Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Xiaobao is crazy

He does adventure, he's great in the world of adventure, he's commanding unanimous respect.I also have some contact with Adventure World. Of course, I have known him for a long time, but I have no chance to meet him. The rock was finally lost during an expedition to a large island in the South Pacific, a huge island, and the country it belonged to was not developed, so it was almost completely undeveloped. This island has been mentioned in my account and the story of Dr. Yuan Zhenxia. The degree to which the original state of the island has been preserved is not only the existence of many kinds of headhunters, but also cavemen were once discovered by the expedition team. .

The mountainous area of ​​this island is currently the most mysterious of the five places on earth. At least 60% of the places have never been visited by outsiders, so they are also the main target of explorers. Rock has a long history of exploring on this island. He has gone deep into the mountains many times. He even has a good relationship with one of the headhunters, understands their language, and intends to learn the incredible method of shrinking the human head. Just a big controversy in the expedition community. The disappearance of the rock on this island has caused a great sensation all over the world.

The main reason for the sensation at that time was because of his identity as the main figure of the big consortium.An extensive and prolonged search operation was immediately launched, which is said to have involved tens of thousands of people.But no matter how hard the search was, the rock was never found. Someone who has participated in the expedition led by the Rock said that on that island, finding a missing person is as difficult as finding a needle in the Mediterranean Sea.In other words, no matter how many people are sent, it is impossible to find them. Although such a statement is exaggerated, there is some truth to it, because there are many places in the mountainous area of ​​that island that people cannot reach at all.Doctor Yuan Zhenxia was so skilled back then that he was almost trapped on one of the mountain peaks and narrowly escaped death.Although it is said that there must be brave men under heavy rewards.But everyone would have a wishful thinking - no matter how high the bounty is, if one dies in a barren mountainous area, they will not be able to enjoy it, so in the matter of in-depth search, the role that money can play is limited.

Later, Rock's family even said that as long as they have exact information about the whereabouts of the rock, they can also receive high bonuses. So many absurd things happened, the most ridiculous of which is that because the relationship between Yan Yan and the headhunter was too good, when he wanted to leave, the headhunter cut off his head and shrunk it down, so that he could use The rocks are always with them...and so on. The person who came to report the news even brought a shrunken human head, which he said was the head of the rock. It is said that in order to prove whether the head belongs to a rock or not, the consortium summoned many scientists to study and provided a large amount of research funds. As a result, it led to the development of DNA testing and started a new page in science. The testing method is generalized.

If this statement is true, it is another indirect contribution of rocks to science besides the achievements of exploration. There are many other things like this typical black humor, so it is not necessary to list them one by one. It took three years for the search operation to officially end, and it seems that the results have not been officially announced. If nothing is done, I have never heard of anyone looking for the bottom line. It seems that this matter has disappeared. Many years have passed since the end of the matter. According to the usual practice, the rock has already become a "dead person" legally, but suddenly appeared in Tao Qiquan's living room. The thing is extremely weird.

So when I first thought that the old man in front of me might be a rock, I couldn't believe my thoughts and kept shaking my head. What surprised me even more was that it seemed that Tao Qiquan and the tycoon had been in contact with the Rock—at least they knew that the Rock was not dead, so why didn't the news that the Rock was still alive?And all these years, the rock is living there, what is it doing? Suddenly, I don't know how many questions came to my mind, but I don't know how to ask them. At this time, the tycoon said: "Wesley, don't be in a hurry, I have invited you here, and I will definitely tell you everything."

The tycoon has another advantage - he believes that it is entirely my ability to guess the identity of the rock, and he has no doubt that Tao Qiquan will tell me in advance. I know there must be an extraordinary story waiting for me, and this story must be very long, so there is no need to rush. Tao Qiquan said loudly: "Come on, drink first, I have good wine here." He opened the wine bottle himself, and immediately the aroma of the wine overflowed in such a large hall, so it was evident that it was indeed good wine.When looking at the wine, the color is like amber that has been condensed for hundreds of millions of years. When it is poured into the glass and shakes slightly, it flows slowly from the walls of the glass like a mountain stream. The aroma of the wine is strong but not strong, but lingers for a long time Around, good wine indeed!

All the people present here are people who know wine, and they all gave out admiration. Bai Su and I looked at each other, we both naturally thought of our daughter Hong Ling and smiled knowingly. Shui Hong was very clever, and said to Bai Su: "Ling Ai is addicted to alcohol, if she is here now, it will be fine." At this time, Tao Qiquan was talking about the origin of this wine, how he competed with others in a world-renowned wine auction, and finally bought this bottle of wine at the highest price.So Bai Su said with a smile: "It's best if she's not here, if she's here, this bottle of wine isn't enough for her to drink in one sip!"

Except for those who knew the details of Hong Ling, the rest were deeply surprised. The tycoon liked Hong Ling very much. He patted his chest and said, "If I have good wine in the future, I will definitely give it to Miss Hong Ling." It's rare that a tycoon is willing to think about Hong Ling's welfare, so Bai Su and I are naturally very grateful. Although I was full of doubts in my heart at this time, impatiently waiting for Rock to tell his legend, and I also wanted to ask Zhu Jin about Wang Lian, but I had to put aside the matter here and talk about Hong Ling first. things.

One reason is that Hong Ling has a lot to do with the later development of this story.The second reason is that Hong Ling came home suddenly a few days ago, and it was related to a matter that I have been concerned about. This matter is the relationship between Wen Baoyu and the "elder" who was trapped in the mountainside.This incident was repeatedly mentioned in the first few stories I described, and the development of it is that Wen Baoyu is increasingly influenced by the elders—I suspect that the elders have largely controlled Wen Baoyu's brain activities ability. The elders think that the current situation on the earth is terrible. Not only has it completely deviated from their original plan to develop advanced creatures on the earth, but it is also on the verge of destruction (about this, I do not completely disagree).

The elders who claimed to be the changers of the earth's environment back then, that is, the creators of the advanced creatures on the earth, believed that this situation must be changed. He also believes that the current situation on the earth is so bad because of the overpopulation, so to solve this problem, the population of the earth must be greatly reduced. (I also agree that many of the planet's problems stem from overpopulation.) The figure of how many people should be on the earth proposed by the elder is inconceivably small. I am afraid that no one will agree to accept it except Wen Baoyu and Lansi who has always regarded the elder as a god. When Bai Su and I decided not to let the elder switch out, we just affirmed that if the elder switches out, he will definitely use his ability to cause earth-shaking changes on the earth.Regardless of whether the result of change is good or bad, we believe that the process of change is no longer what the earth can bear. We know that the method we used to prevent the elders from switching out is very naive and unreliable. The elders may find out at any time, and Wen Baoyu can also find out at any time.But that's the only way out, and it's kind of resigned to fate—because I don't know what the elder will do after the switch comes out, so I'm not very worried. But after gradually knowing that the main action of the elder to resume the so-called "original plan" is so terrifying, it is thousands of times more terrifying than the prophecy "the king of terror descends from the sky", Bai Su and I have been worried about our tricks will be seen through, and the actions of the elders will be unfolded. More than once, Wen Baoyu hinted that after the elder started his plan, "we people" must be fit to live on the earth, that is to say, they are not included in the list of being wiped out by the elder. Every time Wen Baoyu made such a hint, it aroused my strong disgust. The degree of incompatibility between the two people's words has reached the verge of falling out. Both Bai Su and I feel that it will be a matter of time before the elder switches out, but there is nothing we can do about it—as far as we know, the elder's ability is beyond what we can imagine. How far it has reached is too far away from our imagination. We just affirm that if the elder switches out, he must be able to implement his plan. The action of this plan is more than 10,000 times crazy than Hitler's action to exterminate the Jews. Of course, the method must be much more "scientific". This hidden worry, as Wen Baoyu appeared again and again, deepened again and again, but there was absolutely no way to deal with it. We just asked Hong Ling to be careful about Wen Baoyu's actions, but there was not much Hong Ling could do, because the communication between Wen Baoyu and the elders had already entered the stage of exchange of ideas. In other words, between the elder and Wen Baoyu.What conversations, what information the elders conveyed to Wen Baoyu, what ideas they instilled, no one could know except themselves. And we know that Wen Baoyu is increasingly accepting the influence of the elders, which is also revealed by Wen Baoyu himself in his speech. Under such circumstances, we became very afraid of seeing Wen Baoyu's appearance - we didn't know what kind of remarks he would bring, which made us tremble with fear. This kind of evasive attitude is of course not the way to solve the problem, but since the problem cannot be solved, we have no choice but to do so—on this matter, both Bai Su and I feel that our (earthlings) ability is so pitiful , extremely helpless. Hong Ling is also in the "Treasure Land", but the communication between her and the elder seems to be very rusty. We guess the elder may have noticed that Hong Ling is different from ordinary earthlings, and will not worship him blindly, and will not accept him so easily. Control, so the elder gave up his efforts to control Hong Ling.Hong Ling also noticed this. She thought that under such circumstances, she could no longer play the role of monitoring Wen Baoyu in "Baodi", and she was very unwilling to stay in Baodi. We made her reluctantly do what she wanted. So we very much hope that Hong Ling can come back often. Two days ago, when she opened the door and came in, Bai Su and I were very happy. At the same time, it was also very strange, because she came in through the door normally—if she knocked a We will not feel weird when we jump down from the big hole. And when we see her appearance clearly, we can immediately know that something unusual must have happened. Because on her face, although there is no frowning look on her face, the joy that has been hanging on her face is also gone. Even as she matures, it shouldn't be like this. Bai Sugang and I were about to ask her, but her expression suddenly changed, and she became surprised and joyful all at once, she yelled, and jumped up, completely restoring our daughter's original expression, and then she jumped up and down in the air. Spinning around, even if we look at it, we will feel dizzy. She cried: "No! No! No!" After calling for about ten times, he finally stopped and looked at us with a questioning expression.At this time, Bai Su and I already knew why she behaved like this, but deliberately pretended not to know, and instead asked her: "What's wrong?" Hong Ling took a deep breath, looked around, suddenly burst into laughter, jumped up, and was already in front of the wine cabinet. Her movements were so fast that it was unimaginable. In the blink of an eye, all she could hear was the sound of drinking.I shouted: "Drink slowly, this wine is very rare, it will be gone after drinking it!" Hong Ling didn't answer, but just kept one hand free and waved at me again and again without stopping.After about three minutes, she let out a big breath, shook the empty wine bottle, reached out and patted her belly, making a "puffing" sound, with a satisfied look, and her poor manners were unparalleled in the world. But Bai Su and I were very happy after watching it, because at least we felt that our daughter was back again, and she was different from when she entered the door just now. Wu Luyuan once said that if someone knows the wine, within a range of 100 meters, no matter how sealed it is, you can feel its existence. It seems that this is not an exaggeration, it is indeed the case. After another minute or so, Hong Ling yelled, "Good wine!" Then she paused and asked, "No more?" I snorted: "I told you to drink slowly, but you didn't listen!" Hong Ling yelled at Qu: "I didn't drink it, the wine poured into my throat by itself!" There are a lot of fallacies in Hong Ling, so it's best not to argue with her, so I immediately changed the subject and said, "When you just came in, you seemed to be full of thoughts. Are we delusional?" When she asked this question, Hong Ling let out a long sigh. Bai Su and I didn't know how to react for a while—since we got her back in Miaojiang, we have never seen her sighing.We often think that she is the most carefree and happy person in the world. It was the first time I saw her like this, as a parent, caring would lead to confusion. That's why Ye Tianshi, the heavenly physician star, dared not prescribe medicine for his mother back then.So at this time, it's not just me, even Bai Su, although he is not at a loss, he really doesn't know what to do. After Hong Ling sighed, she looked at us, obviously she had a problem in her heart and hoped to hear our opinion. But we don't know what the problem in her heart is. Bai Su beckoned to Hong Ling, and when Hong Ling was in front of her, she took Hong Ling's hand and said: "No matter what happens, speak slowly." Hong Ling shouted loudly: "Xiaobao is crazy!" Bai Su and I looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn't because we didn't care about Hong Ling anymore, but because we knew that Wen Baoyu was really "crazy" when Hong Ling said that. And it must be Wen Baoyu's actions, which are far beyond the norm, making people think he is crazy. It is not surprising that this kind of situation has happened to Wen Baoyu countless times.However, the appearance of Ling's red silk this time shows that Wen Baoyu's "crazy" must be very deep, and the details are not known. We didn't ask any questions, but let Hong Ling speak on her own - we knew that the more we asked, the more confused Hong Ling would be. However, even if we don't ask, Hong Ling's words are messy enough. When Hong Ling speaks, she often thinks that others know what she knows. , to understand.Fortunately, Bai Su and I are used to her narrative style, so the degree of difficulty has been reduced. What I describe below is, of course, sorted out. It turned out that Hong Ling didn't like to stay in "Treasure Land" very much. The main reason was that she felt more and more that the communication between the elder and her was gradually becoming very unequal—she hoped to have more communication with the elder. , However, nine out of ten times out of ten she received no response to the signal she sent to go. The communication between Hong Ling and the elder is a direct exchange of brain activity energy between an earthling with an unusually special brain structure and an alien. Its complexity is difficult to be exact and clear in the language on earth. to describe. When Hong Ling described this situation, she used the most common words, which was very apt.She said: "Communicating with the elder is like putting a hot face on his cold ass!" In this situation, Bai Su and I can understand very well - we have known for a long time that because Hong Ling is different from ordinary people on Earth, her brain activities are not so easy to control, so the elder is not very interested in her, and has become a "talking is not speculative". more than half a sentence". Under such circumstances, Hong Ling was extremely boring in Treasure Land. She wanted to leave several times, and no one would stop her if she wanted to leave, but she still forced herself to stay because she saw Wen Baoyu The situation was getting more and more wrong, and she didn't leave out of concern for Wen Baoyu. Wen Baoyu's situation is not right, it is shown that he worships the elder even more than Lansi.Twenty-four hours a day, at least 20 hours, he was communicating with the elders. I don't know what the elders did to him, but Wen Baoyu could not sleep without losing his energy. When Wen Baoyu communicated with the elders, he sat still, except that he often beamed with joy, showing that he had obtained unprecedented knowledge from the elders, or had new ideas, and occasionally waved his hands and cheered , The body basically does not move, and of course the physical exertion is also reduced to the minimum. This may be the reason why he does not need to sleep. And there is always some time every day, Wen Baoyu will stop communicating with the elders, during that time, Wen Baoyu will be very excited to talk to Lansi and Hongling about what he has gained from communicating with the elders. Wen Baoyu prefers to talk about these things with Hong Ling, because he said to Lan Si that Lan Si agrees with everything, there is no dispute at all, and when he talks to Hong Ling, Hong Ling will have objections, so Wen Baoyu can be more interested Arguing vigorously with her, during the argument, he gave full play to the absurd theories he had communicated with the elders. This "ridiculous" four-character comment was given to him by Hong Ling, and Bai Su and I agree with Hong Ling's statement on the part of reducing the population of the earth. The theory Wen Baoyu obtained from the elders covers a very wide range, and the rest can be ignored. The most content is how to restore the earth's environment to their "original plan". To implement it, the first step is to make the earth The population has been drastically reduced, down to a completely unimaginable number. Wen Baoyu fully accepted the elder's idea, but I think there is no room for consideration in this matter - this is the reason why the relationship between me and Wen Baoyu is getting worse and worse. But Hong Ling listened to Wen Baoyu's new plan on how to eliminate the "surplus population" almost every day.Hong Ling herself is as disgusted with this matter as I am. It is conceivable how boring it is to listen to Wen Baoyu dance and talk about how to make the earth's population conform to the "original plan" every day. Hong Ling tried her best to express objections, she knew that this was a battle with the elders over the influence of Wen Baoyu's brain activity. The so-called reduction of the existing population of the earth is not Wen Baoyu's original understanding at all - no one on earth would have such an idea. This idea was instilled in Wen Baoyu by the elders through communication. Hong Ling just wanted to do everything possible to eliminate it. The influence of the elders on Wen Baoyu. She clearly knew that her strength could not be stronger than the elders, which meant that she would not win in this battle.But she persisted. It wasn't until that day that she felt that there was no need to continue, because Wen Baoyu was completely insane, and no force could restore it. After communicating with the elder that day, Wen Baoyu was extremely excited, even blushing, and asked, "Do you know that there is a creature called 'mite'?" Hong Ling thought about it for a while, the knowledge stored in her brain is extremely rich, and she doesn’t use it often, but when she needs it, she has to think about it—I often say that her situation is like searching for information on a computer Same. At the same time, Hong Ling was also thinking, what was Wen Baoyu's intention in suddenly mentioning this humble little creature.But after she got the information about this creature, she still couldn't guess Wen Baoyu's intention. She had already felt that the distance between Wen Baoyu's thoughts and hers was getting farther and farther, to the point of being completely unfathomable.So she just thought about it and didn't discuss it in depth. She knew that Wen Baoyu would definitely continue talking. She replied: "This kind of small creature belongs to arachnid web in biological classification. There are many types, distributed all over the earth, and some live in and outside the body of other creatures. They reproduce very quickly and in large numbers... " Wen Baoyu was satisfied with Hong Ling's answer, interrupted her, and asked again: "What's the name of the smallest one?" Hong Ling responded: "They are called dust mites, they are so small that they cannot be seen by the naked eye, they live everywhere, even on human skin, there may be tens of thousands of these small creatures on a square centimeter of human skin." .” Wen Baoyu was very active, and said loudly: "By the way, the scraps of dead skin are their main food, and they live more on carpets. Do you know that a large city with a population of nearly 10 million consumes a huge amount of the earth? resources and produce a large amount of waste that pollutes the earth, and the many people who are crowded together not only endanger the earth, but also have no dignity that life should have, and their life is worse than that of insects." When Hong Ling heard Wen Baoyu repeating the same old tune, she couldn't help frowning, and said impatiently, "What exactly do you want to explain?" Wen Baoyu was very excited, and said: "Did you know? If ten million people are turned into ten million dust mites, only a ten-square-meter carpet is needed to accommodate them and make them live comfortably." Very good, in terms of comparison, it is definitely much better than 10 million people squeezed into a city, and on the carpet, they can reproduce to their heart's content, and definitely have a comfortable living space." When Wen Baoyu said this, he paused for a while, as if he wanted to know what Hong Ling thought about his words. Hong Ling took a deep breath at this time, she was no stranger to Wen Baoyu's "population must be wiped out in large numbers" that Wen Baoyu had received from the elders, and she had heard Wen Baoyu many times about how to wipe out a large number of people with incredible methods, but she I still don't understand why Wen Baoyu didn't feel guilty at all when he talked about mass extermination of the population, and he didn't have the same kind of affection between people. She didn't understand until then! In Wen Baoyu's mind, people are divided into two types, one should be eliminated, and the other is qualified to continue living on the earth.But in his understanding, the status of those who should be eliminated is equal to or even lower than that of dust mites. Hong Ling shook her head involuntarily, she strongly felt that this should never be the concept that any earth person should have. Of course, this concept was not produced by Wen Baoyu himself, but was influenced by the elders. Hong Ling's thinking is very close to mine. We both think that there are indeed many, many people on earth who do not live well at all, and even lose the dignity of life. If some people are asked what the meaning of life is, they may not know how to answer, but this is also the view of bystanders. They must have their own understanding and ideas, which others cannot understand. Just like people living in a free environment, seeing someone living under totalitarian rule without even basic human rights, but living happily and rejoicing, you find it incredible, he thinks that to live is to live. No matter how people on earth live, no matter how despicable some people on earth live, they are human beings. It is the concept of aliens to equate humans with dust mites. From the perspective of aliens, especially elders From the perspective of aliens with high status, humans and dust mites are just creatures produced by a "game" they played back then, and there is not much difference and difference. Hong Ling felt that Wen Baoyu was hopeless, she was not even interested in arguing with Wen Baoyu, she just shook her head. Wen Baoyu said challengingly: "It seems that you don't quite agree with me, but you must understand one thing: the life style of dust mites living on the carpet is definitely higher than that of humans. Don't think that there are no evil deeds by humans. There are distinctions between high and low life, the Buddha said: All living beings are equal, haven’t you heard? It is the best way to turn all the population that should be wiped out into dust mites.” Wen Baoyu said that but later, he even danced and danced, because he and the elders thought of this "good way" to eliminate the population, so excited, he kept asking the speechless Hong Ling: "What do you think?" He does adventure, he's great in the world of adventure, he's commanding unanimous respect.I also have some contact with Adventure World. Of course, I have known him for a long time, but I have no chance to meet him. The rock was finally lost during an expedition to a large island in the South Pacific, a huge island, and the country it belonged to was not developed, so it was almost completely undeveloped. This island has been mentioned in my account and the story of Dr. Yuan Zhenxia. The degree to which the original state of the island has been preserved is not only the existence of many kinds of headhunters, but also cavemen were once discovered by the expedition team. . The mountainous area of ​​this island is currently the most mysterious of the five places on earth. At least 60% of the places have never been visited by outsiders, so they are also the main target of explorers. Rock has a long history of exploring on this island. He has gone deep into the mountains many times. He even has a good relationship with one of the headhunters, understands their language, and intends to learn the incredible method of shrinking the human head. Just a big controversy in the expedition community. The disappearance of the rock on this island has caused a great sensation all over the world. The main reason for the sensation at that time was because of his identity as the main figure of the big consortium.An extensive and prolonged search operation was immediately launched, which is said to have involved tens of thousands of people.But no matter how hard the search was, the rock was never found. Someone who has participated in the expedition led by the Rock said that on that island, finding a missing person is as difficult as finding a needle in the Mediterranean Sea.In other words, no matter how many people are sent, it is impossible to find them. Although such a statement is exaggerated, there is some truth to it, because there are many places in the mountainous area of ​​that island that people cannot reach at all.Doctor Yuan Zhenxia was so skilled back then that he was almost trapped on one of the mountain peaks and narrowly escaped death.Although it is said that there must be brave men under heavy rewards.But everyone would have a wishful thinking - no matter how high the bounty is, if one dies in a barren mountainous area, they will not be able to enjoy it, so in the matter of in-depth search, the role that money can play is limited. Later, Rock's family even said that as long as they have exact information about the whereabouts of the rock, they can also receive high bonuses. So many absurd things happened, the most ridiculous of which is that because the relationship between Yan Yan and the headhunter was too good, when he wanted to leave, the headhunter cut off his head and shrunk it down, so that he could use The rocks are always with them...and so on. The person who came to report the news even brought a shrunken human head, which he said was the head of the rock. It is said that in order to prove whether the head belongs to a rock or not, the consortium summoned many scientists to study and provided a large amount of research funds. As a result, it led to the development of DNA testing and started a new page in science. The testing method is generalized. If this statement is true, it is another indirect contribution of rocks to science besides the achievements of exploration. There are many other things like this typical black humor, so it is not necessary to list them one by one. It took three years for the search operation to officially end, and it seems that the results have not been officially announced. If nothing is done, I have never heard of anyone looking for the bottom line. It seems that this matter has disappeared. Many years have passed since the end of the matter. According to the usual practice, the rock has already become a "dead person" legally, but suddenly appeared in Tao Qiquan's living room. The thing is extremely weird. So when I first thought that the old man in front of me might be a rock, I couldn't believe my thoughts and kept shaking my head. What surprised me even more was that it seemed that Tao Qiquan and the tycoon had been in contact with the Rock—at least they knew that the Rock was not dead, so why didn't the news that the Rock was still alive?And all these years, the rock is living there, what is it doing? Suddenly, I don't know how many questions came to my mind, but I don't know how to ask them. At this time, the tycoon said: "Wesley, don't be in a hurry, I have invited you here, and I will definitely tell you everything." The tycoon has another advantage - he believes that it is entirely my ability to guess the identity of the rock, and he has no doubt that Tao Qiquan will tell me in advance. I know there must be an extraordinary story waiting for me, and this story must be very long, so there is no need to rush. Tao Qiquan said loudly: "Come on, drink first, I have good wine here." He opened the wine bottle himself, and immediately the aroma of the wine overflowed in such a large hall, so it was evident that it was indeed good wine.When looking at the wine, the color is like amber that has been condensed for hundreds of millions of years. When it is poured into the glass and shakes slightly, it flows slowly from the walls of the glass like a mountain stream. The aroma of the wine is strong but not strong, but lingers for a long time Around, good wine indeed! All the people present here are people who know wine, and they all gave out admiration. Bai Su and I looked at each other, we both naturally thought of our daughter Hong Ling and smiled knowingly. Shui Hong was very clever, and said to Bai Su: "Ling Ai is addicted to alcohol, if she is here now, it will be fine." At this time, Tao Qiquan was talking about the origin of this wine, how he competed with others in a world-renowned wine auction, and finally bought this bottle of wine at the highest price.So Bai Su said with a smile: "It's best if she's not here, if she's here, this bottle of wine isn't enough for her to drink in one sip!" Except for those who knew the details of Hong Ling, the rest were deeply surprised. The tycoon liked Hong Ling very much. He patted his chest and said, "If I have good wine in the future, I will definitely give it to Miss Hong Ling." It's rare that a tycoon is willing to think about Hong Ling's welfare, so Bai Su and I are naturally very grateful. Although I was full of doubts in my heart at this time, impatiently waiting for Rock to tell his legend, and I also wanted to ask Zhu Jin about Wang Lian, but I had to put aside the matter here and talk about Hong Ling first. things. One reason is that Hong Ling has a lot to do with the later development of this story.The second reason is that Hong Ling came home suddenly a few days ago, and it was related to a matter that I have been concerned about. This matter is the relationship between Wen Baoyu and the "elder" who was trapped in the mountainside.This incident was repeatedly mentioned in the first few stories I described, and the development of it is that Wen Baoyu is increasingly influenced by the elders—I suspect that the elders have largely controlled Wen Baoyu's brain activities ability. The elders think that the current situation on the earth is terrible. Not only has it completely deviated from their original plan to develop advanced creatures on the earth, but it is also on the verge of destruction (about this, I do not completely disagree). The elders who claimed to be the changers of the earth's environment back then, that is, the creators of the advanced creatures on the earth, believed that this situation must be changed. He also believes that the current situation on the earth is so bad because of the overpopulation, so to solve this problem, the population of the earth must be greatly reduced. (I also agree that many of the planet's problems stem from overpopulation.) The figure of how many people should be on the earth proposed by the elder is inconceivably small. I am afraid that no one will agree to accept it except Wen Baoyu and Lansi who has always regarded the elder as a god. When Bai Su and I decided not to let the elder switch out, we just affirmed that if the elder switches out, he will definitely use his ability to cause earth-shaking changes on the earth.Regardless of whether the result of change is good or bad, we believe that the process of change is no longer what the earth can bear. We know that the method we used to prevent the elders from switching out is very naive and unreliable. The elders may find out at any time, and Wen Baoyu can also find out at any time.But that's the only way out, and it's kind of resigned to fate—because I don't know what the elder will do after the switch comes out, so I'm not very worried. But after gradually knowing that the main action of the elder to resume the so-called "original plan" is so terrifying, it is thousands of times more terrifying than the prophecy "the king of terror descends from the sky", Bai Su and I have been worried about our tricks will be seen through, and the actions of the elders will be unfolded. More than once, Wen Baoyu hinted that after the elder started his plan, "we people" must be fit to live on the earth, that is to say, they are not included in the list of being wiped out by the elder. Every time Wen Baoyu made such a hint, it aroused my strong disgust. The degree of incompatibility between the two people's words has reached the verge of falling out. Both Bai Su and I feel that it will be a matter of time before the elder switches out, but there is nothing we can do about it—as far as we know, the elder's ability is beyond what we can imagine. How far it has reached is too far away from our imagination. 我们只是肯定，长老如果开关出来，必然有能力实施他的计划——这计划的行动，比当年希特勒消灭犹太人的行动，要疯狂一万倍以上，当然方法肯定“科学”很多。 这个隐忧，随着温宝裕一次又一次地出现，而一次又一次加深，可是却完全没有办法应付。 我们只是嘱咐红绫，小心留意温宝裕的行动，可是红绫所能做的事情也不多，因为温宝裕和长老之间的沟通，早已经进入思想交流的阶段。 也就是说长老和温宝裕之间。有些什么交谈，长老向温宝裕传达了什么信息，灌输了什么思想，除了他们自己知道之外，谁也不可能知道。 而我们知道温宝裕越来越接受长老的影响，也是温宝裕自己在言谈之间透露出来的。 在这样的情形下，我们变得很怕见到温宝裕的出现——不知道他又会带来什么样的言论，使我们听了心惊肉跳。 这种逃避的态度，当然不是解决问题的方法，可是既然问题无法解决，也就只好如此——在这件事情上，我和白素都感到，我们（地球人）能力的有限程度，实在可怜，无可奈何之极。 红绫也在“宝地”，可是她和长老之间的沟通，好像非常生疏，我们猜想长老可能察觉到了红绫和普通的地球人不同，不会对他盲目崇拜，不会那么容易接受他的控制，所以长老放弃了控制红绫的努力。红绫也察觉到这一点，她认为在这样的情形下，她已经无法再起到在“宝地”监察温宝裕的作用，很不愿意在宝地呆下去，是我们要她勉为其难的。 所以我们很希望红绫能够经常回来，前两天，她开门进来的时候，我和白素都很高兴，同时也很奇怪，因为她竟然正常地从门口进来——她要是从屋顶撞开一个大洞跳下来，我们反而不会觉得怪异。 而当我们看清楚她的样子之后，就立刻可以知道，一定有什么不寻常的事情发生了。 因为在她的脸上，虽然还不至于有愁眉苦脸的神情，却也没有了一直挂在她脸上的那种喜孜孜。 就算她日趋成熟，也不应该会这样。 我和白素刚打算问她，她忽然神情大变，霎那之间变得又惊又喜，大叫一声，直跳了起来，十足恢复了我们女儿原来的神态，然后她一面跳，一面在空中打转，连我们看了，都会觉得头发晕。 她叫道：“不对！不对！不对啊！” 叫了十来下，才总算停了下来，望定了我们，充满了询问的神色。这时候我和白素都已经知道她为什么会这样子，却故意装成不知道，反而问她：“什么不对啊？” 红绫深深吸了一口气，四面张望，忽然哈哈大笑，一纵身，已经到了酒橱面前。 她的动作之快，匪夷所思，眨眼之间，已经只听的“咕嘟咕嘟”的喝酒声。我大声叫道：“慢点喝，这酒非常珍罕，喝完就没有了！” 红绫并不回答，只是空出一只手，向我连连摇手，并不停止。大约三分钟左右，她才大大地吁了一口气，摇着喝空了的酒瓶，伸手拍着肚子，发出“澎澎”的声响，一副满足的样子，仪态之差，天下无双。 不过我和白素看了却很高兴，因为至少我们感到，我们的女儿又回来了，和刚才她进门的时候不一样了。 伍路元曾经说过，这酒，如果是识货的人，在一百公尺的范围之内，不论如何密封，都可以感到它的存在，看来并没有夸张，确然如此。 又过了大约一分钟，红绫才大叫一声：“好酒！” 然后她顿了一顿，问道：“没有了？” 我哼了一声：“叫你慢慢喝，你偏不听！” 红绫却叫屈：“不是我喝下去，是这酒自己涌进我喉咙里去的！” 红绫的这种歪理甚多，最好不要和她争辩，所以我立刻转换了话题，道：“你才进来的时候，好像满怀心事的样子，是不是我们花了眼？” 这话一问，红绫竟然立刻长长的叹了一口气。 我和白素一时之间不知道该如何反应——自从在苗疆将她找回来后，从来没有看到过她有叹气这种行为。我们常认为她是天地间最没有心事的快乐人。 第一次见到她这样子，作为父母，关心则乱，当年天医星叶天士不敢给他母亲开药方，也是这个道理。所以这时候非但是我，连白素也是，虽然不至于手足无措，却也确然不知道应该怎样。 红绫却在叹了一口气之后，向我们望来，显然是她心中有难题，希望听我们的意见。 可是我们却根本不知道她心中的难题是什么。 白素向红绫招了招手，等到红绫去到了她身前，她握住了红绫的手，道：“不论发生了什么事情，慢慢说。” 红绫大声道：“小宝疯了！” 我和白素互望了一眼，大大地松了一口气，并不是因为事情不再红绫身上我们就不关心，而是我们知道，红绫这样说法，不会是温宝裕真正“疯了”，而一定是温宝裕有什么行动，大大超乎常规，使人觉得他疯狂。 这种情形，在温宝裕身上，不知道发生过多少次，不足为奇。不过这次令的红绫如此模样，可见温宝裕的“发疯”程度一定十分之深甚，不知道详细情形如何。 我们并没有发问，只是让红绫自己说下去——我们知道，越问，红绫说来就会越乱。 然而就算我们不问，红绫说来也够乱了，红绫说话，往往她自己知道的事情，就以为别人知道，在叙述的时候，就略过了不说，所以要很用一番心思，才能明白。好在我和白素都习惯了她的叙事方式，所以减少了困难程度。 以下我所记述的，当然是经过了整理。 原来红绫很不喜欢继续在“宝地”逗留，主要原因是她越来越感到，长老和她之间的沟通，渐渐变得很不“平等”——她很希望和长老有更多的沟通，然而她发出的去的讯号，却十次有九次都得不到回应。 红绫和长老之间的沟通，是一个脑部结构异常特殊的地球人，和一个外星人之间的脑部活动能量的直接交流，其复杂程度，很难用地球上的语言确切、清楚地形容。 而红绫在形容这种情形的时候，却用了一句最通俗的话，形容得非常贴切。她道：“和长老沟通，就像是热脸孔去贴他的冷屁股一样！” 这种情形，我和白素很可以理解——我们早就知道，由于红绫和一般地球人不同，脑部活动没有那么容易被控制，所以长老对她兴趣不大，成了“话不投机半句多”的状况。 在这种状况下，红绫在宝地，当然无趣之极，好几次她都想离去，她要离开，也不会有什么人阻止，可是她却还是勉强自己留下来，因为她看到温宝裕的情形，越来越不对头，她出于对温宝裕的关心，才不离开的。 温宝裕的情形不对头，表现在他对长老的崇拜程度，甚至于超过了蓝丝。一天二十四小时，至少有二十小时，他和长老在进行沟通，不知长老对他做了什么手脚，温宝裕竟然可以不用睡眠，而精神不减。 由于温宝裕和长老沟通的时候，静坐着不动，除了经常眉飞色舞，显示他又从长老那里得到了他前所未有的知识，或者是有了新的想法，偶然还会挥动双手，发出欢呼声之外，身体基本上没有动作，体力消耗当然也减到最低，这或许就是他不需要睡眠的原因。 而每天总有些时间，温宝裕会停止和长老沟通，在那段时间里，温宝裕会非常兴奋地对蓝丝和红绫，说起他和长老沟通所得的收获。 温宝裕更喜欢和红绫说起这些，因为他对蓝丝说，说什么蓝丝都同意，完全没有争论，而当他和红绫说的时候，红绫会有反对意见，温宝裕就更可以兴致勃勃地和她争论，在争论期间，将他和长老沟通所得的荒谬绝伦的理论，大大发挥。 这“荒谬绝伦”的四字评语，是红绫给他的，我和白素在减少地球人口这一部分，都非常同意红绫的说法。 温宝裕从长老那里获得的理论，涉及范围非常之广，其余的可以不论，占最多内容的就是如何能够使地球的环境，恢复他们“原来的计划”，而要实行，第一步就是要使地球人口绝大幅度减少，减少到一个完全不能想象的数字。 温宝裕完全接受了长老的这个观念，我则认为这件事情，根本没有考虑的余地——这正是我和温宝裕关系越来越差的原因。 而红绫却几乎每天都要听温宝裕说一个新的、如何消灭“剩余人口”的计划。红绫本身对于这件事情，其反感程度和我一样，每天听温宝裕手舞足蹈说如何如何才能使地球人口符合“原来的计划”，其无趣程度可想而知。 红绫尽量发表反对意见，她知道，这是一场和长老之间，对温宝裕脑部活动影响的争夺战。 所谓减少现有地球人口云云，根本不是温宝裕自己的原来认识——没有一个地球人会有这样的想法，这种想法，是长老通过沟通灌输给温宝裕的，红绫就是想尽一切努力，去消除长老给予温宝裕的影响。 她明知道自己的力量不可能比长老强，也就是说在这场争夺战中，她不会胜利。可是她还是坚持下去。 直到那天，她才感到不必再继续下去了，因为温宝裕已经彻底疯狂，不是任何力量可以挽回的了。 那天温宝裕在和长老沟通之后，神情异常兴奋，甚至于脸色发红，问道：“你们知道有一种生物，叫做'螨'吗？” 红绫想了一想，她脑部储藏的知识及其丰富，平时不常用到的，在需要的时候，就要想一想——我常说她的这种情形，就像向电脑搜索资料一样。 同时红绫也在想，温宝裕忽然提起这种卑微的小生物来，是有什么用意。可是当她和的了有关这种生物的资料之后，她还是无法揣测温宝裕的意图。 她早已感到，温宝裕的思想和她之间的距离越来越远，已经远到了完全不可捉摸的程度。所以她只是想了一想，并没有深入去探讨，她知道温宝裕一定会继续说下去的。 她回答道：“这种小生物，在生物学上分类上属于蛛形网，有许多种类，分布在地球各处生活，也有的在其他生物的体内外生活，繁殖很快，数量很多……” 温宝裕对于红绫的回答表示满意，打断了她的话，又问道：“其中最小的一种，叫做什么？” 红绫应声答道：“叫做尘螨，小到肉眼看不到的程度，在各处生活，甚至在人体皮肤上，一平方公分的人体皮肤上，就可能有数以万计的这种小生物。” 温宝裕很活跃，大声道：“对了，死亡皮肤的碎屑，正是他们主要的食物，他们更多生活在地毯上。你知道吗，一个接近一千万人口的大城市，消耗巨量地球资源，制造大量污染地球的废物，那许多拥挤在一起的人，不但危害地球，而且本身毫无生命应有的尊严，生活过得还不如昆虫。” 红绫听到温宝裕又在老调重弹，不禁皱了皱眉，不耐烦的道：“你究竟想说明什么？” 温宝裕兴致极高，道：“你知道吗？如果将一千万人，化为一千万只尘螨，只需要一张十平方公尺大小的地毯，就可以容纳他们，而且使他们生活得很好，在比较上，绝对比一千万人挤在一个城市中好得多，而且在地毯上，他们可以尽兴繁殖，绝对有舒适的生活空间。” 温宝裕说到这里，停了一停，像是想知道红绫对他的这一番话有什么意见。 红绫这时候倒吸了一口凉气，她对于温宝裕从长老那里接受过来的“人口必须大量消灭”并不陌生，听温宝裕说如何消灭大量人口的种种匪夷所思的方法，也有很多次了，可是她始终不明白何以温宝裕在说到大量消灭人口的时候，一点都没有犯罪感，一点都没有人和人之间同类的感情。 直到这时候，她才算是明白了！ 温宝裕心目中，将人分成了两种，一种是应该被消灭的，一种是有资格继续在地球生活的。而在他的认识中，应该被消灭的人，其地位竟然和尘螨相等，甚至于还要低下。 红绫不由自主地摇头，她强烈感到，这决不应该是任何地球人应有的观念，当然这种观念，也不是温宝裕自己产生的，而是受了长老的影响的缘故。 红绫的想法和我很接近，我们都认为，确然有很多很多地球人，生活得一点也不好，甚至于丧失了生命的尊严。 若问着一部分人生命的意义是什么，他们未必知道如何回答，可是这也是旁观者的看法，他们本身一定有自己的理解和想法，他人无法了解。 就像在自由环境中生活的人，看到居然有人在极权统治下，连基本的人权都没有，可是一样生活的兴高采烈、欢欣鼓舞，你觉得不可思议，他觉得活着就是活着。 不管地球人如何生活，不管有的地球人生活如何卑下，可是他们是人，将人和尘螨之间划上等号，那是外星人的观念，在外星人看来，尤其是长老这种地位的外星人看来，人和尘螨都只不过是他们当年的一场“游戏”所产生出来的生物而已，并没有多大的分别和不同。 红绫感到温宝裕已经到了无可救药的地步，她连和温宝裕争辩的兴致都没有，只是不住摇头。 温宝裕挑战似的道：“看来你不是很同意我的说法，可是你必须明白一点：在地毯上生活的尘螨，其生命方式，绝对比人高级，没有人的种种恶行，你不要以为生命有高下尊卑之分，佛说：众生平等，你没有听说过吗？将应该被消灭的人口，全都化为尘螨，是最好的方法。” 温宝裕说但后来，甚至于手舞足蹈，为他和长老想到了这个消灭人口的“好方法”，而兴奋无比，不断追问哑口无言的红绫：“你看怎么样？”