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With Yao Jing's words as a foreshadowing, Su Jinjiang thought that Yao Jing would start a long narrative next.

But Yao Jing didn't speak immediately, but picked up three tarot cards and placed them face down on the small table between them.

"What I want to say may be a bit confusing, so let me give you a small example first." Yao Jing tapped the table with her knuckles, "I took these three cards at random, and I don't want to turn them over right now. Let’s talk about it later.—No matter what these three cards are, their pictures have no logical connection with each other. However, we can use our imagination to establish a logical connection between the pictures of these three cards, just like It’s like looking at pictures and talking, making them into a causally coherent little story. It’s written like this in Calvino’s novels.”

"Well, "The Castle of Crossed Destinies"." Su Jinjiang looked at the starry sky pattern on the back of the three cards, and guessed what kind of cards they would be.

Yao Jing changed the order of two of the cards, "It's still these three cards, now two of them have been changed, but the causal chain of the whole story is different."

"Yes." Su Jinjiang still did not express unnecessary opinions, but just stared at the other party.

"Where do I... start?" Yao Jing rubbed her temples, as if she was sorting out a mess of wool in her mind, and this work made him suffer a lot. "I'll start with my 'root'. Have you ever written a story?"

"No." Su Jinjiang said.He has always been very curious about how a completely fictional story came into being in the author's mind.

"I wrote it like this." Yao Jing said, "every time I have an idea, some pictures related to this idea will come to my mind, that is, the scene of the story. I will put the interesting ones in it. Record the scenes, and when you have saved enough, you will use a computer to draw a mind map, connect these scenes with different clues, and form a network."

Yao Jing took a breath, "Then, for a long time, it was very boring and repetitive homework. I revised this mind map every day, removed some scenes, added some scenes, which clue is the main line, and which clue is the auxiliary line. Lines, in which scene different clues intersect, is to do these things. Finally, write an outline based on this mind map. Essentially, this is what Calvino did in "The Castle Crossed by Destiny" it's the same."

"It's so complicated, but it seems very interesting." Su Jinjiang said.

"It's really interesting, it's addictive." Yao Jing's eyes recovered, just like when he first chatted with Su Jinjiang about the story, "You know, sometimes I want to change my mind map or Outline, until the alarm clock rings at dawn, only to find that the whole night has passed. Because ideas and scenes in life are everywhere, I keep my nerves sharp to capture them all the time. My teacher It has been said that the writer of the story will always put up his tentacles, even in his dreams."

No matter when, it seems that Yao Jing's little soul will shine as soon as she talks about writing a story.

It should be a kind of happiness to have such persistent love.Su Jinjiang thought.

Yao Jing's gaze fell back to the three cards, as if suddenly remembering that she was facing a problem, the light in her eyes dimmed again, and she sighed softly.

"I don't know if I broke my brain with too much force, anyway, since the filming of "Snow White" stopped, I locked myself at home to revise the script of "Infinite Game", since then it has become more and more wrong. Like a martial arts practitioner going mad, I started 'seeing' strange things."

"... Something strange?" Su Jinjiang felt that their conversation was approaching a certain core.

"Yes." Yao Jing shrank back, as if she was afraid that what she said would scare the other party, "Didn't I just say that some scenes often come to my mind?" He paused , "One day I suddenly noticed something: some of the scenes I 'see' will really happen soon."

"..." Su Jinjiang narrowed his eyes slightly.He couldn't let Yao Jing feel that he didn't believe these words, and he didn't want to overreact.

His reaction seemed to reassure Yao Jing a little, and he continued: "Let me just give you a recent example. That day, before you called me, I 'saw' that we are sitting face to face like this. The scene of the conversation here."

Yao Jing gestured between Su Jinjiang and herself with her fingers, "To be precise, what I 'saw' was me and another unsure person. I didn't know who that person would be at the time, but it didn't happen. After a while, you called me and said you wanted to come and see me. If you think the scene of two people talking face to face is too common, and it’s not surprising that it happened, I can add something more.”

He flicked the tarot cards in front of him, "I 'saw' three tarot cards in that scene, the three in front of us. You should have seen it, I just randomly drew them from a deck of cards , and the cards face down after being placed here, I guarantee that I have not seen it. But I can tell you what the cards are. "

He turned over the cards one by one, and reported the contents of the cards before each one was turned over.The emperor, the pentacle knight, and the pope are not bad at all.

The card closest to Su Jinjiang is "Knight of Pentacles", which depicts a young man wearing armor, riding a black horse, holding a gold coin in his hand, with a serious and handsome face exposed under the helmet mask.Inexplicably, Su Jinjiang felt that the temperament of this knight was very similar to that of Wei Tan.

"What do you think now?" Yao Jing asked, "Is there anything you want to ask me?"

"This..." Su Jinjiang considered his words, "How long has this situation been going on?"

"I can't tell." Yao Jing scratched her head, her eyes still staring at him without blinking, "It's been about two months since I became aware of this. Actually, it happened before, but I didn't pay attention at that time , as a pure coincidence, like a 'déjà vu' sort of thing.—I said, aren't you surprised to hear me say this?"

Su Jinjiang didn't answer this question, but instead asked, "If you tell me this, you won't be afraid that I'll think you're crazy?"

"I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid." Yao Jing admitted sincerely, "But I don't know why, I think you will believe it. I even think that after I tell you this, you will tell me something."

"Your feeling is really accurate." Su Jinjiang smiled wryly, "Do you know why I'm not surprised? Because a similar thing happened to me. I dreamed that I was wearing an ancient emperor's dress. Now that I think about it, that's "" Tang Xuanzong’s appearance in Palace of Eternal Life. I dreamed about this incident during the film and television festival, and I didn’t even know there was such a project as Palace of Longevity at that time.”

He temporarily concealed the matter of his rebirth, because this seemed a little more bizarre than the current situation.Moreover, he was not sure whether his rebirth had anything to do with their current situation, and whether it was necessary to speak out immediately.It may be better to wait a while and then tell the other party as the case may be.

"During the film and television festival." Yao Jing raised her head and thought for a while, "Is it after you met me?"

"Yes." Su Jinjiang said, "It was what we dreamed about the night before we took the bus to the tourist attraction."

"Oh——" Yao Jing remembered, "You left halfway that day and didn't come to the destination with us."

"Yes." Su Jinjiang nodded, "I received a call from my father that day, saying that there was a minor matter at home, so I went back. My home is in a neighboring city, very close."

"Your situation... only this time?"

"There are other things, but they are all in dreams, and I don't remember them clearly after waking up." Su Jinjiang said, "I always think those dreams are very strange, very strange, not like ordinary dreams. It's just my dream. The situation is not as serious as yours, and I have been occupied with work matters, so I didn't think deeply about it. I was really surprised to hear what you said today, but it's not unacceptable."

Perhaps, everything I experienced before my rebirth has not completely disappeared.Although the timeline has been deleted and restarted, there are still some "things" left.

Su Jinjiang didn't know what words to use to refer to these "things", so he decided to call them "residues".

People like Yao Jing who are always holding up curious tentacles to collect inspirations may be more likely to receive these "residues".

But if this is the case, why didn't Wei Tan who was with him receive it?

Su Jinjiang's mood is a bit complicated.He not only hopes that he and Wei Tan are a community of destiny, but also hopes that Wei Tan will not be involved in this matter.

This kind of precognition can be very exciting if it appears in a story.But once it really appears in their lives, it doesn't look like a good thing no matter how you look at it.

From Yao Jing's distressed and haggard look, it can be seen that, like Su Jinjiang, he doesn't think this is a good thing at all.

If life is a game in which you are forced to draw cards non-stop, then in the dark, there is an invisible dealer who is dealing the cards.A game that neither knows the rules, nor the opponent, nor the bet, let alone how long it will last, has quietly begun.

Both of them were silent for a while, Yao Jing asked again: "Then, what do you think now?"

"I'm thinking..." Su Jinjiang said slowly, "I'm thinking, why did such a thing happen after the two of us met. So far, the intersection of the two of us, to be honest, is not much."

"God knows." Yao Jing shrugged, "If we compare our life to a story, this should be a plot point where two clues intersect. From here onwards, something different may happen. "