158. I'm a cat
When Moses and the others embarked on a journey of suffering, what was Amun, who was their "god", doing? Amun sent messengers to guide them on the road back to their homeland, and it took years of hard work and preparation, but when the day really came, Amun himself had no time to take care of it.
...... A cat, the cat that roamed the square of the Temple of Isis hundreds of years ago, is Amon at this moment.
It's not that Amon has gone back hundreds of years, it's not that he has become a cat himself, it's a very special state of meditation, and it may not be appropriate to call it meditation. After experiencing the test of losing his strength and growing again like a rebirth, if anything, Amon is the self he has been pursuing in his beliefs all his life.
It is only when this state is sealed that it is possible for him to reach a state where nothing exists, where both the body and the world are reduced to nothingness. Schrödinger sat down opposite him and unreservedly unfolded his soul world to Amun.
Amon is experiencing Schrödinger's past, not simply seeing or hearing, but feeling everything as Schrödinger himself. In this process, he must be absolutely stable and selfless, without the slightest disturbance of mixed thoughts, otherwise everything he has experienced will become unreal.
This is why Schrödinger waited until today, in this state, she is also equivalent to opening all her secrets without reservation, so Schrödinger wants to find someone who is absolutely trustworthy!
The Eju people love cats, and it's a long-standing tradition. Cats came to Eyju, solved the rat infestation in many local granaries, and were regarded as the attendants of the god of abundance, so around the square of the Temple of Isis, people have always had the habit of feeding cats, and there are many stray cats living here, and Schrödinger is one of them.
Cats have a lot of food, and in addition to eating people's food, they also wander around catching rats, eating birds, termites, grasshoppers and other flying insects. It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine that they will eat live rats alive, but all feelings are real, and in this case, they can still not think about it, and they can't think about it, which is Amon at this moment.
This is a curious kitten, it is not afraid of people, but it has a natural sense of alienation from people and does not get too close. Whenever various ceremonies are held in the square and crowds gather, the cats will run away without a trace. But one day, Schrödinger chased a flying beetle and unconsciously forgot the environment, and when it came back to its senses, it found that it was surrounded by feet, and it was caught in a crowded crowd with nowhere to hide.
It was terrified, and a kitten was caught in the surging crowd and would probably have been trampled to death. In its panic, it noticed that everyone around it had stopped moving, and knelt down in one direction. There was an ethereal chant from the sky, the temple bell rang melodiously, and the cat looked up to see the golden sky, with a soft glow falling on it.
It was an indescribable magical feeling, the cat had forgotten its fear, it was no longer trembling, it was like an invisible hand caressing the depths of its soul. It coincided with the annual Goddess Isis's Blessing Ceremony, perhaps by coincidence or a sudden realization, when it experienced the "Blessing of Isis" magic at its most frightened time, and at this moment it seemed to vaguely understand something.
After that, the cat often slipped into the temple, and its simple mind was not enough to do complex thinking, but only to find familiar sensations in memory, in the chanting of the priests, under the gaze of the gods. The cat's instincts are much sharper than humans, and it remembers the chant and "participates" in many temple rituals.
The priests found the kitten very interesting, and instead of playing in the square, they were willing to come to the temple to observe the rituals of the priests, just like a little priest, and no one cared about it when he got acquainted, and people even gave it a name - Best.
Best didn't know how many power awakening rituals he had experienced, including many times the second power awakening ceremony held by the great sorcerer for the great samurai, as well as various blessings. Of course, it is not the protagonist of the ceremony, but a kitten standing at the feet of the people watching the excitement, and the priests in the temple already know the cat's habits, and do not expel it, but find it funny.
A cat usually lives for only a dozen years, but this kitten has lived for nearly a hundred years, and it does not know that it is so long-lived, and all its actions are from pure and pure instinct. The long years have made it gradually have a clear memory, and the memory opens the door to thinking, and thinking makes it spontaneously know how to learn and comprehend.
I don't know what day it was, when it was lying on the bookshelf and saw the priests teaching the divine texts, it suddenly realized that it had actually listened to them countless times, and read them word by word.
These are not Schrödinger's memories, but traces imprinted in his soul, and Amon unfolds his soul to open these imprints, just like Schrödinger once went through all this, and it is really for many years. When Schrödinger suddenly realized that he "understood" the divine script, the actual time passed exactly one night.
It is a concept that is difficult for people to understand, as if it were a paradox of time. Amon had obviously only sat for one night, but after many years, time had not slowed down or become faster, but the imprint in Schrödinger's soul had unfolded so much. If he didn't have what he has today, not only would it be difficult to accept, but he might have torn his self-consciousness apart.
When it was light, Amon opened his eyes. After this night, he felt that his soul had become strong and weak at the same time. The so-called powerful means that it can hold more in a thought, just like reading a book, you can print the entire book into your mind with a glance, even more clearly than ordinary people who study it carefully. The so-called weakness refers to the extreme consumption, which has reached the limit at this time, and if it does not stop, Amon is likely to be completely lost in Schrödinger's soul imprint and enter a deep state of coma and shock.
Amon let out a long breath and asked in a tired voice, "Is this where you came from, and is that the way you let me go through this is the way to break the seal of imprisonment?"
Schrödinger shook his head and said, "No, this is just the beginning, I have to give you a clear understanding of what I have been through, so that we can find out what the seal that imprisons me is." ”
Amon asked with some surprise, "What is the seal? Don't you even know it?"
Schrödinger sighed, "It's in my soul imprint, and when I unfold my soul to you, my own consciousness is stagnant, and I don't know exactly what you've experienced." Only in this way will you be able to perceive more clearly than I am, what have you just learned?"
Amon smiled: "I was you just now, and after I opened my eyes, I thought of a person. Well, it can't be said to be a person, it should be said that it is an ironclad beast. ”
Amon thought of Yun Meng, because Yun Meng also learned the divine script not long ago, how can an ironclad beast write? In fact, Amon didn't understand very much, he just asked Link to teach, but at this moment, he witnessed the whole process of a cat opening its spiritual intelligence, and there was a lot of accident, and it didn't even realize it, just like the light of the sky suddenly illuminated something.
Schrödinger's expression was a little stunned: "So you have been through so much? The next thing is the real confusion, as a cat, I didn't understand what kind of existence I am." You need to rest well, recover and move on. ”
Amon rested for the whole day, and that night he felt that he still hadn't recovered, not because his mana was exhausted, but because of a tiredness that made it difficult for him to contain the imprint in another soul. Schrödinger patiently waited for him for another two days, and only started again on the third day.
...... When the cat realizes that it can read the divine script, and even write the name "Best" with its paws, the way of thinking changes, and its real confusion begins. The cat didn't know what kind of existence it was, it was obviously different from other cats, and when it woke up from its confusion, it realized that the cats that had roamed the temple square with it were long gone, and it was still alive and well.
Why is that, and what is life? That's the first question it thinks about. The cat's eyes are able to adapt to the dark, and its body is much more agile than humans, and it has spent as many years as a human being, so it begins to wonder if it is a cat, and if so, what kind of cat? There is a deeper question, what kind of cat does it want to be?
Countless times when looking up at the idol in the still night, the cat suddenly had an "absurd" idea in his heart - it wanted to be such a "cat".
That is, from this day on, its eyes can not only see everything in the dark, but also clearly perceive the blood of its body when it closes its eyes, and it spontaneously mastered divine meditation.
The body of a cat does not look like a human at all, but in terms of origin, it is almost no different from a human. Schrödinger often wandered through the temple squares, and saw all kinds of people coming and going, one of whom was himself, not a concrete person, but an abstract image of countless people, whose name was Best, as the priests called it.
When the cat meditates, there is a strange situation that a human monk cannot experience, and it literally takes on the form of a human being, with that kind of body and skin. This is a "person" who only exists in the world of consciousness, and in the real world it is still a cat, and this person is growing up and cultivating.
This psychic cat has never performed any magic in the temple, its cultivation is just a confirmation of thinking, in fact, since the day it has self-awareness, its strength is stronger than that of a lion, but no one has ever touched it.
Bester gradually became a mascot in the temple, and was regarded by the priests as a magical cat because of its longevity and many years in the temple, a symbol of the gods' favor.
The cat began her own cultivation, which was very unique and different from everyone else in the temple. It is impossible for it to have a formal education, and it does not have any prejudices in its heart, it just practices whatever comes to mind, and it has no concept of divine arts and physical arts, and it has inadvertently passed many tests. Finally, one day it decided to play a joke with a young priest and suddenly used the magic of information, and instead of a cat, the little priest saw a woman named Best.
The second soul imprint had unfolded at this point, and the time of the experience was much shorter than the previous one, but Amon felt even more tired when he opened his eyes, because the experience contained too much of it. At this time, Schrödinger is no longer an ignorant kitten, in many ways this is a person's experience, but it is much more complicated than ordinary people, Amon has experienced ten years this night.
He was so tired that he couldn't even breathe, and he sat there and recovered for a long time before he said, "Schrödinger, you are beautiful!"
Schrödinger's tone was actually a little embarrassed: "Do you mean cats or people?"
Amon smiled but didn't answer, and Schrödinger turned and slipped out. This time Amon rested for five days, he was in a trance, and he couldn't even tell whether he was a cat or a human, this fusion of souls was terrifying, and if it wasn't for a strong enough determination, it would definitely cause insanity. Amon himself is not yet twenty years old, but he has experienced hundreds of years as a cat, and trance is inevitable, but he can calm down again.
He also fully understood how important it was to go through the test that he had just experienced, just as Maria once asked him, "You used to be a passer-by who almost died on the Ronnie River, but later became a general on the Megatron Continent, are you still a passer-by on the battlefield on the Ronnie River? When you return with honor, but you surrender your military power and cannot leave the territory, are you still a great general on the battlefield in the territory? At this moment, you sit in front of me with your head bowed, are you still the pure boy in the town of Duke? If not, who are you?" If so, then who is Amon?"
Amon found himself becoming stronger and stronger as he experienced Schrödinger's soul imprint, and what grew was not pure strength, but could be described as a kind of "potential" or "capacity" of the soul.
...... Five days later, at midnight, Schrödinger once again unfurled his soul seal on him - he looked up and saw the solemn and holy statue of the goddess Isis. It was on the night that it had teased a young priest with its information magic that it suddenly felt a strange pressure as it walked through the main shrine. The eyes of the god were watching, and the cat had sensed it for a long time, but today it was different.
Unable to explain why, the cat turned and fell down towards the idol, burying its furry head in its forepaws as if in prayer, and then it heard a voice: "Don't be afraid, Best, I'm Isis!"
Of course, the cat knew who Isis was, it had lived in the temple for hundreds of years, and today it heard Isis's voice in its head!
Isis's voice was solemn and soft: "You naughty kitten, I have seen what you have done, it is a rare luck in the world that you can achieve such an achievement, I have decided to give you a chance." Please take a vow to accept the guidance of the Nine Divine Systems, and I will tell you what the path you have been pursuing is. ”
(To be continued)