Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 418 Chapter 127.5

At the end of the month, there are all kinds of things… Today, there is only one update for the main text. This chapter promotes a new book, "Miss Detective's Exorcist Notes", which is open on the Shao Nian Meng Reading. However, it is not expected to be too long. It is a horror novel about rule-based weird stories, classified as horror suspense and magic suspense. I tried the first-person mode, so this chapter is just a setting chapter. Friends who subscribe automatically can go to the book club to grab red envelopes at noon tomorrow to get back their money.

——This is the dividing line set by the Exorcist——

My name is Wu Ju, Wu means the capital of the Three Wus, Ju means no desires and no guilt, and I live at No. 42 Tongqu Road.

I couldn't resist Celia's constant persuasion, so I finally agreed to work with her to compile this notebook. I have to say, regardless of how much she can learn from Mr. Holmes in terms of reasoning, at least in terms of eloquence, she has probably surpassed him.

However, I'm not a good storyteller, and what I tell isn't as interesting as what Celia said, so I hope you don't mind.

If anyone can read this far, it means you have already read what Celia introduced in the previous chapter. I hope you don't think I'm a weirdo because of this. After all, I'm just an exorcist who likes to play chess with the old men in the community and dance with the old ladies.

What? You're asking me what's going on with exorcists?

Oh, who can say it well?

He is both a Taoist priest and a monk, a witch doctor and a religious believer, knows both golden magic and Feng Shui, is good at ritual arrays and knows divination and summoning immortals...

In short, the Exorcist is such a complicated being.

After all, although the development of my hometown is not very good, what is the saying? We should move towards internationalization. However, there are more than just people who respond to the call. Those [weirdos] are much more sensitive to subtle changes in human society than we are.

[Weird] It may be caused by the flow of Feng Shui, or the migration of earth veins; it may be born from weddings or funerals, or be born from birth, old age, sickness and death.

When a person is born, a monster is born too; but when a person dies, the monster will not disappear. At this time, an exorcist is needed.

Of course, exorcist is a very popular term. We actually have our own name for this profession, which is the "weirdos" in the title of this chapter.

In ancient Chinese, "zhi" means to record, and "zhiguairen" as the name suggests is a type of people who record and fight against weirdness.

We have many ways to fight against monsters. In order to fight against different kinds of monsters, people in strange stories usually prepare props of various schools.

For example, werewolves are afraid of silver, vampires are afraid of the sun, and zombies have to be dealt with with things like black dog blood or glutinous rice; these settings often appear in various horror movies, and even elementary school students are very clear about them.

However, no matter how many small props modern psychics develop to replace the necessary elements for casting spells, the outfits of psychics are definitely not as handsome as a fully armed soldier. Rather than a fighter fighting against mystery, they are more like a housewife who has just raided the two-dollar store on the street.

In today's world where mysticism is weakening, most fears are caused by insufficient firepower. Therefore, many people think that it is better to find an excellent fully automatic weapon than to spend a lot of effort to learn the mystical knowledge.

Of course, this idea does make sense. After all, although [weirdness] does not follow universal rules, as long as they want to have an impact on reality, destroying their corresponding carriers in reality can theoretically solve all problems.

……

Did you think I would say that?
(The owner of the handwriting seemed to be very emotional when he wrote this, and he pierced the paper of the diary)
Ultimately, people who think this way should not be on the front line against the mystery. Simply eliminating the carrier does not solve the mystery at all, it just cuts off the means by which it affects reality in the original way.

So, let us first clarify a concept -

The world that exists in [Weird] is connected to our world in a way unknown to humans.

Normally, these "monsters" and humans live in independent time and space, without interfering with each other and living in peace. In the words of Western mysticism, the place where they live is called the spiritual world, which has its own unique rules.

Things with spirituality in the real world have detailed correspondences in the spiritual world, but this correspondence is vague and not strictly one-to-one, similar to the low-dimensional world and the high-dimensional world. For ease of understanding, I will explain these things in a simple way using dimensionality reduction.

As I write this, Celia is sitting on a bench, eating watermelon in an ungraceful manner, spilling the juice on the floor.

Simply put, the detective lady sitting next to me and I, the watermelon in her hand and the pen in my hand, correspond to a unique piece of information in the spiritual world. Our existence itself is represented as points in the spiritual world, and the trajectory of life is a line; the whole world at a certain moment is represented as a surface in the spiritual world, and then through the passage of time, an infinitely extended spiritual world is formed.

Whether it is the detective lady eating the watermelon or the sloppy vampire that suddenly appears sucking human blood, in the eyes of the weirdos, the essence is the same, that is, they are all entangled in the trajectories of the spiritual world.

Having said that, perhaps some smart people can understand why I said that supernatural events cannot be resolved by violent means.

If a person in reality encounters a supernatural event, it means that his life trajectory (curve) intersects with a [weird] trajectory (surface); then using realistic, forceful means to solve the problem is to cut off the part of his life that intersects with the [weird] on another surface that contains his life trajectory and symbolizes reality.

Obviously, the trajectory of life is not infinite. After cutting off this part, it will be difficult for that person to live happily as usual.

In addition to the obvious reduction in lifespan, the broken life trajectory will shift horizontally and automatically bridge the gap, which may intertwine with more lines and surfaces, causing his destiny to change unpredictably.

In comparison, the work of the weirdo is much more detailed.

Based on the correspondences hidden in the inherited mystical knowledge, we can solve problems in a gentler way.

For example, find a curve that includes every line segment where the victim's life line intersects with the weird life line. This curve can be the curve of silverware, the curve of holy water, the curve of yellow paper, or the curve of cinnabar. Use this curve to replace the part that intersects with the weird, so as to avoid a gap in the other party's fate.

This curved surface, which includes all the curves for solving problems, is called "mysticism" by humans, and the intersection of the curved surface symbolizing reality and "mysticism" is the life trajectory of countless exorcists.

Therefore, the magic of the people in the story of the strange can sometimes cause earth-shaking effects, and sometimes can only stir up a small wave. However, the former is not necessarily better than the latter, this is what I want to say.

(End of this chapter)