vncnus Chapter 435 Ancient Art
Chapter 435 Ancient Art
Backlund time, 21:30 PM, the eve of Winter's Eve.
There are 22 hours and 30 minutes left until the outpost launch.
Comprehensive apartment·Hydrangea House.
Klein and Leonard sat on the chaotic floor, each rubbing their chins, frowning, and silently surrounding the strange and weathered battle-damaged version of the fully automatic wishing machine.
The large doll Alice was thrown behind the two of them and left to dry somewhere randomly.
The pseudo-spiritual thread discovered before, and the mixed swarm of spirit insects, star insects, and time insects in the puppet shell, all indicate the fact that this puppet is his secret puppet.
Perhaps the so-called Mad God was just a script imagined by himself as the Lord of Mysteries, a beautiful dream constructed for his current self together with the Phantom Melissa.
Of course, from another perspective, perhaps Mad God Alice does exist, and Melissa's sacrifice wasn't just some bedtime story, but rather a hidden truth of history. Then, these bugs and pseudo-spiritual threads were a means of suppressing the Mad God of the Outer Realm, preventing him from committing unworthy acts.
No matter what, Klein threw the puppet's suspicion and use of it into the back of his mind along with the puppet itself.
This may be a big problem that needs to be solved, but not now.
There were more urgent and confusing things happening that required Klein's consideration.
His eyes were fixed on the wishing machine in front of him.
What guidance did the mysterious [Wooden Box Divination] leave behind?
Compared to the booby trap that may explode at any time in the future, the space station that will be launched in more than 20 hours is more important.
The words "making a wish" and "realizing a wish" made Klein feel restless. He had been sitting here for a long time, thinking back to the Divination he had just performed. He still felt something was not right, as if something was still missing.
It seems too far-fetched... and too simple...
In other words, it is too abstract and we don’t know how to connect it with the current reality.
Regardless of the past, present or future, what secrets does this bizarre divination want to tell me?
Putting aside the cheating divination method brought by extraordinary power, Klein really has limited knowledge of mysticism and divination theory.
More specifically, they do not have a deep understanding of occult knowledge that does not involve extraordinary powers, similar to the traditional occult knowledge of the old days.
The cracked wooden box was like a college final exam. Klein was like an international student who wore translation glasses from beginning to end, but lost his cheat at the last moment and was left scratching his head at this incomprehensible exam paper.
As for Leonard, he was no match for Klein in terms of both old knowledge and divination theory, let alone handing him cheat sheets at this time. It was a great effort from Pales that he didn't hand in a blank paper.
…No, no, no… My mind is too confused…
Klein squeezed his temples.
...start from the beginning...start from the beginning...
Klein took a deep breath.
If we say that the process of divination is a performance of randomness.
The interpretation of divination, then, is the art of storytelling.
In a tarot reading, the client asks the reader a question, and then a few cards are drawn at random.
When interpreting and answering, the fortune teller not only reads out the name of the card, telling the tenant whether it is the upright Six of Swords or some other card, but also captures and interprets the graphic elements in the card.
When the visitor draws the card and turns over the Six of Swords, the fortune teller will capture the elements on the card, such as swords, water, boat, woman, etc., and then further speculate on the state of the elements, believing that the water is calm, the woman is sad, and the swords are sharp and heavy.
Finally, the fortune teller combines these key points through his life experience and accumulated knowledge theory, uses the tenant's question as the context, and speculates what specific things these elements symbolize in a certain scene. He then combines and splices them into a logically coherent and contextual expression and conveys it to the other party.
Thus, these translated messages are ultimately 40% knowledge, 30% timing, 20% acting, and 10% interpretation of the person's self. The revelations, passed down orally and written down, ultimately become only half-truths.
In summary, divination is nothing more than connecting randomly selected elements into sentences according to the questions and the environment to tell a vivid story.
Whoever's story is most similar to reality, the more accurate his divination will be.
Thinking about it this way, divination with Beyonder abilities is actually the same. It's just that compared to ordinary people, Beyonders gain a clearer element of randomness. They can range from a few clear colors to specific fragments, greatly improving the accuracy of storytelling and reducing the difficulty of interpreting divination.
Ordinary fortune tellers need to memorize the tedious knowledge of the card meanings and build their own interpretation logic before they can finally get this half-true and half-false revelation to describe a certain picture.
As for the fortune teller who possesses extraordinary powers, as long as the questions and sequence are appropriate, he can directly obtain the desired picture information, skipping the trouble of finding elements, memorizing meanings, and constructing logic, and can get it done in one step, saving trouble and worry.
As the God of Divination, Klein obtained the most powerful divination plug-in in history. He always skipped the interpretation and thinking process with a single click and threw away his brain.
What are you mumbling about? Play a movie for me!
This was the norm for Klein's divination, obtaining information in a relatively straightforward manner.
In front of this fully automatic wishing machine, he needs to abandon all his shortcuts and divine powers, and perform a simple divination and interpretation from a mortal's perspective.
It had been a long time since he'd performed such a traditional divination, and Klein was still a bit unaccustomed to it. After reviewing it over and over again, he had a general understanding of this unusual divination.
Before this divination, Klein made a wish:
[Tomorrow, Abraham will be able to successfully launch the rocket carrying the outpost.]
Then, the brand new wishing machine exploded.
In a normal Tarot reading, the inquirer first asks a question and then draws a card at random.
If we interpret it from the perspective of divination, [making a wish] is a divination question:
[Can Abraham's rocket carrying the outpost successfully launch tomorrow?]
At the same time, Klein learned from Melissa that any wish made with a star coin must come true. In other words, Klein had two coins, giving him two chances to ignore cause and effect and force something to happen.
Nothing happens for no reason, nor does it vanish without a trace. Its arrival must have been preceded by sufficient foreshadowing, and it must have had certain consequences. Mad God Alice, as the Old One who governs cause and effect, could not possibly ignore this.
Perhaps He truly had the power, like inserting a postcard between the pages of a book, to force something to happen, severing both the cause and the consequences. However, this would undoubtedly cause a massive upheaval in this world, exposing His existence to the Six Gods and instantly making Him the target of their siege. As the "Lord of the Mysteries, colluding with the Outer Gods and brewing a conspiracy," He would also suffer greatly.
This gives rise to paradoxes and traps: If something is neither affected by reality nor able to affect reality, it doesn’t matter whether it happens or not - then why must it exist?
This kind of thing doesn't exist at all, so why bother with it?
It doesn't make sense at all!
Therefore, since the wish is bound to happen and will not happen without reason, the exact question that needs to be interpreted in this divination should be:
How can we minimize the cost and ensure that the rocket carrying Abraham's outpost can be successfully launched tomorrow?
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