Chapter 178 Divination Hut
There were not many people in the small performance room. Heshia sat in the back row and watched the puppets on the stage. With the narration and dubbing, she gradually entered a fantasy and distant world.
The Third Age is a very distant era from now, but people nowadays are not unfamiliar with it, thanks to the performances and appearances in various games, scripts, and movies. Compared with the Fifth Age, which was avoided, and the Fourth Age, which was a peaceful and prosperous era, the Third Age is undoubtedly much more exciting.
Slowly, the performance on the stage gradually came to an end. Finally, the puppeteers and dubbing students in the backstage also came out to salute everyone. Although there were only seven or eight audiences in the audience, the applause was still very warm.
It can be seen that everyone likes this kind of performance very much, although it is not as gorgeous as those immersive movies.
After getting up, Heshia also walked to the front of the stage with her companions, observing the exquisitely crafted puppets with freshness and curiosity, and occasionally asking these students some questions.
"Did you make the puppets yourself?" Mel spoke first.
"Yes, but some of it was completed with the help of teachers and seniors." A student explained kindly, probably because he had just finished the performance and still felt satisfied and happy.
"Will this be expensive? I think the workmanship is complicated and it probably takes a lot of effort." Yilin was curious about the other side.
"It does take a lot of effort and time, but it's all worth it." Is
everything worth it? This sentence inadvertently floated through Heshia's heart and then dispersed.
"Are there many people watching? Although I like it very much, I am still worried that you don't have enough audience and it will be difficult to maintain in the future." Another student asked.
"It's a niche, but some people will still like it."
"That's good."
After that, everyone slowly dispersed, and Heshia followed Yilin and the others to leave. Just before leaving the performance room, she looked back and saw that the students were squatting in front of their dolls, carefully and meticulously checking and caring for them, just like cherished treasures. It
was already night when they left the venue, and Heshia 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 honeycomb capsule hotels were temporarily arranged for students to live in, otherwise it would not be enough to rely on hostels and hotels.
After a simple wash, Heshia and her companions ate something outside first, and then went back to sleep.
Because it is a place where students gather, there are several patrolling security robots around the capsule hotel. It is relatively safe and the surrounding lights are bright.
After entering the round cabin, people can sit up inside, probably because the students are not big.
At night, lying in bed, Heshia slowly fell asleep and had a long dream. In the dream, it was when 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 weird feeling.
Although she had indeed experienced similar situations, everything in the dream was always strange and weird, as if she was watching another completely different life. She could no longer remember the name of that classmate, and because of the height of the other party's parents when she was a child, she could only see the lower body. The voice of the other party's parents was particularly strange, which made people inexplicably afraid. During the whole process, she never dared to look up and never saw the other party's face.
Afterwards, she was invited by her classmates to play games, and the atmosphere eased a little. Finally, the memory in the dream stayed on the building block at her classmate's home. She seemed to have seen that building block when she was a child, giving her a familiar feeling. At this time, she was suddenly startled and woke up.
Holding her forehead, Heshia half sat up and leaned against the side of the capsule. She turned on the warm yellow light inside and slowly calmed down.
What happened recently? I always feel a little uneasy. Heshia leaned against the capsule, took a deep breath, and calmed herself down.
Could it be that I have been thinking too much recently? Heshia shook her head.
She didn't dare to sleep now, fearing that she would have the same nightmare again, so she put on her coat, got out of the capsule, and prepared to take a walk.
It was already past 2 o'clock in the morning. Although the lights were bright outside, there were only a few students chatting, and occasionally someone came out to use the toilet.
Walking into the washroom next to her and washing her face, Heshia looked at herself in the mirror. There was not much change from the past. Then she closed her eyes and slowly opened them again. The girl in the mirror showed blue pupils and long black hair.
No, it shouldn't be the interference of her sister. Heshia felt silently in her heart and found no trace of Themisia.
They were born twins. Although her sister was very likely to be resurrected in her body, this feeling was also two-way, and the other party could not hide it from her.
Since it was not the influence of Themisia, why was it? After all, this is an extraordinary world, and it is not surprising that there are secret techniques that interfere with dreams and memories.
After washing her face, Heshia walked out of the room and came outside.
This is a cave entrance on the hillside not far from Huilong Temple. Inside the cave entrance is a wide and empty cave tunnel, and outside is a mountain forest. However, there is a winding road below, and there are also sporadic lights on the opposite side of the mountain not far away, with some buildings scattered around. It
is winter in the north. Although it is warmer because of the mountains, it is only 3-4° outside at night.
Wearing pajamas, Heshia woke up quickly after being blown by the cold wind. She first took a walk outside for a while, and then found a big stone to sit down. The moon tonight is very round, and it is not dark even at night, or very "bright".
The cold white moonlight shines on the mountains and woods. The girl in white pajamas sits alone on the stone, looking up. Everything under the moonlight is so cold and bright.
With her hands behind her back, Heshia slowly closed her eyes and felt the night wind blowing. Although it was a bit cold, it didn't have much impact because the physique of the extraordinary was far superior to that of ordinary people.
The state of mind is unstable, Heshia commented on herself.
Although it seems that she has moved away from the timid and inferior self she once was, this leap has not yet been tempered by the true gold and fire, and there is still some uneasiness hidden in her heart.
It is difficult for people to gain spiritual enlightenment through so-called reading or understanding. They still need some things to verify and experience, so that they can slowly stabilize.
She thought she had let it go, but in fact she had not. There was still a slight shadow in her heart that had not dissipated.
Does the pain of childhood really need a lifetime to heal? Heshia couldn't help but cover her forehead, feeling a little subtly discouraged.
After opening her eyes again and jumping off the stone, Heshia continued to walk, but this time she was not as "calm" as usual, and kicked the small stones on the roadside.
She always thought that she was a kind and good-tempered person, but today she subtly discovered that it was not entirely true. The so-called kindness was just another manifestation of "fear". She was just afraid of being denied, so she used the image and method that everyone liked to deal with the problem.
"What? It's disgusting." After kicking another stone away, Heshia said to herself, and 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 relieved.
Suddenly, she remembered something again, and a silent fear spread from the soles of her feet to herself.
She remembered, she remembered everything. The classmate who invited her to play at home in the dream was herself, so she felt a sense of weirdness and strangeness. People are often the most familiar and the least familiar with their own faces.
The parents of the classmate whose faces she couldn't see clearly were her parents. Why was the block so familiar? It was because she had found the block when she was tidying up her house a few years ago. However, the change of scenes made her forget the origin of the block.
The childhood classmate in the dream was so well-behaved and obedient, but it made Heshia feel a kind of fear and weirdness in the dark. 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 reluctance and sadness in her eyes.
Yes, what she feared most was actually herself. She was afraid that everything would return to the way it was, and that the well-behaved and weird childhood self would replace the current self again. Now all the so-called growth was just an illusion.
The growth of strength came too fast, so fast that it seemed unreal to her, and she had accumulated a lot of anxiety and fear in her heart without realizing it. Because of her mother's death, her father's departure, and her sister's fight, she no longer had any safe haven to confide in, and she could only keep everything in her heart.
"So fragile." Heshia squatted down, picked up a stone on the ground, and threw it out, and the panic in her heart dissipated a little.
"You magnify a small thing, always think so much, and worry so much." Heshia complained to herself again, then continued to pick up a stone and flew out.
Although she was talking to herself, she really felt better after she finished speaking.
After stamping her feet and feeling better, Heshia didn't want to throw stones anymore, so she walked back to the mountain path and prepared to return.
However, when she turned around, she caught a glimpse of a black figure standing in a corner not far from her side, which frightened her again, but she soon calmed down. She forced herself to turn around and walk towards there, and then she found that it was just an illusion formed by the gaps in the shadows of the tree branches under the moonlight.
Hessia breathed a sigh of relief again, and did not leave. Instead, she continued to wander in the forest until she saw nothing suspicious, then returned to her residence and entered the capsule. The small environment gave her a sense of security.
"Good night." She said to herself, and then slowly closed her eyes and went to sleep, but the warm yellow night light was not turned off.
Hessia finally remembered something. In fact, she was still afraid of the dark, and even more afraid of ghost stories. Now she didn't want to hide this.
It's better to sleep with the lights on than to have nightmares.
Although it took a long time to fall asleep in the second half of the night, she finally settled down tonight and stopped dreaming. She didn't wake up until dawn.
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"Good morning, Heshia."
The next day, Mel rubbed his eyes and sat in front of the girl. Irene was much more energetic. She also bought breakfast for the two of them.
"Eat something." She said, putting bread and milk on the table.
The three of them ate breakfast and talked about today's plan. After eating, Heshia tore the remaining bread to feed the big spider at her feet.
"Is there any venue you really want to go to, Heshia?" Irene asked at this time.
"No, let me think. By the way, I want to go to the Three-phase Moon Academy. It is said that it is a school dedicated to training witches. It is very old."
"No problem, add it to the itinerary." Irene entered the new location and arrangement on the projection screen.
After finishing breakfast, the three continued to visit the venues on site. This continued until the afternoon, when they came to the venue of the Three-phase Moon Academy.
After entering, the first thing the three of them felt was darkness. The building was deliberately dimmed, and a crescent moon hung on the dome. A path stretched into the hills, and a mushroom hut with a pumpkin lantern lit up on the roadside.
Following the instructions in front of the hut, the three of them prepared to ask questions and divinations, and walked into the mushroom hut. Then the door closed, and the candlelight in the room lit up. A masked witch was sitting behind a round table with a dark purple tablecloth. She was wearing a witch's dress that was mainly black, and there were various gems and mysterious patterns on her body.
If this witch lady was not sleeping, she would probably be very impressive.
Mel shook the witch lady, and then she slowly raised her head and yawned. This greatly destroyed Heshia's imagination of witches. To be honest, the one she knew that best fit the image of a witch should be that prince, the silver-haired sage in the forest, the omnipotent miracle witch.
"Hello, is there anything?" The witch adjusted her hat and finally started to work.
"It is said that you can do divination here." Yilin found a seat and sat down, then pulled Heshia over.
"Yes, but it's 600 federal coins per time. This is a reasonable price. If it weren't for the fact that you haven't graduated yet, it would definitely be more." The witch lady spoke again, and Heshia took the opportunity to take a good look at her.
Caramel red hair, wine red eyes, slightly heavy eye shadow that seemed to be caused by poor sleep, a slim black dress covering the whole body, and a witch dress on the outside, star and moon pendants on both earlobes, red rope bracelets woven with some special patterns on the wrists, black and red night-scented flower high heels at the feet, but they were not worn at this time, just the feet wrapped in stockings stepped on the paper pad, probably because it was more comfortable.
Lazy, but sleep-deprived, dressed appropriately, but unkempt, the girl commented in her heart.
"I want to tell the fortune for the next year." In fact, Yilin was just curious and didn't care too much about the real results.
"This is very simple. Let me look for it." After saying that, the witch took out a deck of cards from the cabinet beside her and placed it on the table.
"Come and draw one."
"Don't you need to shuffle this?" Irene was skeptical.
"When I take out the cards, the wheel of fate has already started to turn, and all your and my actions are in it." Her voice suddenly became ethereal, and her body sat up straight without knowing when.
"Okay." Irene took out a card from the card and turned it over under the instructions of the other party.
The exquisite card depicted a traveler on the road. He was carrying a package and walking on the road in a dusty manner. Behind him was a small village with smoke rising from the chimneys. In front of him was a dog half-raised and barking. At this time, the traveler also took a half step back, holding his wooden stick for travel in his hand.
"The Traveler and the Dog on the Road, this card has a lot of meanings." The witch held up the card, closed one eye, and spoke in a mysterious tone.
"There is a saying, 'When a dog walks on the road, a stick also walks on the road.' That's right, even if you don't want it, all kinds of difficulties will find you."
"A dog that walks on the road for too long will always meet a stick, and a person holding a stick will always meet a vicious dog."
"The traveler was just passing through the village, but the dog thought he was a thief and wanted to bite him, so the traveler had to take out the stick to defend himself."
"This indicates that your career will make progress, but you will also be envied by some people, or bad people will block your way and put you in trouble. Fortunately, you are not completely powerless to resist, don't you have a stick in your hand?"
"Of course, if it is pulled out in reverse, it means another level."
"You are just a puppy who wants to go home, but the traveler thinks you want to bite him, so he picks up the stick in his hand to hit you. This indicates your innocence and implies some possible loss, because the traveler is carrying a package, perhaps stolen from the village where you live."
"Both have the implication of innocent people encountering trouble, but one is more about gaining and the other is more about losing."
Yilin was thoughtful after listening to this, while Mel beside her had stars in her eyes and was full of admiration.
"I want to do divination too."
"What are you praying for, my lovely little sister?"
"I want to know when I can become a powerful trainer of Sequence 5, no, Sequence 6!" Mel raised the Gray Moon Cat in her hand and spoke excitedly.
"Then you can draw the cards too." After saying that, she tapped the table lightly, and the cards began to move, spinning several times, and then fell back and were neatly arranged.
She spread it with one hand, like a precise fan, which made Mel exclaim, and the witch lady opposite was even more proud.
Mel reached out, carefully pulled out a card, and then turned it over.
The card depicted four young men, one of whom was sitting on a horizontal tree branch holding a lyre and playing it, one was standing under the tree playing a flute, with his body slightly bent, and under the tree in the middle of the card, one was singing loudly, one hand on his chest and one hand stretched out, and the last one was resting his hands under the tree and covering his eyes with a hat, as if he was sleeping, but there was a circle of bells hanging on his toes, shaking occasionally, as if he was joining the ensemble.
The four people were all wearing clothes of the same style but different colors. Judging from their appearance, they should be four brothers, but because of the performance of the picture, the young man singing under the tree in the middle was more dazzling and eye-catching.
"'Ensemble under the Tree', this is a card with a good meaning, but it is not clear." The witch lady explained.
"From the picture, the four of them have no worries and are very united. They are happily gathered together to play music, but upon closer inspection, the four of them have slightly different personalities and statuses. The most dazzling one is the one singing, followed by the young man holding a harp and playing the guitar on the tree, then the man bending over and playing the flute under the tree, and the last is the young man lying half asleep at the roots of the tree."
"From this card, your future should not have too many hardships and will be very smooth. Even the people around you will be very nice to you. But because of this, your future is also uncertain. You may become the most dazzling young man singing, or you may just be the young man who is half asleep under the tree. The existence of the big tree is both a background and a kind of support, which means that you are well taken care of by your elders."
"Well, that is to say, the future is promising, but if you don't work hard, you will become a nobody, right?" Mel analyzed with a little distress.
"That's right, you are such a smart little cutie~"
"If you draw the front side, it means a good card. If you draw the back side, it means the building will collapse, the elders and the backers will collapse, the four people will be on the verge of separation, and the most dazzling one will fall the hardest." The witch shook her head, lamenting the different life experiences.
"Finally, it's your turn, my black-haired sister, what do you wish for and what do you hope to know?" Although Heshia did not take the initiative to speak, the other party came to her, and there was a mysterious light flashing in her wine-red eyes.
(End of this chapter)
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