Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Sea of Memory
Lin Hai can't answer the question of why a normal person becomes a psychopath, because he is neither an expert in the study of mental illness nor a psychopath, but it is inferred from common sense that psychopaths are probably caused by too much pressure and overwhelming their psychological defenses and causing their souls to completely collapse.
Although I don't know if my guess is right, Lin Hai can think of this is probably this.
The facts also seem to support Lin Hai's speculation, maybe because the soul of the mentally ill is not defended, or maybe the black cat's skills are very powerful, Lin Hai's experience this time is definitely more realistic than the last experience, compared with this extremely realistic experience, the last time can only be said to win by quantity.
However, this does not seem to be good news for Lin Hai, the real experience brought by the increased realism is by no means a pleasant enjoyment, but a cruel torture that cannot be shaken off like a maggot on the tarsal bone.
To tell the truth, at the beginning, Lin Hai also hoped that this psychopath might be because of his poor will, so the experience that Lin Hai would face was not as terrible as he thought, but the reality told Lin Hai that he was still too naΓ―ve, how could an experienced black cat make such a low-level mistake, and there must be a reason why his other patients did not look for this person.
The only reason for this is probably that this person's will is quite strong, and a strong-willed person is still completely crushed and collapsed, so you can imagine what he has experienced.
It wasn't an extremely strong blow that he had experienced, nor was it a terrible event, but it had been tormented and stimulated for a long time, no, for as long as he could remember, he had been in it until he had a complete breakdown.
This kind of constant torture is not uncommon to say, and almost all of us have experienced it at one time or another, and that is 'denial'.
Who hasn't been denied?
Lin Hai can pack a ticket, no one in this world dares to say that he has never been denied, so why is this person with a very strong will defeated by this reason?
The answer is that he has always been denied by others, from the beginning of being denied by his parents and relatives, to being denied by teachers and classmates for more than ten years of study, and being denied by colleagues and even strangers around him when he came out of society, and finally got married and had children, even his wife did not agree with him, and in the end, even his own children looked down on this useless father.
People are better than people, and they really will be better than dead people.
After experiencing the long life of this psychopath, even Lin Hai felt that it was really a little boring to face such a life.
To be honest, this patient is actually a very hard-working person, but the statement that God rewards hard work is actually just a white lie, and what is even more terrifying is that when a person is always living in the expectations of others, and those people's expectations are always higher than what you can do, the result is very tragic.
If the patient is a selfish person, it is fine, he can completely ignore or even resist the expectations from his relatives, but he is a person who attaches great importance to family affection, and the excessive expectations or even denial of his relatives did not cause him anger and resistance, but made him feel great shame and guilt.
These guiltes have accumulated over time, and finally one day completely crushed this man who thought he was very strong, maybe even if there is a relative who can understand and comfort him, he will not be like this.
Lin Hai didn't know when this life experience ended, the invisible and heavy emotions pressed on Lin Hai's heart for a long time, like a poor animal stuck in a swamp, making him almost unable to breathe and unable to move, and even his perception became numb, making him lose his sense of the outside world, and in the end, Lin Hai felt in a trance that he was the poor man like the walking dead, wandering in the vast and dim wilderness, with no purpose and no companion, no hope and no future, and even no self, Perhaps only like him, a complete collapse is the only way out of it all.
This time, the black cat did not wake up Lin Hai, but let his soul float and sink in the chaos.
I don't know how long it took, Lin Hai, who had been wandering in the desert of the soul, suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten something important, Lin Hai thought hard, and finally remembered a strange and familiar name, this name is like a giant axe that splits the chaos, and it is like an oracle from the mouth of God, 'God said: Let there be light'.
When this name lit up in Lin Hai's mind, with a bang, the entire chaotic world was broken, the chaos was divided, the light appeared, the world was formed, and countless memories exploded in front of Lin Hai's eyes like a singularity that created the universe, and then expanded rapidly at an indescribable speed, expanding to infinity in the blink of an eye, expanding and filling the entire world, belonging to Lin Hai's world.
"Who am I? I am Lin Hai, Ye Xuexin's guardian and lover. Where am I from? I came from the despair of reality. Where am I going? I embarked on the road of the strong and saved my lover Ye Xuexin! β
Three questions and three answers, Lin Hai's figure appeared in this vast sea of stars, this was the first time Lin Hai saw himself on an unrealistic level.
Lin Hai looked down at his body curiously, the wonderful thing is that although there is no mirror, Lin Hai can see every corner of his appearance and even his back, as if Lin Hai is observing himself from the perspective of a third party, this feeling is very strange and wonderful.
It took a while for Lin Hai to turn his gaze from himself to the boundless sea of stars.
This is very strange, doesn't the soul appear in the form of a garden, and what is going on with this sea of stars?
Lin Hai's thoughts just started, the sea of stars shrank rapidly, as if he was pulling the lens back quickly, the sea of stars moved away and condensed, the stars slowly turned into clusters of nebulae, and the clusters of nebulae became a strange structure composed of a large number of star clusters, these structures continued to shrink, turning into crystal-like substances, the lens retreated again, the crystals turned into liquids, and then something like a solid wall appeared, and then Lin Hai suddenly realized that this was a cell, and the lens retreated, Lin Hai understood that what he was seeing was a plant cell.
Then Lin Hai saw the leaves made of countless cells, the plants made of many leaves, the garden made of many plants, and a few towering trees.
This... Is it the garden of your own soul?!
Lin Hai looked at the garden in surprise, and then he saw himself standing on the outside of the garden fence and the black cat beside him.
Lin Hai's head moved, he looked down at the black cat beside him, and then stared at the soul garden in front of him with wide eyes, and tried to reverse the process just now, to see if he could see the boundless sea of stars again, but he failed, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see the cell structure in the blades of grass again, let alone the sea of stars.
"What just happened?"
Lin Hai's question came out and realized that he was asking a little strange, how did the black cat know what he had experienced just now?
But the black cat replied:
"You see?"
"Huh? What the? You mean the sea of stars? β
"Sure enough, I saw it, it seems that I was not mistaken, and you did it. That's right, I'm talking about the Sea of Memory. β
"What is the Sea of Memory? Why can't I see that sea of stars anymore? Isn't that my memory? β
"It's true that the memory belongs to you, but the sea of memory is the sum of all the information in your past, and the amount of information in these memories is extremely huge, and it is not at all that your current soul can dispose of one by one, therefore, these memory information will be spontaneously classified according to certain rules, and form a collection of information that is easy for us to understand and control, these information collections can be consulted one by one if you want, but it is not possible to go directly to the sea of memory."
Lin Hai pondered for a moment and nodded:
"I see, the sea of memories is like a huge number of words and symbols, and the memories that we can understand and process are like books."
"That's right, so we don't need to study the Sea of Memory, but the Sea of Memory is the essence of all your memories."
"But just now..."
"If I'm not mistaken, what you just experienced is a backward image, in fact, what you see is only an image and not the truth."
"Wait, I'll take a look, you mean I didn't really enter the sea of memory, but I saw an image, but where did this image come from? If I didn't have this memory, this image wouldn't have existed... Wait, do you want to tell me that this memory doesn't belong to me? β
The black cat looked at Lin Hai, who was staring wide-eyed, and nodded:
"That's right, it's public consciousness memory, which can also be called shared consciousness memory, and it's like broadcasting, it's foreign."
Lin Hai had a creepy feeling:
"And who sent this broadcast?"
The black cat shrugged:
"Who knows? Perhaps the creator of this world. β
Lin Hai took a deep breath and suppressed the shock in his heart:
"Then can I ask if you belong to the same world as me?"
The black cat actually grinned:
"Is this important? Well, to be honest, I don't know, how can we little people know about this kind of thing, even if we discover a new world, no one can be sure of how that world came to be unless the creator himself tells you. β
"How so? Couldn't the other Creators be sure? β
"There's no way, or they didn't tell us everything, anyway, as far as I know, there's no way to determine the cause of a world."
Lin Hai pondered for a while and found that this problem was really unsolvable, so he had to shake his head self-deprecatingly and said:
"Tell me about the situation I just had, what the hell is going on? Is this a step that every awakened person must take? β
The black cat nodded:
"That's right, if I'm not mistaken, you should be able to see yourself and your soul garden in the soul horizon by now, right?"
"Yes."
"This is the inevitable phenomenon of the initial condensation of the soul, in other words, your self-awareness and recognition have reached a certain level, and this strong recognition and recognition of self-existence can be regarded as the soul density has increased and exceeded a threshold, after exceeding this threshold, the 'relationship' between the soul and the outside world that was originally incapable of being felt has become perceptible, so the estrangement and boundary between your soul and the outside world have been strengthened, that is to say, your own world has been formed, so there is a 'boundary' between you and the outside world. We also call it an association or relational interface. β
Lin Hai was a little ignorant, seemed to understand, and seemed to be confused.
"Now you look at your soul strength and soul energy points."
Lin Hai subconsciously called out of the Lingjie interface, looked at the few small numbers above, and then couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice.