Volume 3 Winter Solstice Chapter 8 Dr. Jiang
Jiang You opened the door and walked downstairs quickly.
There was snow on the bench beside the building. He reached out and brushed it off before sitting down.
The wind is very cold.
He found a cigarette from his bag and lit it.
A student-looking couple came out of the building next door, walked past him holding hands, and headed towards the gate of the community.
Tang Butian walked out of the doorway and came to Jiang You. She asked, "What will happen to them?"
Jiang You did not answer but said: "The Special Operations Department should recruit some more people."
"Hiring people?"
"Hire someone who can read horoscopes, read feng shui and use a compass, with a strong intuition, and preferably a dog's nose, so it will be easy to find people."
"Yes, there was." Tang Butian said.
"And then?"
"I have no idea."
"It would be nice to recruit a little tiger."
"What?"
"If you don't know, just go check it out. Isn't Sun Yu doing archaeology? He should be able to find the home addresses of old employees. It's winter and I need to hibernate." Jiang You put out his cigarette and stood up. "Come on, take me around Tangjiang University. I haven't been in there yet."
After walking out of the community and forward along the street for a few hundred meters, you will see the gate of Tangjiang University.
The snow on the main road was swept on both sides.
Not far away, on the lawn in front of the teaching building, several girls wearing down jackets of different colors were playing in the snow, and their crisp laughter mixed with the sound of the wind.
"It's great to go to school," Jiang You took a sip of the milk tea he bought at the university gate and watched two girls in coats with books under their arms walk by. "I've wanted to go back to school for a while."
"read?"
"Yes, I have always wanted a doctorate degree so that people can call me Dr. Jiang. How domineering."
"oh."
"By the way, there are religious degrees, right? Can you use your connections to help me get a doctorate? Or I can go to school, take an exam, do a color blindness test, and then give me a degree certificate?"
"I have a final exam too."
"What are you going to do during the winter vacation? Will you continue to study English?"
"Recover from your injuries, fight again, and then recover from your injuries again."
Jiang You looked at her expression, which was very serious and seemed to be full of anticipation.
"The pattern on the floor of the living room carries a strong emotion," Jiang You walked to the long corridor beside the lawn and sat down. "I just searched on my phone. If you rent a room in this community, it will cost 80 yuan a day. If you rent a two-bedroom apartment like this, it probably won't be much lower than where I live. How much is the average monthly living expense for college students now?"
"Around two thousand?" Tang Butian was a little uncertain.
"I only had a little over a thousand yuan at that time, and I had to rely on my girlfriend for help at the end of the month." Jiang You recalled his college life.
"What do strong emotions represent?" Tang Butian brought the topic back.
"You see in novels, all kinds of animals have to cultivate to become humans first. Those fox spirits and the like, after becoming humans, have to fall in love with scholars and talented men." Jiang You finished the last sip of milk tea in the cup, then he squinted his eyes and looked at the trash can not far away, "I'm quite envious."
Tang Butian reached out, took the empty cup and threw it into the trash can.
The bell rang for the end of get out of class.
Jiang You adjusted his sitting position and looked at the students pouring out of the teaching building. "For small animals like spiders, their basic behavior is based on their genetic programming. Male spiders know they will be eaten after mating , but they still do it without hesitation."
"What are you implying?"
"No, no, it's the same with praying mantises. When the female mantis doesn't have enough food to give birth to a baby, the male mantis will feed it its own legs. After several legs are eaten, it will eat other parts. Reproduction is more important than life. But humans are different. More and more people are pursuing self-worth and don't want offspring."
“The point.”
"Only with emotions can you have a soul, and only with emotions can you break free from many things."
"Then what?"
"It has exchange value. If you want to feed gods and demons with any living thing, then how much easier it would be to just feed mealworms and cockroaches. Hundreds of millions of lives can be harvested easily. The pathogenic genes of fruit flies are 61% similar to human genes..."
"If you look at the myths of various countries, you will find that in the beginning, humans, gods and demons lived together. In fact, it is still the same now. There is no such boundary." Jiang You took off his glasses. "The powerful set the rules. From then on, ordinary people can only see the world within the rules."
"Rules?"
"Yes, emotions belong to the irrational part. They can be seen by those insects outside the rules. They will be attracted to them. They may be conscious, or have been given consciousness before, or they may be unconscious."
"So you are saying you don't know what will be summoned?" Tang Butian understood what Jiang You meant.
"yes."
"Didn't you say before that summoning requires a name, a symbol, a ritual, and a sacrifice?"
"That's the part where you're conscious and doing well, or at least doing well for a while."
"What about those who are unconscious?" Tang Butian asked.
"Does Feng Zheng know that when a walking dragon meets a human, if you say it is a dragon, it can transform into a dragon. If you say it is a snake, all its efforts will be wasted. Having no name means it is not restricted by rules, which also means it does not exist. Only with a name can it exist and be restricted. The stronger it is, the greater the restrictions, unless..." Jiang You paused, "That's probably the logic."
Jiang You said it casually, "So the first summon only requires emotions strong enough to break through rationality, and some chance. What it will become and what it will do depends on the person who summoned it and what it experiences afterwards. Whether it is a god or a demon depends on one thought. There are too many rules and restrictions now. Most of them are just a few days of sightseeing."
Jiang You put on his glasses and stood up. "So you need to find a Taoist priest or a Feng Shui master to find them. It could be Taoist Qingyang, a former employee of the Special Operations Department, or a friend on the mountain."
"And you?"
"I don't steal the same business."
Tang Butian looked at him suspiciously.
"Really? I've told you so much today. Is that enough for a doctoral dissertation?"
“We need to publish in core journals.”
“Do we still need to calculate the impact factor?”
"Tang is not sweet!" A clear female voice came from not far away.
Jiang You and Tang Butian looked up and saw a girl in a white down jacket walking towards them .
She looked familiar, Jiang You thought about it and realized that he had seen her at the comic convention in the summer.
"Li Sheng, is get out of class over?" Tang Butian stood up and greeted her.
"I signed in for you. I've highlighted the key points in today's class. Bring your books to the dormitory tonight and I'll help you highlight them." Li Sheng glanced at Jiang You and recognized him. "Hey, it's you!"
"It's me. I'm here to walk around the campus and reminisce about my youth."
"Did you graduate from Tangjiang University?" Li Sheng asked.
"No, I went to university in Jinkang."
"I see," Li Sheng turned to Tang Butian, "By the way, they said they're going to check the dormitories and won't let you live outside anymore. Do you want to move back?"
“Why do you want to check?”
"Two students had an accident while renting a house outside, and they haven't been found yet..."
