Chapter 28: Mind World

Chapter 28: Mind World

Hvin Rambis picked up the bone china teacup beside him and took a sip. Looking at Audrey, whose sitting posture was upright and flawless, he smiled kindly and said,

“There is no need to be so restrained. This is not the first time you have met me. I still remember that two years ago, you even discussed Burman’s moral philosophy and Conciso’s pragmatism with me.”

Audrey kept a faint smile.

“I simply find it difficult to connect you with a member of the Psychology Alchemists’ Review Council.”

Hvin Rambis had not yet introduced himself as such, but this was a reasonable conjecture based on Audrey’s understanding of the Psychology Alchemists and the current situation.

Hvin crossed his right leg and smiled slightly.

“That is not worth paying attention to. Never forget: we, the Psychology Alchemists, are an organization established for the purpose of studying knowledge in the domain of the mind. We lean more toward academia than administration. Heh, since it is academia, you may simply regard the so-called council members as professors at a university.”

If she had not known in advance from Mr. World that Hvin Rambis had manipulated Karon’s suicide from behind the scenes, then no matter how Audrey looked at him or observed him now, the only conclusion she could have reached would have been that the other party was a knowledgeable, kind, humorous scholar who was not arrogant in the least. Yet since she was already wary, Audrey no longer trusted so much in these outward appearances.

As she watched him and organized her words, she also prevented her attention from focusing too tightly on a single point, keeping her thoughts active and scattered so as to avoid being hypnotized without noticing.

At this moment, her mind suddenly became a little dazed. She seemed to see seven pure lights that contained countless knowledge, and countless dense figures whose forms were impossible to describe. She saw them permeating the heights and covering everything.

This was the spirituality sky. This was the reflection of the spirit world on the level of the mind!

Beneath the spirituality sky was a deep, dark sea. Every drop of liquid there was like a beam of light and shadow, as though each represented a point of consciousness, an imprint.

Near this sea stood several islands. One of them belonged to Audrey herself.

She clearly understood that this was the symbolic manifestation of her own consciousness. The part exposed above the sea’s surface was what she could perceive herself, while the portion submerged by the “seawater” was the deeper consciousness that she could not usually grasp or explore.

Floating above the island and looking down toward its base, Audrey first noticed large patches of lonely, silent gray fog. They obscured her vision, leaving her able to see only the enormous, deep-black outline of the subconscious and the illusory, rippling sea of collective subconscious, making it difficult to obtain much information.

Just as Audrey was wondering how she had entered such a strange state, she suddenly saw, beneath the island and in the deeper parts of the sea of subconscious, the vast gray fog parting to both sides like a tide, revealing a stone staircase that had appeared at some unknown time.

On the staircase, a figure dashed upward with a flashing posture. Almost instantly, he entered Audrey’s field of vision.

His hair was thick yet completely white. He wore a standard three-piece suit and striped blue-gray trousers, with a dark-red bow tie. The wrinkles on his forehead were deep. It was none other than Hvin Rambis!

Compared to the one sitting on the sofa, this Rambis had a dark and sinister bearing. He had no smile at all. His head was slightly lowered, as though he were examining Audrey’s deeper consciousness behind the staircase.

In only a few steps, he crossed from the sea of collective subconscious into Audrey’s island of consciousness, moving from the subconscious domain to the part that had…