uneven quality of his subordinates, and with the initial expansion of the sphere of influence, the core personnel will definitely be dispersed, and at that time, under the temptation of power and profit, what variables will be generated? It is a good vision for people's hearts to be unstable, and it is also possible to deviate from morality!
And what will happen to the end? There can only be one conclusion, and it will be self-defeating!
However, it is not his character to become timid because of this.
Luo Kai, who was lying on the couch, calculated for half a night and came to such a conclusion, everything still responded to a sentence he had heard in later generations, "Everything needs to be carefully verified and acted boldly."
Now when he was thinking about it in the quiet night, he realized how grand the grand wish he made when he first arrived in this time and space - to change the personality of the Oriental race, and if you think about it, how much more difficult is it to change the character of a group than the sex reassignment surgery in the later generations?
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Note: (1) Physiological characteristics, human beings are down-to-earth species that live on the ground, which is the basic survival characteristic. Acrophobia is not only because of psychology, but also because of the volley, which breaks people's survival habits. The situation faced by pig's feet can be considered with reference to the high-altitude glass plank road that is now popular, and that thing is not a joke.
(2) Stacked cities, which are indeed true, are still in a semi-developed state. In fact, in the era where the pig's feet are located now, there is still one less layer in the city - the Song capital Bianjing, the terrain of the lower reaches of the Yellow River has experienced countless uplifts in history, and the Song Jing of this era has completely declined after the Jin and Mongolian people went south one after another.
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P.S.: This chapter is really not good, pig's feet really began to touch the ancient country of Song, of course, you can no longer maintain the leisurely mentality on the road before, so ...... It was changed six times, and it was finally determined that this was the case, which can be regarded as a transition to the change of the pig's foot mentality.
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