Chapter 40: Watching the Fire from the Other Side

The crowd stirred up again, and Lauren's classmates comforted her, "Don't believe in these empty things." ”

"It's just a game to relieve boredom when you're bored, you can't take it seriously!"

"Forget that card, you're going to have to play in a minute."

"Stella, why don't you let Lauren draw another one?"

“……”

In the face of such a large-scale collective condemnation, Kevin couldn't intervene for a while, and then looked at the tense basketball players, who were as arrogant as he didn't dare to act rashly.

Perhaps a little tired, Lauren leaned lightly against Daniel. Daniel gently wrapped one hand around Lauren's shoulder, and the other hand clutched her cold little hand.

"Wait! Be quiet! Bai Xinrui raised her voice, she didn't want to let a hard-fought canvassing turn into everyone's anger against her.

"Tarot cards never ask about life and death, so death does not mean absolute doom." As soon as these words came out, all four were silent, as if they were all waiting for her next step.

Only Daniel asked aloud: "Is there a mistake?" Death doesn't mean doom, so what does it mean?! ”

"The Grim Reaper represents the end of one phase, the beginning of another, and there is nothing to be afraid of!" Bai Xinrui said it very reasonably.

For the analysis of the 22 big Arcana cards, Bai Xinrui still spent a lot of time pondering. Whether it is Jungian psychology's interpretation of tarot cards or the relationship between tarot cards and other occult disciplines, she has studied them very thoroughly, and she believes that there is no problem in understanding them accurately.

"Don't you see the river on the right side of the board that flows through the Garden of Eden? It's called Styx, and it symbolizes the endless cycle of life......"

Bai Xinrui gushed endlessly, "Trust me! Projecting love with the positive sign of death represents the end of the love stage, and the relationship between the two is about to undergo a more profound change, and there is a possibility, that is, to enter the palace of marriage. ”

Bai Xinrui had never found that her eloquence was so good, Rao was so, after saying so many words in one breath, fine beads of sweat still appeared on her forehead.

"However, Lauren is only fifteen years old, how can she enter the palace of marriage?" Fat Joe always hit the nail on the head, he questioned.

"Uh...... Propose, Daniel, you're going to propose to Lauren, right? Bai Xinrui knows that there are many boys who will propose to their beloved girls at the high school prom and give each other rings, and Lauren and Daniel are recognized as golden boys and girls, and this possibility is not impossible.

Daniel's face was cloudy, and he remembered the sweet scene of the two of them swimming together on the banks of the Charles River, when he had made a solemn promise to Lauren, so he nodded and said, "The engagement has always been on my schedule." ”

The alarm here has not been lifted, but outside the house, Yiting is like an old hen, opening his arms, returning to a place with a good view by the corridor, and shouting at Wen Jin and Chenchen in the house: "Come over quickly, this Gadda is a VIP stand, and there will be no place if you are late!" ”

Yi Ting's voice was so loud that it attracted the attention of almost everyone in the room, as if it had injected funny pepper into the tense atmosphere of swords and swords, and Bai Xinrui also happened to take advantage of the steps to flash people.

"Okay, it's almost time for the game," she said, as she cleaned up her things on the table, glancing at Lauren, "There's anything else to know, I'm afraid we'll have to wait until next time." Have a great evening. ”

Chenchen saw Lauren going to the competition, and Yu You was alone, so he pulled her with Wen Jin and came to the so-called VIP stand of Yiting.

In this Halloween costume competition, the sudden killer of the women's clothing boss Jeff took away Vivien's second, making her relegated to the third, Lauren won the championship as expected, and Bai Xinrui experienced a vigorous canvassing, but still regrettably missed the top three.

Late at night, the students all walked out of the big wooden house one after another.

The hustle and bustle of a few minutes ago, like a moment of splendor brought by fireworks in the sky, after an instant silence, everything returned to a bottomless silence.

In the large room on the second floor, Bai Xinrui, dressed in black, returned to the table where she had divined the good fortune and evil for all sentient beings. He pulled out the red tarot card box from the wide pocket of his skirt and prepared to gather all the cards scattered on the table.

Looking at the crystal tray on the table, the green candles, the little golden scepter, and the stack of tarot cards on the black velvet tablecloth that showed a strange appearance in the light, she was a little startled, and sat back down at the table in a daze.

She washed the tarot cards in her hand over and over again, and the deafening music in the hall on the first floor just now left an annoying humming sound deep in her eardrums.

She shuffles the cards in a slippery way, flipping and overlapping evenly and quickly, stacking them into neat stacks, and then flipping and overlapping again...... Her voice was like the murmuring of a stream, giving her a sense of ease that she had never felt before.

When William, Kevin, and Lauren sat in the magical chair across from them, she was given a special key of destiny by the gods, and easily opened their private domain, which was guarded like a military restricted area. The indescribable process of the game stayed in her heart for a long time, bringing her a deep sense of satisfaction.

Throughout the night, she felt like she was in a Disney theme park.

At this time, her mind flashed in turn, still every guinea pig that had been divined tonight, and the tarot cards they drawn, just like the Go player reviewing every game in her heart, she silently pondered what the fate revealed by the bizarre tarot cards really looked like.

Suddenly, a card flew out of her fingers paradoxically, Bai Xinrui chuckled, on weekdays, even if 56 small Alcana were added, she would never accidentally drop the card, tonight is really too much, even the cards can't be controlled.

On the card, the crystal prism-like coating reflected the light of the chandelier overhead, making it impossible for her to make out the pattern on the card. Who cares, though?

However, at this time, a man in white saw the card from a different angle and was deeply shocked by the 3D image on it.

On a night of lightning and thunder, the entire sky above the tower was dominated by lightning and storms, and the devastating force of nature, with the momentum of destroying the withering and decaying, ruthlessly destroyed the tower's majestic crown-shaped golden spire, and the magnificent and majestic tower body was cut off by the waist, collapsed and fell from the sky, and then fell down with it, and two others, one wearing a crown, the other wearing the color of a clergyman's uniform, the card was like a static shot, freezing the tower under the mud and sand, and the two people who fell with their heads down and their feet up.

Although many people complained that the tarot cards of later generations were becoming more and more obscure, due to commercial mass production, the complex and rich and beautiful painting content on the ancient tarot cards was stripped again and again, abstracted into more concise, but more profound patterns, and even mysterious symbols that need to be deeply deciphered by semioticists, however, this Pictorial Key Tarot (a type of tarot card, Known for the three-dimensional vividness of its patterns) The Tower in the Grand Alcana is definitely an exception.

Lightning Arbitration Says?

The destruction of Solomon's temple hypothesis?

The curse of the Tower of Babel says......

Even those tarot novices know what this card means in the whole tarot deck.

Suddenly, the tower was inadvertently inserted back into the middle of a stack of cards by Slender Hand, as if it had never jumped out.

Diviners and healers have the same helplessness, they are insightful about the fate of others, but they are not aware of their own future.

Bai Xinrui opens the delicate Furla piggy bag and wants to get a smart medicine out of it.

Accidentally, the Pandora's box of Guerlain's meteor powder slipped from the pocket bag and fell on the table, and small pink balls of pink, blue, and light yellow with a mother-of-pearl luster rolled on the smooth red oak table, and the scattered crumbs in the box, which were thinner than smoke, raised a cloud of incense and filled the air.

On the opposite side of the big house, in the folding screen-like mirror, a row of white figures was reflected, and before the screams broke through his throat, a man in white fell silently like a feather on the chair opposite Bai Xinrui.

Her heart trembled, and her body trembled.

The small particles of loose powder hung a rosy veil between them, and under the flickering light, through the fog, Bai Xinrui could see that sitting on the tall leather chair opposite was not some unstable, called ghost illusion, but Yu You.

She was dressed in white and had a plain white face, only the blood marks on her neck were particularly shocking.

"Are you familiar with the Kabbalah Tree of Life array?"

As soon as she spoke, it was a sentence with no beginning or end, and Bai Xinrui, who was smart in ice and snow, blinked her eyes for a long time before she suddenly understood that she was asking herself.

Her two eyebrows, carved by knives and axes, just stretched out and gathered together.

Astonished.

She thought that no one in the school could compare to her in this field, however, Yu Yu actually knew about the Kabbalah Tree of Life, which was about to be lost.

She stared at the crescent-shaped pendant between her collarbones and was silent.

Speaking of which, the biggest regret tonight was not that she missed out on the grand prize of the costume competition, but that the most mysterious person in the school, the one she had never been able to understand, never approached the divination table.

At the beginning, she willfully threw thousands of dollars, just in exchange for a little bit of information about her. She didn't think she was interested in Yu as a person, only because she didn't like the existence of any mysterious creatures in her sphere of influence, and especially the feeling of being out of control.

Bai Xinrui's pair of cut ink pupils matched Shang Yu's dark purple ice eyes, which were void, but they seemed to contain the vast universe, however, she was never able to extract any trace of information from them.