Chapter 68: The Profession of the Fire Bearer (17)
The earth cracked into deep ravines one after another, and countless buildings collapsed with violent tremors.
Wu Ming walked briskly through the disintegrating Night City, humming a strange tune as he crossed the ruins on both sides of the road and headed into the depths.
Instead of becoming a pile of ruins like in the real world, the collapsed buildings turned into glowing fragments that drifted into the wind, reflecting the ever-changing images of the shimmering fragments.
Memories emerge on these fragments and then fade away.
Wu Ming read these memories and emotions all the way.
The excitement and joy of receiving encouragement from the audience for the first time.
Confused when I knew that I was sick and might die.
The pain and helplessness of being seized by the foremen and sheriffs and robbing their wages.
When he was hungry, he imagined the longing for the taste of dumplings and strawberries that Ah Dog had told him.
These emotions, these memories were unreservedly displayed in front of Wu Ming, and the strong emotions that emerged with the memories flowed into his heart, so that he could feel these memories better.
But the more Wu Ming watched these memories, the more dignified his expression became.
Not only because of empathetic understanding and empathy for Acha's experience, but also because these memories are contradictory and conflicting
There are countless contradictory records in these memories.
Sometimes Ah Cha met Ah Dog in the welfare home, and sometimes Ah Cha met Ah Dog when he was working in a factory, and sometimes he never knew Ah Gou.
Sometimes Ah Cha is a radio broadcaster, and he repairs it with the parts he picked up, and sometimes it is reflected in his memory that he was with a few friends, and then Ah Dog helped him fix the broadcast.
Sometimes Ah Cha becomes a worker who never dreamed of it, and like the rest of the workers in the factory, he is squeezed with blood and sweat, and the last bit of surplus value is squeezed out as a consumable.
If this can be understood as memory disorder, then the memory that Wu Ming saw next is difficult to explain with memory disorder.
Death.
Just about the memory of death, Wu Ming saw no less than a dozen different types of death.
I didn't meet a dog in the welfare home, and I ended up dying early because of a high fever.
A lonely life, like most of the workers in Night City, the memory of a sudden death because of over-oppression of himself.
I continued to take steps towards the dream of becoming a broadcaster, and when I felt that the future could always be better, I was completely crushed by the disease.
the memory of starving to death in bed; the memory of being beaten to death by a sheriff one day because he got off work too late; the memory of being killed by an idler and robbing him of his last fortune;
Unexpectedly, in this kid's hall, there are so many things hidden Wu Ming grabbed a handful of fragments, quickly swept the memories mapped on it, and after confirming that this was another different type of death memory, he couldn't help muttering, people will die if they are killed, but how can there be so many memories of death in this kid's memory, it is not that this kid has a fear of death, and he thinks about how he will die every day, right?
Yes, this is a temple built by the surface consciousness of Ah Cha, and the sum of his life experiences will become the cornerstone and material of the temple, which will be embodied in a more concrete mental landscape.
The 'City of Night' where Wu Ming is now is a palace created by the sum of Acha's life experience.
And this is not the real Night City from the outside world, but just a replica of some parts of the real world outside, if you can observe it from above, you will find that this 'Night City' is surrounded by dark and calm waters, except for this street.
The sight of this street is the image of Ah Cha's heart, because it is the most familiar place in his life, and it leaves the deepest impression in his heart.
And the road to the factory.
However, with the death of Ah Cha, the superficial consciousness quickly faded, and his mental landscape and temple also collapsed rapidly, and the mental landscape and temple presented in concrete images are being restored to life experience, and will eventually gradually precipitate below the sea surface with the collapse into the symbolic island of the individual's subconscious.
In the sea of collective unconscious, death is an extremely long process, first of all, the dissipation and collapse of the surface consciousness, which will cause the islands of light floating on the 'sea surface' to begin to collapse, and the mental landscapes and temples above are reduced to their essence because of the disappearance of the surface consciousness, and then precipitate into the subconscious islands below the sea surface, when this precipitation is completely over, the subconscious islands carrying the synthesis of life experiences will precipitate all the way to the depths of the seabed
Eventually, they come to the bottom of the sea of the collective unconscious, where they reunite with the 'collective' and return to the depths.
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From the psychological point of view of his understanding of only a little, the person who has so many contradictory memories in his consciousness should have become a patient with dissociative personality disorder a long time ago, and there should not be only one hall, but the strange thing is that whether it is from Wu Ming's contact with Ah Cha, or from the number of halls, Ah Cha cannot be a patient with personality disorder at all
It always feels like something is not quite right
Change first, then change