Chapter 11 Chapter Ten What does the soul represent?

I was thinking, what is the significance of Gent speaking like this on such an occasion? In his words, Gent said that a series of questions were not asked by himself, but "someone" asked him to ask. When he mentioned "someone", he hesitated. Obviously, what he asked him to ask was not "person", but just a phenomenon. I am even sure that it must be that incredible "halo". I was thinking about it, but Dante said again: "There are several similarities between what this strange man said and my grandmother's narrative. I felt strange at the time, so I wanted to chase it out and ask."

I let out a "huh" and said in a low voice: "Yes, they all mentioned the relationship between treasures and human souls." Dante thought for a while: "The man's words are easier to understand. His statement is: treasure and the value it represents. I think he refers to the value of money, so his words are easier to understand: the human soul. Where did it go? All wiped out by the power of money?" After hearing this, I couldn't help but take a deep breath: Dante's understanding was correct, and that's what Gent wanted to express. In other words, this is not what Gent wants to express, but the answer that "Halo" is looking for.

In literature and philosophy, the expression that the human soul is controlled by the power of money has existed for a long time, and it is also understandable that in this description, the word "human soul" represents the beautiful aspects of human character. One side is just an abstract noun.However, in Gent's question, soul is not such an abstract noun. Gent's question (that is, the question of "halo") asks whether people have a soul, where is the soul, etc., and regards the soul as a A kind of real existence to ask questions. How should that be understood? Dante continued talking to himself: "Treasures are connected to human souls? I don't know where my soul is, do you?"

I get a little annoyed by a question like this: "Of course not, no one knows." Dante showed a pensive look: "If no one knows at all, then it is a question whether human beings have souls!" I stared at him: "This question is not very interesting." I want to prevent him from discussing this issue any further.But Dante laughed.He laughed so suddenly that I couldn't think of anything funny about our conversation at this moment. Dante smiled and said, "It's funny, everyone thinks they have a soul." I snorted: "The soul you mentioned is an abstract noun, which represents the good and beautiful side of human nature, or is it an existence?"

Dante stayed for a long while, it seemed that he was seriously thinking about this issue. After a while, when the car was running fast, it suddenly braked suddenly and stopped in front of a red light, he said: "Both two And one, one and two." I stayed for a while, recalling Dante's words.Yes, why can't two be one, one be two?Abstract and actual existence can be combined into one.In particular, the existence of the soul itself is extremely abstract. I took a deep breath: "You mean: people have souls, so they have the good and beautiful side of human nature, and if people don't have souls, the good and beautiful sides of human nature don't exist?"

Dante looked outside, the streets of New York were full of passers-by, his expression was very bewildered: "That's exactly what it means." After Dante said this, he paused: "If that's the case, then I really don't see that people have souls." When he said this, his voice was very bitter.I couldn't help but smiled wryly.Really, the proportion of the good side of human nature is too small. There are so many people on the street, who is not planning for himself?Are you not working hard for your own interests?Originally, it is quite normal for people to plan for themselves and make desperate efforts for their own interests. Humans are a kind of living things, and living things must do this in order to survive.However, in the process of human beings seeking profit, there are too many despicable and indecent crimes!

Both Dante and I were lost in thought. When we arrived at the airport, I got out of the car: "Dante, there is no need to discuss this issue any further!" Dante immediately nodded with relief, agreeing. I naturally understand his intentions, because I also have the same feeling. If this question is asked, there seems to be only one answer: Human beings have no soul. Human beings don't have a soul, and when everyone asks himself, the answer is naturally "I don't have a soul." Suddenly, I felt a heavy blow in my heart, and I kind of understood why Joson was so determined to commit suicide.

Qiao Sen committed suicide. In his consciousness, he did not end his own precious life, but ended a humble, soulless life. When I thought of this, I couldn't help but shuddered, I didn't dare to look at Dante, and just hurried into the airport. Dante didn't know which countess borrowed a plane, so when he arrived at the airport, he didn't wait long before boarding the private plane and took off almost immediately. The voyage to Switzerland was not short, and there were two refuelings. The plane finally landed at Geneva Airport. After getting off the plane, Dante drove on a rampage.I know he is in a hurry because of the treasure.His grandmother once said that if he couldn't find a reliable partner in her lifetime, she would rather keep that treasure a secret forever.

I was sitting next to Dante, and seeing his anxious look, I couldn't help saying: "If you drive like this, if your grandmother's condition doesn't get worse, you will go to hell first." Dante's brows were knotted, and he looked vicious: "Go to hell? What do I use to go to hell?" I couldn't help being stunned for a while, I was just talking casually, who would have thought of Dante looking for the bottom line.Generally speaking, "going to hell" means death, and what you "see" is no longer the body, but the soul. When Dante asked this, he naturally understood what he meant.

I snorted, but didn't answer, so he stepped on the accelerator hard, turned three sharp turns, and then he let out a sigh: "I'm sorry, I really want to find that treasure." I smiled wryly: "Actually, your life is very good now. If you are willing to sell the twelve gemstones wrapped around your belt, it will make your life better..." Dante stared at the road ahead: "Wouldn't it be better to have one hundred and twenty, one thousand two hundred, that's even better!" I sighed, 1,200 such gems, of course it would be better.However, there is no end to "better".When you have twelve hundred, the "better" is twelve thousand.

I didn't say much, and Dante's driving speed was not slow at all. The residential area by Lake Geneva can be said to be the place where the richest people are concentrated on the entire planet.To test whether a person is a real rich man, one of the main test questions is: Is there a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. The car drove up an inclined road and rushed straight to the iron gate of a house. The iron gate suddenly opened, and Dante rushed straight in, passed the garden, and then, making the wheels make a "squeak" sound, stopped at the gate of the building. the door. Dante opened the car door, gestured to me, and went straight up the stone steps, and I followed behind.Dante was yelling loudly while rushing upwards.I followed, and it was a very finely furnished hall, and I saw two doctors, carrying suitcases, coming down a broad staircase. Dante had already gone straight up to meet him, and asked anxiously, "How is it?" The two doctors didn't answer Dante's question, but asked a housekeeper, "What religion does the old lady believe in? Why hasn't the clergy come yet?" Dante was stunned for a moment. I also knew that the situation of the old lady was not very good. If I wanted to invite priests, then the life of the old lady was on the verge of disappearing. Dante yelled loudly and rushed upwards. The two doctors were very angry and asked me, "Who is this?" I didn't answer their questions, and followed closely between the two of them, passing through. There is a wide corridor on the second floor, Dante is running ahead, and I quickly catch up with him.He stopped at a door, took a few breaths, and pushed the door open. Inside is a very large bedroom, which is completely furnished in the palace style of the Islamic Empire, which is extremely luxurious.On a huge four-poster bed, a very emaciated-looking old woman was half lying on a stack of pillows, and two nurses watched her helplessly. Dante strode in and asked quickly in Turkish, "Grandmother, I'm here. I've already found a partner, as you said, a must-have partner." The old woman was lying on the bed. At first glance, one would think that she was already a dead person! But when Dante yelled, the gray eyes of the old woman turned slowly.Dante went straight to the bed, knelt down, took his grandmother's bird-claw-like hand, put it on his lips and kissed it, and pointed at me with his backhand, signaling that I would also come to the bed. I went to the bed, the old woman turned her head hard, and looked at me. There is no life in her eyes, but she can obviously still see me.It is not comfortable to be stared at by motionless eyes.I forced a little smile: "Dante is my good friend." The old woman moved her body, and looked at her, as if she was struggling to sit up.Dante rushed to help her, but two nurses wanted to stop her, but Dante roughly pushed her away. One nurse turned and ran out of the bedroom, while the other kept muttering prayers. Under Dante's support, the old woman sat up slightly, her breathing became much stronger, and even her eyes could move.Dying people suddenly have this phenomenon due to some kind of stimulation, which is not at all worthy of joy. It is called "reflection", which is a short-lived excitement before the end of a person's life. Dante leans close to his grandmother: "Grandma, where is the box that won't open?" The old woman's hand trembled. It seemed that she was trying to raise her hand, but she was too weak. In the end, she just raised one finger and pointed forward. I looked where he pointed, but I couldn't see any box, but Dante's expression was extremely excited: "Yes, grandma, I know there is a safe there, grandma, what is the password?" I froze for a moment, then looked where the old woman's dying fingers were pointing, but I couldn't see any safe. At this time, the nurse who ran out just now came in together with two doctors.As soon as he came in, the nurse looked angrily and pointed at Dante.I hurried over: "This is the patient's grandson, and they are having an important conversation." The nurse still said angrily: "The patient should be quiet..." Before she finished speaking, the doctor shook his hand: "Let them go, it's all the same." What the doctor said couldn't be more clear. The old woman has no hope. The results of harassment and tranquility are all the same. The old woman's life is in an instant, and she can die at any time. At this time, Dante put his ear close to the old woman's mouth with a very nervous expression, and waved his hand outwards. I knew what he meant, and said in a low voice, "Everyone, please leave for a while." The four of them went out together. I closed the door, and Dante said in a very impatient voice: "Don't worry about it, grandma, what's the password? After you get the box, how do you open it?" I was also a little strange, the fire of life of the old lady could be extinguished at any time, what nonsense did she say at this time?I also walked to the bed, and the old woman was shaking her head at a very slow speed, which seemed strange and inexplicable. While shaking her head, she made a weak voice that was not much louder than the sound of breathing: "Son, do you... know about the safe? I... haven't told you." Dante was even more anxious: "Grandma, don't bother with this, okay?" But the old woman still shook her head stubbornly, Dante said: "Okay, I discovered it myself." The old woman suddenly laughed, and while laughing, she choked for breath, so that the laughter she made was extremely terrifying.Dante was already sweating from anxiety, the old woman smiled like this, as long as she couldn't hold her breath, she could die immediately. Fortunately, the old woman laughed a few times, her chest heaved violently, she stopped laughing, but she rolled her eyes and looked at me, and suddenly showed a very strange expression on her wrinkled face. At that time, I never knew what was the meaning of her sudden strange expression?I was just taken aback, thinking it was the result of her dying facial muscles twitching.However, that weird expression immediately disappeared from her face, and she looked at Dante again, her lips moving.Dante hurriedly leaned over his ears and kept looking over his head. Within a minute, he straightened up with an extremely satisfied expression, ignored his grandmother, and walked forward to a table.On the table, there is a very large and exquisite porcelain vase with beautiful women painted in fine brushwork. Dante reached out and lifted the big vase. It turned out that the lower half of the vase was empty, and it was covered by a small safe. The small safe seemed to be fixed on the coffee table. I saw this situation and thought: it is not very common to use this method to cover up a safe. I was paying attention to Dante's actions, only to hear the old woman make a strange sound suddenly, I hurriedly looked at the old woman, the old woman was looking at Dante, the strange "giggle" came from her In her throat, it seemed that she was about to say something to Dante. I hurriedly said, "Dante, your grandmother seems to have something to tell you." But Dante acted as if he had never heard of it, and was just turning the keypad on the safe.I hurried to the bed: "Old lady, what do you want to say?" The old woman's head could no longer turn, she just moved her eyeballs and looked at me. Her expression of not being able to turn her head but only moving her eyeballs looked quite terrifying, but when her eyeballs were directed at me, she suddenly showed that expression that seemed to be mocking again. There was a "squeak" sound from her throat, and the only glimmer of light in her eyes disappeared immediately. The eyes were still open, but no one could tell that this old woman who had many miraculous experiences had passed away. leave this world. I cried out, "Dante, she's dead!" Almost at the same time I called out that sentence, Dante let out a cheer.I looked up at him and saw that he hadn't cared about his grandmother's death, that he had already opened the safe. The inside of the safe is the same size as the box.Dante carefully took out the box.I said again: "Dante, she is dead." Dante didn't even look at her grandmother, took the box, and walked out: "Notify the doctor." I didn't have time to stop him, he had already walked out of the room, and I was walking towards the door, and the doctor and nurse had hurried in. I saw Dante push open a door at the end of the corridor, walk in, and then shut the door behind him, without any intention of inviting me to be with him.This can't help but make me very angry. I stood at the door for a while, and heard the doctor talking quickly in the room. When I turned around, a doctor had already pulled the bed sheet to cover the old woman's face, and two nurses were praying beside the bed. . The old woman died, but Dante actually left her the moment before she died. I couldn't bear the urge to blame Dante. I ran straight towards the door Dante walked in, pushed the door at the door, and kicked the door vigorously without pushing it open, yelling. Said: "Open the door." The noise I made was very loud, as long as Dante was in this house, it was impossible not to hear it.But for several minutes, he did not respond at all.I paused for a moment, feeling worried instead.Will there be any surprises for Dante? Just as I was thinking this way, there was a call from inside the door, which sounded very strange, and it was Dante.I yelled again, and the door opened. Dante was beaming, and I glared at him: "Your grandmother is dead." Dante didn't hear at all: "I already know where the treasure is." I said, "Where is it?" Dante was stunned for a moment, and suddenly laughed again: "The place shown on the map... I think... it may not be...reliable..." Hearing him hemming and hawing like this, I couldn't help being furious, and before he finished speaking, I yelled: "Forget it, you can go alone." As I said that, I turned around and left, Dante quickly pulled me back: "No, I didn't mean that, we are accomplices, of course I will study the map on that box with you." I turned back, and Dante gestured for me to enter the room.I frowned and said, "Your grandmother is dead, we..." Dante waved his hand impatiently: "They will deal with it, let's study the map first." He forcefully pulled me in, and before he closed the door, he yelled at the flustered servants outside: "Go and do things yourself, don't call me!" When I was pulled into the door by him, I realized that it was a study room. There were bookcases all around the house, and there was a rather large desk in the middle. On the desk, there was a map spread out. Beside the map, there were seven or eight thin metal sheets connected together with notches on them. I know the notches on the metal plates can point to the location of a huge treasure, which is the treasure of the Ottoman dynasty in its heyday. Dante and I hurried to the desk together. At first glance, the notches on the metal sheet seemed quite messy. Dante pointed to the middle piece: "Look at this symbol." I have noticed this symbol, which looks like a royal emblem, and beside this emblem, there is a dome of a typical Muslim palace building. Dante said: "Here, I assume it is the palace." I nodded in agreement with his assumption.Dante's voice became very excited: "The people who drew the treasure map in the early years must have gone through very detailed field investigations. How consistent it is with today's precise map." As he spoke, he moved the map closer.The many notches on the gold plate match the lines on the map.There are two thicker lines, which are rivers; mountains are on the gold plate, represented by a series of sharp angles, moving southeast, there is an irregular curved line, Dante pointed to the map, there is a piece of Almost exactly the same shape of light blue, it is a lake. Dante's grandmother mentioned this lake in her narrative.Dante thought it impossible for his grandmother to recognize the lake at once, but in fact, the shape on the gold plate was the same as the shape on the map, and it was really recognizable at a glance. Dante's eyes were full of excitement, and I couldn't help but take a breath, really, that's the lake.And beside that lake, there is a small black dot. I couldn't help but lowered my voice very low: "Dante, this is where the treasure is." Dante held his breath and nodded his head: "No, my grandmother didn't have any equipment back then, and she could still find treasures. As long as we have enough equipment..." When he talked here, he couldn't even continue because he was too excited. He had to stop and take a few breaths before continuing: "I can become the person with the most jewels in the world." It was astonishing to see the greedy look on his face and eyes when he spoke in this way.I never imagined that the muscles of a person's face can express such a strong idea through simple changes. I was disgusted by his look, so I turned my head away, not looking at him.Dante's voice was still full of that extreme excitement: "Let's go now." I took a breath. "At least until your grandmother's funeral is over?" Dante said loudly, "I can't wait that long." As he spoke, he "patted" the gold pieces together again.After the gold pieces are closed, it looks like a box.Then, he folded the map again, put them together in a briefcase, picked up the briefcase, and walked out as if he didn't want to delay for a second. As soon as he left the study door, an elderly servant hurried over: "Master Dante, old lady..." Before he finished speaking, Dante shouted: "Go away!" Judging by the old servant's expression, it seemed that he didn't know how much to say, but Dante ignored him and walked forward. I was behind him, looking at his back. In an instant, I suddenly remembered a few words that sounded inexplicable. Those words were Jin Te's "speech" at the jewelry exhibition: " Why treasures attract people, the value it represents, why it can drive people to do anything... In the beautiful brilliance of treasures, there may be human souls." If there is a soul, where is Dante's soul now?I'm afraid he has already flown to the cave full of treasures. Next, Dante rushed to his destination without wasting a minute. He first drove at high speed to the airport, and then flew to Turkey with the same plane, and landed directly at the military airport of a medium-sized city by the lake. I don't know what connections he used, but not only did the plane land at the military airfield, but he also got a jeep and enough equipment.All these, after the plane landed, he left me on the plane and got off the plane alone, and it only took about two hours to do it. He drove away from the airport with me in a jeep, and it was getting dark.Dante obviously planned to drive overnight. He asked me to open the map: "It's only about 200 kilometers to the lake. Before the sun rises, we can definitely see the lake." I didn't say anything. Since I left the house by the lake in Geneva, Switzerland, Dante has been talking uncontrollably with excitement. Sometimes, I repeat a sentence many times, but I am very silent. I need to think. Quite clear, simply put: there is a certain power that is looking for the souls of the people on Earth. What power is it, why does it search for the souls of people on earth, and how long has this search been going on?I don't know anything, all I know is that this power appears in the form of a "halo". Man has always believed that he has a soul.This belief has supported many human activities and has also become a pillar of moral norms in the overall social life of human beings.Although the soul has always been illusory, this term has become a representative of the beautiful side of human nature. In terms of ideas, its existence is indispensable, and it has become a force that resists certain bad deeds and cannot be acted arbitrarily. If once, when human beings discover that there is no soul at all, how much confusion will it cause in human thinking and concepts? An unfathomable force has always formed a constraint in the human mind. Suddenly, this constraint disappears, which means that the beautiful side of human nature has disappeared, and the ugly side has been liberated. scruples.With this kind of restraint force, the bad roots that are still bursting out will explode like a volcanic eruption. Perhaps it is because human beings have already discovered that there is no soul at all, so the soul, as a restraining force, has become weaker and weaker, so that the ugly side of human nature has become more and more enlarged? My thoughts were very disordered, one after another question marks were circling in my mind, and I thought of Qiao Sen again. Qiao Sen destroyed his own physical life, did he achieve his goal and prove that there is a soul?Or is the existence of the soul, as Genter puts it, a kind of "anti-life"?Only when you reach that state can you understand, otherwise, you don’t understand anyway. I've been thinking about that, so, sometimes, I don't react at all to what Dante says, it just sounds like he's talking to himself. The jeep was driven by Dante, and I couldn't object to what route he wanted to take. Under the moonlight, the car drove up a rocky hill, jumping like Mexican jumping beans. I sighed: "The road is really hard to walk. .” Dante's expression became more and more excited: "It's almost there, it's almost there." As he spoke, he increased the speed of the car, causing the car to continuously bounce on large and small rocks. The car passed through a very desolate area in southern Turkey, and there was no one there.I can only imagine the situation when Dante's grandmother was in this kind of place, advancing towards an unpredictable destination. Suddenly, it occurred to me that Dante’s grandmother seemed to describe her journey in those years very simply in her narration, and in retrospect, it seemed that she deliberately concealed something.Could it be that the aura followed her all the time, but she didn't tell it? I can't say for sure, I just think it's possible.Also, I couldn't speculate that she had any reason to hide it. After midnight, Dante's mood became closer to madness. He accelerated and drove up a hill with a rather high slope, so that the car might overturn and fall down at any time when driving up. When the car reached the top of the hill, he stopped the car suddenly and let out bursts of cheers. Looking forward, you can already see the lake water that is about tens of kilometers away, shining with dazzling silver light under the moonlight. Dante pointed to the front and turned his head to look at me. I knew what he was going to say, so I rushed ahead of him: "Yes, I know, you will soon become the person with the most treasures in the world!" When I said this, I just repeated a sentence he had said more than ten times, but after he heard it, he was startled, as if thinking of something in an instant: "We, we want to become the world's leader." The one who owns the most treasures in the world." He always said "I", and suddenly it became "we".Although I thought it was a bit strange, I didn't care about it, I just said: "It's still you, when sharing the treasures, I'll let you take an extra piece." Dante laughed out loud.Ever since Dante mentioned the treasure to me, I haven't been very enthusiastic.That's by no means to say that Jumbo doesn't appeal to me.I'm just not as fanatical as Dante.When the car drove down the pit and got closer and closer to the lake, I thought of the treasures in the cave, and I couldn't help it, I was a little short of breath, and I didn't feel that Dante was driving the car too fast. The car drove to the lake, and Dante drove fast around the lake. When the sun rose, Dante and I both saw a string of stones paving forward.The stones are of different sizes and the processing is rough, but it can be seen at a glance that they are artificially paved. Looking up, there is a stone house at the end of the stone, which is not very high, but just a part of many stone hills by the lake, which will never be particularly eye-catching.