Chapter Seventy-Four: The Divination Hut
There weren't many people in the small performance room, and Heshea sat in the back row and watched the puppet on the stage move, accompanied by narration and dubbing, gradually entering a fantastical and distant world.
The Third Age is a very distant era from now, but people are no strangers to it now, thanks to the various games, scripts, and appearances in film and television, compared to the Fifth Age, which is avoided, and the Fourth Age, which is a peaceful and prosperous era, the Third Age is undoubtedly much more exciting.
Slowly, the performance on the stage gradually came to an end, and finally, the puppeteer and voice acting students backstage also made a salute to everyone, although the audience was only seven or eight people, the applause was still very warm.
As you can see, people love this kind of performance, even if it's not as flashy as those immersive movies.
After getting up, Hesia and her companions also walked to the front of the stage, observing the delicately made dolls with fresh and curious curiosity, and occasionally asking the students some questions.
"Did you make the dolls yourself?" Mel spoke first.
"Yes, but some of it was done with the help of teachers and seniors." A student kindly explained that he had just finished the performance, and there was still satisfaction and joy that had not yet been dissipated.
"Won't this be expensive, I think the workmanship is more complicated, and it probably takes a lot of thought." Irene was curious about the other side.
"It does take a lot of thought and time, but it's all worth it."
Is it all worth it, the words inadvertently drifted through Hesia's heart, and then dispersed.
"Are there a lot of people watching it, although I like it very much, but I'm still worried that you don't have enough viewers, and it will be difficult to maintain it in the future." The other student asked.
"It's relatively niche, but there are still some people who like it."
"That's fine."
After that, the crowd slowly dispersed, and Heshia followed Irene and the others away, only to look back before they finally left the performance room, and the students were crouching in front of their dolls, carefully and meticulously examining and caring for them, like cherished treasures.
It was already night when they came out of this venue, and Hehia and her companions decided to find a temporary capsule hotel nearby to rest.
Because this is the venue of the 'Frozen Green Festival', several large hive capsule hotels have been temporarily arranged for students to live in, otherwise it would not be enough to rely on hotels and hotels.
After a brief wash, Heshea and her companions ate a bite to eat before going back to sleep.
Because it is a place where students gather, the capsule hotel is equipped with several patrolling security robots, which is quite safe and brightly lit.
After burrowing into the circular cabin, people can sit up inside, probably because the students are not very large.
At night, lying under the covers, Heshia slowly fell asleep, and had a long dream, in which she was very young, and the scene was that she was invited to play at home by her classmates, but everything in the dream gave her a rather strange feeling.
Although she did experience a similar scene, everything in the dream was always strange and weird, as if she was looking at a completely different life experienced by herself, she couldn't remember the name of that classmate, and the other party's parents because of their height when they were children, she could only see the lower half of the body, the other party's parents' voices were extremely unfamiliar, which made people inexplicably afraid, and during the whole process, she never dared to look up, and never saw the other party's face.
After that, she was invited by her classmates to play a game, the atmosphere eased slightly, and finally, the memory of the dream stayed on the block in her classmate's house, which she seemed to have seen when she was a child, giving her a rather familiar feeling, and then she was suddenly startled, and then the whole person woke up.
Holding her forehead, Heshea half-sat up, leaning against the side of the capsule, turning on the warm yellow light inside and slowly settling down.
What's going on lately, always a little uncertain, Heshia leaned into the cabin and took a deep breath to stabilize herself.
Could it be that she has been thinking too much lately, Heshia shook her head.
She didn't dare to sleep anymore, fearing the same nightmare again, so she put on her coat and got out of the capsule to take a walk.
It was already more than 2 o'clock in the night, and although the lights were bright outside, there were only a few students chatting sporadically, and occasionally someone came out to go to the toilet.
Walking into the bathroom on the side, washing her face briefly, Heshia looked at herself in the mirror, which had not changed much from before, and then she closed her eyes and slowly opened them again, and the girl in the mirror appeared with pale blue pupils and long black hair.
No, it shouldn't be her sister's interference, Hehia felt silently in her heart, and found no trace of Themia.
Their sisters are born twins, and although it is very likely that the sister will be resurrected in herself, this feeling is also a two-way street, and it is impossible for the other party to hide it from her.
If it wasn't the influence of Themia, then why, this is an extraordinary world after all, and it's not surprising that there are secret techniques that interfere with dreams and memories.
After washing her face, Heshia walked out of the room and outside.
This is located in the Huilong Temple not far from a half-mountainside cave entrance, the entrance is a wide and empty cave tunnel, outside is a mountain forest, but there is a winding road below, not far from the opposite side of the mountain also has sporadic lights, distributed some buildings.
It is winter in the north, and although it is relatively warm because of the surrounding mountains, it is only 3-4°C outside at night.
In her pajamas, after the cold wind blows, Heshia quickly comes to her senses, she first walks outside, then finds a big rock and sits down, the moon is round tonight, even at night it is not dark, or 'bright'.
The cold white moonlight shone through the mountains and trees, and the girl in white pajamas sat alone on the stone, looking up, everything under the moonlight was so cold and bright.
Holding her hands behind her back, Heshea slowly closed her eyes and felt the night breeze blowing, although it was a little cold, but because the physique of the transcendent was far beyond ordinary people, it did not affect much.
Mood unsteady, Hesia said of herself.
Although it seems that he has moved away from the timid and inferior self he once was, this kind of leap has not yet been beaten by the fire of Zhengjin, and there is still some uneasiness that has always been hidden in the bottom of my heart.
It is difficult for people to rely on the so-called reading of books or comprehending spiritual enlightenment, and they still need some things to verify and experience, so that they can slowly stabilize.
She thought she had seen it, but in fact she hadn't, and there were still some shadows in her heart that hadn't gone away.
Does it really take a lifetime to heal the wounds of childhood? Heshia couldn't help but cover her forehead, feeling a little subtly deflated.
Reopening her eyes and jumping off the rock, Heshia continued her walk, but instead of being 'calm' as usual, she kicked the pebbles on the side of the road.
She has always thought that she is a very kind and good-natured person, but today she has subtly discovered that the so-called kindness is just another manifestation of 'fear', just afraid of being denied, so she uses the image and way that everyone likes to deal with problems.
"What, it's disgusting." After kicking a stone again, Hehia muttered to herself, then raised her head and looked at the bright moon in the sky.
The moonlight was bright and quiet, which made her feel a little more at ease.
Suddenly, she remembered something again, and a wordless horror spread from the soles of her feet.
She remembered, all remembered, the classmate who invited her to play at home in the dream was herself, so she would feel a strange and strange feeling, and people were often the most familiar and least familiar with their own faces.
And the parents of the pair of classmates who couldn't see their faces clearly were also their own parents, why that block was so familiar, it was precisely because she turned over the block when she was packing up her things at home a few years ago, but the change of the scene made her forget the origin of the block.
The classmate in the dream when she was a child was so well-behaved and obedient, but it made Heshia feel a kind of fear and weirdness, she was afraid, but why was she afraid.
The girl stood under the moon, quietly looking at her lonely and unchanging shadow.
Slowly, she closed her eyes, and then opened them, with a little unbearable and sad in them.
Yes, what she is most afraid of is actually herself, afraid that everything will change back to the way it was, afraid that the well-behaved and weird young self will replace her current self, and now all the so-called growth is just a dream.
The growth of strength came too fast, so fast that she was a little unreal, and unconsciously accumulated a lot of uneasiness and panic in her heart, because of the death of her mother, the departure of her father, and the mutual tearing of her sister, so that she no longer had any haven to talk to, and everything could only be restrained in the bottom of her heart.
"It's so fragile." Heshia crouched down, picked up a stone on the ground, and threw it out, the panic in her heart dissipated a little.
"A little thing is magnified, always thinking so much, thinking so much." Heshia complained to herself again, then continued to pick up a rock and spun it out.
Although he talked to himself, after saying it, he really felt better.
After stomping her feet and feeling better, Heshea didn't want to throw any more stones, so she walked back to the mountain trail and prepared to return.
However, when she turned around, she glanced out of the corner of her eye, and felt as if a black figure was standing in a corner not far from her, which made her frightened again, but she soon forced herself to compose, and she forced herself to turn and walk there, only to realize that it was only an illusion formed by the branches of the shadow of the tree in the moonlight.
Relieved again, Heshea did not leave, but continued to wander through the woods until she no longer saw anything suspicious, and then returned to her lodgings and entered the capsule, where the cramped environment gave her a sense of security.
"Good night." She spoke to herself, and slowly closed her eyes and went to sleep, but the warm yellow night light remained unswitched.
Heshia finally remembered one thing, in fact, she was still quite afraid of the dark, and even more afraid of ghost stories, and now she didn't want to hide it.
It's better to sleep with the lights on than to have nightmares.
Although I stayed up for a while in the second half of the night before I slowly fell asleep, I finally settled down tonight and stopped dreaming, and I didn't wake up until dawn.
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"Morning, Hesia."
The next day, Mel sat down in front of the girl with her eyes rubbed, and Irene, who was much more energetic, bought breakfast for the two of them.
"Let's have something to eat." As she spoke, she placed the bread and milk on the table.
The three of them ate breakfast and talked about their plans for the day, and after eating, Heshia tore the rest of the bread and fed the big spider at her feet.
"Is there anything Hehija would love to visit?" Irene asked.
"No, I want to think about it.,By the way,I want to go to the Moon School of the Three Phases.,It's said that it's a school dedicated to cultivating witches.,It's very ancient.。
"No problem, join the itinerary." Irene enters the new location and arrangement on the projection screen.
After finishing breakfast,The three of them continued to visit the venue on the spot,So until the afternoon,Came to the venue of the Moon School Park of the Three Phases。
Upon entering the inside, the first thing the trio felt was darkness, the building was deliberately created in a darker environment, and the dome was hung with a 'crescent', a path winding into the hill, and a mushroom hut with jack-o-lanterns could be seen on the side of the road.
Following the prompts in front of the hut, the three of them prepared for inquiries and divination, and entered the mushroom hut, and then the door was closed, and the candlelight in the room was lit, and a masked witch sat behind a round table with a dark purple tablecloth, she was dressed in black witch clothes, and her body was embellished with various gems and mysterious patterns.
If it weren't for the witch lady sleeping, it would probably be very frightening.
Mel shook the witch lady, and then the other party slowly raised her head, and yawned, which greatly destroyed Hesia's imagination of witches, and said that the most suitable for the image of witches should be the highness, the silver-haired sage of the forest, the omnipotent miracle witch.
"Hello, what's the matter?" The witch put her hat on and finally got to work.
"It is said that divination is possible here." Irene found a place to sit down, and then pulled Heshia over.
"Yes, but 600 federal dollars at a time, this is my conscience price, if it weren't for the fact that I haven't graduated yet, it will definitely be more than that." The witch lady spoke again, and it was only at this moment that Hehia took advantage of this to take a good look at the other party.
Caramel red hair, burgundy eyes, slightly heavy eye shadow that seems to be sleeping poorly, a full-body black coat, and a witch dress on the outside, with star and moon pendants on both earlobes, bracelets woven with red rope according to a special pattern on the wrists, and black and red night fragrance flower high heels at the feet, which will not be worn, but the feet wrapped in stockings are stepped on the paper mat, probably because it is so comfortable.
Lazy, but lack of sleep, dressed up, but unkempt manners, the girl commented in her heart.
"I want to predict next year's fortune." In fact, Ireen was just curious, and didn't care too much about what the result really was.
"Well, it's very simple, I'll look for it." With that, the witch turned over a deck of cards from the cabinet next to her and placed them on the table.
"Let's draw one."
"Doesn't this need to be shuffled?" Irene was skeptical.
"When I take out the cards, the wheel of fortune is already turning, and all the actions of you and me are in it." Her voice suddenly became ethereal, and her body sat up straight.
"Okay." Irene pulled one out of it and flipped it over at the other party's instructions.
The beautiful card depicts a traveler on his way, walking along the road with a package on his back, and a small village smoking behind him, while in front of him a dog is half-raised and barking, while the traveler also takes a half-step back, holding his travel staff in his hand.
"'Traveler and Dog' in the Way, this card has a lot of meanings." Miss Witch held up her card, closed one eye, and spoke in a mysterious tone.
"As the saying goes, 'When a dog walks on the road, so does a stick', and even if you don't want to, you'll find you with all kinds of difficulties."
"When a dog walks on the road, he will always meet a stick, and a man with a stick will always meet a vicious dog."
"The traveler just passed through the village, but the dog thought he was a thief and wanted to bite him, and the traveler had to take out a stick to defend himself."
"This indicates that your career will improve, but it will also be seen by some people, or wicked people will get in the way, and you will get into trouble, but fortunately you are not completely incapable of resisting, don't you have a stick in your hand?"
"Of course, if it's pulled out backwards, it means something else."
"You are but a puppy who wants to go home, but the traveler thinks you are going to bite him, so he takes up the stick in his hand and tries to beat you, which indicates your innocence and hints at some possible loss, because the traveler is carrying a package, which may have been stolen from the village where you live."
"In general, there is the implication of innocent trouble, but one is biased towards harvest and the other is biased towards loss."
Ireen listened thoughtfully, while Mel on the side had stars in her eyes, and she couldn't worship it.
"I'm going to do divination, too."
"What do you pray for, sweet little sister?"
"I wonder when I'm going to be a Sequence 5, no, Sequence 6 Awesome Breeder!" Mel held up the gray moon cat in his hand and spoke with great interest.
"Then you can draw cards too." With that, she tapped the table, and the cards swam around, spun around a few times, and then fell back down neatly.
She spread it with one hand like a precise fan, which made Mel exclaim, and the witch lady opposite her was even more proud.
Mel reached out, carefully pulled out one, and flipped it open.
The card depicts four young men, one of whom sits on a horizontal tree and plays the lyre, one stands under the tree and plays the flute, bowing slightly, and in the center of the card, under the tree, one is singing, pressing one hand to his chest and the other outstretched, while the last man is resting his hand under the tree and covering his eyes with his hat, as if he is sleeping, but he has a ring of bells hanging from his toes, occasionally shaking, and seems to join the ensemble.
The four of them are all wearing clothes with the same style but different colors, and their looks should be four brothers, but because of the performance of the picture, the young man singing under the tree in the middle is more dazzling and eye-catching.
"'Ensemble Under the Tree,' it's a card with a good meaning, but it's not clear." Miss Witch explained.
"On the screen, the four of them are not troubled, they are very united, and they are gathering together to play, but under closer inspection, the personalities and status of the four are slightly different, the most dazzling of which is the one who sings, followed by the young man who holds the piano and plays the piano on the tree, and then the person who bows down and plays the flute under the tree, and the most time is the young man who is lying half-asleep at the root of the tree."
"Judging from this card, your future should not have too many tribulations, it should be smooth, and even the people around you are very good to you, but because of this, your future is also uncertain, you may become the most dazzling singing youth, or you may just be the young man who is lying half-asleep under the tree. The existence of a big tree is both a background and a kind of dependence, which means that you have good elders to take care of you. ”
"Well, in other words, the future is promising, but if you don't work hard, you will become a salted fish, right?" Mel's analysis was slightly distressed.
"That's right, what a smart cutie~"
"The front is a card with a good meaning, if it is the negative side, it means that the building will fall, the elders and the backer will collapse upside down, the four people are crumbling, about to separate, and the most dazzling one will also fall the worst." Miss Witch shook her head, lamenting the difference in her life.
"Finally, it's your turn, this dark-haired sister, what do you wish and hope to know?" Although Hehia didn't take the initiative to speak, the other party found her, and her burgundy eyes also flashed with a mysterious light.
(End of chapter)