PFC Chapter 2796: Weird Feast and Nightmare (4)
Chapter 2796: Weird Feast and Nightmare (4)
Chapter 2796: Weird Feast Nightmare (Part )
Schiller saw that the man who came back and sat next to him was exactly the same as the previous one. He did not seem to notice that only the head on his plate was fresh. Instead, he picked up his knife and fork and started enjoying his meal.
But this time, when he used a fork to peel the flesh off his face, the flesh did not fall off, as if it was really just a plate of food, not his own head.
People at other tables had already eaten the rotten head one after another. Their heads, like that of this man, rolled onto the table and were put back on the plates. Then another one of them came in and continued to enjoy 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, which were served one by one in the order of French banquet, and one dish was eaten after finishing one. They were aperitif, cold cuts, soup, main course, cheese, dessert and digestif.
Schiller came in quite late, and the aperitif had already been served. On Schiller's left hand 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, mixed with bubbles.
Then the human head served on the table should be a cold dish, and its name on the menu is "nutrients".
Schiller remembered the song that the human heads had sung before. The song was roughly divided into two parts. The first few sentences said that they ate them and gained nutrients, but they became fewer and fewer, so in the end they could only eat themselves and eventually grew into towering trees.
The "they" mentioned in the previous sentences are personal pronouns, which proves that they are not referring to animals or vegetables, but to people, but probably not biological people.
Schiller looked around and found that most of the diners sitting at the tables were dressed brightly and beautifully. To be precise, none of the people who could stay at the Wayne Hotel were simple people. People of Peter's class could not afford to stay in such a hotel.
The restaurant of the Wayne Hotel is also very high-end. It only accommodates a limited number of guests at the same time. The chef is famous all over the world 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 lower class people, but Schiller does not think that the monsters here will have any intention of pleading for the people. The monsters in the Cthulhu mythology system do not seek revenge or complain. The madness they cause is chaotic and illogical.
These monsters do not distinguish between whether people are rich or not, and they will not deliberately punish some people just because they are rich. Everything worldly is unimportant to them. In their eyes, human society is nothing more than an ant nest. Why should ants distinguish between rich and poor?
And if Schiller is not mistaken, the people in the restaurant now are the richest guests of the Wayne Hotel. This monster is not an HR, so how can he conduct a background check on them before they enter the restaurant and not let in those without money?
Schiller had a guess, but he couldn't be sure yet.
Back to this dish, since there are fewer and fewer "they" in the nursery rhyme, it may be time to eat itself.
Schiller searched his mind for stories related to the Cthulhu mythology system, but did not find one that quite fits the bill. On the contrary, the Ouroboros story was more suitable for the current scenario.
The Ouroboros is actually a snake biting its own tail, always in a state of self-devouring. Jung believed that the Ouroboros reflected the psychological state of human beings, while 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 corrupt head, his own head becomes a dish on the plate, another him walks in and continues to eat his own head, like an endless cycle of devouring, which is almost exactly the same as the story of the Ouroboros.
Because it is related to psychology, Schiller 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 devour itself infinitely represents the human desire to be completely self-sufficient.
In the myth, this snake has neither eyes nor ears, but it does not need to see or hear, and it has no hands or feet. Its self-devouring is a way of moving.
There is no doubt that compared with the omniscient and omnipotent gods in other myths, it seems too weird, even incomplete. It was not born to create or destroy anything, as if it exists just for the sake of existence.
But Schiller believed that all this was related to the self, and the Ouroboros represented more of an independent self, or an entire reference system with the self as the center.
As we all know, human beings are shaped by the environment, and people can have too many reference points, such as the words and judgments of others, the reflection of social status, the feedback brought by wealth, and even moral and legal requirements.
Schiller believed that the Ouroboros represented an extreme self, highlighting its own internal cycle and expressing the concept of "I am society", which is equivalent to an active closed strategy adopted by the human self after being expanded to infinity.
It is just like nothing except me can judge me. I myself am a macroscopic state of motion, moving forward, swallowing, and growing. Everything is accomplished by me, and I do not need anything else as a reference system to judge myself.
This can be further extended to the research on narcissistic personality disorder. The "infinite self" of the Ouroboros is obviously the ideal state of patients with narcissistic personality disorder, because the typical manifestation of narcissistic personality disorder is the infinite exaggeration of self-worth.
People with this type of personality disorder usually always feel worthless, so they need to gain a sense of security by exaggerating their self-worth, so they always live in a mixture of inferiority and arrogance.
Psychoanalysis believes that this is a projection disorder. Their psychological power cannot be projected onto anything in the outside world, so it remains inside and becomes narcissistic. However, this statement is no longer recognized by the industry because it cannot explain the state of inferiority and arrogance that is intertwined.
Modern behavioral and object relations studies believe that patients with this type of personality disorder mainly have the symptom of "not distinguishing between self and others". Because they did not receive enough love from others in their childhood, they believe that they cannot get a sense of security from other people. Only by loving themselves and affirming their own value can they have enough sense of security.
Therefore, they need a higher self-identity, but the self-identity of most people can only come from social identification, that is, recognition and praise from relatives and friends, career advancement, and wealth.
However, the general degree of social recognition cannot meet their higher self-identity needs, which will cause them to always be in a state of low identification, thus causing them to feel inferior. In order to gain a sense of security, they begin to exaggerate their self-worth and behave arrogantly.
The state of Ouroboros, which is able to completely satisfy all of its own needs by itself, is exactly the state that people with narcissistic personality disorder dream of, that is, the self is a society and it can satisfy all of its own recognition needs.
As mentioned before, the monsters in the Cthulhu mythology system do not have such complicated thoughts, so after Schiller analyzed all of this, he was more convinced that the abnormality in the restaurant was caused by someone behind the scenes.
This is actually not surprising. In most Cthulhu mythology systems, these old gods and outer 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 forbidden knowledge, and after obtaining the forbidden knowledge, this knowledge that they cannot control causes them to become mentally confused.
No one is perfect, and no one's mental state is completely healthy. Some people who seek taboo knowledge are not healthy to begin with, and when they are shocked by this knowledge, they become even crazier, and of course they will harm their compatriots.
It can be said that most movies, TV series or novels based on the Cthulhu mythology system exclude the factor of man-made disasters, and they really don’t cause much harm.
The masterminds behind many of these literary and artistic works are basically polluted humans. Just look at Schiller's experience on the 19th floor. If Jerome hadn't been there to make trouble and the unconscious Gordon hadn't set the trap, Schiller wouldn't have wasted so much time there.
So this restaurant must be the product of a combination of natural disasters and man-made disasters.
From this dish of cold dishes, we can see that, first of all, the human nature of the mastermind behind the scenes has a certain hatred of the rich. He is not necessarily venting his anger for the lower class, but simply hates the rich.
Secondly, the other person may be suffering from narcissistic personality disorder, or the polluted chaos and madness may have magnified these traits in his personality, causing him to desire a perfect closed self.
To some extent, he realized this wish. With the help of the monster's power, he completed a perfect closed loop of himself. He locked those people he hated in the restaurant and let them repeat the cycle over and over again. He only needed them to suffer, not to judge him. He had already defeated and controlled them.
So the question is, what's wrong with me?
Schiller felt that he was not a rich man, at least Dr. Sosip's background was not that rich. He thought he might have broken in, but the chef said he was the last customer, which was obviously a contradiction.
He glanced at Jerome sitting opposite him again. Obviously, this guy was also an exception. The Valeska family had even less money. Even if Jerome had a high education and high IQ, he was too young. He was not in the same class as the bunch of old rich people sitting here.
Jerome and I were like the teenagers who accidentally walked into a celebrity party in a nonsensical comedy, except that this was not a comedy, but a horror movie.
Why I happened to have a seat of my own can be thought about later. The most important thing now is to crack the secret of this cold dish.
During the few tens of seconds that Schiller was thinking, more than a dozen diners finished eating the rotten head, leaving their own heads, then walked back in from outside, sat back in their original seats and repeated the previous action.
After they have eaten all the meat on a head, they will leave their own head behind. Then, common sense tells us that there will be more and more heads on the table, until eventually there is no room for them at all, because they can only eat the meat but not the bones. If they stay where they are, a mountain of heads will pile up on the table sooner or later.
But the fact is that when the fresh head rolled onto the plate, the original head quickly rotted away, as if time on the head had been accelerated, and the bones and flesh rotted into a pool of black water and disappeared under the tablecloth.
After the fresh heads were eaten, new ones were replaced. The relatively fresh heads that were eliminated also rotted quickly and disappeared from the table before new diners came in.
Schiller looked down at the head on his table and saw no signs of accelerated decay, so it would be fine as long as he didn't eat it?