Chapter 50: Split
Two months ago, St. Dili Orphanage.
Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling huddled in a corner of the computer room, sharing an antique keyboard that they had brought out from somewhere, playing the two-player game "Forest Fire and Ice Man".
Their shoulders were pressed together, their arms were touching, and the two little faces in front of the screen were very focused, their eyes sparkling.
When passing a small level, Ji Minghuan deliberately played a trick and moved the little fire man's butt away from the switch, causing the little ice man controlled by Kong Youling to fall into the lava.
He chuckled on the side.
The white-haired girl glanced at him sideways and gently bumped her head against his shoulder.
It was just this unconscious touch that brought Ji Minghuan into a completely unfamiliar world that belonged only to him.
Ji Minghuan had never imagined that the shape of his spiritual world would be a library.
But it makes sense when you think about it: from childhood to adulthood, he could only find a sense of belonging in the library of the welfare home. Neither the children nor the nurses were willing to come here, and no one cared about it, as if this huge library belonged to him alone.
The library that constitutes his spiritual world is quite different from the real library. Most of the bookshelves in this library are empty, and the corners with books are divided into several areas with signs: memory, emotion, knowledge...
He and Kong Youling sat in the empty library, staring at each other blankly.
After a while, Kong Youling turned her gaze away from his face, raised her head, and looked around curiously, her snow-white hair swaying slightly.
"Here..." She opened her mouth.
"You spoke just now?" Ji Minghuan was stunned for a long time. It was the first time he heard Kong Youling speak.
It was also the first time that Kong Youling heard Ji Minghuan's voice and he froze in place for a moment.
They tilted their heads, looking at each other, like two little penguins meeting on the ice and sizing each other up.
Soon, the two realized that this was not the real world, but a space that resided in the spirit.
In the world of the mind, the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear sounds. So until they were taken to the laboratory, during this month, relying on Kong Youling's ability, the two would often enter each other's spiritual world to play.
Kong Youling's world is a winter street with snowmen piled up on the street, children chasing and playing, lanterns hanging in the streets and alleys, and fireworks in the sky;
Ji Minghuan's world is a library at dusk. Half of the sun outside the window is always below the horizon, and the other half is always hanging above the mountains.
Not long after this, Ji Minghuan, an ordinary person, somehow displayed amazing talent in his "spiritual world".
He once asked Kong Youling to try to enter the spiritual world of many people, such as nurses, teachers, and other children, but most of them just took a look and came back.
Then the two soon discovered that Ji Minghuan was the only one who could distort his own spiritual world and change its form. It is better to say that the essence of this practice is actually "splitting": he split a new spiritual space and then used it to temporarily cover the original spiritual space.
It looks like he has really changed his spiritual world.
Ji Minghuan often pulls Kong Youling into his spiritual world to play.
She said she wanted to see the sea, so he conjured up a sea. The two of them sat barefoot on the beach, looking up at the sea under the setting sun, watching the ups and downs of the sea, the waves pushing one or two boats, swaying vaguely in the distance;
She said she wanted to see the universe, so he built a universe based on the pictures in the book. The two of them were like one of the millions of meteorite fragments, floating lonely and aimlessly in the universe. The universe is a vacuum and silent, but people's hearts can speak, and they can hear each other's voices.
But you have to know...even Kong Youling, who is a "psychic", can't do these things.
This is the most incredible thing.
Not long after, even without relying on Kong Youling, Ji Minghuan was able to enter his own spiritual world independently.
Therefore, he would not be bored to death during the month in the cell, and most of his hysterical behaviors were only for the experimenters on the other side of the monitor to see.
Most of the time, he seemed to be lying in bed doing nothing, but in fact he was always wandering in his spiritual world.
He can change the world at will with his imagination, such as creating a TV or a computer full of games.
Judging from the mentor's tests these days, he should be a psychic whose ability level is slightly lower than Kong Youling's.
Because he must pass through the two outer "protective layers" to enter the other person's true spiritual world;
But Kong Youling doesn't need that. She just stretches out her hand and can cross two layers of protection and reach deep into the other person's heart.
Either the psychic powers are ineffective against the same kind, or Kong Youling's ability level is much higher than that of the mentor, so the mentor cannot break through Kong Youling's mental defenses.
Since he couldn't take advantage of Kong Youling, he could only come over every once in a while to test Ji Minghuan's "true self".
The mentor naturally had no idea that as an "ordinary person", Ji Minghuan could actually control his spiritual world at will and even change its appearance. That was why he was fooled around after repeated attempts and had no idea what was going on.
Every time his mentor entered his spiritual world, Ji Minghuan could stand at a higher-dimensional perspective like God, overlooking every corner of the world and taking in every action of his mentor.
But even if the instructor really found Ji Minghuan's "true self", it would probably be useless.
Because Ji Minghuan's "self" could not speak and was just an empty shell, Ji Minghuan kicked it into the corner of the library and never paid any attention to it again.
The "true self" that the mentor had seen before was actually disguised by Ji Minghuan.
Time goes back to this moment, and with the departure of his mentor, Ji Minghuan's spirit also returns to reality.
He turned over in bed, opened his eyes and looked at the empty cell for a while, then closed his eyes again. There was no more sound, and he slept as peacefully as a corpse.
Judging from the surveillance footage in the cell alone, any experimenter in the cell would probably think he was just sleeping.
No one could have expected that Ji Minghuan's consciousness had already left the dark cage and entered the body of another young man in Lijing.
Guyimai Community, Lijing, China.
Controlling the body of "Gu Wenyu", Ji Minghuan woke up from the bed in the room.
He opened his eyes and glanced at the time on the wall. It was now "five o'clock in the morning." He took out his phone from under his pillow, turned it on, and turned off the "Do Not Disturb" mode.
Suddenly there was a "ding" sound, and several WeChat messages popped up, all from the same person.
[Gu Qiye: The tickets have been booked. The flight is at 9pm. It only takes two or three hours from Lijing to Tokyo. After arriving in Tokyo, we will stay in a nearby hotel. I have also booked the hotel. It is right next to the airport.]
[Gu Qiye: Remember to inform your father and ask him to prepare in advance.]
Ji Minghuan yawned, smacked his lips, and typed a reply on the virtual keyboard of his phone.
In the darkness, the light from the screen illuminated his eyes, and tears of fatigue were still welling up in his eye sockets.
【Gu Wenyu: Oh. Then I’ll go call my dad. When I get to Tokyo, I want to go to Akihabara first. I heard that it’s the “holy land of otakus.”】
"We're leaving for Japan tonight, it's going so fast... I'm a little curious what my brother would think if he ran into my sister and her leader in Japan."
Ji Minghuan whispered to himself, opened the "Calendar" on the homepage and glanced at the date.
Today is July 12, 2020, and the Tokyo underground auction is about to start:
——There are still nine days left.
Notice: Because it involves some sensitive issues, the "instructor" in this article has been changed to "mentor". I hope everyone will not recognize the wrong person.
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