Schiller saw that the man who came back and sat next to him was no different from the one before. He didn't seem to notice that only the head on his plate was fresh. Instead, he picked up the knife and fork again and looked after himself.
Enjoyed it yourself.
But this time when he used a fork to pick off the meat on his face, the meat on his face did not fall off, as if it was really just a plate of vegetables and not his own head.
People on other tables had already eaten the rotten head one after another. Like this man, their heads rolled down on the table and were put back on the plate. Then another one of them walked in and continued to enjoy.
holding his own head.
The person who returns may not be them anymore.
Schiller looked at the menu next to him. There were seven dishes on the menu. They were served one by one according to the order of serving a French meal. After one dish was finished, the next one was eaten. They were pre-dinner wine, cold cuts, soup, main course, and cheese.
, desserts and after-dinner drinks.
Schiller came in relatively late, and the pre-dinner drinks had already been served. On Schiller's left hand side was a glass of orange-yellow aperitif, but this was obviously unusual, because when Schiller tilted the glass slightly,
He found that the wine was viscous and looked like some kind of syrup, with bubbles mixed in.
Then the dish served on the table should be a cold dish. Its name on the menu is "Nutrition".
Schiller thought of the ballad that everyone sang before. The ballad was roughly divided into two parts. The first few lines were saying that he had eaten them and gained nutrients, but there were fewer and fewer of them, so in the end they could only eat themselves.
Eventually it grew into a towering tree.
The "they" referred to in the previous sentences use personal pronouns, which proves that they are not referring to animals or vegetables, but to humans, but they should not be biological humans.
Schiller looked around and found that most of the diners sitting at the table were well-dressed. To be precise, no simple person could stay at the Wayne Hotel. People of Peter's class could not afford to live like this.
of the hotel.
The restaurant at the Wayne Hotel is also very high-end, and can only receive a limited number of guests at a time. The chef is world-famous and has attracted many gourmets. Celebrities of all kinds often have banquets and gatherings here, and it has hosted countless wealthy weddings.
So the previous sentence may mean that they draw nutrients from the people at the bottom, but Schiller doesn't think the monsters here have any intention of asking for life for the people. The monsters under the Cthulhu mythology system do not have revenge or complaints.
The madness they unleash is chaotic and illogical.
These monsters don't distinguish whether people have money, let alone punish some people because they have money. Everything in the world is unimportant to them, and human society is nothing more than an ant nest in their eyes.
, how do ants distinguish between rich and poor?
And if Schiller is right, these people in the restaurant are the richest among the guests of the Wayne Hotel. This monster is not HR, and he can conduct background checks before they enter the restaurant.
No money allowed in?
Schiller had a guess, but he wasn't sure yet.
Speaking of this dish, since there are fewer and fewer "they" in the nursery rhyme, it may be time to eat yourself.
Schiller searched for stories related to the Cthulhu mythology system in his mind, but did not find one that was very consistent. On the contrary, the story of Ouroboros was more suitable for the current scene.
The Ouroboros is actually a snake biting its own tail, always in a state of self-eating. Jung believed that the Ouroboros reflected the psychological state of human beings. Schiller thought that Jung was talking nonsense.
This pattern is also given the meaning of "infinite loop", just like what is happening in the restaurant, the man eats a rotten head, his own head becomes the food on the plate, and another man walks in and continues
Eating one's own head is like an endless cycle of devouring, which is almost exactly the same as the story of Ouroboros.
Because it is related to psychology, Schiller has also analyzed this story. His views are similar to the mainstream views, but not exactly the same. Many experts believe that a monster that can infinitely devour itself represents human beings' desire to be completely self-sufficient.
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In the mythical description, this snake has neither eyes nor ears, but it does not need to see or hear, and it has no hands or feet. Its own self-eating is a way of movement.
There is no doubt that compared with the omniscient and omnipotent gods in other mythological stories, it seems too weird and even incomplete. It was not born to create or destroy anything, as if it existed just to exist.
But Schiller believes that all this is related to the self, and the Ouroboros represents more of the independent self, or an entire reference system with the self as the center point.
As we all know, human beings are shaped by the environment, and people can have too many reference points, such as other people's words and judgments, reflections of social status, feedback from wealth, and even moral and legal requirements.
Schiller believes that the Ouroboros snake represents an extreme self, highlighting its own internal cycle, expressing a concept of "I am society", which is equivalent to a kind of human self that is adopted after being put to infinity.
Active closing strategy.
Just like nothing else can judge me, I am a macroscopic state of motion, moving forward, swallowing, and growing. Everything is done by me, and I don’t need anything else to judge myself.
Reference system.
This can be extended to the study of narcissistic personality disorder. Ouroboros' "infinite self" is obviously the ideal state for patients with narcissistic personality disorder, because the typical manifestation of narcissistic personality disorder is the infinite exaggeration of self-worth.
This type of personality disorder usually always feels worthless, so they need to exaggerate their self-worth to gain a sense of security, so they always live in a mixture of low self-esteem and arrogance.
Psychoanalysis believes that this is a kind of projection disorder. Their psychological power cannot be projected onto anything in the outside world, so it stays inside and becomes narcissism. However, this view is no longer recognized by the industry because it
It is impossible to explain the intertwined state of inferiority and arrogance.
Modern behavioral science and object relations theory believe that patients with this type of personality disorder mainly have the performance of "not distinguishing between others and me". Because they did not receive enough love from others in childhood, they believe that they cannot gain a sense of security from others.
Only by loving yourself and affirming your own value can you bring a sufficient sense of security.
Therefore, they need higher self-identity, but most people's self-identity can only come from social recognition, that is, recognition and praise from relatives and friends, career progress, and wealth acquisition.
However, the general level of social recognition cannot satisfy their higher self-identity needs, which will keep them in a state of low identity, resulting in low self-esteem. In order to gain a sense of security, they begin to over-exaggerate their self-worth, resulting in arrogance.
Performance.
Ouroboros's state of being able to satisfy all self-needs completely on its own is exactly the state that narcissistic personality disorder dreams of, that is, the self is a society and can satisfy all of its own identity needs.
As mentioned before, the monsters in the Cthulhu mythology system do not have such complicated ideas, so after Schiller analyzed all this, he believed that the strange behavior in the restaurant was caused by someone behind the scenes.
This is actually not surprising. In most Cthulhu mythology systems, these old gods and alien gods are indeed to blame, but to put it bluntly, most of them are man-made disasters.
To be precise, some people dare to do anything for the sake of forbidden knowledge, and after obtaining the forbidden knowledge, the knowledge they cannot control causes them to become mentally confused.
No one is perfect, and no one is completely mentally healthy. Some people who seek taboo knowledge are not very healthy to begin with. If they are shocked by this knowledge and become even more crazy, they will of course harm their fellow humans.
It can be said that most of the movies, TV series or novels based on the Cthulhu mythology exclude the factor of man-made disasters, which really does not cause much harm.
The masterminds behind many such literary and artistic works are basically polluted human beings. Just look at Schiller’s experience on the 19th floor. There is no Jerome following the chaos, and there is no insane Gordon laying the trap. Schiller
You won't have to spend so long there.
So this restaurant must also be the product of a combination of natural disasters and man-made disasters.
From the cold dish, we can see that first of all, the human part of the mastermind behind the scenes has a certain trait of hating the rich. He is not necessarily venting his anger for the lower class, but simply hating the rich.
Secondly, the other person may be a patient with narcissistic personality disorder, or the tainted chaos and madness may have amplified these traits in his personality, causing him to desire a perfect closed self.
To a certain extent, he realized this wish. With the monster's ability, he completed a perfect closed loop of himself. He locked the people he hated in the restaurant and let them cycle over and over again. He only wanted them to suffer.
Without their need to judge, He has overcome and mastered them.
So the question is, what’s wrong with you?
Schiller felt that he was not a rich man, at least Dr. Soship's background was not that rich. He felt that he might have barged in, but the chef said that he was the last guest, which was obviously true.
contradictory.
He glanced at Jerome opposite him again. Obviously, this guy was also a special case. The Valeska family had no money. Even if Jerome had a high degree of education and a high IQ, he was too young. He was not like the one sitting here.
People who pile up old money are not of the same class at all.
He and Jerome are like teenagers who accidentally stumble into a celebrity party in a nonsensical comedy, except this is not a comedy, but a horror movie.
Why I happen to have my own place can be thought about later. The most important thing now is to decipher the secret of this cold dish.
In the few dozen seconds that Schiller was thinking, a dozen more diners finished eating the rotting heads, leaving their own heads, then walked in from the door again, sat back down and repeated the previous actions.
If they eat all the meat on a head and leave their own head, then from a common sense point of view, there will be more and more heads on the table, and eventually there will be no room for them, because they can only eat the meat, but they can’t chew it.
If you don't move any bones, if you stay in the same place, sooner or later a mountain will pile up on the table.
But the fact is that when the fresh head rolled onto the plate, the original head rotted away quickly, as if time on the head had been accelerated, and the bones and flesh rotted into a puddle of black water and disappeared under the tablecloth.
After the fresh heads are eaten, new heads appear, and the fresh heads that have been eliminated rot quickly and disappear from the table before new diners come in.
Schiller lowered his head and glanced at the head on his table. He saw no signs of accelerated decay, so just don't eat it?