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Gao Kui gestured as he explained, "It's that phenomenon where seeing something that looks like a human but isn't entirely human can trigger feelings of disgust and fear..."
"That's called the uncanny valley effect!"
Chen Motong corrected him speechlessly, "You ignorant fool."
"Speaking of which, is junior Gao Kui really that sensitive? Just seeing a few Japanese flight attendants can trigger the uncanny valley effect?" Senior Susie looked at Gao Kui curiously.
"It's hard to say." Professor Guderian's expression was grave. It was indeed an oversight on their part that they hadn't anticipated this.
"There are indeed some regional differences in the appearance of East Asians, but the core physical features, including facial contours, eyes, nose, skin color and hair, are basically the same."
Compared to Westerners, they did indeed give Gao Kui a more instinctive feeling of being one of their own.
At the same time, different cultures and living environments can greatly change a person's demeanor and mental state.
For example, the demeanor, makeup, and micro-expressions of Chinese Americans who grew up in the United States are completely different from those of native-born Chinese.
Similarly, the Japanese do the same.
These generally similar but subtly different characteristics, along with the preconceived notion that he would soon be living in Japan for two months, could indeed make Gao Kui feel uncomfortable.
Teacher Masafumi Tomiyama patiently analyzed Gao Kui's psychological problems, and finally asked Gao Kui: "How are you? Can you hold on?"
If you really can't adapt, we can contact the principal and arrange for you to transfer to another flight immediately after landing.
"It's nothing serious, but I just feel a faint sense of alienation and hypocrisy, like looking at flowers through a light mist."
How strong was that sense of alienation and hypocrisy?
After a moment's thought, Gao Kui said, "It's probably one percent of what I get when I communicate with Nuonuo."
"Hey!"
Chen Motong glared at Gao Kui with a fierce look: "Do you think I'm a hypocrite?"
I thought we were friends.
"Friends are friends, but fakes are also fakes."
Gao Kui and Chen Motong bickered as usual, something Professor Guderian and the others were used to. They had long known that the two were incompatible and would always argue and bicker whenever they were together.
Caesar rested his chin on his hand, his deep blue eyes gazing intently at Chen Motong, who was bickering with Gao Kui, his gaze profound and infatuated.
This red-haired girl is like James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, the whole book unfolds with the logic of dreams, integrates self-created vocabulary, puns and rhyming games in more than 60 languages, adopts a multi-line stream-of-consciousness narrative, interspersed with a large number of allusions and inner monologues, and can contain multiple metaphors such as geography, history and sexual innuendo in a single sentence.
It can be said that James Joyce's works were never created for the average person to understand.
Gao Kui, who suffers from mental illness, would naturally keep his distance from Chen Motong. He couldn't even finish reading his high school textbooks, so how could he possibly have the energy to read Chen Motong's book?
Caesar, however, particularly liked girls like Chen Motong. His tastes were completely opposite to Gao Kui's. He liked to take on challenges and to outwit creators, using patience and wisdom to solve the riddles that the creators had initially set up with metaphors.
Perhaps Caesar's gaze was too direct, because Chen Motong, who noticed Caesar's gaze, quickly stopped arguing with Gao Kui, and turned to chat with Su Qian about the whispers between girls.
"So, where will we be placed?"
"There are over a hundred people, including the elderly and children, and we also need some private space. It might be difficult to arrange that." Caesar turned his head to change the subject.
"It's indeed difficult to arrange."
Professor Guderian explained: "Kassel has neither a preparatory class nor a branch in Japan. The Japanese executive bureau has always been autonomously run by mixed-race Japanese people, and our arrival was too sudden."
According to the head of the Japanese executive bureau, Genjiro, who previously graduated from Kassel as a super A-level student, they are already working on acquiring a church school located in Adachi Ward.
Before that, we will be accommodated at the Park Hyatt Tokyo.
"The Park Hyatt Hotel."
Gao Kui picked up the conversation: "That senior named Yuan Zhisheng really has good taste."
What's the Park Hyatt Hotel's statement?
Caesar asked curiously, as far as he knew, Park Hyatt hotels had branches in major cities around the world, and Tokyo, as an international metropolis, was not without luxury hotels that were more luxurious and historic than Park Hyatt.
“That’s where the movie ‘Lost in Translation’ was filmed,” Chu Zihang explained.
Caesar suddenly realized.
Lost in Translation is a very successful art film in many ways. With a production cost of over four million dollars, it grossed over one hundred million dollars at the North American box office.
Aside from its commercial success, Lost in Translation also has many commendable aspects.
The director is Francis Ford Coppola's daughter, and the lead actress is the famous child star Scarlett Johansson. The whole film has a strong influence from Wong Kar-wai's "Chungking Express" and "In the Mood for Love"...
It's all sewn up.
"You actually like this kind of art film?" Caesar looked at Gao Kui in disbelief.
"My favorite directors are actually Wong Jing and John Woo. When I was very young, the orphanage often showed us Hong Kong movies. At that time, I felt that Hong Kong people dressed very fashionably, and Chow Yun-fat was really handsome."
Gao Kui tilted his head back and unconsciously began to talk about his past: "After being diagnosed with mental illness, I started to like some niche art films, such as 'Chungking Express,' 'In the Mood for Love,' '2046,' and 'Blade Runner'..."
I can't understand the plot and core themes of many movies at all, but I can feel the loneliness of the director when creating the film, a sense of invisible alienation from the mainstream world.
Whenever I sense the creator's loneliness through those films, I feel incredibly sad. At the same time, I feel a strange joy, realizing I'm not the only one disconnected from the world.
This is a morbid mentality of drinking poison to quench thirst.
It's not about eliminating barriers, but about sharing loneliness.
The passengers in the cabin fell silent. As mixed-race individuals, they each had their own loneliness and their own stories, but they simply could not fully comprehend Gao Kui's morbid way of thinking.
Before anyone could speak, Gao Kui quickly changed the subject: "The Park Hyatt Hotel is in Shinjuku Ward, which is good news. I'm quite familiar with Shinjuku Ward."
I fought Moriarty there, and it was that battle that made me fully understand Jeanne Alter's feelings. It turned out that this proud and delicate girl liked me so much.
Of course, Saber Alter is pretty good too, but Shinjuku isn't her strong suit, so she has to be ranked a little behind Jeanne Alter...
Aside from Shinjuku subway station, I'm quite familiar with many other places in Tokyo. There's a detective agency on the basement floor of Nakano Broadway; I used to work there as a detective's assistant.
There's a ward in Shibuya's western suburbs called Shigenjaya, and there's a café there called Mont Blanc. I lived there for a year and even dated a female doctor there..."
Gao Kui recounted his remarkable achievements in Japan, from Shinjuku Ward to Shibuya Ward, and from Shibuya Ward to Chiyoda Ward...
In short, Gao Kui's footprints can be found all over Tokyo's 23 wards. Gao Kui, who is not yet eighteen years old, has lived in Tokyo for at least several decades. He has attended twenty or thirty high schools, been a high school student, worked as a phantom thief, worked as an assistant to a female detective who can transform into a Gundam, dated dozens of girlfriends, and saved the world more than once...
His rich life experience is comparable to that of the legendary Zhihu user "One Piece King Luffy," which is truly astonishing.
Is the mental world of schizophrenic patients really so colorful?
Caesar and the others listened patiently as Gao Kui recounted his legendary stories. Regardless of whether they were true or not, Gao Kui could indeed describe many of the details vividly, perhaps because he had truly experienced them in his spiritual world.
The airport outside the window grew larger and brighter, and the passenger planes and crew members on the airport became more and more conspicuous. The A380 lowered its landing gear, and more than a hundred little dragons were about to officially land in this foreign land.
Where should we go tonight?
Gao Kui grabbed the handrail and asked the group with great interest, "I can be your tour guide. My Japanese is very good."
"What we do tonight will probably depend on their arrangements," Chu Zihang said, looking out the window.
Vehicles are generally prohibited from entering the area, and only aircraft are permitted to use it. A certain runway was filled with black luxury cars, and dozens of burly men stood beside the cars, all dressed in suits and wearing black sunglasses, exuding a strong gangster vibe.
Chapter 115 The mob
More than twenty black luxury cars were lined up in a row on the track, with several Toyota Coaster luxury minibuses at the very back, which were used to transport ordinary students from Kassel.
Having studied in Kassel, Yuan Zhisheng understands the underlying logic of Kassel all too well: bloodline is paramount, just as the Gospel of Matthew 25:29 says.
For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
Kassel, to some extent, still maintains some semblance of civility and won't mistreat students of ordinary bloodlines. However, students of exceptional bloodlines do indeed enjoy extraordinary treatment.
Dozens of burly men in black suits and sunglasses stood beside the car late at night, exuding an aura that warned strangers to stay away, as if asking them a question would result in them beating them up.
At the very front of the convoy was a black Maybach 57S, with Genji standing upright outside the driver's side door, like a nail driven into the ground.
A beautiful girl named Sakura Yabuki stands next to Genjiro, dressed in an exquisite Prada business suit and black calfskin shoes, playing the role of the domineering CEO's personal assistant.
Yaksha and Crow stood on either side of the Maybach 57S, each holding a telescopic pole to support a large red banner that read in Chinese, "Welcome Kassel teachers and students to Japan."
"This welcoming ceremony was prepared quite well, wasn't it?"
Crow winked and boasted to Yuan Zhisheng: "A luxury convoy led by Maybach 57S, consisting of more than twenty Mercedes S-Class sedans and several Toyota Coasters. I also temporarily transferred dozens of people from the company's security department to support the convoy."
Most importantly, your personal appearance this time, young master, has given Kassel a great deal of face, ensuring they feel completely at home.
"It's very good, the only problem is..."
Yuan Zhisheng looked up speechlessly at the conspicuous red banner: "Where did you get the inspiration for this banner?"
"In a comedy duo in China, one of the two is named Guo Degang and the other is named Yu Qian. They are currently the most popular comedy duo in China. I often listen to their funny skits to learn Chinese."
"Don't you think the welcome message 'Welcome to Kassel students and faculty to Japan' is somewhat ambiguous? The word 'Japan' in Chinese isn't limited to being used as a noun..."
"I know."
"You knew?" Yuan Zhisheng suddenly realized, "You knew and you still did it."
"I did it on purpose."
The crow chuckled lewdly: "In the eyes of people all over the world, isn't Japan just a country known worldwide for its sex industry and prostitution?"
Of course, this is indeed true; the Snake Clan has indeed controlled most of Japan's sex industry.
Whether those people in Kassel want to go to a host club, Kabukicho, or even a half-service or full-service club, we can satisfy them and guarantee they'll be so happy they won't want to leave for two months straight.
"If we exhaust them, if we make them lose their appetite, I don't believe they'll still have the energy to do anything underhanded."
"Crow, you are indeed a genius." Genjiro praised sincerely.
Sakura Yabuki, with a cold face, poured cold water on the crow: "If the students and teachers in Kassel really become so happy with your service that they don't want to leave after two months and stay here, then that will be your responsibility."
"Stop talking, Kassel's plane has already landed."
The Airbus A380 turned on its searchlights, lowered its landing gear, and swooped down onto the airport runway, which was over two kilometers long. It taxied all the way to a spot not far from the crowd and came to a smooth stop without causing any ripples.
As the hatch opened, Yuan Zhisheng silently counted the names on the list in his mind, his eyes flashing with a sharp, piercing light as he stared intently at the hatch.
Yuan Zhisheng has a pair of eyes that are completely different from Gao Kui's. The most distinctive feature of Gao Kui's eyes is that they are very "dejected", like a combination of Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Just by staring at a certain place without saying a word, he can make others read broken melancholy and loneliness from his eyes. He is truly affectionate even when looking at dogs.
The most distinctive feature of Genjiro's eyes is their sharpness, reminiscent of the eyes of a male protagonist in a Hong Kong comic book. They exude a chilling aura and command respect without anger, making anyone who sees them feel uneasy.
He wanted to give the Kassel faculty and students a hard time.
As the saying goes, we must do both things well. Simply being hospitable may not be enough to win over the Kassel faculty and students; a combination of kindness and firmness is the key.
If you all stay in Japan quietly for two months, treat it as a school trip, and everyone's happy, we welcome you. But if you're trying to cause trouble, sorry, I'll be watching you like a vengeful ghost.