I am creating a esoteric religion in London

Chapter 325 First Understanding of Reason

The endless tide of light submerged John Watson, and he seemed to be floating in the boundless sea of ​​light.

Sparkling light waves caressed his consciousness, and the liquid-like glow seemed to flow into his heart. The light seemed to contain countless text and musical messages, which was a vast treasure of knowledge!

These rare, ordinary, noble and humble knowledge seemed to slowly seep into John Watson's spirit through his pores, and he seemed to turn into a tiny glow, an impure and slightly turbid glow, a glow that was receiving The immature glow nurtured by the boundless sea of ​​light.

This beautiful sea of ​​​​glow, like the fairyland in the book, is actually neither cold nor warm. Even though it feels like a liquid, it is not sticky or heavy at all. It is as light and floating as the clouds in the sky, and it is even more durable. Some kind of extremely harmonious and comfortable temperature and humidity.

'It's about seventy-seven degrees Fahrenheit, about fifty percent humidity...it's also the most comfortable environment for the human body. ’

John Watson imagined that this was the new knowledge he had just learned, the knowledge he had learned from the flowing water of the glowing ocean. This feeling of enrichment made him linger.

But that melodious and melodious whisper still echoed in my ears, "Watson...are you a professor?"

Although this voice is very pleasant, it feels particularly annoying when it falls in John Watson's consciousness at this moment - it is rare that I experience the joy of learning for the first time, the joy of swimming in the ocean of knowledge for the first time, but why... Is there always someone trying to bother me? ! ! !
  He originally wanted to ignore this noisy and annoying voice and continue swimming in the ocean of knowledge.

But the owner of this voice seemed to be the manager of this ocean of radiance. Sensing John Watson's delay in responding, the other party resolutely blocked the ocean current of radiance, and the continuous flow of knowledge no longer continued to flow. , the sea of ​​light fell into stasis, as if it had died.

John Watson, who had first encountered the delicious taste of knowledge, immediately panicked. He waved his arms randomly in an attempt to keep the ocean of glow flowing, but the knowledge symbolized by the glow remained stagnant, and no new knowledge flowed into his heart. , only that annoying voice is still echoing.

"Watson, are you a professor?"

"...Are you a professor?"

"...Professor...Professor...Professor..."

John Watson, who was thirsty for knowledge, could only respond with a loud roar: "No! No! I'm not!!!"

"I'm not a professor, and I don't know any professors! As of now, I only know the meaning of the word Professor!"

"Before this, I had never heard of this word, and I had never met anyone who claimed to be a professor!"

"I don't know what forbidden knowledge is, and I have nothing to hide from you. I'm just a mentally ill patient. Various voices sound in my head from time to time, and some of them advise me to get up and dance. , some advised me to accept the past, and some advised me to fight and fight, and now there is an additional voice like yours!"

"I beg you to come, please don't bother me anymore, I just want to learn knowledge well, I just want to study quietly... I really don't know the professor, he has never appeared in my life There is nothing I want to hide about this word...I don’t even expect to win Miss Charlotte’s love now, I just want knowledge, knowledge and knowledge!!!”

The voices coming from all directions finally stopped. The owner of the voice seemed to ponder for a while, and then slowly said: "I understand."

"Watson, you are innocent. I shouldn't doubt you... You should have a good rest. The knowledge in the prosthetic eyes is my gift to you. I hope it can help you leave the hospital as soon as possible and return to normal again——"      Following words, John Watson no longer listened, because the ocean of light began to flow again, and those wonderful knowledge flowed into his heart again. He once again felt that his thoughts were like a swollen and full stomach, which was much better than simply eating to fill his stomach. It’s so much fun! ! !
  He didn't know how long he had been swimming in the ocean of knowledge. He just let out a mental burp in a trance, then woke up in a daze, and saw the gray ceiling.

He has returned to Ward 103 and returned to his bed.

John Watson slowly opened his eyes. There was no confusion in his eyes at first, but a strong light of reason!
  It was only at this moment that John Watson felt that a crucial missing piece of the puzzle in his personality had finally been filled in, and he finally became a complete person.

He looked at the dim room in front of him. Only the hazy and dim light leaked in from the gap under the door, keeping the empty ward from being too dark to see.

But as John Watson's thoughts moved, real light seemed to flash inside the newly installed prosthetic pupil of his left eye.

The dim world in front of him suddenly became brighter. The shadows in the corners receded like a tide. The texture of the white paint on the wall was clearly visible. Even the circles on his fingertips were extremely clear. He could even see the corner of the wall. The tentacles of the slowly crawling ant.

John Watson closed his ordinary right eye, focused all his attention on his new left eye, and even murmured in his heart the obscure secret words he learned from the glowing ocean.

"We all benefit from the gift of light."

As the words fell in my heart, there seemed to be some clicking sound like a mechanical gear operating at high speed inside the prosthetic pupil of the left eye. The substantial light visible to the naked eye shone out of the prosthetic pupil and fell on the wall in front of me, as if it had directly penetrated the wall. The wall is thirty-five centimeters thick and has a hard steel plate in the middle!

John Watson had an uncanny vision of what was behind the wall.

The neighbor named Karl Charles was lying quietly on the gray-white bed covered with filthy stains. He could even see the details of the filthy stains on the sheets, and he immediately deduced the source of these disgusting stains—— And these marks are very fresh, because nurses come to clean the ward environment every day.

And at the same time, he also recalled in his mind the conversation he overheard between the nurse and the neighbor when he passed by Ward 104 this morning. The focus of the conversation was on the 1862 copy of "The Garden of Earthly Delights", which was not included in the prosthetic eye knowledge base. The items mentioned... But based on the slight change in the expression of the nurse Richard's slightly raised eyebrows at the time, as well as Karl Charles's crazy words beforehand and the obscene smile afterwards that could be written into a perverted textbook.

John Watson can confirm with 1862% certainty that the [-] copy of "The Garden of Earthly Delights" must be a pink-tinged painting!
  "It can be inferred that Richard, the nurse, has fulfilled his agreement, and Karl Charles has also received the gift that he has longed for, and can't wait to use it to soothe his lonely heart - these are the stains on the sheets. reason!"

"And if we dig deeper...it is obvious that the reason why Karl Charles was admitted to the hospital is that he suffers from a mental illness like X addiction, and this information is very likely to be useful in the days to come...such as if I need to use this to request him If you want to help with something."

John Watson confidently came to this result, but the next second he couldn't help but feel surprised and unprecedentedly happy at his precise and correct reasoning!
  He murmured to himself: "So this is the power of knowledge?"

"So this is the charm of using reason to think?"

"This feeling... is so great!!!"

(End of this chapter)