"Before coming to your neighborhood, I went to a nearby store and bought a pack of chewing gum and a bag of lychees."

The woman leaned back in her chair and arranged her undried hair. I noticed her blue and yellow nails, which were the colors that even the most beautiful woman could handle, but she was an exception.

"Your community has an access control, and you have to swipe your card to get in, so it took me a few minutes to look through the duty schedule in front of the security room."

I smiled, at least for a moment, I was sure she was a brilliant woman.

"Can you guess why...... When the security guard came to ask me what was the matter, I asked him, 'Is Uncle Lee here today?' ’”

The last sentence was in very standard Cantonese. I remembered for a moment, put my right hand on the back of the chair, crossed one leg, and smiled:

"It seems that Li Jianguo didn't go to work today."

"That's right." The woman's eyes were bent into a crescent moon.

Her intentions are not difficult to guess. She compared the duty schedule of the past few days and picked the name of a security guard who did not go to work today, in order to pretend to be his relative, in order to eliminate the human wariness of strangers, she deliberately used Cantonese when talking to the security guard, and the reason is the same.

The woman's last account also confirmed my suspicion - a beautiful young girl, who was also a distant niece of a colleague, had returned from overseas to visit her uncle, and spoke the same dialect as herself, and the doorman of the community took the initiative to help her carry her luggage and open the door of the community without the slightest suspicion. And she said that the lychee she just bought wanted to give to her uncle, but it would break down after a long time, so she gave it to the doorman Lao Wang.

"I walked into the community on the grounds that I would go back to my brother's house first and come back to visit another day, and came to the door of the apartment where you live......"

I crossed my arms and smiled disappreciatively:

"You're just doing too much. The security system in this community is already very problematic, if you just want to blend in, you just need to follow the person with the card through the gate, and it takes so many weeks to do something. ”

"Oh? Is it? ”

The woman suddenly leaned forward and leaned back on the table, staring at me with relish and a mischievous smile on her face:

"Guess what I did in front of your house?"

"What else can I do......" I subconsciously snorted, and then the whole person jumped up from the chair:

"You're not, aren't you?!"

The female liar's posture did not change, only her smile became more and more sly. She obviously understood what I meant, and nodded with a smile:

"yes—"

Before I could finish speaking, I had already run out of the house, ran straight to the door, twisted the handle and slammed the door open.

- The lock outside the door has been replaced with a new one.

An absurd chill poured from the top of my head into my heels.

I turned around stiffly, and the woman followed at some point, looking at my appearance with amusement, barefoot, hands behind her back, and blinking.

"Uh-huh!" She pretended to be old, but nodded playfully:

"It seems that Shi Zuocai has discovered the truth of the matter!"

My temples jumped: "You stuffed gum into my door lock?" ”

"Awesome!" She gave me an appreciative thumbs up.

Undoubtedly, my previous thoughts were extremely naïve - how could a woman like her do something meaningless? A distant relative pretending to be a doorman is not just to sneak into the door of the community, but to completely gain the trust of the doorman. Then, she completely blocked the lock of my house with chewing gum, creating the illusion that the lock was broken and the door could not be opened, and then ran back to the security room to ask the doorman for help. If I'm not mistaken, even the locksmith was personally invited by the doorman who was deceived by this female devil.

If you think about it, even the bag of lychees she bought in Shitoz is extremely particular. At this time, it was the height of summer, and the shelf life of lychees was not a day at all, and she had already calculated everything before she entered the community, and she wanted to give lychees to the doorman, and used "good impressions" and "favors" to break into my house openly......

"Click-" The female demon suddenly reached into the pocket of her bathrobe, pulled out a delicate new key, and handed it to me with both hands. It seems that not only does not have the slightest guilt of trespassing into the house, but has a bit of the meaning of inviting merit, like a puppy wagging its tail and begging for mercy.

"A new key for you!"

The corners of my mouth twitched frantically, and I took the key, put it in my pocket, and stretched out my hand:

"Bring it."

Woman winks innocently:

"Take what?"

"Spare keys."

"What spare key?"

"Don't play dumb." I glared at her and sneered:

"Now that the keys have been changed, you must have gotten yourself a spare, right?"

"No-yes-yes-"

She turned, her hands in her bathrobe. There is no sincerity in the tone, and it is clear that it is nonsense. This woman's city is simply a great wall.

I felt like my throat was on fire, so I walked past her, walked to the kitchen, and picked up the unopened bottle of milk, with a sticky note on it, and my handwriting: "Don't talk to the mouth." I secretly laughed at myself for being a fool, and casually unscrewed the cap of the bottle, and poured a few sips into my mouth, the sticky milky smell stained my throat, and I frowned.

"So, what is the real reason why you have been investigating me for so long, carefully preparing such a door-breaking drama, and coaxing me to become a Kyogen Master?" I asked suddenly.

"Huh?" The woman tilted her head in surprise:

"What didn't I prepare?"

"Really?" I went back to my chair and sat down in a comfortable position, and threw at her a smile that was enough to captivate thousands of girls:

"Lovely liar, I don't believe even a single punctuation mark in what you say."

"Empty words." The woman pursed her lips and sat down across from me, "Since you think I've been investigating you with all my heart, then tell me about it." With that, she propped her chin again and stretched out her hand to me: "I want to drink it too." ”

I looked at her, then at the milk in my hand, raised my head and drank it all, wiped my mouth calmly in the woman's angry gaze, and tapped my fingers on the table:

"There's a huge hidden danger in your layout."

"Every step of your plan, including infiltrating the community, gaining the trust of the security guards, pretending to be the owner's family, and tricking the locksmith into changing the locks, is based on the premise that 'no one in the house responds'. In other words, if I hadn't been sleeping at the time, all your lies would have been shattered if I heard a knock outside the door and came out to investigate. ”

I looked up at her with a smile on my face, trying to penetrate the surface of her pompous and cheerful gaze, looking for even the slightest hint of panic, as she and I seemed to sit at opposite ends of a chessboard, engaged in an unknown psychological game. And I have to admit that this female demon with a peach blossom smile on her face is indeed a fierce rival that I have never seen in my life.

Still tapping my fingers regularly on the table, I continued:

And with the thoroughness of your mind, it is absolutely impossible to ignore this great premise. The only possible explanation is that you have already investigated my background beforehand and know my habits well, so you will know that I have a habit of sleeping very deeply and being difficult to wake up. This also explains why you rushed over as soon as you got off the plane, because you also know in your heart that the closer to dawn, the more likely I am to wake up early......"

The woman suddenly folded her arms in her hands, lowered her head and pretended to ponder for a while, then raised her head and showed a very smug smile:

"You guessed wrong from the start." She smiled and said:

"The 'big premise' you mentioned doesn't exist at all."

My heart pounded.

She continued: "I didn't go out of my way to learn about your habits. ”

My brow was raised.

She said:

"Because I didn't rule out the possibility that you would wake up in the middle of the day, and I wasn't worried that you would open the door to find out if you heard a noise outside the door...... Because the solution to this situation is just as simple. ”

She paused and said:

"Just kiss you."

I froze on the spot, looked at her in surprise, thought for a few seconds, and didn't understand the meaning of that sentence at all. But the look in her eyes was so firm that it was palpitating, as if there was an unmistakable magic.

I felt that I was intimidated by her unreasonable way, and the "solution" she said was not logically feasible at all, and inexplicable anger crept into my heart, and I sneered:

"Is this your 'solution'? It's ridiculous......"

"I'll kiss you."

Before I could finish speaking, the female demon quickly interrupted me.

Her fists clenched on the table. The attitude was so determined that my mind went into a brief blank.

I'll kiss you......

It's ridiculous. It was clearly an absurd statement, but the moment I heard this, an inexplicable fear had already soaked my entire chest. No matter how reasonable it is, I think that kind of vexatious way is absolutely impossible to prevent her acting skills from being exposed, but what is this panic?

Liu Yanshi took a deep breath and said in a deep voice:

"Shi Zuocai, you are very smart, you can even be said to be the smartest person I have ever met. There is no doubt about it. You have the ability to think logically that ordinary people don't have, you have the calmness of God's perspective, you can always analyze everything in your life from a third-person perspective, and you can also make the most rational judgment on everything without any subjective emotions. It's your innate talent and a terrifying potential that surpasses everyone else. But it is precisely because of this talent that you have that you have fallen into a strange circle of your own making, and nothing has changed in ten years, and it cannot change the predicament of your current life. ”

I was silent. She continued:

"That's right. The way I walked into this room was exactly what you had just reasoned. But what you are talking about is only reasoning, the only reasonable situation that is filtered backwards according to the existing endings and conditions, like a computer that calculates complex formulas with precision. It is precisely because you rely too much on your logical thinking ability that you ignore the most basic and important point. ”

I narrowed my eyes slightly to meet her, the woman spoke in a clear and orderly manner, but there was no longer that calm expression on her face, and I could even feel her strange emotions in the faintly whitish knuckles she clenched. She pursed her lips and continued:

"Shi Zuo is ...... You're a human, not a computer. Events may be inferred by computer calculus, but the human mind cannot. That's why you overlook the most important point: you just take it for granted that I can break into your house, but you don't think about the most essential reason. How can I gain the trust of the doorman? Is it because of the clever layout? Is it because he thinks I'm good-looking? Is it because I gave him a bag of lychees? ”

This woman, Liu Yanshi, said words like the sharpest edge in the world, piercing deep into my heart, tearing a huge hole in my previous tightly knit and absolutely perfect reasoning process. I suddenly realized the most fundamental problem: no matter how good the doorman's impression of her is, as long as I think about it a little, I will understand that the security guard will never trust a person I don't know to that extent, and even take the initiative to find a locksmith to help pick the lock, once it is found that she is not the real owner of the house, the doorman will definitely bear extremely heavy legal responsibility.

Again, I felt a thirst tearing in my throat, and when I spoke, my voice seemed a little hoarse:

"Are you...... How? ”

Liu Yanshi looked at me calmly and said slowly:

"Because I'm Kyogen."

I grinned dryly and didn't speak, waiting for her to follow. A mere sentence like this has no deterrent effect on me, and even makes me feel pitifully convincing. I think she'll explain further.

But she didn't.

The woman didn't say anything. She just slowly lowered her head. His hands retracted under the table and grabbed the bathrobe on his lap. After a long pause of silence, she looked up.

At that moment, I was like a thunderbolt.

Liu Yanshi's eyes were soaked with tears. In the hazy tears I saw what I once thought I would never see again in this life, and there was a time in the usual eighteen years when I lived in that gaze, like the morning light shining from the depths of the endless night fog. I was once surrounded by endless gloom and felt the colors of life clearly, and after that gaze suddenly dissipated from the world ten years ago, I fell into the abyss.

But now it's in front of me again. It was so real that it made me feel blinding, even frightened. It was as if the curtains of the gray world around me had been opened, and the sunlight spread unscrupulously to every corner, dyeing every window and door with color, reflecting my naked and ugly nature.

Smoke slowly stood up, tears streaming down her cheeks, and she walked towards me, stiffening at my not knowing what to do, until she leaned down in front of me and rubbed me deep into her arms, and I could not regain my senses.

"Brother......

I knew very well that the gaze was love.

I could clearly feel the tears that were falling on my shoulders, and the temperature was piping hot.

I distinctly felt the sobbing figure in my arms, like a fledgling wet in the rain.

I could feel every cell in my body stirring, frantically tugging at my tendons and making me raise my hand to take her into my arms; I could feel as if every soul in my body was desperate to break out of its shell and share all the emotions I had left with her.

Until a certain moment, the last shred of reason gently tapped my nerves, and this consciousness appeared in my mind:

When will I ......

…… Have had a sister?

Panic exploded in my chest, and I struggled to push the woman in my arms away, and the huge reaction force even threw myself to the ground. I gasped frantically and struggled backwards like an epileptic person, as far away as I could from the woman named Yanyan. It was as if she was no longer a swaying elf in the snowy country, but a bloodstained, blue-faced and fanged Shura.

Liu Yanshi staggered to his feet, lifted the bathrobe that had slipped off his shoulders, rubbed his eyes, and when he looked at me again, the gaze that had haunted me was gone.

"Now you know what a Kyogen is."

She folded her hands and winked playfully at me. She was still smiling, her face still had tears on her face, she was still smiling!

Until twenty minutes ago, I had always believed that the so-called "Kyogen Master" were nothing more than a bunch of charlatans who had learned the art of deception and used the art of language to deceive human trust...... Until she came up and hugged me crying.

From that moment on, the reality that I had been resting on my laurels for ten years was shattered by a hammer.

That's not acting.

No matter how perfect the acting is, there will be flaws.

No one can play a role that is not their own......

Unless that's true.

"A long, long time ago, there was a man named Su Qin. He studied hard and was determined. It was a troubled time. He aspires to be the greatest counselor. ”

"But the reality is cruel. The man named Su Qin traveled around the world for many years with great ambition, spent all the coils on his body, but still found nothing, and no king was willing to listen to him. ”

When he returned home in a sloppy manner, his relatives were disgusted with him. His father complained that he was wasting his time, and his mother asked him why he didn't go farming. No one cares about his ideals, and no one wants to know what he has experienced in previous years. ”

"Su Qin was desperate and couldn't do anything. He began to doubt his own abilities and also began to doubt his ideals. He was thirty years old. If you dream all the time, you will die. He couldn't help but think: Maybe that's how my life is. I am not an eloquent man in the first place, and kings do not need sincere advice, they need courtiers. A moth that longs for the light will die if he pounces on the candle flame, and he is born only to be a moth, can he become a creature other than a moth? He thought. ”

In the following year, Su Qin disappeared. No one knows where he went, and no one cares. The war between countries and nations continues, and people go about their lives as usual. ”

"It wasn't until two years later that a strategist named Su Qin suddenly appeared in a country called Yan. He was well-dressed and had a very temperamental conversation, and the king of Yan admired him very much, and this man named Su Qin was reused. ”

"In the following years, Su Qin went to different countries one after another, lobbying the monarchs of each country, and the monarchs adopted his advice and united to form an alliance, and Su Qin was also named the prime minister of six countries at the same time, becoming the most glamorous strategist in the world."

Then one day, Prime Minister Su Qin drove by a remote village, and two farmers who were plowing the fields saw his convoy. A farmer said, 'Look, that Prime Minister Su Qin, doesn't look like the son of the old Su at the head of the village?' That poor scholar seems to be called Su Qin. ’”

The other farmer thought for a moment and smiled. He said, 'It's just that the name and the appearance are a little bit alike, how can they be the same person?' The farmer who spoke first also laughed, and said, "It is true, that scholar of the Su family is poor and pedantic, and his style is not at all different from this prime minister, he must not be the same person." ’”

The woman named Liu Yanshi told me such a bizarre and strange story in a fairy tale tone. At the end, she sighed leisurely:

"This is the earliest story in history about Kyogen. But it's just a story, it doesn't matter if it's true or not. What I want to tell you is that Kyogen was never a liar. ”

She paused, and said softly:

"Liars are liars, but Kyogen ...... It's a complete lunatic. ”

I didn't say a word, but acquiesced. I have studied psychology many years ago, and I have seen many cases of mental illness, and naturally I also know the existence of "coordinated multiple personality disorder", normal multiple personality patients have independent experiences and memories between each personality, and cannot share memories with each other, but coordinated multiple personality is an absolute exception, each of their personalities can communicate freely with each other, and even share a body through negotiation...... As for people who can actively create a virtual personality, it is even more unheard of.

The so-called Kyogen Master is a group of madmen who turn their dreams into reality. They pull into their bodies a soul whose character and experience are completely fabricated by themselves, as if they had made a pact with the devil for some purpose. I can't help but feel creepy at the thought that there is a real "my sister" in the body of that woman named Liu Yanshi.

This woman, in order to convince me of the existence of Kyogenji, did not hesitate to use this way that violated human nature, and in a sense, it can even be said that she sacrificed half of her soul...... What exactly is her purpose?

"You may not be interested in these things. I also know that these alone will not convince you to become a Kyogen Master......" Liu Yanshi sat back in his chair, his hands clenched into fists and placed on his knees, his blue and yellow nails digging into his flesh:

"So, next...... I'll confess to you - as a Kyogenist. ”

When she said the latter sentence, her face seemed to be a little self-deprecating, and I seemed to be able to see the sadness in her eyes.

"Shi Zuo is ...... Do you know why your adoptive parents gave you this name? ”

I went into cardiac arrest for a moment.

Liu Yanshi continued:

"In March 2007, an article on the study of ancient books was published on the academic forum of the intranet of SUSTech, written by a professor of history at SUSTech, in his prime."

I didn't speak.

The content of the essay is very ordinary, nothing more than a slight summary of the historical documents of several dynasties, and at the end of the article, some thoughts are made about the relationship between the characters and the current situation. The paper didn't make much of a splash in the academic community after it was published — in fact, just a week later, it sank into the depths of the SUSTech academic forum post. ”

"This incident should not have caused any waves. It wasn't until half a year later that a reporter from a corporate media stumbled upon this article on historical current affairs while searching for information on the Internet. The reporter was only half-baked and knew little about history, but he stumbled upon some strange and interesting details in the paper: many of the accounts of major historical events in the paper seemed to be related to some lesser-known historical figures at the time. Professor Shi Shengnian also cited a lot of detailed information as evidence...... The journalist didn't care about the scholarly significance of the article, of course, but he found commercial value in it — he took much of the article apart, took it out of context, took the more curious parts of it, took it with a very prominent headline, and published it on the entertainment section of the news website. ”

When he said this, Liu Yanshi suddenly took a deep breath, and his chest seemed to tremble:

"It stands to reason that even if readers see this kind of sensationalist news, they just laugh and forget about it, and no one will care about it at all...... However, a succession of accidents were connected in the following half a month...... First, a screenwriter who was not well-known on Weibo reprinted the news and expressed his opinion, and then a well-known university professor, or even some authoritative figures in historical societies, and even a leading figure in the academic world...... More and more influential people discovered the article, joined the discussion, and put forward their own opinions and opinions to support the arguments, and the whole incident spread like a spark, and later, some people even found that the type of people described in the paper seemed to exist in the same way in the modern ......"

I suddenly sneered:

"Then there was December '07, the big business corruption case that implicated nearly 100 people, right?"

Liu Yan's whole person trembled unconsciously, and nodded silently.

"What you want to say is nothing more than the hundreds of people who were arrested and sentenced in that case, in fact, they are all existing Kyogen masters in China, right?" I said lightly: "So what? What does this whole incident have to do with me? ”

Liu Yanshi shook his head slowly, and after a long time, he seemed to use a lot of strength and made a very soft sound:

"That 'Great Purge' is called the end of the Kyogenist...... The day my parents were shot happened to be my seventh birthday. ”

"So what?" My voice was so stiff that I didn't even look up at the woman at the other end of the table:

"What are you trying to illustrate? Your parents were killed, and the trigger for all of this was a paper written by my adoptive father. So you came to me to be Kyogen? Is there any causal relationship to all this? Are you going to seek revenge on me? Are you going to get your hands on it now? Don't you have anti-wolf spray in your pocket? ”

"Don't you understand......" It wasn't until this moment that I felt a real sense of anger in this woman's words. There was a faint nasal tone in her voice:

"How could this be such a coincidence? Do you really think that your parents deliberately killed all Kyogen masters? Do you really think that car accident with your parents was an accident? Shi Zuo is only ...... Don't you understand what your adoptive father meant by the name you gave? Mr. Shi Shengnian...... He's also a Kyogen Master! ”

"I know." I replied quickly:

"I know it all. How could I not know? Is the left right? Left side door, right? You mean my adoptive parents adopted me just to train me to be Kyogen, right? What you're trying to say is that the leader of this purge, which involved hundreds of people, can't be my adoptive father at all, right? You want to say that there is someone else behind the scenes, right? I know all of that. Smoke classmate, you are not the only one who became orphaned at the age of seven or eight, you will want to investigate, I have also investigated, everyone knows the roots, you and I are not stupid, right? ”

I finally looked up and met the surprised look on Liu Yanshi's face and her reddish eyes.

My heart was cold, and the calmer my soul was, the more relaxed my body became—I even stood up, lazily tapped the back of my stiff neck, and laughed without any emotion:

"I understand what you say, and I can understand your feelings. But now, if you tell me that you have gone to great lengths to return here from abroad in order to bring me into the gang, and to think that you, as the children of the victims of the case ten years ago, should go to the same enemy to find the mastermind behind the murder and take revenge, I can only say ......"

"You're so naïve."

The woman across the table stared at me fixedly, tears welling up in the depths of her eyes, refusing to blink or speak, as if she was about to freeze into an ice sculpture, but my tone was even colder than an ice sculpture:

"Miss Liu, you are very smart, even the smartest person I have ever met—I will return this sentence to you as it is. As you said earlier, I am an absolutely sane person, and sometimes I am even misled by reason itself—and I will return this sentence to you. Because at this point, we are diametrically opposed. You value people's hearts too much, so you yourself are bound by the so-called human nature. You can laugh at me for being like a turtle with a shrunken head for the past ten years, hiding in my room and living a meaningless life, then I will ask you: Haven't you always lived in the shadows of the past? ”

My words seemed to poke at the sore spot of Liu Yanshi, her body trembled slightly, looking crumbling, if she let others see it, maybe there really was a little bit of pity for me. But at this moment, I am unmoved.

"With your ingenuity, you can't be unaware of what that purge meant. Being able to use so much energy and create so many coincidences, do you really think that you can do it alone? I think you've known that for a long time. You should have known about it when you saw the police involved in that incident in the news ten years ago. This involves the purest and most essential question, Kyogen...... In other words, the Zongheng family 2,000 years ago, the Fang Shi more than 1,000 years ago, and the strategists and powerful ministers hundreds of years ago are actually the same thing. If it is a troubled time, there are many people like Su Qin who take the opportunity to take the position, and leaders also need such talents, but it is now two thousand years AD, do you know what I mean? In this era of information explosion, the power of the Kyogen in your mouth is a thousand times more terrifying than in previous eras, and public opinion alone can have an extremely terrifying impact on the entire social structure...... What country do you think would allow such a person to exist? ”

Liu Yanshi's clenched fists slowly loosened, as if his soul had been drained. I let out a long sigh of relief and closed the coffin:

"For the past ten years, you have been blinded by your own hatred, looking for the person behind the non-existent and unwarranted mastermind...... I may be able to understand your state of mind, and if it were me, maybe that is the only way for me to find hope to persevere. But you've always known that, haven't you? You too, so do me, and neither of us are on the right path. It's just that I chose to stand still and enjoy it; And you, with all hope, are sprinting towards a false goal, and praying in your heart that one day you will die in that state - like a moth to a fire. ”

"Suffice it to say that it's time to wake up and keep dreaming...... It's going to die. ”

I didn't look at her again. I stretched out and put on my slippers.

"Dragon Quest's game of play is over. I think we'd better never see each other again after today...... It's as if you've never known me before. ”

Walking to the corridor, I paused and closed my eyes:

"Friendly suggestion: I'm going back to my bedroom to call the police now, and I'll get some sleep by the way. Before the police come to me to make a record, kill me with your anti-wolf spray, or pack up and go home to rest, whatever you want. ”

"Really?"

Just as I walked into the corridor without looking back, the fluttering voice of Liu Yan's eyes sounded behind my ears.

I frowned, turned around, and saw that Liu Yanshi had turned around at some point: she was sitting on a chair like a pony, her chin resting on the backrest, her eyes were looking at me without blinking, and there were two tear streaks on her face, which looked a little cute.

"Really?" She repeated Fang Cai's words again, and the expression on her face was so sad and joyful that I couldn't understand the meaning of her words, but I vaguely felt strange in my heart.

"Do you really think so?" She blinked, tilting her head slightly.

"What do you mean?" I was a little stunned.

Liu Yanshi actually laughed. Her face still had tears on her face. She actually laughed!

"Sure enough...... I've always felt like we're like that. The woman sniffed, and spoke in a thick nasal voice, but her eyes were bent so beautifully as if she were talking. The strange feeling in my heart had turned to unease.

"Me too, and so do you. The more critical the moment, the more duplicitous you like. Smoke reached out and wiped the tears from his face, looking like a child who had just cried his nose. An inexplicable panic gradually spread over me again. I couldn't help but ask:

"What the hell are you ...... What do you want to say? ”

"That's what it means literally." Smoke blinked again:

"Do you really think so?"

Before I could respond, she continued:

"If that's what you think, why don't you tell me this yourself?"

A thunderbolt exploded in the depths of my mind. The feeling of panic that didn't belong to me took over my entire consciousness in a single breath.

The woman, named Liu Yanshi, blinked her eyes and asked:

"What's your name?"

“…… Mr. Zuo is only No. 2? ”

Exegesis:

Priestess (tarot)

Card Reading: A smart person or woman may make a good decision. The holy priestess, sitting upright, with a book in her hand, testified to her wisdom and left it to her to decide.

Keywords: develop the mystical potential within, the prophecy that the future will change, deep thinking, keen insight, accurate intuition.