Chapter 7 illusory

There is a university that established a new green literary club, and they run an internal literary newspaper called "new green", with six or seven members, they invited me to have a discussion. Round table, everyone sits in a circle.it's raining outside.Thunder rumbled and rolled. A student asked me: "Has there ever been a terrible thing in your life? I mean something that is mysterious." Me: "Yes. But there are answers to all mysteries." Then I added: "There are ways to deal with it." Then, I talked about these strange things that happened around me recently.I'm a writer, and I've unknowingly made things scarier than they really are.Finally, I said, "I'll definitely find out what's going on, though."

When I said this, I smiled slightly. A student asked: "Teacher Zhou, what do you think about supernatural things?" I said: "There are some things we will never understand. For example, a dust floating in the air, there are countless bacteria on the dust. Bacteria will never understand that there is a house outside the dust, there are people in the house, there is bread, there is a computer, There is a dictionary, there is love. Bacteria will never understand that there is the earth, sea, and forest beyond the house. Bacteria will never understand that beyond the earth is the universe, the endless space... Suppose the earth is a grain floating in the air Dust, human beings are bacteria attached to dust, and a moment is the billions of years of human beings. Then, human beings will never understand whether there is a house in the ultimate place of the vast universe that human technology can never reach. Is there something there, is there a larger object outside the house that carries it, and outside that object is an infinite space. Suppose the object is like a floating dust, and beyond that..."

The student: "So you admit it?" I said, "Doubt is always closer to the truth." The student: "But you don't see this kind of attitude in your works." I said: "I don't want to explore these. I always feel that if we explore cosmology from the perspective of literature, and explore some supernatural things in the sense of life science, if we go too far, we will often fall into some kind of mysticism. I firmly believe that That sentence, when an ant thinks, humans can't help laughing. It's meaningless for an ant to think about the human brain and computers. The other ant encourages everyone how to eliminate the fear of the dark and how to enjoy Sunshine, how to spend this extremely short life well. This is a matter of practical significance. My work wants to be that other ant."

Some students asked: "Do you believe in the mysterious power that dominates everything?" I said: "There is a book in the West, and I think there is a story in it that is very interesting - there is a Christian who made a set of miniature molds of the sun, the earth and the moon, and then he used mechanical power to make them circle one by one. A friend of his who was a scientist came over to study the mechanism. He said, nothing, I didn't drive them. I walked into the studio this morning and found them working by themselves. The friend said, you are kidding, they are metal things , how can it operate by itself? Christians say, then the sun, the earth, the moon, and more celestial bodies in the universe are more subtle, and they are natural, why do you believe it?"

A bolt of lightning.A student asked, "Do you believe in ghosts?" I said: "I admit that demons and ghosts are the greatest horror works of human beings, but I don't believe in them. I don't believe in the order drawn up by superstitions, the Three Realms, Yin and Yang, reincarnation, retribution, etc. I don't believe in human imagination. Everything. From another perspective, those imaginations also have a superficial side. For example, most of the demons and ghosts are in human form, and even wear clothes that are similar to human beings, such as blue-faced fangs, such as bloody mouths... If there are gods or ghosts, humans can see them Is it? If we can see the buttons, hair, texture, and expression clearly, then it is definitely not a god or a ghost, it is pretending to be a ghost and cheating money."

Another bolt of lightning.At this time, I suddenly stopped talking. I was stunned.I saw me sitting opposite the round table! He was wearing the same black windbreaker as me, and he was also talking seriously to the people on both sides, but he had no voice. The people on both sides of him seemed to be unable to see him, and they all looked at me seriously. He is like a superimposition of another world and this real world. I yelled shortly and sharply: "Ghost!!!" The students looked left and right. That I suddenly disappeared. I stared in horror at the place where he had sat, speechless.

It was an empty chair. Everyone looked at me puzzled.The president of the literary club asked me timidly: "What's wrong?" It took me a long time to recover, and I pointed to the only empty chair opposite and asked, "Why is there an empty chair there?" The president said: "Originally there was another student in our literature club, but he was suddenly asked out by a girl." "Move it away," I said dejectedly. The president immediately ran over and moved the chair out. I'm in such a bad mood, I'm not in any mood to talk anymore.Also, I feel too ashamed.When I called that ghost, my voice was extremely high-pitched, like a woman.

...When the director of the literary club sent me to the car, he said to me in a uncomfortable way: "Mr. Zhou, I don't think you will write such horror stories anymore..." "why?" He hesitated for a moment and said, "It's very enjoyable for us to read, but I think it's very stimulating for you to write all the time." Of course I know what he means.Could it be that I was hallucinating? Even if it is a hallucination, it is equally terrifying. If there are surreal hallucinations and auditory hallucinations in your life, it means that you can see all kinds of scary things and hear all kinds of scary sounds.That means, anything can happen, far beyond your imagination.That means, everything that is illogical is logical, everything that cannot be explained needs no explanation, everything that is unreasonable is reasonable, everything that is absurd is normal, and all crimes are legal. Any norm, rule, law.You will see many strange things that others cannot see, you will hear many terrible voices that others cannot hear, and even doctors in white coats may be virtual things. At this time, do you believe your eyes and ears, or believe Doctor's mouth?

Horribly, a few days later I heard about the student who was absent that day going on a date—— It was a male student. That afternoon, a girl called him and said her name was Jiang Li. He said, "I don't know you." Jiang Li: "I'm a student at Northern University, and I'm a member of our university's literature club. Of course you don't know me. But I've known you for a long time. You send us every issue of "New Green", and I've been reading it I like your poems very much, and I copied them all in my notebook." "New Green" was donated to the literary clubs of many universities, including Northern University.

The student cheered up immediately: "What's the matter with you?" "I want to have a chat with you. Today is my birthday. I have already told the people in our dormitory that I will ask a strange boy to spend this birthday with me. Are you free?" Excited to have a confidante, the student said, "Yeah." Going on a date with a strange girl is certainly more tempting than listening to some writer speak.And, he listened to me, he was with someone he admired.And when he dated that girl, he was with someone who adored him. The place where the girl made an appointment was a park.That's where lovers dated years ago.Save money there.Students have no money.

The student happily agreed. When we started the discussion, he was absent. He came to the park by bicycle and found the rockery that the girl mentioned.He found the place to be dark and a little eerie. There is no sign of a girl. The student searched for it for a long time, but still couldn't find it.There was only a pale man sitting on a stone, looking at him coldly.He is in the shadows. The student wanted to go over and ask if he had seen a girl here just now.However, he felt that the man's expression was a bit scary, so he dismissed the idea. He hesitated.He suspected that someone was playing a prank on him. He pushed his bicycle to leave. At this moment, he heard the pale man in the shadow say roughly, "Where are you going? I am Jiang Li!" The student screamed, threw his bicycle and ran away... I never have a birthday, so I can't remember my birthday at all.After hearing this, I suddenly remembered that it was my birthday that day. Yes, August 8th.