Chapter 11: Depth
The elders did not make any unnecessary noises about the serpent's plan, did not ask questions, and promised it plainly. This kind of blandness made the snake feel that the elder's health was indeed very poor.
Otherwise, the elders will definitely try to control the plan.
There are no other people in the Elder's Cave, and it is also a good place to exchange information. The snake never thought of hiding from the elders from the beginning, leading Gu Chuan here, and also saying some details that could not be heard by others.
"I have a lot of things to tell you, you don't know about the Hanging Garden, I have to tell you about the geography, the crowd, what shops are on the road of the Hanging Garden, which ones are related to the dragon, which ones have nothing to do with the dragons, where the people are, and what they do, I have to tell you about them, you have to listen patiently, this is related to success or failure, and it is also related to your life and death."
The snake entrusted him with the heavy responsibility related to the success or failure of this border uprising war, and naturally did his best.
The young man replied solemnly:
"I don't need you to remind me, I'll listen."
The snake speaks:
"First of all, you have to go alone."
"Am I alone?"
In the presence of the elders, who closed their eyes, the serpent said calmly:
"Yes, you're alone. But don't worry, I'll tell you the path and most of the situations you may encounter along the path come from our own experiences during the evacuation, as well as from the local guides, and you don't need to worry about damage to the natural conditions. But you may encounter an attack from the rebels, which is up to you to deal with on your own. ”
Gu Chuan nodded solemnly.
"When you set out, I'll send a small communications team that has no contact with you, and they don't know about you. You can go first, but you'll need to sneak up on them, and they'll explore the way forward for you. They have other tasks, and the success or failure of the mission has nothing to do with you, so you can do what you want to do. ”
The young man sitting on the ground nodded thoughtfully, and then thought of something:
"They don't know about me, so if they see me and find me, they might attack me?"
The snake laughed:
"Don't you have the ability to hypnosis? Can't you use it for them? ”
"My abilities are different from yours, and I need to be close to the range to use them."
The young man was still wearing the bulky protective suit, and the dragon's heart horn was hidden under the shoulders. In the past few days, he has not taken it off, but fortunately, the protective suit itself isolates the dust and is not afraid of dirt. The Gear Man's skills are still above that of the Allosaurus, and the snake is also very curious about this outfit that can play the Gift Party.
But at critical junctures, it knows how to endure.
"That's interesting."
The snake hesitated. It glanced at the elder, who told him it was out of the way. Then it boldly turned its head and said:
"Your language is similar to mine, so I can tell you about the grammar and teach you how to speak the language of the heart."
The young man listened solemnly.
He knew it was going to do him a lot of good.
In the mouths of the dragons, mind reading is not some kind of ability, but rather a language.
The so-called language is something that everybody can speak, but everybody doesn't know why the language should be like this, and not that, so good, and so bad. The birth of language comes from the practice of organisms that accumulate over time, and the exploration of the laws of language is a hindsight.
Snake's former personal teacher is a researcher of the grammar of the language of the heart.
They have a complete system of psychic language. The purpose of language is to obtain information and convey information, and Psychic Language is no exception.
Ordinary language has depth, superficial meanings, and deep meanings, as well as extraordinarily one's own meaning that the speaker may not even be aware of.
Psychic language is similar. The so-called depth of the heart language, in the mouth of the serpent, is divided into six levels.
The first depth is the depth of expression, which the snake says is the information that the thinker actively vents to the outside world, that is, the superficial consciousness activity that can be read by ordinary people.
"I guess the depth of our talk to each other should be at this depth?"
Gu Chuan felt as if the snake had something to say.
He nodded.
The snake continued:
"And the second depth, which we generally call emotional depth. It's just you, it doesn't want to give it to the outside world, it just goes around in its own head, and it doesn't want to be noticed. Not wanting to be noticed is not the same thing as not wanting to be noticed but wanting to be noticed, well, just making an awkward situation. The latter is willing to speak, that is, it is still in the depth of expression. ”
"And the third depth is a bit complicated, but you can understand that you don't know much about it, but it does exist. The second depth is the consciousness of the person himself, and the third depth is the person himself is not aware of it, can you understand it? ”
"I know that in my knowledge, this is called subconscious, or unconscious activity."
Gu Chuan said.
"Subconscious or ......unconscious," the snake laughed, "Good words, you have some knowledge, that's not too much." ”
"And what about the depth in the back?"
"The fourth depth is more complex than the third." The snake said, "It belongs to memory, to a momentary association, to the formation of personality." My teacher has been delving into this depth for a long time, and it doesn't matter what our psychic ability is, you just need to know this. Normally, at the fourth depth, only a few fragments can be read. ”
"As for the fifth depth...... This is the simplest depth. ”
"Teacher, what do you mean is that it is deeper than the first four, but it is very easy to understand?"
Gu Chuan blurted out.
The word teacher is called a snake and is stunned. It is too old for a long time to be a normal human, but compared to a truly old allosaurus, the snake is only a young man who has just entered adulthood.
And if there had not been a major change, it might have become a teacher of a certain discipline.
The cave was silent, it did not change its expression, and continued to preach quietly:
"You're right, it's called perceptual depth, it's everything that the person actually feels, including what he hears in his own brain, what he sees in his own brain, the temperature, the weight, the texture that he feels in his own brain, the hunger in his stomach, the burning pain in his skin, it's all at this depth. Normally, it's hard to hear this kind of depth, and when you hear this depth, it's like you're there, unless you're a particularly talker, a storyteller, and you can't reach that depth. ”
The snake uses a strange metaphor here.
"You know, the depth of listening is the same as speaking. The deeper the depth, the harder it sounds, and the harder it is to say. The sixth depth, on the contrary, is difficult to talk about, so far, no one has been able to reach this depth except the elders, I can tell you that the main message it consists of, there is a person's balance of movement, which is like you walk without falling, that is your balance that has been taken into account in your thinking body, and there is also unconscious breathing, and there is your unconscious raising of your hands, trembling, trembling. ”
The serpent thought the young man could not understand.
But he kind of half understood.
According to the knowledge of the earth, the higher the level of mental direction of the brain function, the shallower the depth in the reading mind. The more basic the brain function, the closer it is to the control part of the movement of matter, and in the reading mind, the depth is the deepest, but it is not mysterious.
"But depth is not strictly isolated from depth, it is like an animal on land, what is above ground can go into the ground, and what is underground can go into the ground. So, I think you're in a state where you're going to read a lot of fragmented information. The first criterion for clarifying the language of the mind is to clarify the information in each depth that you yourself read, preferably more clearly than the six depths. In this way, when you 'speak' the 'language of the heart', just like when you speak normally, you should also clarify what kind of mood this person is feeling. He may seem happy, but in fact he may not be happy, and the happy words you say will make him feel more sad in his heart, and this is the truth. ”
The serpent preached in simple terms:
"To clarify the relationship, it is also necessary to start from the difficult relationship. I'll give you an example, for example, the information of perceptual depth, because it is visual, tactile, and olfactory, it is very easy to distinguish, but it will be mixed with memory information and emotional information. Here's a trick that the more real it is, the closer it is to perceptual depth, and the more false and virtual it is, the more it stays on the emotional or expressive depth. ”
As the innate ability of the alien dragon race, their understanding of the language of the mind far surpasses that of Gu Chuan, who is just fiddling with the dragon's heart.
"That's true...... Thank you for teaching. ”
The young man was so happy that he had gained new knowledge that he bowed.
The serpent turned its head and looked at the elder again.
The elder seemed to be asleep.
It turned its head and looked at the smiling young man in front of it again, and it said flatly:
"You have a good talent, and you may be above me, so that although you are uneducated, you have a good ability to read and write, and you have even thought of covering up the traces, and when the jailer came to me and thought it was your own mental activity, then you may try to 'speak' your words in depth, or in many 'depths'. I can't talk about it anymore, and if I talk about it again, you'll be recognized. Many of these techniques have been passed down from generation to generation. ”
"I understand."
He nodded. Then the young man hesitated:
"But you mean that I should use the methods you have taught me to hypnotize mankind when necessary. That team should be all your men, is that really good? ”
“……?”
The serpent's gaze changed.
This naivety made the snake worry about whether it would be a good idea to pick him, but he thought that this man did not hesitate to control the jailer's mind, and he could see a little bit of the nature of this explorer who was not the same as the psyche on the surface.
He hovered over the top of the stone and preached:
"We protect people, and people serve us. When necessary, everyone should look at the bigger picture. ”
And this big picture is snake's, it's alien dragon's.
The young man also understood a little more about the nature of the serpent. It is a staunch defender of what it calls the "Allosaurus".
"I know what I'm going to encounter on the road. When I get to the hanging garden, what should I do? What are the weapons? ”
The snake was about to continue talking, but suddenly he paused. It says:
"Aren't you hungry now?"
The young man was stunned.
"I'll talk about it here later. I'll give you a time now, and even those who don't have anything to do here should avoid. There's a lot more to talk about after that. You are generally free to act after you arrive at the Hanging Garden, but many details also need to be detailed. ”
The snake said tiredly.
"We still have a little time to talk about it. After you've eaten, come here. ”
In Qiongqiu, there also does not seem to be an accurate concept of time.
But the war is approaching, and time is of the essence. The local painters have no means, they have always lived casually and according to the weather. And the snake that escaped from the hanging garden brought an interesting trick. They kneaded comfrey and the occasional insect wax found in caves into a slow-burning substance that resembled candles. This insect wax burns very evenly and stands still in the cave.
Smoke has the effect of purifying the air, and it is very rare and not choking.
Using Gu Chuan's biological clock analogy, about every three scales burned, he had to sleep less than two scales.
All three scales, he's with the snake.
"The snake said that the accurate timer is only available in the hanging garden. As for the most instant communication tool, Qiongqiu is only available in the current hanging garden. This is also the reason why snakes are very agitated. They need to contact multiple places to launch a counterattack together. But if you don't know the timing, you have to think of obvious orders, and obvious orders will definitely be detected by the rebels, which is a dilemma. ”
In the cave, Gu Chuan said to Zaiyan.
The stone reflects the light, and the figure is on it.
Zai Yan memorized these words carefully, and asked repeatedly:
"It's done with you, you're leaving tomorrow?"
"Yes."
He said.
He also carefully washed his suit with water today and removed some stone chips.
The young man and the lion lay flat on the stone together, looking up at the dark roof of the cave. Nearby, too, there was a slight sound of footsteps.
The world was silent for a while. The young man's time is almost entirely occupied by snakes, so lions rarely find the opportunity to chat with him at length. Wait until tomorrow, as soon as Gu Chuan leaves, he will become a hostage in a sense.
"If you can," the lion cried, "after you find Hatsuyun, you and Hatsuyun will escape as quickly as possible, and get away from this land of right and wrong as soon as possible." You don't need to come back to me. ”
The young man immediately turned his head to look at him in the darkness.
The lion's eyes glow with fluorescent.
He sternly refused:
"It can't be. It's okay, as long as I successfully complete the mission and come back...... The serpent will not be embarrassed by this......"
"You misunderstood my thoughts, don't worry, I'm trying to get you to leave me."
Zai Yan interrupted Gu Chuan's thoughts. He said calmly:
"But have you ever thought about it? Can it still be calm here? ”
"Do you mean this place will fall?"
"The snake doesn't make an appointment with you, it's actually very broad. In other words, the task it gives you may be going on as long as it says the counterattack will take place. ”
Zai-san was not disturbed by superfluous information, and he was always thinking about countermeasures, really, thinking about countermeasures.
"That's true......"
"If there is a conflict between the two sides, I don't believe that it will be safe here, the snake may be transferred, and even everyone may be caught. Suppose that happens, are you going to tell me to stay here and wait for you? It's impossible, isn't it? ”
Gu Chuan was silent.
"That's what I think, we're now two teams of the same mind but separated. Suppose I run away alone when an accident happens, and you come back to me, which is a very dangerous act...... Actually, I've been wondering lately, did the snake really ask you to come back to me, friend? By that time, you're really ...... Can you still find it here? ”
There are two joints here, one is can it come back? The second is whether Zai Yi will stay here?
No matter which joint matters.
They are explorers who have broken into this new world, and they are caught in the clash of great civilizations that they had not thought of before. In this kind of conflict, it is almost impossible for people in two places to reunite.
At that time, the young man did not think of it, but the lion thought clearly.
"You can't put any imagination in other people's words, friend. That could be fatal. ”
The lion said.
With that, he peeked a small stone out of his sleeve and showed it to the young man.
When the young man saw this stone, he was shocked, and suddenly thought of all kinds of important cruxes, and exhaled his name in thought:
"The ...... of Mother and Child Substance"
Or according to Hatsuyun's idea, it is called, Zhenshi.
"After I came to this small cave before, I wanted to use the child and mother substance to contact Chu Yun, but it only shocked you, do you remember?"
The young man nodded:
"I know, I tried it with you later, but there was no response from Hatsuun."
It's a very strange thing.
In the verification of the parent and child substances, the information can be transmitted in almost any situation. Therefore, there are several possibilities for the first clouds not to return.
One is that Chu Yun is reluctant to reply, so the reason for this is thought-provoking. In particular, the pinion machine should still be in the boat.
The second is that she is willing to reply, but there is no substance around her. But there were a lot of them in the Dead or Alive, in other words, she left the ship.
The third is an extremely special scene, so that the child and mother matter cannot transmit vibrations, and Zai Yan can't think of that scene, but according to Jing Yuan, it exists.
According to Jing Yuan, the inside of the Eternal Bell will be isolated from the child and mother substances.
It's just that no matter what the possibility, there is no point in pursuing it, and thinking about the reasons behind it is just a kind of philistine self-disturbance.
The most important thing is only now, only in the present.
"I've been thinking about methods all the time you've been studying, and that's my way, I've designed a set of signals to knock on the child-mother substance, a set of signals for the purpose of escaping together. This set of signals is not bound by space and time, it can change us from a passive position to an active position, so that we can not worry too much about each other's whereabouts. ”
Gu Chuan looked over and saw Zaiyan's eyes glowing in the darkness.
The lion-headed gearman remained still.
And their fate, even though it is broken into two single wings, can fly freely alone.
It's just that after communicating all this, it became more clear to them that they were about to become their own people.
The boy and the lion fell asleep in the cave.
At that time, the sun was about to come out, but it was still not fully out. In the purple world, all life is moving cautiously, quietly gathering strength for the coming struggle.
Heaven and earth are a little desolate.