World War I

Chapter 134 Cards
"Officer, I think it would be more comfortable to use a divining rod to help you with your divination."

Luo Ye laughed and said, "Your divining rod looks like a toy."

"Officer, please don't blaspheme."

"I didn't mean that."

Luo Ye saw a deck of cards in a grid on the large display cabinet behind her.

"Is that a tarot card?"

"Yes."

"I'm more interested in Tarot cards."

"You're such a stubborn guest. Okay, I'll use Tarot cards to tell your fortune, but I'm telling you, Tarot cards are more accurate for fortune-telling. What you need to tell your life value is your health, so—"

"Let's use Tarot cards. I think that's more professional."

"I see. You are testing my professionalism."

The witch took the tarot cards from the display case, opened the box, and took out the tarot cards.

"Well, cards like this pique my interest."

Tarot cards, an ancient Western divination tool, Luo Ye felt that using such props might be of some use to guests like him.

But it won't be of much use. He is a time traveler, and he won't be able to make any sense of Tarot or Tower cards.

The reason he walked in today was purely an accident.

There are 78 Tarot cards in total, including 22 Major Arcana cards and 56 Minor Arcana cards. They can be used for divination separately, or all 78 cards can be mixed and used together for divination.

大阿卡那牌包括【1】魔术师【2】女祭司【3】女皇【4】皇帝【5】教皇【6】恋人【7】战车【8】力量【9】隐者【10】命运之轮【11】正义【12】倒吊人【13】死神【14】节制【15】恶魔【16】塔【17】星星【18】月亮【19】太阳【20】审判【21】世界【权杖】

The Minor Arcana cards include Cups, Swords, and Pentacles.

"Cut the cards, please."

"I cut?"

"Yes."

Luo Ye looked into the witch's smiling eyes and cut the cards in a cool way, changing from using both hands to using one hand.

The cards danced and reorganized in his hands like magic, making pleasant sounds, and finally placed neatly on the table.

"How many do you want to draw?"

There is no fixed number of tarot cards to draw, but three is usually the most common.

After the cards are drawn, different meanings are interpreted based on the combination of the cards.

Tarot cards are very complicated, but the principle is actually the same: guess and use the fortune teller's imagination.

For example, in the Kabbalah system, the guards correspond to the air element, the knights to the fire element, the queen to the water element, and the king to the earth element. In the Hermetic system, the guards correspond to the earth element, the knights to the air element, the queen to the water element, the king to the fire element, and so on. The differences in schools and systems lead to great differences in their element correspondences.

This shows that the person who invented Tarot cards wanted future generations to get the information they wanted from the combination of cards based on their own judgment and knowledge, nothing more.

This is the same principle behind the common Taoist lottery practice we see, because lots were invented by Taoists and the contents of the lots were written by humans.

Similarly, no matter how varied Tarot cards are, they are inseparable from the combination of human thinking.

Different fortune tellers have different interpretations of the same deck of cards.

"Draw three."

"Ok."

Luo Ye drew three cards.

The witch also looked into Luo Ye's eyes and placed the cards one by one on the table.

Luo Ye's eyes suddenly widened.

The witch noticed that Luo Ye's eyes were about to pop out of his head in surprise, so she looked down at the cards.

"My God!"

She jumped up from the chair herself.

"How could this happen?" "So, you're unprofessional. How can there be three emperors in a tarot deck?"

The cards Luo Ye drew out were actually the three emperors from the neatly arranged Major Arcana deck.

The witch was speechless for a long time. Luo Ye took off the police hat from his head, scratched it, and put it back on. He said, "I really don't know how you help the police solve the case. Goodbye."

Luo Ye lifted the heavy curtain.

It’s still good to see the sunshine, but I ran into the fortune-telling shop for no apparent reason, which made me feel even worse.

The police car left.

The witch watched Luo Ye leave. She stared at the cards on the table as if she was staring at three devils.

How could there be three emperor cards in this deck?

She picked up the cards, and no matter how she looked at them, it was still the Emperor card.

She concentrated for a moment and turned over all the cards.

Ah!
She screamed, opened her beautiful big eyes, and pulled her hair hard with both hands, and her tricorn hat fell silently from her back to the ground.

All the cards show the emperor sitting upright.

Wearing a crown, a red robe, and combat boots symbolizing strict discipline, he sits confidently on the throne. In his left hand, he holds a crystal ball, symbolizing strict order, and in his right hand, he holds an ancient Egyptian cross, symbolizing life and power.

——He is a magician, he is just teasing me!
The witch's first thought was that the policeman was not here to tell fortunes, but to cause trouble.

The witch covered the cards again and turned them over again, and a normal deck of cards appeared before her.

"God, what happened?"

The witch was scratching her hair again, her eyes filled with fear.

This is no longer as simple as ruining the place.

The witch stayed for a while, then hurriedly closed the shop door and rode a women's bicycle. As soon as she got on the bicycle, she pedaled frantically and the bicycle flew away.

A truck driver whistled and teased her from behind.

Luo Ye had no idea what was going on. When three identical cards appeared in front of him, he just wanted to leave. This witch's level of deception was too low.

This Sheriff has shown mercy by not arresting you.

After returning to the police station, Luo Ye quickly forgot about the incident at the psychic shop and just thought of it as a way to relieve his mood.

"Sheriff, you're driving and drinking, aren't you afraid of rear-ending someone?"

Dr. Stein was sitting under a big tree on the lawn, holding a thick book.

"You knew I was drinking from a distance?"

"Because you look strange, Chief Luo Ye, Turgenev is looking for you. What's wrong with your phone? Why is it turned off?"

Luo Ye was puzzled.

"My phone has been on all the time. It was fully charged last night."

The cell phone signal is normal and the battery is full, so why can't I receive calls? It says the phone is turned off.

Luo Ye handed the phone to the doctor: "Take a look, it's normal."

"What's going on? Chris called you this afternoon, and the police called you too. They both said your phone was turned off, or out of service. You didn't go abroad and didn't activate roaming, did you?"

The witch Iro Segura returned home with her underwear soaked.

Neighbor Sothlan Bennett laughed at her: "You ride your bike like a witch on a broomstick. Do you want to slide your bike into the sky?
He had just been released from prison after five years, and while everyone else was afraid of her, he joked with Segura casually.

Segura ignored him, opened the door of her wooden house, rushed in, locked the door, and ran to her small attic.

She dragged out a copper box from under the bed. When she opened the box, she found a book inside. The cover of the book was made of wolf skin with half a skull carved on it.

She picked up the books with all her strength. There was an ancient bronze mirror at the bottom of the box.

The huge book was placed on the floor. She lay on the ground and turned directly to page 113.

(End of this chapter)