Chapter 2 preface

The number one event in ancient Chinese history was the creation of the world.It is the beginning of the world.Ranked second is making people out of clay.It is the beginning of history, since then the world has a distinction between man and God.Now for the third item. Under the protection of the great god Nuwa, human beings multiplied rapidly.Walls and states appeared on the land, and roads and canals were soon built.To show their gratitude, some built altars and offered blood to the gods. For various reasons, some gods entered the human world.They use the tall trees as a ladder to slide down from the leafy canopy.Many years later, humans realized the wonder of this approach, so they also tried to use these trees to enter the world of the gods.According to the legend, the adventurers at that time found many plants that could be used as ladders, among which there are three kinds that can be named: Jianmu, Wakagi and Fusang.

The mixed condition of man and god has caused widespread dissatisfaction.Most of the gods are unwilling to keep their own place, and only use all kinds of means to seduce the virgins in the world.Chattering mortals are noisy and restless, inciting the gods to fight against each other, and even sparking wars among the gods. Wars rewrote history, some gods were put to death, some were exiled, and others were promoted or appointed.All the kings of the world are like this.Zhuanxu was elected as the Great God of the South.He had accumulated enough meritorious deeds in that war, and he was also aware of the danger brought by the mixing of humans and gods.He didn't like to see his power squeezed in the middle of the motley crowd, pushed, fell, and shattered.

Therefore, Zhuanxu appointed his best commander, Chonghe Li, to lead the army into every corner of the world, carefully measure the overgrown areas, and cut down all the tall trees that could be used as ladders.The commanders successfully completed this work.The felled giant tree drifted down the river and into the sea.Some of them accumulated dust and gradually grew into islands.From then on, the gods will find it a little troublesome to enter the human world, and human beings will completely lose the possibility of spying on the gods.This big event is very famous, known as "Jedi Tiantong" in history.

This third major event once threw the world into chaos.Humans who stay in the upper realm are easy to clean up.They were soon hunted down by the gods and disappeared without a trace.However, many weird species in the God Realm always have supernatural powers to protect them, making it difficult to detect and capture them.Most of them lurk in the human world, and occasionally jump out of their hiding places to scare passers-by. Many years later, Dayu started his famous flood control project.Most of the construction sites are in the wilderness, and monsters will jump out from time to time to drive out the water control workers.This situation has a great impact on the progress of the project. The workers have never seen these ferocious beasts, let alone their origins. When they see any abnormal movements, they immediately throw away their tools and turn around and run back.Sometimes, legends about these monsters spread in the workers' camps. Some people happily described the scenes of the monsters drinking blood, knocking bones and sucking the marrow.Rumors trumped the plague and quickly drove the workers from the camp.

Dayu was helpless until Boyi and Yijian appeared in front of him.It is said that Boyi himself is also a monster left in the world.He has the basic form of a bird—black wings and tail feathers, but his facial features are the same as those of ordinary people, except that his eyes are slightly larger.Yi Jian is blind and good at shorthand.Boyi has a wide range of knowledge and knowledge, and every time he meets a monster, he can name it after a little observation.Yijian wrote down his words in a notepad and left them for future generations, telling them not to be afraid. This huge work was finally completed in the thirteenth year.During this period, Yi Jian and Boyi cooperated with each other and left a thick notebook.Yi Jian classified the monsters he recorded into four hundred and twenty volumes, and wrote his name in front of all the monsters.

Soon, Dayu was promoted as the king of the Central Plains because of his meritorious service.In order to commend the work of the two assistants, Dayu tried to divide them up.Boyi proudly took away the fiefdoms in the east and west of the kingdom, but Yijian refused to accept any rewards.Like other blind people, he wrapped his body in sackcloth, carried the strings on his back, and left the capital with his heavy notebook between his hands. No one saw Yi Jian again.Only occasionally people claim to hear the ringing of strings and the hoarse voices of singing animals.Correspondingly, people know more and more about monsters, so that ordinary frights can no longer move them.Some of the monsters became dull because of this, and gradually retreated.

No one ever saw that notepad again.It is generally believed that those records disappeared together with Yijian.Years later, someone read some chapters of this book in here.Soon, other passages were read from the works of other ancient sages.There are also some chapters, hidden in strange and unknown texts.Philologists try to retrieve these fragmented stories from classics and reorganize them into books by means of editing techniques.However, similar efforts always end in failure. I inadvertently read some relevant materials in a yellowing exercise book with a picture of the atomic structure and a girl wearing a red scarf on the cover.Those materials were transcribed with a ballpoint pen, and some of them were blurred because it took too long.I was fascinated by these stories, reading them from beginning to end, and then back to front again, sometimes feeling dull, and sometimes not being able to stop laughing out loud.Now, I try to record them in another form, so as not to disperse again.