Mystery: Higher-Dimensional Overlookers

Chapter 501 "High Dimension"

hallucinations.

The hallucinations came back to me again.

Zhou Mingrui held his forehead, trying to make the horrific hallucinations in front of his eyes disappear, but the scene around him was changing rapidly, as if Xiao You was dragging him into that terrifying and strange world again.

But just after Zhou Mingrui opened his eyes, he saw one black line after another emerging in front of him. These black lines were thick and thin, densely spread in the air, and seemed to vaguely form a human shape.

After seeing the human figure made up of black lines, just a moment later, Zhou Mingrui felt that everything around him had returned to normal. When he raised his head and looked at Gao Wei in front of him, warm golden sunlight had already sprinkled on the table in front of them.

Zhou Mingrui saw Gao Wei's slightly gray eyes staring at the tarot cards on the table.

The reversed "Tower", the upright "Fool", the reversed "Death" and the reversed "Star", the four cards are lined up in a row, reflecting some light under the sun.

"What does it mean?" Looking at the cards, Zhou Mingrui said to "Gao Wei" with some confusion. "Gao Wei" was silent for a moment and put his hand on the reversed "Tower" on the table.

"This card represents your view of your current situation and implies your current situation. This card is the most bad card in all the major arcana, but the reversed "Tower" also represents that there is still a glimmer of hope around the predicament you are in now."

"And 'Fool' represents your current state."

Gao Wei said meaningfully to Zhou Mingrui in front of him: "The Fool represents your courage and your opportunities, but it also indicates that you are on the brink of danger. This card is a true reflection of your spiritual world, but when interpreted together with the inverted tower that symbolizes your situation, you are more like walking on the edge of a cliff."

"Of course, this is the development of the thing you want to divine. You are also a 'diviner'. You know exactly what you want to divine, and you should have your own interpretation of this card."

Zhou Mingrui nodded silently in his heart. He certainly knew what he wanted to divine. What he wanted to divine was the changes in his hallucinations and whether the mysterious power he obtained from the hallucinations was safe.

"So what's the next card?" Zhou Mingrui continued to ask, while Gao Wei moved his finger to the next two cards:

"This represents the future and the future beyond. So we want to connect the reversed 'Death' and the reversed 'Star' together."

"Death is the most misunderstood card, and so is the reversed Star."

“The Star represents hope, but when the card is upside down, hope is shattered. However, the reversed Death brings you a ray of hope, which may represent a turning point. When you face death with the courage given to you by the Fool, your destiny will change after you get this hope.”

Zhou Mingrui pondered for a while: "So what is the end point of this choice?"

"It depends on you, Zhou Mingrui." Gao Wei shuffled the tarot cards he had just dealt back into the deck, pushed them in front of Zhou Mingrui, and said to him:
"Draw one, this is your destiny."

Zhou Mingrui took a deep breath, touched the top of the deck with his fingers, and turned out the top card.

--"world".

"This is a card with a good meaning."

Gao Wei whispered, "You are the world, and you will become the world."

"From the tarot cards you drew, I can see that you have a deep obsession with the question you want to ask. So what exactly did you encounter that made you have such an idea?"

Zhou Mingrui remained silent and pondered for a long time:
"Actually, I've been struggling with my health lately."

"...Health problems?" Gao Wei was silent for a moment, then he said to Zhou Mingrui, "Oh, then your question is professionally relevant. I am actually a doctor, a psychologist."

"Although I can't help you thoroughly check what disease you have like other professional doctors. But I can still help you take a simple look. Well, of course, it is more likely that after I check your health condition, I will recommend you to go to a regular hospital for another check-up."

Psychologist? Is this just a coincidence? Zhou Mingrui was stunned. When he could see hallucinations and the hallucinations were getting worse, he met a psychologist who had a good relationship with him. This was just like someone giving him a pillow when he was sleepy.

He felt that this seemed too much of a coincidence. He paused for a moment, then spoke slowly:
"Actually, I have a psychological illness and I've been having very strong hallucinations lately."

"Hallucination?" Gao Wei looked a little interested: "Tell me about it in detail?"

"It's like this. Some time ago, I accidentally fell and hit the back of my head, and then I found that I could see certain hallucinations from time to time."

Zhou Mingrui crossed his hands on the table in front of him, recalling his experiences during this period and describing his mental symptoms:
"This hallucination is not a sudden auditory or visual hallucination, but the surrounding scenery suddenly changes into something like another world. For example, I once saw this kitten as a girl, and the park as a strange black forest."

Of course, the world in the illusion and the reality are almost identical, which is why Zhou Mingrui chose to open his heart at this moment. Because no matter whether the "high dimension" in front of him is really a psychologist or not, he is ready to see a psychologist.

Zhou Mingrui was particularly concerned about the improvements in his physical fitness that he gained from the "hallucination".

"I see." After Gao Wei patiently listened to Zhou Mingrui's story, he frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded to Zhou Mingrui:
"In that case, let's get out of here first. The environment here may give you some different feelings from the outside world, which will make it easier for you to fall into a deeper hallucination when you describe the hallucination and when I interpret it."

"Well... you should have a broad range of knowledge and should be able to understand what I mean. This is the impact of the environment on your mental state. So when I help you interpret your current situation, I hope to put you in a relatively safer environment."

In any case, Zhou Mingrui, a psychology enthusiast and Internet polymath, obviously believed more in the "high dimension" that looked more professional. After putting Alice into the cat bag, the two of them and the cat walked out of the Fortune Teller Club.

Zhou Mingrui originally thought that "Gao Wei" would take him to a hospital or a cafe, but he watched helplessly as "Gao Wei" twisted and turned in the alleys and took him to another block.

"Okay, let's stay here when we get there - Boss, do you have a private room?"

Zhou Mingrui looked around and raised his eyebrows. He was a little confused about Gao Wei's professionalism, because the place where Gao Wei took Zhou Mingrui was not a clinic or a cafe, but a barbecue stall.

"Yes, yes, please come in." The boss called the waiter and asked him to take Gao Wei and Zhou Mingrui inside. Gao Wei made some marks on the menu the waiter handed over, and turned to Zhou Mingrui and said:
"Do you think that bringing you here is not a place where I can listen to your psychological problems?"

Who would think that a barbecue stall could provide psychological counseling? Zhou Mingrui nodded honestly, while Gao Wei smiled and said to him, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised:

"I have already made some estimates about this. As for why I brought you to this place instead of somewhere else, it is because I know you better. For you, being in a place with more fireworks atmosphere will be better for your condition.

"Of course, if customers prefer other places, I will take them there, but I think the barbecue stall is more suitable for you."

Indeed... Zhou Mingrui nodded silently: "I'll pay this time."

The milk tea was also paid for by Gao Wei, and Gao Wei also took him to the Fortune Teller Club. Gao Wei obviously did not intend to charge him for consulting fees this time, so Zhou Mingrui was naturally embarrassed to let Gao Wei treat him again.

"Row."

Gao Wei turned to the waiter and said, "Five more roasted lamb kidneys."

Zhou Mingrui suddenly felt better.

After a small joke between the two, Gao Wei smiled and said to Zhou Mingrui, "Okay, it will probably take a while for the skewers to come up. It's getting late now, and there are still many people eating skewers here at this time."

"Now let's get back to your earlier hallucination."

After saying this, Gao Wei paused for a moment, then said to Zhou Mingrui with a smile:
"Is there a possibility that it's not an illusion?"

"…It's not an illusion?" Zhou Mingrui muttered, "If it's not an illusion, then what else could it be?"

After he subconsciously said this, Zhou Mingrui began to have some doubts about it. The improvement in his physical fitness did not seem fake at all, and this might be something that the illusion had given him.

"There are truly extraordinary abilities in this world."

"Gao Wei" smiled and slowly made a cross on his chest with his hands. However, Zhou Mingrui opened his eyes wide at this simple action, because after "Gao Wei" drew the shape of a cross with his fingers, a golden cross emitting golden light was actually left in the air.

"What do you mean?" Zhou Mingrui spoke slowly. The golden tabby cat in the blind spot of his sight suddenly calmed down, with a little darkness and fine silk flowing in his eyes. He quietly watched the two people in front of him, like an "audience" standing aside.

"This may be the source of your ability." Gao Wei said, "Everyone has hidden talent in their heart. To put it another way, everything has divinity."

"And the so-called hallucination you saw was a sign that the divinity in your heart was gradually awakening. It gave you the ability to see another level of reality, and also brought you superhuman talents and traits."

"And to verify whether this is the case for you, have you recently felt that there are some abnormal conditions lurking around you?"

"Yes..." Zhou Mingrui was silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Yes."

"Gao Wei" made a gesture, signaling Zhou Mingrui to continue. After organizing his words, Zhou Mingrui slowly spoke:
"Recently I always feel that my brother and sister, Zhou Mingsen and Zhou Mingli, have become different people. It gives me a strange feeling, as if I feel that they are not my brother and sister, but just strangers who look like them."

"And I always feel like I shouldn't have a brother and a sister. And I've been having dreams recently. In my dreams, I seem to have become another person. My attitude towards people around me is just like the attitude towards NPCs when I play games."

"This is a sign of awakening for every Beyonder. Just accept your 'divinity'."

Gao Wei nodded. "It is because your power is gradually awakening that you feel unfamiliar with everything around you. This is a very normal phenomenon. For example, you have seen less reality recently. This is also a sign that your control over your overflowing spiritual power has become stronger."

Is that so? Zhou Mingrui still felt something was wrong, but he said nothing. He nodded and picked up the golden tabby cat next to him.

He seemed to see a picture of the waiter preparing to push the door open. Zhou Mingrui subconsciously picked up the kitten next to him to prevent it from "escaping" to the outside world through the open door.

While picking up the kitten, Zhou Mingrui and the kitten's eyes met. He saw that half of the cat's eyes were dark, and the other half were densely covered with fine silk threads. As the silk threads completely dispelled the quiet darkness, these silk threads suddenly enlarged and enveloped Zhou Mingrui.

After the silk thread covered the surroundings, Zhou Mingrui suddenly opened his eyes and found that the world around him had turned into the horrible and strange world in the hallucination again.

A familiar voice came from across from him:
"you're awake?"

Zhou Mingrui looked up suddenly and found that in this distorted world, the appearance of "higher dimension" had not changed at all.

The only difference was that the eyes that were covered with a faint gray before were now extremely bright. In those eyes, one after another fine blue silk threads floated in the eyes of "Gao Wei".

Gao Wei pursed his lips and asked, "What did I say to you just now that surprised you so much?"

(End of this chapter)