158, I Am a Cat
When Moses and others embarked on a journey of suffering, what was Amon, their "god", doing? Amon sent messengers to guide them on the way back to their hometown. After years of hard work and preparation, when the day really came, Amon himself had no time to care.
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A cat, the cat upstream from the Temple of Isis Square hundreds of years ago, was Amon at the moment.
It was not that Amon went back to hundreds of years ago, nor did he become a cat. This was a very special state of meditation. Perhaps it was not appropriate to call it meditation. After experiencing the test of losing power and growing up again, if there was anything different, it was that the current Amon was the self that he had been pursuing since he was born.
Only by confirming this state could he reach a state — a state where nothing existed, where his body and the world turned into nothingness. Schrödinger squatted in front of Amon and unreservedly opened her spiritual world to Amon.
Amon was experiencing Schrödinger's past. He was not simply seeing or hearing, but feeling everything as Schrödinger himself. During this process, he had to be absolutely calm and forget himself. There could not be a trace of disturbance in his mind. Otherwise, everything he experienced would become unreal.
This was why Schrödinger waited until today. In this state, she was also unreservedly opening up all her secrets. Therefore, Schrödinger had to find someone she could absolutely trust!
The people of Eygut liked cats. This was a very old tradition. Cats came to Eygut and solved the rat infestation in many places. They were regarded as the servants of the God of Fertility. Therefore, around the Temple of Isis Square, people had always had the habit of feeding cats. There were many stray cats living here, and Schrödinger was one of them.
Cats had a wide variety of food. In addition to eating food from people, they also ran around to catch mice, birds, termites, grasshoppers, and other flying insects. It was very difficult for an ordinary person to imagine eating a live rat, but all the feelings were real. Under such circumstances, he was still able to not have a single thought and not have a single thought. This was the current Amon.
This was a curious kitten. It was not afraid of humans, but it had a natural sense of alienation from humans. It would not get too close to them. Whenever various ceremonies were held in the square and people gathered, the cats would disappear without a trace. But one day, Schrödinger was chasing a flying beetle and forgot about its surroundings. When it came back to its senses, it found itself surrounded by feet. It was caught in the crowd and had nowhere to hide.
It was frightened. A kitten wrapped in the surging crowd could be trampled to death. Just as it was overwhelmed with fear, it realized that everyone around it had stopped moving and knelt down in one direction. Ethereal singing came from the sky, and the temple bell rang melodiously. The cat looked up and saw the golden sky. There was a soft light sprinkling on its body.
It was an indescribable magical feeling. The cat actually forgot its fear and stopped shivering. It was as if an invisible hand was caressing the depths of its soul. It just happened to be in time for the annual Blessing of Isis. Perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps it was a sudden enlightenment, but at its most frightened moment, it experienced the "Blessing of Isis". At that moment, it seemed to vaguely understand something.
Since then, the cat often slipped into the temple. Its simple intelligence could not make complex thoughts. It was only searching for the familiar feeling in its memory, in the singing of the priests, under the gaze of the statue. The cat's intuition was much sharper than that of humans. It remembered the singing and "participated" in many temple ceremonies.
The priests thought that the kitten was very interesting. Instead of playing in the square, it was willing to come to the temple to watch the various ceremonies of the priests. It was like a small priest. After getting familiar with it, no one cared about it. People even gave it a name – Bastet.
Bastet did not know how many awakening ceremonies it had experienced, including many second awakening ceremonies held by supreme mages for supreme warriors, as well as various blessings. Of course, it was not the protagonist of the ceremony, but a kitten standing at the feet of people watching the fun. The priests in the temple already knew the habits of the cat, so they did not banish it. Instead, they thought it was very interesting.
A cat's lifespan was usually only a decade or so, but this kitten had lived for nearly a hundred years. It did not know that it had such a long life, and all its actions were purely instinctive. The long years gradually gave it clear memories, which opened up the ability to think, and thinking made it spontaneously learn and understand.
It did not know when it started, but when it lay on the bookshelf and watched the priests teach hieroglyphs, it suddenly realized that it had actually listened to them countless times, and understood the hieroglyphs word by word.
These were not memories of Schrödinger, but traces imprinted in its soul. Amon unfolded his soul to open these imprints, and just like Schrödinger, he experienced all this for many years. When Schrödinger suddenly realized that he "understood" hieroglyphs, exactly one night had passed in the real world.
This was a concept that was difficult for people to understand, as if it was a paradox of time. Amon had only sat for one night, but he had experienced many years. Time did not slow down, nor did it speed up, but the imprints in Schrödinger's soul had unfolded so much. If he did not have the achievements he had today, not only would it be difficult for him to accept it, but his consciousness might also be shattered into pieces.
When the sky was just beginning to brighten, Amon opened his eyes. After experiencing this night, he felt that his soul had become both powerful and weak at the same time. Being powerful referred to being able to contain more in a single thought. Just like reading a book, a single glance could imprint the entire volume into one's mind, even clearer than an ordinary person studying it carefully. Being weak referred to having consumed too much energy, and having reached his limit, if he did not stop, Amon would very likely be completely lost in Schrödinger's imprints, and enter a deep state of coma.
Amon exhaled deeply, and asked with a weary voice: "This is where you came from? You made me experience all this in order to undo the seal that imprisoned me? "
Schrödinger shook his head: "No, this is only the beginning. I need you to clearly understand everything I've experienced, only then will you be able to find the seal that imprisoned me."
Amon was a little surprised: "What seal? You don't even know? Then how do I undo it? "
Schrödinger sighed: "It's in my imprints. When I unfolded my soul to you, my consciousness was stagnant, and I don't know exactly what you've experienced. Only in this way can you perceive it more clearly than I do. What did you understand just now? "
Amon smiled: "The me just now was you back then. After opening my eyes, I thought of a person. Well, it can't be said to be a person, it should be said to be an Ironback. "
Amon thought of El Mar, because El Mar had learned hieroglyphs not long ago. How could an Ironback know how to write? In fact, Amon did not understand, he only let Link teach it. But now he was witnessing the entire process of a cat awakening its intelligence. There was a great coincidence that even the cat itself was unaware of, like the light in the sky suddenly illuminating something.
Schrödinger's expression was a little startled: "So you've experienced so much? Then there's the real confusion. As a cat, I didn't understand what kind of existence I was. You need a good rest, and after you recover, go and experience it again. "
Amon rested for a whole day, and that night he still felt that he had not recovered. It was not that his magic power was exhausted, but a kind of tiredness made it difficult for him to accommodate the imprint in another soul. Schrödinger patiently waited for him for another two days, and on the third day he started again.
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When the cat realized that it could read hieroglyphs and even write the name "Bastet" with its claws, its way of thinking changed, and its real confusion began. This cat did not know what kind of existence it was, and it was obviously different from other cats. When it woke up from its muddle-headed ignorance, it realized that the cats that had wandered with it in the temple square were long gone, and it did not know how many generations had passed, but it was still alive.
Why was this, and what was life? This was the first question it thought about. A cat's eyes could adapt to the dark, and its body was much more flexible and agile than a human's. It had lived as long as a human's, so it began to wonder if it was a cat. If it was, what kind of cat was it? There was also a deeper question, what kind of cat did it want to be?
Countless times in the quiet night when it looked up at the statue of the gods, the cat suddenly had an "absurd" idea in its heart — it wanted to be a "cat" like that.
From that day on, its eyes could not only see everything in the dark, but it could also clearly feel the blood in its body when it closed its eyes. It had spontaneously mastered the divine art of meditation.
A cat's body did not look like a human at all, but in terms of origin, it was almost no different from a human. Schrödinger often strolled in the temple square, and saw all kinds of people coming and going. One of them was itself, not a specific person, but an image formed by countless people. This image was called Bastet, and it was what the priests called it.
When a cat meditated, there was a strange situation that human practitioners could not experience. It really turned into the image of a human, and had that kind of body, hair, and skin. This was a "person" that only existed in the world of consciousness, and in the real world, it was still a cat. This person was growing, and it was practicing.
This psychic cat had never used any divine art in the temple, and its practice was just a kind of reflection. In fact, from the day it had self-awareness, it was already stronger than a lion, but no one dared to fight it.
Bastet gradually became a mascot in the temple. It was regarded as a magical cat by the priests because it lived long enough, and it had been in the temple for many years. It was a symbol of the gods' favor.
The cat began its own practice, and it was very unique, different from everyone else in the temple. It could not have received formal education, and it did not have any prejudices in its heart. It just practiced whatever it thought of, and it did not have the concept of divine arts or physical arts. Inadvertently, it passed through many tests. Finally, one day, it decided to play a joke on a young priest, and suddenly used message magic. The young priest did not see a cat, but a woman called Bastet.
The second time the spiritual imprint was unfolded, and the time was much shorter than the last time. When Amon opened his eyes, he felt even more tired, because the content of the experience was too complex. At this time, Schrödinger was no longer an ignorant kitten. In many ways, this was the experience of a human, but much more complicated than that of an ordinary person. Amon experienced ten years in one night.
He was so tired that he could not even breathe. He sat there to recover for a long time before he said, "Schrödinger, you are very beautiful!"
Schrödinger's tone was a little embarrassed, "Are you talking about a cat or a person?"
Amon smiled but did not answer. Schrödinger turned around and slipped out. This time, Amon rested for a full five days. He was in a trance, and he could not even tell whether he was a cat or a person. This kind of soul fusion was terrible. If he did not have a strong enough will, it would definitely cause a mental disorder. Amon was not yet twenty years old, but he had experienced hundreds of years as a cat. It was inevitable that he would be in a trance, but he could calm down again.
He also completely understood how important the test he had just experienced was. Just like what Maria once asked him, "You were a passerby who almost fell to death by the Nile River, but later became a general who shocked the continent. May I ask, on the battlefield, are you still a passerby by the Nile River? When you returned with glory, you could not leave your territory because of your military power. In your territory, are you still a general on the battlefield? Now you are sitting in front of me with your head lowered. Are you still the innocent boy in Duc? If not, then who are you? If you are, then who is Amon? "
Amon suddenly found that he was becoming stronger and stronger as he experienced Schrödinger's spiritual imprint. What he grew was not just pure strength, but also a kind of "potential" or "capacity" of the soul.
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Five days later, at midnight, Schrödinger once again opened his spiritual imprint. He looked up and saw the solemn and holy statue of the goddess Isis. It was the night when he used message magic to fool a young priest. When he walked past the main shrine, he suddenly felt a strange pressure. The eyes of the statue were staring at him. The cat had sensed it long ago, but today was different from the past.
For some reason, the cat turned around and crouched down towards the statue, burying his furry head between his front paws as if he was praying. Then he heard a voice, "Bastet, don't be afraid. I am Isis!"
Of course, the cat knew who Isis was. He had lived in the shrine for hundreds of years, and today he heard the voice of Isis in his mind! His soul was shrouded in a deep sense of awe, and he replied in his heart, "Great goddess, are you calling me?"
The voice of Isis was solemn and gentle. "You naughty kitten, I have seen what you have done. It is a rare blessing in the world for you to have achieved such an achievement. I have decided to give you a chance. Please make a vow and accept the guidance of the Ennead, and I will tell you what the path you have been pursuing is. "
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