131: Chapter 131: He is defining our world

"Holy crap, Big Boss Zheng, is it already confirmed?"

"It's really recorded? And in an obscure ancient text at that?"

"How the hell can he fake this? Unless he has a team planting clues beforehand."

"This is terrifying when you think about it, brothers. If Wen Gu is real, then what follows... I dare not imagine!"

"Is it possible that Xiaoyu's brother saw this ancient text and is just playing tricks in the livestream?"

"That's possible, but I know our brother's personality, he wouldn't do that!"

"So Earth Consciousness, Soul Splitting, damn it, maybe they aren't nonsense?"

"I feel like materialism is starting to get tainted!"

"I'm getting goosebumps all over; I urgently need a scientific explanation."

"To the person above, science is also a new type of religion, get it?"

"..."

Clearly, Zheng Ming's statement inadvertently caused Jiang Zhe's popularity to bloom a second time.

Some followers searched for Xiaoyu's brother's Weibo, but unfortunately, they could only find Jiang Xiaoyu's Weibo.

And that one was fake; Jiang Xiaoyu hadn't even registered for Weibo at all.

...

At this time, in a remote village in the southwest.

In the back hall of an old, small temple.

An old woman with white hair, dressed in simple black clothing, had just finished a simple calming ritual for the last household.

Her grandson, a young man in his early twenties, suddenly handed her his phone with an excited look.

"Grandma, Grandma!"

"Look at this quickly! There's someone online livestreaming Wen Gu. He asked four times in one night: Republic of China, Qing Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Northern Song Dynasty. It sounds so realistic, the internet is in an uproar right now! Plus, the master of Sinology, Zheng Ming, published that Weibo post about his call record with a history professor."

Grandma slowly wiped her hands and glanced at the phone her grandson handed over, which showed a screen recording of Jiang Zhe's Wen Gu livestream.

She curiously took the phone, watched the footage carefully, and had her grandson flip through the related discussions and screenshots.

Especially the footage of the four consecutive Wen Gu sessions and the close-ups of his facial expressions made this Third Grandma's expression gradually become serious.

"Four dynasties in one night, touching upon the thought of near-death?"

She shook her head, looked at her ignorant grandson, and began to explain calmly:

"He is not just doing ordinary spirit walking or passing through borders; this is the true skill of Traveling the Great Void in Taoism, traversing the long river of time."

"According to old sayings, this causes immense depletion to the [Spirit]; let alone asking four dynasties in one night, anyone with even a little cultivation would need to recuperate for a month after asking just once, even slightly clearly; it's common to be mentally lethargic for dozens of days."

"To be able to be like him, sitting and talking after asking, and tutoring his sister with such clear logic..."

Grandma took a deep breath and gave her verdict:

"This person is either a psychic with terrifyingly gifted talent, or his [Spirit] is so strong that he is no longer a person of our mortal world."

"Grandma doesn't understand what he says about Earth, souls, experiences, and such, but this skill of Wen Gu is likely not fake, nor is it something that can be faked."

"Grandma, you..." the grandson asked in surprise, "Then that last one, He Su of the Northern Song Dynasty? Could it be real? Did he really ask that Northern Song civil official?"

Grandma rolled her eyes at her grandson, "What's the matter of real or not? Grandma can also ask to the Qing Dynasty. Any further back, I can't see clearly; and I dare not ask."

"Then, Grandma, is he really not a mortal?"

Grandma stood up and waved her hand impatiently, "He is the Twenty-Eight Mansions descended to earth, an existence without precedent. Alright, get lost, get lost, go to sleep!"

"Hiss~~"

The grandson was stunned, his hair standing on end.

He had never heard his highly respected grandmother, a famous spirit medium in dozens of nearby villages, give such high praise to someone or something in the circle!!!

Matters regarding such masters of metaphysics quickly fermented within the metaphysics circle!

...

Huaqing University, inside the faculty building.

Professor Guan and Dr. Li Mo were also completely sleepless.

The evidence online regarding He Su indicated that they had naturally seen it too.

This shocked them even more; as scientific researchers, they didn't want to ask about Wen Gu, but rather wanted to ask about counter-intuition, sparking a desire to investigate.

"No, just pondering it ourselves is useless." Professor Guan looked at his watch, "It's only 1:30, we need to find an old guy to ask, to verify this counter-intuitive phenomenon; whether it has any basis in psychology, and whether it's truly universally abnormal!"

He thought of the psychology professor: Professor Zhao Chengfeng, a big shot who has done a lot of research on abnormal psychological phenomena and cognitive boundaries.

And he lived in the building next door.

"At this hour, Professor Zhao is probably still awake; he often stays up late bragging online." Li Mo analyzed, "Let's go find him!"

The two put on their coats, braving the chill of Kyoto, and arrived at Professor Zhao's door.

The door opened quickly. Professor Zhao was in silver pajamas, holding an open book in his hand. There was no sleepiness on his face, only surprise when he saw the two, "Hmm? Little Li, Old Guan, what's up, so late?"

Professor Guan got straight to the point: "Old Zhao, sorry to bother you, we might have encountered some sleepless matters, or seemingly universal phenomena, and we want to hear your professional opinion."

"Come in and talk."

He welcomed them in and poured them each a cup of hot water.

"Phenomena? What is it about?"

Dr. Li Mo on the sofa quickly explained: "It's about personal experiences of counter-intuition, such as a precognitive phone call at a certain moment, or a sudden sense of strangeness in a familiar place, and even an intuition at a critical moment that doesn't belong to oneself, and that intuition often leads to inhuman consequences."

Old Professor Zhao, sitting on the opposite sofa, relaxed his casual expression slightly, his expression gradually becoming focused.

"Tell me specifically, where did you come into contact with these cases, how many are there, and how specific are the descriptions?"

Guan Jingming and Li Mo looked at each other, knowing that tonight, another professor would likely be shocked to the point of scalp numbness.

Professor Guan and Li Mo took some time to present the clipped segments of counter-intuitive cases to Professor Zhao.

After watching, Professor Zhao showed a faint smile of indifference and began to analyze:

"Phone precognition is most likely a vague prediction of life patterns by the subconscious, or it was reinforced by the person's brain memory after the coincidence occurred; because humans like to feel superior, humans like to become magical, and humans prefer to be unique."

"Déjà vu is a typical momentary stutter of the brain's familiarity processing system. In Quantum Mechanics, the human brain is a biological computer, and all computers will stutter; for example, the ones that stutter the most easily are kittens, kittens have very low IQ; they often stutter due to conditioned reflexes; although we humans are higher-level organisms, we also stutter."

"Shared hallucinations? Group suggestion? This is a collective perception error caused by external factors; it's very normal."

"The demon in the brain... in psychology, this is [ourselves]... hmm... it doesn't seem to explain it either."

Professor Zhao shook his head slightly. He really couldn't explain this point using psychology, "As for the skipped processes..."

"This is also simple. Under mechanical movement, a person subjectively ignores the [mechanical process]; during the [waiting process], once the person does something they like, time will speed up rapidly; it is caused by the person's weakened perception of time."

After watching these cases, Professor Zhao shook his head slightly, "These phenomena can all find frameworks in psychology, although the mechanisms are not yet fully clear; but they are far from mysterious; this speaker packaging them together is actually just a narrative technique to attract Xiaoyu to keep listening."

Professor Guan did not refute, but just operated the tablet and brought up another clip—

From the plasticine to the demonstration of soul splitting, then to the transplant cases, followed by the demon in the brain, and finally to the hypothesis of individual souls collecting experiences for the Earth soul.

"Old Zhao!" Professor Guan looked at Old Zhao, "Then, what if, before proposing these phenomena, the speaker had already proven that [consciousness can be split], [can exist independently], and that the first human soul originated from this super-consciousness of Earth?"

"These counter-intuitive phenomena he mentioned, including the demon in the brain, are all fine-tuning and interventions carried out by the Earth consciousness on everyone in order to obtain diversified [experience data]."

Li Mo, on the side, added: "And he initially demonstrated Wen Gu. One of the times, he connected to the Northern Song official He Su. We found a recorded fragment of a dream of a man in red robes in the miscellaneous notes of He Su's younger brother, *Yu Jian*, and the content matches perfectly!"

"I can be sure, he is not playing tricks or faking it, he really has this ability!"

The smile on Zhao Chengfeng's face stopped abruptly.

He took the tablet, quickly dragged the progress bar, and stared intensely at the soul splitting and medical cases, and the inference of Earth consciousness.

When he saw Jiang Zhe explain [whispers of the demon in the brain] as Earth carrying out [malicious guidance] on individuals whose [experience script is already completed], his pupils constricted, and goosebumps suddenly rose.

He immediately pressed the pause button.

In the living room, there was dead silence.

Old Zhao slowly raised his head, his eyes showing some shock.

"Consciousness splitting, Earth super-consciousness, humans are individuals dispersed for Earth's experience, and there is even historical data corresponding to Wen Gu..."

He said every word slowly, as if digesting these incredible actions.

"This!"

Professor Zhao Chengfeng shook his head with difficulty, "This no longer belongs to the scope of psychology; he has constructed a concept that does not belong to the various scientists of our world at all."

He looked at Professor Guan and Li Mo with a serious face.

"He is not tutoring Xiaoyu, but defining some physics, biology, and all subjects of this world!"

"It's like..."

"【You don't know how to explain this? Must you use science or metaphysics to explain it? Why not try using my set of answers to explain it?】"

"【Once you use my set of definitions to explain, there won't be so many unsolved mysteries in the world!】"

Speaking of this, Old Zhao did not continue, but the expression on his face had already betrayed him.

He was clearly impacted in his cognition by Jiang Zhe's explanation!

"It's too incredible!"

Even this authority in psychology had to marvel at Jiang Zhe's wisdom.

Counter-intuition can indeed be explained by some psychology, but explaining it is very strained, far less precise than Jiang Zhe's answer!

"Old Zhao, yes." Professor Guan nodded gently, "Actually, we also have this feeling. He is defining things for us, giving a framework that can answer some incredible events in our world; and while the first half of what he said can be discussed with science, once you accept the hypothesis of Earth consciousness, everything that follows actually seems very reasonable, which is the most chilling part!"

Old Zhao exhaled a breath, his eyes flickering. He looked at the clip on the tablet, "This livestream, there should be a next time, right?"

"Yes."

"Take me with you next time."

Clearly, Professor Zhao Chengfeng also knew that psychology could not explain these things.

After all, modern psychology is just copying others, and in an era where even the human brain hasn't been fully understood, it might be worth accepting the definitions given by Jiang Zhe to interpret these!!!

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Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was Monday evening.